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Memoirs, letters and additional documentation related to Hercka Heller and members of his extended family

Memoirs, letters and additional documentation related to Hercka Heller and members of his extended family - Hercka Heller's memoirs regarding his experiences during the Holocaust (written in Paris on 7 February 1958): Childhood in Będzin; transfer to forced labor in Germany during World War I; move to Germany; marriage to Roja (maiden name: Maurmann) in 1921; life in Beuthen and later in Berlin; departure to France in 1933; family life in Paris; escape to the south of France in 1940; living with his family members (under forged identities) in Saint Etienne, Lyon, Nice, Aix les Bains and hiding in the...

File Number : 11753

Type of Material : Financial Records, Personal Documents, Certification, Identity Card, Letter, תעודת שחרור ממחנה, החלטה, Memoirs, Biography, תעודת אזרחות, Declaration

Language : Hebrew, Polish, French, English, German, Yiddish

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : French

Testimony of Shmuel Nahum, born in Lyon, France, 1932, regarding his experiences in Chalon-sur-Saône and Lyon

Testimony of Shmuel Nahum, born in Lyon, France, 1932, regarding his experiences in Chalon-sur-Saône and Lyon Parents of Turkish descent who immigrated to France in the 1930s; educated according to Sephardi traditions; move to Chalon-sur Saône prior to the war; studies in a public school and learns in aTalmud Torah; Outbreak of the war in Poland; rejection of his father’s request to enlist in the French Army; German occupation; cessation of his father's work as a marketplace peddler; information about the passport stamp; deportation of Jews to the Drancy camp; family and neighbors escape by boat to Lyon...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Asher (Oskar) Fürst, born in 1935 in Berlin, about his experiences in Antwerp; the Rivesaltes, Brens, and Vénissieux camps; with a family in Lyon, etc.

Testimony of Asher (Oskar) Fürst, born in 1935 in Berlin, about his experiences in Antwerp; the Rivesaltes, Brens, and Vénissieux camps; with a family in Lyon, etc. Family life in Berlin before the wear; family escapes to Belgium in 1938; life in Antwerp; German occupation ensues in May 1940; family escapes to France; life under quarantine in the Brens camp; sent on to Rivesaltes a short time later; witness and brother removed from the camp with assistance from the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee; placed in a children's home near Grenoble; reunited with parents, who escaped from Rivesaltes; all...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of David Zuckerman, born in Paris, France, 1934, regarding the persecution of his family and his experiences in France

Testimony of David Zuckerman, born in Paris, France, 1934, regarding the persecution of his family and his experiences in France Immigration of his parents from Poland to Germany; life in Paris; enlistment of his father in the French army in 1939 in order to obtain citizenship; German occupation in 1940; surrender of the French army; his father remains in France in the area under the Vichy authorities; anti-Jewish legislation; hearing rumors regarding the expulsion of Paris Jews; illegal border crossing with his mother to the Free Zone of France; reunion with his father at Périgueux; manhunts by the Germans;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yechiel Charles Pe'er Protzel, born in Liège, Belgium, in 1938, regarding escape from Belgium in May 1940 and his experiences in France and Switzerland

Testimony of Yechiel Charles Pe'er Protzel, born in Liège, Belgium, in 1938, regarding escape from Belgium in May 1940 and his experiences in France and Switzerland Testimony regarding the family before the war; German occupation in May 1940; escape of his family to the north and then to the south of France; wandering in the woods; arrival at Gigean; life under a non-Jewish identity; church visits; being informed against after some nine months; deportation by French gendarmes to Agde; finding a hiding place while a group of children is taken; disappearance of the children; after a month or so receiving a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Nira Matalon( Betty Cohen) born in Paris , France, 1938 regarding her hiding in the region of Normandy.

Testimony of Nira Matalon( Betty Cohen) born in Paris , France, 1938 regarding her hiding in the region of Normandy. Her parents were emigrants from Turkey; the German occupation 1940. Escape of the Jews originating from Turkey to Turkey; deportation of her father to Drancy; her mother gets Turkish papers from the Turkish embassy; liberation of her father who is sick; a priest helps save him; she spends her childhood hiding in a convent; help of the church and the French underground; adaptation difficulties; escape with her elder sister to a rural family in the region of Normandy ( the members of that family...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

עדותה של ד'ישראלי מושביץ צביה ורה ציציליה, ילידת Dresden גרמניה 1930, על בריחה מגרמניה וקורותיה בצרפת

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avigdor Viktor Klagsbald, born in Berlin, Germany in 1924, regarding his experiences in Berlin, Antwerp, Paris and in service in the French underground in Chateauneuf

Testimony of Avigdor Viktor Klagsbald, born in Berlin, Germany in 1924, regarding his experiences in Berlin, Antwerp, Paris and in service in the French underground in Chateauneuf Life before the war; religious family; his mother's family works in the diamond trade; members of his mother's family serve in the leadership of the Jewish community; his parents own a textile factory; he attends a Jewish religious school; German occupation; wearing a yellow badge; theft of holy books from his grandfather's home; escape to Antwerp; crossing the border to Paris and to the south of France with the help of forged...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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