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Testimony of Rivka van Coevorden née van Amstel, born in 1924 in Coevorden, Netherlands, about her experiences in Amsterdam and in hiding in the Netherlands during the war

Testimony

Life before the war; offspring of a family that had lived in the Netherlands since 1400; moving to Amsterdam in 1938; war breaks out in 1940; deportation to a labor camp; escape; assigned to farm labor; marries and gives birth to a daughter; hiding in various places; liberation; reunited with daughter; life after the war; immigration to Israel in 1951; adjustment to life in Israel.

File Number : 13536

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation of Sabina Korn-Neuberg, born in Leczno, Poland, 1933, including a claim for compensation from the District Court for Social Affairs in Essen, Germany, 1944-2012

Documentation of Sabina Korn-Neuberg, born in Leczno, Poland, 1933, including a claim for compensation from the District Court for Social Affairs in Essen, Germany, 1944-2012 - Article titled, "Chasias Kinder" published in the German magazine "Stadt Revue", November 1994, regarding the activities of Chasia Bielicka who took orphan Jewish Holocaust survivors under her wing, including Sabina Neuberg; attached to the article is a photograph [of Sabina Neuberg] from 1946; - Invitation to the Second Conference, on 20 May 2000, sent to Sabina Korn; - Six lists containing the names of children in Poland who...

File Number : 1226

Type of Material : Survey Report, Personal Documents, Correspondence, Article, Letter, Survivors and Refugees Registration Form, Poems/songs, Legal Documentation, List of Orphan Children, Lists, Drawing, Propaganda, Newspaper Clippings

Language : Polish, English

Letters sent by Robert Lucas Boissevain from Vught and Oranienburg camps to his wife Sonja Tienhoven-Boissevain, 1944, and to his sister Tolly Boissevain-Mesritz, 1945; Russian-Dutch dictionary and exercises written by Lowske Goldberg while hidden by the Boissevain family; Dutch underground placard against anti-Jewish discrimination; documents related to the Goldberg and Boissevain families Letters sent by Robert Lucas Boissevain from the Vught camp and the Oranienburg camp to his wife Sonja Tienhoven-Boissevain in Haarlem, 1944, and to his sister Tolly Boissevain-Mesritz in Geneva, January 1945; a...

File Number : 2233

Type of Material : Dictionary, Newspaper Clippings, Poster, Letter, Poems/songs, Research Article, Genealogy, Documentary, Article(s), List(s), Text(s)

Language : English, Russian, Dutch, German

Letter from Lajos Pásztor to his parents in Budapest written during his military service in the Hungarian Army in Nyíregyháza, including a description of the deportation of the Jews of the city and its surroundings to the local ghetto, 24 April 1944 Notes from Orna Noy who submitted the material The members of the Pásztor family from Budapest were recognized as Righteous Among the Nations. During the war, they hid the stepfather of Orna Noy, the submitter of the material.

File Number : 2226

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Hungarian

Correspondence between the Gross family in Eretz Israel and family in Amstelveen through the Red Cross, 1941-1943; letters sent to Szymon Benno Wind in Westerbork from Vught camp and Amstelveen, 1944; letter from a Polish Army soldier regarding meeting Szymon Benno in Westerbork and the fate of his wife Rosa (Gross) Wind, 1945; personal documentation of Szymon Benno during the war and afterwards Correspondence between the Gross family in Eretz Israel and the family in Amstelveen through the Red Cross, 1941-1943; letters sent from the Vught camp and Amstelveen to Szymon Benno Wind in Westerbork, 1944; letter...

File Number : 2225

Type of Material : Letter, Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Postcard, Red Cross Letter, Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, English, Dutch, German

Testimony of Mordechay (Paul Georg) Fleischer, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1926 regarding his escape to Budapest, deportation to detention camps, escape from a death march and residing in the Glass House

Testimony

Childhood before the war; Fascist Slovakia, 1938; antisemitic events; Attempts to move to Budapest, Hungary, winter 1942-1943; getting arrested by Hungarian soldiers while escaping; sent back to Slovakia; escape to Hungary with the aid of a smuggler; arrival in Budapest; capture and arrest; decrees and restrictions; transferred to a prison by two Hungarian soldiers; deportation to a brick factory; escape to a marked house; capture and deportation for labor building fortifications and digging anti-tank trenches near Solnok, late October 1944; march towards Austria; escape to the Red Cross house in Budapest...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yocheved Guli (Brutzki) Grinblat, born in Brussels, Belgium in 1930, regarding her experiences as a child in Brussels, in Agde camp, in a dormitory in Chateau de Bassines, in hiding in the Ardennes area, and in other places Life before the war; Orthodox, religious family; death of her father; Wehrmacht invasion of Belgium on 10 May 1940; escape to Revel with her mother and sisters; devious concentration of the Jews who are there, by the mayor; deportation to Agde with the Jews; escape from the camp to Brussels with her mother and sisters; life in Brussels, under curfew; marking of Jewish owned...

File Number : 13704

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Yisrael Klein, born in Radomysl, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in Radomysl, in hiding in the forest and being hidden by farmers, in Paleniec, in a commune of Jews hiding in the forests, as Red Army soldier and more Life before the war including the ultra-Orthodox way of life of his family. German occupation, 08 September 1939; hiding with his father in the attic during the concentration of the Jewish men in the municipal market; confinement of the Jews in the church without food or water for several days; murder of many Jews by shooting; transfer of the wounded to German military...

File Number : 8636

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Documentation regarding Ferdinand Strauss, born in Michelstadt, Germany, in 1902, relating to his time as a refugee in Switzerland and his emigration to the United States, from 1946-1983

Documentation regarding Ferdinand Strauss, born in Michelstadt, Germany, in 1902, relating to his time as a refugee in Switzerland and his emigration to the United States, from 1946-1983 - confirmation from the Federal Office of Justice and Police in Bern, Switzerland, from 15 January 1946, regarding the arrival of Ferdinand Strauss in Switzerland as a refugee on 30 May 1942 and his request to emigrate to the United States; - Strauss's request in New York from the Federal Office of Justice and Police in Switzerland on 10 March 1983 to receive the personal letter that he sent to Kaethe Emig on 05 July...

File Number : 654

Type of Material : Administrative Documentation, Letter

Language : French, English, German

Testimony of Eikhner Perser Suzanna Esther , born in Nitra, Czechoslovakia, in 1937 regarding the christianization of the family and the hiding with acquaintances

Educated family; the grandfather-head of the community; independance of Slovakia in 1939; leaving the house due to limitations in the number of Jews allowed to live on the main street; christianization of the family; obtaining certificates; learning in a monastery; denunciation and deportation of the parents to Auschwitz Birkenau in September 1944; rescue by the christian family nanny; hiding with the christaian nanny until May 1945; recognition of the nanny Pestunka Augusta as a Righteous Among the Nations; return of the father after the war; aliya to Israel in 1949

File Number : 13737

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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