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Testimony of Arye Sendyk, born in Lodz, Poland, 1919, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Gronow, Eberswalde, Birkenau and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Arye Sendyk, born in Lodz, Poland, 1919, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Gronow, Eberswalde, Birkenau and other places Life before the war; member of a sport organization; relations with the local population; attends school. Outbreak of the war; move of the family to his brother's home; German occupation; yellow badge; hides their valuables; transfer to the Lodz Ghetto; ghetto life; transfer to labor in Germany; deportation to Gronow; camp life including collective punishment for stealing; transfer to Eberswalde; camp life including forced labor in the laundry; transfer to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Heliyao Guez, born in Nabeul, 1922, regarding his experiences in labor camps in Tunisia

Testimony

Testimony of Heliyao Guez, born in Nabeul, 1922, regarding his experiences in labor camps in Tunisia Life in the Jewish community in Nabeul; learns in a Talmud Torah; move to Hammam Lif before the war and then return to Nabeul. German occupation, November 1942; anti-Jewish decrees; yellow badge; draft of men ages 18 to 55 to forced labor; deportation to Hammam Lif to labor building bunkers; visit by Rommel, 01 February 1943; labor building an airfield at Henzel Tamime; labor transferring weapons that arrived from Italy into warehouses; labor loading packages of barbed wire and iron posts; help from Arab...

File Number : 11129

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Diary kept by Shoshana (Bolle Benedictus) Migdali using the underground name Martien/Tineke Kramer while being hidden in Dordrecht by the Burger family, a Dutch family (later recognized as Righteous Among the Nations), 1942-1945 The diary was written in 14 notebooks; it includes the experiences of the writer and five members of her family along with one other person who were hidden by a Dutch family for two and a half years, including the military and political situation on all the fronts according to information from the radio and underground periodicals. Notebook No. 1, 09 October 1942-26 January 1943,...

File Number : 4906

Type of Material : Diary

Language : Dutch

Testimony of Shaul Baumann, born in Vienna, 1922, regarding his experiences in Vienna during Kristallnacht, arrest by the Gestapo and aliya to Eretz Israel

Testimony

Testimony of Shaul Baumann, born in Vienna, 1922, regarding his experiences in Vienna during Kristallnacht, detention by the Gestapo and aliya to Eretz Israel Childhood and family; antisemitism before the German annexation; Kristallnacht; detention by the Gestapo. Aliya to Eretz Israel, 1939; absorption; combat in the Negev Division of the IDF during the War of Independence.

File Number : 10323

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Hiyyat Simha (Guez) Gilbert, born in 1924 in Sfax, Tunisia, about her experiences in Sfax and the vicinity

Testimony

Testimony of Hiyyat Simha (Guez) Gilbert, born in 1924 in Sfax, Tunisia, about her experiences in Sfax and the vicinity Childhood in a secular family in Sfax; father: accountant for a soap enterprise; family lives on the factory grounds out of town as the only Jewish family; good relations with Italian and Arab neighbors; witness attends a French elementary and high school; father dies in 1936; family subsists in privation from mother's work at the factory; war begins; life under Vichy rule; privation; German occupation ensues in November 1942; family evicted from home so an anti-aircraft position can be set...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew