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Documentation regarding Therese Tauba (Sztern) Clifford, members of her family who perished in Auschwitz and her husband Cecil Theodore Clifford, 1938-1963

Documentation regarding Therese Tauba (Sztern) Clifford, members of her family who perished in Auschwitz and her husband Cecil Theodore Clifford, 1938-1963 - Documents regarding the compensation claim of Therese Tauba (Sztern) Clifford, who lived in Brussels using a false identity during the entire war; - Certificates confirming the deaths of members of Therese's family in Auschwitz; - Personal documentation of her husband Cecil Theodore Clifford who served in the British Royal Air Force (RAF - Royal Air Force) and Cecil's flight log, 1941-1942; Comments by Janice Serlin, submitter of the...

File Number : 95

Type of Material : Certification, Personal Documents, Official Documentation, Diary, Record of Murdered Persons

Language : French, English, German

Documentation belonging to Juda Waterman, Ellie Waterman and Maurits Waterman, members of the family of Mirjam (Waterman) Pinkhof, from Loosdrecht, the Netherlands, 1933-1997

Documentation belonging to Juda Waterman, Ellie Waterman and Maurits Waterman, members of the family of Mirjam (Waterman) Pinkhof, from Loosdrecht, the Netherlands, 1933-1997 - Correspondence between Juda Waterman, who served as a pilot in the British Royal Air Force (RAF) during World War II, and his family including his first letter to his sister, Mirjam, after Juda received word that Mirjam had returned safely from Bergen-Belsen, 17 June 1945; - Interview of Mirjam (Westerman) Pinkhof with Juda Westerman, 26 October 1996; - Flight log of the flights in which Juda Waterman participated as a pilot in...

File Number : 47

Type of Material : Memoirs, Diary, Personal Records, Postcard, Letter

Language : Hebrew, Dutch

Testimony of Miroslav Sigut, born in Dobratice, Czechoslovakia, 1917, regarding his experiences in Krakow, as a French Foreign Legion soldier in France and as a Czechoslovakian Army soldier in England Help from the Jewish communities to non-Jewish refugees, 1939. Expulsion to Poland; enlistment in the Czechoslovakian Army by Jewish volunteers not accepted by the Czechoslovakian Consulate in Krakow; enlistment in the French Foreign Legion; life in the Foreign Legion unit at Sidi-Bel-Abbes, 1940; transfer of Czechoslovakian volunteers to the Agde training camp; difficulties in mobilization of...

File Number : 76

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Czech

Testimony of Helmut Brecher, born in Liberec, Czechoslovakia, 1923, regarding his escape to England, 1939, and his experiences as a Czechoslovakian soldier in the British Army, including service in the Royal Air Force (RAF) Childhood in a Jewish orphanage in Prague; arrival in England with his brother Albert using Slovak passports, 1939; assistance of the British Refugee Committee, 1940; work in factories; military training in the Czechoslovakian military unit in Southampton; enlistment by Jews, 1943; detention of Jewish escapees in Italian camps; help from Italian farmers; enlistment in the Czechoslovakian...

File Number : 7

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Czech

Testimony of František Bobek regarding his experiences as a Maccabi activist in Brno and Theresienstadt, and information regarding Czechoslovakian soldiers serving in the British Royal Air Force (RAF) and in German captivity Leading member of Maccabi Brno until 1940; deportation to Theresienstadt Ghetto, 1942; Maccabi activities in Theresienstadt; participation in organizing the Maccabi resistance movement in the ghetto, cooperation with Freddy Hirsch, the ghetto youth leader; contact with Maccabi activist Steckl in Slovakia; names and information regarding soldiers and officers in the Czechoslovakian Exile...

File Number : 5

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Czech

Testimony of John Korda, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1917, regarding his experiences in Britain, 1938, and his military service in the British Royal Air Force (RAF)

Testimony of John Korda, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1917, regarding his experiences in Britain, 1938, and his military service in the British Royal Air Force (RAF) Residence in England from 1938. Enlistment in the Czechoslovakian wing of the RAF, 1940; easing of pressure on the part of Czechoslovakian officers not to allow Jews to fly, 1942; obstacles put forward in Czechoslovakian language tests; antisemitism of Czechoslovakian officers; Jews in RAF training schools, in flying crews and among ground personnel; air-raids on German port installations, 1943; patrols protecting Soviet convoys to...

File Number : 46

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Czech, English

Experiences of Otto Smik, born in Borzomi, Georgia, Soviet Union, 1922, as a pilot in the Czechoslovakian Army in France and Britain, and his death in battle, 28 November 1944

Experiences of Otto Smik, born in Borzomi, Georgia, Soviet Union, 1922, as a pilot in the Czechoslovakian Army in France and Britain, and his death in battle, 28 November 1944 Move to Bratislava, 1934; enlistment in the Czechoslovakian Army, 1940; service in France, among other places, in Agde, and in Britain; death by shooting while on active duty, 28 November 1944.

File Number : 108

Type of Material : Reports

Language : Czech

Testimony of Fischl Davidovic, born in Czechoslovakia, regarding his experiences in detention in Poland, 1938, as a Czechoslovakian Army soldier in France and England and being wounded, 1944

Testimony of Fischl Davidovic, born in Czechoslovakia, regarding his experiences in detention in Poland, 1938, as a Czechoslovakian Army soldier in France and England and being wounded, 1944 Born in Czechoslovakia. Service in a Czechoslovakian military intelligence unit during the mobilization, 1938; capture and arrest in Poland; release after intervention by members of the Jewish community in Stary Sambor, 1939; establishment of a joint refugee center in Krakow; establishment of a refugee group headed by Prof. Goldstuecker; arrival in England via Sweden, May 1939; transfer to the Czechoslovakian Army in...

File Number : 10

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Czech

Biography of Prof. Berthold Epstein, born in Pilsen in 1890, regarding his experiences in Vienna, Prague and Berlin and in Berg and Auschwitz camps

Biography of Prof. Berthold Epstein, born in Pilsen in 1890, regarding his experiences in Vienna, Prague and Berlin and in Berg and Auschwitz camps Biography of Prof. Berthold Epstein, born in Pilsen on 1 April 1890, a pediatrician by profession. The biography is from a presentation prepared by Dr. Stephan Heinrich Nolte from Philipps University in Marburg on 24 September 2019: - studies in Prague and Vienna in the years 1908-1914; medical studies in Prague; studies and work in Berlin and Prague; removed from his position in 1939; failed emigration attempt to England; travel to Norway on 15 March 1940 with...

File Number : 655

Type of Material : Biography

Language : Norwegian, Czech, English, German

Postcards sent to Felix Max de Jong in the Miranda del Ebro camp, in Portugal, and in the British Royal Air Force in 1943–1944, and documentation of Felix Max de Jong, born in Amsterdam

Postcards sent to Felix Max de Jong in the Miranda del Ebro camp, in Portugal, and in the British Royal Air Force in 1943–1944, and documentation of Felix Max de Jong, born in Amsterdam - postcard sent from Lourdoueix-Saint-Pierre, France, to Felix Max de Jong in the Miranda del Ebro camp on May 13, 1943; - postcard from Nemesio López Solás to Felix Max de Jong in Praia das Maçãs, Portugal, and in the Royal Air Force (RAF) in the UK in 1943–1944; The experiences of Felix Max de Jong, written by him in Praia das Maçãs on July 18, 1943, from an army questionnaire in London in November 1943, and a list of...

File Number : 4967

Type of Material : Invitation, Certification, Personal Documents, Biography, Letter, Article, Order, Maps, Newspaper Clippings, Postcard, Identity Card, Diploma, Passport, Declaration

Language : Spanish, French, English, Dutch, Portuguese

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