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Documentation containing the memoirs of Jerzy Georges Tran, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1922, who emigrated to Belgium together with his family, 1927, and a survey report and articles written by Tran regarding the Holocaust and antisemitism, 1941-1998 - Memoirs of Jerzy Georges Tran: Sharp criticism of the Association des Juifs de Belgique (AJB - Jewish Belgian Association); the demeaning treatment Tran received from Fanny Albert, the secretary, and later the wife of Freddy Blum, one of the heads of the AJB; the Tran family being hidden by Jeanne Ruppol (later recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations) in...

File Number : 153

Type of Material : Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Memoirs

Language : French

Testimony of Eva Goldberg née Avraham, born in 1929 in Cristur, Romania, about her experiences in the Auschwitz-Birkenau, Horneburg, Porta Westfalica, and Fallersleben camps, etc.

Antisemitism in Romaniain 1938; escapes from riots by members of the Legionnaire movement; Hungary re-annexes the area in 1940; father inducted into the labor brigades; German occupation ensues in 1944; concealing valuables; Jews rounded up in the Dej forest; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; selections; taken to a crematorium; hides in a hearse-cart and in a latrine; slips into a group selected for labor; transferred to Horneburg; life in the camp; manufacturing ship and aircraft parts; factory manager helps women prisoners; local German women help with food; cruelties by SS men; transferred to the Porta...

File Number : 13609

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Leon Tabokh, born in 1926 in Thessaloniki, Greece, about his experiences in the Thessaloniki ghetto and in Auschwitz, Gross Rosen, Birkenau, and Mauthausen

Testimony

Testimony of Leon Tabokh, born in 1926 in Thessaloniki, Greece, about his experiences in the Thessaloniki ghetto and in Auschwitz, Gross Rosen, Birkenau, and Mauthausen Pre-war life; war with Italy breaks out in October 1940; German occupation begins in April 1941; hunger; dispossession of Jews in 1942; "black Sabbath" in July 1942; restrictions on Jews including the yellow star edict; eviction from home and confiscation of the house for Germans' residential use; life in the "Baron Hirsch" quarter of the ghetto in early 1943; deportation to Auschwitz in March 1943; life in Birkenau; working in the ADE...

File Number : 13563

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Details about Wierbski family members from Slawkow, most of whom perished during the Holocaust

File Number : 1275

Type of Material : Documentary

Language : English

Reports of the Sicherheitspolizei (SIPO-Security Police) and the Sicherheitsdiens (SD-Security Service) headquarters regarding military and political activity during the occupation of the Soviet Union: Report No. 74, 05/09/1941 Part 1 - Political Events: Setting fire to barns in the Vienna area; execution of 10 Communists in Untersteiermark in reaction to the assassination [attempt ?] of a policeman; Part 2 - Reports of the Einsatzgruppen: Einsatzgruppe C: Presence in Novo-Ukrainka; - Partisans: Checking the messages of local residents regarding partisans being hidden in the cities (the majority...

File Number : 164.74