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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

Testimony of Eduard Fosner, born 1927 in Bucharest, Romania, about expulsion to the Oradea ghetto, deportation to Auschwitz and other camps, death march, and escape

Testimony

Testimony of Eduard Fosner, born in Bucharest, Romania, in 1927 , regarding expulsion to the Oradea ghetto, deportation to Auschwitz and other camps, death march, and escape Childhood before the war; transfer to Oradea in 1938; entry of the Hungarians in 1940; expulsion from school; anti-Jewish legislation ; service in the Levente Association; German occupation in 1944; order to wear yellow badge, and other orders; expulsion to the ghetto in May 1944; deportation to Birkenau; hunger; roll-calls and selections; transfer to Buchenwald for a brief time and from there to Magdeburg; labor in rebuilding and...

File Number : 13773

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Tzafrir Shteir Sara, born in Bedzin, Poland, in 1930 regarding the Srodula ghetto and regarding the Peterswaldau camp

Childhood before the war; programming aliya to Israel; aliya of the two brothers ; confiscation of family businesses; outbreak of the war; burning the synagogue and houses of Jews; deportation to ghetto; forced labor; murder of the father; "aktions"; deportation of the mother and sister to Auschwitz Birkenau; deportation of the witness with her sister to Peterswaldau; help of the German female commander; liberation by the Russians; escape to the American side; rehabilitation of life after the war; aliya to Israel in 1946

File Number : 13661

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Leon John Bortniker, born in Vienna, Austria, 1919, regarding his experiences in Vienna until his emigration to the United States, 1939

Memoirs of Leon John Bortniker, born in Vienna, Austria, 1919, regarding his experiences in Vienna until his emigration to the United States, 1939 Life in Vienna between World War I and World War II; displays of antisemitism in schools, activities of the Schutzbund Federation (Republican Protection Association) of the Social Democrats party and of the Heimwehr (Home Guard) of the Christian Socialists party; murder of Dr. Engelbert Dolfuss, 1935; election of Kurt von Schuschnigg as the prime minister; Anschluss, and the annexation of Austria to the German Reich; persecution of the Jews; entry of Hitler into...

File Number : 254

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English

Testimony of Nancy Vera Rachel Arbel, born in Baktaloranthaza, Hungary, in 1826 regarding deportation to the Auschwitz Birkenau , Plaszow and Reichenbach camps

Testimony

Childhood before the war; coexistence; outbreak of the war; restrictions on Jews; German occupation in March 1944; deportation to ghetto; mutual help; robbery of property; fictitious marriage for the purpose of rescue; deportation to Auschwitz Birkenau; transfer to Plaszow; transfer to a protected camp; improvement in food and living conditions; transfer back to Auschwitz Birkenau; transfer to Germany for agricultural works and for working in a factory manufacturing planes; liberation by the Russians; rehabilitation of life after the war; aliya to Israel in 1949

File Number : 13703

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zelda (Komraz) Rosenberg, born in Utena, Lithuania, 1923 regarding her escape to Novosibirsk, USSR

Testimony

Childhood; attends in a Hebrew school, Utena; attends the Hebrew gymnasium, Ukmerge; Life under the Soviet regime, 1940; escapes with her family one day before the German occupation, 1941; escape via Rokiskis, Lithuania, and Daugavpils, Latvia; work on a kolkhoz; drafting of her father to the Red Army and his release; move to Novosibirsk; drafting of her brother to the Red Army and his falling in battle at the front, 1943; work in an airplane factory; End of the war and her return with her family to Vilna, Lithuania, 1945; rebuilding life after the war; aliya to Israel, 1972.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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

Shneider Yaakov Shmuel, born in Kosino, Czechoslovakia, 1932, regarding his experiences in the Berehovo ghetto and in the Auschwitz-Birkenau, Plaszow, Gross Rosen, Goerlitz and Zittau camps

Testimony

Schneider Shmuel Jacob, born in Kosino, Czechoslovakia, 1932, regarduing the Berehovo ghetto and deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Plaszow, Gross Rosen, Goerlitz and Zittau camps Family background; childhood in a religious family; his father is a hero of the World War I. Entry of the Hungarians; entry of the Germans, March 1944; deportation to the Berehovo ghetto; stay in a brick factory for several weeks; transfer to Auschwitz II-Birkenau; selection at the entrance to the camp; rescue by an anonymous inmate from the camp to the gas chambers and transfer to the camp; finding his father and relatives;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Personal documentation of Filip Schlesinger, born in Sibiu, Romania, 1901, including matriculation certificates and travel documents issued in Romania

Personal documentation of Filip Schlesinger, born in Sibiu, Romania, 1901, including matriculation certificates and travel documents issued in Romania - Matriculation certificate of Filip Schlesinger, born in Sibiu, Romania, 14 November 1901, issued in Nagyvarad, in Romanian and Hungarian, 26 June 1919; - Notarized translation of the matriculation certificate, in English, 20 May 1924; a stamp of confirmation by the Romanian Ministry of Education appears on the translation of the certificate, [issued] before the aliya of Filip Schlesinger to Israel, 02 December 1963; - Matriculation certificate of...

File Number : 402

Type of Material : Personal Documents

Language : English, Romanian, Hungarian

Testimony of Arie Altarescu, born in Bacau, Romania, 1925, regarding his experiences during the war as a forced laborer in an airfield in service to the Romanians; testimony given, 2007

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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