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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 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

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

Testimony of Abraham Ernst Ponger, born in Mikulas Litovsky Svaty, Czechoslovakia, in 1922, regarding his experiences in the Sered camp and in the battle of the partisans

Childhood before the war; Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria 1938; expulsion from school and carpentry studies; independence of Slovakia and anti-Jewish legislation 1939; deportation of Jews and escape to the mountains in March 1942; going back home and deportation to the Sered camp,in April 1945; work in carpentry; underground in the camp; Slovak uprising and escape ,in August 1944; joining partisans; actions against Germans; liberation by the red army,in April 1945; joining aliya training; illegal immigration to Eretz Israel on the Theodor Herzl ship,on 01 April 1947; exile to Cyprus; aliya back to...

File Number : 13772

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letter sent by David Postman from Wlodawa to his relatives in Eretz Israel before the war asking that they facilitate his aliya to Eretz Israel and help him be accepted at a school in Haifa

Letter sent by David Postman from Wlodawa to his relatives in Eretz Israel before the war asking that they facilitate his aliya to Eretz Israel and help him be accepted at a school in Haifa Notes from Ester Spinat, the person who submitted the material: David Postman was born in Wlodawa in 1916 and perished in the Holocaust; His parents were Leibel and Ida Postman. A photograph of Leibel Postman appears in the "Wlodawa and Surrounding Areas Sobibor" Memorial Book on page 315. David Postman had a brother, Ruven, and a sister, Ester; at some point his parents decided to make aliya to Eretz Israel,...

File Number : 2152

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Hebrew

Documentation regarding Robert and Dora (Schwebel) Zwass, including letters they received, school report cards, birth certificates and more

Documentation regarding Robert and Dora (Schwebel) Zwass, including letters they received, school report cards, birth certificates and more Letters and postcards: - Letter sent to Dora Zwass in Chemnitz by her female friend in London, 13 January 1935; - Letter sent to Dora Schwebel in Berlin by her sister Hanna Schwebel congratulating Dora on her [upcoming] marriage, 16 January 1935; - Congratulatory telegrams sent to Dora (Schwebel) and Robert Zwass on their marriage, 25 January 1935; - Postcards sent to Hanna Schwebel in Eretz Israel by her father Chaim Schwebel in Buczacz, 1941; - Letters...

File Number : 2134

Type of Material : Letter, Personal Documents, Postcard

Language : Hebrew, German

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