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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 Arie Svimer, born in Kelca, Czechoslovakia, in 1924, regarding his experiences hiding in Kelca and in the ranks of an underground organization in Budapest

Testimony of Arie Svimer,born in Kelca, Czechoslovakia,in 1924,regarding his experiences in hiding in Kelca and in the ranks of an underground group in Budapest Life in Kelca during re-annexation of the place to Hungary; finding a hiding place in a cowshed with a non-Jewish family; separation from the parents; escape to Budapest; working there as a fur tailor; activity as a messenger in the ranks of an underground group whose activity was forging documents; forging documents; emigration to Israel on board the ship "Knesset Israel" in 1947; detention in Cyprus; Aliya to Israel; absorption and rehabilitation;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Leon Genislav, born in Brussels, Belgium in 1927, regarding his experiences while in hiding in Brussels

Testimony of Leon Genislav, born in Brussels, Belgium in 1927, regarding his experiences while in hiding in Brussels Family of emigres from Poland that resided in Brussels; his father is a coal miner; good relations with the local population; outbreak of the war in 1940; life under German occupation; dispersion of his family to various hiding places in 1942; they are informed on; detention of his parents and their deportation to Mechelen camp; life with the Nils family until 1944; liberation; information regarding his parents' fate; he joins the Hashomer Hatzair movement and makes aliya to Eretz Israel from...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : French

Experiences of Ida Kahana, born in Transylvania, 1920, during 1944-2007, written after her death by her granddaughter Yamit Lifshitz in Jerusalem

Experiences of Ida Kahana, born in Transylvania, 1920, during 1944-2007, written after her death by her granddaughter Yamit Lifshitz in Jerusalem Family background: deportation from Dez by the Nazis on Shavuot [May], 1944; arrival to Auschwitz; separation from her parents and from most of her siblings; transfer from Auschwitz on a death march; arrival to Bergen-Belsen; liberation by the Allied forces; move to Sweden with help from the King of Sweden; aliya to Israel; rehabilitation. Included in the file: - Photograph of Ida Kahana taken during her later years.

File Number : 342

Type of Material : Survey

Language : Hebrew

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Testimony

File Number : 13464

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yisrael Salek Delayahu Dłuzniewski, born in 1926 in Łódź, about his experiences in the Łódź ghetto and in the Auschwitz, Gusen-Men, Birkenau, and Mauthausen camps

Life as a boy in Lodz; family background; attends a cheder and a Polish school; belongs to the Zionist youth movement; war erupts in 1939; shops vandalized; shortage of bread; witness escapes with mother to Tomaszow Mazowiecki; escapes back to Lodz; life in the ghetto; the Sperre Aktion; parting with mother and sister, who are deported to Chełmno; labor in a leather workshop; Jews from Germany arrive; the Yom Kippur fast in the ghetto in 1944; deportation by train to Auschwitz-Birkenau; the chair of the Judenrat, Chaim Rumkowski; witnessing the murder of the commander of the Jewish police (Hosenblat); life in...

File Number : 13620

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Renée Kenoshi née Gold, born in 1930 in Odorheiu, Romania, about her experiences in the Targu Mures ghetto and the Auschwitz and Ober-Hohenelbe camps

Life before the war; offspring of a religious family; Hungary re-annexes the area in 1940; promulgation of anti-Jewish laws; men inducted into labor brigades; antisemitic acts; German occupation ensues in March 1944; witness's mother accused of communist activity and imprisoned; wearing the yellow star; banishment to the Targu Mures ghetto on May 3, 19144; mutual assistance; plunder of valuables; deportation to Auschwitz on May 27, 1944; selections in the camp; diseases, roll calls, transferred to Ober-Hohenelbe; life in the camp; living conditions improve; working at welding aircraft parts; liberation by Red...

File Number : 13642

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Gershon Volkovitz, born in 1930 in Kalisz, Poland, about his experiences as a boy in Kalisz, escape to Rowne, evacuation to the Ural region, and wandering through the Soviet Union with his mother and alone during the war

Life before the war; offspring of an affluent traditional Zionist family; attends a Hebrew gymnasium; war breaks out in 1939 and father escapes; witness escapes with his mother by motor vehicle toward Warsaw and thence to the Soviet frontier; escape to Rowne; reuniting with father; evacuation to the Soviet interior in early 1941; leaving Rostov in summer 1941; wandering; hunger en route to the Ural region; living in the Fergana Valley, Uzbekistan; hunger; mother dies in 1943; placed with aunt; placed in a Polish orphanage in Andizhan; escaping from the orphanage; wandering across Russia; unsuccessful attempt to...

File Number : 13644

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yoav Freiberg Reinhard, born in Berlin, Germany in 1937, regarding his experiences as a child in Stolzenhagen

Testimony of Yoav Freiberg Reinhard, born in Berlin, Germany in 1937, regarding his experiences as a child in Stolzenhagen His father is a Christian Huguenot of Jewish origin; Life from 1943; finding a hiding place in a storeroom in Stolzenhagen; hunger; fears; return to Berlin; Life under the Soviet authorities; life under the French authorities; studies; work for UNICEF - United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund [United Nations Children's Fund] in various places in the world; aliya to Israel, 1996.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

To be translated

File Number : 13397

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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