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Testimony of Yitzhak Kohavi, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1939, regarding his experiences in a protected house and in the Budapest Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Yitzhak Kohavi, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1939, regarding his experiences in a protected house and in the Budapest Ghetto From a secular family for whom tradition was important. His father is drafted into the army; German occupation, 1944; transfer to a protected house; yellow badge; his mother is taken; being hidden in a Christian home; air-raids; transfer to the ghetto with his aunt; hunger; crowding; liberation by the Red Army, winter 1945. Return home; studies; joins Youth Aliyah; aliya to Eretz Israel, March 1948.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Pnina (Bezner) Sery, born in Radauti, Romania, 1930, regarding her experiences as a child in Radauti and Mogilev-Podolski

Testimony

Testimony of Pnina (Bezner) Sery, born in Radauti, Romania, 1930, regarding her experiences as a child in Radauti and Mogilev-Podolski Life before the war; religious family; pogrom against Jews; escape of the refugees from Poland to Radauti. Outbreak of the German-Soviet Union war, 1941; deportation on a train with the family to the Dniester river; transfer to Mogilev-Podolski; life in Mogilev-Podolski in an abandoned building; kidnapping from the street and transfer to a convoy; escape; death of her grandfather and grandmother from hunger; contact with child deportees; writes a diary with the children in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Joseph Geler Skolnik, born in Lipcani, Romania, 1925, regarding his experiences in Lipcani, Hotin, Secureni, Atachi and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Joseph Geler Skolnik, born in Lipcani, Romania, 1925, regarding his experiences in Lipcani, Hotin, Secureni, Atachi and other places From a religious traditional family; displays of antisemitism; Iron Guard party rise to power; move to Hotin, 1940. Deportation to Transnistria, 1941; wanderings among the villages; transfer to Secureni; transfer to Atachi, 1941; move to Mogilev-Podolskiy; transfer to Kopaygorod; transfer to Ivanovka; deportation to Zakisha; camp life including obtaining food; serving as a counselor for a group of youth, 1942; meets partisans, 1943; transfer to Zhmerinka; camp...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Tova Margita Gita (Smuk) Frish, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1940, regarding her experiences as a baby hidden by non-Jews in Bratislava

Testimony

Testimony of Tova Margita Gita (Smuk) Frish, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1940, regarding her experiences as a toddler hidden by non-Jews in Bratislava Deportation of her parents to an unknown camp, 1942; life in the home of her neighbors, Dr. Josef Frish and his wife Aida; deportation of Dr. Frish by the Germans, 1944; life in a non-Jewish environment; witness is placed in a monastery; death of Aida; removal from the monastery by the Kovetz's who had been the concierges in her parents' house; end of the war. Return of Dr. Frish, 1945; her mother's sister, Rivka locates the toddler; marriage of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yehuda Parma, born in Jasienica, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Nisko, camps in Taiga, as a soldier in the Czech unit of the Red Army in Dukla, Kiev and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Yehuda Parma, born in Jasienica, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Nisko, camps in Taiga, as a soldier in the Red Army Czech unit in Dukla, Kiev and other places Life before the war; move to Cesky Tesin. German occupation, 1939; forced labor cleaning and clearing rubble; deportation to Nisko with his father; escape to the Soviet occupied area; meeting with his brother and sister; deportation to forced labor camps in Taiga by the Soviets; joins a Red Army Czech unit under the command of Svoboda, 1942; combat in Kiev, Dukla, Charkov and the liberation of Ukraine; army rank promotions;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Broadsheets, 1948-1959

Broadsheets, 1948-1959 Broadsheets of the Herut movement; Broadsheet dedicated to Viktor Shemtov; Announcements on an assembly with a speech by Benjamin Arditti; The file also includes: Issue of a newspaper dedicated to the establishment of the State of Israel, 1948.

File Number : 308

Type of Material : Poster, Announcement

Language : Bulgarian, Hebrew

Testimony of Josef Wenkert, born in Moldovita, Romania, 1932, regarding his experiences in Radauti, Atachi and the Mogilev-Podolski Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Josef Wenkert, born in Moldovita, Romania, 1932, regarding his experiences in Radauti, Atachi and the Mogilev-Podolski Ghetto Life before the war; attends a "heder". Deportation of Jews from the villages, 1940; deportation to Radauti; decrees; transfer to Atachi, September 1941; transfer by rafts to the Mogilev-Podolski Ghetto; ghetto life and earns a livelihood by selling clothes; liberation by the Red Army, 1944. Draft of his father into the Red Army; return to Radauti, 1945; return of his father; Zionist activities; move to Bulgaria; aliya attempt; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Eretz...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation on the experiences of Isak de Leon, born in Russe, Bulgaria, 1899

Documentation on the experiences of Isak de Leon, born in Russe, Bulgaria, 1899 Studies agriculture in France; aliya to Eretz Israel in 1921; work in the Jewish Agency; photograph of members of the Zion organization in Russe, 1901.

File Number : 232

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Letter, Curriculum Vitae (cv), Article, Personal Documents

Language : Bulgarian, Spanish, Hebrew, English

Personal documentation of Benjamin Arditti on the social and political events of the State of Israel

Personal documentation of Benjamin Arditti on the social and political events of the State of Israel The file also includes: Article on the aliya from Morocco, the Sephardi problem and social issues in Israel.

File Number : 13

Type of Material : Personal Documents

Language : Bulgarian, Hebrew, Ladino

Testimony

Testimony of Zwi Narkis, born in Sosnowiec, 1928, regarding his experiences in Sosnowiec, in the Srodula ghetto, and in the Sakrau, Reichenbach, Langenbielau, Groeditz, Klettendorf, and Landsberg forced labor camps Life in a Zionist family; holidays in his home; youth movement activities, and especially in Hashomer Hatzair; making arrangements for sending essential goods to Warsaw; reporting to the soccer field and returning home after undergoing selection, August 1942; decrees, "Aktions", the Judenrat; deportation in a group of around 80 young people to the Srodula ghetto, 1943; afterwards, to the Groeditz,...

File Number : 11554

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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