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Testimony of Kedar Fakdrager Yehuda, born in Amsterdam, Holland, in 1937, regarding the deportation to Westerbork and Bergen Belsen camps

Testimony

Family background ; appointment of the uncles to the Jewish Committee in Amsterdam during German occupation; death of the brother in the shelling of the city in 1943; deportation to Westerbork in September 1943; deportation of the family to The "star camp"(Sternenlager)in Bergen Belsen in January 1944; joining of the grandfathers to an inmate exchange deal with the Templars in 1944; death of the parents and grandmother in Bergen Belsen; joining the group of children sponsored by the Birenboim family; the labor train; liberation by the Russians in Troebitz in April 1944; living in the children's home of Rabbi...

File Number : 13800

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Testimony

Family deported to Westerbork on October 30, 1942; Ruth handed over at the Groningen train station to a man along with a note on which her grandparents' address is noted; taken to Amsterdam and placed with the van Noorden family, friends of her parents; deportation to Westerbork after it becomes known that the van Noordens will also be deported on May 10, 1943; transported by train to Bergen-Belsen; men, women, and children are separated in the camp; hunger; grandparents die; taken by train marked with red crosses to Theresienstadt in 1945; train is bombarded; train liberated by the Red Cross in 1945; improper...

File Number : 13540

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rafael Reuveni Rubin, born in Pristina, Yugoslavia in 1938, regarding his life in Albania and in the Bergen-Belsen camp

Testimony of Rafael Reuveni Rubin, born in Pristina, Yugoslavia in 1938, regarding his life in Albania and in the Bergen-Belsen camp Childhood in Pristina and life of Sephardic Jews in the community; German occupation in April 1941 and transition to Italian military government about two months later; exile to Berat, Albania in 1942; return to Pristina in 1944; entry of Muslim soldiers from the 21st Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Skanderbeg (1st Albanian); deportation of Jews to Sajmište concentration camp and from there by train to Bergen-Belsen; hunger; disease; connection with Dutch prisoners; entry of...

File Number : 13745

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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File Number : 13399

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yozef Bramson, born in Franeker, the Netherlands, 1934, regarding his experiences in the Westerbork camp, the Vught camp, the Barneveld camp, Bergen-Belsen and his liberation on "The Lost Train" in Troebitz

Testimony

Testimony of Yozef Bramson, born in Franeker, the Netherlands, 1934, regarding his experiences in the Westerbork camp, the Vught camp, the Barneveld camp and Bergen-Belsen, and his liberation while on "The Lost Train" in Troebitz Immediate family; his parent's professions; way of life at home; Shabbatot and religious holidays; setting up of a community kibbutz training facility by his father; move to Wildervank; attends a Jewish school. Anti-Jewish legislation and yellow badge; occupation of the Netherlands, May 1940; plan to make aliya to Eretz Israel that is not realized; his father's library and its...

File Number : 13243

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letter and postcard from Henri Man, in Paris, to Reta Zegmond in London, 1945, accounting for his experiences in the Holocaust

Letter and postcard from Henri Man, in Paris, to Reta Zegmond in London, 1945, with an account of his experiences in the Holocaust Life in Śródborów in August 1939; moves to Warsaw in October 1939; interned in the Warsaw ghetto; father evicted from the ghetto on September 6, 1942 (discovered later that he perished); witness escapes from the ghetto to the "Aryan" side in 1942 and obtains false documents; the Warsaw ghetto uprising; witness and wife, Helena (Neufeld) Man, sent to Bergen-Belsen in July 1943; brother, sister, and mother also sent to Bergen-Belsen; brother-in-law, Olek, sent to Trawniki and...

File Number : 5491

Type of Material : Will, Postcard, Personal Documents, Letter

Language : English

The life story of Miriam Cohen, born in Amsterdam in 1905, and documentation of her experiences in Westerbork and Bergen Belsen camps and in the "Lost Transport" in 1942-1945

The life story of Miriam Cohen, born in Amsterdam in 1905, and documentation of her experiences in Westerbork and Bergen Belsen camps and in the "Lost Transport" in 1942-1945 - pages from a book about Miriam Cohen prepared by her family members: Miriam's life - Marianne Clara (Cohen) Groenman - with her husband Jakob Jaap Groenman and their three children in Harlem and later in Amsterdam; transfer of the children to various hiding places in September 1942, with the help of the Dutch underground; detention of Marianne and Jaap on 26 September 1942 and their deportation to Westerbork; deportation of Marianne...

File Number : 680

Type of Material : Poems/songs, סיפור חיים, Genealogy, Postcard, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, English, Dutch, German

Memoirs of Yehoshua Birnbaum, born in Lancut in 1902, regarding his family's experiences in Berlin, Poland and in Westerbork and Bergen Belsen camps

Memoirs of Yehoshua Birnbaum, born in Lancut in 1902, regarding his family's experiences in Berlin, Poland and in Westerbork and Bergen Belsen camps - memoirs of Yehoshua Birnbaum (Ozjasz Heszel Birnbaum), born in Lancut on 5 November 1902, regarding his family's experiences in the Holocaust (Yehoshua died in Jerusalem in 1992): The family's move to Berlin when Yehoshua was five years old; his marriage to Henny Wieden in Berlin in 1927, where their five children were born; Yehoshua's deportation from Germany to Poland (with the "Polenaktion" in October 1938); the events of "Kristallnacht" in Berlin in...

File Number : 11276

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Letters from Berlin, the Netherlands, Eretz Israel and Israel from 1938-1951 related to the Birnbaum family, and documentation regarding Ozjasz Heszel Birnbaum and his family

Letters from Berlin, the Netherlands, Eretz Israel and Israel, 1938-1951 regarding the Birnbaum family, documentation regarding Ozjasz Heszel Birnbaum and his family -- Postcard from Jarosław to Itta Birnbaum in Berlin, 1938; -- Letter from Prof. Aalberse's secretary in S Gravenhage to H. Birnbaum in S Gravenhage, 1939, regarding a visa to enter the Netherlands for her husband on the condition that they move to a refugee camp; -- Letters from the Jewish Agency in Israel through the International Committee of the Red Cross in Genève to the Judenrat in Amsterdam, 1943-1944 regarding the listing of members of...

File Number : 5086

Type of Material : Declaration, Personal Documents, Biography, Postcard, Will, Red Cross Letter, Letter, Envelope

Language : Hebrew, English, Dutch, German, Yiddish

Diary kept by Milly Mik Druijf (maiden name: van Embden), born in Amsterdam in 1918, in Bergen Belsen camp in 1944-1945, and in Germany, Norway and the United States in 1945-1947

Diary kept by Milly Mik Druijf (maiden name: van Embden), born in Amsterdam in 1918, in Bergen Belsen camp in 1944-1945, and in Germany, Norway and the United States in 1945-1947 Stay with her husband Arnold Druijf in Zelle camp (Celle); memoirs of her stay in Westerbork for about four months and transfer to Bergen Belsen on 1 December 1944; deportation of Arnold Druijf to another camp in August 1944; life in the camp; documentation in the form of letters to the mother of the witness; liberation from the death train near Tröbitz by the US Army in April 1945; transfer of the train survivors to Leipzig; stay...

File Number : 11015

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Certification, Diary

Language : English, Russian, Dutch

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