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Testimony of Tova Edith (Mannheimer) Glazer, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1929, regarding her experiences in Bratislava, Nitra, Ilava, Auschwitz and Merzdorf

Testimony

Testimony of Tova Edith (Mannheimer) Glazer, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1929, regarding her experiences in Bratislava, Nitra, Ilava, Auschwitz and Merzdorf Her childhood in Bratislava until the Munich Agreement, August 1938. Deportation of her father by SS officers; deportation to Nitra; in hiding in a bunker with her family members; transfer to a prison in Ilava, late 1943; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life; transfer to Merzdorf; liberation, May 1945. Legal aliya to Eretz Israel, 1946.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avraham Albahari Gal Yam, born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, 1935, regarding his experiences in Yugoslavia, Split, Korchula and other places

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Testimony of Avraham Albahari Gal Yam, born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, 1935, regarding his experiences in Yugoslavia, Split, Korchula and other places German Army occupation [of Yugoslavia], 1941; draft of his father into the military; detention [of his father] as a POW in a POW camp in Osnabruck, Germany; escape of the witness, with his mother, to the Italian occupied zone with help from a non-Jewish acquaintance; illegally crosses the border at Mostar while using forged documents; transfer by the authorities from Split to the Jewish community in the Korchula area; murder of 14 Jews as punishment for actions...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Bianka (Finzi) Gottfried, born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, 1929, regarding her experiences in Sarajevo, Mostar, Croatia, Camppsrid and other places

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Testimony of Bianka (Finzi) Gottfried, born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, 1929, regarding her experiences in Sarajevo, Mostar, Croatia, Camppsrid [?] and other places Her childhood; her grandfather serves as the Sephardi rabbi of Sarajevo; arrival of Jewish refugees from Czechoslovakia en route to Eretz Israel. Outbreak of the war, April 1941; deportation of her father to Jasenovac camp; escape of her family to Mostar; deportation by the Italian Army to detention on a island near Dubrovnik; life on the island including cultural activities; move on fishing boats farther inland [?] with help from Tito's...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Haim Altaratz, born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, 1931, regarding his experiences in Sarajevo, Mostar, Split, Dubrovnik and other places

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Testimony of Haim Altaratz, born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, 1931, regarding his experiences in Sarajevo, Mostar, Split, Dubrovnik and other places His childhood in Sarajevo. German Army occupation of Sarajevo, April 1943; informed on by their Croatian housemaid; rape of his grandmother by drunk German officers; move to Mostar using Aryan documents with help from a Moslem acquaintance; rescue of his brother by the Moslem acquaintance; move to Split which was under Italian occupation; move to Dubrovnik; transfer to an Italian camp on the island of Rab, September 1943; joins Tito's partisans; BBC broadcasts to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Erna Vera (Siha) Veinshtein, born in Subotica, Yugoslavia, 1929, regarding her experiences in Novi Sad, while using a false identity, in Budapest and Israel

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Testimony of Erna Vera (Siha) Veinshtein, born in Subotica, Yugoslavia, 1929, regarding her experiences in Novi Sad, while using a false identity, in Budapest and Israel Life in Novi Sad under Hungarian rule, 1941; registered as a Catholic by her Catholic father who converted to Christianity before the war; attends a school administered by Catholic nuns, 1941; murder of Jews in Novi Sad by Hungarian soldiers during the large Razzia (round-up); life with her parents while using a false identity as a Catholic, with the help of forged documents; deportation of her mother's family to the Subotica Ghetto, 1943;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Liora (Blau) Harel, born in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, 1926, regarding her experiences in Ljubljana, Aprica and her escape to Switzerland, 1943

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Testimony of Liora (Blau) Harel, born in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, 1926, regarding her experiences in Ljubljana, Aprica and her escape to Switzerland, 1943 Move of the family from Zagreb, which was under Ustasha control, to Ljubljana, which was under the control of the Italian Army; rape by an Italian officer; transfer to Italy; life in Aprica with the status of refugees (Internati Civili Di Guerra); escape to Switzerland, September 1943; absorption in refugee camps; contact with Tito's Yugoslavian partisans in Switzerland; return to Zagreb. Aliya to Israel on the ship, "Radnik", 1949.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Simcha Leo Fischer, born in Backo Petrovo Selo, Yugoslavia, 1928, regarding his experiences as a child in Backo Petrovo Selo, the Szeged Ghetto, Baja Ghetto, Fertorakos camp and other places Life before the war; attends school in the Jewish community and synagogues. Re-annexation to Hungary, April 1941; round-up ("Atkion") with the participation of Hungarian Gendarmes, January 1942; receives information regarding the murder of Jews in Novisad; receives information regarding the murder of family members in Beograd; German occupation, March 1944; wearing of a yellow badge; deportation of Jews...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Levi Moshkovitz, born in Orsowa, Czechoslovakia, 1922, regarding his experiences in labor battalions in the Brustury forest, Kosice, Hodmezovasarhely, Novi Sad and Cop

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Testimony of Levi Moshkovitz, born in Orsowa, Czechoslovakia, 1922, regarding his experiences in labor battalions in the Brustury forest, Kosice, Hodmezovasarhely, Novi Sad and Cop Life before the war. Annexation to Hungary, March 1939; nationalization of property and ban on ritual slaughter; learns in a yeshiva in Kosino; deportation of Jews to Galicia as foreign citizens and their murder; drafted into labor battalions; labor in the Brustury forest; camp life including religious life; transfer to Kosice; transfer to Hodmezovasarhely by freight train; Yom Kippur prayers on the train; forced labor digging...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Doron Charkovski, born in Osijek, Yugoslavia, 1940, regarding his experiences as a baby in Ogulin, Kraljevica camp, Rab camp, an assumed identity, with the partisans and other places

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Testimony of Doron Charkovski, born in Osijek, Yugoslavia, 1940, regarding his experiences as a baby in Ogulin, Kraljevica camp, Rab camp, an assumed identity, with the partisans and other places Life as a baby in Osijek during the German occupation, April 1941; Ustasha assumes authority; escape with her mother to Ogulin; deportation with the Italian Army to Kraljevica; camp life; surrender of the Italian Army; German occupation; transfer to Rab, September 1943; camp life; liberation by the People's Liberation Army & Partisan Detachments of Yugoslavia (Tito's partisans); escape to the liberated area;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ruben Kohn, born in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in Zagreb, Crikvenica, Rab, with the partisans in the Dalmatia area and in other places

Testimony

Testimony of Ruben Kohn, born in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in Zagreb, Crikvenica, Rab, with the partisans in the Dalmacija area and in other places Life in Zagreb before the war; Zionist family. Outbreak of the war; German occupation, 10 April 1941; anti-Jewish restrictions; evades deportation to camps; rescue by Horvat Pavao, who was later recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations; escape to Crikvenica; life under the Italian occupation; deportation to Kraljevica, November 1942; camp life including internal coordination by inmates; transfer to Rab, May 1943; camp...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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