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Testimony of Arie Albert Azoulay, born in Tunis, Tunisia, 1928, regarding his experiences in Tunis

Testimony

Testimony of Arie Albert Azoulay, born in Tunis, Tunisia, 1928, regarding his experiences in Tunis Adolescence in Tunis; memories of home life; integration into French colonial life; good relations with the Muslim neighbors. Outbreak of war; life under Vichy laws; expulsion from school; German occupation, 1942; deportation of his father to forced labor; liberation by the British Army, 1943. Tze'irei Tzion and Hagana [the Hagana organization?] activities; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1948; absorption in a kibbutz; Mossad activities in Morocco.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation regarding rescue efforts of Jewish organizations during the war, testimonies of Holocaust survivors, emigration attempts and the postwar handling of Holocaust survivors and the Holocaust in general, 1943-1973 Pages 101-122: Notes of a member of the Joodse Raad voor Amsterdam (Jewish Council in Amsterdam) regarding the situation in the Netherlands, most probably 1943: - Initial anti-Jewish decrees, 1940, including the ban on ritual slaughter, 31 July 1940; - Dismissal of Jewish officials, November 1940; - Anti-Jewish propaganda, early 1941; - Brawls between the Nationaal-Socialistische...

File Number : 132

Type of Material : Correspondence, Reports, Official Documentation, Letter(s), Lists, Testimony, Telegram

Language : Hebrew, French, English, German

Testimony of Efrat Dan Shemla, born in Tunis, Tunisia, 1924, regarding her experiences in Vichy occupied Tunis, a labor camp near Saf-Saf and life in hiding in Tunis

Testimony

Testimony of Efrat Dan Shemla, born in Tunis, Tunisia, 1924, regarding her experiences in Vichy occupied Tunis, a labor camp near Saf-Saf and life in hiding in Tunis Life before the war. Life in Vichy occupied Tunis; anti-Jewish legislation; numerus clausus; German occupation, November 1942; capture of Jews and deportations to forced labor; life in a camp near Saf-Saf; contact with the Jewish community in Saf-Saf; escape and return to her family in Tunis, April 1943; life in hiding until liberation, May 1943. Participation in the establishment of Tzeirei Zion, July 1943; organizing aliya of youth from...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Postcards sent by members of the Manheimer and Silberminz families in Poland to Reuven and Zippora Manheimer in Eretz Israel in the 1930s and the history of the Jews of Kołbiel before and during the Holocaust - Postcards sent to Reuven Manheimer and his wife Zippora (Silberminz) in Eretz Israel by Yaakov Josef Manheimer and members of the Silberminz family in Poland in the 1930s; - Research paper by Yaakov Shenkman dedicated to the history of the Jewish community in Kołbiel and documenting the experiences of the Jews of Kołbiel before and during the Holocaust. The paper is based on interviews and...

File Number : 5075

Type of Material : עבודת מחקר, Postcard

Language : Hebrew, Yiddish

Letters sent to Khenia and Itzkhak Gambrokh Gan Barukh in Eretz Israel, 1922 – 1940, and documentation regarding the Kopelvich families from Daugavpils, Latvia, and the Gambrokh family from Proscurov, Ukraine - Letters sent to Itzkhak Gan Barukh (originally Gambrokh) and to his wife, Khenia (Kopelvich) in Eretz Israel dated 1922 – 1940 and undated: -- His uncle Max Drucker in New York; -- Herman Anbrach in Brzeżany, Poland; -- The Gambrokh family in Proscurov (including the last letter from 1940); -- The Heller family just before their marriage in 1931; and more; - Envelopes; Personal...

File Number : 4987

Type of Material : Membership Cards, Letter, Biography, Passport, Article, Genealogy, Newspaper Clippings, Announcement, Envelope, Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, Russian, German, Yiddish

Documentation of the teacher and rabbi, Moshe Kutnick, issued in Ekaterinoslav, Kożangródek, Łuniniec, Pinsk and the United States, 1917-1926, documentation regarding the Tarbut School in Łuniniec and memoirs of Aharon Kutnick, born in Kuzhin Hodorok (or Kożangródek, Poland) regarding the experiences of the family Booklet prepared by Benny Bar-Moshe in memory of his father, Moshe Kutnick, his mother Yiska (Huberman), brother Asher and sister Sara; Booklet contains: - Dedication by Benny Bar-Moshe and an explanation regarding the family documentation that appears in the booklet; Moshe Kutnick served, among...

File Number : 1565

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Excerpt(s), Documentary, Memoirs, Notebook, Certification

Language : Hebrew, Polish, English, Russian, Yiddish

זכרונותיה של יהודית הברמן לבית סטבון, שם קודם אירן סיטבון, ילידת La Goulette 1936, על קורותיה במסתור אצל משפחה נוצרית בתוניסיה בתקופת השואה ועל פעילותה בתנועה "דרור - צעירי ציון" מ-1949 ועד עלייתה לישראל ב-1954

Memoirs of Yehudit (Irene) Haverman née Sidbon (b. 1936 in La Goulette, Tunisia) about her history in La Goulette, in hiding in Carthage and La Marsa - Memoirs of Yehudit (Irene) Haverman née Sidbon, written in 2009: The family's life in La Goulette; occupation on Tunisia by the German Army; in hiding at the age of five with a Christian family in the Carthage area; father is placed in a labor camp in Bizerte; mother's life with three children; deportation of the Jews of La Goulette to La Marsa; life in La Marsa, including hunger and morbidity; the brother, Yaakov, dies in La Marsa; studies in the Carthage...

File Number : 9781

Type of Material : Personal Documents, הודעה, Excerpt(s), Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, French, German

Letters sent by Fayga and Tova Edelman from Radzyn and Warsaw to the Gotesdiner family in Eretz Israel, one in 1935 and the other undated, and documentation regarding their family members

Letters sent by Fayga and Tova Edelman from Radzyn and Warsaw to the Gotesdiner family in Eretz Israel, one in 1935 and the other undated, and documentation regarding their family members Letters related to the Edelman (or: Idelman) and Gotesdiner families (original): - Letters written by Fayga Edelman in Radzyn to her aunt and uncle Menucha and Yitzchak Gotesdiner in Eretz Israel, one on 21/01/1935 and the other undated; Hersl and Tova Edelman (Fayga's brother and sister) also wrote on the letters; - Letters written by Tova Edelman in Warsaw to her sister Menucha and her brother-in-law Yitzchak...

File Number : 3283

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Letter, Documentary

Language : Hebrew, Yiddish