Childhood in Paris before the war; family life;
German occupation, May 1940; arrest of his father following denunciation and his deportation to Drancy, 1941; yellow badge decree, early 1942; manhunt for Jews, July 1942; escape with his mother and grandfather with the assistance of a [female] French worker employed in the family business; hiding in Saint Julien du Sault; denunciation, and capture of his mother and grandfather; being smuggled to a nearby forest with the help of the partisans; return to the village after about ten days; liberation in the summer of 1944;
Life after the war; aliya to Eretz...
Testimony of Yocheved Guli (Brutzki) Grinblat, born in Brussels, Belgium in 1930, regarding her experiences as a child in Brussels, in Agde camp, in a dormitory in Chateau de Bassines, in hiding in the Ardennes area, and in other places
Life before the war; Orthodox, religious family; death of her father; Wehrmacht invasion of Belgium on 10 May 1940; escape to Revel with her mother and sisters; devious concentration of the Jews who are there, by the mayor; deportation to Agde with the Jews; escape from the camp to Brussels with her mother and sisters; life in Brussels, under curfew; marking of Jewish owned...
Childhood in Antwerp; arrival of refugees from Germany;
German occupation, May 1940; failed escape attempt to England; anti-Jewish legislation; expulsion from school; evening curfew; Aryanization; activity in Bnei Akiva; escape with her brother from Antwerp, 1942; illegally crossing the border into France with forged documents; illegally crossing the border into Switzerland in the Annecy area; capture by Swiss gendarmes and deportation back to France; re-crossing the border into Switzerland; life in a refugee camp near Zurich; assistance from a local nun; end of the war, May 1945;
Aliya to Eretz Israel,...
Childhood before the war; Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria 1938; expulsion from school and carpentry studies; independence of Slovakia and anti-Jewish legislation 1939; deportation of Jews and escape to the mountains in March 1942; going back home and deportation to the Sered camp,in April 1945; work in carpentry; underground in the camp; Slovak uprising and escape ,in August 1944; joining partisans; actions against Germans; liberation by the red army,in April 1945; joining aliya training; illegal immigration to Eretz Israel on the Theodor Herzl ship,on 01 April 1947; exile to Cyprus; aliya back to...
Testimony of Avigdor Rubinshtein, born in Sokolow, Poland in 1921, regarding his experiences in USSR, Siberia, and Bukhara, and his survival
Life in a wealthy Zionist family; German occupation for ten days in September 1939; Russian domination until June 1941; escape to Siberia and life there in 1941 and 1942; move to Bukhara and life there until 1944; use of family home as center for Zionist activity, especially for Hashomer HaTza’ir youth movement and other youth movements; participation in Bricha in 1945; attempt to reach Eretz Israel and exile to Cyprus in 1946; aliya to Israel in early 1949; absorption.
Testimony of Menahem Lior, born in Bedzin, Poland in 1928, regarding his experiences during deportation to the Bedzin Ghetto and the work camp in Kamionka; hidden by a Pole; escape to Eretz Israel
His childhood in a socialist Zionist home; refugees from Germany; rise of antisemitism; outbreak of war on 1 September 1939; anti-Jewish laws and decrees; restriction of Jewish movement and concentration in one area; youth movements; agricultural farm; Zionist and underground activities; infiltrating into a nearby work camp; work collecting and sorting possessions of the Jews in the ghetto; removing dead...
Testimony of Grace Heimans, born in 1939 in Amsterdam, about her experiences as a girl in hiding in Amsterdam and in a village in the Drogeham area
Life before the war; German occupation ensues in May 1940; father is deported to Auschwitz in August 1942; most of family is deported to Westerbork; they are murdered in the Sobibór cmap in 1943; separation from mother, who is hiding elsewhere; a month and a half later, smuggled to a hideout in the Friesland region with the help of a member of the Dutch resistance; life in hiding with the Nicolai family in a village near Drogeham; information about contacting the...
Kristallnacht in 1938; father arrested and sent to Dachau; Jews of Baden district sent to the Gurs camp in November 1940; bringing a Torah scroll into the camp; taking care of parents; children released under protection of the Quakers in February 1941; life in a children's home in Aspet; German occupation of the Free Zone of France in 1942; receiving information about parents' deportation; placed in a residence in Moissac; finding a temporary hideout in the mountains; resistance activity in the area; liberation in summer 1944; immigration to Eretz Israel aboard the Tel Hai in 1946; adjustment to life in Eretz...
Family life; eviction from Strasbourg in 1939; family moves to Clermont Ferrand; father joins the Foreign Legion; the French surrender and the witness's father escapes and joins the resistance; family hides out in the mountains; deportation order given; escaping to the mountains; forging of family name to Ubery on documents; mother helps to provide forged papers; parents active in placing Jews in hiding; establishment of the Combat Juif partisan army; witness hides in a residential institution; Gestapo manhunts and escape; family participates in warfare operations; liberation in Lyon; father active in Aliya...