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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...

File Number : 13704

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Abraham Ernst Ponger, born in Mikulas Litovsky Svaty, Czechoslovakia, in 1922, regarding his experiences in the Sered camp and in the battle of the partisans

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...

File Number : 13772

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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...

File Number : 13735

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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

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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...

File Number : 13394

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Uri Charles Landau, born in 1928 in Pforzheim, Germany, about his experiences in the Gurs camp in 1940, in a children's home in Aspet, in a residence in Moissac, and in hiding in the mountains

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...

File Number : 13588

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Gershon Gerard Avraham, born in 1928 in Strasbourg, France, about his hideouts and partisan activity

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...

File Number : 13486

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Katrin (van der Heiden) Polak, born in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands, 1934, regarding her experiences in Leeuwarden, Oisterwijk, in hiding in Heemstede, in hiding while hidden by the Steenbergen family (later recognized as Righteous Among the Nations) and in hiding while hidden by Paulina Ledeboer (later recognized as Righteous Among the Nations) Her childhood in Leeuwarden and Oisterwijk. German Army occupation of the Netherlands, May 1940; confiscation of her father's factory; expulsion from the school in Oisterwijk, 1941; life under German occupation including the obligation regarding...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Peter Tawer, born in 1925 in Dresden, Germany, about his experiences in Dresden, his escape to the Netherlands in the Kindertransport operation, his escape to Spain with assistance from the Westerweel resistance; internment in a camp for German prisoners in Jamaica, etc.

Life before the war in Dresden; Nazis rise to power in January 1933; antisemitism in school; anti-Jewish legislation; publication of Nazi propaganda; expelled from school in 1937; transferred to a Jewish school; grandmother, holder of Polish nationality, brutally deported; father sent to Buchenwald; activity with Hashomer Hatzair for those deported to Poland; captured and arrested; liberated; confiscation of property; Kristallnacht in November 1938; escaped to the Netherlands in the Kindertransport in early 1939; life in Eindhoven; escaped to a hakhshara (Zionist training facility) in Loodsrecht; Germans occupy...

File Number : 13593

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Lili (Goldberg) Shapira, born in Brussels, Belgium, 1935, regarding her experiences in Brussels, Paris, in hiding in Brussels and in hiding in Wezembeek

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Testimony of Lili (Goldberg) Shapira, born in Brussels, Belgium, 1935, regarding her experiences in Brussels, Paris, in hiding in Brussels and in hiding in Wezembeek Her childhood with her family, before the war. German Army occupation of Brussels, May 1940; escape to Paris with her parents; her father's detention; disappearance of her father; move back to Brussels, late 1940; life in Brussels under German occupation including anti-Jewish legislation, confiscation of property, shortage of food and the decree regarding wearing a yellow badge; expulsion from the school, 1942; kidnapping of her mother on the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Slomo Kless, born in 1920 in Sarny, Poland, about activity in the Hashomer Hatzair underground and the Bricha movement

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Testimony of Slomo Kless, born in 1920 in Sarny, Poland, about activity in the Hashomer Hatzair underground and the Bricha movement Training with Hashomer Hatzair in Rowne in 1939; slipping across borders in Kolomyja and Orodanka ahead of illegal immigration to Eretz Israel in summer 1940; moving to Zarnovice in 1940; moving to Wilno up to June 22, 1941; retreat to Central Asia; activity in the Hashomer Hatzair underground in the Soviet Union in 1940–1944; the Mordecai Rozman affair; manhunt for Rozman and Kless as wanted persons across the Soviet Union; induction into the Polish Army in the Soviet Union;...

File Number : 13383

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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