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Certification from the Odeljenje za zaštitu naroda (Department for the Defense of the People) that Manó Hahn escaped from an inmates' forced march and is now returning to Hungary, 1944, and a document certifying that the family of his father, Gerschon Hahn, numbers five children, 1943 The documentation includes: - Certification from the Odeljenje za zaštitu naroda that Manó Hahn, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1903, escaped from an inmates' forced march that originated in the Bor camp and is now returning to his homeland, issued in Bolec, 26 October 1944; - Document issued by the Population Registry of the...

File Number : 473

Type of Material : Personal Records

Language : Serbian, Hungarian

Testimony of Michael Zoltan Bochner, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1924, regarding his experiences in Zagreb, Belgrade, in hiding in villages in Serbia and with the partisans

Testimony

Testimony of Michael Zoltan Bochner, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1924, regarding his experiences in Zagreb, Belgrade, in hiding in villages in Serbia and with the partisans Life before the war; emigration of the family to Czechoslovakia; move to Zagreb. Outbreak of the war, 1941; escape to Belgrade; life in Belgrade; air-raids; escape south; hidden by a Serb family; life in hiding using an assumed identity; hiding the tephilin; escape via various villages; offer by a Serb priest to hide the family; arrest by Yugoslavia gendarmes; transfer to the German command; interrogation of the father by a...

File Number : 13020

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Official documentation regarding the implementation of non-antisemitic policies in the Yugoslav Army and in the press

File Number : 205

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : English, Russian

Testimony of Marcel Samokovlija, born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Yugoslavian Army, deportation to Brac Island and Rab camp, and combat with the partisans

Testimony

Testimony of Marcel Samokovlija, born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Yugoslavian Army, deportation to Brac Island and Rab camp, and combat with the partisans Life before the war; displays of antisemitism by children. Draft into the Yugoslavian Army because he has a driver's license, 1941; role as driver for army officers, from Sarajevo to Montenegro; travel to Split, under Italian occupation; receives forged documents from a Jewish group; steals coupons to buy food; joins a Communist organization; deportation to Brac island together with Jewish emigrants who had been under...

File Number : 7661

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Serbian-Croatian

Testimony of Otto Fried, born in Nova Gradiska, Yugoslavia, 1913, regarding his experiences as a Yugoslavian Army soldier, in Split, Korcula, with the Yugoslavian partisans and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Otto Fried, born in Nova Gradiska, Yugoslavia, 1913, regarding his experiences as a Yugoslavian Army soldier, in Split, Korcula, with the Yugoslavian partisans and other places Life before the war; Zionist activities. Drafted into the Yugoslavian Army, April 1941; escape and detention; evades deportation to a camp; escape to Split under the protection of the Italian authorities; transfer to Korcula, 1942; camp life under the supervision of the Italian Army; life in Vis including joining Yugoslavian partisans, 1942; life with the partisans as a veterinarian; help to the local residents;...

File Number : 5769

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Personal documents of Andrija Bernhut, a Yugoslavian Army soldier, 1946

File Number : 151

Type of Material : Personal Documents

Language : Serbian-Croatian

Testimony of Yitzhak Bleier, born in Novi Vrbas, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Szeged Ghetto and joing the Yugoslavian partisans

Testimony

Testimony of Yitzhak Bleier, born in Novi Vrbas, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Szeged Ghetto and joing the Yugoslavian partisans Life in Senta until 1941; Hungarian occupation, 1941; work building headstones; move to Budapest and life there; drafting of his brothers to a labor battalion and their deaths while imprisoned by the Russians; involved in Bnei Akiva youth movement; German occupation, 1944; ordered to Szeged; meeting his family in the Szeged Ghetto; forced labor clearing rubble and bodies, repairing railroad tracks, and at a German food distribution center; organizing with a group of...

File Number : 10340

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ivan Jungwirth, born in Zagreb, 1918, regarding his experiences in German captivity in Munster, Auschwitz, Zapprozoe, Dachau and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Ivan Jungwirth, born in Zagreb, 1918, regarding his experiences as a POW in German captivity in Munster, Auschwitz, Zapprozoe, Dachau and other places Drafted into the Yugoslavian Army, March 1941; capture by the Germans; life in the Munster POW camp until August 1942; escape from the POW camp, late 1942; return to Yugoslavia using a Christian identity; deportation to Auschwitz, May 1943; transfer to Zapprozoe labor camp; camp life including paving roads and labor in a weapons factory; transfer back to Auschwitz, 18 January 1945; death march to Dachau; transfer to Breslau; liberation by the US...

File Number : 5314

Type of Material : Administrative Documentation, Testimony, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Miriam Erdosh, born in Murska-Sobota, Yugoslavia, 1897, regarding her experiences during her escape through the Alps into Switzerland

Testimony

Testimony of Miriam Erdosh, born in Murska-Sobota, Yugoslavia, 1897, regarding her experiences during her escape through the Alps into Switzerland Life in Murska-Sobota; move to Cakovec; the Jewish community in Cakovec; witness is a relative of Hannah Szenes; move to Zagreb because of her husband's work. German occupation, April 1941; draft of her husband to the army; pressure on her son to leave Zagreb; transfer to the Italian Zone with the help of smugglers and forged documents; life in Sisak; German occupation, September 1943; escape through the Alps into Switzerland despite hardships en route; arrival...

File Number : 7184

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Itzchak Izak Salom Shalom, born in Akko Eretz Israel, 1926, regarding his experiences in Sarajevo, Djakovo, Osijek, Split and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Itzchak Izak Salom Shalom, born in Akko Eretz Israel, 1926, regarding his experiences in Sarajevo, Djakovo, Osijek, Split and other places Family return to Yugoslavia from Eretz Israel; life in Sarajevo until the outbreak of the war. Draft of his father into the Yugoslavian Army; his father is taken into captivity; German occupation; deportation to Djakovo; camp life; escape to Osijek, February 1942; escape to Split which is under Italian occupation; transfer to Korcula Island, October 1942; camp life; help from the local community; joins the Yugoslavian partisans, September 1943; service...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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