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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

Testimony

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 Irene (Holander) Moskovich, born in Chust, Czechoslovkia, 1911, regarding her experiences in the Tacovo Ghetto, Auschwitz and Zittau camps

Testimony

Testimony of Irene (Holander) Moskovich, born in Chust, Czechoslovkia, 1911, regarding her experiences in the Tacovo Ghetto, Auschwitz and Zittau camps Move to Tacovo at a young age; life in Tacovo before the war; attitude to non-Jews; marriage and move to Budapest, 1940. Draft of her husband into the army; birth of her child; return to her parents in Tacovo; refuses offer to illegally cross the border to Budapest; deportation to the Tacovo Ghetto, May 1944; attitude of the Hungarian population toward the Jews; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from her baby; camp life; transfer to Zittau; camp life...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Group testimony of 10 Hungarian women regarding their experiences in Munkacs, a brick factory, the Munkacs Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Hertine (Czechoslovakia) camp and Theresienstadt, recorded by the Degob Commission Group testimony by S. Welber, born in 1921, A. Welber, born in 1925, B. Welber, born in 1928, A. Tambor, born in 1927, S. Wettenstein, born in 1911, J. Gross, born in 1922, S. Klein, born in 1909, R. Fixler, born in 1922, L. Hoffmann, born in 1922 and D. Rottmann, born in 1917: Deportation from Munkacs and the surrounding villages to a brick factory at Munkacs; reasonable living quarters;...

File Number : 1

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Anna Rebs, born in Subotica, Yugoslavia, 1920, regarding her experiences in the Bacsalmas Ghetto, the Subotica Ghetto, Strasshof, Bischofgasse and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Anna Rebs, born in Subotica, Yugoslavia, 1920, regarding her experiences in the Bacsalmas Ghetto, the Subotica Ghetto, Strasshof, Bischofgasse and other places Life in a Zionist-Orthodox community; arrival of refugees from Germany and Austria before the outbreak of the war. Hungarian occupation, 1941; draft of young people to labor camps in the Ukraine; general draft to labor camps; German occupation, April 1944; deportation to the Bacsalmas Ghetto; deportation to the Subotica Ghetto, late May 1944; decrees; deportation by train via Budapest to Strasshof, June 1944; forced labor in Baden...

File Number : 5286

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Postcards sent by Adolf Krasso in the Jasenovac camp and by Marko Spicer in the Oflag VI B camp; additional documentation pertaining to members of the Spitzer and Krasso families

Postcards sent by Adolf Krasso in the Jasenovac camp and by Marko Spicer in the Oflag VI B camp; additional documentation pertaining to members of the Spitzer and Krasso families - Postcard sent by Edita Lovošević in Zagreb to Adela Drašković in Sarajevo, 04 November 1943; - Postcards sent by Adolf Krasso in the Jasenovac camp to Hugo Ehrenfruend in Osijek, March – August 1944, among them an undated postcard; - Postcard sent by Marko Spicer in the Oflag VI B camp to his relative Charles Haag in Zurich, 08 August 1944; - Certification of the nationalization of the property of the Spitzer family...

File Number : 4860

Type of Material : Certification, Postcard, Letter, Personal Documents

Language : Croatian, German

Memoirs of Shmuel Simo Kalderon and Gita Kalderon (maiden name: Shami), both born in Bitolj, and documentation related to their experiences before, during and after the Holocaust

Memoirs of Shmuel Simo Kalderon and Gita Kalderon (maiden name: Shami), both born in Bitolj, and documentation related to their experiences before, during and after the Holocaust - memoirs of Gita and Simo Kalderon regarding the expulsion of the Jews from Macedonia, Simo's joining the Greek partisans, and Gita's stay with her family in Kastoria for a year before her deportation to the camps; - memoirs (unsigned) of the history of the Jews in Bitolj before the war; - "From partisan to citrus grower. The mosaic of Shmuel Simo Kalderon’s Life": Collection of materials in memory of Shmuel Simo Kaldron (died...

File Number : 11611

Type of Material : Poems/songs, Stories, Memoirs, Article, Article, Letter, סיפור חיים

Language : Hebrew, Ladino

To be translated

File Number : 3204

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

Memoirs, declarations, letters, postcards and other documentation related to the experiences of members of the Brandeis family, from Zemun, during the war

Memoirs, declarations, letters, postcards and other documentation related to the experiences of members of the Brandeis family, from Zemun, during the war - Declarations, memoirs and drafts of memoirs related to the Jews of Zemun: --- "Pro memoria": draft of the memoirs of Dr. Leopold Brandeis, regarding his experiences during the Holocaust; --- "Jevrejska opština Zemun": letter written by Dr. L. Brandejs in Naharia to unidentified addressees on 19/11/1958, including information regarding the history of the Zemun community before and during the war; --- Drafts of a list of Jews from Zemun who perished...

File Number : 10161

Type of Material : Personal Records, List of Jews, Article, Death Certificate, Letter, Diploma, Financial Records, Certification, Draft, Marriage Certificate, Postcard, Birth Certificate, Memoirs, Newspaper Clippings, Obituary, Declaration, Personal Documents, Identity Card

Language : Latin, Serbian, Hebrew, English, Croatian, German, Hungarian

Postcards sent from the Jasenovac camp by Adolf Krasso to Hugo Ehrenfreund in Osijek [and] in Zagreb, December 1943-September 1944; postcard sent to the Zagreb Jewish community, 10 July 1944; confirmation of the nationalizing of the Spitzer family home in Osijek, 1942 - Postcards sent by Adolf Krasso; on one of the postcards to Hugo Ehrenfreund the name of the addressee is not found; - Confirmation of the nationalizing of the property belonging to the Spitzer issued for Jakob Spitzer in the Ustaša - Hrvatski oslobodilački pokret ([Pro-fascist] Croatian Liberation Movement) offices in Osijek, 29 January...

File Number : 3654

Type of Material : Postcard, Certification, Personal Documents

Language : Croatian

Testimony of Hadasa (Brandes) Vardi, born in 1916 in Zemun, Yugoslavia, about hiding in Croatia with the help of false papers

Testimony

Testimony of Hadasa (Brandes) Vardi, born in 1916 in Zemun, Yugoslavia, about hiding in Croatia with the help of false papers The Brandes and Binde families; father: attorney and head of Jewish community; witness studies art in Vienna in 1938; the Anschluss; back to Yugoslavia; witness helps to exfiltrate Jewish refugees; German occupation and partitioning of Yugoslavia in 1941; brother inducted and taken prisoner by Germans; anti-Jewish laws; dispossession; Jews in a camp on the Hungarian side of the border starved; community receives order of deportation to the Jasenovac camp; acquaintances help to...

File Number : 13984

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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