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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 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 Fanja (Lebel) Lavi-Arion, born in Cadavica, Yugoslavia, 1922, regarding her experiences in Cadavica, Osijek, Zagreb, the Zona Occupata, Rab Island and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Fanja (Lebel) Lavi-Arion, born in Cadavica, Yugoslavia, 1922, regarding her experiences in Cadavica, Osijek, Zagreb, the Zona Occupata, Rab Island and other places Her childhood in Cadavica; studies in Osijek and Zagreb. Life under German occupation including expulsion from the school and decree regarding wearing a yellow badge; move with her mother to the Zona Occupata (Free Zone) with help from a Yugoslavian laborer; informed on by a friend; deportation of her father to an unknown destination; life in the Zona Occupata, including the attitude of the Italians; transfer to Rab Island by...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Haim Altaratz, born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, 1931, regarding his experiences in Sarajevo, Mostar, Split, Dubrovnik and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Haim Altaratz, born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, 1931, regarding his experiences in Sarajevo, Mostar, Split, Dubrovnik and other places His childhood in Sarajevo. German Army occupation of Sarajevo, April 1943; informed on by their Croatian housemaid; rape of his grandmother by drunk German officers; move to Mostar using Aryan documents with help from a Moslem acquaintance; rescue of his brother by the Moslem acquaintance; move to Split which was under Italian occupation; move to Dubrovnik; transfer to an Italian camp on the island of Rab, September 1943; joins Tito's partisans; BBC broadcasts to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ben Zion Lapid, born in Vienna, Austria, 1936, regarding his experiences as a Mischlinge child

Testimony

Testimony of Ben Zion Lapid, born in Vienna, Austria, 1936, regarding his experiences as a Mischlinge child His life as a Mischlinge child; move to Yugoslavia.

File Number : 13477

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Arie Hermoni, born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, 1936

Testimony

Testimony of Arie Hermoni, born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, 1936 Deportation to Dakovo, 1941; disappearance of his mother in Dakovo; his father a POW in Germany, 1941-1945; escape together with his brother to Osijek, later to Zagreb, to Split and to the Vares village, 1942-1944; disappearance of his brother, 1943. Return to Sarajevo, 1945; return of his father from captivity, 1945; aliya to Israel, 1948; absorption.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation of Dady Maestro from Sarajevo regarding the experiences of the family members and the history of the Jewish community in Sarajevo before and during the war

Documentation of Dady Maestro from Sarajevo regarding the experiences of the family members and the history of the Jewish community in Sarajevo before and during the war - Permit from the community in Sarajevo confirming the deportation of Sida (Maestro) Pinto and her two daughters to Jasenovac camp where they perished, 1991; - Postcards sent by Albert Maestro from Jasenovac camp, 1943; Albert succeeded in escaping from the camp with the help of partisans; - Permit from the community in Sarajevo according to the [population registry] books for the David ben Yossef family and Mazalta Maestro, 1917; -...

File Number : 207

Type of Material : Documentary

Language : Hebrew, English

Testimony of Joseph Folk, born in Cece, Hungary, 1926, regarding his experiences in Cece and labor battalions in Bor

Testimony

Testimony of Joseph Folk, born in Cece, Hungary, 1926, regarding his experiences in Cece and labor battalions in Bor Life before the war; well-to-do family; attends a Hungarian school and high school; unsuccessful emigration attempts to Australia and Eretz Israel, 1938; Zionist youth movement activities. Outbreak of the war; restrictions on the Jews; confiscation of businesses and livelihood; deportation with his father to Auschwitz; murder of his father, April 1944; transfer to a labor battalion in Bor (Mine); Yugoslavian partisan activities; deportation of the Hungarian Army; liberation, September...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Reports of the Sicherheitspolizei (SIPO-Security Police) and the Sicherheitsdiens (SD-Security Service) headquarters regarding military and political activity during the occupation of the Soviet Union: Report No. 78, 09/09/1941 Part 1 - Political events: A case of cannibalism in the Lamsdorf POW camp; assassination [attempt?] of the Bezirkszollkommissar (District Customs Commissioner) in the Selzach area, in Kaernten und Krain; battle against the Communist rebels in Serbia; exchange of views between the German headquarters and the Serbian Government regarding the manner of participation of Wehrmacht...

File Number : 164.78

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : German

Testimony of Benci Niman Smulevic, born in Bedevla, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding his experiences in Slatinske Doly, Budapest, Bor, Berlin, Bregenz and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Benci Niman Smulevic, born in Bedevla, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding his experiences in Slatinske Doly, Budapest, Bor, Berlin, Bregenz and other places Re-annexation to Hungary, 1939; deportation of his grandmother and other family relatives to the killing pit in Kamenets Podolski; move to Slatinske Doly; deportation to Budapest under the supervision of gendarmes; life in the courtyard of the Jewish hospital; help from the Jewish community; draft order, 1943; transfer to Bor, Yugoslavia; transfer to Berlin; camp life including division of the deportees into groups of 25 people; transfer to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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