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Testimony of Chaim Kohen, born in Nabeul, Tunisia, 1927 regarding the period of German occupation in Tunisia

Testimony

The Jewish community in Nabeul; friendship with the local population; rumors about the war in Europe; German occupation, 1942; yellow badge decree; drafting of Jewish men to forced labor; work at the Hammamet port; Allied air-raids; work as a barber for German officers; entry of the British Army, November 1942; Zionist activity after the war; aliya by himself to Israel, 1948.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sherer Moshkovitz Lea Lula, born in Konin, Poland, in 1924 regarding the Ostrowiec ghetto and the Kamienna Skarzysko camps and others

Testimony

Antisemitism before the war; outbreak of war in 1939; arrest and deportation from the city; asylum in Ostrowiec; deportation to the ghetto; cleaning works; murder of the brother was he was trying to escape to Russia; murder of the mother and brothers in gas vansnear Konin in 1941; liquidation "aktion" of the Ostrowiec ghetto; deportation to the Skarzysko Kamienna camp in 1942; working in a porcelain factory; forced labor in moving stones from one place to the other in Auschwitz; going on the death march at the end of 1944-January 1945; deportation to the Kratzau and Gruental camps in the Sudetenland; forced...

File Number : 13741

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yitzkhak Keren Klein, born in Lugoj, Romania, in 1936 regarding his experiences as a child hiding in Odorheiu

Testimony of Yitzkhak Keren Klein, born in Lugoj, Romania,in 1936 regarding his experiences a a child in hiding in Oderheiu Moving with the family to Odorheiu; re- annexation of the place to Hungary in 1940; the family gets "privileges" due to serving during World War 1; occupation in 1944; deportation of the Jewish community to camps;rescue from deportation due to their privileges; compulsory reporting to the police; facing bullying at school; finding a hiding place in a forest hut with a non-Jewish acquaintance from July 1944 till Autumn 1944; liberation; life after the war;aliya to Israel in 1950;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of trudi Volakh Salomons, born in Amsterdam, Holland, in 1929, regarding her deportation to Westerbork and other camps.

Testimony

Daughter of an orthodox family; German occupation in 1940; denial of rights; rejection of relatives'offer for asylum in Switzerland; birth of her sister in 1943; her mother had the Swiss nationality; her father was Dutch; refusal of the parents to get divorced and their stay together in Holland; obtaining certificates of aliya to Palestine by her father; obtaining passports of Peru by relatives of her mother who lived in Switzerland; arrival at the train station; deportation to Westerbork in July 1943; stay in Westerbork and protecting from deportation thanks to their certificates and passports of Peru; their...

File Number : 13696

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zohar Shlomo zilgelshtein, born in Verecki Pss, Czechoslovakia, in 1923, regarding his hiding in the forests, his deportation to the Gusen and Mauthausen camps, Austria.

Testimony

Orthodox family related to "Sharf" from Sterlinsk (from the Greats of the hasidut); activity in the Beitar; transition to Hungarian rule in 1939; deportation order for the Jews without a Czech nationality towards the Polish border in 1939; housing the deportees in a house that was built on the border; smuggling of the deportees by the witness back to Czechoslovakia on hidden paths; hiding in the forests of Ukraine; capture by Germans; deportation to camps in Austria; forced labour in a quarry in the Gusen camp; he comes across his brother in Mauthausen; march to Gunskirchen; death of his brother; liberation in...

File Number : 13743

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe Shper, born in Volove, Carpathian Ruthenia, Czechoslovakia, in 1921 regarding his recruitment to labour battalions and his deportation to Mauthausen

wealthy family; he attends the Hebrew Gymnasium in Mukacevo; transition to Hungarian rule in 1939; rise of anti-semitism ; deportation of the stateless to Poland, recruitment for labor battalions in 1942; work in a car workshop in Budapest; German occupation in 1944; escape attempts; march to Austria; digging bunkers in Szombathely; cruelty of the SS; Gunskirchen and Mathausen camps; liberation; return to Carpathian Ruthenia; return of his mother and sisters from Auschwitz; aliya to Israel in 1949.

File Number : 13693

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Abraham Ashkenazi, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1930 regarding his experiences in Pazardzhik

Manifestations of anti-semitism on the part of the teachers; moving to a Jewish school; Ben Gourion's visit to the city; recruiting his father for forced labour; deportation order to Pazardzhik; shelter in the local school; restrictions; loss of contact with his father; surviving on temporary jobs; going back to Sofia; joining the movement Poalei Zion Left; defense training; aliyah bet from Marseille on board the ship Pavio in 1948; participation in the Latrun battles and in the battles in Jerusalem

File Number : 13706

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Joseph Shner Schwartz, borin in 1932 in Kalocsa, Hungary, about his experiences as a boy in the Kalocsa ghetto and in an apartment in Budapest during the war

Life in a Neolog community before the war; Jews not admitted to high school; moves to Budapest for studies; family receives extra privileges because grandfather died in World War I; receives information from a refugee from Poland in 1943 about murder of Jews; German occupation ensues; living in the Kalocsa ghetto; escaping to Budapest; living in an apartment due to the family's extra privileges; hiding acquaintances in the apartment; conditions worsen in October 1944; mother captured and interrogated; life in hiding in the apartment until liberation; Zionist youth movement; slipping into Czechoslovakia;...

File Number : 13600

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe Amit Toker, born in Petroseni, Romania in 1934, regarding his childhood experiences in Petroseni and in Galati

Testimony of Moshe Amit Toker, born in Petroseni, Romania in 1934, regarding his childhood experiences in Petroseni and in Galati Life before the war; son of an Orthodox religious family; father born in Poland; receiving an expulsion order to Poland as stateless people in 1940; closing of the border and remaining in Romania; life in Galati; family receiving absorption assistance from the local Jews; suffering bombings; activity in Zionist youth movement after liberation; moving from Romania in a children’s group; life in Apeldoorn children’s home in 1947; aliya to Israel in 1948; absorption.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation of the regional branch of the Centralverein - CV (Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith) in East Prussia, regarding various subjects, 31/10/1932-16/05/1936

Documentation of the regional branch of the Centralverein - CV (Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith) in East Prussia, regarding various subjects, 31/10/1932-16/05/1936 Testimonies from small cities in East Prussia, including Treuburg, Goldap, Lötzen, Johannisburg, Gildenburg, Riesenburg, Marienwerder, Elbing, Osterode, Bischofsburg and Neidenburg: Ban on Weinachtsgeschäft (Christmas) sales; ban on the employment of Jewish clerks who are under the age of 25, unless given special permission by the employment office; economic boycott; social isolation of Jewish physicians; social...

File Number : JM/28889

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Newspaper Clippings

Language : German

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