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Testimony of Rivka van Coevorden née van Amstel, born in 1924 in Coevorden, Netherlands, about her experiences in Amsterdam and in hiding in the Netherlands during the war

Testimony

Life before the war; offspring of a family that had lived in the Netherlands since 1400; moving to Amsterdam in 1938; war breaks out in 1940; deportation to a labor camp; escape; assigned to farm labor; marries and gives birth to a daughter; hiding in various places; liberation; reunited with daughter; life after the war; immigration to Israel in 1951; adjustment to life in Israel.

File Number : 13536

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shoshana (Britman) Averbukh, born in Grodzisk Mazowiecki, Poland, 1931, regarding her deportation to the Warsaw Ghetto, escape from the ghetto, 1942, and hiding in the village of Osowiec

Testimony

Childhood in Grodzisk Mazowiecki; German occupation, September 1939; abductions for forced labor; confiscation of property; desecration of the synagogue; deportation to the Warsaw Ghetto; yellow badge; deaths of her parents from starvation; smuggling food; the Jewish police; escape from the Warsaw Ghetto, 1942; wanderings in the surrounding villages; hiding in Osowiec; life in the village; Liberation by the Soviets; life after the war; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1946.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe (Dezho) David, born in Gurghiu, Romania, 1927 regarding his experiences in Kaufering and additional camps

Testimony

Childhood; family background; the murder of his father by Romanians, 1934; attends a Romanian school and moves to learn in a workshop in Cluj; Annexation of the area to Hungary; German invasion, 1944; yellow badge; concentration of the Jews in a brick factory; deportation to Auschwitz camp; transfer to Kaufering camp; positive treatment by the German labor manager; labor in an underground factory for airplane production; transfer to Dachau; death march towards Bad-Toelz; liberation; Return to Gurghiu and Cluj; aliya training in Timisoara; illegal immigration to Eretz Israel and exile to Cyprus; digging...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Shneider Yaakov Shmuel, born in Kosino, Czechoslovakia, 1932, regarding his experiences in the Berehovo ghetto and in the Auschwitz-Birkenau, Plaszow, Gross Rosen, Goerlitz and Zittau camps

Testimony

Schneider Shmuel Jacob, born in Kosino, Czechoslovakia, 1932, regarduing the Berehovo ghetto and deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Plaszow, Gross Rosen, Goerlitz and Zittau camps Family background; childhood in a religious family; his father is a hero of the World War I. Entry of the Hungarians; entry of the Germans, March 1944; deportation to the Berehovo ghetto; stay in a brick factory for several weeks; transfer to Auschwitz II-Birkenau; selection at the entrance to the camp; rescue by an anonymous inmate from the camp to the gas chambers and transfer to the camp; finding his father and relatives;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shlomo Shenker Fisher, born in Brussels, Belgium, 1936, regarding his experiences in Paris, in hiding in a school in Paris and in a village in the Grenoble area

Testimony

Testimony of Shlomo Shenker Fisher, born in Brussels, Belgium, 1936, regarding his experiences in Paris, in hiding in a school in Paris and in a village in the Grenoble area Family life before the war. German occupation, May 1940; escape of the family to Paris; death of the witness' little brother en route; anti-Jewish legislation; yellow badge; travel limitations; concentration of the Jewish males in a stadium in Paris, summer 1942; detention of his father; escape of his father from detention and his hiding in the house; displays of antisemitism at school; capture of the family in their home, late 1943;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Leb Margalit, born in Galgau, Romania, in 1928 regarding the Dej ghetto, Auschwitz Birkenau and other camps

Childhood in Galgau and in Deja; invasion of the Hungarians in 1940; anti-Jewish legislation; recruiting for labor battalions; deterioration of the economic situation; German occupation in March 1944; yellow badge; confiscation of property; deportation to the Dej ghetto; life under the sky; starvation; deportation to Auschwitz Birkenau in June 1944; camp admission process; life in the camp; starvation and thirst; transfer to Bremen about 2 months later; working in clearing the ruins; getting help from German citizens; mutual help; transfer to Bergen Belsen; typhus epidemic; piles of corpses; liberation by the...

File Number : 13712

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Correspondence of the Aid Council for Jewish Refugees from Germany (Benno Kaufmann) in Basel, Switzerland, regarding support to Jewish refugees from Germany: Personal letters of request for support, 1942-1948 The file contains mainly personal letters of request for support from victims during the war and from survivors after the war. Letters from survivors include names of missing family members. Letters from survivors in: - Israel: p. 5, - Southern Rhodesia, pp.6-10, - Germany: pp. 11-12, pp. 15-18, pp. 23-38, pp. 60-69, pp. 71-76, pp. 163-190, p. 261, pp. 266-273, pp.405-428, p. 446,...

File Number : 5

Type of Material : Postcard, List, Letter

Language : French, German

Correspondence of the Aid Council for Jewish Refugees from Germany (Benno Kaufmann) in Basel, Switzerland, regarding support to Jewish refugees from Germany: Personal letters of request for support, 1938-1940 The file contains personal letters of request for support from victims (the names are scanned in alphabetical order). Jewish victims from: - Vienna, pp. 2-54, 68-71, 79-88, 90-92,94-95, 97-98, 102-105, 109-142, 145-152, 156-168, 181-214, 220–224, 228-242, 254-282, 292-293, 312-313, 326-332, 335-349, 378-380, 387-388, 391-393, 407-414, 431-452, 458-461, 462-483, 511-531, 542-561, 562-572,...

File Number : 2

Type of Material : Postcard, Newspaper, List, Letter

Language : German

Correspondence of the Aid Council for Jewish Refugees from Germany (Benno Kaufmann) in Basel, Switzerland, regarding support to Jewish refugees from Germany: Personal letters of request for support, 1935-1948 The file contains mainly personal letters of request for support from victims before and during the war and from survivors after the war. Letters from survivors include names of missing family members. Letters from survivors in: - Germany, pp. 4-10 - Vienna, p. 47 - Liechtenstein, pp. 605-608 - Survivors from all over the world: pp. 223 – 228, 230-233, 249 – 258, 330, 396-409, 411, 494-510,...

File Number : 4

Type of Material : Telegram, Document, Newspaper, Postcard, List, Letter

Language : Hebrew, French, German, Hungarian

Correspondence of Benny Kaufmann from Basel, Switzeralnd, regarding aid to Jewish refugees from Austria and Western Europe. Personal letters of requests for support and lists for payment orders, 1939-1940

Correspondence of Benno Kaufmann from Basel, Switzerland, regarding aid to Jewish refugees from Austria and Western Europe: Personal letters of request for support and lists of payment orders, 1939-1940. Names of Jewish Victims: - Simon Israel Ceiger, Vienna, 27/06/1939 - 04/07/1939 -, pp. 245-250 - Family Deutsch, Vienna, 15/05/1939 - 01/08/1939 pp. 303-315 - Salomon Eisenberg & Chaja Lea Eisenberg, Vienna, 20/09/1939 - 5/07/1940, pp. 452-459, - Julius Hecht, M.Gladbach, 03/12/1939 - 13/09/1940, pp. 818-829 - Bruno Hechtenthal, Milano & Vienna, 07/02/1939 – 06/09/1939, pp. 833-858 -...

File Number : 1

Type of Material : Postcard, Letter, List of Names

Language : German

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