Prewar childhood; antisemitism; plans for aliya to Eretz Israel; outbreak of the war;
German occupation; burning of houses; deportation to the Parschnitz labor camp, Czechoslovakia; camp life, 1941-1945; hunger; longing; murder of her family; liberation by the Red Army;
Rebuilding life after the war; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1948.
Childhood in Zarki; antisemitism; move to Sosnowiec, 1934; antisemitism;
German occupation, September 1939; abuse; anti-Jewish legislation; confiscation of property; Judenrat; deportation to the Johannsdorf labor camp, late 1939; work in excavations and laying railroad tracks; transfer to the Markstadt camp; various forced labors; transfer to the Klettendorf camp; labor as a porter; beatings; transfer to the Dyhernfurth camp to work in a weapons factory; beatings; hunger; death march to Bergen-Belsen; high mortality; hunger; liberation by the British Army, April 1945;
Life after the war; aliya to...
Life before the war; refugees from Germany arrive in 1938; German occupation ensues in September 1939; anti-Jewish legislation; dispossession; abductions for forced labor; plunder of property; desecration of synagogues; ghettoization in April 1940; activity of hakhsharot (training centers) in Marysin; activity of the Bnei Akiva movement; hunger; working in the Judenrat kitchens; deportation to Hasag, in Częstochowa, in March 1944; life in the camp; working in an armaments factory; religious life and faith; liberation by Red Army forces in January 1945; life after the war; antisemitism; immigration to Israel in...
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.
Testimony of Shnirer Tulo, born in 1927 in Krakow, Poland, regarding transfer to the Krakow Ghetto in 1941 and deportation to labor camps
Childhood: traditional family, Jewish school, antisemitism before the war, death of his father in 1936; German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939; anti-Jewish decrees; wearing the yellow badge; limitations on movement; confiscation of property, etc.; German officials taking over part of the family’s apartment; transfer to the Krakow Ghetto in March 1941; the Judenrat and the Jewish police; forced labor inside and outside the ghetto; Jewish underground; Nazi...
Correspondence between the Gross family in Eretz Israel and family in Amstelveen through the Red Cross, 1941-1943; letters sent to Szymon Benno Wind in Westerbork from Vught camp and Amstelveen, 1944; letter from a Polish Army soldier regarding meeting Szymon Benno in Westerbork and the fate of his wife Rosa (Gross) Wind, 1945; personal documentation of Szymon Benno during the war and afterwards
Correspondence between the Gross family in Eretz Israel and the family in Amstelveen through the Red Cross, 1941-1943; letters sent from the Vught camp and Amstelveen to Szymon Benno Wind in Westerbork, 1944; letter...
File Number : 2225
Type of Material : Red Cross Letter, Letter, Postcard, Personal Documents, Article(s), List(s), Text(s)
Documentation regarding Abraham Cymbalista, born in Chruszczybrod, Poland, 1896; documents dated, 1940-1942
Original documents:
- Two letters written to Abraham Cymbalista in Lens by a person in the prefecture in Quimper who is interested in helping regarding the confiscation of Cymbalista's business, 09 September 1940 and 05 December 1940;
- Official letter sent by a military supervisor to Abraham Cymbalista in Lens, regarding the liquidation of expropriations and markets [?] in Paris, 21 March 1941;
- Card attesting to Abraham Cymbalista's participation in a compensation fund for self-employed...
File Number : 540
Type of Material : Transport List, Official Documentation, Personal Documents
Parents born in Germany; grandson of the writer Georg Hermann Borchardt; family escapes from Germany to the Netherlands in 1933; grandfather's books burned in Germany; father, Herbert Kelman, escapes; deportation to the Amsterdam ghetto along with mother and grandfather; deportation to Westerbork in 1943; hospitalized in the camp and spared from the transports; grandfather sent to Auschwitz and transferred to Bergen-Belsen; swapping of Templer prisoners from Mandate Palestine; transported to Eretz Israel by train via Turkey in June 1944; received by Kibbutz Sede Nehemia.
Personal documentsation and official documents of Hugo Kaufmann and Helena (Doppler) Kaufmann, from Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1932-1978
- Birth certificate of Gertruda Kaufmann (the daughter of Hugo and Helena Kaufmann), born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 30 August 1932;
- Certificate given by the Ministry of the Treasury of Slovakia to Helena (Doppler) Kaufmann, stating that she and her family members (her husband Hugo and their two twin daughters Gertruda and Viera) will not be deported from Slovakia, 05 June 1942;
- Application submitted to the Central Economics Office in Bratislava by the...
File Number : 140
Type of Material : Legal Documentation, Official Documentation, Personal Documents
Testimony [in a letter] regarding the experiences of Rene Carasso Bensoussan and his family members, from Thessaloniki, 1941-1945
German Army occupation of Thessaloniki, 09 April 1941; dismissals at his place of work; escape to Athens with his wife Aline and their daughter Flora; detention; deportation to Chaidari; transfer to Bergen-Belsen, 02 April 1944; liberation from camp by the US Army in the Magdeburg area, 13 April 1945.
Move via DP camps in Charleroi, Courbevoie and Namur; move via Paris to Marseilles; move via Bari; arrival to Greece, 04 September 1945;
Note:
Included with the testimony is...