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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

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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.

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Testimony of Menahem Lior, born in Bedzin, Poland in 1928, regarding his experiences during ‎deportation to the Bedzin Ghetto and the work camp in Kamionka; hidden by a Pole; escape to ‎Eretz Israel His childhood in a socialist Zionist home; refugees from Germany; rise of antisemitism; outbreak of ‎war on 1 September 1939; anti-Jewish laws and decrees; restriction of Jewish movement and ‎concentration in one area; youth movements; agricultural farm; Zionist and underground ‎activities; infiltrating into a nearby work camp; work collecting and sorting possessions of the Jews ‎in the ghetto; removing dead...

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Documentation regarding the smuggle of children to hiding in "Villa Emma" in Nonantola and to Switzerland

Documentation regarding the smuggle of children to hiding in "Villa Emma" in Nonantola and to Switzerland Memoirs of people who stayed as children in hiding in "Villa Emma" in Nonantola, and of Italians who participated in smuggling the children to hiding; the group consisted of Jewish children from various countries who were moved from the north of Yugoslavia to Italy with help from the Delasem organization and the Yugoslavian Red Cross organization, 1942; about the head of the Delasem organization, Lelio Valobra; memoirs of the defeat of Mussolini, the German occupation of Italy and the smuggle of the...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 8294

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Newspaper Clippings, Memoirs, Play(s), Script(s), Drawing

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Testimony of Elisheva Erzsebet (Fischer) Genizi Aharoni, born in Budapest, Hungary in 1938, regarding her experiences as a child in Budapest, in Rakospalota, on the Kasztner Train, in Bergen-Belsen camp, in Switzerland and in other places Life before the war; Transfer of her father to a labor battalion; hiding of family members who are from Slovakia; escape to Rakospalota with her mother and sisters; German occupation, March 1944; wearing a yellow badge; travel restrictions; unsuccessful attempts to find a hiding place in the area; her family members are included on the list for Kasztner Train; transfer...

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Testimony of Esther Erna (Bagansky) Eilat, born in Berlin, Germany, 1934, regarding her experiences during her deportation to Theresienstadt camp, June 1942, and evacuation to Switzerland, February 1945

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results.listIds.fileNumber : 13352

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Testimony of Israel Srulik Shifron Piernikow, born in Mir, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Mir Ghetto, in the forests in the Mir area and in the camp of the Bielski brothers in the Naliboki forest

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Testimony of Israel Srulik Shifron Piernikow, born in Mir, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Mir Ghetto, in the forests in the Mir area and in the Bielski brothers' camp in the Naliboki forest Childhood in Mir; Hashomer Hatzair activities; rise in antisemitism, from 1937. Occupation of Mir by the Red Army, 1939; cessation of Zionist activity; arrival of refugees to Mir; German occupation of Mir, June 1941; burning of most of the homes in Mir; life together with other families in a wood storage shed; being informed on; murder of about 200 Jews accused of Communist activity; life under the...

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Testimony of Tzipora Frances Schaf, born in Kosow Lacki, Poland, 1936, regarding her experiences in Kosow Lacki, in hiding while hidden by a Christian family, and in Cernauti

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Testimony of Tzipora Frances Schaf, born in Kosow Lacki, Poland, 1936, regarding her experiences in Kosow Lacki, in hiding while hidden by a Christian family, and in Cernauti Her childhood in a religious family; life with her family [in Kosow Lacki]. Outbreak of the war, 1939; Red Army occupation of Kosow Lacki; death of her mother; deportation to the Kosow Lacki Ghetto; first "Aktion"; in hiding; second "Aktion"; life with a female relative; liquidation of the ghetto; arrival of Germans to her home; escape; in hiding with her brother and his family while hidden by a Christian family, including a shortage...

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Testimony of Justus Michael Dolgoruki Schacht, born in Berlin, Germany, 1919, regarding his experiences in Berlin, Breslau, in service in the German Army and in Munich and other places

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Testimony of Justus Michael Dolgoruki Schacht, born in Berlin, Germany, 1919, regarding his experiences in Berlin, Breslau, in service in the German Army and in Munich and other places His childhood in Berlin with a Jewish mother and Catholic father; his parents divorce; move with his mother and younger brother to his mother's parents in Breslau; life with his grandfather and grandmother until 1937; Nazi rise to power, 1933; acts of harassment in the school; move to his father in Berlin; help by his father to obtain documents and a place of livelihood with an anti-Nazi, religious farmer; life with the farmer...

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Testimony of Sima (Katzovitz) Sosinski, born in Dolhinow, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences in Dolhinow, in the partisans and in Kazakhstan and Waldenburg

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Testimony of Sima (Katzovitz) Sosinski, born in Dolhinow, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences in Dolhinow, in the partisans and in Kazakhstan and Waldenburg Her childhood in a religious-Zionist family. Red Army occupation of Dolhinow, 1939; German Army occupation of Dolhinow, 1941; life under German occupation including anti-Jewish legislation and persecution; in hiding in a bunker; escape to a forest with her mother; joins Soviet partisans; move [on foot?] with [the partisans' brigade of] Viktor Vakisilov, until the Soviet Union; life in a kolkhoz in Kazakhstan; liberation, 1945. Move back to...

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