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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Eliezer Brenner, his sister Shaindel (Brenner) Vigenanski, and his wife, Yettie (Lanzet) Brenner, regarding their experiences in Krakow, the Melk camp, the Plaszow camp, Transnistria and more Experiences of Eliezer Brenner, born in Rzeszow, Poland, 1913: Deportation to the Krakow Ghetto; deportation to the Plaszow camp; camp life including labor in Wieliczka; camp life with his brother, Moshe; transfer to the Mauthausen camp; camp life; selection; labor in a quarry; transfer to the Melk camp; labor in a subterranean ammunitions factory; transfer to the Ebensee camp by death march; liberation in...

File Number : 8621

Type of Material : Document, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Experiences of Yezhi Brauner (Yonatan Iurek), born in Krakow, Poland, 1926, while hidden by a Polish farmer, and in the Krakow Ghetto, Plaszow and Bruenlitz

Experiences of Yezhi Brauner (Yonatan Iurek), born in Krakow, Poland, 1926, while hidden by a Polish farmer, and in the Krakow Ghetto, Plaszow and Bruenlitz Experiences of his grandfather David Brauner and his grandmother Rosalia Rosenfeld; he attends the Hebrew school in Krakow, until the outbreak of the war; [establishment of the Krakow Ghetto]; deportation to the Krakow Ghetto; escape, along with his mother; in hiding with his mother on a farm while hidden by a Polish farmer; murder of many of his family members during the "Aktions" in Krakow, 1942; return to the Krakow Ghetto, 15 November 1942; labor on...

File Number : 8603

Type of Material : Memoirs, List of Murdered Jews

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sini Cohen, born in 1925 in Amsterdam, about her work at a children's home and the rescue of children in Amsterdam in 1942–1943

Testimony

Oppression of Dutch Jews from 1940 on; concentrating the Jewish population of Amsterdam in a theatre building without basic provisions; separating children from parents; establishing a children's home; witness placed in charge of the children's safety; deportation of Jews to Westerbork; children smuggled out and placed with Dutch families with the help of the Dutch resistance; bribing the Germans with alcohol; persuading parents to place their children in the children's home to save their lives; working with the manager of the children's home, Henriëtte Pimentel; saving the children until 1943; meeting her...

File Number : 13340

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Benjamin Kaufman, born in Baiertal, Germany, 1930, regarding his experiences in Gurs, Rivesaltes, Switzerland and Israel

Testimony

Testimony of Benjamin Kaufman, born in Baiertal, Germany, 1930, regarding his experiences in Gurs, Rivesaltes, Switzerland and Israel His childhood. Deportation of his family to Gurs, France, 1940; life without his father for several months; transfer to Rivesaltes camp; smuggled by the O.Z. [?] to a children's institution along with other children; smuggled to other institutions; smuggled to Switzerland with several other children, 1943; life in children's institutions until his legal aliya to Eretz Israel, 1945. Life in Israel.

File Number : 13157

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

זיכרונותיו של אלי רוזן Eli Rozen יליד Nadudvar הונגריה 1934 "משפחה, מזל, ערכים" על קורותיו וקורות משפחתו ב-Nadudvar, ב-Debrecen מ-1942, במחנה ב-Vienna לשם הוא הועבר יחד עם משפחתו דרך מחנה Strasshof באפריל 1944 ובמחנה Theresienstadt מאביב 1945 ועד תום המלחמה.

File Number : 7638

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Alice (Beck) Teichner, born in Subotica, Yugoslavia, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Subotica Ghetto, Strasshof, Ibs, Mauthausen and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Alice (Beck) Teichner, born in Subotica, Yugoslavia, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Subotica Ghetto, Strasshof, Ibs, Mauthausen and other places Life before the war; attends a Jewish school; relations with the neighbors; help to refugees from Poland; knowledge about persecution of the Jews in Poland. Re-annexation to Hungary, 1940; restrictions on Jews including yellow badge; termination of employment of Jews in government offices; deportation to the Subotica Ghetto, 1944; deportation to a camp in Hungary on foot; transfer to Strasshof by train; transfer to Ibs by train; camp life...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Additional documentation from the Miriam Pinkhof Archives with a photograph of a loose leaf binder and letters written by Miriam [Waterman] and Menachem Pinkhof from the time of their arrest until their return to the Netherlands - The loose leaf binder contains documents regarding Miriam Pinkhof's work in the Ghetto Fighters' Museum; - A cardboard box containing documents and correspondence; - Four video cassettes; - 17 Audio cassettes; - Three newspapers from 1947, 1949 and 1967 in English and Hebrew, saved by Ms. Adela Pinkhof; - Two posters of an art exhibition; - Map of the Netherlands...

File Number : 50.1-11

Type of Material : Document, Testimony, Postcard, Photograph, Map, Letter

Language : Hebrew, English, Dutch

Testimony of Magda Gila (Dreier) Keren Zur, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1934, regarding her experiences in hiding, Zilina, Sered, Vyhne, Novaky and on a death march

Testimony

Testimony of Magda Gila (Dreier) Keren Zur, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1934, regarding her experiences in hiding, Zilina, Sered, Vyhne, Novaky and on a death march Life before the war; her father is a forester. Outbreak of war; imposition of anti-Jewish restrictions; escape between Bratislava and Hlohovec; hospitalization and rescue from deportation, 1942; deportation to Zilina; camp life including payment of a bribe in exchange for labor and living quarters outside the camp; conversion with other families; life in hiding in various hiding places in Bratislava; obtains forged documents; transfer...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Collection of the Amersfoort transit camp in the Netherlands, dated, 1942-1964

Collection of the Amersfoort transit camp in the Netherlands, dated, 1942-1964 Amersfoort camp was built by the Dutch Army in 1939; following the German occupation in 1940, the Germans started to use the camp as a rest place for the German soldiers; the German authorities decided to expand the camp in 1941 and to turn it into a transit camp, called Polizeiliches Durchgangslager Amersfoort; approximately 35,000 inmates passed through Amersfoort camp during the war, most of them political prisoners, but also Jews, Jehovah's Witnesses, marginal people, people who refused to do labor, hostages, and criminals;...

Type of Material : Certification, Questionnaire, Legal Documentation, Document, Reports, Official Documentation, Letter, List of Camp Inmates, Announcement, Testimony, Diary, List of Murdered Persons

Language : Hebrew

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