O.59- Erich Kulka Collection: Documentation and testimonies regarding the struggle of the Jews of Czechoslovakia against the Nazis

Identifier

4019648

Language of Description

English

Alt. Identifiers

O.59

Level of Description

Collection

Languages

Hebrew
Czech
English
German

Source

EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.yadvashem.org/en/documents/4019648

Extent and Medium

Interview(s)

Testimony

Acquisition

Submitted by: DR ERICH KULKA; DR LEO GRUNA

Scope and Content

O.59- Erich Kulka Collection: Documentation and testimonies regarding the struggle of the Jews of Czechoslovakia against the Nazis In the Collection there is documentation including testimonies regarding the resistance of the Czechoslovakian Jews against the Germans during World War II. The people interviewed include former soldiers and officers who fought in the Czechoslovakian Army, Jews who fought in the Royal British Air Force, served in partisan battalions in the Soviet Union or participated in the National Slovak Uprising. There are also testimonies regarding the treatment of Jewish soldiers who were POWs in German camps. The testimonies include personal and family information, as well as information regarding communities, Nazi persecution, escape, motivations for the resistance, living conditions in the labor camps in Hungary and the role of the Jews in the Czechoslovakian Army. In many testimonies, there is information regarding the Haganah organization in Czechoslovakia, 1948-1949, and persecution of the Jews during the Slánský Trial, 1952.

Places

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<>,<>,Slovakia,Czechoslovakia
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O.59 - אוסף אריק קולקה - עדויות על אודות מאבק יהודי צ'כוסלובקיה בנאצים

Identifier

4019648

Language of Description

Hebrew

Alt. Identifiers

O.59

Level of Description

Collection

Languages

Hebrew
Czech
English
German

Source

EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.yadvashem.org/he/documents/4019648

Extent and Medium

interview/s

עדות

Acquisition

Submitted by: DR ERICH KULKA; DR LEO GRUNA

Scope and Content

O.59 - אוסף אריק קולקה - תיעוד ועדויות על אודות מאבק יהודי צ'כוסלובקיה בנאצים באוסף תיעוד ובכללו עדויות על התנגדות יהודי צ'כוסלובקיה לגרמנים בתקופת מלחמת העולם השניה. המרואיינים הם חיילים וקצינים לשעבר שלחמו בשורות הצבא הצ'כוסלובקי, יהודים שלחמו במסגרת חיל האוויר הבריטי, בפלוגות הפרטיזנים בברית המועצות ויהודים שהשתתפו במרד הלאומי הסלובקי. באוסף גם עדויות על היחס לחיילים יהודים שהיו שבויים במחנות גרמניים. בעדויות מידע אישי ומשפחתי, מידע על קהילות, רדיפות הנאצים נגד היהודים, בריחה, מניעי ההתנגדות, תנאי המחיה במחנות העבודה בהונגריה ותפקיד היהודים בצבא הצ'כוסלובקי. בעדויות רבות יש מידע על ארגון ה"הגנה" בצ'כוסלובקיה בשנים 1949-1948 ורדיפת היהודים בעת משפט סלנסקי ב-1952.

Places

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<>,<>,Slovakia,צ'כוסלובקיה
<>,<>,<>,צ'כוסלובקיה

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Displaying items 1 to 20 of 110

Testimony of Arie Artur Alter from Ostrova, Czechoslovakia
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- 3687080
- English, Hebrew
- 1969-1973
- Typewritten original 14 pages/frames
- Updated 6 years ago
Testimony of Arie Artur Alter from Ostrova, Czechoslovakia Deportation to the Siberian forced labor camp Abkashevo in 1940; living conditions in the camp; amnesty granted to Polish and Czechoslovakian prisoners by the Soviet authorities, 1941; first news about the Czechoslovakian military units in the Soviet Union, early 1942; Jewish role in the formation of the first Czechoslovakian battalion in Buzuluk, 1942; departure of the Polish Anders Army from Buzuluk to the Middle East, 1942; Jewish heroism and losses in the Sokolovo battle, March 1943; training of Jews as officers at Nowochopersk,...
Testimony of Fritz Beer, born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, 1911, regarding his experiences in Poland, with a Czechoslovakian Army unit in France and England, and in combat in Dunkirk
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- 3687172
- English, Hebrew
- Typewritten original 67 pages/frames
- Updated 6 years ago
Testimony of Fritz Beer, born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, 1911, regarding his experiences in Poland, with a Czechoslovakian Army unit in France and England, and in combat in Dunkirk Born in Czechoslovakia; activities of Jewish Communists in Brno and Prague, 1930-1939. Organizing escapes to Poland, 1939; formation of the Writers and Journalists Aid Committee in Krakow; cooperation with Herman Field, the British Refugee Committee representative; struggle to obtain refugee visas to England; Communist infiltration of liberal refugee organizations in London; Communist influence over liberal refugee...
Testimony of Ervin David Berger, born in Sumice, Czechoslovakia, 1912, regarding the history of the Jewish community in Uhersky Brod
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- 3687173
- English, Hebrew
- Typewritten original 9 pages/frames
- Updated 6 years ago
Testimony of Ervin David Berger, born in Sumice, Czechoslovakia, 1912, regarding the history of the Jewish community in Uhersky Brod Born in Sumice; works in the Jewish community in Uhersky Brod; member of the Council of Jewish Communities in Prague of which philanthropist Albert Schweiger [and not Albert Schweitzer, as written on the English summary page that appears in the multimedia] is also a member; history of the community in Uhersky Brod: community life 1938-1949. At the outbreak of the war, prominent Jews are deported to Nazi concentration camps; Jewish Youth Defense activities; you...
Testimony of Fischl Davidovic, born in Czechoslovakia, regarding his experiences in detention in Poland, 1938, as a Czechoslovakian Army soldier in France and England and being wounded, 1944
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- 3731908
- English, Hebrew
- 1970-1971
- Typewritten original 16 pages/frames
- Updated 6 years ago
Testimony of Fischl Davidovic, born in Czechoslovakia, regarding his experiences in detention in Poland, 1938, as a Czechoslovakian Army soldier in France and England and being wounded, 1944 Born in Czechoslovakia. Service in a Czechoslovakian military intelligence unit during the mobilization, 1938; capture and arrest in Poland; release after intervention by members of the Jewish community in Stary Sambor, 1939; establishment of a joint refugee center in Krakow; establishment of a refugee group headed by Prof. Goldstuecker; arrival in England via Sweden, May 1939; transfer to the Czechoslo...
Testimony of Leopold Yehuda Presser Parma, born in Jasienica, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Nisko, Siberia, as a soldier in the Czechoslovakian Army in Buzuluk and Novokhopersk and in combat in Sokolova
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- 3731909
- English, Hebrew
- Typewritten 18 pages/frames
- Updated 6 years ago
Testimony of Leopold Yehuda Presser Parma, born in Jasienica, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Nisko, Siberia, as a soldier in the Czechoslovakian Army in Buzuluk and Novokhopersk and in combat in Sokolova Polish occupation of Cesky Tesin, Czechoslovakia; deportation to Nisko, 1939; escape to the Soviet side; deportation to Siberia; formation of a Czechoslovakian unit under the command of Ludvik Svoboda; combat against the Germans in Buzuluk and Novokhopersk as a soldier in the Czechoslovakian Army; participation in the battle at Sokolovo. Witness serves as liaison officer between...
Testimony of Adam Avraham Friedberg Har Shalom, born in Pruzana, Poland, regarding his experiences in Auschwitz, Buchenwald, in hiding and more
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- 3731910
- English, Hebrew
- Typewritten 4 pages/frames
- Updated 6 years ago
Testimony of Adam Avraham Friedberg Har Shalom, born in Pruzana, Poland, regarding his experiences in Auschwitz, Buchenwald, in hiding and more Deportation from Pruzana to Auschwitz, 1943; from Auschwitz to Ohrdruf, 1944; to Buchenwald and Litomerice; escape to Prague; life in hiding until the end of the war.
Testimony of Naftali Deutsch Bar-Shalom, born in Liptovsky Mikulas, Czechoslovakia, 1919, regarding his aliya, 1939, and service in the Haganah in Eretz Israel, Czechoslovakia and Italy, 1940-1947
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- 3731911
- English, Hebrew
- Typewritten 8 pages/frames
- Updated 6 years ago
Testimony of Naftali Deutsch Bar-Shalom, born in Liptovsky Mikulas, Czechoslovakia, 1919, regarding his aliya, 1939, and service in the Haganah in Eretz Israel, Czechoslovakia and Italy, 1940-1947 Aliya to Eretz Israel, 1939; military service in the Haganah, 1940-1947; sent to Czechoslovakia and Italy to train volunteers for Israel, 1947.
List of Czechoslovakian Army soldiers who fell in the Battle of Sokolovo, 1943; list of Jewish volunteers who served in the Czechoslovakian Army who were still alive, 1990
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- 3731912
- English, Hebrew
- xerox 3 pages/frames
- Updated 6 years ago
List of Czechoslovakian Army soldiers who fell in the Battle of Sokolovo, 1943; list of Jewish volunteers who served in the Czechoslovakian Army who were still alive, 1990
List of Czechoslovakian soldiers who fell in battle, 1944-1945; book about the Sokolovo Battle, 1943 (in Czech)
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- 3731913
- English, Hebrew
- Updated 6 years ago
List of Czechoslovakian soldiers who fell in battle, 1944-1945; book about the Sokolovo Battle, 1943 (in Czech)
Testimony of Koloman Schreiber Skalina, born in Tisovec, Czechoslovakia, 1908, regarding his experiences in Eretz Israel, 1939, and as a Czechoslovakian Army soldier in France, England and the Soviet Union
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- 3731914
- English, Hebrew
- xerox 29 pages/frames
- Updated 6 years ago
Testimony of Koloman Schreiber Skalina, born in Tisovec, Czechoslovakia, 1908, regarding his experiences in Eretz Israel, 1939, and as a Czechoslovakian Army soldier in France, England and the Soviet Union Born in Tisovec, Czechoslovakia, 13 February 1908. Military service in the Czechoslovakian Army in France and England via Eretz Israel, 1939; with the Czechoslovakian Army in the Soviet Union, 1944. Work for UNRRA in Romania, 1945-1946; persecution by the Communists in Czechoslovakia; emigration to Canada, 1968; emigration to the United States, 1975.
Travel pass issued to Adolf Rosenfeld by Josef Kramer, the Auschwitz commandant, 30 November 1944; documentation from the libel trial conducted against Dr. Kulka
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- 3731915
- English, Hebrew
- Typewritten 100 pages/frames
- Updated 6 years ago
Travel pass issued to Adolf Rosenfeld by Josef Kramer, the Auschwitz commandant, 30 November 1944; documentation from the libel trial conducted against Dr. Kulka
Experiences of Otto Smik, born in Borzomi, Georgia, Soviet Union, 1922, as a pilot in the Czechoslovakian Army in France and Britain, and his death in battle, 28 November 1944
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- 3731916
- English, Hebrew
- xerox 3 pages/frames
- Updated 6 years ago
Experiences of Otto Smik, born in Borzomi, Georgia, Soviet Union, 1922, as a pilot in the Czechoslovakian Army in France and Britain, and his death in battle, 28 November 1944 Move to Bratislava, 1934; enlistment in the Czechoslovakian Army, 1940; service in France, among other places, in Agde, and in Britain; death by shooting while on active duty, 28 November 1944.
Correspondence between Erich Kulka and Andrij Dobej from Slany
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- 3731917
- English, Hebrew
- 1995
- Typewritten 3 pages/frames
- Updated 6 years ago
Correspondence between Erich Kulka and Andrij Dobej from Slany
Joint testimony of Pavel Dobry, born in Usti nad Laben, Czechoslovakia, and his wife, Eva (Guttmann) Dobry, born in Stanislawow, Poland, regarding their experiences in a kolkhoz in Ukraine and as Czechoslovakian Army soldiers in Buzuluk and Romania
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- 3731918
- English, Hebrew
- Typewritten original 9 pages/frames
- Updated 6 years ago
Joint testimony of Pavel Dobry, born in Usti nad Labem, Czechoslovakia, and his wife, Eva (Guttmann) Dobry, born in Stanislawow, Poland, regarding their experiences in a kolkhoz in Ukraine and as Czechoslovakian Army soldiers in Buzuluk and Romania Work of Jewish refugees in a Ukrainian kolkhoz, 1939-1941; enlistment in a Czechoslovakian battalion at Buzuluk; combat at Sokolovo, 1943; participation of Jews and Jewish losses; Jews in officer training schools; Jews in command of Czechoslovakian field units; battles at Kiev and Bila Cerkev; mobilization of Czechoslovakian citizens in Volhynia,...
Article by Emil Macel regarding 17 Jews from the Zlin area who joined Czechoslovakian Army during the war.
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- 3731919
- English, Hebrew
- Typewritten 8 pages/frames
- Updated 6 years ago
Article by Emil Macel regarding 17 Jews from the Zlin area who joined Czechoslovakian Army during the war. Information provided regarding: Jiri Bauer, Otto Bauer, Leo Bauer, Ervin Berman, Jindrich Berman, Emil Epstein, Milada Epsteinova nee Chytilova, MUDr. Gebhard Freud, Vladimir Hanzel, Bedrich Heim, MUDr. Pavel Loewy, MUDr. Evzen Straeussler, Ervin Weinstein, Ota Weinstein, Viktor Weinstein, Arnost Weiss
Testimony of Leopold Drucker, a certified engineer, born in Brno, Czechoslovakia [then Austria-Hungary], 1895, regarding his experiences as a local Maccabi activist, a Zionist activist in Theresienstadt, in Auschwitz, as a Czechoslovakian Army soldier in
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- 3731920
- English, Hebrew
- Typewritten original 126 pages/frames
- Updated 6 years ago
Testimony of Leopold Drucker, a certified engineer, born in Brno, Czechoslovakia [then Austria-Hungary], 1895, regarding his experiences as a local Maccabi activist, a Zionist activist in Theresienstadt, in Auschwitz, as a Czechoslovakian Army soldier in Poprad and more Military service as an officer in the [Austro-Hungarian] Army during World War I; an active Zionist and of the Maccabi leaders in Brno from 1919; cooperation between Maccabi and Hashomer Hatzair in the prepapration of Jewish youth for aliya to Eretz Israel, 1935; help provided by the movement to 2,000 Jewish refugees from Au...
Testimony of Alexander Dub, born in Lekart, Czechoslovakia, 1911, regarding his experiences in the Arkhangelsk labor camp and as a Red Army soldier
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- 3731921
- English, Hebrew
- Typewritten original 7 pages/frames
- Updated 6 years ago
Testimony of Alexander Dub, born in Lekart, Czechoslovakia, 1911, regarding his experiences in a Arkhangelsk labor camp and as a Red Army soldier Hungarian occupation of Carpathian Ruthenia; escape with a Jewish group to USSR, 1939; arrest in Kijev [Kiev], 1940; deportation to a forced labor camp in the Arkhangelsk region; NKVD hearings; drafted to the Red Army, 1941; wounded in combat near Budapest, 1944; recovery; deported to an Arkhangelsk factory. Repatriation to Carpathian Ruthenia denied to Czechoslovakian citizens after the war by the Soviet authorities; Carpathian Ruthenia annexed t...
Testimony of Moshe Dubsky, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1919, regarding his experiences as a Beitar and Zionist movement activist before the war, aliya to Eretz Israel, 1940, service in the Czechoslovakian Army in the Middle East and Britain and servic
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- 3731922
- English, Hebrew
- Typewritten original 9 pages/frames
- Updated 6 years ago
Testimony of Moshe Dubsky, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1919, regarding his experiences as a Beitar and Zionist movement activist before the war, aliya to Eretz Israel, 1940, service in the Czechoslovakian Army in the Middle East and Britain and service in the US Army in Plzen Born in Prague; Zionist and Beitar activities in Prague, 1935-1939 Sending of transports of illegal immigrants to Eretz Israel, 1940; arrival in Eretz Israel on the ship, "Sakariya", 1940; mobilization, and enlistment in Czechoslovakian units in the Middle East and the Czechoslovakian battalion in Tobruk; transfer ...
Testimony of Alois David Elefant, born in Vinkok, Czechoslovakia, 1915, regarding his experiences in Katowice, in the Soviet occupied area and as a Czechoslovakian Army soldier
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- 3731923
- English, Hebrew
- Typewritten original 14 pages/frames
- Updated 6 years ago
Testimony of Alois David Elefant, born in Vinkok, Czechoslovakia, 1915, regarding his experiences in Katowice, in the Soviet occupied area and as a Czechoslovakian Army soldier Experiences of the Carpathian Ruthenian Jews during the Czechoslovakian mobilization, 1938; experiences of the Carpathian Ruthenian Jews at the beginning of the Soviet occupation,1939; establishment of a refugee center at Katowice; experiences of German speaking Czechoslovakian Jews; life under the protection of the British consulate; impact of the Soviet-German treaty; refugee life in Soviet occupied territory; priv...
Testimony of Tereza Elefant, born in Nitra, Czechoslovakia, 1918, regarding her experiences in the Soviet Union, as a Czechoslovakian soldier in Buzuluk and as a nurse
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- 3731924
- English, Hebrew
- Typewritten original 8 pages/frames
- Updated 6 years ago
Testimony of Tereza Elefant, born in Nitra, Czechoslovakia, 1918, regarding her experiences in the Soviet Union, as a Czechoslovakian soldier in Buzuluk and as a nurse Born in Nitra. Expelled from the medical faculty at Bratislava University due to her Jewish origin, 1939; witness' husband Vilem Artstein, leaves for Poland; witness joins him in the Soviet Union, 1941; work as a teacher; Jewish Communist refugees in Ivanovo are placed under NKVD supervision; life in Ivanovo; military service in a Czechoslovakian Army battalion in Buzuluk along with other Jewish women, 1942; military training...

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