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Testimony of Yeshayahu Nahum Horovitz, born in 1920 in Lodz, about his experiences in the Lodz ghetto and the Hasag camp during the war
Testimony
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 1948; rehabilitation and adjustment to life in Israel.
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item Id
9998609
First Name
Nakhum
Yeshayahu
Last Name
Horovitz
Date of Birth
1920
Place of Birth
Lodz, Poland
Type of material
Testimony
File Number
13615
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
Date of Creation - earliest
03/06/2012
Date of Creation - latest
03/06/2012
Name of Submitter
הורוביץ ישעיהו נחום
Original
YES
No. of pages/frames
103
Interview Location
ISRAEL
Connected to Item
O.3 - Testimonies gathered by Yad Vashem
Form of Testimony
Video
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Dedication
Moshal Repository, Yad Vashem Archival Collection
The transcription of this testimony was made possible with the assistance of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, Supported by the Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future (EVZ) and by the German Federal Ministry of Finance