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Testimony of Pnina Perle (Pollack) Miler, born in Viseul De Jos, Romania, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Wishov Ghetto, Auschwitz, Stutthof, Praust and Putzig

Testimony

Testimony of Pnina Perle (Pollack) Miler, born in Viseul De Jos, Romania, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Wishov Ghetto, Auschwitz, Stutthof, Praust and Putzig From a Vizhnitz hasidic family. Life under Hungarian rule, 1939; German occupation, 1944; deportation to the Wishov Ghetto; help from non-Jewish neighbors; deportation to Auschwitz; selection and transfer to Block 12, the death block; escapes; joins a transport to Stutthof; forced agricultural labor on a farm in Praust, in the vicinity of Danzig; transfer to Putzig on foot; liberation by the Red Army, 1945. Help from the Red Cross; return...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Bernard Dov Davidovic, born in Kopasnovo, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding his experiences in Kalin, Stanislawow, the Staw Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Bernard Dov Davidovic, born in Kopasnovo, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding his experiences in Kalin, Stanislawow, the Staw Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and other places Life before the war; relations with non-Jewish neighbors; move to Kalin, 1937. Re-annexation to Hungary; deportation of his father and brother to a labor battalion; deportation to Stanislawow guarded by Ukrainian policemen; life in Stanislawow in a synagogue; help from the Jewish community; transfer to a flour factory with a group of deportees; life in the flour factory; deportation by truck and murder of his mother and siblings...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Joseph Kaplan, born in Rotnica, Poland, 1916, regarding his experiences in the Marcinkance Ghetto, in hiding and with the partisans in a family camp in a forest

Testimony

Testimony of Joseph Kaplan, born in Rotnica, Poland, 1916, regarding his experiences in the Marcinkance Ghetto, in hiding and with the partisans in a family camp in a forest Life before the war; relations with non-Jewish neighbors; move to Marcinkance, 1938. Outbreak of the war; Soviet occupation, 1939; German occupation without any battle, June 1941; establishment of the Judenrat and Jewish police; Marcinkance Ghetto life in an open ghetto including labor on trains in exchange for food ration coupons; deportation of Jews from the area to the ghetto; sealing of the ghetto, November 1942; receives...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Tonia (Wolnerman) Kaplan, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, Olkusz, Blechhammer, Gogolin and other places

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Testimony of Tonia (Wolnerman) Kaplan, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, Olkusz, Blechhammer, Gogolin and other places Life before the war; attends a Polish kindergarten and school. Outbreak of the war; deportation to the Warsaw Ghetto; Warsaw Ghetto life including forced labor; behavior of the Polish police and the Germans; attempts to escape from the ghetto; departs on foot including receiving help from Polish farmers; arrival to Olkusz; her father and sister remain in the Warsaw Ghetto; life in Olkusz including labor with her mother and the witness' sister is...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Esther Emma (Vomberg) Augura, born in Rijssen, the Netherlands, 1927, regarding her experiences as a child in Rijssen, Vught, Auschwitz and camps in Germany

Testimony

Testimony of Esther Emma (Vomberg) Augura, born in Rijssen, the Netherlands, 1927, regarding her experiences as a child in Rijssen, Vught, Auschwitz and camps in Germany Her childhood and family life in Rijssen. Outbreak of the war and deportation of her family to Vught labor camp in the Netherlands, 1939; labor in a Philips factory; transfer of the family to Auschwitz, June 1944; separation from her family after a selection; transfer to labor camps in Germany; labor in a Telefunken factory; death march; liberation by the Swedish green (military) police in Hamburg. Move to Denmark; rehabilitation;...

File Number : 12127

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Roma Ben-Atar, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, Auschwitz, Ravensbrueck and other places

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Testimony of Roma Ben-Atar, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, Auschwitz, Ravensbrueck and other places Life before the war. Deportation to the Warsaw Ghetto; education until June 1942; life on a farm near Lowicz, January 1942; return to the Warsaw Ghetto; transfer to the privileged camp to produce army uniforms, October 1942; return to the Warsaw Ghetto, January 1943; capture, May 1943; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life including labor in the Canada Kommando; death march, 08 January 1945; transfer to Ravensbrueck; transfer to another camp (the name is unclear...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Efraim Fiszman, born in Wlodawa, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences with the partisans and in the Red Army

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Testimony of Efraim Fiszman, born in Wlodawa, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences with the partisans and in the Red Army His youth; Bund family; activities in the Zionist movement; attends the public elementary school and a "heder". Outbreak of the war, 1939; brief German occupation; Soviet occupation; German re-occupation, 1941; help from the Jewish community to Jewish POWs; joins the partisans in the Adampol forest; draft into the Red Army, 1944; combat at the front in Finland; combat in Eastern Prussia; wounded; medical treatment in Kaunas; return to military service. Return to Poland, 1946;...

File Number : 11661

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Leah Lola Berman, born in Chrzanow, 1924, regarding her experiences in Chrzanow Ghetto, Sosnowiec and Neusalz camps and Flossenbuerg and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps

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Testimony of Leah Lola Berman, born in Chrzanow, 1924, regarding her experiences in Chrzanow Ghetto, Sosnowiec and Neusalz camps and Flossenbuerg and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps Deportation to Chrzanow Ghetto, 1939; life in the ghetto; liquidation of the ghetto; deportation to Sosnowiec, 1943; selection and separation from her family; deportation to Neusalz camp; forced labor in a factory until February 1945; evacuation by foot and train to Flossenbuerg concentration camp for a short period; deportation to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp; removing the dead; typhus; liberation by the British Army,...

File Number : 10079

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Malka Gelbard, born in Ruscova, Romania, 1927, regarding her experiences in Sighet, Budapest, a death march and Bergen-Belsen

Testimony

Testimony of Malka Gelbard, born in Ruscova, Romania, 1927, regarding her experiences in Sighet, Budapest, a death march and Bergen-Belsen Life in Sighet from 1932; traditional home; orphaned of her parents; good relations between the Romanians and the Jews. Hungarian occupation and loss of freedom, 1940; attempts by the Jews to cope with the changes; Jewish Communists hide in Sighet; persecution by the Hungarian regime of these emissaries and everyone in contact with them, late 1941; attempt by young people to escape; move to Budapest with her sister, 1943; air-raids, early 1944; concentration of the...

File Number : 9581

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Eliezer Asher, born in Gronigen, 1920, regarding his experiences in Amsterdam, and using a false identity in Altengrabow and a German village

Testimony

Testimony of Eliezer Asher, born in Groningen, 1920, regarding his experiences in Amsterdam, using a false identity in Altengrabow and a German village Son of the Chief Rabbi of the Groningen region; orphaned of his father at a young age; attends a public school; member of the Zichron Yaakov religious Zionist youth movement; life on an aliya training facility in Amsterdam, 1936; studies at an engineering school; drafted into the Dutch Army, August 1939. Entry of the Germans; return home; move back to Amsterdam; restrictions; deportation to the ghetto; ghetto life, including labor at school; escape...

File Number : 9366

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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