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Testimony of Noah Galkoff, born in Lodz, Poland, 1925, regarding the Lodz ghetto and the liquidation of the ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Noah Galkoff, born in Lodz, Poland, 1925, regarding the Lodz ghetto and the liquidation of the ghetto Family background; his father is a butcher; good relations with the Polish and German neighbors; studies in a Jewish school. The outbreak of war; deportation to the ghetto; life in the ghetto; food stamps; cleaning work; the Great Children's Aktion "Shifra", 1942; Rumkowski's speech; a four-year stay in the ghetto; towards the last year, the witness' work in cleaning the houses of deported Jews, belonging to the "Yakuba" commando of the liquidation of the ghetto, named after Jakuba Street in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Postcards sent to Nuta Stein in Finland by members of her family and her friends in the Kowno Ghetto, France and the Netherlands, 1942-1943

Postcards sent to Nuta Stein in Finland by members of her family and her friends in the Kowno Ghetto, France and the Netherlands, 1942-1943 - Telegram sent by Luba Grodsenski from Tonneins [France] to her sister, Nuta, in Finland with the information that her husband, Julius Grodsenski, has been taken to an unknown destination, 26 August 1942; - Postcards sent to Nuta Stein in Finland by her sister, Luba Grodsenski from Tonneins (France), 1942; - Postcard sent to Nuta Stein in Finland by her sister, Luba Grodsenski from Casseneuil, 01 September 1942; - Postcard sent from Finland to Luba Grodsenski...

File Number : 2026

Type of Material : Postcard, Telegram, Letter

Language : German

Testimony of Ida Aptelon née Zal, born in 1924 in Kelem, Lithuania, about her experiences in the Siauliai ghetto, the Stutthof camp, and other camps during the war

Testimony

Moves to Siauliai in 1929; receives antisemitic remarks; joins the Netsah (Zionist Pioneer Youth) movement; Soviet occupation; movement shut dow by Soviet authorities in 1940; German occupation ensues in 1941; deported to the ghetto in September 1941; life in the ghetto; assigned to forced labor; arrested by the Gestapo for smuggling food; brother murdered in a children's Aktion; ghetto liquidated in July 1944; family deported to Stutthof; digging antitank ditches in Elbing; camp evacuated in January 1945; liberation by Red Army forces in Kolkau; mother dies upon liberation; immigration to Israel in 1948;...

File Number : 13639

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avraham Gavner, born in 1921 in Lodz, about his experiences in the Lodz ghetto and in the Auschwitz and Ebensee camps during the war

Life before the war; life as a Gerrer Hasid and an ordained rabbi; war breaks out; family-owned enterprises are confiscated; sidelocks forcibly shorn; cleaning streets; deportation to the Lodz ghetto; father dies of exhaustion; mother and five siblings deported in Aktionen; working at a shop for disassembly of deported Jews' shoes; ghetto liquidated in August 1944; witness depoted to Auschwitz; selection in the camp and assignment to labor in November 1944; digging ditches for telephone lines; life in the Ebensee camp in January 1945; digging below ground; liberation by American forces; life in the Zeilsheim...

File Number : 13605

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Rachel (Lauden) Rolnitzki, born in Sosnowiec, Poland 1926, regarding her experiences in Sosnowiec and labor camps in Germany

Memoirs of Rachel (Lauden) Rolnitzki, born in Sosnowiec, Poland 1926, regarding her experiences in Sosnowiec and labor camps in Germany Her father joins the partisans, 1939; her father is turned over to the Germans by Poles; her father's murder; her mother is accused of espionage; deportation of her mother to prison; deportation of her mother to Auschwitz; selection of children in Sosnowiec, 1942; deportation of children over the age of 15 to labor camps; deportation of children under the age of 15 to Auschwitz; separation from her oldest sister; escape from the transport; joins her oldest sister; transfer...

File Number : 8228

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Memoir of Bela (Svirski) Danan, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1932, regarding her experiences in the Slobodka Ghetto, Sanciai, Stutthof, Derbek and Neumark

Memoir of Bela (Svirski) Danan, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1932, regarding her experiences in the Slobodka Ghetto, Sanciai, Stutthof, Derbek and Neumark Life in the Slobodka Ghetto, August 1941-December 1943; life in Sanciai until July 1944; life in Stutthof until September 1944; life in Derbek; life in a hospital in Neumark; liberation, January 1945. Also in the file: Poem in Yiddish about her liberation, written in the hospital in Neumark, January 1945.

File Number : 8212

Type of Material : Poem/song, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, Yiddish

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zipora Kohn, born in Lodz, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in Lodz, the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Stutthof, Groden and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Zipora Kohn, born in Lodz, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in Lodz, the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Stutthof, Groden and other places Her childhood in an Orthodox, religious family including attending a Hebrew school and Zionist activities. Outbreak of the war, 1939; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto; Lodz Ghetto life including labor in workshops; distribution of food; "Aktion" against children; arrival of Jewish refugees from Germany; lack of knowledge regarding [the fate of] the Jews in camps; liquidation of the ghetto, summer 1944; deportation to Auschwitz with her sister; camp life...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Aharon Kaplan, born in Holszany, Poland, 1933, regarding his experiences in Holszany, the Oszmiana Ghetto, Zezmary, the Kaunas Ghetto, in hiding in a forest and in other places

Testimony

Testimony of Aharon Kaplan, born in Holszany, Poland, 1933, regarding his experiences in Holszany, the Oszmiana Ghetto, Zezmary, the Kaunas Ghetto, in hiding in a forest and in other places German Army occupation of Holszany, 1941; deportation to the Holszany Ghetto; establishment of a Judenrat headed by the rabbi; capture of people for labor; construction of hiding places in the ghetto; transfer to the Oszmiana Ghetto; liquidation of the Oszmiana Ghetto; deportation to Zezmary camp; camp life including labor paving roads; transfer to the Kaunas Ghetto; his parents volunteer for labor logging trees in...

File Number : 13487

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Tova Gita (Iting) Himelfarb, born in Siauliai, Lithuania, 1929, regarding her experiences in Siauliai, Okmian, Stutthof, in hiding and in Lodz and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Tova Gita (Iting) Himelfarb, born in Siauliai, Lithuania, 1929, regarding her experiences in Siauliai, Okmian, Stutthof, in hiding and in Lodz and other places Life in Siauliai including attending a Hebrew school. German Army occupation of Siauliai, 1941; murder of men in killing pits, including her father; deportation to the Siauliai Ghetto; labor in an agricultural farm; receives a work certificate for her brother who was 10 years old; deportation to Okmian camp; "Aktion" against children in the camp; murder of children; hides her sister during the "Aktion"; move back to the Siauliai...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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