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Testimony of Mordekhai Teitelbaum born in 1927 in Ostrołęka, Poland, about his experiences in Ostrołęka, escape to the Soviet Union, to Lomzha, and evacuation to Gryazi and the Kemerovo area

Testimony

Childhood in Ostrołęka; community life; attending synagogue on Sabbaths; attending a Jewish elementary school; father dies in 1935; war with Germany breaks out in September 1939; family escapes to Ostrów Mazowiecka; lives in a synagogue; German occupation ensues; German soldiers enter town; curfew; order to leave town and live elsewhere; back to Ostrołęka; escaping to the east; slipping into Belorussia, Soviet Union; reaching Lomzha; living in a synagogue; receiving Soviet citizenship; transport by rail to Russia via Belostok; reaching Gryazi; mother works in a factory; witness attends a Russian elementary...

File Number : 13379

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ben Barnea, born in Dorohoi, Romania, 1934, regarding his experiences in Dorohoi, Transnistria, the Mogilev Ghetto and the Tropova Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Ben Barnea, born in Dorohoi, Romania, 1934, regarding his experiences in Dorohoi, Transnistria, the Mogilev Ghetto and the Tropova Ghetto His childhood with his family; persecution of Jews, 1941-1944. Deportation to Transnistria; death march; life in Transnistria; Mogilev Ghetto life; Tropova Ghetto life. Zionist activities in the context of Hashomer Hatzair; aliya to Israel, 1948.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Nisim Nathan, born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 1922, regarding his experiences in Belgium, Vidin, Plovdiv and a labor camp

Testimony

Testimony of Nisim Nathan, born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 1922, regarding his experiences in Belgium, Vidin, Plovdiv and a labor camp His childhood within the Jewish community, including his education; emigration to Belgium; move back to Bulgaria, several years later; his father's service in the Bulgarian Army; activities in Beitar. Deportation to Vidin; transfer back to Plovdiv; life in Plovdiv including decree to wear a yellow badge; draft to forced labor in a labor camp; death of his brother in a labor camp; camp life including hunger and punishment; death of his mother; activities of Bulgarian Gendarmerie...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Samuel Scharf, born in Sighet, Romania, 1919, regarding his experiences in Sighet, Iasi, Cernauti, Stalingrad, Lyubimovka and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Samuel Scharf, born in Sighet, Romania, 1919, regarding his experiences in Sighet, Iasi, Cernauti, Stalingrad, Lyubimovka and other places His childhood in Sighet in a family of Vizhnitz hasidim; his family's move to Iasi, 1935; activities in Torah V'Avodah; community's concern for refugees from Poland, 1939; move to the Soviet area, summer 1940; life in Cernauti; move to work in a steel factory in Stalingrad, autumn 1940. German Army occupation, June 1941; labor in a quarry in Frolovo; transfer to labor drilling oil in Lyubimovka and in a nearby kolkhoz; approach of the military front;...

File Number : 13200

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Menachem Shlesinger, born in Zabokreky, Czechoslovakia, 1943, regarding his experiences as a baby in a bunker in Bystrica

Testimony

Testimony of Menachem Shlesinger, born in Zabokreky, Czechoslovakia, 1943, regarding his experiences as a baby in a bunker in Bystrica The witness' father owns a factory that is essential to the Slovaks; rescue of the family from deportation to Majdanek; German occupation and escape of the family to Bystrica, summer 1944; life in hiding in a bunker dug by a Jew named Neuman in the area under the responsibility of Jozef Kurbel, the forester, and with his agreement; life in the bunker with his parents and four other Jews; receiving food from Karbel and his two daughters; details about Jozef Kurbel (later...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Abraham Kogan, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Abraham Kogan, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto Life before the war; raised in a religious-Zionist family. The Soviet occupation, June 1940; German-Romanian occupation, July 1941; burning of the synagogue; murder of 300 Jews by the river banks, including Rabbi Marek, the Chief Rabbi; deportation to the Cernauti Ghetto, Sukkot (October) 1941; expansion of the ghetto; the family home inside the ghetto, order to report to the train station for deportation, October 1941; receiving an exemption from deportation from the governor, Corneliu Calotescu,...

File Number : 13181

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Hana (Druckman) Miron, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1938, regarding her experiences as a child in Cernauti, in hiding in Cuciurul, in Mogilev-Podolski, in the Shargorod Ghetto and in other places Life before the war. Deportation to Transnistria; rescue on the Dniester River; transfer to Cuciurul with her mother; life in Cuciurul while in hiding with her family in a home; discovery of her father and murder of her father, in front of everyone, along with other men; deportation to Edineti; transfer to Atachi; life in Mogilev-Podolski including meeting her family; deportation to Shargorod;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avram Yoel, born in Barlad, Romania, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in Barlad

Testimony

Testimony of Avram Yoel, born in Barlad, Romania, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in Barlad Life before the war. Persecution of Jews, 1941-1944; presence of the German Army in Barlad and harassment of his family; closure of schools; Zionist activities in the Beitar movement. Illegal aliya attempt to Eretz Israel with Youth Aliyah; detention in Cyprus; camp life; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1948.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shula (German) Zvieli, born in Wlodawa, Poland, 1938, regarding her experiences and those of her family in kolkhozes in the Soviet Union

Testimony

Testimony of Shula (German) Zvieli, born in Wlodawa, Poland, 1938, regarding her experiences and those of her family in kolkhozes in the Soviet Union From a family of Communist farmers who maintain a traditional way of life. Outbreak of the war; information regarding the murder of Jews; escape to the Soviet Union; crossing the Bug river; life in kolkhozes; warm welcome from local residents; her father's work repairing railroad tracks; arrests by the NKVD; end of the war. Return to Poland; attacks on Jews by Polish residents; preparations for aliya to Eretz Israel with help from UNRRA and the JDC; life...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zipora (Hamajda) Shapira, born in Levice, Czechoslovakia, 1930, regarding her experiences as a child in Velky Kazimir and Budapest

Testimony

Testimony of Zipora (Hamajda) Shapira, born in Levice, Czechoslovakia, 1930, regarding her experiences as a child in Velky Kazimir and Budapest Life in Velky Kazimir before the war; Orthodox religious family. Attempts to illegally cross the border into Hungary, from 1942; life in Budapest until 1944; deportation of her father to forced labor; placed in a Swedish protected house by her mother; disappearance of her mother; escape of her father and he joins the Soviet partisans; reunion of the family. Move to Kosice with her family, 1945; life in Kosice; preparations for aliya to Eretz Israel by the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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