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Testimony of Hana (Fruchter) Renert, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1934, regarding her experiences as a child in the Cernauti Ghetto, Bratslav, Tulchin, Iasi and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Hana (Fruchter) Renert, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1934, regarding her experiences as a child in the Cernauti Ghetto, Bratslav, Tulchin, Iasi and other places Traditional family; her father is a manager og a meat processing factory. Deportation to the Cernauti Ghetto, 1941; deportation to Transnistria, autumn 1941; transfer to Bratslav camp; murder of her father; in hiding during "Aktions"; forced labor of her mother and brother; receives help; transfer to Tulchin; transfer to Mogilev-Podolski with a group of orphans, with her mother using a false identity as a nurse; transfer to Iasi with a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Benzion Rotstein, born in 1927 in Taurage, Lithuania, about forced labor in camps in Lithuania and Germany, and the ship Bracha Fuld

Testimony

File Number : 11872

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yakov Moskowitz, born in Danilovo, Czechoslovakia, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Sekernice Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald and Dora

Testimony

Testimony of Yakov Moskowitz, born in Danilovo, Czechoslovakia, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Sekernice Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald and Dora Religious family; his father is the manager of a lumber transportation business and owns a farm; attends a Czechoslovakian school and a "heder". Annexation to Hungary; relations with the local Ukrainians; German occupation, 1944; deportation of the Jews to the Sekernice Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; transfer to Buchenwald; transfer to Dora; camp life including labor building barracks, tunnels etc.; death march to Schwerin; the Germans...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Adina (Katz-Brekher) Volf, born in Radauti, 1922, regarding her experiences in Transnistria

Testimony

Testimony of Adina (Katz-Brekher) Volf, born in Radauti, 1922, regarding her experiences in Transnistria Childhood in an ultra-Orthodox family. Murder and deportation of Jews from neighboring villages by the Romanians, 1939-1940; abuse of Jews in Radauti; deportation of the Jews of Radauti, 15 October 1941; march to Marculesti and Transnistria; high mortality rate due to starvation and frailty; stay in a stable in Shumilov with a group of 600 people; witness works by knitting for villagers; death of her brother and parents from the cold; starvation and typhus; lives in distress; abuse by German soldiers;...

File Number : 10141

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rina Waldman, born in Mukacevo, 1926, regarding her experiences in Mukacevo and Prauset, Stutthof, Auschwitz and Putzig camps

Testimony

Testimony of Rina Waldman, born in Mukacevo, 1926, regarding her experiences in Mukacevo and Praust, Stutthof, Auschwitz and Putzig camps Life in Mukacevo. Annexation to Hungary; German occupation; deportation to Auschwitz; selection; transfer to Stutthof for a short period; transfer to Praust camp; labor in an airfield; evacuation on foot to Putzig; liberation. Return to Mukacevo; move to Budapest; stay in Judenberg and Grottaferrata DP camps; aliya to Eretz Israel from Bari via Cyprus, 1946-1947.

File Number : 10115

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shmuel Galili, born in Kurima, 1926, regarding his experiences in Uzhorod, Auschwitz, Guenskirchen camp, an ammunitions factory in Sosnowiec and on a death march

Testimony

Testimony of Shmuel Galili, born in Kurima, 1926, regarding his experiences in Uzhorod, Auschwitz, Guenskirchen camp, an ammunitions factory in Sosnowiec and on a death march Childhood in Kurima; the family moved to Uzhorod; annexation to Hungary, 1939; deportation to the ghetto, 1944; deportation to Auschwitz and separation from his family; work in Cable Kommando; training as a builder in the Maurerschule; work in an ammunitions factory in Sosnowiec from November 1944 to 1945; on a death march in the direction of Mauthausen concentration camp; liberation in Guenskirchen camp, 1945. Move to Wiener...

File Number : 10074

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Michael Braun, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1920, regarding his experiences in the labor battalions and Bergen-Belsen

Testimony

Testimony of Michael Braun, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1920, regarding his experiences in the labor battalions and Bergen-Belsen Draft to a labor battalion for the Hungarian Army, 1941; attitude of the Hungarian officers towards the Jewish soldiers; detention of his wife and her transfer to a camp on Columbus Street in Budapest, 1944; detention of the witness at one of the meetings with his wife and his transfer to Bergen-Belsen; transfer to Magdeburg; liberation by the US Army in Hillersleben. Return to Budapest, 1945; death of his wife; aliya to Eretz Israel via Bari on the "Bracha Fuld" ship with help...

File Number : 9849

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shoshana Hirsh, born in Czernowitz, Romania, 1927, regarding her experiences in Czernowitz

Testimony

Testimony of Shoshana Hirsh, born in Czernowitz, Romania, 1927, regarding her experiences in Czernowitz Life before the war; attends a Romanian elementary school. Soviet occupation, 1940; attends a Jewish school under Soviet supervision; German occupation, 1941; activities in a Zionist youth movement; liberation by the Red Army, 1944. Move to Bucharest; move to Italy via Hungary and Yugoslavia; sets sail on the "Albertina" ship and aliya attempt, 1947; transfer to the "Bracha Fuld" ship; detention in Cyprus by the British.

File Number : 9273

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Etka Lidor, born in Tlumacz, Poland, 1932, regarding her experiences in hiding and using a false identity

Testimony

Testimony of Etka Lidor, born in Tlumacz, Poland, 1932, regarding her experiences in hiding and using a false identity Her childhood. Soviet occupation, 1939; life under Communist rule; German occupation, 1941; Polish women hide the witness along with her father and brother; escape to Czestochowa; murder of her father; placed in a children's dormitory in Czestochowa with her brother. Aliya attempt to Eretz Israel via Italy on the "Bracha Fuld" ship; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947.

File Number : 9033

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Eli Frenkel Bar Levi, born in Lodz, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto and Auschwitz, Mauthausen, Ebensee and Gusen camps

Testimony

Testimony of Eli Frenkel Bar Levi, born in Lodz, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto and Auschwitz, Mauthausen, Ebensee and Gusen camps German occupation, 09 September 1939; attitude of the population toward the Jews; anti-Jewish legislation; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto; labor unloading coal cars; activities in Hanoar Hatzioni; ghetto life; deportation to Auschwitz on trains, summer 1943; encounter with Mengele; attitude of the Germans and their collaborators toward the Jews in camp; transfer to Bratislava on foot, 18 January 1944; transfer from Bratislava to Mauthausen by train;...

File Number : 8830

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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