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Testimony of Moshe Zagorski, born in 1927 in Wadowice, Poland, about being sent to the Groeditz, Faulbrück, and Gunzlau camps for forced labor, death march, and additional camps

Offspring of a well-to-do family; war breaks out in September 1939; escaping to relatives in Kraków; back to Wadowice; forced labor in Wadowice; deportation to Annaberg in autumn 1940 for forced labor; finds an uncle in the camp; transfer to Groeditz and life at a flour mill; cultural life in the camp; construction work in Faulbrück and separation from uncle; transferred to the Bunzlu camp apparently in summer 1942; Bunzlau becomes a concentration camp and assignment to young peole's block in May 1944; death march to Dora Mittelbau in February 1945 and several days in the camp; taken to Ellrich satellite camp;...

File Number : 13440

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe Bienental, born in Lodz, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, as a forced laborer in Germany and a death march

Testimony

Testimony of Moshe Bienental, born in Lodz, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, as a forced laborer in Germany and a death march Life before the war; displays of antisemitism; help to Jewish refugees from Germany, 1938. Deportation to the Lodz Ghetto; escape from the ghetto with help from a smuggler; escape back to the Lodz Ghetto; Lodz Ghetto life including labor as an orderly; deportation to Auschwitz, September 1944; camp life including the murder of his sisters; disappearance of his parents; transfer to Germany; life in Germany including labor in an automobile...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Pnina Pola (Fuks) Bienental, born in Zdunska Wola, Poland, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Zdunska Wola Ghetto, Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Christianstadt and Kratzau

Testimony

Testimony of Pnina Pola (Fuks) Bienental, born in Zdunska Wola, Poland, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Zdunska Wola Ghetto, Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Christianstadt and Kratzau Life before the war; attends the Beit Yaakov school; activities in Zionist youth movements; meets Jewish refugees from Germany, 1938; help from the community to the refugees. Outbreak of the war; shelling of Zdunska Wola; escape to villages; escape back to Zdunska Wola; life in Zdunska Wola including decrees; deportation of Jews to forced labor; receives help from German neighbors; deportation to the Zdunska Wola Ghetto,...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaya Chava (Guterman) Erlanger, born in Lodz, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen

Testimony

Testimony of Chaya Chava (Guterman) Erlanger, born in Lodz, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen Orthodox family that owned a factory for down feathers; attends a public school; participation in the Batya organization. Outbreak of the war; German occupation; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto; death of her father and brother; ghetto life including secret studies; labor in a feather factory; curfew, Sperre "Aktion", 1942; detention in prison and rescue; life in hiding; capture and deportation to Auschwitz; camp life; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; camp life;...

File Number : 12343

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Michla Michcza (Vidavska) Traube, born in Lask, Poland, 1919, regarding her experiences in the Lask Ghetto, the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Sasel, Hamburg and Bergen-Belsen

Testimony

Testimony of Michla Michcza (Vidavska) Traube, born in Lask, Poland, 1919, regarding her experiences in the Lask Ghetto, the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Sasel, Hamburg and Bergen-Belsen Life in the Lask Ghetto; "Aktion" and selection, September 1942; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto as part of an exchange of essential professionals between the ghettos; labor at sewing; meets her dying brother and his rescue; ghetto life; activities in the Hahazit youth movement; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1944; smuggles in a needle which, later on, makes it possible for her to support herself from sewing; transfer to...

File Number : 9635

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Pnina Pasha Nemet, born in Kijangaya, 1917, regarding her experiences in hiding in Buskovice

Testimony

Testimony of Pnina Pasha Nemet, born in Kijangaya, 1917, regarding her experiences in hiding in Buskovice Life in hiding in Buskovice near Lvov until 1945. Sets sail with Aliya Bet on the "Chaim Arlozorov" ship; capture and detention in Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel 18 months later, 20 April 1948.

File Number : 7814

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shaul Zalewski, born in Lodz, Poland, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz and death marches

Testimony

Testimony of Shaul Zalewski, born in Lodz, Poland, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz and death marches His childhood in Lodz. Labor as a messenger in the Klugman factory in the Lodz Ghetto, from early 1940; deportations from the ghetto; liquidation of the Lodz Ghetto and deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, summer 1944; separation from his mother and sister during a selection; labor disinfecting blankets; escape from a barracks which was designated for extermination; death march to Gleiwitz, January 1945; other death marches by train to Flossenburg camp; another transfer by...

File Number : 7029

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

פריט ללא רישום

File Number : 13029

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

עדות של יוטבת אסתר ארנה לבית וייס, ילידת 1930 Lwow ברית המועצות, על פינוי במסגרת בית הילדים ל-Omsk בתקופת המלחמה

Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Tova Meiersdorf (maiden name: Zeidner), born in Kielce, regarding her family's experiences in the Łódź Ghetto, in Auschwitz and in the camps in Germany

Memoirs of Tova Meiersdorf (maiden name: Zeidner), born in Kielce, regarding her family's experiences in the Łódź Ghetto, in Auschwitz and in the camps in Germany Memoirs of Tova (Tauba, Scheindela) Meiersdorf, (maiden name: Zeidner), born in Kielce on 7 February 1923, regarding her family's experiences in the Holocaust: - her parents were Haim David Zeidner (formerly Zeidman), born in Włoszczowa in 1895, and Deborah (maiden name: Białobroda), born in Kielce; her brothers and sisters: Chaya Ita (died from an illness at the age of two), Fruma (Franya) born in 1919, Binyamin born in 1921, Moshe, Hinda and...

File Number : 11254

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

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