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Aliya certificate issued by the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel in Cyprus for Hava Winitzer, 21 December 1947

Aliya certificate issued by the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel in Cyprus for Hava Winitzer, 21 December 1947 Aliya of Hava (Winitzer) Wolf, born in Romania, 1932 [to Eretz Israel via] the illegal immigrant ship, "Geulah"; release from Cyprus, 22 December 1947.

File Number : 734

Type of Material : Document

Language : Hebrew, English

Testimony of Esther Meir née Mendelovitz, born in 1929 in Ruscova, Romania, about her experiences in Ruscova, the Valea Viseului ghetto, and Auschwitz

Testimony

Testimony of Esther Meir née Mendelovitz, born in 1929 in Ruscova, Romania, about her experiences in Ruscova, the Valea Viseului ghetto, and Auschwitz Life before the war; daughter of a traditional family; attending a Romanian school; German occupation; deportation to the Valea Viseului ghetto by Romanian gendarmes; deportation by train to Auschwitz; selection in the camp; father, mother, and four siblings are murdered; assigned to forced labor: digging pits for murdered persons' bodies; hunger; cold; lice; Germans attempt to set residential barracks ablaze; saved by Red Army forces; typhus and...

File Number : 13452

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

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Cilly (Stein) Hass, born in Suceava, Romania, 1928, regarding her experiences as a child in Suceava and Mogilev-Podolski

Testimony

Testimony of Cilly (Stein) Hass, born in Suceava, Romania, 1928, regarding her experiences as a child in Suceava and Mogilev-Podolski Life before the war; relations with neighbors; witness attends a Romanian school. Yellow badge; deportation to Transnistria, autumn 1941; crosses the Dniester River; transfer to Mogilev-Podolski; life in Mogilev-Podolski in the home of a Jewish family; receives a warning regarding an approaching deportation; typhus disease; hospitalization in a hospital; barter trade with Ukrainians; liberation by the Red Army, 1944. Move to Cernauti; return to Suceava; life in Suceava...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zwi Mentzer Manor, born in Radauti, Romania, 1927, regarding his experiences in Radauti, Atachi, Mogilev-Podolski and the Dzhurin Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Zwi Mentzer Manor, born in Radauti, Romania, 1927, regarding his experiences in Radauti, Atachi, Mogilev-Podolski and the Dzhurin Ghetto Life before the war; well-to-do religious family; expulsion from the school, 1939; receives knowledge regarding a pogrom in Iasi, June 1941. Deportation to Atachi, October 1941; life in Mogilev-Podolski in a school; deportation to the Dzhurin Ghetto; Dzhurin Ghetto life; finds a hiding place in an attic with his father during "Aktions"; deportation of his father to forced labor; escape; transfer by a German officer of monetary help from Jews in Bucharest;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Nomy (Peletz) Gotlieb, born in Arbore, Romania, 1933, regarding her experiences as a child in Arbore, Suceava, Mogilev-Podolski and the Murafa Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Nomy (Peletz) Gotlieb, born in Arbore, Romania, 1933, regarding her experiences as a child in Arbore, Suceava, Mogilev-Podolski and the Murafa Ghetto Life in Arbore before the war; religious-Zionist family; relations with the non-Jewish neighbors. Escape to Suceava due to displays of antisemitism; life in Suceava including wearing the yellow badge; deportation to Transnistria, autumn 1941; crosses the Dniester River; transfer to Mogilev-Podolski; transfer on foot to the Shargorod Ghetto; transfer on foot to the Murafa Ghetto; Murafa Ghetto life in the home of a local Jewish family; illness...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Menachem Mendel Fuks, born in Radauti, Romania, 1927, regarding his experiences in Atachi, Mogilev Podolskiy and in the underground in the Dzhurin Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Menachem Mendel Fuks, born in Radauti, Romania, 1927, regarding his experiences in Atachi, Mogilev Podolskiy and in the underground in the Dzhurin Ghetto Life before the war. Deportation to Atachi by the Romanian gendarmes; transfer to Mogilev-Podolskiy; transfer to the Dzhurin Ghetto, 1941; ghetto life including underground activities as part of Hanoar Hatzioni; liberation by the Red Army, 1944. Move to Brizheni; return to Radauti, 1945; life in Radauti; agricultural training at Oradea; aliya attempt to Eretz Israel; detention in Cyprus, 1947; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Menachem Fischler, born in Suceava, Romania, 1931, regarding his experiences in Trikhatki and Mogilev-Podolski

Testimony

Testimony of Menachem Fischler, born in Suceava, Romania, 1931, regarding his experiences in Trikhatki and Mogilev-Podolski Life before the war. Deportation to Trikhatki, autumn 1941; transfer to Mogilev-Podolski; life in Mogilev-Podolski and help with the family livelihood; typhus; liberation by the Red Army, 1944. Return to Suceava; aliya attempt to Eretz Israel via Bulgaria onboard the "Geulah", 1947; capture by the British; detention in Cyprus; life in a detention camp; aliya to Eretz Israel with Youth Aliya, December 1947; life in Atlit detention camp; move to Sde Yaakov; participation in the War...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Poem/Song by Szymon Tajc, "Poem/Song From the Holocaust Period" about the hope for redemption

Poem/Song by Szymon Tajc, "Poem/Song From the Holocaust Period" about the hope for redemption The poem/song describes the hard times that came upon the Jews in the wake of the Nazi occupation; the author expresses hope for better times with the blossoming of the spring that will come with the redemption.

File Number : 345

Type of Material : Poems/songs

Language : Yiddish

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