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Testimony of Aliza Gisela Landau née Goldman, born in 1938 in Ruda Pabjanicka, Poland, about her experiences as a girl in the Łódź ghetto, her escape from a killing trench, and living with a non-Jewish family until January 1945

Family deported to the Łódź ghetto; witness in infancy smuggled out of the ghetto with his brother, both swathed in blankets, and placed with non-Jews; parents escape and are led to them; wandering from hideout to hideout; collaborators discover parents' concealment pit; unsuccessful attempt to surrender parents to the Gestapo and escape into forests east of Lublin; acute hunger; mother sets out in search of food and disappears; brother dies of hunger; witness captured with father by a German soldier and taken to a killing trench; escaping from the trench at night after several unsuccessful attempts; crawling...

File Number : 13583

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe Miklos Bleier Ofer, born in Berehovo, Czechoslovakia, 1931, regarding his experiences as a child in the Sevlus Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, on a death march and more

Testimony

Testimony of Moshe Miklos Bleier Ofer, born in Berehovo, Czechoslovakia, 1931, regarding his experiences as a child in the Sevlus Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, on a death march and more Childhood in a wealthy, religious family. Hungarian occupation and rise in displays of antisemitism; German occupation, 1944; yellow badge; robbery of valuables and assets; deportation to the Sevlus Ghetto, 1944; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; selection and transfer together with his twin brother to a camp hospital (Kranken Hause); medical experiments; transfer to Camp D and labor near Crematorium 2; approach of the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Dov Beri Bernard Lichtenstein, born in Mukacevo, Czechoslovakia, 1922; regarding his experiences in Auschwitz, Mauthausen, Melk and Ebensee

Testimony

Testimony of Dov Beri Bernard Lichtenstein, born in Mukacevo, Czechoslovakia, 1922; regarding his experiences in Auschwitz, Mauthausen, Melk and Ebensee Learns in "heder" and attends a government school until 1934; life in the village until 1944. Deportation to Auschwitz; murder of his mother, April 1944; transfer to Mauthausen, May 1944; transfer to Melk, June 1944; transfer to Ebensee, April-May 1945; liberation, May 1945. Work in the Sudetenland, 1946; unsuccessful aliya attempt to Eretz Israel, 1947; detention in Cyprus for 10 months, 1947-1948; return aliya to Israel, 1948.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zeev Velvo Shimshovitz, born in Bedevla, Czechoslovakia, 1929, regarding his experiences as a child in Bedevla, the Mateszalka Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Gleiwitz and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Zeev Velvo Shimshovitz, born in Bedevla, Czechoslovakia, 1929, regarding his experiences as a child in Bedevla, the Mateszalka Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Gleiwitz and other places Life before the war; agricultural family; displays of antisemitism. Outbreak of the war; re-annexation to Hungary, 1940; anti-Jewish restrictions including the robbery of property; termination of studies; deportation of his father to forced labor; escape to Hungary, 1942; escape back to Bedevla; deportation to the Mateszalka Ghetto; Mateszalka Ghetto life; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; camp life; attitude of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Haim Akerman, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1933, regarding his experiences as a child in the Warsaw Ghetto, in hiding while using a false identity in Warsaw, and in Brwinow, Pawiak and Greifenberg Life before the war; well-to-do family. Outbreak of the war; German occupation, 01 September 1939; inclusion of the family's home inside the Warsaw Ghetto; family members join their household; rescue from an "Aktion" against children; escape to outside the ghetto with his mother; move to a hiding place in a village; life in the village including being identified as a Jew by Polish children; move to a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Pnina Piri Perel (Adler) Ben Ari, born in Dubova, Czechoslovakia, 1930, regarding her experiences as a child in the Dubova Ghetto, Auschwitz; a camp in Poland and Theresienstadt

Testimony

Testimony of Pnina Piri Perel (Adler) Ben Ari, born in Dubova, Czechoslovakia, 1930, regarding her experiences as a child in the Dubova Ghetto, Auschwitz; a camp in Poland and Theresienstadt Life before the war; from a well-to-do family; relations with the local population. Outbreak of the war; re-annexation to Hungary; restrictions on the Jews; closing of the family store; deportation to the Dubova Ghetto; ghetto life including brutality of the Hungarian gendarmes; her brother's escape to the partisans; capture of her brother and his murder in Auschwitz; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life including the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Nathan Adler, born in Bystra Bereg, Czechoslovakia, 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in Bystra Bereg, in hiding in Chust and Satu Mare, the Sekernice Ghetto, Auschwitz and other places Life before the war; from an Orthodox family; displays of antisemitism; pogroms against the Jews including damage to property, 1938. Outbreak of the war; re-annexation to Hungary; restrictions on Jews, 1939; deportation to an assembly point with Jews on Yom Kippur (01 October) 1941; transfer to Chust; transfer towards the east; escape from the train; finds a hiding place in Chust; life in Chust...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaim Oszkar Krausz, born in Mezokovesd, Hungary, 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in Mezokovesd, in Deszkametszopuszta, Mauthausen and Gunskirchen

Testimony

Testimony of Chaim Oszkar Krausz, born in Mezokovesd, Hungary, 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in Mezokovesd, in Deszkametszopuszta, Mauthausen and Gunskirchen Life before the war; from a well-to-do Orthodox family; his father is one of the heads of the community; learns in a Talmud Torah and a Jewish school; imposition of the numerus clausus; attends the Kispetpetejovce high school, 1942. German occupation, March 1944; gathering of the well-to-do heads of the community; abuse of his father; establishment of the Mezokovesd Ghetto, April 1944; joins the Levente organization; meets a captain in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rivka (Smolarchik) Weiss, born in Labedz, 1930, regarding her experiences while living in hiding with non-Jewish families

Testimony

Testimony of Rivka (Smolarchik) Weiss, born in Labedz, 1930, regarding her experiences while living in hiding with non-Jewish families Studies; her childhood in Dzialoszyce; the German occupation, 1939; living in hiding; transfer from one hiding place to another to the homes of non-Jews in Dzialoszyce, Labedz, Pinczow and Busko Zdroj; staying in the Debowiec forest; in hiding in the home of farmers in Polincha; working in housekeeping in Przytk; the attitude of the local population after the entry of the Russians. Return to Dzialoszyce; transfer with her family to Sosnowiec following antisemitic displays;...

File Number : 11782

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaia (Klein) Kleinman, born in Velke Kapusany, 1923, regarding her experiences in a labor battalion and in Bnei Akiva underground activity in Budapest

Testimony

Testimony of Chaia (Klein) Kleinman, born in Velke Kapusany, 1923, regarding her experiences in a labor battalion and in Bnei Akiva underground activity in Budapest The family's life before the Holocaust; annexation of the area to Hungary, 1938; Hungarian abuse of the Jews in the area; the deportation of people without Hungarian citizenship to the Ukrainian border, 1941; transfer to Budapest, 1940; joining the Bnei Akiva movement; visiting her family in Velke Kapusany; hospitalized in Budapest; drafted by force to a labor battalion, 1943; the German occupation of Hungary, 19 March 1944; forced labor in a...

File Number : 10686

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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