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Book containing the history of the Szmaragd family in Piotrkow, Zamosc and Warsaw, Poland; memoirs of Yisrael Szmaragd regarding his experiences in the Belzec camp and the Czestochowa camp in Poland and the family tree Memoirs of Yisrael Szmaragd: Learns in a "heder"; attends Yesodei Hatorah, the religious elementary school in Piotrkow; learns in the Beit Yosef yeshiva; membership in the Hashomer Hadati youth movement. Deportation to the Belzec work camp; labor digging anti-tank trenches; liberation from the Czestochowa labor camp by the Red Army. Wanderings in Poland after the war; joins the Lodz...

File Number : 8348

Type of Material : Biography, Genealogy, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Frida Felitzia (Grossman) Schefi, born in Krakow, Poland, 1919, regarding her experiences in Krakow, Bochnia, in hiding in Przemysl, in hiding in Krakow, and in Magenta and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Frida Felitzia (Grossman) Schefi, born in Krakow, Poland, 1919, regarding her experiences in Krakow, Bochnia, in hiding in Przemysl, in hiding in Krakow, and in Magenta and other places Her childhood in a well-to-do traditional home in Krakow. German Army occupation of Krakow, September 1939; life under German occupation including anti-Jewish decrees and Aryanization of her family's business; move of her family to Bochnia, 1940; first "Aktion"; escape to Pszemyse [should be: Przemysl], summer 1941; in hiding in Przemysl using forged documents; escape to Krakow due to suspicions by the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Arie Leon Muhlrad, born in Drohobycz, Poland, 1920, regarding his experiences in the Drohobycz Ghetto, Plaszow, Mauthausen and Gusen

Testimony

Testimony of Arie Leon Muhlrad, born in Drohobycz, Poland, 1920, regarding his experiences in the Drohobycz Ghetto, Plaszow, Mauthausen and Gusen Life before the war; Hanoar Hatzioni membership. Outbreak of the war; kidnapping and murder of Jews, July 1941; establishment of the Drohobycz Ghetto; ghetto life; Judenrat activities; agricultural labor on a farm; "Aktions" and finding a hiding place in a slaughter house; work for the German Army in the local crude oil industry; liquidation of the ghetto, June 1943; deportation to Plaszow; camp life; activities of Amon Goeth, the camp commandant; activities of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zipora Tzirel (Dawidowitz) Hartov, born in Czechoslovakia, 1921, regarding her experiences in Ravensbrueck and as a forced laborer

Testimony

Testimony of Zipora Tzirel (Dawidowitz) Hartov, born in Czechoslovakia, 1921, regarding her experiences in Ravensbrueck and as a forced laborer Her childhood in a religious home; attends a Czech school; studies sewing and helps the family's livelihood; move to Budapest with help from Hamizrachi, 1936; receives help to find work and a place to live with other young women. Deportation to Ravensbrueck; evades shaving of hair; transfer to labor in a weapons factory near Leipzig one month later; help from a German woman work manager and a Polish work manager. Aliya to Eretz Israel on the "Hannah Szenes"...

File Number : 10967

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Jzhak Kleinerman Zutta, born in Brzesc, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Pruzana Ghetto, with the partisans and in camps

Testimony

Testimony of Jzhak Kleinerman Zutta, born in Brzesc, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Pruzana Ghetto, with the partisans and in camps His father is a lumber merchant; death of witness' mother when he was 10 years old; family move to Pruzana; high school education; community life and activities in two Zionist movements. Entry of the Soviets and unification of all educational streams; penetration of socialist ideas among the Jews; entry of the Germans, 1941; deportation to a ghetto, 27 June 1941; confiscation of Jewish owned property; appointment of the heads of the Jewish community to the Judenrat...

File Number : 8642

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew