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Testimony of Shoshana Roza Reizl (Meltzer) Vineboim, born in Wilno, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Novosibirsk area, in Stalinsk and Novosibirsk

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Testimony of Shoshana Roza Reizl (Meltzer) Vineboim, born in Wilno, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Novosibirsk area, in Stalinsk and Novosibirsk Life as a child in Dokszyce and Paraf Janowo, Poland; Soviet occupation, 1939; life under the Soviet regime; Komsomol Communist youth activities. Outbreak of war between Germany and the Soviet Union, 1941; escape with a female friend and with her aunt's family to beyond the Soviet border, September 1941; journey to Siberia by train for about a month; life with her uncle's family and studies in a kolkhoz in the Novosibirsk area, 1941; move to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Dora (Heimovich) Kleinberger, born in Bochnia, Poland, 1938, regarding her experiences while using a false identity in a monastery in Budapest

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Testimony of Dora (Heimovich) Kleinberger, born in Bochnia, Poland, 1938, regarding her experiences while using a false identity in a monastery in Budapest Disappearance of her parents; receives forged documents; smuggled by her aunt to Budapest; changing of her name; life in hiding in a monastery in the Budapest area; liberation. Move by her aunt to a group of orphans of the Hashomer Hatzair movement; move to Strit with the group; life in Strit for one year; preparations for aliya to Eretz Israel; move of the entire group to the Blankensee fortress near Hamburg, Germany; legal aliya to Eretz Israel on...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mina (Veingarten-Karmi) Pshetitzki, born in Lublin, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in Lublin, Majdanek, Trawniki, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Aschersleben and Terezin

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Testimony of Mina (Veingarten-Karmi) Pshetitzki, born in Lublin, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in Lublin, Majdanek, Trawniki, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Aschersleben and Terezin Zionist, traditional family; activities in the Gordonia movement; witness attends a Tarbut school; displays of antisemitism before the war; meets refugees from Germany. Outbreak of the war; anti-Jewish decrees; forced labor in agriculture; "Aktions"; hidden by a Polish neighbor; informed on; disappearance of her father; deportation to Majdanek; labor camp life; labor in a workshop sorting clothing; infected with disease;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Menachem Cohen Shtol, born in Sighet, Romania, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Sighet Ghetto, Auschwitz and camps in the Silesia area

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Testimony of Menachem Cohen Shtol, born in Sighet, Romania, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Sighet Ghetto, Auschwitz and camps in the Silesia area Life before the war; Orthodox family; attends school and a "heder". Annexation to Hungary, 1940; restrictions on the Jews; Jews prepare for aliya to Eretz Israel, 1942; deportation of Jews without Hungarian or Ukranian citizenship to Ukraine; receives knowledge on the murder of Jews due to lack of food; termination of his education, 1942; Jewish police activities; soup kitchen; death of his mother from surgery in Budapest, 1943; deportation of the Jews...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Aba Avi Moshkovic, born in Vatra Dornei, Romania, 1937, regarding his experiences in Atachi and Mogilev-Podolski

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Testimony of Aba Avi Moshkovic, born in Vatra Dornei, Romania, 1937, regarding his experiences in Atachi and Mogilev-Podolski His parents have an attachment to Zionism and Eretz Israel; good relations with the Romanian neighbors. Outbreak of the war; deportation to Transnistria in a freight train; stop at Atachi; transfer on foot to Mogilev-Podolski; his family receives a room in Mogilev-Podolski; draft of his father to forced labor; hunger; lice; typhus epidemic; death of his mother due to typhus; his sister is fostered by a widow; return of his father, and his father's draft into the Red Army; his...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mordechai Hershkovitz, born in Cluj, Romania, 1913, regarding his experiences in Cluj, Budapest, Sopron, Schattendorf, Mauthausen and Gunskirchen

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Testimony of Mordechai Hershkovitz, born in Cluj, Romania, 1913, regarding his experiences in Cluj, Budapest, Sopron, Schattendorf, Mauthausen and Gunskirchen Antisemitism before the war; termination of studies. Annexation to Hungary; drafted to forced labor repairing railroad tracks and building bunkers; life in the Budapest Ghetto; fate of his family; transfer to the Sopron Ghetto; deportation to Schattendorf; camp life including labor as a physician's assistant; death march to Mauthausen; camp life including labor removing corpses; transfer to Gunskirchen; liberation by the US Army, 08 May...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yehudit Margit Yento (Zinger) Pinkovitz, born in Leles, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding her experiences in Leles, the Ujhely Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Landsberg and other places

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Testimony of Yehudit Margit Yento (Zinger) Pinkovitz, born in Leles, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding her experiences in Leles, the Ujhely Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Landsberg and other places Life in Leles before the war; deportation with her family; transfer back after one day, 1941; deportation to the Ujhely Ghetto, 1944; ghetto life; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, April 1944; camp life; transfer to Landsberg; camp life including separation from her parents at the selection; transfer to Christianstadt; death march to Bergen-Belsen; camp life; liberation by the British Army. Receives treatment in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yehuda Gabor Havas, born in Debrecen, Hungary, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Debrecen Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Muehldorf

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Testimony of Yehuda Gabor Havas, born in Debrecen, Hungary, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Debrecen Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Muehldorf Life in Debrecen before the war; from a well-to-do secular family; attends a Jewish Neolog school; attends the Jewish high school and a vocational school. German occupation, 19 March 1944; deportation to the Debrecen Ghetto, April 1944; ghetto life including work as a welder in SS headquarters; deportation to a roof tile factory; life in the roof tile factory including removing the dead after a US Army Air Forces air-raid; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau,...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Lea Olga (Lorintz) Havas, born in Mateszalka, Hungary, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Mateszalka Ghetto, Auschwitz and Oberhohenelbe

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Testimony of Lea Olga (Lorintz) Havas, born in Mateszalka, Hungary, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Mateszalka Ghetto, Auschwitz and Oberhohenelbe Life in Mateszalka before the war; from a well-to-do religious family; attends a Jewish school; relations with the non-Jewish population. Displays of antisemitism on the part of the Hungarians, 1943; robbery of the family home; confiscation of domesticated animals; deportation to the Mateszalka Ghetto, spring 1944; deportation to Auschwitz with her family; camp life including separation of parents from children; transfer to Oberhohenelbe; life in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

Testimony of Yitzhak Yisrael Isio Birnboim Biran, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1935, regarding his experiences as a child in Cernauti, Mogilev-Podolski and Botosani

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Testimony of Yitzhak Yisrael Isio Birnboim Biran, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1935, regarding his experiences as a child in Cernauti, Mogilev-Podolski and Botosani Life in Cernauti; deportation to Mogilev-Podolski; life in Mogilev-Podolski including his mother's death; receives shelter from Jews; deportation to Botosani with a group of orphaned children, 1944; taken into foster care by a local family; meeting with Red Army soldiers; life with Red Army soldiers including serving as a translator; end of the war, 1945. Life in Cernauti including reunion with his father; move to Beuthen with his family; joins...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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