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Testimony of Natan Motovitz, born in Chust, Czechoslovakia in 1924, regarding his experiences in Chust and in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald and Flossenbuerg camps

Testimony of Natan Motovitz, born in Chust, Czechoslovakia in 1924, regarding his experiences in Chust and in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald and Flossenbuerg camps Life in the Carpathian Ruthenia area as a young child; move to Chust; he studies in a Czech school and in parallel in a heder; membership in the Hungarian Scouts movement; Deportation of his father to service in the labor battalions in 1939; deportation of his family to Ukraine, summer 1941; theft of valuables; they cross the Dniester River; return to Chust; his father returns; German occupation, March 1944; wearing a yellow badge; Chust...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Hanan Goniadzki Degani, born in Jasionowka, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in Jasionowka, a bunker in a forest and in hiding

Testimony

Testimony of Hanan Goniadzki Degani, born in Jasionowka, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in Jasionowka, a bunker in a forest and in hiding From a traditional family; life before the war; attends the Jewish school, "Beit Ivri"; Hashomer Hadati activities. Outbreak of the war, 1939; life under Soviet occupation; German occupation, 1941; deportation to forced labor; labor in a carpentry shop for the Germans; extermination of the Jews of Jasionowka, 1943; escape to a forest; construction of a bunker; life in the bunker; discovery of the bunker by a Polish shepherd; escape; hides in a pigsty;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Arie Reichshtul, born in Vladmir, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Vladmir Ghetto, combat in Lublin-Zhitomir area and Warsaw

Testimony

Testimony of Arie Reichshtul, born in Vladmir, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Vladmir Ghetto, combat in Lublin-Zhitomir area and Warsaw Childhood; learns in a "heder" before the war. Soviet occupation, 1939; receives a plot of land from the authorities; German occupation, 1941; deportation to a ghetto; life in the ghetto, forced labor and "Aktions, 1942; hiding in an attic; escape to Trostianka until 1943; encounter with Red Army soldiers; move to Lustik; drafted in Smolensk; drafted to Wanda Wassilievska's Polish Army; life in Krasnaya; combat in the Lublin-Zhitomir area; wounded in...

File Number : 10709

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Jakov Abramowicz, born in Sienkiewicze, Poland, 1910, regarding his experiences in Mokrowo, Sienkiewicze, the Lachwa Ghetto, with the partisans in the area and in the Red Army

Testimony

Testimony of Jakov Abramowicz, born in Sienkiewicze, Poland, 1910, regarding his experiences in Mokrowo, Sienkiewicze, the Lachwa Ghetto, with the partisans in the area and in the Red Army Murder of his parents by robbers; life in Lachwa during World War I; move of the family to Mokrowo; attends an ORT school in Bresc nad Bugiem; service in the Polish Army, 1931-1935; work in carpentry; marriage. Outbreak of the war; annexation to the Soviet Union; draft into the Red Army; service in Pinsk; outbreak of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union; return home; deportation to the Lachwa Ghetto; birth of...

File Number : 10248

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Margit Stein born in Gönc, Hungary, 1923, regarding her experiences in Gönc, the Košice Ghetto, Auschwitz, Leipzig and Theresienstadt camps, and a death march

Testimony

Testimony of Margit Stein born in Gönc, Hungary, 1923, regarding her experiences in Gönc, the Košice Ghetto, Auschwitz, Leipzig and Theresienstadt camps, and a death march Her childhood and family background; community life; deterioration of the situation, 1937-1938. German occupation; deportation to the Košice Ghetto, April 1944; deportation to Auschwitz; selection; labor; dysentery; transfer to a labor camp near Leipzig; rebuilding of the camp after an air-raid; camp life; relations between Jewish and Polish inmates; death march to Theresienstadt, liberation. Help from the JDC; return to Gönc;...

File Number : 9990

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Marta Paran born in Abaujszanto Hungary, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Kosice Ghetto, Auschwitz and Mecklenburg camps, and a death march

Testimony

Testimony of Marta Paran born in Abaujszanto Hungary, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Kosice Ghetto, Auschwitz and Mecklenburg camps, and a death march Her childhood in a religious family; community life; attends a Hungarian public school; relations with the neighbors; appearance of the Arrow Cross party, 1937. German occupation; deportation to the Kosice Ghetto, April 1944; deportation by train to Auschwitz; camp life; labor weaving; transfer to Bergen-Belsen, September 1944; transfer to Mecklenburg camp, October 1944; good attitude on the part of the German workers; air-raids; death march,...

File Number : 9989

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Aharon Vin, born in Bialobrzegi, 1926, regarding his experiences in Radom, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Wineden, Bisingen camps and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Aharon Vin, born in Bialobrzegi, 1926, regarding his experiences in Radom, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Wineden, Bisingen camps and other places Move to Grojec; life before the war. Entry of the Germans; escape from Grojec; return to Grojec; his father's labor in a salt storeroom; return to Bialobrzegi, 1941; deportation to Radom camp; camp life including forced labor in an ammunitions factory, 1943; transfer to Auschwitz-Birkenau, June 1944; transfer to Wineden camp next to Stuttgart, camp life including forced labor in a quarry; transfer to Bisingen camp; illness; transfer to Bergen-Belsen,...

File Number : 8198

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yehuda Leib Teiblum, born in Siedlce, Poland, 1908, regarding his experiences in Warsaw and Skarzysko Kamienna, Czestochowa, Buchenwald, Rehmsdorf and Theresienstadt camps

Testimony

Testimony of Yehuda Leib Teiblum, born in Siedlce, Poland, 1908, regarding his experiences in Warsaw and Skarzysko Kamienna, Czestochowa, Buchenwald, Rehmsdorf and Theresienstadt camps Family background; marriage; move to Warsaw. German occupation; in hiding with his wife, two daughters, mother and brother; their capture and deportation to Majdanek, 1943; murder of his family; deportation to Skarzysko Kamienna, Czestochowa, Buchenwald, Rehmsdorf and Theresienstadt camps; forced labor in all the camps; liberation, 08 April 1945. Joins Bnei Akiva; aliya attempt; detention in Cyprus; aliya to to Eretz...

File Number : 9994

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avraham Blumenstok, born in Prague, 1915, regarding his experiences in Sanz, Tarnow and the camps

Testimony

Testimony of Avraham Blumenstok, born in Prague, 1915, regarding his experiences in Sanz, the Tarnow Ghetto and the camps His family's home in Sanz. Outbreak of the war and entry of the Germans, September 1939; unsuccessful escape to Russia; return to Sanz; life under the German occupation until 1941; hostile behavior; kidnappings; beatings; shearing off beards and sidelocks; yellow badge; forced labor; Judenrat; establishment of the ghetto; Hamann, the German head of the ghetto; forced contributions; liquidation of the ghetto with three transports; work in his father's factory and living in the closed...

File Number : 6229

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of David Kirshner, born in Komarno, Czechoslovakia, 1920, regarding his experiences in a labor battalion in Koszeg, Krakow, Stary Oskol, in captivity in Morshansk and other places

Testimony

Testimony of David Kirshner, born in Komarno, Czechoslovakia, 1920, regarding his experiences in a labor battalion in Koszeg, Krakow, Stary Oskol, in captivity in Morshansk and other places Life before the war; Zionist activities in Sopron; Levente (Hungarian youth organization) activities; discriminatory attitude in Levente. Drafted to a labor battalion in Koszeg, 13 October 1941; battalion life; transfer of the battalion to the Soviet front, July 1942; transfer to Krakow; meets a Jewish woman at the railroad station and receives information regarding the situation of the Jews in Poland; transfer to Gom...

File Number : 5997

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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