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Diaries written by Avraham Lipkonsky Aviel, born in Dugalishok, Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences in a Youth Aliyah institution in Salvino, Italy and in Cyprus and Eretz Israel, 1946-1948

Diaries written by Avraham Lipkonsky Aviel, born in Dugalishok, Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences in a Youth Aliyah institution in Salvino, Italy and in Cyprus and Eretz Israel, 1946-1948 - Diaries (three sections) written by Avraham Lipkonsky Aviel in Cyprus and in Eretz Israel, 1946-1948 (pp. 2-92); - Correspondence between members of Kvutzat [Kibbutz] Hanita, 16 November 1946-24 November 1948 (pp. 93-129); - Articles written by Avraham Lipkonsky (in Hebrew), Gershon Klein (Yiddish), Zvi Kanner (Yiddish), and A. Liberman (Hebrew) (pp. 130-134); - Letters written by Reuven Donat, 19 November...

File Number : 731

Type of Material : Diary, Testimony, Letter

Language : Hebrew, Yiddish

Testimony of Zvi Hershel Kanar, born in Skalbmierz, Poland, 1927, regarding his experiences in Skalbmierz, the Krakow Ghetto, Plaszow, the Skarzysko-Kamienna camp and other places

Testimony of Zvi Hershel Kanar, born in Skalbmierz, Poland, 1927, regarding his experiences in Skalbmierz, the Krakow Ghetto, Plaszow, the Skarzysko-Kamienna camp and other places Life before the war; from a well-to do family. German occupation, 1939; imposition of restrictions on the Jews; murder of Jews; deportation to forced labor, 1940; sealing of the ghetto and escape to the fields; hiding money; escape back to the Skalbmierz Ghetto, September 1942; deportation to the Krakow Ghetto; ghetto life; bribing a German for entry to labor in the Plaszow camp; living quarters with Miller, the Jewish...

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zeev Vili Peleg, born in Berehovo, Hungary, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Berehovo Ghetto, Mauthausen, Birkenau, Melk and Gunskirchen

Testimony

Testimony of Zeev Vili Peleg, born in Berehovo, Hungary, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Berehovo Ghetto, Mauthausen, Birkenau, Melk and Gunskirchen Life before the war; learns in a "heder" and public school. Re-annexation to Hungary; German occupation; yellow badge; deportation to the Berehovo Ghetto; deportation to Birkenau; selection; murder of his mother and siblings; transfer to Mauthausen; transfer to Melk; camp life including labor digging tunnels; air-raids; transfer to Gunskirchen on foot; camp life including typhus; hospitalization; liberation. Return home; aliya attempt; detention in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Bracha Lipsyc Wysocki, born in Pabienice, 1930, regarding her experiences in the Minsk Mazowiecki Ghetto, Pabienice and hiding with Poles

Testimony

Testimony of Bracha Lipsyc Wysocki, born in Pabienice, 1930, regarding her experiences in the Minsk Mazowiecki Ghetto, Pabienice and hiding with Poles Family with hardships; many children; Jewish school. Outbreak of the war, 1939 and the German occupation; concentration of the Jews in the Minsk Mazowiecki Ghetto; staying in the synagogue; circumstances regarding her mother's death; separation between the families; work in the Rudski factory; life in the Warsaw Ghetto on the Aryan side; survival on the city's streets, 1943; wandering between Minsk Mazowiecki and Pabienice; arrest by the local police;...

File Number : 11472

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rachel (Hes) Grinstein, born in Jurbarkas, Lithuania, 1917, regarding her experiences in Kaunas, Palemonas and Stutthof

Testimony

Testimony of Rachel (Hes) Grinstein, born in Jurbarkas, Lithuania, 1917, regarding her experiences in Kaunas, Palemonas and Stutthof Family with 10 family members; membership in Hashomer Hatzair; attends a Jewish elementary school and a Jewish high school; her father is a cattle merchant. Annexation of Lithuania to the Soviet Union; displays of antisemitism by the local population; German occupation of Kaunas, where her family lived, June 1941; her family's unsuccessful attempt to escape by train; escape to Jonova; her brother's arrest; return to Kaunas; deportation of young Jews to forced labor;...

File Number : 9847

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rubin Zarnowiecki, born in Konin, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in Opatow, Szydlow, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Kaufering and other camps

Testimony

Testimony of Rubin Zarnowiecki, born in Konin, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in Opatow, Szydlow, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Kaufering and other camps Religious family. German occupation; deportation to Opatow camp, November 1939; transfer to labor camps, May 1942; transfer to Szydlow, November 1942; transfer to Kielce, June 1944; transfer to Auschwitz-Birkenau; transfer to Kaufering; transfer to Dachau, April 1945; liberation by the US Army, May 1945. Move to Italy; life in Salvino in a children's home; aliya attempt to Eretz Israel; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel, 01 January 1947.

File Number : 9394

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Peretz Zohar, born in Lwow, Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences in Zimna Woda, Janowska and in hiding in a forest

Testimony

Testimony of Peretz Zohar, born in Lwow, Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences in Zimna Woda, Janowska and in hiding in a forest From a well-to-do, traditional family; attends a Zionist Hebrew school. Outbreak of the war, 1939; German occupation; Soviet occupation; life under Russian rule; German re-occupation; escape to Zimna-Woda; abduction of his father and sister; their release in exchange for ransom money; betrayal of his mother who had been in hiding, August, 1942; transfer to Janowska; camp life; deportation of his mother and sister to Belzec; deportation to Zimna-Woda; camp life including...

File Number : 9374

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zvi Beser, born in Zawiercie, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in Zawiercie, the Czestochowa Ghetto, Buchenwald, Dora and Ravensbrueck camps, and a death march

Testimony

Testimony of Zvi Beser, born in Zawiercie, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in Zawiercie, the Czestochowa Ghetto, Buchenwald, Dora and Ravensbrueck camps, and a death march Life before the outbreak of the war. Move to Czestochowa, 1940; establishment of the Czestochowa Ghetto, 1941; ghetto life; labor melting iron in Rakow; evacuation with the approach of the Red Army; transfer to Buchenwald, January 1945; transfer to Dora; labor dismantling machinery in order to move it to another place; transfer to Ravensbrueck by train and then on foot; labor digging anti-tank trenches; evacuation by train and...

File Number : 8802

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Haim Bergel born in Korzec in 1922, regarding his experiences in Korzec, in the forests and with the partisans of Kovpak, and the experiences of Dov Bergel

His father's occupation: work in a porcelain factory; the murder of his mother by the Germans in the forest in the Korzec area; transfer of Haim and his father to forced labor on the roads; escaping to the forests (each one separately) and Haim joins the Kovpak partisans; reunion with his father after the war and return to Korzec; move to Germany and Italy; sailing on the illegal immigration ship "Katriel Yaffa", deportation to Cyprus by the British; aliya to Eretz Israel and moving to Kibbutz Shaar Golan at the end of 1946; Included in the file: the experiences of Dov Bergel, born in 1885 in Grodno (father...

File Number : 881

Type of Material : Memoirs, Biography

Language : Hebrew

Documentation regarding the experiences of Elias Tuchfabricant, born in Warsaw, and his brother Abraham Tofeach, during the Holocaust; documentation from Feldafing and Föhrenwald DP camps, 1945-1946

Documentation regarding the experiences of Elias Tuchfabricant, born in Warsaw, and his brother Abraham Tofeach, during the Holocaust; documentation from Feldafing and Föhrenwald DP camps, 1945-1946 Documentation regarding Elias Tuchfabricant, from the International Tracing Service - ITS: - Identical copy of an information registration form from Feldafing DP camp, in the name of Elias Tuchfabricant, born in Warsaw, Poland in 1929, issued in 1945: information regarding the fate of his family members during the Holocaust, including Elias; - Identical copy of an information registration form from...

File Number : 1167

Type of Material : Personal Records, Documentary

Language : Hebrew, English