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Testimony of Israel Lolka Blumental born in Vilna [Wilno], Poland in 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in the Vilna Ghetto and while in hiding

Testimony of Israel Lolka Blumental born in Vilna [Wilno], Poland in 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in the Vilna Ghetto and while in hiding Life before the war; traditional, well-to-do, Revisionist family; Soviet occupation; nationalization of his father's factory; pogrom by the Lithuanian Police in summer 1940; German occupation, June 1941; deportation to the Vilna Ghetto; his parents receive work cards; Vilna Ghetto life; his father receives information from a German officer at his place of labor regarding approaching "Aktions"'; his family members escape to hiding places in the homes of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Kopel Kolpanitzki, born in Lachwa, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in Lachwa, with the Kovpack partisans unit and in the Red Army

Testimony

Testimony of Kopel Kolpanitzki, born in Lachwa, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in Lachwa, with the Kovpack partisans unit and in the Red Army His childhood and youth in Lachwa; attends a Jewish school, Yavne; life at home; activities in the Beitar movement. Soviet occupation and rule, 1939; arrest and exile of his father to Siberia; German occupation of Lachwa, 1941; forced labor paving roads; smuggles food into the Lachwa Ghetto; observance of religion commandments and keeping; liquidation of the ghetto, 1942; escape to a forest; survival in the forest; joins the "Kovpack" partisan unit and...

File Number : 11668

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avraham Tzin, born in Mukacevo, Czechoslovakia, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Mukacevo Ghetto and Auschwitz-Birkenau, Jaworzno, Janiasze and Blechhammer camps

Testimony

Testimony of Avraham Tzin, born in Mukacevo, Czechoslovakia, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Mukacevo Ghetto and Auschwitz-Birkenau, Jaworzno, Janiasze and Blechhammer camps Establishment of the Mukacevo Ghetto, May 1944; concentration of the Jews in the market square and deportation to a brick factory; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, late May 1944; separation from his mother and sister; transfer to block A17 and 7; tattooing of a number; transfer to Janisze camp and then to Jaworzno camp; labor in an electricity factory in camp; approach of the Red Army and evacuation, late 1944; arrival at...

File Number : 10407

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Henia Hendel, born in Lodz, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences in Lwow and in hiding in the area

Testimony

Testimony of Henia Hendel, born in Lodz, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences in Lwow and in hiding in the area Outbreak of the war, 1939; escape of the family to Tarnopol; move to Lwow; fear of deportation to Siberia; German occupation, 1941; forced labor cleaning homes of German soldiers; move of the family to Witkow Stary and then to Witkow Nowy; hidden in a barn by an acquaintance; liberation by the Red Army, 1944. Return of the family to Lwow; move to Lodz; DP camp life in Fohrenwald, 1945-1946; aliya to Eretz Israel via Marseille, 1947.

File Number : 8823

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yaakov Zahavi, born in Budapest, 1930, regarding his experiences in the Budapest Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Yaakov Zahavi, born in Budapest, 1930, regarding his experiences in the Budapest Ghetto Assimilated family; his father works for the railroad company; witness attends a public elementary school and later a Hebrew high school in Budapest; displays of antisemitism before the entry of the Germans. Entry of the Germans, 1944; persecutions against the Jews; deportation to a ghetto; ghetto life including forced labor; liberation, January 1945. Reunion with relatives; joins Dror Habonim movement; aliya to Eretz Israel on the "La-Negev" ship, January 1946; detention in Cyprus.

File Number : 8200

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Meir Liberman, born in Kosice, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Kosice Ghetto, Wolfsberg and Dornau

Testimony

Testimony of Meir Liberman, born in Kosice, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Kosice Ghetto, Wolfsberg and Dornau Hungarian occupation and the change in the life of his family, in particular and the life of the Jews, in general, 1938; deportation of the Jews to a brick factory, 1944; establishment of the Kosice Ghetto; yellow badge; deportation to Auschwitz, April 1944; selection and transfer to Wolfsberg; labor paving roads; transfer to Dornau camp; labor clearing belongings from abandoned camps and burying the dead; arrival of the Red Army; illness and treatment. Return to Kosice...

File Number : 8561

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Ilana ben Israel (maiden name: Tanenbaum), born in Lwów in 1929, regarding her experiences in Lwów during the Holocaust and her journey to Eretz Israel in 1946-1947

Memoirs of Ilana ben Israel (maiden name: Tanenbaum), born in Lwów in 1929, regarding her experiences in Lwów during the Holocaust and her journey to Eretz Israel in 1946-1947 Air-raids on Lwów with the outbreak of war between Germany and the Soviet Union in June 1941; German occupation; manhunts for Jews; robbery of Jewish property; “Aktions”; concentration of Jews in a specific residential area; imposition of contributions; large “Aktion” in August 1942; transfer into hiding with the actress Suzana Luzhanska, using forged papers; life with Luzhanska and her husband for two years; liberation of Lwów by the...

File Number : 11239

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

To be translated

File Number : 1754

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Certification, Identity Card

Language : Hebrew, English, German

Memoirs of Feivel Shraga Solomiansky, born in Ilja, Poland, 1909, regarding his experiences in the Ilja Ghetto, in hiding in the forests and as a partisan in various places in Belorussia

Memoirs of Feivel Shraga Solomiansky, born in Ilja, Poland, 1909, regarding his experiences in the Ilja Ghetto, in hiding in the forests and as a partisan in various places in Belorussia - "The Struggle for Life'', memoirs written by Feivel Shraga Solomiansky, born in Ilja [or Ilya], Poland, 1909, regarding his experiences during the Holocaust; English translation by Ted and Mira Mordfin: Feivel Shraga Solomiansky's parents were Eliyahu and Haya Solomiansky (or Solominsky); life in the Ilja Ghetto; life in hiding in a pit he dug in the snow during an "Aktion", 19 March 1942; receipt of a permit to leave...

File Number : 9565

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English