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Testimony of Miriam Tratner née Stern, born in 1927 in Cluj, Romania, about her experiences in Cluj, Budapest, and Romania, and her immigration to Eretz Israel in August 1944

Offspring of a Zionist family in Clug; grandfather, a rabbi, visits Eretz Israel; father dies; witness joins the Habonim movement; older brother immigrates to Eretz Israel in 1938; Hungary re-annexes the area in 1940; witness attends a Hebrew gymnasium; German occupation in 1944; brother inducted into labor service; ideas about escaping to Romania; obtains false papers with help from the movement; escapes to Budapest; information about the Cluj ghetto; receives an offer to board the "Kasztner train"; decides to escape to Romania; aided by the Zionist pioneering underground; sinking of the MV Mefküre;...

File Number : 13548

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Alon Abi Schwartz, born in Turka, Poland, 1934, regarding his experiences in Turka, a forest, Berkesz, Budapest, Arad and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Alon Abi Schwartz, born in Turka, Poland, 1934, regarding his experiences in Turka, a forest, Berkesz, Budapest, Arad and other places His childhood until September 1939. Life under Soviet rule including hunger, 1939-1940; German Army officers in their home, 1941; escape to a forest near Turka; rescue by Jewish Hungarian forced laborers in Monktabor [?] camp near Sanka, 1942; deportation from the synagogue; rescue in Berkesz; fostered by a family in Budapest, 1943-1944; illegally crosses the border to Arad, June 1944; aliya to Eretz Israel with Aliya Bet from the port of Constanta, August...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Israel Renert Ron, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1927, regarding his experiences in Cernauti, Transnistria, Osiyevka, Bershad and Eretz Israel

Testimony

Testimony of Israel Renert Ron, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1927, regarding his experiences in Cernauti, Transnistria, Osiyevka, Bershad and Eretz Israel Losing contact with his mother's family in Vienna, 1938. German occupation of Cernauti, 1941; deportation to Transnistria, October 1941; march lasting weeks including carrying his sister on his back; murder of his father by a soldier; death of family members from typhus; escape; adopted by a Ukrainian woman in Osiyevka; being informed on; transfer to an orphanage in Bershad; life in Bershad including fishing in the river and searching for food in the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zvi Horovitz, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1922

Testimony

Testimony of Zvi Horovitz, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1922 Childhood in a religious family; attendance at a Romanian school; life until 1940. Russian occupation; German occupation, summer 1941; deportation to the Cernauti Ghetto; decision of the parents to go into hiding; deportation; various types of labor in Cernauti and afterwards in Bessarabia in a labor camp; a short let-up and deportation to labor in southern Transylvania; the decision to escape; assistance by a Romanian officer and deportation; arrival in Bucharest during the air-raids, 1944. Illegal aliya attempt with the assistance of the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Hava (Lenczner) Rubinowicz, born in Lodz, Poland, 1912, regarding her experiences in the Bedzin Ghetto and regarding Frumka Plotnitzka, one of the "Dror" leaders, in hiding in Hungary and her aliya to Eretz Israel, 1944 Membership in "Dror Hechalutz"; aliya training in Vilna, 1935-1938; support for emissaries from Eretz Israel in Warsaw, 1938-1939. Outbreak of the war; conference of the Dror leadership in Warsaw; joining a kibbutz in Bedzin; plan to escape via Slovakia; deportation to the Bedzin Ghetto; work as a nurse; testimony regarding Frumka Plotnitzka, the Dror leader; preparation of...

File Number : 13152

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Noga (Arbit) Adari, born in Bolgrad, Romania, 1930, regarding her experiences as a child in Cetatea Alba, Odessa and using a false identity in Bucharest

Testimony

Testimony of Noga (Arbit) Adari, born in Bolgrad, Romania, 1930, regarding her experiences as a child in Cetatea Alba, Odessa and using a false identity in Bucharest Life before the war; move to Cetatea Alba with her family; life in Cetatea Alba. Soviet occupation, 1940; closing of the family store; NKVD interrogation of her father; German occupation, 1941; escape to Odessa with local people; life in Odessa; support for the refugees by the local people; German occupation; imprisonment of Jews in Soviet prisons; deportation of Jewish men to labor digging pits; mortality of the Jews from disease and...

File Number : 13023

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Chaim Pal, regarding his experiences during the war

File Number : 7391

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

List of 246 of the illegal immigrants who perished on the ship "Mefkure" that was sunk on 05/08/1944

File Number : 266

Type of Material : List of Murdered Persons

Language : Romanian

Testimony of Frida (Frenkel) Shif, born in Bielsko, 1930, regarding her experiences in the Bochnia Ghetto, Kosice, using a false identity in Budapest, Arad and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Frida (Frenkel) Shif, born in Bielsko, 1930, regarding her experiences in the Bochnia Ghetto, Kosice, using a false identity in Budapest, Arad and other places Well-to-do religious, hasidic family; attends a mixed Jewish school. Move to Lodz with the outbreak of the war, September 1939; move to Krakow, January 1940; deportation to the Bochnia Ghetto, January 1941; ghetto life including labor in a sewing workshop; escape to Hungary via Czechoslovakia using a Hungarian identity, September 1943; life in Kosice; move to Budapest, early 1944; life using a false identity with Hungarians; German...

File Number : 12418

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

List of 301 illegal immigrants who perished on the ship "Mefkure" that was sunk on 05/08/1944

File Number : 19

Type of Material : List of Murdered Persons

Language : Hebrew

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