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Testimony of Zeev Volf Yeger, born in Rona, Romania, 1918, regarding his experiences in Rona, Budapest, Szentkiralyszabadja, in hiding and in Bucharest and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Zeev Volf Yeger, born in Rona, Romania, 1918, regarding his experiences in Rona, Budapest, Szentkiralyszabadja, in hiding and in Bucharest and other places Draft into the Romanian Army and service in the army after unsuccessful attempts to make aliya to Eretz Israel; Hungarian Army occupation of Rona; release [from the military]; escape to Budapest, 1940; draft to labor battalions in Budapest, 1944; forced labor building an airfield in Szentkiralyszabadja, 1944; transfer with a labor battalion to forced labor in a copper mine in Serbia, 1944; acts of abuse by Hungarian soldiers; contact with...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaja (Patoka) Belczynski, born in Sarny, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences in Sarny, Kiev, Stalingrad and in the Red Army

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Testimony of Chaja (Patoka) Belczynski, born in Sarny, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences in Sarny, Kiev, Stalingrad and in the Red Army Life before the war; traditional family. Outbreak of the war, September 1939; life under Soviet occupation; German occupation, June 1941; escape to Kiev, June 1941; escape to Veresnya; life in Veresnya including work in agriculture; escape to Stalingrad; escape to a kolkhoz; escape to Stalingrad; escape to Baratovka; life in Baratovka including work in a sawmill; escape to Stalingrad; arrival of the German Army to Stalingrad; escape in the direction of the east,...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Hadasa Ela (Noigebauer) Volnerman, born in Sosnowiec, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences in Stare Mesto Horejsi and Dunkenthal

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Testimony of Hadasa Ela (Noigebauer) Volnerman, born in Sosnowiec, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences in Stare Mesto Horejsi and Dunkenthal From a large religious family. Outbreak of the war, 1939; escape to her grandfather in Strzemieszy; abuse of her father; her family returns home; decrees and restrictions; capture by the Germans; detention in a school; deportation to Stare Mesto Horejsi, 1942; camp life including labor in a wire factory; transfer to Dunkenthal; camp life including labor in a wire factory; typhus; liberation by the Red Army, 09 May 1945. Return home; reunion with two sisters and a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yehudit (Cohen) Dori, born in Debrecen, Hungary, 1930, regarding her experiences in the Debrecen Ghetto and a labor camp in Vienna

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Testimony of Yehudit (Cohen) Dori, born in Debrecen, Hungary, 1930, regarding her experiences in the Debrecen Ghetto and a labor camp in Vienna Religious family; attends a Jewish school. German occupation, March 1944; deportation to the Debrecen Ghetto, April-May 1944; deportation to Austria; transfer to a labor camp in Vienna, May 1944; camp life including labor clearing and cleaning the Christian cemetery in Vienna; on a death march with the approach of the Soviet front, March 1945; escape and wanderings between villages; liberation, May 1945. Return to Hungary; joins Hanoar Hatzioni youth movement;...

File Number : 12844

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Lea Gal, born in Zdzieciol, Poland, 1921, regarding her experiences in the Zdzieciol Ghetto and with the partisans in the Nowogrodek forest

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Testimony of Lea Gal, born in Zdzieciol, Poland, 1921, regarding her experiences in the Zdzieciol Ghetto and with the partisans in the Nowogrodek forest Her family are Slonim hasids; her father was a ritual slaughter and mohel; death of her mother from tuberculosis, 1936; life in the Zionist Jewish community; learns Hebrew and religious studies; attends the high school in Vilna until 1938; joins the Hechalutz Hatzair movement; aliya training in Lodz until August 1939; Soviet occupation; studies in a teacher's college until 1941; German occupation, June 1941; murder of her brother; death of her father from an...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Pinchas Scheinboim, born in Ryświanka, Poland, 1930, regarding his experiences in Ryświanka and in hiding in the area including Dąbrówka

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Testimony of Pinchas Scheinboim, born in Ryświanka, Poland, 1930, regarding his experiences in Ryświanka and in hiding in the area including Dąbrówka Religious family; death of his mother; remarriage of his father. Soviet occupation, 1939; nationalization of property; move of the family to his grandmother's; German occupation, June 1941; retreat of the Red Army; pogrom by Ukrainians; deportation of Jews to ghettos; round-up of the men, late 1941; murder of Jews and deportation of the Jews who were not murdered; rescue from mass murder; in hiding with his father and brother with a farmer in a village;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Nathan Berger, born in Salomas, Romania, 1921, regarding his experiences in forced labor in Lawoczne, Voloc, Mauthausen, Gunskirchen and other places

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Testimony of Nathan Berger, born in Salomas, Romania, 1921, regarding his experiences in forced labor in Lawoczne, Voloc, Mauthausen, Gunskirchen and other places Move to Budapest; life before the war. Drafted into forced labor, October 1942; forced labor in Bretcu; smuggles weaons and equipment over the Polish-Hungarian border, Pesach 1943; transfer to Lawoczne; transfer to Voloc; transfer to Chust; release from forced labor with the change of government in Hungary; escape to the mountains; move to Chap; move to Budapest, November 1943; meets his mother and brother; return to forced labor; deportation to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rina Pratzovnik, born in Lodz, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz and Stutthof

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Testimony of Rina Pratzovnik, born in Lodz, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz and Stutthof Life before the war; attends a Jewish school. German occupation; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto, 1939; ghetto life; liquidation of the Lodz Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz, 1944; meets her mother; selection and transfer to Stutthof; camp life including forced labor; liquidation of the camp; death march; liberation in the Marienburg area. Typhus; medical treatment by the Red Army; return to Lodz; Aliya Bet activities, 1946; aliya attempt via Bari; detention in Cyprus; aliya to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Isidor Nagler, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1926, regarding his experiences in Transnistria, Krilovitz and the Luchinets Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Isidor Nagler, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1926, regarding his experiences in Transnistria, Krilovitz and the Luchinets Ghetto Life before the war. German occupation; burning of the great synagogue; deportation to Transnistria, October 1941; forced labor; paving roads in Krilovitz; deportation to the Luchinets Ghetto; liberation by the Red Army, March 1944. Return to Cernauti, April 1944; move to Radauti; move to Dorohoi; move to Iasi, May 1945; studies medicine; aliya to Israel, 1962.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Paula (Eismann) Nagler, born in Stanesti De Jos, Romania, 1929, regarding her experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Paula (Eismann) Nagler, born in Stanesti De Jos, Romania, 1929, regarding her experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto Life before the war. German occupation; deportation to the Cernauti Ghetto, July 1941; removal of her father from the ghetto as an essential worker; liberation of Cernauti by the Red Army, 1944. Move to Campulung, February 1946; move to Suceava; move to Bucharest; attends high school; higher education, 1952; aliya to Israel, 1962.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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