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Testimony of Michal Mishe Rauch née Löwenherz, born in 1926 in Przemyśl, Poland, about her experiences in the Przemyśl ghetto and in hiding on the "Aryan" side in a Ukrainian's home until liberation in 1944

German occupation of Przemyśl in 1939; riots; Soviet occupation ensues in 1939; German occupation ensues in 1941; restrictions on Jews and upturn in antisemitism; deportation to the Przemyśl ghetto with parents; family members receive labor permits; father works in a factory outside the ghetto and witness works with mother on a farm outside the ghetto in 1942; finding a hideout during the second Aktion; witness and parents arrested due to denunciation and taken to a lockup in Przemyśl; they escapes from the lockup and return to the ghetto (part of which has become a labor camp) in 1943; witness and parents...

File Number : 13595

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Bracha Ella (Kuttner) Erman, born in Putnok, Hungary, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Putnok Ghetto, Auschwitz, Bremen, Bergen-Belsen and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Bracha Ella (Kuttner) Erman, born in Putnok, Hungary, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Putnok Ghetto, Auschwitz, Bremen, Bergen-Belsen and other places Her family's life in Putnok. German Army occupation of Putnok [March 1944]; establishment of the Putnok Ghetto [1944]; labor in a block factory; deportation to Auschwitz via Miskolc; selection; transfer to Bremen; camp life including labor clearing rubble; transfer to Oberhuetten Ag [?], with the approach of the front; transfer to Bergen-Belsen, one month later; liberation, one week later. Typhus disease; hospitalization; move on a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ben Zion Lapid, born in Vienna, Austria, 1936, regarding his experiences as a Mischlinge child

Testimony

Testimony of Ben Zion Lapid, born in Vienna, Austria, 1936, regarding his experiences as a Mischlinge child His life as a Mischlinge child; move to Yugoslavia.

File Number : 13477

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Michael Demb, born in Ostrog, Poland, 1935, regarding his experiences in the Soviet Union

Testimony

Testimony of Michael Demb, born in Ostrog, Poland, 1935, regarding his experiences in the Soviet Union From a traditional family; witness's parents are farmers. Outbreak of the war; family escape to the Soviet Union; life in the Soviet Union. Return to Poland with help from the JDC, 1945; life in a refugee camp; move to Bari; aliya attempt on the ship, "Mordei Hagetaot", detention in Cyprus, aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sarah Rivka (Polak) Verber, born in Viseul De Sus, Romania, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Viseul De Sus Ghetto, Auschwitz, Geislingen and Allach

Testimony

Testimony of Sarah Rivka (Polak) Verber, born in Viseul De Sus, Romania, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Viseul De Sus Ghetto, Auschwitz, Geislingen and Allach From a religious family; attends the local Jewish school. Annexation to Hungary, 1940; worsening of the economic situation; German occupation, 1944; deportation to the Viseul De Sus Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; transfer with two sisters to Geislingen; camp life including labor in a weapons factory; transfer to Allach, March 1945; camp life; liberation by the US Army, late April 1945. Move to Feldafing; move to Satu Mare; unsuccessful...

File Number : 12850

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sara (Orenshtein) Rozenberg, born in Fejer Aba, Hungary, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Szekesfehervar Ghetto, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen

Testimony

Testimony of Sara (Orenshtein) Rozenberg, born in Fejer Aba, Hungary, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Szekesfehervar Ghetto, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen From a religious family; attends an Hungarian public school; activities in Gordonia. Displays of antisemitism; draft of her father to labor battalions; German occupation, March 1944; deportation to the Szekesfehervar Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; selection and separation from her mother and sister who perished; camp life; selection and deportation of her female cousin; camp life including labor in a bullet and grenade factory; death march to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Bezalel Mordovitz, born in Kolo, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Steineck, the Lodz Ghetto, Birkenau, Buchberg and other places

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Testimony of Bezalel Mordovitz, born in Kolo, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Steineck, the Lodz Ghetto, Birkenau, Buchberg and other places Life before the war. German occupation, 1940; decrees; deportation to Steineck; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto, 1943; detention in prison; transfer to Birkenau, 1943; transfer to Gruenberg; camp life and his role as the block elder; escape from Birkenau with his friend, 1944; death march to Gross-Rosen; transfer to Flossenbuerg; transfer to Dachau; transfer to Buchberg; life in a vacant military camp; liberation by the US Army, 01 May 1945. Move to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Georg Junger, born in Miskolc, Hungary, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Miskolc Ghetto, Putnok, Yoshva, Mauthausen and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Georg Junger, born in Miskolc, Hungary, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Miskolc Ghetto, Putnok, Yoshva, Mauthausen and other places Life in a large family with hardships; attends Jewish schools; studies in a non-Jewish vocational school. German occupation; deportation to the Miskolc Ghetto, 1944; transfer to a labor camp in Putnok; transfer to Yoshva; life in Yoshva including labor as a shoemaker and tailor; deportation of the family; deportation of his brother to a labor camp; death march, 1944; transfer to Mauthausen; transfer to Hoersching, early 1945; liberation by the US Army, May...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zivia Klein, born in Sieradz, Poland, 1921, regarding her experiences after her escape to the Soviet Union

Testimony

Testimony of Zivia Klein, born in Sieradz, Poland, 1921, regarding her experiences after her escape to the Soviet Union Her childhood. Escape to the Soviet Union with her father and brother; her mother and eldest brother remain in Warsaw; labor logging trees in a kolkhoz in the Arkhangelsk region; deportation to Kara-Samarkand to labor paving roads; transfer to Gallyaaral; labor as the region's clerk. Return to Poland at the end of the war, 1946; joins a "kibbutz" in Buchenwald; aliya attempt; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Israel, July 1948; fate of her family.

File Number : 11680

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zwi Georg (Manes) Rejzewski, born in Bruehl, 1928, regarding his experiences as a child in the Vilna Ghetto, and in the Kazla Ruda, Landshut, and Muhldorf camps.

Testimony

Testimony of Zwi Georg (Manes) Rejzewski, born in Bruehl, 1928, regarding his experiences as a child in the Vilna Ghetto, and in the Kazla Ruda, Landshut, and Muhldorf camps. Childhood in Bruehl; youth in Cologne at the time of the Nazi rise to power; economic difficulties as a result of the decrees, 1935; his father's arrest; escape to Vilna with his mother; receiving help from the Joint; life under Russian rule until 1939; the German occupation and deportation to the Vilna Ghetto, 1941; deportation to perform forced labor in the Kails plant; working as a porter, and doing odd jobs; separation from his...

File Number : 10869

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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