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Testimony of Esther Mirovski Asael, born in Bedzin, Poland in 1928, regarding her experiences ‎in the Bendin Ghetto and in various camps, including Dulak, Peterswaldau, Klettendorf, and ‎Gogolin

Testimony of Esther Mirovski Asael, born in Bedzin, Poland in 1928, regarding her experiences ‎in the Bendin Ghetto and in various camps, including Dulak, Peterswaldau, Klettendorf, and ‎Gogolin Occupation and life under German rule in 1939; deportation to the Bendin Ghetto in 1941; labor in ‎a sewing workshop making uniforms for the German army; sleeping at night with her mother in the ‎factory where her father worked, outside the ghetto, out of fear of the selections; deportation to ‎a transit camp in Sosnowiec in 1943; transfer to the concentration camp in Annaberg, Germany in ‎‎1943; deportation to the...

File Number : 13668

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Etta (Shmerlovski) Shterngartz, born in Sanok, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in Sanok, Lukawiec, Laskow, Novosibirsk and Cherepanovo

Testimony

Testimony of Etta (Shmerlovski) Shterngartz, born in Sanok, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in Sanok, Lukawiec, Laskow, Novosibirsk and Cherepanovo Life before the war; her father is a kashrut supervisor; witness attends a public school and Jewish school. German occupation, 10 September 1939; burning of the synagogue; deportation of the Jews to Lukawiec; life in the home of relatives; deportation to Laskow, April 1940; transfer by train via Novosibirsk to Cherepanovo; camp life in barracks; labor sawing trees in a forest; learns Russian; office labor; secret existence of Jewish life in camp; end...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zvi Prizant, born in Torun, Czechoslovakia, 1923, regarding his experiences in Budapest and in labor battalions in the Transylvania area

Testimony

Testimony of Zvi Prizant, born in Torun, Czechoslovakia, 1923, regarding his experiences in Budapest and in labor battalions in the Transylvania area Life before the war; learns in a Hebrew school and a "heder"; Jewish community; Hanoar Hatzioni activities; studies at the Hebrew high school in Mukacevo; family moves to Chust; move to Budapest; active in Dror Habonim including building bunkers, 1943. German occupation, 1944; drafted to labor battalions in the Transylvania area; liberation by the Red Army at Alba Iulia. Move to Bucharest; activities within the framework of Youth Aliyah with children...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Pnina Perel (Kremer) Jedwab, born in Viseu, Romania, 1930, regarding her experiences in the Satu Mare Ghetto, Ravensbrueck, Auschwitz and other camps in Germany

Testimony

Testimony of Pnina Perel (Kremer) Jedwab, born in Viseu, Romania, 1930, regarding her experiences in the Satu Mare Ghetto, Ravensbrueck, Auschwitz and other camps in Germany From a well-to-do, religious home. Hungarian occupation, 1940; arresting people on the street; deportation to labor camps; German occupation and move to relatives in Satu Mare, 1944; life in the Satu Mare Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz, August 1944; deportation to the Ravensbrueck camp, November 1944; forced labor; punishments; hunger; transfer to Frankfurt camp, February 1945; camp life; forced labor, laying electric cables;...

File Number : 11778

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yitzhak Weisz Livnat, born in Sevlus, Czechoslovakia, 1930, regarding his experiences in the children's block in Auschwitz and a death march

Testimony

Testimony of Yitzhak Weisz Livnat, born in Sevlus, Czechoslovakia, 1930, regarding his experiences in the children's block in Auschwitz and a death march Zionist family; his father manages a farm for a Hungarian noble; family with five children; attends a Hebrew elementary school and a Hungarian high school. German occupation, March 1944; deportation with his family to the ghetto, April 1944; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau in a cattle car with all his family members, except for his eldest brother who was drafted to a labor battalion; separation from his family; life in the children's block; survives...

File Number : 10689

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mordekhai Weissman, born in Skalat, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in Skalat, a ghetto, forced labor in the area and in hiding in surrounding forests

Testimony

Testimony of Mordekhai Weissman, born in Skalat, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in Skalat, a ghetto, forced labor in the area and in hiding in surrounding forests Childhood in an ultra-Orthodox family; attends "heder" and a Polish school; community life. Soviet rule, 1939-1941; arrest of wealthy Jews and their exile to Siberia; ban of Zionist activities and learning in the "heder"; German occupation, 05 July 1941; murder of hundreds of Jews; establishment of a ghetto and activation of the Judenrat; deportations to extermination in Belzec; "Aktions" and the murder of Jews in killing pits; witness'...

File Number : 10140

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zipora Levin, born in Lodz, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, as a forced laborer in camps in Silesia and on a death march

Testimony

Testimony of Zipora Levin, born in Lodz, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, as a forced laborer in camps in Silesia and on a death march Childhood; displays of antisemitism by the Poles; life among the non-Jews in order to support themselves yet lead an ultra-Orthodox way of life; move to a Jewish neighborhood, 1935; German occupation of Lodz, 08 September 1939; decrees and deportation to the Lodz Ghetto; sealing of the ghetto, May 1940; distress, hunger; witness' opinion of Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, head of the Judenrat; help from Rumkowski; cultural activities in the...

File Number : 9589

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yaakov Levin, born in Lodz, 1921, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz and Mauthausen

Testimony

Testimony of Yaakov Levin, born in Lodz, 1921, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz and Mauthausen Family background and way of life; attends a Jewish religious school and a vocational school; activities in Beitar; relations between non-Jews and Jews until the outbreak of the war. Draft of his father into the army one week before the outbreak of the war; Germans occupation of Lodz and retreat of the Polish Army without any fight; looting and confiscation of Jewish stores; confiscation of Jewish apartments as residences for Germans; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto, late 1939;...

File Number : 9505

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zvi Yardeni, born in Satu-Mare, Romania, 1925, regarding his experiences in a labor battalion in the Ukraine, Swietochlowice and Mauthausen

Testimony

Testimony of Zvi Yardeni, born in Satu-Mare, Romania, 1925, regarding his experiences in a labor battalion in the Ukraine, Swietochlowice and Mauthausen Ultra-Orthodox family. Annexation to Hungary, 1940; decrees; drafted to a labor battalion in the Ukraine; German occupation, March 1944; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau camp; camp life; transfer to Swietochlowice camp; camp life including labor in a factory producing anti-aircraft cannons; evacuation of the camp; transfer to Mauthausen. Aliya to Eretz Israel on the "Shabtai Luzinsky" ship, 1947; Irgun activities; enlists in the IDF; combat in...

File Number : 9244

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shmuel Pistol, born in Wieliczka, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in Wieliczka, Dobczyce, Plaszow, Skarzysko Kamienna and camps in Germany

Testimony

Testimony of Shmuel Pistol, born in Wieliczka, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in Wieliczka, Dobczyce, Plaszow, Skarzysko Kamienna and camps in Germany His childhood in Wieliczka. Outbreak of the war; German occupation; murder of 32 Jews, abuse and damage to property; move to Dobczyce; deportation to Plaszow; camp life; transfer to Skarzysko Kamienna; cruelties by the Polish labor foremen; labor in Werk 1 factory; sabotage by the Polish underground; instances of death; disease and exhaustion among the inmates; transfer to Buchenwald and then to Schlieben; labor in a factory producing anti-tank...

File Number : 9177

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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