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Testimony of Zelman Moshkovitz, born in Polana Kobilecka, Czechoslovakia, 1924, regarding his experiences in Budapest, forced labor in using an Aryan identity

Testimony

Testimony of Zelman Moshkovitz, born in Polana Kobilecka, Czechoslovakia, 1924, regarding his experiences in Budapest, forced labor in using an Aryan identity Orthodox family; orphaned at a young age; learns in various yeshivas in Rachow; learns carpentry in Budapest, 1941. German occupation; activities in the Zionist underground in Budapest; rescue of his brother; drafted to a labor battalion in a suburb of Budapest, October 1944; injury and hospitalization in a military hospital; escape and return to Budapest; life in Budapest using a false identity; liberation by the Red Army. Marriage; Hanoar Hatzioni...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Esther (Froimovitz) Livne, born in Sosnowiec, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences in Parschnitz camp

Testimony

Testimony of Esther (Froimovitz) Livne, born in Sosnowiec, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences in Parschnitz camp Family; attitude of the local Poles towards the Jews before the war. Outbreak of the war; difficulties in returning home with her sister from their grandmother's home in Wloszczowa and return to their parents with the help of a smuggler, summer 1940; her family hides in a bunker belonging to relatives during an "Aktion"; capture as they leave the bunker; deportation to Parschnitz labor camp, a sub-camp of Gross-Rosen; camp life; attitude of the Germans and the local Czech workers;...

File Number : 9644

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mordechai Gur, born in Baranowicze, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Baranowicze Ghetto, the underground, Koldyczewo camp, with the partisans and in the Red Army

Testimony

Testimony of Mordechai Gur, born in Baranowicze, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Baranowicze Ghetto, the underground, Koldyczewo camp, with the partisans and in the Red Army Active in the Hashomer Hatzair movement. Nationalization of the family factory by the Soviets, September 1939; German occupation, January 1941; looting of the Jews by the local population; anti-Jewish legislation; arrest of hundreds of Jews; levying of forced contributions on the community; forced labor; sealing of the Baranowicze Ghetto, February 1941; labor with his father at service jobs in a military unit; joins the...

File Number : 9599

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Luba Mejlach, born in Holszany, Poland, 1929, regarding her experiences in the Holszany Ghetto, as a forced laborer in camps in Poland and Germany, and a death march

Testimony

Testimony of Luba Mejlach, born in Holszany, Poland, 1929, regarding her experiences in the Holszany Ghetto, as a forced laborer in camps in Poland and Germany, and a death march Her extended family; attends a Tarbut school; her father owns a shoe and leather goods store. Deportation to the Holszany Ghetto, late 1941; deportation to Ziezmariai labor camp; separation from her parents; transfer to labor paving roads; transfer to Pskow, spring 1942; labor laying railroad tracks; transfer to Kaiserwald; camp life along with German political prisoners and Jewish inmates from Estonia; march to Dundaga; transfer...

File Number : 8574

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Michael Laks, born in Baia Mare, Romania, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Baia Mare Ghetto, Czikszentdomokos camp and while using a Christian identity

Testimony

Testimony of Michael Laks, born in Baia Mare, Romania, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Baia Mare Ghetto, Czikszentdomokos camp and while using a Christian identity His extended family, united and traditional; his father is a furrier; witness attends a Romanian school and then a Hungarian school until 1944; supplementation of his Jewish studies with the help of a private tutor; displays of antisemitism during the Hungarian regime; learns tailoring; move to Budapest and work in weaving; return to his parents' home in Baia Mare, 1944. Deportation to the Baia Mare Ghetto; yellow badge; deportation to a...

File Number : 8559

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ilana Ronen, born in Krakow, Poland, 1929, regarding her experiences in the Krakow Ghetto, Plaszow, Auschwitz and a death march

Testimony

Testimony of Ilana Ronen, born in Krakow, Poland, 1929, regarding her experiences in the Krakow Ghetto, Plaszow, Auschwitz and a death march Escape to Kaunas, to the area controlled by the Soviet Union; move to Lwow after the German occupation; education and life in Lwow; move to Krakow; deportation to the Krakow Ghetto; “Aktions” and evading “Aktions”; deportation to Plaszow, March 1943; labor in a paper factory; roll-calls and punishments; attitude of Amon Goeth, the camp commander, towards the Jews; Oskar Schindler; selection at Plaszow, August 1944; “Aktions” and escape; deportation to Auschwitz on a...

File Number : 7720

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe Bluman, born in Luboml, Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences in Luboml and in hiding

Testimony

Testimony of Moshe Bluman, born in Luboml, Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences in Luboml and in hiding Childhood; family. Soviet occupation, 1939-1941; German occupation, June 1941; mass executions of the Jewish men; establishment of the Luboml Ghetto, December 1941; forced labor for the Germans; liquidation of the ghetto, October 1942; in hiding with his family; capture and murder of his mother, brother and sister; capture and arrest of the witness; being taken to the execution site; escape; being hidden by farmers in Maciejow along with his uncle; combat between partisans and Germans in the area;...

File Number : 6147

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Curt Rosenberg, born in Ermland Region, East Prussia, Germany, 1880s, regarding his experiences before, during and after the war

Memoirs of Curt Rosenberg, born in Ermland Region, East Prussia, Germany, 1880s, regarding his experiences before, during and after the war "Pictures from a Life. The Memoirs of an East Prussian Jew": Memoirs of Curt Rosenberg, regarding his experiences before the World War One, translated from German by S.F. Dorman - Life in the town; father as a witness at trial; not the best beginning at Evangelical elementary school; his brothers; Catholic festivities in the town; problems and celebrations at school; the new doctor in the town ran away with the local girl; Curt's ancestors; discovery of Zionist...

File Number : 9684

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English