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Testimony of Eliahu Zikher, born in 1931 in Dubeczno, Poland, about his experiences as a boy in the Włodawa ghetto, forests in the Lublin area, with a peasant, etc., during the war, and in children's homes after the war

Life before the war; offspring of a traditional affluent family; active in the Betar movement; attends a Polish school and a cheder at the same time; German occupation ensues; children's Aktion and rescue by mother; deportation to the Włodawa ghetto; Aktion; mother murdred; escapes ith father and sister to the Hadampol camp (an open camp); Aktion the camp and escape to nearby forests; father murdered by Poles; lives in forests near Lublin for two and a half years; difficulty in joining groups in the forests as children; works as a shepherd for a peasant on Zahajki; liberation and return to Dubeczno; joins the...

File Number : 13557

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Aharon Lencicky, born in Lodz, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in Lodz, Bialystok, Ural, Tashkent, Irbith and Hindenburg

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Testimony of Aharon Lencicky, born in Lodz, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in Lodz, Bialystok, Ural, Tashkent, Irbith and Hindenburg German Army occupation of Lodz, 1939; life under German occupation including forced labor; travel restrictions and anti-Jewish decrees; escape to Bialystok, December 1939; life in Bialystok under Soviet rule; move to initiated labor in a mine in the Moscow area, 1940; transfer to a labor camp producing bricks in Ural, 1940; release from the camp; move to Tashkent, 1941; outbreak of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union, 1941; transfer with a labor battalion to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Dov Beni Reicher, born in Rozwadow, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in Rozwadow, Ulanov, Lubaczow and Pervomaysk

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Testimony of Dov Beni Reicher, born in Rozwadow, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in Rozwadow, Ulanov, Lubaczow and Pervomaysk Life before the war; joins the Hashomer Hatzair movement; receives a Zionist education. Outbreak of the war, 1939; escape to Ulanov; escape back to Rozwadow; life in Rozwadow under the German occupation; deportation to forced labor; escape to Lubaczow with his family; life in Lubaczow under the Soviet occupation; escape to Pervomaysk; life in Pervomaysk; labor for the Soviets, 1940-1945; end of the war. Move to Waldenburg; life in Waldenburg; activities in the Hapoel...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ahuva Frenkal, born in Mako, Hungary, 1929, regarding her experiences as a child in Mako, the Szeged Ghetto, Vienna, Theresienstadt and other places

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Testimony of Ahuva Frenkal, born in Mako, Hungary, 1929, regarding her experiences as a child in Mako, the Szeged Ghetto, Vienna, Theresienstadt and other places Life before the war; ultra-Orthodox Army. Outbreak of the war; deportation of young men to forced labor, 1942-1943; violence against Jews; robbery of businesses and property owned by Jews, 1943; deportation of her father to forced labor; return home of her father; deportation to the Szeged Ghetto; ghetto life; deportation of the Jews; life in an open field; life in a brick factory, June 1944; transfer to Strasshof; transfer to Vienna; life in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Meir Kostiner, born in Suceava, Romania, 1929, regarding his experiences in Atachi, Mogilev-Podolski and the Murafa Ghetto

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Testimony of Meir Kostiner, born in Suceava, Romania, 1929, regarding his experiences in Atachi, Mogilev-Podolski and the Murafa Ghetto From a religious family. Yellow badge; anti-Jewish decrees; deportation to Atachi with just a few hours warning; crossing the Nistru river to Mogilev-Podolski; concentration of the Jews in barracks on the outskirts of Mogilev-Podolski; transfer to the Murafa Ghetto by truck in exchange for a bribe; ghetto life including commercial initiatives in order to survive; relations between the Jewish deportees and the local Jewish community; liberation, 1944. Return to Suceava;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Eliahu Fadlun, born in Benghazi, Libya, 1931, regarding his experiences as a child in Benghazi and Giado

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Testimony of Eliahu Fadlun, born in Benghazi, Libya, 1931, regarding his experiences as a child in Benghazi and Giado Life before the war; religious family; life under Italian occupation. Outbreak of the war; British occupation, 1940; German-Italian occupation; deportation to Giado; camp life; liberation by the British Army, 1943. Return to Benghazi; life in Benghazi; riots against the Jews by Moslems; escape to Tripoli; aliya to Israel on the "Theodor Herzl" ship, 1949.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yehuda Feigenbaum, born in Swoszowa, Poland, 1936, regarding his experiences in the Biecz Ghetto and in hiding in a village and a forest

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Testimony of Yehuda Feigenbaum, born in Swoszowa, Poland, 1936, regarding his experiences in the Biecz Ghetto and in hiding in a village and a forest Religious family. Deportation to the Biecz Ghetto; Biecz Ghetto life, until 1942; escape from the ghetto; life in hiding in a bunker while hidden by Wladyslaw Kozak, later recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations; informing on the rescuer (Kozak), and his murder; escape of the witness and his family to forests in the vicinity; life until the liberation, 1945. Story about a group of Jews who lived in hiding while hidden by Wladyslaw Kozak; exposure of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe Glantzman, born in Mukacevo, Czechoslovakia, 1922, regarding his experiences in Hungarian labor battalions, in a protected house in Budapest, in a camp in Austria and in Vienna

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Testimony of Moshe Glantzman, born in Mukacevo, Czechoslovakia, 1922, regarding his experiences in Hungarian labor battalions, in a protected house in Budapest, in a camp in Austria and in Vienna Life before the war; Hashomer Hatzair activities; drafted to Hungarian Army labor battalions; labor constructing airfields, 1943; deportation of his parents to Auschwitz, Pesach (08 April) 1944; labor constructing fuel storage for the Germans; life in a protected house in Budapest; deportation to Austria; camp life; escape to Vienna; liberation by the Red Army. Return to Mukacevo; reunion with a sister who...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaim Chelfu Arbib, born in Benghazi, Libya, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in Giado

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Testimony of Chaim Chelfu Arbib, born in Benghazi, Libya, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in Giado From a religious family; learns in a Talmud Torah; witness's father is a craftsman. Deportation to Giado by the Italian Army; camp life; liberation by the British Army. Return to Benghazi; life in Benghazi including attacks on Jews by the local people; escape to Tripoli with help from the Jewish Agency, 1947; aliya to Israel, 1949.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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