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Testimony of Zelman Buchbinder, born in Ternovo, Czechoslovakia, in 1926 regarding the deportation to Auschwitz, Plaszow and regarding the labor camp Mauthausen

Testimony

Childhood in Ternovo; community life in Ternovo; good relations between Jews and non-Jews in Ternovo; invasion of the Hungarians in 1939; recruiting the elder brothers to Hungarian labor camps; anti-Jewish legislation;riots; harming the rabbi of the community; German occupation; deportation of the family to Mateszalka ghetto, Hungary in March 1944; conditions in the ghetto; diseases; yellow badge; deportation of the family to Auschwitz Birkenau; "aktion" by Mengele; crematorium; starvation; death of family members; transfer to Plaszow camp,Poland about 2 weeks later; beating of inmates; murder of inmates by the...

File Number : 13776

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Regina Tova Kaim Davidovitz, born in 1929 in Chust, Czechoslovakia, about her deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau

Testimony

Testimony of Regina Tova Kaim Davidovitz, born in 1929 in Chust, Czechoslovakia, about her deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau Daily life in Chust; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; witness and her two sisters survive; forced labor in a belt factory; death marches to Ravensbrück and thence to a labor camp in Neustadt Glewe; hospitalized in Prague; illegal immigration to Eretz Israel in 1947 aboard the Exodus; deportation; re-immigration to Israel in 1949.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

"Every Person Has a Name, In Memory of Family Members Who Perished in the Holocaust", a pamphlet written by Zvi Stettiner in 2011, regarding the experiences of the members of his family and the members of the family of Yocheved (Finklestein) Stettiner - The family of Yocheved (Finklestein) Stettiner: Her mother: Penina Finklestein Her grandmother: Zipora Finklestein from Biala Podlaska who was murdered near Miedzyrzwecz, 09 October 1942; Her uncle: Moshe Finklestein from Biala Podlaska, who was deported to the Miedzyrzecz Ghetto and perished (the circumstances of his death are not known); Her aunt: Sara...

File Number : 317

Type of Material : Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew

Articles written by Chana Tamar (Bot) Weisbord, born in Krakow, Poland, 1934, regarding her longings for her family after the war, and her experiences on board the ship, "Exodus"

Articles written by Chana Tamar (Bot) Weisbord, born in Krakow, Poland, 1934, regarding her longings for her family after the war, and her experiences on board the ship, "Exodus" - "On Our Way To Eretz Israel", documentation written by Chana Tamar (Bot) Weisbord regarding her experiences during her aliya to Eretz Israel: move from Inzersdorf to Dornstadt; move to the Marseilles area by bus; life in a local camp for three days; transfer to the port by bus; boarding the ship, "Exodus"; illegal immigration attempt on the ship to Tel Aviv; struggle with the British Army; transfer to Haifa; transfer to a...

File Number : 727

Type of Material : Memoirs, Article, Excerpt(s)

Language : Hebrew

Notebook belonging to Dawid Karu, from Stanislawow, with the words of songs sung by the illegal immigrants on the "Exodus" ship, and the illegal immigrant certificate issued to Dawid Karu, 24 October 1947 - Notebook in which Dawid Karu wrote the words sung by the illegal immigrants on the "Exodus" ship, 1947; - Illegal immigrant certificate from the "Exodus from Europe 5707" ship, issued to Dawid Karu, 24 October 1947; - Immigrant card of Dawid Karu, issued by the Jewish Agency, 16 May 1949; - Experiences of Dawid Karu, as written by his grandson: His family's life in Stanislawow; outbreak of...

File Number : 718

Type of Material : Personal Records, Poems/songs, Documentary

Language : Hebrew, English

Testimony of Yeshayahu Yehiel Harsit (Porcelana), born in Warsaw, Poland in 1934, regarding ‎his experiences escaping to the Soviet Union and deportation to Ural

Testimony of Yeshayahu Yehiel Harsit (Porcelana), born in Warsaw, Poland in 1934, regarding ‎his experiences escaping to the Soviet Union and deportation to Ural His family before the war; antisemitism; German occupation in September 1939; escape to the ‎Russian occupied zone; life in Baranowicze; deportation to Ural at the beginning of 1940; his ‎experiences in a Soviet work camp; his parents’ work; studies; religious life; release from the camp ‎in summer 1941; transfer to Kazakhstan; starvation; daily struggle to survive; antisemitism; ‎transfer to Turkestan in spring 1942; life in Turkestan;...

File Number : 13575

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Personal documents of Ruth Zeira, regarding the sailing of the "Exodus" ship, 1947 and regarding her parents, Berthe and Harry Seckels from Köln, Germany, who were deported to Drancy and then to Auschwitz, August 1942 Included in the file: - Article from the "Hadashot" newspaper, published, 1987 regarding the story of Ruth and her husband Micky Zeira, who met on the "Exodus" ship and later married; - Information regarding Selma Seckels, an aunt of the submitter of the material, and her sister Edit; Note: The Seckles family owned a business before the war; Ruth's mother Berta Seckels perished in...

File Number : 1463

Type of Material : Record of Survivors, Record of Murdered Persons, Certification, Photograph, Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, French, German

Testimony of Gershon Volkovitz, born in 1930 in Kalisz, Poland, about his experiences as a boy in Kalisz, escape to Rowne, evacuation to the Ural region, and wandering through the Soviet Union with his mother and alone during the war

Life before the war; offspring of an affluent traditional Zionist family; attends a Hebrew gymnasium; war breaks out in 1939 and father escapes; witness escapes with his mother by motor vehicle toward Warsaw and thence to the Soviet frontier; escape to Rowne; reuniting with father; evacuation to the Soviet interior in early 1941; leaving Rostov in summer 1941; wandering; hunger en route to the Ural region; living in the Fergana Valley, Uzbekistan; hunger; mother dies in 1943; placed with aunt; placed in a Polish orphanage in Andizhan; escaping from the orphanage; wandering across Russia; unsuccessful attempt to...

File Number : 13644

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avigdor Elboim, born in Krasnik, Poland, in 1930, regarding his experiences as a young boy in Krasnik, in the Budzyn, Radom Auschwitz and other camps

Testimony of Avigdor Elboim, born in Krasnik, Poland,in 1930, regarding his experiences as a young boy in Krasnik; in the Budzyn, Radom, Auschwitz camps and others, Life before the war; he came from a traditional family; his grandfather had connections with the Lublin"yeshiva"; German occupation in 1939; executions as the Germans started occupying Poland; building of the Budzyn camp; he works as an apprentice glazier; deportation with his family to Budzyn; life in the camp; "Aktionen" and murder of his parents; murder of his grandfather before his eyes; murder of his sisters and grandmother; rescue by German...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Lea Leontyna Amalia (Singer) Mieden, born in Jaroslaw, Poland, 1929, regarding her experiences during an illegal aliya attempt to Eretz Israel on the "Exodus" ship and in a DP camp in Germany Illegal aliya attempt to Eretz Israel on the "Exodus" ship; deportation by the British Army and transfer back to Europe; DP camp life in Germany; The file includes: - School report cards of Leontyna Amalia Singer, from a high school in Bielsko before the war, and from schools in Minor and Yakutsk, 1942-1944 (some of the report cards have been translated to Hebrew); - Confirmation by Yad Vashem...

File Number : 8409

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Memoirs, Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, Polish, Russian

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