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Testimony of Guilia Rozental, born in Tunis, Tunisia, 1930, regarding her experiences in Tunis and Tripoli

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Testimony of Guilia Rozental, born in Tunis, Tunisia, 1930, regarding her experiences in Tunis and Tripoli Outbreak of the war; air-raids; going to bomb shelters; German occupation; move to Tripoli; injury from being shot; liberation by the Allied forces. Receives medical treatment; death of her brother; disappearance of her parents; transfer by boat to Italy; aliya to Israel, 1952; starts a large family.

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results.listIds.fileNumber : 3343

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Letter of Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Russian

Testimony of Faina Klaynbard Katz, born in Mukachevo, Czechoslovakia, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Mukachevo Ghetto and in the Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ravensbrueck and Malchow camps

Testimony of Faina Klaynbard Katz, born in Mukachevo, Czechoslovakia, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Mukachevo Ghetto and in the Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ravensbrueck and Malchow camps Life before the war; membership in the Bnei Akiva movement, together with her sister Yona; Imposition of restrictions on the Jews, 1938; transfer of Jewish men to labor battalions; murder of Jews; establishment of the ghetto, March-April 1944; life in the ghetto with her sister and mother for about a month; murder of ghetto Jews; establishment of the Judenrat; deportation with her sister, mother, and other Jews to...

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Testimony of Asher Zohar, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1922, regarding his experiences in a labor battalion and Mauthausen

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Testimony of Asher Zohar, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1922, regarding his experiences in a labor battalion and Mauthausen Family with many children; his father is a shoemaker; move to Pesterzsebet; move to Sarospatak; completion of studies in a Hungarian high school; displays of antisemitism; move to Budapest; life in Budapest. Draft into the army, 1943; posted to a labor battalion, late 1943; transfer to the Yugoslavian border; life in the unit including labor digging anti-tank trenches; transfer to the Hungarian border; labor digging pits; unsuccessful escape attempt; joins a unit of skilled...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 8080

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

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Testimony of Yehudit (Tzurtelzon) Tzur, born in Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz and a death march

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Testimony of Yehudit (Tzurtelzon) Tzur, born in Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz and a death march Lives in Chorzow. Move to Bedzin after the deportation of her father towards the East; joins a Gordonia training farm; deportation to Auschwitz, September 1943; unsuccessful escape attempt en route; organization of 10 young female inmates into a sort of commune in which each one helps the other; escapes twice from a group of inmates sent to their deaths; one of her two rescues from death included her turning to the commander of the women's camp in which she was also rewarded with receipt...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 7163

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaim (Gertler) Gavish, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1925, regarding his experiences in Poland and Hungary

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Testimony of Chaim (Gertler) Gavish, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1925, regarding his experiences in Poland and Hungary Deportation from Budapest to Korosmezo via Horodenka and Tluste, summer 1941; unsuccessful attempts to reach the Hungarian border; capture of the family which numbered eight people, by German gendarmes next to Delatyn; life in Stanislawow; "Aktion" in a cemetery; the witness and his family escape to Kalusz where they receive help from the local Judenrat, October 1941; escape to Hungary, 1942; witness is connected with the rest of his family through messengers sent from Budapest by his...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 6965

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Testimony of Eliahu Elias Feinzilberg, born in Lodz, 1917, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, as a forced laborer in Poland and Germany, a death march, Buchenwald and Dachau

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Testimony of Eliahu Elias Feinzilberg, born in Lodz, 1917, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, as a forced laborer in Poland and Germany, a death march, Buchenwald and Dachau Childhood in Lodz. Deportation to the Lodz Ghetto, 1940; transfer to a labor camp in Liebhof and labor laying railroad tracks between Berlin and Poznan; transfer to Wittenberge labor camp, December 1942 and labor unloading ammunition from ships; return to the Lodz Ghetto nine months later due to illness; labor assignments in the ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz, August 1944; transfer three days later to labor in a coal mine...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 6959

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Testimony of Adam Veksler, born in Janowo, Poland, 1930, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, on a death march and in Gusen II

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Testimony of Adam Veksler, born in Janowo, Poland, 1930, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, on a death march and in Gusen II Childhood in Janowo; move of his family to Lodz, 1938. Lodz Ghetto life and he attends school; labor in a workshop for the Germans; selections and deportations from the ghetto; murder of his father, one of his brothers and two uncles along with a group of Jews, after their capture while listening to underground radio broadcasts; deportation to Auschwitz, August 1944; selection, after which his mother was sent to extermination; labor as the only youth among...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 6958

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

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Testimony of Ida (Schoen) Grinberg, born in Jezowe, Poland, 1909, regarding her experiences in the Brzesko Ghetto, the Bochnia Ghetto, on the Aryan side, using a false identity, detention in Krakow, Budapest and other places Her father is a ritual slaughterer. Outbreak of the war; deportation from Krakow to the Brzesko Ghetto before the sealing of the ghetto, March 1941; appointment of her husband, Joseph Goldman, as the deputy head of the Judenrat; murder of her husband by the Germans; transfer to the Bochnia Ghetto; ghetto life including labor as a seamstress for the wife of Schomburg, the head of the...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 3091

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Polish

Letter from a rabbi who had reached the United States as a refugee from Breslau, Germany, to Dr. Fogelstein, also an immigrant from Germany, who was staying in New York (name unclear), and additional documents, 1934–1944 Contents of the letter: the rabbi expresses his great appreciation of Dr. Fogelstein; disgruntlement about the failure of the American establishment to understand the plight of Jews living under Nazi rule; mention of the Kristallnacht violence two years previously; and cooperation among Jews of various persuasions in his congregation and between them and Christian elements, including clergy...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 4659

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Letter, Circular, Postcard

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew, German

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