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

Testimony

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.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

To be translated

File Number : 3343

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony

Language : 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...

File Number : 3137

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

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

Testimony

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...

File Number : 8080

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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

Testimony

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...

File Number : 7163

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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

Testimony

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...

File Number : 6965

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : 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

Testimony

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...

File Number : 6959

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : 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

Testimony

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...

File Number : 6958

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

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...

File Number : 3091

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : 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...

File Number : 4659

Type of Material : Postcard, Letter, Circular

Language : Hebrew, German

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