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Testimony of Rafael Richard Auslender Tadmor, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in the Cernauti Ghetto, Obodovka, Bershad and Balti

Testimony

Testimony of Rafael Richard Auslender Tadmor, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in the Cernauti Ghetto, Obodovka, Bershad and Balti Life in Cernauti before the war. Deportation to the Cernauti Ghetto; Cernauti Ghetto life; deportation to Obodovka with his parents; transfer to Bershad; life in Bershad including his father's death; life using a false German identity with the help of his German looks and German mother-tongue; escape to Balti; life in Balti; liberation, 1944. Return to Cernauti; education in Cluj; life in Iasi including joining the Hashomer Hatzair...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Eva (Klein) Weiner, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1920, regarding her experiences in hiding using a non-Jewish identity and the Budapest Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Eva (Klein) Weiner, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1920, regarding her experiences in hiding using a non-Jewish identity and the Budapest Ghetto Life before the war; her parents’ divorce; life with her mother and stepfather. German occupation; her stepfather's deportation to Auschwitz during an "Aktion"; deportation to forced labor with her mother; her mother's escape; in hiding using a non-Jewish identity; move to the Budapest Ghetto, December 1944; liberation by the Red Army. Reunion with her mother; marriage; separation from her mother and move to Austria; move to Germany; aliya to Israel...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Miriam (Ostolici) Kaufman, born in Chichelnik, Romania, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Dragomiresti Ghetto, Auschwitz, Schoppau and Theresienstadt

Testimony

Testimony of Miriam (Ostolici) Kaufman, born in Chichelnik, Romania, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Dragomiresti Ghetto, Auschwitz, Schoppau and Theresienstadt From a religious financially secure family with many children; her father works in a shoe workshop. Re-annexation to Hungary, 1942; termination of studies; her mother's death, 1942; nationalization of property by the Romanian government; German occupation, 1942; deportation of the family to the Dragomiresti Ghetto; ghetto life; deportation to Auschwitz, 1944; camp life, including labor spreading the ashes of the victims over the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Berta Bilha Honig, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1935, regarding her experiences in Atachi, Mogilev-Podolski and the Luchinets Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Berta Bilha Honig, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1935, regarding her experiences in Atachi, Mogilev-Podolski and the Luchinets Ghetto Religious family; starts school. Soviet occupation, 1940; German occupation, 1941; disappearance of her father; deportation of the family to the Cernauti Ghetto, 1941; deportation to Atachi, autumn 1941; transfer by rafts to Mogilev-Podolski; transfer on foot to Luchinets; life with a Ukrainian family; deportation to the Luchinets Ghetto; death of her grandparents and one of her siblings from typhus; liberation by the Red Army, 1944. Return to Cernauti; move to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Moisij Kopejko, born in Dubno, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in Uzbekistan, a labor battalion in the Ural Mountains, as a Red Army soldier, liberation in Auschwitz and other places Life before the war; increase in antisemitism, 1937. Annexation to the Soviet Union, 1939; outbreak of the war, 1941; escape with the retreating Red Army via Rowne and Kiev; life in Uzbekistan; drafted to a labor battalion in the Ural Mountains; life in the Ural Mountains including labor as a electrician; drafted into the Red Army, 1944; combat against the Germans; participation in the liberation of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Yitzhak Zvi Volgyi Lavan, born in Vasarosnameny, Hungary, 1933, regarding his experiences as a child in Berehovo, Auschwitz, Plaszow, Gross-Rosen, Langenbielau and Doernhau

Testimony

Testimony of Yitzhak Zvi Volgyi Lavan, born in Vasarosnameny, Hungary, 1933, regarding his experiences as a child in Berehovo, Auschwitz, Plaszow, Gross-Rosen, Langenbielau and Doernhau From a well-to-do traditional family; witness' father is a dentist; attends a Hungarian school. German occupation, 1941; anti-Jewish decrees including yellow badge; deportation to Berehovo; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life including murder of his mother and sister; transfer to Plaszow; transfer to Gross-Rosen; transfer to Langenbielau; camp life including pneumonia; transfer to Doernhau; camp life including labor...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avraham Kron, born in Wizna, Poland, 1918, regarding his experiences in Germany, Bialystok and the Soviet Union

Testimony

Testimony of Avraham Kron, born in Wizna, Poland, 1918, regarding his experiences in Germany, Bialystok and the Soviet Union Traditional family. Outbreak of the war, September 1939; in hiding in a cellar; escape to his grandfather's home; escape to Germany; return to Wizna; escape to Bialystok; escape to the Soviet Union; draft to labor in forests for the Red Army; end of the war. Move to Austria; joins Beitar movement; move to Italy; aliya attempt; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Israel; life in Israel including marriage; starts a family.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Abram Pogrebetzki regarding his experiences in the Red Army in the Mozdok region, in Stary Oskol, in Prokhorovka and in prison in Drogobych

Testimony of Abram Pogrebetzki regarding his experiences in the Red Army in the Mozdok region, in Stary Oskol, in Prokhorovka and in prison in Drogobych Meeting Sasha Tysman at the Military College in Baku; fighting in battles in the Mozdok area in 1942, at Stary Oskol and Prokhorovka; wounded and taken captive on 5 June 1943; manifestations of antisemitism on the part of the Ukrainian soldiers; the murder of Sasha Tysman and two other Jewish soldiers by a German officer in the Prokhorovka area; transfer by train to the camp; escape on the way to the camp; detention in a prison in Drogobych; he and ten other...

File Number : 5821

Type of Material : Testimony, Record of Murdered Persons

Language : Russian

Testimony of Moshe Kop, born in Lodz, Poland, 1909, regarding the Wierzbnik ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Moshe Kop, born in Lodz, Poland, 1909, regarding the Wierzbnik ghetto Family background; move to the town of Wierzbnik where the extended family lives; studies at a Polish school and Talmud Torah. The outbreak of war; enlistment into the Polish army; the bombings; entry of German soldiers; captivity by German soldiers; anti-Semitism on the part of Polish soldiers; escape to the village; changing to civilian wear; escape to the forest; a meeting with another Polish soldier who fled; back home; abuse of Jews by German soldiers; establishment of a Judenrat; registration of Jewish property; taking...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Jakow Chefec, born in Dwinsk, Latvia, 1921, regarding his experiences during wanderings in the Soviet Union as a refugee and as a Red Army soldier

Testimony

Testimony of Jakow Chefec, born in Dwinsk, Latvia, 1921, regarding his experiences during wanderings in the Soviet Union as a refugee and as a Red Army soldier Life before the war. German occupation, June 1941; escape to the Soviet Union; wanderings; life as a refugee; drafted into the Red Army; military service in the Latvian Division, 1942; liberation. Aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947.

File Number : 2601

Type of Material : Survey, Testimony

Language : Yiddish

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