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Testimony of Ovadia Pitzton, born in 1926 in Thessaoloniki, Greece, about his experiences in the Thessaloniki ghetto and in the Auschwitz, Landsberg, and Dachau camps, and more

Testimony

Testimony of Ovadia Pitzton, born in 1926 in Thessaoloniki, Greece, about his experiences in the Thessaloniki ghetto and in the Auschwitz, Landsberg, and Dachau camps, and more Life before the war; antisemitism among the youth; German occupation begins in April 1941; trade relations with the Germans; issue of order to report to Freedom Square in 1942; the yellow star edict; food rationing; sealing off the Baron Hirsch residential area as a ghetto; receiving notice about impending deportation to Poland and a demand to convert propert into Polish złoty; life in Transport 109, the first transport to Auschwitz;...

File Number : 13529

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Dario Levi, born in Thessaloniki, Greece, 1923, regarding his experiences in Katarini camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, clearing rubble from the former Warsaw Ghetto, and in a Polish village while using a false identity His childhood in Thessaloniki in a religious-Zionist home; attends the Alliance Jewish school. German occupation, April 1941; concentration of the Jewish men in Plateia Eleftheria square; selection; deportation to Katarini camp; labor paving roads; return to Thessaloniki; yellow badge; restrictions on movement; work for a Jewish greengrocer; deportation to Auschwitz by train;...

File Number : 13305

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Lea (Saker) Kusznir, born in Vilna, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Kaiserwald, Strassenhof and Stutthof

Testimony

Testimony of Lea (Saker) Kusznir, born in Vilna, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Kaiserwald, Strassenhof and Stutthof Life before the war; attends a high school. Soviet occupation, 1939; German occupation, 1941; deportation to the Vilna Ghetto; ghetto life; labor for an estate owner in exchange for food; liquidation of the ghetto, 1943; disappearance of her parents after a selection; deportation to Kaiserwald; transfer to Strassenhof; camp life including forced labor digging trenches and in a carpet factory; deportation to Stutthof; camp life including forced labor digging...

File Number : 12447

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sidonia (Hersh) Oizerovitch, born in Dej, Romania, 1926, regarding her experiences in Dej and camps in Latvia and Poland

Testimony

Testimony of Sidonia (Hersh) Oizerovitch, born in Dej, Romania, 1926, regarding her experiences in Dej and camps in Latvia and Poland From a poor, religious family; her father is a shoemaker; Romanian school; learns to sew; deterioration of the situation in 1939. Hungarian occupation and the worsening of their situation in all aspects; limitations and decrees, from 1940; German occupation; concentration of the Jews, with the assistance of the Hungarians, in a forest next to their city for about a month, March 1944; deportation to Auschwitz; selection and waiting; transfer to a labor camp in the Kaiserwald...

File Number : 11907

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ludwig Woerl, Righteous Among the Nations, born in Munich, Germany, 1906, regarding his experiences in Dachau, Auschwitz, Buna-Monowitz, Ebensee and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Ludwig Woerl, Righteous Among the Nations, born in Munich, Germany, 1906, regarding his experiences in Dachau, Auschwitz, Buna-Monowitz, Ebensee and other places Life in Munich before the war; training as a volunteer Red Cross orderly; disseminates handbills about the Dachau concentration camp; organizes a group of opponents of the regime; deportation to Dachau, May 1934; camp life including torture and interrogation; life handcuffed in a bunker; murder of supporters of Ernst Roehm, the SA commander, July 1934; work as an orderly and arranging orderly service; list of names of sadists; meets...

File Number : 7657

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish, German

Testimony of Hirsch Lewin, born in Vilna, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in the Riga Ghetto, Kaiserwald, Stutthof, Stolp and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Hirsch Lewin, born in Vilna, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in the Riga Ghetto, Kaiserwald, Stutthof, Stolp and other places Life before the war; move to Riga. German occupation, June 1941; labor in Sloka camp until October 1941; transfer to the Riga Ghetto; ghetto life including work sorting clothes; deportation to Spilwe, October 1942; transfer to Kaiserwald, June 1944; camp life including murder of a Jewish informer by a German inmate; transfer to Stutthof, August 1944; transfer to Burggraben, October 1944; transfer to Stolp, January 1945; death march; liberation, March 1945. Enlists...

File Number : 2596

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

Testimony of Izaak Glettner, born in Przemysl, Poland, 1914, regarding his experiences in the Rzeszow, Plaszow, Wieliczka, Flossenburg, Kolmar and Watenstedt camps

Testimony of Izaak Glettner, born in Przemysl, Poland, 1914, regarding his experiences in the Rzeszow, Plaszow, Wieliczka, Flossenburg, Kolmar and Watenstedt camps Deportation of his whole family from the Przemysl Ghetto to Belzec, July 1942; transfer to a labor camp for manufacturing aviation parts in Rzeszow; sadistic treatment from the guards and SS men: executions under torture, setting dogs on, and random shootings at, inmates; transfer to the Plaszow camp, summer 1944; transfer to the Wieliczka camp a week later, then to the Flossenburg camp another week later; the clothing of the inmates taken away...

File Number : 401

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of the Jewish physician Dr. Schoengut regarding the Pustkow camp, transfer via Auschwitz to the Gliwice I camp and the death march

Testimony of the Jewish physician Dr. Schoengut regarding the Pustkow camp, transfer via Auschwitz to the Gliwice I camp and the death march - History of the Polish camp Pustkow, transferred to the Historical Commission by Dr. Schoengut; - Evacuation of the two camps in Pustkow, 16 November 1942; murder of 35 people who were unable to walk and left behind; arrival of 1,080 Poles from the Lublin area; shooting to death of eight Poles with the Jews; burning of the bodies of the Jews and the Poles on top of the hill known as Hujowa Gorka; - Harsh treatment of the Poles in the camp; rampant dysentery due...

File Number : 352

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Documentation of Gheorge Alexianu, Governor of Transnistria regarding forced laborers, and a list of Jewish detainees in the prison in Odessa, from 1943

- list of names of Jews detained in the prison in Odessa; - Governor Gheorghe Alexianu 's decision in the name of Marshal Ion Antonescu, regarding the labor of Jews and regarding the detainees.

File Number : JM/11463

Type of Material : List of Detainees, Official Documentation

Language : Romanian

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