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Testimony of Michael Felman Feldman Padan, born in Sarniki, Poland, 1936, regarding his experiences in Sarniki, in hiding, in forests with the partisans, in Sverdlovsk, Poland and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Michael Felman Feldman Padan, born in Sarniki, Poland, 1936, regarding his experiences in Sarniki, in hiding, in forests with the partisans, in Sverdlovsk, Poland and other places His childhood in his parents' home [in Sarniki] and in his grandparents' homes in Korzec. Red Army occupation of Sarniki, September 1939; life under Soviet rule; German Army occupation of Sarniki, June 1941; administration of Sarniki by Ukrainians Danilo and Ivan, June 1941; establishment of the Sarniki Ghetto on another street; kidnapping of his father; murder of his father with another 1,000 Jews in the Jewish...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Iris Herta (Menzer) Avni, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1928, regarding her experiences in detention in Nitra, Novaky and with the partisans near Banska Bystrica

Testimony

Testimony of Iris Herta (Menzer) Avni, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1928, regarding her experiences in detention in Nitra, Novaky and with the partisans near Banska Bystrica Move of the family to Nitra, 1939; work of her father on a farm as an essential worker; deportation of the Jews to Poprad, April 1942; escape in the direction of Hungary; capture and detention with her father in Nitra; deportation with her father to Novaky; camp life; arrival of her mother and sister to the camp; the Slovak National Uprising, August 1944; release from the camp; joins the partisans; in hiding in villages near...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Diagram of a sculpture dedicated to a project in memory of the Jews who perished in Alytus during the war and maps of the forest in the area including notations of the graves where Jews are buried, 1984-1987

File Number : 2

Type of Material : Maps, Official Documentation, Diagram, Administrative Documentation

Language : Lithuanian

Joint testimony of Mina Heilig, born in Boryslaw, Poland, 1919, and Tzvi Heilig, born in Boryslaw, Poland, 1924, regarding their experiences in the Boryslaw Ghetto and in hiding

Testimony

Joint testimony of Mina Heilig, born in Boryslaw, Poland, 1919, and Tzvi Heilig, born in Boryslaw, Poland, 1924, regarding their experiences in the Boryslaw Ghetto and in hiding From a traditional home in Boryslaw. Soviet occupation and its influence on the family and Jewish community life; German occupation, June 1941; attempts to escape to the USSR with help from Zionist movements; role of the Zionist leadership; they evade the first “Aktions”, July 1941; establishment of the Judenrat and its function; first mass murder by Ukrainians in a nearby forest; their mother's death in the killing pit; survival...

File Number : 6932

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

To be translated

Perlmutter, S.: Testimony on the destruction of Jews from villages in the Swieciany region: Stojaciszak, Hojduciszak, Podbrodzie, Twercz, Swieciany, Czajkin, Meligion, Dugeliszki Nowe, Stare Dugeliszki and Koltoniony.

File Number : 1498

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Various documents pertaining to the members of the Dzialowski-Sharon, Rozental-Shoshani and Szerman families from Ostrov, Plotnitsa and Pinsk and the surrounding areas, Poland, 1938-2011

Various documents pertaining to the members of the Dzialowski-Sharon, Rozental-Shoshani and Szerman families from Ostrov, Plotnitsa and Pinsk and the surrounding areas, Poland, 1938-2011 Among the documents: - A family tree for the Rozental-Shoshani, Dzialowski-Sharon and Szerman families prepared by Yair Sharon, 16 September 2011; - Two copies of a map of Pinsk prepared by A. Levendigger containing, among other markings, indications of various Jewish sites, the Halawa killing pit and the Zapolie killing pit; - A diary with entries in Hebrew kept by Yitzchak Rozental, 15 September 1938-07 January...

File Number : 9404

Type of Material : Postcard, Diary, Map, Memoirs, Letter, Newspaper Clippings

Language : Italian, Hebrew, French, German, Yiddish

To be translated

File Number : 9274

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Paula Lewitt née Shurtz, born in 1928 in Lwów, Poland, about her experiences in hiding on the “Aryan” side of Lwów and in Garmisch and Monte Cassino

Testimony of Paula Lewitt née Shurtz, born in 1928 in Lwów, Poland, about her experiences in hiding on the “Aryan” side of Lwów and in Garmisch and Monte Cassino Life before the war; attends a Polish school; Soviet occupation; children schooled at home; German occupation; pupils taken away to a killing pit; the yellow-star rule; parents attempt to find a place to hide; mother murdered in Waldenburg; ghetto established; living in the home of a Volksdeutsche (ethnic German), working at the Janowska camp; abuse of Jews; witness lives in hiding with the Stowshuk family for payment; joining a group of girls...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew