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File Number : 1978

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Documentation regarding Bockfield and Skweres family members who perished during the Holocaust

Documentation regarding Bockfield and Skweres family members who perished during the Holocaust Documents include deportation lists, inmates cards, an official letter sent from Paris by an SS officer regarding a deportation of Jews to Auschwitz, with explanations about transports from Drancy to Auschwitz that included Bockfield family members (including the names of children on transport no. 66).

File Number : 1312

Type of Material : Personal Documents, List of Deportees, Official Documentation

Language : French, English, German

List of Jews from Luxembourg, including their experiences during the Holocaust

File Number : 1283

Type of Material : List of Deportees

Language : English

Testimony of Shmuel Yaakov Lazarovitz, born in Tác, Hungary, 1915, regarding his experiences during World War II

Testimony

Testimony of Shmuel Yaakov Lazarovitz, born in Tác, Hungary, in 1915, regarding his experiences during World War II The second son in an observant family of eight; the family owned a small factory that produced carbonated drinks; attendance at a Czech school and learning at a cheder in the afternoon; good relations with the local population; eight years of schooling; service in the Czech Army, 1937; return to Tác; conscription to labor battallions; avoidance of dangerous duties clearing mines in the vicinity of Lwów; arrival of new transports of Jews every day; surrender of the division to the Soviets;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Maurycy Bauer, born in Boryslaw, Poland, 1903, regarding his experiences in Boryslaw during the German occupation and in Auschwitz, Swietochlowice and Mauthausen camps

Testimony of Maurycy Bauer, born in Boryslaw, Poland, 1903, regarding his experiences in Boryslaw during the German occupation and in Auschwitz, Swietochlowice and Mauthausen camps German occupation of Boryslaw, 30 June 1941; pogrom against the Jews perpetrated by Ukrainians on the initiative of the Germans, 03-04 July [1941]; severely wounded in the head and loss of all his teeth, during the pogrom; loss of the ability to work for several months, due to the wound; drafted to labor in the oil industry as a bookkeeper, February 1942; "Aktions" in Boryslaw, November 1941-April 1944; Bernard Eisenstein, a Jew...

File Number : 465

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Ludwik Fleck, born in Lwow, Poland, 1896, regarding his experiences in Lwow, in hiding, and in Auschwitz and Buchenwald camps

Testimony of Ludwik Fleck, born in Lwow, Poland, 1896, regarding his experiences in Lwow, in hiding, and in Auschwitz and Buchenwald camps Eviction with his family from their apartment in Lwow, September 1941; life in a rented room in the home of a Pole, in exchange for 10,000 zlotys; work as a physician in the Jewish hospital, under the administration of Dr. Kurzeck; in hiding with his wife and his 14 year old son while hidden in the home of Kurzeck during the "Aktion", 1942; death of his two sisters and his brothers-in-law; deportation to the Lwow Ghetto; Lwow Ghetto life, including living in one room...

File Number : 430

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Szewa Biederman, regarding her experiences in Szebnie and Auschwitz camps

Testimony of Szewa Biederman, regarding her experiences in Szebnie and Auschwitz camps Szebnie camp life, including viewing the carrying out of torture on an inmate and his murder by camp guard [Joseph] Grzymek; liquidation of the camp, and the transfer of the inmates in groups of 50 people each in a truck, to inside a forest; order given to the inmates to strip themselves of their clothing, and between 150-200 inmates are pushed, with women and men separated, inside railroad cars; travel for four days, without food or water in rain and the cold, during late autumn; arrival to Auschwitz; selection at the...

File Number : 393

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Mina Kalfus, born in Tarnow, Poland, 1899, regarding her experiences and the experiences of her family in the Tarnow Ghetto, the Krakow Ghetto and in Plaszow, Auschwitz and Lichtewerden camps Tarnow Ghetto life, including the capture of Jews who exited their apartments, and their murder in a prison or on the street; removal of her father from their apartment and his murder in the courtyard, 11 June 1942; detention of her 13 year old son, and he receives an order to pack food for three days while supposedly en route to labor; transport of her son along with 11,000 Jews from Tarnow in sealed...

File Number : 381

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Leib Salpeter, regarding his experiences in the Krakow Ghetto and in Plaszow camp

Testimony of Leib Salpeter, regarding his experiences in the Krakow Ghetto and in Plaszow camp List of names of the members of the temporary council of the Jewish community of Krakow, established on the initiative of the deputy mayor of Krakow at the start of the German occupation, September 1939; Krakow Ghetto life, including forced labor filling anti-aircraft trenches; activities in the social welfare department, in particular with the mass arrival of refugees to Krakow from throughout the Generalgouvernement; various departments dealt with sanitation, clothing, housing, care of orphans and children,...

File Number : 146

Type of Material : Survey

Language : Polish

Testimony of Marceli Tesze, born in Tarnow, Poland, 1936, regarding his experiences and those of his family in the Tarnow Ghetto, Plaszow camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Gross-Rosen camp and more

Testimony of Marceli Tesze, born in Tarnow, Poland, 1936, regarding his experiences and those of his family in the Tarnow Ghetto, Plaszow camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Gross-Rosen camp and more Confiscation of the family's apartment after the occupation; residence in another apartment with Germans; detention of his uncle and father; murder of his uncle; deportation to the Tarnow Ghetto; Tarnow Ghetto life, including work of his father as a physician in the Jewish hospital and work of his mother as a nurse; evade three deportations from the ghetto due to work permits and intervention by his father's German...

File Number : 138

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

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