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Testimony of Klara (Bernader) Vicha, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1919, regarding her experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto and Transnistria

Testimony

Testimony of Klara (Bernader) Vicha, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1919, regarding her experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto and Transnistria Life before the war; Zionist Orthodox family; financial difficulties; Beitar activities. Physical injury to Jews by Cuza men, 1936-1937; Soviet occupation, 1940; nationalization of Jewish owned businesses; deportation of wealthy Jews to Siberia; draft of the brothers to the Red Army; labor in a textile factory in exchange for food; German occupation, 1941; "Aktions"; murder of Jewish men; deportation to the Cernauti Ghetto; ghetto life; deportation to Transnistria;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Joseph Rakoch, born in Sokolow, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Sokolow, Lwow, the Radom Ghetto, in hiding in Radosc and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Joseph Rakoch, born in Sokolow, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Sokolow, Lwow, the Radom Ghetto, in hiding in Radosc and other places Life before the war; Zionist family; plans to make aliya to Eretz Israel; meets deportees from Germany and help to the deportees; death of his father. Outbreak of the war; escape East; shelling; escape back to Poland; escape of his mother to Radom; escape to Vilna; escape to Lwow; life on a Bnei Akiva kibbutz; the kibbutz receives help from the JDC and the Jewish Agency; Soviet occupation; deportations to Siberia; arrest of Jews due to Zionist...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Michael Kuker, regarding his experiences in Lwow and in Asino, Siberia: "From heaven to hell and to happiness - The war for survival"

File Number : 7514

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

To be translated

File Number : 2194

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

List of the Jews who lived in Pułtusk before World War II

- list of the Jews who lived in Pułtusk, compiled by Giura Kochavi; - the life story of Sara (Grünschpan) Kochavi (born in Arkhangelsk in 1939; her parents - Yerahmiel and Frieda Greenspan from Pułtusk - escaped to the USSR and were deported to Soviet labor camps; as a baby she was given into the care of a local couple; she was returned to her parents in 1946; she made aliya with her parents to Israel; started a family in Israel; died in 1988); Comments from the submitter of the material: (Giora Kochavi) Giora Kochavi edited "The guide to the commemoration of the Jews of Pułtusk" in memory of his late wife...

File Number : 2235

Type of Material : סיפור חיים, הקדמה, List of Survivors, List of Murdered Persons

Language : Hebrew

Interviews with Holocaust survivors David Cohen, born in Ostrów Mazowiecka in 1919, and his wife Chysia (Bookspan) Cohen, born in Chelm in 1925, regarding their experiences in the years 1939-1949

Interviews with Holocaust survivors David Cohen, born in Ostrów Mazowiecka in 1919, and his wife Chysia (Bookspan) Cohen, born in Chelm in 1925, regarding their experiences in the years 1939-1949 - interview with David Cohen regarding his experiences in the Holocaust (conducted by his family members on 17 April 1993): Life in Długosiodło; his father's death before the outbreak of war in 1939; German occupation of Długosiodło; deportation of the Jews of Długosiodło to territories controlled by the Soviet Union in September 1939; arrival with his mother, sister and two brothers in Szczepankowo; deportation of...

File Number : 11514

Type of Material : תמליל, Interview(s)

Language : Hebrew

Documentation related to the experiences of Tzipora Feiga Ben Yitzhak (Birenbojm) during the Holocaust and the commemoration of her family members who perished in the Holocaust

Documentation related to the experiences of Tzipora Feiga Ben Yitzhak (Birenbojm) during the Holocaust and the commemoration of her family members who perished in the Holocaust - A text written by Feiga Ben Yitzhak describing her experiences, in which the names of her family members are mentioned, all of whom - except for the witness and her brother Gershon - perished in the Holocaust; - Documentation related to the play "To Tell in order to Live” (lesaper keday lihyot), that was staged at the Testimony Theater in Tel Aviv. The play is based on the survival stories of Holocaust survivors; survivors...

File Number : 290

Type of Material : Excerpt(s), Documentary, Poem/song, Film

Language : Hebrew

Letters of Franciszka Frania Schnur in Bochnia, and of Eliasz Elek Schnur in Eretz Israel, from 1941-1942, translated into Hebrew

Letters of Franciszka Frania Schnur in Bochnia, and of Eliasz Elek Schnur in Eretz Israel, from 1941-1942, translated into Hebrew - Letter sent by Frania Schnur in Bochnia to her husband Eliasz Elek Schnur in the Soviet Union on 14 February 1941; - Letter written by Eliasz Elek Schnur in Eretz Israel to his wife Franciszka Frania Schnur in Bochnia from 26 July 1942 to 02 August 1942, which he intended to send after the war. The letter describes the experiences of Eliasz Schnur after his escape from occupied Poland (his detention by the Soviet authorities; stay in prisons in Lwow; exile to labor camps in...

File Number : 5057

Type of Material : Letter

Memoirs of Hannah (Iuzefovich) Eliash, born in Zgierz in 1933, regarding her experiences in the USSR

Memoirs of Hannah (Iuzefovich) Eliash, born in Zgierz in 1933, regarding her experiences in the USSR Memoirs of Hannah (Iuzefovich) Eliash recorded by her husband Elazar (Lazar) Eliash, partly from her own words, and partly on the basis of her stories: Escape of her father to Białystok after the outbreak of the war; escape with her aunt Esther to Białystok, while her mother stayed with her little son in Zgierz; deportation with her father and aunt to Siberia; life in a labor camp; draft of her father into the Red Army; life with her aunt in Syktyvkar; her father’s return after the end of the war; return to...

File Number : 11404

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Mordekhai Meier, born in Wojtkowa in 1931, regarding his experiences in Wojtkowa, Siberia and Uzbekistan, during his aliya to Eretz Israel with the “Tehran Children”, and in Eretz Israel Childhood in Wojtkowa (his parents - Aryeh Meier and his wife Leah (maiden name: Berger); outbreak of war in September 1939 and the Soviet occupation; exile of the family to Siberia; life in the Tavda region in 1939-1941; release of the family after the outbreak of war between Germany and the Soviet Union in 1941; escape to Uzbekistan; his father's death from typhus in 1941; subsistence hardships; transfer with...

File Number : 11199

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

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