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Testimony of Jouly (Meier) Nachmias, born in Ioannina, Greece, 1924, regarding her experiences in Ioannina, Larissa, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bergen-Belsen and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Jouly (Meier) Nachmias, born in Ioannina, Greece, 1924, regarding her experiences in Ioannina, Larissa, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bergen-Belsen and other places Life in Ioannina before the war. Italian occupation, 1940; hunger, 1941-1942; arrival of refugees to Ioannina from the area of the German occupation; escape of the refugees to the mountains; surrender of Italy to the Allied forces, September 1943; German occupation; addition of the letter "J" to the identity card; robbery of property; brutal behavior by Germans; transfer of the Jews to the city square, 25 March 1944; Greeks inform on the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Marta (Iechiel) Aruch, born in Thessaloniki, Greece, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Thessaloniki Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, a death march and Bergen-Belsen

Testimony

Testimony of Marta (Iechiel) Aruch, born in Thessaloniki, Greece, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Thessaloniki Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, a death march and Bergen-Belsen Life before the war; the Greek-Italian war, 1940; German occupation, April 1941; decrees including the yellow badge; dismassal of her father from his work in the port; closure of the Thessaloniki Ghetto, 1942; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; camp life including labor digging ditches and typhus; transfer to the "Shoe Kommando" and labor separating shoes; death march to Bergen-Belsen; liberation by the British Army, April...

File Number : 12898

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Avraham Yaakov Jako Ezrati, born in Thessaloniki, Greece in 1922, regarding his experiences during the war

File Number : 7382

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Robert Shaki, born in Thessaloniki, Greece, 1920, regarding his experiences in captivity in Iraklion, with the Greek partisans, the Thessaloniki Ghetto, Auschwitz, Goleszow and other places From a well-to-do family; displays of antisemitism and reactions of the Jews; German occupation, 1941; draft into the Greek Army; taken captive by the Germans at Iraklion; hides his Jewish identity; release; return home; activities with the Greek partisans; help to people escaping to the hills; anti-Jewish legislation, early 1943; transfer of his father's business to a non-Jew; deportation to the Thessaloniki...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Aharon Tzarfati, born in Thessaloniki, Greece, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Thessaloniki Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buna, Buchenwald, Magdeburg and Berlin

Testimony

Testimony of Aharon Tzarfati, born in Thessaloniki, Greece, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Thessaloniki Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buna, Buchenwald, Magdeburg and Berlin Life before the war; death of his father, 1936, work in a leather store and sells cigarettes on the street. German occupation, 1941; sells sweets to be able to survive; deportation to the Baron Hirsh - Thessaloniki Ghetto, 1943; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; camp life including surgery in the infimary; attends a construction school and labor building warehouses; transfer to Buna, late 1943; camp life including labor digging;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letter of testimony from an unknown female Holocaust survivor regarding the establishment of Theresienstadt, the living conditions and her own rescue on the transport of exchange Jews to Switzerland, 07 February 1945

File Number : 104

Type of Material : Letter, Official Documentation

Language : German

שפירא-אהרונוביץ', רחל: במחנה עבודה לנערות ב-SAXONY , TORGAU, בריחה ונדודים עד השחרור

Testimony of Rachel Shapiro - Abramovich regarding her experiences in Torgau camp, Saxonia, Germany, escaping and wandering till liberation by Red Army in Brandenburg In November 1944, she was deported from Bergen - Blesen to Torgau to a forced labor camp for women (750 female prisoners). Work with TNT, very hard and dangerous. Life in the camp, hunger, diseases, exhaustion, trinitrotoluene poisoning. On April 13, 1945, bombing took place, and the camp was evacuated in an unknown direction. Riding In closed wagons for 8 days. Prisoners escaped from the wagons during the bombardment. They were hiding in the...

File Number : 440

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Ela (Shieber) Lieberman, born in Berlin, Germany, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Bedzin Ghetto, Auschwitz, Ravensbrueck and Neustadt-Glewe

Testimony of Ela (Shieber) Lieberman, born in Berlin, Germany, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Bedzin ghetto, Auschwitz, Ravensbrueck and Neustadt-Glewe Father: Jeoschua Liebermann Mother: nee Grinkraut, Liebermann Sister: Berta Liebermann Brothers: Alex Liebermann, Leo Liebermann Father and brothers perished Childhood with family in Berlin till 1938. The memory of the boycott and persecution of Jews in Germany. Deportation to Poland in 1938; life in Bedzin with grandparents until the outbreak of war and German occupation. Persecution of Jews in Bedzin: burning of the synagogue;...

File Number : 236

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Roman Goldman, born in Tomaszow Mazowiecki, 1931, Poland, regarding his experiences in Tomaszow Mazowiecki Ghetto, Blizyn labour camp and in Auschwitz concentration camp

Testimony of Roman Goldman, born in 1931 in Tomaszow Mazowiecki, Poland, regarding his experiences in Tomaszow Mazowiecki ghetto, Blizyn forced labor camp and Auschwitz concentration camp On April 24, 1945 the Commission for the Investigation of German-Nazi Crimes in Oswiecim / Auschwitz interviewed a witness - a former prisoner of the KL Auschwitz Roman Goldman, born on May 4, 1931 in Tomaszow Mazowiecki. After the Germans entered Tomaszow Mazowiecki in September 1939, all local Jews (about 18,000) were sent to the established local ghetto; deportations to Treblinka; only 1,300 skilled workers were left in...

File Number : 430

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish