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"Closed Circuit": Poem by Abram Barna Pekher, written in Hungarian in Miskolc, 1941, and translated into Hebrew by Michael Weide

"Closed Circuit": Poem by Abram Barna Pekher, written in Hungarian in Miskolc, 1941, and translated into Hebrew by Michael Weide Drafting of Pekher into a Hungarian Army labor brigade; transfer to Ukraine, where he was killed; circumstances of his death unknown, it could be that he was blown up in a minefield, or (according to rumors) burnt to death in the clinic barracks by the Hungarian Army. In the file there is also short documentation by Michael Weide regarding the background to the writing of the poem, and regarding the love and the tragic end of Abram Barna Pekher. The poem was entrusted to his...

File Number : 235

Type of Material : Documentary, Poem/song

Language : Hebrew, Hungarian

Testimony of Martha (Hershkovitz) Itzkovitz, born in Hust, Czechoslovakia, 1929, regarding her experiences in the Hust Ghetto, Auschwitz and Reichenbach

Testimony

Testimony of Martha (Hershkovitz) Itzkovitz, born in Hust, Czechoslovakia, 1929, regarding her experiences in the Hust Ghetto, Auschwitz and Reichenbach Life before the war; relations with the local population. Outbreak of the war; Ukrainian occupation; riots against Jews; re-annexation to Hungary, 1939; attends a Hebrew school; her father’s work at the mikveh (ritual bath); liquidation of Jewish owned businesses, 1941; deportation of the Jews to Ukraine, 1943; deportation to the Hust Ghetto; ghetto life; deportation to Auschwitz, March 1944; camp life; murder of her grandmother and three of the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Emil Wenkert, born in Czernowitz, Romania, regarding his experiences in the Czernowitz Ghetto and the Podolski Ghetto, and Scazinet camp

Memoirs of Emil Wenkert, born in Czernowitz, Romania, regarding his experiences in the Czernowitz Ghetto and the Podolski Ghetto, and Scazinet camp - Life in the Czernowitz Ghetto; typhus epidemic; deportation to Transnistria; life in the Mogilev-Podolski Ghetto; Jewish police activity; existence of an orphanage; deportation with Jews to the Scazinet camp; camp life. - Liberation. - Return to Czernowitz, 1945.

File Number : 5246

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : German

Letter written by Coina Rogal, dated 29 June 1943, containing information regarding her experiences in Ciudei, the Storojineti camp, and deportation to Ukraine

Letter written by Coina Rogal, dated 29 June 1943, containing information regarding her experiences in Ciudei, the Storojineti camp, and deportation to Ukraine Life in Ciudei during the German occupation; escape and wanderings; life in the Storojineti transit camp for ten days; meeting her father; transfer to the Vascauti camp; deportation to Ukraine. Note: Information was added to the letter in 1992, as a supplement to the letter from 1943, some of which was lost.

File Number : 3249

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony

Language : Yiddish

To be translated

File Number : 2231

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Yiddish

Memoirs of Solomon Schapira, born in Moinesti, Romania, regarding his life as a student in Bucharest before the war and his experiences during the war in camps in Transnistria and in Siberia

Memoirs of Solomon Schapira, born in Moinesti, Romania, regarding his life as a student in Bucharest before the war and his experiences during the war in camps in Transnistria and in Siberia Part one of the memoirs deals with Solomon Schapira's life during the prewar period, when he was an impoverished student in the Schulle student dormitories in Bucharest during 1933-1935; Part two deals with the war period: deportation from Hotin to camps in Transnistria; murders carried out in Hotin; deportation of the Jews in August 1941; Secureni camp; he crosses the Nistru River on foot; hardships en route; his...

File Number : 1898

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Romanian

To be translated

File Number : 1246

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew, Yiddish

Testimony of Magda Gitel Rozenblat, born in Czechoslovakia, 1921, regarding her experiences in Gyor and using a false identity in Budapest

Testimony

Testimony of Magda Gitel Rozenblat, born in Czechoslovakia, 1921, regarding her experiences in Gyor and using a false identity in Budapest Her childhood; move with her siblings and father to Budapest, 1939. Deportation of her mother and younger siblings to Ukraine; murder of her mother and younger siblings; transfer to Gyor camp, November 1944; escape and return to Budapest; receives forged documents with help from a Christian woman; work in cleaning. Return to Czechoslovakia, 1945; meets her future husband; aliya to Israel, 1948.

File Number : 7098

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew, English

Testimony of Martimus Saris, born in The Hague, the Netherlands, 1915, regarding his experiences in Dutch labor battalions and The Hague

Testimony

Testimony of Martimus Saris, born in The Hague, the Netherlands, 1915, regarding his experiences in Dutch labor battalions and The Hague Childhood in The Hague; relations with Jewish neighbors; friendship with a Jewish family named Van Leeuweu; the women in his family and their handiwork. Outbreak of the war; drafted to labor battalions in various places in Europe, among them West, Westerbork, Shitomir, Jamlitz, a sub-camp of Oranienburg; labor, social class and the group's status; transports, torture, murders and burial of Jews; an "Aktion" in The Hague.

File Number : 6974

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Ester (Horowitz) Seibald, born in Korolowka, Poland, 1904, regarding her experiences in the Nadworna Ghetto, Stanislawow and in hiding

Testimony

Testimony of Ester (Horowitz) Seibald, born in Korolowka, Poland, 1904, regarding her experiences in the Nadworna Ghetto, Stanislawow and in hiding Life before the war; move to Nadworna. German occupation, June 1941; riots by the Ukrainians against the Jews; deportation to the Nadworna Ghetto; escape; life in hiding with help from Poles; escape to Stanislawow; life in hiding with help from a Ukrainian physician; murder of the physician and his wife by the Gestapo; liberation. Aliya to Israel, 1948.

File Number : 3066

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

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