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Memoirs of Eliezer Brenner, his sister Shaindel (Brenner) Vigenanski, and his wife, Yettie (Lanzet) Brenner, regarding their experiences in Krakow, the Melk camp, the Plaszow camp, Transnistria and more Experiences of Eliezer Brenner, born in Rzeszow, Poland, 1913: Deportation to the Krakow Ghetto; deportation to the Plaszow camp; camp life including labor in Wieliczka; camp life with his brother, Moshe; transfer to the Mauthausen camp; camp life; selection; labor in a quarry; transfer to the Melk camp; labor in a subterranean ammunitions factory; transfer to the Ebensee camp by death march; liberation in...

File Number : 8621

Type of Material : Document, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Emanuel Krauthamer Kruvi, born, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Bobrka Ghetto and in Romanow, forests and Swirz

Memoirs of Emanuel Krauthamer Kruvi, born, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Bobrka Ghetto and in Romanow, forests and Swirz Experiences of the Krauthamer family from the start of their wanderings from Krautheim, Germany until their settlement in Bobrka; German Army occupation [of Bobrka], 1941; establishment of the Bobrka Ghetto; Bobrka Ghetto life, including forced labor digging trenches and clearing snow; life in stables in groups of 50 young women and 50 young men; forced labor in sugar beet fields [on an agricultural farm in Romanow?] until October 1942; first "Aktion" in Bobrka; deportation of...

File Number : 8583

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Diary of Heniek Veingarten, born in Niwice, Poland, 1910, regarding his experiences in Sosnowiec, Lwow, Luck, being hidden by farmers, as a partisan in the Rowne forest and more

Diary of Heniek Veingarten, born in Niwice, Poland, 1910, regarding his experiences in Sosnowiec, Lwow, Luck, being hidden by farmers, as a partisan in the Rowne forest and more Life with his family in Niwice; move to Wolbrom with his family due to difficulties in supporting themselves, 1920; abuse by gangs loyal to General Haller, including capture of his father and pulling out his beard; move of the family to Strzemieszyce, 1926; move of the family to Sosnowiec. Concentration of the Jews in the Szenja Hall in Sosnowiec, September, 1939; abuse of the Jews; mass murder of Jews; separation from his parents...

File Number : 8571

Type of Material : Diary

Language : Polish

Letters sent to Rosa (Huino) Levi in Eretz Israel by her mother Mazal Tov Huino and her teacher Moshe Moise Vital in Rodos, Italy, 1939-1940, and by her sister Flora in Montevideo, Uruguay, 1939-1960

Letters sent to Rosa (Huino) Levi in Eretz Israel by her mother Mazal Tov Huino and her teacher Moshe Moise Vital in Rodos, Italy, 1939-1940, and by her sister Flora in Montevideo, Uruguay, 1939-1960 Comments by the submitter of the material (Matilda Mazal Levi): Mazal Tov (Filosof) Huino was born in Rodos, Italy, 13/04/1889; she was deported to Athens and then to Auschwitz, 07/1944, where she perished on 16/08/1944; her husband Yosef Huino died and was buried in Rodos; their daughter Rosa Huino made aliya to Eretz Israel with her brother Avraham as illegal immigrants in 1938; she married Menachem Levi in...

File Number : 1864

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Spanish, Hebrew, Ladino

Testimony

Testimony of Efraim Francesz Berger, born in Ariesul De Padure, Romania, 1926, regarding his experiences in Ariesul De Padure, the Baia Mare Ghetto, Auschwitz, Dachau, Muehldorf-Waldlager and other places Life in Ariesul De Padure with his family; attitude of the local population. Hungarian Army occupation of Ariesul De Padure, 1941; life under Hungarian occupation including restrictions on travel and bans; deportation to the Baia Mare Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1944; separation from his family; selection; receives number 85547; transfer to forced labor clearing rubble in the Warsaw...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Jozsef Weisz, born in Barabas, Hungary, 1927, regarding his experiences in Barabas, Budapest, Debrecen and Tirgusor

Testimony

Testimony of Jozsef Weisz, born in Barabas, Hungary, 1927, regarding his experiences in Barabas, Budapest, Debrecen and Tirgusor His childhood in an agricultural family; life in the home of his grandfather; attends a Hungarian school and a Jewish high school; displays of antisemitism; meets refugees from Austria, 1938; detention of his father who is accused of treason; release of his father; receives knowledge concerning the fate of Jews in Poland; imposition of anti-Jewish restrictions including numerus clausus and the ban of travel on [public] transportation; deportation of refugees; draft to labor camps,...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

זיכרונותיה של Sara Haber , ילידת Kalisz, על קורותיה בזמן מלחמת העולם השנייה בגטו Kalisz, בגטו Lodz עד חיסולו ושילוח ל-Auschwitz ול-Bergen Belsen

Memoirs of Sara Haber, regarding her experiences in Kalisz during World War II

File Number : 6201

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Polish

Letter sent to Staszek by Luta from Poland, regarding the fate of their relatives and friends during the war, written on 02/06/1946

Letter sent to Staszek by Luta from Poland, regarding the fate of their relatives and friends during the war, written on 02/06/1946 The letter details the fate of the relatives of Luta and Staszek; following the liquidation of the Wieliczka Ghetto, three girlfriends attempted to move to Plaszow camp but were sent on a transport to Belzec; the husbands of the three women labored in Plaszow and Biezanow; one of them was sent to Auschwitz, and was later executed in Biezanow and buried in a mass grave; the author writes about the loss of the will to live, after she lost all of her dear ones and remains alone at...

File Number : 5908

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Polish

Letter by Wladyslaw Szlezak, born in Cieszanow, regarding the Jews of Cieszanow during the German occupation and their relations with the Poles, his family's help to Jews, and the fate of the Poles in Cieszanow; letter sent to Cyla Perlmutter on 02/02/2000 In Szlezak's letter to Cyla Perlmutter, he relates to several subjects: 1. Establishment of the Cieszanow Ghetto for local Jews who were residents of Cieszanow and for Jewish refugees who arrived to the town; violence by the Ukrainians toward Poles and Jews; help by his grandmother Anna, who gave food to Jews from the ghetto; help by his father to Jews...

File Number : 5867

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Polish

Testimony of Jerzy Spira, born in Krakow, Poland, 1934, regarding the "Aktion" against children, 14 April 1944, and being hidden at the time in the Plaszow and Bruennlitz camps

Testimony of Jerzy Spira, born in Krakow, Poland, 1934, regarding an "Aktion" against children, 14 April 1944, and being hidden at the time in the Plaszow and Bruennlitz camps Separation of the sick and elderly prior to their deportation to Auschwitz; repeated selections of child-laborers and non-laborers by Amon Goeth and Chilowicz; escape from the police officers; hides in a latrine with three additional children for six hours; brought to his mother's barrack; in hiding for several days before he joins the labor force; transfer with his father to the Emilswerke camp in Bruennlitz; labor at the camp until...

File Number : 94

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

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