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Testimony of Baruch Galeida Telem, born in Luck, Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences in Luck, in a forest in the Wolyn area, in hiding and in Prague

Testimony

Testimony of Baruch Galeida Telem, born in Luck, Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences in Luck, in a forest in the Wolyn area, in hiding and in Prague His childhood in a traditional family. Outbreak of the war, September 1939; Red Army occupation of Luck, November 1939; German Army occupation of Luck, June 1941; receives a permit to leave the Luck Ghetto; move to a village, summer 1942; receives knowledge regarding "Aktions" and the liquidation of the Luck Ghetto; execution of his family; escape to a forest, autumn 1942; life on his own in a forest in the Wolyn area, including searching for food, for...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Tzvi Schoenfeld, born in Chust, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Chust Ghetto, Auschwitz, Plaszow, Gross, Posen and Zittau

Testimony

Testimony of Tzvi Schoenfeld, born in Chust, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Chust Ghetto, Auschwitz, Plaszow, Gross-Rosen and Zittau From an Orthodox family, attends a Czech elementary school and "heder"; his father makes aliya to Eretz Israel, 1934, and his return to Czechoslovakia. Annexation to Hungary, 1938; Aryanization of Jewish businesses; meeting with and assistance to Polish Jewish refugees; disbelief regarding information about fate of the Jews; draft of his father to labor battalions in Ukraine, 1942; receiving information of his death from typhus; deportation of Chust...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Majer Katz, born in Uhla, Czechoslovakia, 1928, regarding his experiences in Uhla and in a bunker in Polish forests

Testimony

Testimony of Majer Katz, born in Uhla, Czechoslovakia, 1928, regarding his experiences in Uhla and in a bunker in Polish forests Life before the war. Escape to Poland; hiding of the family in a bunker in Polish forests; return to the village; liberation, 1945. Aliya to Israel from Napoli, 1949.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yosef Shmeltzer, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto and a Czechoslovakian brigade

Testimony

Testimony of Yosef Shmeltzer, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto and a Czechoslovakian brigade Established secular family; work of his father as an accountant. Soviet occupation, 1940; German occupation; murder of 100 important Jews from the city in spite of a bribe to a Romanian soldier; labor cleaning the Christian cemetery; transfer to the Cernauti Ghetto; ghetto life including studies with a private teacher, busy reading and playing; labor of his father as a bookkeeper in a factory and receiving "Essential for the Economy" certificate; liberation by the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Josef Miller, born in Cop, Czechoslovakia, 1922, regarding his experiences in a labor battalion in Cernauti, Ozerki, Satalovka, the Czechoslovakian Brigade in Kiev and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Josef Miller, born in Cop, Czechoslovakia, 1920, regarding his experiences in a labor battalion in Cernauti, Ozerki, Satalovka, the Czechoslovakian Brigade in Kiev and other places Move to Kaposvar. Re-annexation to Hungary; draft to labor battalions, 1939; displays of antisemitism; correspondence with his family; transfer of the labor battalion to Ukraine; escape from a train in Kisvarda; hidden by a Hungarian woman friend; return to the labor battalion and punishment; transfer to Lublin; transfer to Kursk; camp life; transfer on foot to Ozerki; life in Ozerki including labor burying corpses...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Arie Artur Alter, born in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, 1915, regarding his experiences in Ostrava, Nisko, Stanislawow, Siberia and in the Czech Brigade

Testimony

Testimony of Arie Artur Alter, born in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, 1915, regarding his experiences in Ostrava, Nisko, Stanislawow, Siberia and in the Czech Brigade His childhood in Ostrava; attends a Czech school; activities in the Tehelet Lavan youth movement. Deportation to Nisko in a group of 1,000 Jews; labor building a concentration camp; escape to Stanislawow, in Soviet Union territory and then he follows the Red Army to Siberia; labor logging trees; joins the Czech Brigade and participates in battles in the vicinity of Kharkov and Kiev; liberation, April 1945. Hospitalization in a hospital in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avraham Yitzhak, born in Czechoslovakia, regarding his experiences in Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania, Poland and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Avraham Yitzhak, born in Czechoslovakia, regarding his experiences in Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania, Poland and other places Witness has an elementary school education. Outbreak of the war, 1939; drafted to a labor battalion; transfer to Hungary; transfer to Yugoslavia; transfer to Romania; transfer to Poland; escape to the Soviet occupied section of Poland; drafted into a Czech Brigade; combat; liberation.

File Number : 1380

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Leo Neubauer, born in Teplice, 1931, regarding his experiences in Prague and under false identity in Theresienstadt

Testimony

Testimony of Leo Neubauer, born in Teplice, 1931, regarding his experiences in Prague and using a false identity in Theresienstadt Father is secretary of Jewish community; community life before the occupation. Assistance to Jewish refugees from Poland and Sudetenland; escape to nearby village and work in agriculture; arrested by gendarmes, 1938; escape to Prague en route to prison; German occupation, March 1939; contact with Hitler-Jugend movement; life in hiding with Aryan documents until early 1945; arrest and deportation to Theresienstadt; camp life including removal of corpses from deportation trains...

File Number : 10623

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Feodor Frantishek Jakubowicz, born in Comonin, Czechoslovakia, 1912, regarding his experiences in Hungarian labor battalions, a POW camp in the Kirov district and Kaiskie Lesa and serving in the Red Army Czech Brigade Witness is drafted into a labor battalion, spring 1940; release; drafted into a labor battalion, 1941; drafted into a labor battalion, 1942; release as winter approaches; final draft into a labor battalion, February 1943; rounding up of Jewish youth in the vicinity of Mukacevo; annexation to the Hungarian Army and transfer to the Soviet Union; taken captive, January 1944; transfer...

File Number : 3775

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

Letters and postcards to Teri née Yakubowic from her mother, sister, and aunt in Ungvar and Kaposvar, 1944, and from her sister Zsuzsi Lebovic in Slovakia, April 1945

Letters and postcards to Teri née Yakubowic from her mother, sister, and aunt in Ungvar and Kaposvar, 1944, and from her sister Zsuzsi Lebovic in Slovakia, April 1945. The file includes: - envelope with particulars of Elemer Benedikt’s business (Antena) in Uzhorod, addressed to Fischer Sandorne in Budapest; - postcards sent to Teri Yakubowic, Budapest, care of Fischer Sandorne, to her mother and sister Zsuzsi in Ungvar, April 1944; - confirmation of posting of a parcel to the Yakubowic family, April 19, 1944; - letter to Teri Yakubowic from her aunt, Ella Fridman née Grinfeld of Kaposvar, June...

File Number : 4176

Type of Material : Envelope, Letter, Postcard

Language : Hungarian

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