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Testimony of Ephraim Fogel, born in Suceava, Romania in 1934, regarding his experiences in the expulsion to the Shargorod Ghetto in Transnistria

Testimony of Ephraim Fogel, born in Suceava, Romania in 1934, regarding his experiences in the expulsion to the Shargorod Ghetto in Transnistria Family; German occupation in 1941; expulsion order; search for valuables in Atachi; march to Shargorod; deaths of grandmother, father, and uncle from typhus in winter of 1942; constant hunger; mother’s labor in kolkhoz; search for food; beatings by Ukrainians; organization of Jewish committee; assistance from Jews of Bucharest; daily soup distribution; return with Russians to Bukovina; orphanages in Romania from 1945 to 1947; Apeldoorn children’s home in The...

File Number : 13570

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chanoch Kvitkovski, born in Lodz, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Katowice, Blechhammer, Buchenwald and Gross-Rosen

Testimony

Testimony of Chanoch Kvitkovski, born in Lodz, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Katowice, Blechhammer, Buchenwald and Gross-Rosen From a traditional family; witness's father is a manufacturer and his mother is a midwife; learns in a "heder" and a Polish school; pogroms. German occupation; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz, 1944; camp life including labor in coal mines near Katowice; transfer to Blechhammer; transfer to Buchenwald; camp life including labor on roads and moving rocks off the railroad tracks; transfer to Gross-Rosen; liberation,...

File Number : 12744

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Joseph Shor, born in Husi, Romania, 1931 regarding his family's experiences during the war

The Jewish community in Husi; Rise of the Iron Guard to power; persecution of the Jewish population in the town; german occupation, 1941; deportation of Jewish men to Targu Jiu; his father's arrest in a labor camp; bribery for his release; anti-Jewish legislation;confiscation of the family's bakery; expelled from school; a family member was executed on charges of spying for the Red Army; work in a military camp in the town. Liberation by the Red Army; Aliya to Israel, 1970.

File Number : 14255

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shimshon Shvefel, born in 1928 in Cernauti, Romania, regarding his experiences in the Cernauti ghetto, Obodovka, the Bershad ghetto, an orphanage in Balta, etc.

Testimony

Testimony of Shimshon Shvefel, born in 1928 in Cernauti, Romania, regarding his experiences in the Cernauti ghetto, Obodovka, the Bershad ghetto, an orphanage in Balta, etc. Pre-war life; offspring of a Religious Zionist family; manifestations of antisemitism; Soviet occupation begins in June 1940; German occupation; the Romanian Army enters; ghettoization; a brief stay in the ghetto; deportation by freight train to Bessarabia; entering Marculesti; taken out on a death march; mother is robbed; suffering from hunger and cold, crossing the Dniester River on a raft; entering Yampol; encountering Jewish...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew