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Memoirs of Yshai Tartakovski, born in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, regarding his experiences as a Red Army soldier in Dnepropetrovsk, the Mogilev area, in hiding in Igren, in captivity in Traidersdorf and more Life in Dnepropetrovsk including being drafted into the Red Army, 1940; transfer to Moscow, October 1940; transfer to a military village in the Kalinin area; transfer to Vyshny Volochyok; transfer to Pukhovichi; outbreak of the war between the Soviet Union and Germany and transfer with the headquarters staff to a forest; transfer in the direction of the front on foot; execution of a captured German...

File Number : 8565

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Russian

Memoirs of Raisa Yudovich, born in 1918, regarding her experiences in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, and using a false identity in Bar

Memoirs of Raisa Yudovich, born in 1918, regarding her experiences in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, and using a false identity in Bar Life in Dnepropetrovsk, including dismissal from her work as an engineer, 16 June 1941; escape to Bar with her baby daughter (born 11 July 1940); life in Bar; work in a kolkhoz; the German occupation; murder of Jews; life in the home of Yevdokiya Karelova, who worked in the kolkhoz; preparation of forged documents in the name of Raisa Yurovaya by the partisans; baking bread for the partisans; detention with her daughter; life in a cell with other women and children under crowded...

File Number : 2050

Type of Material : Personal Records, Newspaper Clippings, Letter, Memoirs

Language : Russian, Ukrainian

Memoirs of Aizik Isaac Eisen regarding his experiences in the Lwow Ghetto, Jaktorow camp, Janow camp, in hiding in a forest and in Laszki Murowane

Memoirs of Aizik Isaac Eisen regarding his experiences in the Lwow Ghetto, Jaktorow camp, Janow camp, in hiding in a forest and in Laszki Murowane Life before the war with his wife Klara. German occupation and confiscation of Jewish property; deportation to the Lwow Ghetto; deportation to Jaktorow camp; camp life; abuse by the Ukrainian guards; mass murders; description of war crimes committed by Gzymek, the camp commander; transfer back to the Lwow Ghetto; receives information regarding the deportation of his family (his parents, his wife and his son together with his family) to Belzec camp, March 1942;...

File Number : 8534

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English

Joint memoir of Shimshon Shimko Grinberg, born in Skole, Poland, 1908, and Lea Lucia (Rothfeld) Grinberg, born in Skole, Poland, 1912, entitled "Testimony from the Inferno", regarding their experiences in Skole, a camp and in hiding in a forest Life in Skole during the Soviet occupation, 1939; re-annexation to Hungary, 1941; confiscation of Jewish property; murder and persecution of Jews by the Ukrainians; escape to a forest in order for Lea to give birth; stillbirth and escape back to Skole; "Aktion", September 1942; escape to a forest; return to the family home three days later; labor in a sawmill with...

File Number : 8511

Type of Material : Memoirs, Personal Documents, Work Permit

Language : Hebrew, Polish, German, Ukrainian

Memoirs of Paulina (Barak) Birnbaum, born in Orinin, Ukraine, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Zhvanchik Ghetto, the Gorodok Ghetto, in Kopaygorod, Tulchin, Mogilev and Barlad

Memoirs of Paulina (Barak) Birnbaum, born in Orinin, Ukraine, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Zhvanchik Ghetto, the Gorodok Ghetto, in Kopaygorod, Tulchin, Mogilev and Barlad German occupation of Zhvanchik; attitude of the local population; attempts of Jews to appease the Germans by welcoming them with a Torah scroll; acts of abuse against the Jews; collaboration of the Ukrainians with the Germans; pogrom in Zhvanchik, 31 August 1941, including the murder of her father; in hiding in an attic; mass murder of the Jews of Zhvanchik [in killing pits]; in hiding in a cemetery; "Aktion" in the ghetto;...

File Number : 8480

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Memoirs

Language : Russian

Memoirs of Roza (Bondareva) Edelshtein, born in Raygorod, Ukraine, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Raygorod Ghetto and in Bratslav and Pechera camps

Memoirs of Roza (Bondareva) Edelshtein, born in Raygorod, Ukraine, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Raygorod Ghetto and in Bratslav and Pechera camps Life in Raygorod during the German occupation; abuse of her father by Ukrainian gendarmes; hidden in the home of the parents of a wounded Red Army soldier; deportation to the Raygorod Ghetto, 1941; Raygorod Ghetto life; separation from her parents; murder of her parents, 27 June 1942; Bratslav camp life including implementation of forced labor; transfer to Pechera camp, autumn 1942; liberation by the Red Army, 17 March 1944. Return to Raygorod.

File Number : 8381

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Russian

Testimony of Yoel Braunfeld Bar Sade, born in Rabka Zdroj, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in Rabka Zdroj, the Krakow Ghetto and in Plaszow, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Ebensee camps

Testimony of Yoel Braunfeld Bar Sade, born in Rabka Zdroj, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in Rabka Zdroj, the Krakow Ghetto and in Plaszow, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Ebensee camps Life before the war; his father owned a factory; witness attends the Polish school. Unsuccessful attempt to escape to the Soviet Union; deportation to the Krakow Ghetto, 1942; labor in a metalworking workshop; unsuccessful attempt to obtain forged documents; deportation to Plaszow camp; transfer to Auschwitz-Birkenau; camp life; meetings with Dr. Mengele; transfer to Ebensee camp; liberation by the US Army. Move to...

File Number : 8372

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Yoel Yullek Reich, born in Rzeszow, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Rzeszow Ghetto, Flossenbuerg, Sachsenhausen, Oranienburg and other places

Memoirs of Yoel Yullek Reich, born in Rzeszow, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Rzeszow Ghetto, Flossenbuerg, Sachsenhausen, Oranienburg and other places Occupation of Rzeszow, establishment of the Rzeszow Ghetto, transfer to an aircraft motor factory (Flugmotorwerk) in Rzeszow with a group of professionally skilled Jews; life in the factory; murder of his father by Ester, a Gestapo man; labor in Ester's supplementary farm; transfer back to the factory in Rzeszow; transfer of the factory to Urbis via Wieliczka, Plaszow and Flossenbuerg; escape; capture; decision that the author be executed for...

File Number : 8244

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rosa (Shekhtman) Zelichowski, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1929, regarding her experiences in Cernauti, Atachi, Mogilev, Yaruga, Skazintsy and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Rosa (Shekhtman) Zelichowski, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1929, regarding her experiences in Cernauti, Atachi, Mogilev, Yaruga, Skazintsy and other places Her childhood with her parents. Red Army occupation of Cernauti, 1940; witness attends a Jewish school; German Army occupation of Cernauti, June 1941; establishment of the Cernauti Ghetto; her father's labor as a barber in service of the Gestapo; life under German occupation including restrictions on travel and the termination of studies; her family receives a warning concerning a Gestapo raid; deportation in the direction of the east toward...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Kalman Chesler, born in Lipcani, Romania, 1928, regarding his experiences in Edineti, on marches to Transnistria, Zhabokrich and as a forced laborer in Tiraspol

Testimony

Testimony of Kalman Chesler, born in Lipcani, Romania, 1928, regarding his experiences in Edineti, on marches to Transnistria, Zhabokrich and as a forced laborer in Tiraspol Attends a Tarbut school. German occupation, 1941; escape of his family from their house; mass murder of Jews in Kamenets Podolski; return to Bessarabia and life in Edineti; deportation on foot with the community; death of his mother en route; deportation to Transnistria; concentration in Zhabokrich; smuggling food into the camp; help from a Ukrainian non-Jew; death of his father from dysentery; rape of his sister; work in an airfield...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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