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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sara Shuster Tolchinski, born in Calarasi, Romania, 1925 regarding her escape to the Soviet Union

Testimony

Childhood before the war; coexistence; Outbreak of the war; arrival of Jewish refugees; mutual assistance; riots against the Jews, 1941; escape to the Soviet Union with the retreating Red Army; drafting of her father and brother to labor camps; move to Korosten; assistance from the Soviets; move to Kazakhstan; work; Rebuilding life; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1957.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shlomo Sharf, born in Calinesti, Romania in 1920, regarding his experiences in Bershad and Transnistria

Testimony of Shlomo Sharf, born in Calinesti, Romania in 1920, regarding his experiences in Bershad and Transnistria Village life; move to Cernauti; expulsion to Transnistria; daily life in the Bershad Ghetto; public organization in the Bershad Ghetto; forced labor in Nikolayev; draft into Red Army; expulsion to Cyprus; aliya to Israel; absorption and rehabilitation.

File Number : 13465

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaim Grisario, born in Darabani, Romania, 1936, regarding the deportation to Transnistria

Testimony

Testimony of Chaim Grisario, born in Darabani, Romania, 1936, regarding the deportation to Transnistria Family background; his father is a tailor, his mother is a seamstress and housewife; studies in a "room". The outbreak of the war; restrictions on Jews; deportation, June 1941; walking and getting to the village; food shortages; deportation by cattle train; reaching and crossing the Dniester River; arrival in Atachi; continue driving; arrival in Mogilev Podolskiy; transfer to Ozarnitsa; stay at the place for a few months; living conditions; deportation to the Mogilev ghetto; stay in a children's home;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaim Stern, born in Dornesti, Romania in 1934, regarding his experiences in Transnistria, Bershad Ghetto, and the children’s home in Apeldoorn, The Netherlands.

Testimony of Chaim Stern, born in Dornesti, Romania in 1934, regarding his experiences in Transnistria, Bershad Ghetto, and the children’s home in Apeldoorn, The Netherlands. His nuclear family; revolt of members of Iron Guard in January 1941; transfer to Radauti; antisemitic acts; religious life; expulsion by train to Transnistria; transit point in Atachi; confiscation of valuables by Romanian gendarmes; river crossing by raft; drownings; march to Bershad; typhus; types of labor performed by his mother; deaths of many people from cold, hunger, and disease; activity of the partisans; entry of the Russians in...

File Number : 13672

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Postcard from Rabbi Zvi Guttman, the sole survivor of the mass murder in Bucharest, 22 January 1941, to Sara Deskel in Israel, in which he testifies regarding the murder of her husband Shabtai Deskel

Postcard from Rabbi Zvi Guttman, the sole survivor of the mass murder in Bucharest, 22 January 1941, to Sara Deskel in Israel, in which he testifies regarding the murder of her husband Shabtai Deskel Also in the file: - Experiences of Shabtai Deskel, including the circumstances of his murder as written by his granddaughter, Razia Adam; Comments by the submitter of the material regarding the experiences of Shabtai Deskel, born 1888 in Bessarabia, Romania: Murder of Shabtai along with 69 Jewish men who went to the synagogue in Bucharest to pray, 22 January 1941; transfer of 70 men by truck from the...

File Number : 1961

Type of Material : Documentary, Letter of Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Batia (Blima) (Rozentzveig) Kahana, born in 1931 in Iasi, Moldova-Romania, about life in Iasi, persecution of Jews, and the pogrom in Iasi

Testimony

Testimony of Batia (Blima) (Rozentzveig) Kahana, born in 1931 in Iasi, Moldovia-Romania, about life in Iasi, persecution of Jews, and the pogrom in Iasi Childhood in Iasi; family life; persecution of Jews and antisemitism before the Holocaust; the pogrom in Iasi; activity in the Dror Habonim movement; immigration to Israel in 1948

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mikhael Fridman, born in Vaslui, Romania, in 1924, regarding his experiences in Vaslui and in the Doaga camp.

Testimony of Mikhael Fridman,born in Vaslui, Romania in 1924,regarding his experiences in Vaslui and in the Doaga camp He was born into a traditional family in Vaslui; attending a Romanian elementary school; he helps supporting the family; anti-Semitism before the war; imposing restrictions on the Jews; transfer to forced labour; escape; arrest and enduring the punishment of 25 lashes; forced labour in the extraction of sugar beets from farmers in the area; deportation to Doaga; life in the camp; working in digging tranches against tanks; liberation by the red army in 1944; smuggling the borders to Austria and...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Moshe Zeev Gelbert, born in Ilisesti, Romania, 1937, regarding his experiences in Transnistria, Ataki, Mogilev and Katsmazov

Memoirs of Moshe Zeev Gelbert, born in Ilisesti, Romania, 1937, regarding his experiences in Transnistria, Ataki, Mogilev and Katsmazov Anti-Jewish legislation, 1941; deportation to Transnistria; order to remove jewelry and hand it over to Romanian soldiers in Burdujeni; arrival in Ataki; assembly of Jews in the synagogue; finding a sign on the wall written in blood, reading, "Jews were murdered in this place. You Jews passing by here, please say Kaddish"; murder of Jews by the Romanian gendarmerie; destruction of the certificates [of the murdered?] so that they could not be identified; arrival in Mogilev on...

File Number : 8497

Type of Material : Memoirs, List of Deportees, Red Cross Letter

Language : Hebrew, Romanian

Joint testimony of siblings, Menachem Mendel Donenfeld, born in Iordanesti, Romania in 1931, and Bracha Beti (Donenfeld) Klein, born in Iordanesti in 1932, regarding their experiences in Iordanesti, on marches in the Transnistria area and in the Crasna Ghetto Life before the war; Deportation to the Transnistria area, summer 1941; transfer on death marches to the Crasna Ghetto; Crasna Ghetto life; liberation; Aliya to Israel, 1948.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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