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Testimony of Sara Aharoni née Iudovitz, born in 1928 in Chust, Czechoslovakia, about her experiences in the Chust ghetto, Auschwitz, and Theresienstadt during the war

Life before the war; offspring of a religious family; Shabbat and festivals; attends a Jewish school; Jewish community life; activity of synagogues and Zionist youth movements; witness joins the Bnei Akiva movement; Hungary re-annexes the area in 1939; men inducted into the labor service; witness deported to the Chust ghetto; life in the ghetto; cultural and religious life; Hungarian gendarmes guard the ghetto; confiscation of valuables; witness wears the yellow star; deported to Auschwitz; selection in the camp and separation of family members; sister sent to Bergen-Belsen and dies from typhus there; roll...

File Number : 13610

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yeshayahu Nutman, born in Breslau, Germany in 1923, regarding his experiences in Breslau and his aliya to Eretz Israel in 1937

Testimony of Yeshayahu Nutman, born in Breslau, Germany in 1923, regarding his experiences in Breslau and his aliya to Eretz Israel in 1937 Life in Breslau as a child; he attends a Jewish school; membership in the Bachad youth movement, 1933; Nazis hold parades in the streets; shouting of anti-Jewish slogans by the Nazis, 1935; publication of the Nuremberg Laws and ban on his father's work as a Notary; easing of the watch over the laws during the Olympic events; life during the last months before his aliya to Eretz Israel; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1937; studies in the Kadoorie school.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Leah (Szklasz) Goltzman, born in Chelm, Poland, 1936, regarding her experiences during wanderings in the Ukraine and Stalinsk

Memoirs of Leah (Szklasz) Goltzman, born in Chelm, Poland, 1936, regarding her experiences during wanderings in the Ukraine and Stalinsk Family life in Chelm. German occupation; escape of her family from Chelm, 1939; death of her grandfather, David Szklasz, apparently from starvation, in Ukraine; arrival in Stalinsk; arrest of her father by the NKVD and his deportation to a camp; life in Stalinsk with her mother until 1945. Return to Poland with her mother after the war; arrival in Szczecin; move to a DP camp in Austria under the protection of the US military government; DP camp life in the Linz area...

File Number : 8405

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English

Memoirs of Avri Avraham Davidovich Sela, born in Kosice, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding his experiences in Presov and his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1940

Memoirs of Avri Avraham Davidovich Sela, born in Kosice, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding his experiences in Presov and his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1940 Life before the war. Life in Presov, 1938-1940. Aliya to Eretz Israel with Youth Aliyah, 04 April 1940. The memoirs include excerpts from a letter of testimony written by the witness' sister, Ahuva Davidovich, 1982.

File Number : 8341

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Erich Jacobs, born in Nuttlar, Germany, 1906, regarding his experiences during Kristallnacht in Recklinghausen and his emigration to Cuba, 1941

Memoirs of Erich Jacobs, born in Nuttlar, Germany, 1906, regarding his experiences during Kristallnacht in Recklinghausen and his emigration to Cuba, 1941 - The memoirs were originally written in English, and translated into Hebrew by Jethro Jacobs. - The title of the book in Hebrew is: "Indeed, Miracles Still Happen" - English: "And This is My Life Story" - German: "Wunder geschehen noch (Miracles Still Happen)" Childhood in Nuttlar, teacher training in Berlin; educational work in an orphanage in Frankfurt, in Unna and Recklinghausen; Kristallnacht in Recklinghausen, 1938; move to Cuba via...

File Number : 8325

Type of Material : Memoirs, List of Jews, List of Murdered Jews, List of Jewish Survivors

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Asher Yona Rutenshtein, born in 1937 in Ocsod, Hungary, about his experiences as a boy in the Szarvas and Szolnok ghettos, the Strasshof camp, and another camp during the war

Life before the war; offspring of a religious family; antisemitism; German occupation; wearing the yellow star; promulgation of anti-Jewish laws; valuables confiscated; deportation to the Szarvas ghetto; deportation to the Szolnok ghetto; life of terror and fear; deportation to the Strasshof camp; transfer to another camp; farm labor; taken back to Strasshof; surviving bombardments; liberated by Red Army forces in 1945; back to Hungary; life after the war; immigration to Israel in 1956; adjustment to life in Israel.

File Number : 13641

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Menahem Rebhun, born in Tarnow, Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences in Rzeszow, Buczacz, Lwow, Mariyskaya, Yoshkar Ola and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Menahem Rebhun, born in Tarnow, Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences in Rzeszow, Buczacz, Lwow, Mariyskaya, Yoshkar Ola and other places His childhood in Rzeszow in a well-to-do, Zionist Orthodox religious family; learns in a "heder" and attends a modern school of the "Safa Berura" network; membership in the Akiva Zionist youth movement. German Army occupation [of Rzeszow], 01 September 1939; his family's escape to southeast Poland in order to move to Romania and Eretz Israel; his family's move to Buczacz, 16 September 1939; Red Army occupation of Buczacz, 17 September 1939; life in Lwow...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Bracha Ella (Kuttner) Erman, born in Putnok, Hungary, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Putnok Ghetto, Auschwitz, Bremen, Bergen-Belsen and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Bracha Ella (Kuttner) Erman, born in Putnok, Hungary, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Putnok Ghetto, Auschwitz, Bremen, Bergen-Belsen and other places Her family's life in Putnok. German Army occupation of Putnok [March 1944]; establishment of the Putnok Ghetto [1944]; labor in a block factory; deportation to Auschwitz via Miskolc; selection; transfer to Bremen; camp life including labor clearing rubble; transfer to Oberhuetten Ag [?], with the approach of the front; transfer to Bergen-Belsen, one month later; liberation, one week later. Typhus disease; hospitalization; move on a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zehava Aranka (Marmelstein) Feuerman, born in Packanovo, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding her experiences in Packanovo, the Uzhorod Ghetto, Auschwitz, Altenburg and in Germany and Israel

Testimony

Testimony of Zehava Aranka (Marmelstein) Feuerman, born in Packanovo, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding her experiences in Packanovo, the Uzhorod Ghetto, Auschwitz, Altenburg and in Germany and Israel Her childhood in a traditional family. Annexation of Packanovo to Hungary, March 1939; entry of Hungarian Gendarmerie men into Packanovo; attitude toward the Jews, October 1939; draft of her brothers to labor battalions; deportation of her sister and her sister's children to Kamenetz Podolski; her sister's move back home; German Army occupation of Packanovo, March 1944; deportation to the Uzhorod Ghetto, April...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zipora Faia (Fridman) Avizoor, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1935, regarding her experiences in Bialystok, Kazakhstan, Pavlodar, Szczecin, Liegnitz and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Zipora Faia (Fridman) Avizoor, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1935, regarding her experiences in Bialystok, Kazakhstan, Pavlodar, Szczecin, Liegnitz and other places Her childhood in a well-to-do, Zionist family. German Army occupation of Bialystok, September 1939; burning of her father's textile factory; deportation of her father, and his disappearance; deportation to the East with her mother and sister along with her father's sister and her two children; transfer by train to Kazakhstan; life in the Firma Deba [?] Sovkhoz; help from the Kazakhs; move to Pavlodar, 1944. Move to Poland by...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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