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Testimony of Rivka (Stelman) Grand, born in Lezajsk, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences as refugees in Grodek Jagielonsk and wanderings in Siberia

Testimony

Testimony of Rivka (Stelman) Grand, born in Lezajsk, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences as a refugee in Grodek Jagielonsk and wanderings in Siberia From a religious family; attends a Polish school and a Yavne Jewish school. German occupation, September 1939; deportation to a Soviet occupied area, October 1939; life as refugees in Grodek Jagielonsk; deportation by train via Lwow, the day before Shavuot 1940; exile to Siberia; wanderings from place to place. Return to Poland, 1946; aliya to Israel with the help of Bericha via the Linz DP camp, 1949.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Miriam (Sher) Kagan, born in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, 1920, regarding her experiences in the Panevezys Ghetto and in hiding in a village

Testimony

Testimony of Miriam (Sher) Kagan, born in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, 1920, regarding her experiences in the Panevezys Ghetto and in hiding in a village Move to Panevezys; her family owns a wholesale business for flour and food products; witness attends a Hebrew school and Yavneh high school; death of her father. Outbreak of the war; Soviet occupation; nationalization of the family's property; exile of her mother to Siberia; her older brothers work as salaried employees in the family business; German occupation, 1941; deportation to the Panevezys Ghetto; ghetto life including labor peeling potatoes and...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Lea (Grodzinski) Rozenberg, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Slobodka Ghetto and in hiding

Testimony

Testimony of Lea (Grodzinski) Rozenberg, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Slobodka Ghetto and in hiding Life in Slobodka before the war; her father is the spiritual director of the Knesset Israel yeshiva; difficulties following the death of her mother; attends the Yavne school; participation in the Batia organization. Soviet occupation; her sister's marriage in secret; underground Bar Mitzvah celebration; nationalization of the yeshiva building and the synagogues by the Soviets; German occupation; the pogrom in Slobodka; their house was spared; deportation to the Ninth...

File Number : 11713

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Nushi Anna (Rozsa) Marar, born in Budapest, 1918, regarding her experiences in Budapest and her illegal immigration to Eretz Israel, 1944

Testimony

Testimony of Nushi Anna (Rozsa) Marar, born in Budapest, 1918, regarding her experiences in Budapest and her illegal immigration to Eretz Israel, 1944 Assimilated, established middle-class family. Work as a clerk, then fired by her employer due to quota regarding Jewish employees; work in the Jewish National Fund, JNF and Yavneh Press, in Hungarian, starting late 1942; participation in WIZO activities and attending lectures at the Gordon club; encounter with Polish and Czechoslovakian refugees (Mimos Herbst, Dan Tzimerman, Rafi Ben-Shalom); arrest and release of her father; how members of her family hid...

File Number : 10588

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sara Shalem, born in Stopnica, regarding her experiences in Skarzysko-Kamienna, Czestochowa and Leipzig

Testimony

Testimony of Sara Shalem, born in Stopnica, Poland, regarding her experiences in Skarzysko-Kamienna, Czestochowa and Leipzig Zionist family with three daughters; attends a Yavne school; Zionist activities in Stopnica; active community life and mutual aid. Family plans to make aliya to Eretz Israel which were interrupted by the outbreak of the war; German occupation, September 1939; arrival of refugees from other towns in Poland; yellow badge; restrictions on movement; living quarters and work; deportation to labor in a weapons and ammuntions factory in Skarzysko-Kamienna camp, 1942; overcrowding, lice...

File Number : 9025

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yeta Grotzki, born in Pruzany, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau camp and death marches

Testimony

Testimony of Yeta Grotzki, born in Pruzany, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau camp and death marches Her family; attends the Yavneh school in Warsaw. Entry of the Russians and witness' return to Pruzany; entry of the Germans and immediate deportation of the Jews to the Warsaw Ghetto, June 1941; sealing of the ghetto, November 1941; starvation, labor and decrees; deportation to Birkenau camp on the last transport from the ghetto, February 1943; selection in Birkenau camp; forced labor; transfer to Auschwitz camp, 1944; death march to Ravensbrueck camp; continuation...

File Number : 8460

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ela Gringras, born in Kaunas, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Slobodka Ghetto and as a forced laborer in Estonia and Germany

Testimony

Testimony of Ela Gringras, born in Kaunas, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Slobodka Ghetto and as a forced laborer in Estonia and Germany Her family; move to Slobodka. Deportation to the Slobodka Ghetto, 1941; hunger and "Aktions" in the ghetto; deportation to Estonia; forced labor in Narve, 1943; transfer to Kivioli camp; forced labor and executions; transfer to Stutthof camp; transfer to Hamburg; transfer to Ochsenzoll to forced labor in a weapons factory; living conditions in camp; transfer to Bergen-Belsen camp; liberation by the British Army, 15 April 1945. Aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947.

File Number : 8466

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

מכתבים וגלויות ששלח ד''ר Josef Harth ב-Köln אל ילדיו בשוויץ בא''י בשנים 1935-1939 ותיעוד נוסף הנוגע למשפחות Harth ו-Block

File Number : 6234

Type of Material : סיפור חיים, Article, מכתב המלצה, Postcard, Letter

Language : Hebrew, English, German

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew, Yiddish

Personal documentation of the athletes Maurycy Mojzesz Cukierman and Genia Krakowska of Łódź, 1925–1935

Personal documentation of the athletes Maurycy Mojzesz Cukierman and Genia Krakowska of Łódź, 1925–1935 - student card from Yavne Hebrew high school in Łódź; - telegram sent to Maurycy Cukierman on August 25, 1926; - certification of completion of driving course, issued to Maurycy Cukierman in Łódź on December 10, 1931; - diploma from Bar Kochba sports association in Łódź, issued to Genia Krakowska on June 7, 1925; - regular and international drivers licenses of Mojzesz Cukierman (b. December 24, 1904, in Łódź), issued in 1934–1935. Submitter’s remarks: Mojzsez Cukierman was a member of...

File Number : 1747

Type of Material : Diploma, Personal Documents, Telegram

Language : Polish

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