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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : French

Testimony of Anshel Perel, born in Viseul de sus, Romania, 1911, regarding his experiences in Viseul de sus, Iasi and Bucharest

Testimony

Testimony of Anshel Perel, born in Viseul de sus, Romania, 1911, regarding his experiences in Viseul de sus, Iasi and Bucharest Childhood in Viseul de sus in a family of 11; economic distress; life under Romanian control. Hungarian occupation, 1941; work as a bookkeeper in Iasi; transfer to Bucharest, 1944; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1948.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zvi Mekel, born in Iwje, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Slonim, Arkhangelskaya, Ural and Uzbekistan

Testimony

Testimony of Zvi Mekel, born in Iwje, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Slonim, Arkhangelskaya, Ural and Uzbekistan Life before the war; ultra-Orthodox, religious family; life in Slonim; learns in a yeshiva; Soviet occupation, 1939; closure of the yeshiva; two unsuccessful attempts to escape to Vilna, 1939; detention in the charge of opposition to the Soviet regime; life in detention in Arkhangelskaya; deportation of his father and brothers to Siberia. Outbreak of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union, 1941; release; escape to Ural; escape to Uzbekistan; life in Uzbekistan; typhus...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ada Rakocz, born in Gabin, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Gabin Ghetto, Warsaw Ghetto, in hiding, using a false identity and in the Polish underground

Testimony

Testimony of Ada Rakocz, born in Gabin, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Gabin Ghetto, Warsaw Ghetto, in hiding, using a false identity and in the Polish underground Life before the war; well-to-do family; her father was a member of the city council; witness receives a Hebrew and Zionist education; music studies; attempts to make aliya to Eretz Israel; meets Jewish refugees from Germany, 1938; receives knowledge regarding attacks against Jews and their property. Outbreak of the war, 01 September 1939; anti-Jewish restrictions; robbery of Jewish property; escape of her father and her older...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Lea (Pinchuk) Zeiger, born in Rafalowka, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Rafalowka Ghetto, in hiding in a forest and with the partisans

Testimony

Testimony of Lea (Pinchuk) Zeiger, born in Rafalowka, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Rafalowka Ghetto, in hiding in a forest and with the partisans Traditional family; Hebrew education when she attends a Tarbut school; activities in the Beitar movement. Outbreak of the war, 1939; attends a Soviet school; exile of wealthy people to Siberia; termination of private commerce; German occupation, 1941; termination of the Jews' trade activities and studies; deportation to the Rafalowka Ghetto; forced labor of young people; mass murder, and burial in a common grave; acts of murder; hides in a pit...

File Number : 12947

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Silla Zeitl (Ptasznik) Motiletz, born in Terespol, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in Brzesc Nad Bugiem and Siberia

Testimony

Testimony of Silla Zeitl (Ptasznik) Motiletz, born in Terespol, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in Brzesc Nad Bugiem and Siberia German Army air-raids, September 1939; escape to Brzesc Nad Bugiem with her father and younger sister; closure of the border and loss of contact with her mother and brother; exile to Siberia; labor logging trees in forests for four years; shortage of food and clothing; her father freezes to death; transfer of her sister who was 7 years old to the school in the nearby village, and the disappearance of her sister; life alone; end of the war. Return to Poland; move to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Haim Istvan Gotman Gordon, born in Isaszeg, Hungary, 1923, regarding his experiences in Budapest

Testimony

Testimony of Haim Istvan Gotman Gordon, born in Isaszeg, Hungary, 1923, regarding his experiences in Budapest From a well-to-do land owning family; engages in sports; studies in Budapest. Outbreak of the war, 1939; decrees including ban on selling essential goods and the yellow badge; issues conversion to Christianity certificates with help from his homeroom teacher and a priest; work loading logs on railroad cars; liberation by the Red Army, 1944. Studies at the technion in Budapest; marriage; aliya to Israel on the ship, "Atzmaut", 1949.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Permits from the German headquarters in Rome, intended for employees of companies that worked with the Reich Railroad Company, forged by Comando Superiore Partigiani (CSP-Supreme partisan headquarters) activists in Rome

File Number : 102

Type of Material : Certification

Language : Italian, German

Permit from the National Labor Office in the Rome Region, Placement Services, in Italian and German, for use in the event of absence from work, prepared by Comando Superiore Partigiani (CSP-Supreme partisan headquarters) activists

File Number : 101

Type of Material : Certification

Language : Italian, German

Testimony of Samuel Jagiel regarding the rescue from deportation of Jews working for the Wehrmacht in Przemysl by Albert Battel, a Righteous Among the Nations, August 1942

Testimony of Samuel Jagiel regarding the rescue from deportation of Jews working for the Wehrmacht in Przemysl by Albert Battel, a Righteous Among the Nations, August 1942 Position of the witness as head of a group working for the German Army in Przemysl, subordinate to the Wehrmacht; receives news regarding the cancellation of the preferential status of the 4,500 Jews employed by the Wehrmacht, and their expected deportation from the Przemysl Ghetto, late July 1942; conflict of interests between the Gestapo authorities and the German Army on the issue of deportation of laborers serving the Wehrmacht; direct...

File Number : 402

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

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