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Memoirs of the twins Alla (Gaber) Bruk and Kira (Gaber) Rashba, born in Leningrad, Soviet Union, 1935, regarding their experiences in Leningrad, Dzhankoy and using a false identity in Akkerman

Memoirs of the twins Alla (Gaber) Bruk and Kira (Gaber) Rashba, born in Leningrad, Soviet Union, 1935, regarding their experiences in Leningrad, Dzhankoy and using a false identity in Akkerman Growing up in the parents' home; Outbreak of the war; digging defense trenches; evacuation from Leningrad, 28 June 1941; arrival at Malaya Vishera; air-raids; murder of children; escape to Armavir; in hiding in a cellar; wanderings at the front; arrival to Dzhankoy; morbidity; rescue of one of the sisters by a surgeon in a German hospital in Dzhankoy; arrival in Akkerman; life using a false identity with the family...

File Number : 8496

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Russian

Testimony of Liza (Hershkovitz) Bar, born in Herta, Romania, 1930, regarding her experiences in Herta, Edineti, Mogilev, Romanca, Rabovez and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Liza (Hershkovitz) Bar, born in Herta, Romania, 1930, regarding her experiences in Herta, Edineti, Mogilev, Romanca, Rabovez and other places Her childhood in a religious-Zionist family; annexation of Herta to the Soviet Union, 1940. German Army occupation of Herta, 1941; concentration in the synagogue for three days; looting of her family's property; march of Herta's Jews throughout Bessarabia; death of the weak people en route; life in Edineti for six weeks; march until Atachi; transfer to Mogilev; transfer on foot to Romanca via Shargorod and Luchinets, including hunger, hardships...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Lea Gitel Gertruda (Presner) Malek, born in Vienna, Austria, 1917, regarding her experiences in the Marculesti camp and the Bershad Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Lea Gitel Gertruda (Presner) Malek, born in Vienna, Austria, 1917, regarding her experiences in the Marculesti camp and the Bershad Ghetto Her childhood in Vienna; her family's move to Cernauti, 1927; from a traditional, well established family; life in Cernauti including attending a government high school. Soviet occupation, 1940; German occupation, summer 1941; deportation to the Cernauti Ghetto; deportation by train to the Marculesti camp two days later; transfer to Transnistria on foot; transfer to the Bershad Ghetto on foot; ghetto life including disease and the deaths of her parents,...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Arie Leib Bretshneider Beit Halachmi, born in the Mogilev-Podolskiy camp, Ukraine, 1942, regarding his experiences as a baby in the Mogilev-Podolskiy camp

Testimony

Testimony of Arie Leib Bretshneider Beit Halachmi, born in the Mogilev-Podolskiy camp, Ukraine, 1942, regarding his experiences as a baby in the Mogilev-Podolskiy camp Testimony based on stories told him by others; family home in Radauti and deportation to Transnistria to Mogilev, October 1941; birth of witness, January, 1942; yellow badge; the cold; hunger; diseases; death ofhis father, December, 1943; liberation, March, 1944. Aliya to Israel, 1950.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ruth Reisele Shoshana (Mistovski-Kormendel) Kess, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1938, regarding her experiences in orphanages in Tashkent

Testimony

Testimony of Ruth Reisele Shoshana (Mistovski-Kormendel) Kess, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1938, regarding her experiences in orphanages in Tashkent Childhood in the shadow of escape to the Soviet Union; her nuclear family; wanderings and life in orphanages in Tashkent; her mother's remarriage and the births of two siblings; life in kolkhozes. Life in DP camps in Austria; aliya to Israel, 1949.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rivka Lavi, born in Siret, Romania, 1927, regarding her experiences in Transnistria and Balta, and her aliya to Eretz Israel, 1944

Testimony

Testimony of Rivka Lavi, born in Siret, Romania, 1927, regarding her experiences in Transnistria and Balta, and her aliya to Eretz Israel, 1944 Childhood; family. Persecution of the Jews, 1941-1944; closure of schools; deportation to Transnistria; death march in Transnistria; life in an orphanage in Balta; deaths of her parents and her sister in pigsties. Aliya to Eretz Israel, 1944

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yishayahu Charles Klein, born in Kalisz, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Belgium, France, Auschwitz-Birkenau, on a death march and in Mauthausen

Testimony

Testimony of Yishayahu Charles Klein, born in Kalisz, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Belgium, France, Auschwitz-Birkenau, on a death march and in Mauthausen Childhood; move to Belgium due to economic difficulties. Persecution of the Belgian Jews; deportation to France; return to Belgium; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; forced labor; death march to Mauthausen; liberation by the US Army. Aliya to Israel, 1949.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe Glutman, born in Edineti Targ, Romania, 1931, regarding his experiences in Edineti Targ, Transnistria, Vartejeni Targ and Verkhovka

Testimony

Testimony of Moshe Glutman, born in Edineti Targ, Romania, 1931, regarding his experiences in Edineti Targ, Transnistria, Vartejeni Targ and Verkhovka From a traditional family of professionally skilled workers; co-existence of Jews and non-Jews; Jewish youth movement activities. Red Army occupation, 1940; Romanian occupation 1941; retaliation against the Jews who collaborated with the Soviets; murder, looting, rape; deportation to Transnistria; shortage of food and water; mortality from illnesses; dysentery; typhus; sleeping in stables and cowsheds; crossing the Dniester and drowning of people; arrival...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Elieser Harnik, born in Seletin, Romania, 1927, regarding his experiences in Transnistria as a forced laborer in Tulchin

Testimony

Testimony of Elieser Harnik, born in Seletin, Romania, 1927, regarding his experiences in Transnistria as a forced laborer in Tulchin Childhood. Deportation to Radauti; deportation to Transnistria; march in a convoy via Atachi; life in Mogilev and Luchinets; forced labor in the Tulchin camp; mortality from typhus, cold and starvation. Repatriation of orphans with help from Yitzchak Artzi, March 1944; aliya to Eretz Israel with orphans from Transnistria via Aleppo, Syria and Beirut, Lebanon, December 1944.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zvi Harry Hornik, born in Zastavna, Romania, 1937

Testimony

Testimony of Zvi Harry Hornik, born in Zastavna, Romania, 1937 Childhood in a traditional family. Soviet occupation, 1940; air-raids; nationalization of his father's farm; entrance of the Romanians Germans[?], 1941; increasing displays of antisemitism; yellow badge; deportation to Transnistria on Simchat Torah (14 October), 1941; march to Manikovka; the cold, hunger, disease; death of his grandmother; assistance from the local priest; escape to Bershad; labor of his father; assistance from the children in the ghetto in collecting food; children's games; appearance of the Soviet partisans and retreat of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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