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Testimony of Abraham Ernst Ponger, born in Mikulas Litovsky Svaty, Czechoslovakia, in 1922, regarding his experiences in the Sered camp and in the battle of the partisans

Childhood before the war; Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria 1938; expulsion from school and carpentry studies; independence of Slovakia and anti-Jewish legislation 1939; deportation of Jews and escape to the mountains in March 1942; going back home and deportation to the Sered camp,in April 1945; work in carpentry; underground in the camp; Slovak uprising and escape ,in August 1944; joining partisans; actions against Germans; liberation by the red army,in April 1945; joining aliya training; illegal immigration to Eretz Israel on the Theodor Herzl ship,on 01 April 1947; exile to Cyprus; aliya back to...

File Number : 13772

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Dov Bene Weiss, born in Bekescsaba, Hungary, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Bekescsaba Ghetto, Budapest, Auschwitz and Muehldorf

Testimony

Testimony of Dov Bene Weiss, born in Bekescsaba, Hungary, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Bekescsaba Ghetto, Budapest, Auschwitz and Muehldorf Life in Bekescsaba. Deportation to the Bekescsaba Ghetto; transfer to Budapest; life in Budapest; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life; transfer to Muehldorf; camp life.

File Number : 13370

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shaul Chaskelovic, born in Piatra Neamt, Romania, 1923, regarding his experiences in Piatra Neamt, as a forced laborer and as a Romanian Army soldier

Testimony

Testimony of Shaul Chaskelovic, born in Piatra Neamt, Romania, 1923, regarding his experiences in Piatra Neamt, as a forced laborer and as a Romanian Army soldier From a religious family; learns in a heder, a Jewish school and a Romanian school; Hanoar Hatzioni activities. Outbreak of the war; anti-Jewish legislation; confiscation of businesses; ban on studies; robbery of Jewish property; physical harassment by the legionnaires; meeting with Jewish refugees from Poland; assistance; receipt of information; drafted for forced labor; labor as a dentist in the Romanian Army, April 1944; liberation by the Red...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Elizabeth Bates, born in Gabin, Poland, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto and using a false identity in Warsaw

Testimony

Testimony of Elizabeth Bates, born in Gabin, Poland, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto and using a false identity in Warsaw Zionist, traditional family; activities in the Hashomer Hatzair movement; knowledge regarding the deportation of Jews from Germany, 1938. Outbreak of the war; escape to Warsaw; return to Gabin; escape to the Warsaw Ghetto with her father; Warsaw Ghetto life including labor in a workshop sewing uniforms and in a children's hospital; acquaintanceship with Janusz Korczak; death of her father due to typhus disease; escape from the Warsaw Ghetto; life while using a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

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 Avraham Chmielnik, born in Kolo, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in Poznan, Auschwitz, Lagisza and Jaworzno

Testimony

Testimony of Avraham Chmielnik, born in Kolo, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in Poznan, Auschwitz, Lagisza and Jaworzno Well-to-do family, owners of a cafe and hotel; his father is a tailor; witness learns in a "heder" and a Yavneh school; activities in Beitar and Poalei Zion movements. Outbreak of the war, 1939; arrival of Jewish refugees from Germany; murder of Jews in the streets; draft of his eldest brother to the Polish Army; his brother is taken captive; return of his brother; economic decrees; draft to labor digging and cleaning; deportation to Poznan; camp life including labor...

File Number : 12837

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avraham Goldlist, born in Chmielnik, Poland, 1927, regarding his experiences in Skarzysko-Kamienna, Kielce, Buchenwald, Dachau and Bisingen

Testimony

Testimony of Avraham Goldlist, born in Chmielnik, Poland, 1927, regarding his experiences in Skarzysko-Kamienna, Kielce, Buchenwald, Dachau and Bisingen From a liberal religious family; witness' father is a tailor; learns in a "heder" and local Polish school. Expulsion from school, 1939; anti-Jewish decrees; joins Hashomer Hatzair, 1941; visit of Mordechai Anielewicz to his Hashomer Hatzair chapter; concentration of the Jews in the city square, 01 October 1942; deportation of his parents and three brothers to Treblinka; deportation to Skarzysko-Kamienna; camp life including labor filling shells with...

File Number : 12820

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Telegram sent by Ignacy Schwarzbart to Yitzchak Tabenkin and Meir Yaari via the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel in Jerusalem regarding the receipt of information from Zivia Lubetkin and Yitzhak Zuckerman in Warsaw regarding the deaths of hundreds of Hechalutz and Hashomer fighters, 1943 Schwarzbart received the information regarding the deaths of hundreds of fighters during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and regarding the fate of [Mordechai] Anilevitz and Frumka [Plotnitzka] from Zivia and Yitzhak, 22 June 1943; transmission of the information in a telegram from Schwarzbart to Tabenkin and Yaari via the Jewish...

File Number : 895

Type of Material : Telegram

Language : English

Questionnaire regarding the Jews of Saeckingen, Germany, 1946

Questionnaire regarding the Jews of Saeckingen, Germany, 1946 Page 1: Additional request by The Central Historical Commission of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the U.S. Zone, regarding an answer in the questionnaire.

File Number : 271

Type of Material : Questionnaire, Official Documentation, Statistical Data

Language : German

Leaflets containing information regarding the situation of the Jews of Poland, published in Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv by the United Committee for Aid to Polish Jews, May 1940-February 1942

Leaflets containing information regarding the situation of the Jews of Poland, published in Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv by the United Committee for Aid to Polish Jews, May 1940-February 1942 The leaflets were published in Polish, Hebrew, French and English and included information regarding the situation of the Jews of Poland and events in the various communities throughout occupied Poland; the information was usually based on personal testimonies of Jews who succeeded in reaching Eretz Israel.

File Number : 7

Type of Material : Booklet(s)

Language : Hebrew, Polish, French, English

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