Yad Vashem Collections - Documents

77 Results

Testimony of Zeev Semel On, born in Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland, in 1924, regarding labour camps, his deportation to Buchenwald and other camps

Testimony

-Parents'house; anti-semitism; air-raids; occupation by the German army on 04 September,1939; humiliations; forced labour; deportation to the Piotrkow Trybunalski ghetto; the father is a member of the Judenradt; contribution demand; confiscation of furs; walking on the pavement is forbidden; starvation; passing of valuables to local neighbours; reduction of the ghetto; issuance of working papers on 21 October 1942; his work as a porter in "Shneider shop" (tailor shop) for the needs of the German army and cargo transfer from place to place; assembling the children in the big synagogue and their murder;...

File Number : 13463

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shraga Kalush, born in Nizni Vyznice, Czechoslovakia, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Podhorjany Ghetto, Auschwitz, Erlenbusch, Flossenbuerg, Bergen-Belsen and more

Testimony

Testimony of Shraga Kalush, born in Nizni Vyznice, Czechoslovakia, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Podhorjany Ghetto, Auschwitz, Erlenbusch, Flossenbuerg, Bergen-Belsen and more Life in the Podhorjany Ghetto, deportation to Auschwitz; life in the camp; transfer to Erlenbusch; life in the camp; transfer to Flossenbuerg; life in the camp; transfer to Crawinkel; life in the camp; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; life in the camp; transfer to Landsberg, life in Landsberg; transfer to Fohrenwald; life in Fohrenwald.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Anszel Sznajder, born in 1928 in Choroszcz, about his experiences in Choroszcz, the Białystok ghetto, and Auschwitz-Birkenau

Testimony

Testimony of Anszel Sznajder, born in 1928 in Choroszcz, about his experiences in Choroszcz, the Białystok ghetto, and Auschwitz-Birkenau Soviet rule in 1939; German occupation ensues in June 1941; father arrested; father murdered; Jews murdered in pits in surrounding forests; abduction of children for forced labor; Aktion; mother and sister murdered in November 1942; hiding with older brothers in a warehouse; aided by non-Jews while hiding in a field; escaping to the Białystok ghetto in January 1943; sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau in February 1943; posing as older than he was in a selection; selections; working...

File Number : 13514

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letter sent from Kirovograd to Fanya Zaslavski containing a description of what happened to her sister Luba Shpigelman and her family who were murdered by the Germans and their Ukrainian collaborators, 29 April 1944,

File Number : 1446

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Russian

Testimony of Tzvi Schoenfeld, born in Chust, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Chust Ghetto, Auschwitz, Plaszow, Gross, Posen and Zittau

Testimony

Testimony of Tzvi Schoenfeld, born in Chust, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Chust Ghetto, Auschwitz, Plaszow, Gross-Rosen and Zittau From an Orthodox family, attends a Czech elementary school and "heder"; his father makes aliya to Eretz Israel, 1934, and his return to Czechoslovakia. Annexation to Hungary, 1938; Aryanization of Jewish businesses; meeting with and assistance to Polish Jewish refugees; disbelief regarding information about fate of the Jews; draft of his father to labor battalions in Ukraine, 1942; receiving information of his death from typhus; deportation of Chust...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Tamar Helena (Rapaport) Bar Levav, born in Seredne, Czechoslovakia, 1928, regarding her experiences as a child in Auschwitz, Dundanga, Libau, on a death march and more

Testimony

Testimony of Tamar Helena (Rapaport) Bar Levav, born in Seredne, Czechoslovakia, 1928, regarding her experiences as a child in Auschwitz, Dundanga, Libau, on a death march and more From an Orthodox family. Reannexation to Hungary, 1939; requirement to close the family business; murder of relatives in Kamenets-Podolsky; drafting of her brothers into work battallions and their deportation to Ukraine, 1942; German occupation, 1944; in hiding for fear of being raped; deportation with her parents and seven sisters; concentration in Uzhorod; separation of her sister due to labor pains; deportation to Auschwitz;...

File Number : 13186

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Eliakim Lenger, born in Wadowice, Poland, 1913, regarding his experiences in Bochnia, Krakow, Gross-Rosen, Litomerice and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Eliakim Lenger, born in Wadowice, Poland, 1913, regarding his experiences in Bochnia, Krakow, Gross-Rosen, Litomerice and other places Life before the war; ultra-Orthodox family; attends a "heder" and a Polish elementary school; escape to Czeckoslovakia during World War 1; return to Poland; activities in Hapoal Hamizrachi; receives information on the events in Germany since the Nazi rise to power; receives information on the deportation of family members to Poland; drafted to the Polish Army; escape of his fiance to the Soviet Union. Escape to Bochnia; transfer to a prison in Krakow by the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Iafa Sheindl (Maritzer) Argaman, born in Todiresti, Romania, 1934, regarding her experiences as a child in Suceava and Mogilev-Podolski, and her aliya to Eretz Israel with a group of children, 1944 Her childhood before the war. Outbreak of the war; move to Suceava; German occupation, 1941; anti-Jewish restrictions; murder of her father; deportation to Transnistria; death of her grandfather and grandmother; escape to Mogilev-Podolski; activities of the JDC organization and the Jewish Agency to organize the children for aliya to Eretz Israel; fostering of the children by families for a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

To be translated

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Aneta Eva (Tshuva) Ben Uzilio, born in Larissa, Greece, 1931, regarding her experiences in Larissa and in hiding in villages

Testimony

Testimony of Aneta Eva (Tshuva) Ben Uzilio, born in Larissa, Greece, 1931, regarding her experiences in Larissa and in hiding in villages Well-to-do, traditional family; activities in the Scouts movement; attends a Jewish school. Outbreak of the war; Italian occupation; help by the Italian Army to the Jewish population; exposure to a deportation of Jews to the East on a train; her father's activities as a weapons supplier to the underground; capture of her father and his detention; in hiding in villages with the encouragement of the clergy; end of the war. Move to Thessaloniki; aliya to Israel, 1951.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Items per page:

1 – 10 of 77