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Testimony of Moshe Zagorski, born in 1927 in Wadowice, Poland, about being sent to the Groeditz, Faulbrück, and Gunzlau camps for forced labor, death march, and additional camps

Offspring of a well-to-do family; war breaks out in September 1939; escaping to relatives in Kraków; back to Wadowice; forced labor in Wadowice; deportation to Annaberg in autumn 1940 for forced labor; finds an uncle in the camp; transfer to Groeditz and life at a flour mill; cultural life in the camp; construction work in Faulbrück and separation from uncle; transferred to the Bunzlu camp apparently in summer 1942; Bunzlau becomes a concentration camp and assignment to young peole's block in May 1944; death march to Dora Mittelbau in February 1945 and several days in the camp; taken to Ellrich satellite camp;...

File Number : 13440

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Eva Martha Breslauer Shmutz, born in 1931 in Budapest, about life in hiding in Budapest

Testimony

Testimony of Eva Martha Breslauer Shmutz, born in 1931 in Budapest, about life in hiding in Budapest Childhood in an affluent Orthodox home; begins studies at a Jewish school in 1937; the Belzer Rebbe lives with the family for six weeks while escaping from Poland in 1942; Germans enter on March 19, 1944; yellow star; studies terminated on April 6, 1944; digging a bunker under father's metal factory; family moves to a marked house in Budapest; moves into the bunker along with some thirty people on June 24, 1944; building concierge provides them with food for payment; liberation by Red Army forces in 1945;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shimon Shimek Iekel, born in Cracow, Poland, 1918, regarding his experiences in the Tarnow Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Gleiwitz and Blechhammer

Testimony

Testimony of Shimon Shimek Iekel, born in Krakow, Poland, 1918, regarding his experiences in the Tarnow Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Gleiwitz and Blechhammer Poor family with a stepmother; run away from home; life as a homeless person in the mob world. Outbreak of the war, 1939; forced labor in exchange for rent; deportation of the Jews to Tarnow; restrictions and curfew; help from local Jews; receives food from a community kitchen; draft of a brother to a labor camp; escape from the camp; escape of his father; forced labor logging trees; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; extermination of relatives in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Karol Dachner, born in Iasi, Romania, 1921, regarding his experiences in Iasi, Roman, Ialomita, Arad and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Karol Dachner, born in Iasi, Romania, 1921, regarding his experiences in Iasi, Roman, Ialomita, Arad and other places Life before the war; relations with the Romanian population; difficulties in making a livelihood; goes out to work at age 11; attends a Hebrew school; Arrest of his father under suspicion of Communist activity, April 1940; release of his father in exchange for a bribe; "Aktions" and shooting of Jews; deportation to Roman; help from the Jewish community; transfer to Ialomita; life in Ialomita; transfer to Arad; life in Arad including forced labor cleaning; transfer to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sara (Proiektor) Tartakovski, born in Khmelnik, Ukraine, 1924, regarding her experiences in Kiev, using a false identity and her escape to Biysk

Testimony

Testimony of Sara (Proiektor) Tartakovski, born in Khmelnik, Ukraine, 1924, regarding her experiences in Kiev, using a false identity and her escape to Biysk Childhood in Khmelnik; education; move to Kiev. German occupation, 1941; round-up of the Jews in Babi Yar, 19 September 1941; escape and in hiding using a false identity; move to Biysk; studies in a teachers college; return to Kiev, 1944. Work; starts a family; aliya to Israel, 1973; absorption.

File Number : 12604

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation, including a protest by Wehrkreiskommando No. XXI (Military area headquarters) of the Wehrmacht, against the behavior of SS units toward the population in the Warhtegau, 1939

Documentation, including a protest by Wehrkreiskommando No. XXI (Military area headquarters) of the Wehrmacht, against the behavior of SS units toward the population in the Warhtegau, 1939 - Report by Wehrkreiskommando No. XXI in Poznan, including a complaint regarding the behavior of SS units toward the local population in the Warhtegau, including arbitrary executions, arrests, acts of looting, and eviction from homes; carrying out of "Aktions" against Jews; acts of floggings and public humiliation of Jews in Turek, with the participation of Volksdeutsche residents; discrimination against Jews and Poles, by...

File Number : 40

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Testimony of Joseph Hefner, born in Bucharest, Romania, 1935, regarding his experiences as a young child in Bucharest

Testimony

Testimony of Joseph Hefner, born in Bucharest, Romania, 1935, regarding his experiences as a young child in Bucharest Life before the war. Anti-Jewish decrees including confiscation of property; liberation.

File Number : 1025

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Velvel Zeev Yehuda Lach, born in Ostrow, Poland, regarding [his experiences during] 1939-1944

Memoirs of Velvel Zeev Yehuda Lach, born in Ostrow, Poland, regarding [his experiences during] 1939-1944 The memoirs were written after the war, in four sections: Part one: Established, ultra-orthodox family in the Jewish community in Ostrow; German Army occupation of Ostrow on 01/09/1939; life during the German occupation; his family escapes to Zembrow; they hope to arrive to Vilna; arrival to Bistrick; attempt by his father to escape to Soviet territory with help from a non-Jewish border smuggler; detention and imprisonment in Oszmene; release; reunion with his mother and sister; return to Bistrich;...

File Number : 9493

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Yiddish

Memoirs of Zvi Hershel Dinerman, a resident of Pruzana, Poland, regarding his experiences in the Pruzana Ghetto and with the partisans in the forest in the area

Memoirs of Zvi Hershel Dinerman, a resident of Pruzana, Poland, regarding his experiences in the Pruzana Ghetto and with the partisans in the forest in the area Pruzana Ghetto life, with approximately 10,000 Jews; half of the Jews are local people and the remainder of the Jews are from the area; escape to the forest along with another eight young people in December 1942; they join a group of Russian partisans, along with other Jews; loathing of the Russians by the Jews; activities by the group, including an attempt to convince the Jews of the Pruzana Ghetto to escape and join them; belief by some of the Jews...

File Number : 9344

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Yiddish

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