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Testimony of Moshe Rutshtein, born in Brzezina, Poland, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Sachsenhausen

Testimony

Testimony of Moshe Rutshtein, born in Brzezina, Poland, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Sachsenhausen Life before the war in Lodz; attends a Polish elementary school; attends a Jewish school; displays of antisemitism; warnings from their Volksdeutsche neighbors; offers of help. German occupation; decrees; detention of his parents; release of his parents with the help of a Volksdeutsche neighbor, a member of the SS; ban on walking on pavements; yellow badge; ban on going to the cinema; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto; establishment of the Jewish police under...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shiye Zelig Litvak, born in Radom, Poland, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Radom Ghetto, Treblinka, Auschwitz, Oranienburg, Sachsenhausen and other camps

Testimony

Testimony of Shiye Zelig Litvak, born in Radom, Poland, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Radom Ghetto, Treblinka, Auschwitz, Oranienburg, Sachsenhausen and other camps Life before the war; relations with the non-Jewish populartion; learns in a "heder"; Beitar activities. German occupation, 1939; deportation to the Radom Ghetto, 1942; ghetto life including learning German and labor as a courier and translator; deportation to Treblinka; camp life including living in stables and labor as a courier and translator; transfer to Auschwitz; transfer to Oranienburg; transfer to Sachsenhausen; transfer to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rachel Roza (Iunger) Simon, born in Grosi, Romania, 1924, regarding her experiences in Dej, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Altenburg

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Testimony of Rachel Roza (Iunger) Simon, born in Grosi, Romania, 1924, regarding her experiences in Dej, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Altenburg Life before the war; attends a Romanian school. Re-annexation to Hungary, 1940; restrictions on the Jews; deportation of her father to a labor camp and his release; deportation to Dej; life in Dej; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; camp life including the deaths of her parents and sisters; labor moving stones; transfer to Altenburg; camp life including labor in an aircraft factory; receives help from a German foreman; liberation by the US Army, 1945. Convalescence...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chana Helen (Shechter) Karpati, born in Oradea, Romania, 1931, regarding her experiences in the Reghin Ghetto, Auschwitz, Krakow, Plaszow, Rochlitz and Calw

Testimony

Testimony of Chana Helen (Shechter) Karpati, born in Oradea, Romania, 1931, regarding her experiences in the Reghin Ghetto, Auschwitz, Krakow, Plaszow, Rochlitz and Calw Life before the war; move to Reghin; attends a Jewish school; relations with the local population. German occupation; deportation of her father to Buchenwald; death of her father; deportation to the Reghin Ghetto, 1944; deportation to Auschwitz; transfer to Krakow; transfer to Plaszow; camp life including labor in a vegetable garden; transfer back to Auschwitz; transfer to Rochlitz; camp life including labor in an aircraft factory;...

File Number : 12773

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Israel Sruli Berkovitz, born in Svalava, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding his experiences in Auschwitz, Mauthausen and a death march

Testimony

Testimony of Israel Sruli Berkovitz, born in Svalava, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding his experiences in Auschwitz, Mauthausen and a death march Life before the war; family owns a leather shop; attends a Czech school and a Jewish school; Beitar, Hashomer Hatzair and Hapoel Hamizrachi activities; aliya training. Outbreak of the war, 1939; re-annexation to Hungary; decrees including the closing of shops and expulsion from school; his father's death, 1943; deportation to Auschwitz, 1944; camp life including the murder of his mother and siblings; transfer to Mauthausen; camp life including labor digging...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yehudit Eudice Ilonka (Rozental) Poplinger, born in Targul Lapusului, Romania, 1927, regarding her experiences in Borpatak, Auschwitz and Liebau

Testimony

Testimony of Yehudit Eudice Ilonka (Rozental) Poplinger, born in Targul Lapusului, Romania, 1927, regarding her experiences in Borpatak, Auschwitz and Liebau Religious family; death of her father; relations with the non-Jewish population. Outbreak of the war, 1939; annexation to Hungary; attempt to make aliya to Eretz Israel; German occupation; decrees including termination of studies and the yellow badge; witness learns sewing; transfer to Borpatak; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life including labor sorting inmates' clothing and belongings; murder of her mother and brother; transfer to Liebau; camp...

File Number : 12849

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Karel Abeles, born in Teplice-Sanove, Czechoslovakia, 1926, submitted in the context of the Dokumentacni Akce (Documentation Project) in Prague, 16/08/1945

Testimony of Karel Abeles, born in Teplice-Sanove, Czechoslovakia, 1926, submitted in the context of the Dokumentacni Akce (Documentation Project) in Prague, 16/08/1945 Move of the family of Karel Abeles from Teplice-Sanov to Prague in October 1938 after the annexation of the Sudeten area to Germany; life in Prague until October 1941; Deportation to the Lodz Ghetto with his parents and his older brother on the third transport, 26 October 1941; Lodz Ghetto life, including their relations with Jews from Poland; death of his father due to infection, 05 March 1942; deportation of 25,000 Jews from the Lodz...

File Number : 219

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Czech

Testimony of Avraham Zorman, born in Warsaw, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, Budzyn, Litomerice and Mauthausen concentration camp

Testimony

Testimony of Avraham Zorman, born in Warsaw, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, Budzyn, Litomerice and Mauthausen camps The family; education in a Tarbut school; member of Zionist youth movements; antisemitism until 1939; concentration of the Jews in the ghetto, 1940; various labor assignments; building bunkers; obtaining weapons from the Poles at every opportunity; deportation to Budzyn camp, May 1943-May 1944; transfer to Plaszow camp; after two weeks transfer to Litomerice; labor in an aircraft parts factory; transfer to Mauthausen, January 1945; liberation by the US Army, May...

File Number : 9018

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Izidor Weisz, born in 1924, regarding his experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Auschwitz and Mülsen St. Micheln camps

Testimony of Izidor Weisz, born in 1924, regarding his experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Auschwitz and Mülsen St. Micheln camps Deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, [doesn't say where he was prior to this] in a transport together with 3,000 inmates; arrival in the camp; selection together with 300 inmates for labor; transfer to the shower room; cropping of hair; showering; changing clothes into inmate clothing; transfer to a Block; transfer to a different Block; selection and transfer to Auschwitz; camp life; shower; changing clothes; tattoo; labor in clearing train cars for two weeks; labor in constructing a...

File Number : 2821

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

Testimony of Éva Storch, born in Munkács, Czechoslovakia, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Munkács Ghetto and in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Parschnitz and Zittau camps

Testimony of Éva Storch, born in Munkács, Czechoslovakia, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Munkács Ghetto and in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Parschnitz and Zittau camps Life in the Munkács Ghetto; receiving food from acquaintances; rape and sexual abuse of women by German and Hungarian soldiers; transfer to a brick factory, the second ghetto, after four weeks; torture of the men by Swabian SS soldiers (svábok/Ungarndeutsch-Hungarians of German descent) including their being forced to exercise and beating them; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau on a train; life on the way in a train car together with 75-80...

File Number : 2818

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

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