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Testimony of Menahem Lior, born in Bedzin, Poland in 1928, regarding his experiences during ‎deportation to the Bedzin Ghetto and the work camp in Kamionka; hidden by a Pole; escape to ‎Eretz Israel His childhood in a socialist Zionist home; refugees from Germany; rise of antisemitism; outbreak of ‎war on 1 September 1939; anti-Jewish laws and decrees; restriction of Jewish movement and ‎concentration in one area; youth movements; agricultural farm; Zionist and underground ‎activities; infiltrating into a nearby work camp; work collecting and sorting possessions of the Jews ‎in the ghetto; removing dead...

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Testimony of Ada (Gruenglass) Matilsky, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1933, regarding her experiences as a child in hiding in the Warsaw Ghetto and assuming a false identity outside the ghetto

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Testimony of Ada (Gruenglass) Matilsky, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1933, regarding her experiences as a child in hiding in the Warsaw Ghetto and assuming a false identity outside the ghetto Life before the war; well-to-do family; life in the non-Jewish quarter. Outbreak of the war; her mother is wounded during an air-raid; escape of her father with her uncle to the Soviet Union; return of her father; capture of her father and his transfer to forced labor; Germans and Poles break into their home and robbery of the mother from her possessions; escape to the home of her aunt in the small ghetto; ghetto life;...

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Testimony of Moshe Monik Yakubovitz, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, Majdanek, Budzyn, Mielec and other places

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Testimony of Moshe Monik Yakubovitz, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, Majdanek, Budzyn, Mielec and other places Life before the war; witness learns in a "heder" and attends the Tarbut school. German occupation, 1939; anti-Jewish restrictions including wearing an armband; shearing of [beards of] elderly Jews; deportation to the Warsaw Ghetto; Warsaw Ghetto life including the death of Jews from hunger and their burial in a mass grave; his Bar Mitzvah in the ghetto; activities of the Jewish police; activities of workshops; Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB);...

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Testimony of Gitel (Vinkler) Stern, born in Marghita, Romania, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Oradea Ghetto, Auschwitz, Fallersleben and Salzwedel

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Testimony of Gitel (Vinkler) Stern, born in Marghita, Romania, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Oradea Ghetto, Auschwitz, Fallersleben and Salzwedel Life before the war; Jewish community; hosting yeshiva students for meals; learns in a Beit Yaakov school. Life under Romanian rule and the Iron Guard; annexation to Hungary, August 1940; anti-Jewish decrees and restrictions; drafting of men to forced labor; German occupation, March 1944; yellow badge; relations with non-Jewish neighbors; deportation to the Oradea Ghetto by Hungarian gendarmes; ghetto life including confiscation of valuables;...

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Testimony of Moshe Levi, born in Levice, Czechoslovakia, 1922, regarding his experiences in Slovakia, a Hungarian labor battalion, Budapest, the Glass House and using a false identity

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Testimony of Moshe Levi, born in Levice, Czechoslovakia, 1922, regarding his experiences in Slovakia, a Hungarian labor battalion, Budapest, the Glass House and using a false identity His childhood and family background; life in Parkan until 1939; decent relations with the local non-Jews; membership in Maccabi Hatzair; aliya training in Sarkeresztur. Annexation to Hungary; joins Levente, a fascist youth organization, 1939; assignment of various jobs to the Jewish members; move to Budapest, late 1939; work in a sawmill and canning factory; draft to a labor battalion, September 1939; service in Mohacs in...

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