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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...

File Number : 13735

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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

Testimony

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;...

File Number : 13069

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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

Testimony

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);...

File Number : 12893

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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

Testimony

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;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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

Testimony

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...

File Number : 9878

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew