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Testimony of Yaacov Klein Katsir, born in Bucharest, Romania, 1931, regarding his experiences as a child in Bucharest

Testimony

Testimony of Yaacov Klein Katsir, born in Bucharest, Romania, 1931, regarding his experiences as a child in Bucharest Family background; Shabbatot and religious holidays; attends a Sephardic Jewish school; synagogues; youth movements and mutual help in the community; arrival of refugees in Bucharest. Anti-Jewish legislation during the Goga-Cuza government; terror on the part of the Iron Guard legionnaires; attempts by the Romanian Army to disperse the legionnaires; persecution of youth groups; deportations to Transnistria; forced labor; agricultural labor in a rural area; air-raids on factories by the US...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Shlomo Sandor Levy, born in Nyiregyhaza, Hungary, 1919, regarding his experiences in labor battalions in various camps, including Komarom and Mohacs, in the Dunafoldvar Ghetto and the Budapest Ghetto in a Swiss protected house The immediate family; family life; Sabbath and religious holidays, studies; rabbis; synagogues and Zionist activities in the community; his father is taken captive by the Soviets in World War I; move to Budapest and studies in the Teachers' Seminary; draft to a Hungarian Army labor battalion; temporary release in order to complete studies. Transfer to forced labor in...

File Number : 13211

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Bilha Bella (Mosheva) Rivnik, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, 1930, regarding her experiences as a child in the ghettos and the hiding of a Jewish partisan

Testimony

Testimony of Bilha Bella (Mosheva) Rivnik, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, 1930, regarding her experiences as a child in the ghettos and the hiding of a Jewish partisan

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Lily (Fleishman) Kremer, born in Pribeta, Czechoslovakia, 1929, regarding her experiences in the Komarno Ghetto, Plaszow, Auschwitz, Muehldorf, Augsburg and in hiding

Testimony

Testimony of Lily (Fleishman) Kremer, born in Pribeta, Czechoslovakia, 1929, regarding her experiences in the Komarno Ghetto, Plaszow, Auschwitz, Muehldorf, Augsburg and in hiding From a Neolog family. Outbreak of the war; work for a farmer in order to avoid deportation; informed on; deportation to the Komarno Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; robbery of valuables on the train; transfer to Plaszow; transfer to Auschwitz; camp life including suffering from hunger and cold; transfer to Muehldorf; clearing away rubble from air-raids; transfer to Augsburg; camp life including labor in a Messerschmitt aircraft...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Noga Eugenia (Cohen) Donat, born in Milan, Italy, 1922, regarding her experiences in Milan, Pandino, using a false identity and in hiding in Castiraga Vidardo

Testimony

Testimony of Noga Eugenia (Cohen) Donat, born in Milan, Italy, 1922, regarding her experiences in Milan, Pandino, using a false identity and in hiding in Castiraga Vidardo Life before the war. Outbreak of the war; anti-Jewish restrictions; escape to Pandino due to air-raids, 1943; life in Pandino including the capture and deportation of her brother; deportation of her parents to Bergen-Belsen; escape to Castiraga Vidardo with help from an acquaintance; life in Castiraga Vidardo including finding a hiding place in the home of an Italian family; life using a false identity with the help of forged documents;...

File Number : 12962

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Hadasa Edusia (Neiman) Galanti, born in Lodz, Poland, 1937, regarding her experiences as a child in Lodz, the Radom Ghetto and in hiding in Warsaw

Testimony

Testimony of Hadasa Edusia (Neiman) Galanti, born in Lodz, Poland, 1937, regarding her experiences as a child in Lodz, the Radom Ghetto and in hiding in Warsaw Life before the war. Outbreak of the war; escape to the Radom Ghetto; smuggled to Warsaw by her aunt; entrusted to a Polish family; life outside the ghetto in the Polish family's home; move to the home of a woman who is a Communist activist; murder of the woman; move to the family of the woman's sister. Her aunt finds the witness and fosters her; entrusted to the Jewish Agency; preparations for aliya to Eretz Israel; move to Dornstadt; DP camp...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Michael Sprintz, born in Tuczyn, Poland, 1932, regarding his experiences in the Tuczyn Ghetto and in hiding in a forest

Testimony

Testimony of Michael Sprintz, born in Tuczyn, Poland, 1932, regarding his experiences in the Tuczyn Ghetto and in hiding in a forest Life before the war; attends a "heder"; detention of his father. Soviet occupation, 1939; German occupation, July 1941; murder of his grandparents; deportation to the Tuczyn Ghetto and ghetto life; burning of the ghetto and escape to a forest; life in hiding in the forest; informed on by a forest guard; murder of the people in hiding including his mother and sisters; escape on foot in the snow and in hiding with non-Jews; meets his father; hanging of the forest guard by his...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yocheved (Greenberg) Klauzner, born in Iasi, Romania, 1928, regarding her experiences in Iasi and en route to Eretz Israel

Testimony

Testimony of Yocheved (Greenberg) Klauzner, born in Iasi, Romania, 1928, regarding her experiences in Iasi and en route to Eretz Israel From a Zionist family; Jewish community; reception of Transnistria children; preparation for aliya to Eretz Israel, 1936. Outbreak of the war, June 1941; air-raids in the areas where Jews live; restrictions on Jews including yellow badge; murder of men and families in hiding; exemption from reporting to the Iasi death trains, Black Sunday, 29 June 1941; overcrowding of Jews into railroad cars including suffocation of many and burial in a mass grave; deportation of the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yitzhak Livni, born in Sashalom, Hungary, 1926, regarding his experiences in forced labor in Szolnok and in Mauthausen

Testimony

Testimony of Yitzhak Livni, born in Sashalom, Hungary, 1926, regarding his experiences in forced labor in Szolnok and in Mauthausen Traditional family; life before the war; education; membership in the Beitar youth movement. Restrictions on Jews including the dismissal of his father; draft of his father to forced labor; German occupation, March 1944; restriction on Jews including the yellow badge; drafted to forced labor; training; transfer to Szolnok; air-raids by the British; escape in a train to the Austrian border; move to Austria; forced labor under a German commander; life in Austria; deportation on...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zeev Albert, born in Korzec, Poland, 1936, regarding his experiences in the Korzec Ghetto and in hiding at home, a forest and in the home of a farmer

Testimony

Testimony of Zeev Albert, born in Korzec, Poland, 1936, regarding his experiences in the Korzec Ghetto and in hiding at home, a forest and in the home of a farmer Life before the war. German occupation; deportation to the Korzec Ghetto; ghetto life; escape back home and life in hiding in a storeroom; his father's rescue from an unsuccessful attempt to murder him; escape to forests; life in a forest; departs the forest; life in hiding in a hayloft of a farmer who was in contact with the partisans; liberation by the Red Army. Return home; move to Lodz; move to Germany; DP camp life; illness and...

File Number : 12328

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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