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Correspondence between the Gross family in Eretz Israel and family in Amstelveen through the Red Cross, 1941-1943; letters sent to Szymon Benno Wind in Westerbork from Vught camp and Amstelveen, 1944; letter from a Polish Army soldier regarding meeting Szymon Benno in Westerbork and the fate of his wife Rosa (Gross) Wind, 1945; personal documentation of Szymon Benno during the war and afterwards Correspondence between the Gross family in Eretz Israel and the family in Amstelveen through the Red Cross, 1941-1943; letters sent from the Vught camp and Amstelveen to Szymon Benno Wind in Westerbork, 1944; letter...

File Number : 2225

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Letter, Red Cross Letter, Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Postcard

Language : Hebrew, English, Dutch, German

To be translated

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Coupon for receiving cigarettes given to a Kapo in Auschwitz, 1944-1945

File Number : 469

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Testimony of Esther Eva (Spiller) Klein, born in Budapest, Hungary, regarding her experiences in Budapest, Kiskoros and more

Testimony

Testimony of Esther Eva (Spiller) Klein, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1926, regarding her experiences in Budapest, Kiskoros and more Life in Budapest until March 1944. Concentration in a school, 16 October [1944?]; labor digging [anti] tank [trenches] near Vacbottyan; delivery [distribution] of protection certificates (Schutzpass) by her mother; tearing up of one of the certificates by an Iron Cross [should be: Arrow Cross] officer, deliberation on whether to give the remaining certificate to her friend in order to save her life; transfer to Swiss protection; deportation to the ghetto; death of her brother;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

To be translated

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yakov Cohen, born in Thessaloniki, Greece, 1918, regarding his experiences in the Thessaloniki Ghetto and in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buna and Dora camps

Testimony

Testimony of Yakov Cohen, born in Thessaloniki, Greece, 1918, regarding his experiences in the Thessaloniki Ghetto and in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buna and Dora camps Life before the war; witness attends an Alliance school; service in the Greek Army, from 1939; service in combat in Albania. Outbreak of the war, 1941; German occupation; deportation to the "Baron Hirsch" Ghetto, February 1943; deportation by train to Auschwitz-Birkenau; camp life; transfer to Buna; camp life; labor in the "sewage Kommando"; transfer to another Kommando; sells slacks sewn by a friend in exchange for cigarettes; exchanges the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avraham Pantfil, born in Rypin, Poland 1924, regarding his experiences in Rypin, the Mlawa Ghetto; Buna-Monowitz, Mauthausen and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Avraham Pantfil, born in Rypin, Poland 1924, regarding his experiences in Rypin, the Mlawa Ghetto; Buna-Monowitz, Mauthausen and other places Life in Rypin. German occupation, 1939; deportation with his mother in the direction of the Soviet border; life in Miedzyrzec with refugees; escape to Rypin; deportation to the Mlawa Ghetto; ghetto life; his mother's death; selling of cigarettes by his younger brother; deportation of his grandfather and younger siblings; deportation to Auschwitz, early 1942; life in Buna-Monowitz; logging in the forests; murder of those who find the work difficult;...

File Number : 13144

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Peretz Hochman, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, using a false identity, in Lansdorf, Muehlberg, Brockwitz Meissen and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Peretz Hochman, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, using a false identity, in Lansdorf, Muehlberg, Brockwitz Meissen and other places Life before the war; displays of antisemitism; help from the Jewish community to refugees from Germany. German occupation, September 1939; informing on Jews by Poles; confiscation of property; kidnapping of Jews to forced labor; anti-Jewish restrictions including against mutual help; deportation to the Warsaw Ghetto, November 1940; Warsaw Ghetto life including the death of his father due to starvation, 1941; abuse by...

File Number : 12986

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Saul Cernautianu, born in Burdujeni, Romania, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in Burdujeni, Suceava, Mogilev-Podolski and in hiding

Testimony

Testimony of Saul Cernautianu, born in Burdujeni, Romania, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in Burdujeni, Suceava, Mogilev-Podolski and in hiding Life before the war; Zionist family; relations with the neighbors. Outbreak of the war; escape to Suceava due to displays of antisemitism; deportation to Transnistria, autumn 1941; crosses the Dniester River; transfer to Mogilev-Podolski; transfer to a military camp with the Jews; escape from the camp in a truck; fear of a continuation of deportations and finds a hiding place behind a closet in a local home; escape to another military camp in the local...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Menachem Mendel Josovitz, born in Horincovo, Czechoslovakia, 1929, regarding his experiences in Iasi, the Iza Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Landsberg, Kaufering, Munich and Dachau

Testimony

Testimony of Menachem Mendel Josovitz, born in Horincovo, Czechoslovakia, 1929, regarding his experiences in Iasi, the Iza Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Landsberg, Kaufering, Munich and Dachau His family earned its livelihood in a village from agriculture; witness learns in a "heder" and attends a Ukrainian school. Annexation to Hungary; deportation to Iasi, Romania with most of the village's Jews; return to Czechoslovakia in exchange for bribery; draft of his father to labor battalions; German occupation, March 1944; deportation to the Iza Ghetto; Iza Ghetto life for six weeks; refusal of offer to be...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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