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File Number : 1167

Type of Material : תיאור

Language : Polish, German

Testimony of Helene Ilona (Hirsch) Rojder, born in Gyor, Hungary, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Gyor Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, on a death march and more

Testimony

Testimony of Helene Ilona (Hirsch) Rojder, born in Gyor, Hungary, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Gyor Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, on a death march and more Childhood in a middle class Neolog family. German occupation, May 1944; deportation to the Gyor Ghetto and passage through a station to hand over personal property, May 1944; transfer to a Gypsy camp, June 1944; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, June 1944; life in Birkenau for about one and a half months; transfer to Auschwitz; work in the Union Hospital; execution of Roza Robota and her friends after smuggling in explosive material for the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shmuel Kastenbaum, born in Arduzel, Romania, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Somcuta Mare Ghetto, the underground in Auschwitz and other camps

Testimony

Testimony of Shmuel Kastenbaum, born in Arduzel, Romania, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Somcuta Mare Ghetto, the underground in Auschwitz and other camps Life under Romanian rule; deterioration of the situation for the Jews after the annexation to Hungary; labor in a metal factory in Budapest until the German occupation, 19 March 1944. Concentration of the Jews from the surrounding area in the Somcuta Mare Ghetto; abuse of the Jews in the ghetto by Hungarian police and gendarmes; deportation to Auschwitz, May 1944; selection on the ramp of the railroad station; separation from his mother; labor...

File Number : 6595

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

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File Number : 2047

Type of Material : List, Memoirs

Language : French

Testimony of Lea (Shaiovitz) Kravi, born in Wola Michowa, 1922, regarding her experiences in Slovakia, Auschwitz and a death march

Testimony

Testimony of Lea (Shaiovitz) Kravi, born in Wola-Michowa, 1922, regarding her experiences in Slovakia, Auschwitz and a death march Her family; community and institutions. Outbreak of the war; attempt to escape; illegally crosses the border into Slovakia with a group of young women, December 1939; absorption of the young women by Jewish communities in Slovakia; joins the Hechalutz movement in Zilina; joins aliya training; deportation to Auschwitz, April 1942; camp life until early 1945; acquaintance with camp functionaries in Auschwitz; meets Mala Zimetbaum; capture and suicide of Mala Zimetbaum; death...

File Number : 9778

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ada (Neufeld) Potok-Halperin, born in Bendzin, Poland, 1921, regarding her experiences in the Kamionka Ghetto, Bendzin Ghetto, camps and underground activities

Testimony

Testimony of Ada (Neufeld) Halperin-Potok, born in Bendzin, Poland, 1921, regarding her experiences in underground activities in Bendzin, the Kamionka Ghetto, Auschwitz, Birkeau, Ravensbrueck and other places Life before the war; youth movements in Bedzin; activities in Hashomer Hatzair, 1939-1942; education of youth; teaches young children; aliya training in Sosnowiec. Outbreak of the war; labor in the Judenrat; meets Tosia Altman and Mordechai Anielewicz; contact with the underground; receives news from the underground's center in Warsaw; final "Aktion", late summer 1942-early 1943; transfer to the...

File Number : 7276

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Helena (Shtibelman) Spritzer Sprotzer, born in Lomza, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Lomza Ghetto, Auschwitz, Ravensbrueck and sheltered by a German farmer

Testimony

Testimony of Helena (Shtibelman) Spritzer Sprotzer, born in Lomza, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Lomza Ghetto, Auschwitz, Ravensbrueck and sheltered by a German farmer Attends local schools; attends a vocational school, 1939. Occupation of Lomza; anti-Jewish decrees; murder of 6,000 of the youth in the city; escape from the ghetto in order to make contact with partisans; capture; deportation to Auschwitz, January 1943; camp life including the Sonderkommando Uprising; execution of Rosa Robota and her comrades; Mala Zimetbaum's escape and capture; death march to Ravensbrueck; escape while...

File Number : 4845

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Sara (Bumchel) Szpagat, born in Pruzany, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz, on a death march, in Ravensbrueck and Malchow

Testimony

Testimony of Sara (Bumchel) Szpagat, born in Pruzany, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz, on a death march, in Ravensbrueck and Malchow German occupation, summer 1941; Jews' life in Pruzany; coordination of youth and their departure to forests and joining the partisans; deportation in the fourth transport to Auschwitz, January 1943; camp life including selection and the murder of her parents; labor in the Aussenkommando with her sister, for one year; selections by Dr. Mengele; incident regarding Roza Robota and the incident regarding Mala Zimetbaum; contacts with Jewish women from Greece;...

File Number : 3987

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Towa Dosia (Epsztajn) Pari, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1922, regarding her experiences in Majdanek, Graben and Bergen-Belsen

Testimony

Testimony of Towa Dosia (Epsztajn) Pari, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1922, regarding her experiences in Majdanek, Graben and Bergen-Belsen Execution of Jews by hanging at Majdanek; underground activities of Rosa Robota in Brzezinka; Mandel and Tauber, German criminals; Jewish collaborators, Susi Gross and Cyganiewicz, the executioner; life in Graben; death march; life in Bergen-Belsen; liberation. Help given to survivors by the British Army.

File Number : 1785

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaja (Cohn) Krojn, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1921, regarding her experiences in the Plonsk Ghetto, Auschwitz, Budy, underground activities in Birkenau and in Malchow

Testimony

Testimony of Chaja (Cohn) Krojn, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1921, regarding her experiences in the Plonsk Ghetto, Auschwitz, Budy, underground activities in Birkenau and in Malchow Outbreak of the war; draft to labor in a Polish hospital in Plonsk; German occupation of Plonsk; help to a Polish officer, a POW, to escape from the hospital; Plonsk Ghetto life including establishment of an orphanage by the Judenrat; administration of the orphanage by a woman teacher named Ida Grinberg; outbreak of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union; concentration of Jewish refugees from the surrounding area who were in...

File Number : 3654

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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