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Testimony of Zipora Berger, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1919, regarding her experiences in Warsaw, using a false identity in Hrubieszow and Lublin, and in camps

Testimony

Testimony of Zipora Berger, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1919, regarding her experiences in Warsaw, using a false identity in Hrubieszow and Lublin, and in camps Life in Warsaw at the outbreak of the war; non-stop air-raids by the Luftwaffe; occupation of Warsaw, mid-September 1939; concentration of the Warsaw Jews in the ghetto; shortage of food, outbreak of contagious disease, and mass mortality, in particular among children; life on the Aryan side in Hrubieszow and Lublin using Aryan documents with the name Felicia Novokovska; labor in the "Arbeitsamt" office in Lublin; detention by the Gestapo and torture in...

File Number : 7923

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Klára Lavičková and Alžbeta Rosová, sisters née Brodi, born in Zabokreky, about their experiences in 1939–1945

Memoirs of Klára Lavičková and Alžbeta Rosová, sisters née Brodi, born in Zabokreky, about their experiences in 1939–1945 Memoirs of Klára Lavičková, pp. 2–14: Establishment of independent Slovakia in March 1939; anti-Jewish rules and regulations; Klára is fired from her job with a Jewish-owned company due to the company’s “Aryanization”; working as a seamstress in Bielice; anti-Jewish atmosphere in Zabokreky; young Jews mobilized for service in labor camps under Slovakian Army auspices; Klára deported to the Patronka camp on March 27, 1942, and then, several days later, to Auschwitz; shaving of hair;...

File Number : 3680

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Slovak, Czech

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File Number : 2357

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Yiddish

Biographies of Jewish underground members in Belgium, 1940-1945

Biographies of Jewish underground members in Belgium, 1940-1945 - Biographies, in two volumes, of 264 Jewish underground members including information relating to their fate, the time and place of their capture, their underground activities and indicating medals and Badges of Honor awarded to them after the war (pp. 3-310); - Copy of a postcard sent by Mala Zimetbauem from Birkenau (p. 2); - Declaration by Baron Adrien van den Branden de Reeth in Brussels stating that the Baron supervised underground groups that were established by the Comite d'Aide au Juifs (CDJ - Committee for the Defense of Jews)...

File Number : 6

Type of Material : Report, Letter, Official Documentation, Lists, Survey

Language : French

Documentation from Rivka Irene Banitt's estate regarding Belgian Jewry and the controversy that ensued after World War II regarding the functioning of the Association des Juifs de Belgique (AJB - Association of Jews in Belgium) and the participation of Jews in the underground, 1945-1975 - Copy of a photograph of a memorial monument for the resistance fighter Mala Zimetbaum, (pp. 1-2); - Article titled, "Review of the History of the Jews in Belgium", (pp. 3-8); - Bibliographic review of the material available regarding the demography of the Jews of Belgium, in 1961, by Rivka Banitt, (pp. 9-28); -...

File Number : 14

Type of Material : Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Study, Official Documentation, Survey, Newspaper

Language : Hebrew, French, German, Yiddish

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 Yona Lomko, born in Radzyn, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences in Radzyn, in hiding in Miedzyrzec and in Majdanek, Auschwitz and Neustadt-Glewe camps

Testimony

Testimony of Yona Lomko, born in Radzyn, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences in Radzyn, in hiding in Miedzyrzec and in Majdanek, Auschwitz and Neustadt-Glewe camps Her childhood in a family with many children. Outbreak of the war; her father's labor for the Germans as a tailor until 1942; confiscation of Jewish property; in hiding for three weeks; rescue from the large transport to Treblinka, late 1942; murder of her father and brother by Poles; escape to Miedzyrzec with her mother, Pesach 1943; in hiding; capture after they are informed on; deportation to Majdanek with her mother and sisters; camp...

File Number : 8971

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Tzvi Efri, born in Parczew, 1924, regarding his experiences in concentration and labor camps in Poland, Germany and Austria

Testimony

Testimony of Tzvi Efri, born in Parczew, 1924, regarding his experiences in concentration and labor camps in Poland, Germany and Austria Religious Jewish community; Zionist youth movements. Termination of studies, March 1939; drafted to security related labor assignments in Zilina camp, March 1942; deportation to Majdanek; forced labor enlarging the camp; transfer to Birkenau as a metalworker for only 11 days; transfer to Auschwitz to forced labor assignments paving roads; meets his brother; both the witness and his brother catch typhus; his brother is taken to a crematorium; witness' recuperation from...

File Number : 7177

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

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