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Testimony

Testimony of Chana Anechka (Shisel) Ionas, born in Zaleszczy, Poland, 1935, regarding her experiences as a child in the Tluste Ghetto, assuming a false identity in Zaleszczyki, Swidona camp, Rozanowka camp and other places Life in Zaleszczyki including outbreak of the war; deportation to the Tluste Ghetto; ghetto life including murder of her parents in an "Aktion"; hidden in a Polish man's home who traded in horses; murder of the ghetto inmates; collection of valuables with the help of the Judenrat; escape to Buczacz; life in Buczacz including escape to family; "Aktion" and in hiding in a bunker; escape to...

File Number : 13119

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of David Solomon, born in Roman, Romania, 1933, regarding his experiences in Roman

Testimony

Testimony of David Solomon, born in Roman, Romania, 1933, regarding his experiences in Roman From an ultra-Orthodox family of Chabad hasidim; life before the war. German occupation; murder of his father by German soldiers; draft of his brothers to labor battalions; help from a German Army officer; Soviet occupation; assembly of orphans by members of the Gordonia movement; placed in the Victoria orphanage in Bucharest; help from Agudat Israel people. Departs for Eretz Israel via Yugoslavia, 1946; unsuccessful aliya attempt to Eretz Israel from Trieste on the ship, "Haganah", 1946; capture of the ship by...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Shraga Faivil Rikover, born in Przasnysz, Poland in 1934, regarding his and his family's experiences in Przasnysz before the war and at the start of the German occupation, in the Soviet Union until 1945, and in DP camps in Germany until their aliya to Israel in 1949 His parents were Moshe Rikover and Haya Sara (Tikolsker) Rikover; his family's life in Przasnysz before the war; death of his maternal grandmother (Shifra Tikolsker) and her burial in Poznan; outbreak of the war; receipt of a letter from Israel Tikolsker (his mother's brother) in which he announces that he will leave Poznan (and his...

File Number : 10183

Type of Material : Memoirs, Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, Polish

Official documentation regarding Red Army soldier, the Kazak - Iosif Abramovich, from Slonim, attesting to his combat against the Nazis and his excellence in combat

Official documentation regarding Red Army soldier, the Kazak - Iosif Abramovich, from Slonim, attesting to his combat against the Nazis and his excellence in combat Included in the documentation: - List of Red Army soldiers who were killed at the war front during January-February 1943 (list prepared on 13/03/1943), including Iosif Abramovich from Slonim [erroneously registered as having been killed]. The date of his death in battle and the place of his burial as they appear on the list: Zernograd, 29/01/1943; his father is Izrail Abramovich; - Orders given during 1944-1945 regarding the granting of...

File Number : 848

Type of Material : List of Murdered Persons, Diploma, List of Soldiers, Official Documentation

Language : Russian

Testimony of Nat Strakhman, born in Lipcani, Romania, 1934, regarding his experiences during his deportation to Transnistria

Testimony of Nat Strakhman, born in Lipcani, Romania, 1934, regarding his experiences during his deportation to Transnistria Family background; Soviet invasion in summer 1940; Operation Barbarossa in June 1941; expulsion from his home and wanderings in Bessarabia in summer 1941; deportation to Transnistria and arrival in Luchinets; helped by his uncle, a doctor; studies in the ghetto taught by a religious studies teacher; deportation of his father for forced labor; liberation in spring 1944; hiding from the Cossacks; return to Lipcani; move to Venezuela in 1948; aliya to Israel in 1964; absorption and...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs written by Schajku Rosenkranz in Kolomyja, 1924; memoirs by his wife Pepy about her experiences in Kolomyja until 1935 and later in Israel; letters and postcards sent to Pepy (Hilsenrath) by her relatives in Poland, 1937–1941, and personal documentation of Ezajesz Rosenkranz during his stay in Berlin, 1928–1934

Memoirs by Schajku Rosenkranz written in Kolomyja, 1924, his wife Pepy’s memoirs regarding her experiences in Kolomyja until 1935 and then in Eretz Israel, letters and postcards sent to Pepy (Hilsenrath) by her relatives in Poland, 1937-1941, and personal documents of Ezajesz Rosenkranz from his time in Berlin, 1928-1934. - Memoirs in German by S. (Schajku) Rosenkranz, born in Kolomyja, Poland, 1903. These memoirs were written in Kolomyja, 01 December 1924 (including an English translation): Beginning his studies in heder, 1908, with his brother Kopel; outbreak of World War I; Russian occupation; killings...

File Number : 9329

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Memoirs, Postcard, Letter, Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, Polish, German, Yiddish

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