Yad Vashem Collections - Documents

83 Results

Testimony of Ze'ev Yitzhaki, born in Iasi, Romania, 1936, regarding his experiences in Iasi during the war

Testimony

Testimony of Ze'ev Yitzhaki, born in Iasi, Romania, 1936, regarding his experiences in Iasi during the war Early childhood. Increase in anti-Semitism, 1939; anti-Jewish orders and legislation; pogrom at police stations and trains, June 1941; the bombings.Liberation by the Red Army, summer of 1944; joining the Dror organization; moving to a children's home in Piatra Neat; boarding the illegal immigrant ship Pan York, December 1947; exile to Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel, March 1948; absorption.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe Pavel Ozias, born in Iasi, Romania, 1940, regarding his experiences as a child in Iasi

Testimony

Testimony of Moshe Pavel Ozias, born in Iasi, Romania, 1940, regarding his experiences as a child in Iasi Life in Iasi including the deportation of his father and brother to forced labor in Alba Iulia; return of his father, 1943; his family receives support from family members in Galati; his family receives a shipment of food goods; shelling of Iasi; his father is injured; end of the war; liberation by the Red Army. Attack by a band of revengers on informers and collaborators of the Iron Guard movement; his family receives information regarding the death of his grandfather on a death train; move to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Klara (Krumholtz) Peller, born in Moldovita, Romania, 1932, regarding her experiences in Radauti, Marculesti, Obodovka, Bershad and Shumilov

Testimony

Testimony of Klara (Krumholtz) Peller, born in Moldovita, Romania, 1932, regarding her experiences in Radauti, Marculesti, Obodovka, Bershad and Shumilov Traditional family. Decrees after the Fascists rise to power; detention of her father as a Communist; deportation of the family to Radauti; life with her grandparents; attends a Jewish school; deportation to Transnistria, 1941; transfer to Marculesti; death of her grandparents en route; transfer to Shumilov via Obodovka and Bershad; life in Shumilov; deportation of her father and brother to forced labor; typhus; collects food from the surroundings...

File Number : 12805

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

List of Jews transported on the “Lost Transport” who perished en route from Bergen-Belsen to Theresienstadt and were buried in mass graves in Troebitz, 04/1945

File Number : 221

Type of Material : Photograph, List of Murdered Persons

Language : Hebrew, German

Testimony of Reuven Blumenfeld, born in Iasi, Romania, 1925, regarding his experiences in Iasi and Calarasi

Testimony

Testimony of Reuven Blumenfeld, born in Iasi, Romania, 1925, regarding his experiences in Iasi and Calarasi Middle-class traditional family; his father is an independent shoemaker; his mother is a housewife; the Jewish community. Iasi Pogrom, 29 June 1941; deportation to Calarasi; acquital of the Jews accused of firing at the Romanian Army; return to Iasi; drafted to labor in fortifications for the German Army; liberation. Joins Gordonia youth movement, 1946; aliya training in Timisoara; aliya onboard the "Jewish State"; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel, December 1947; life on Kibbutz...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mose Herscu Strulovici, born in Sulita, Romania, 1922, regarding his experiences in Targu-Frumos, Roman, Calarasi and Braila

Testimony

Testimony of Mose Herscu Strulovici, born in Sulita, Romania, 1922, regarding his experiences in Targu-Frumos, Roman, Calarasi and Braila Life before the war; orphaned of his father; attends a Jewish school; Hashomer Hatzair activities; runs away from home; work in a tavern in Iasi owned by a Jewish woman, until 1940; work in a bakery owned by a Jewish family; Iasi pogrom, 1941; transfer to Targu-Frumos; removal of the bodies of those who died en route from the railroad cars at Mircesti; transfer to Roman; transfer to Calarasi; camp life including labor hauling sacks of cement; return to Iasi; labor in a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Romanian

Testimony of Hermina (Eidinger) Kohen, born in Suceava, Romania, 1925, regarding her experiences in Mogilev-Podolski and Murafa

Testimony

Testimony of Hermina (Eidinger) Kohen, born in Suceava, Romania, 1925, regarding her experiences in Mogilev-Podolski and Murafa From a traditional family; her father is the foreman in a liqueur factory. Re-annexation to Hungary; her father is drafted into a labor battalion; deportation to Transnistria with relatives, 1941; life in Mogilev-Podolski including selling used clothing; transfer to Murafa; her father and brother join them; life in Murafa including various jobs such as sawing wood, carrying water, cleaning out buckets of excrement for food and money; injury after being beaten by a Romanian...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew