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Testimony of Hinda Hela (Kornfeld) Lichtman, born in Kivjazd, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding her experiences in Budapest, the Kosice Ghetto, Auschwitz, Estonia and on a death march

Testimony

Testimony of Hinda Hela (Kornfeld) Lichtman, born in Kivjazd, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding her experiences in Budapest, the Kosice Ghetto, Auschwitz, Estonia and on a death march From a family of limited means; attends a Czech school; move to Kosice; life in Kosice including work as a housemaid. Outbreak of the war; escape to Budapest; return to Kosice; deportation to the Kosice Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz, 1944; transfer to Estonia; camp life including labor in an industrial oil factory and at digging; death march in the direction of Germany; liberation by the Red Army. Aliya attempt to Eretz...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Mieczyslaw Wajdzik, a non-Jewish Pole, about his experiences as a forced laborer in Przyszowice and Gliwice and about the concealment of two Jews

Memoirs of Mieczyslaw Wajdzik, a non-Jewish Pole, about his experiences as a forced laborer in Przyszowice and Gliwice and about the concealment of two Jews War breaks out; eviction from home; assigned to forced labor on a German farm; transferred to labor in food haulage; repeatedly travels from Przyszowice to Gliwice; building camps for war prisoners; Jewish women transferred to forced labor; cases of assistance to Jews; making the acquaintance of a Jewish physician named Blumenfeld; Jews disappear from Glilwice in 1942; construction of a camp there in 1943; transfer of war prisoners to this location;...

File Number : 4015

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Polish

To be translated

File Number : 2573

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony

Language : Russian

Report submitted by the Antyk Intelligence Unit of the Polish Army to the Polish Government-in-Exile Legation in London regarding its activities in Auschwitz, 1943

Report submitted by the Antyk Intelligence Unit of the Polish Army to the Polish Government-in-Exile Legation in London regarding its activities in Auschwitz, 1943 In the report there is statistical data and a short description of the deportations of Jews, Poles, Soviets and Gypsies to Auschwitz, 1943. In the report there is a description of the annihilation of camp inmates in gas chambers. Also mentioned in the report are liquidation "Aktions" in the Sosnowiec, Bedzin, Chrzanow, Dabrowa Gornicza and Zaglebie Dabrowskie Ghettos. There is also a general overview of the attitude of the Poles towards Jews,...

File Number : 59

Type of Material : Statistics, Reports, Report, Investigation Report

Language : Polish, German

Testimony of Stanislaw Niedzwinski from Poland regarding the POW camp in Chelm and the murder of the Jewish inmates

File Number : 2168

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Memoirs of Yann Daniel, born in Fouesnant in 1916, regarding his experiences in POW camps in Germany and Poland, and regarding the persecution of Jews by the Nazis

Memoirs of Yann Daniel, born in Fouesnant in 1916, regarding his experiences in POW camps in Germany and Poland, and regarding the persecution of Jews by the Nazis - memoirs of Yann Daniel, born in Fouesnant in the Finistère region on 8 July 1916, regarding his experiences in the war: Work in Paris; participation in the Spanish Civil War; capture by the Germans in Dunkirk in 1940; life in POW camps at Bad Orb and Rava-Ruska; befriending the Jew Henri Chemouilli and learned the Hatikva anthem from him; transfer to camps in Stryj, Luckenwalde and Blechhammer, where he labored in the Leuna-Werke factory;...

File Number : 10960

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : French

Letters sent by German Army soldier Bert Schneider from the Western front to Nandl in 1940; memoirs and documentation related to Walter Schrickel, born in Germany, a Wehrmacht soldier during the war

Letters sent by German Army soldier Bert Schneider from the Western front to Nandl in 1940; memoirs and documentation related to Walter Schrickel, born in Germany, a Wehrmacht soldier during the war Documentation related to Bert Schneider, the paternal grandfather of Jan Schneider: - Copy of letters written at the Western front by Bert Schneider, a sergeant in the German Air Force, and sent to his girlfriend Nandl, regarding the combat against France and England, written during 13/05-26/11/1940; - Page with information written by Jan Schneider, born in Germany, regarding his grandfather Bert Schneider,...

File Number : 4422

Type of Material : Letter, Personal Documents, Documentary, Memoirs

Language : English, German

Memoirs of POW Cleto Mazzone, born in Italy in 1920, regarding his experiences in labor camps in Germany during 1943-1945, from his claims for compensation submitted in 2000

Memoirs of POW Cleto Mazzone, born in Italy in 1920, regarding his experiences in labor camps in Germany during 1943-1945, from his claims for compensation submitted in 2000 - Application form, for claims for compensation for forced labor for the benefit of Nazi Germany, filled out by Cleto Mazzone in the Vercelli district on 05/09/2000, including a declaration regarding his experiences in the Stalag XI-A, Oschersleben and Kahla camps during 1943-1945; The witness is taken to German captivity in Greece on 10/09/1943 and sent to forced labor in Stalag XI-A in Germany; labor in agriculture at a farm until...

File Number : 10103

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Postcard, Certification, Medical Documentation, Memoirs

Language : Italian

Memoirs of David Feig, born in Cuhea, Romania in 1914, regarding his experiences in Sighet, in the Hungarian Army labor battalions, in Soviet POW camps, and his emigration to Uruguay in 1949, written down by his children; personal documentation related to David Feig - Declaration under oath, collected from David Feig, born in Sighet in 1914 (contradiction with documents that appear below), given in the German Embassy (BRD) in Montevideo on 20/12/1956, apparently for the purpose of an application for a compensation claim (scan), including his memoirs regarding his experiences during 1936-1956; His life and...

File Number : 10004

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Memoirs, Birth Certificate, Marriage Certificate, Article, Declaration

Language : Spanish, English, Romanian, German

Abstracts of interviews with Holocaust survivors from the Soviet Union, held at Yad Vashem, translated into Hebrew, abridged, and reworked

Abstracts of interviews with Holocaust survivors from the Soviet Union, held at Yad Vashem, translated into Hebrew, abridged, and reworked Abstracts of interviews with Holocaust survivors from the Yad Vashem databases, produced by Ruth Beeri on the basis of translations of the interviews from Russian into Hebrew by Eliahu Feilis (factual errors appear in the abstracts; for accurate information, consult the original interviews): - abstract of interview with the Red Army pilot Abraham Fallay (b. 1918 in Minsk) about his service in the Red Army in 1941–1942, his term as a POW in German hands in 1942–1945, in...

File Number : 352

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew