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Testimony of Moshe Leib Preizler, born in Viseul De Sus, Romania, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Viseul De Sus Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, a death march and Buchenwald

Testimony

Testimony of Moshe Leib Preizler, born in Viseul De Sus, Romania, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Viseul De Sus Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, a death march and Buchenwald Life before the war; learns in a "heder" and attends school. Outbreak of the war, September 1939; concentration of the Jews in the Visuel De Sus Ghetto following the German occupation; his father is drafted to forced labor; ghetto life; deportation to Birkenau; camp life; transfer to Auschwitz; camp life including labor mining coal; Goering's visit at the camp; death march to Buchenwald; camp life including cannibalism; liberation...

File Number : 12086

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: Various documents and newspaper clippings

Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: Various documents and newspaper clippings: In the file: Three notebooks with the number of Jews and non-Jews residing at various locations in Poland, according to the 1925 and 1931 censuses; Pp. 1-10: Excerpt from a charge sheet against an unidentified Nazi criminal, including remarks relating to the list of prosecution exhibits and legal comments regarding paragraphs of the charge sheet (without the actual list or paragraphs). The undated material concerns the German occupation of Poland and Operation Barbarossa; Pp. 11-14: Undated advertisements, probably from during...

File Number : 162

Type of Material : Investigation Report, Indictment, Legal Documentation, Poem/song, Survey Report, Official Documentation, Newspaper, Protocol

Language : German

Testimony of Gershon Nest, born in Warsaw, 1922, regarding his experiences escaping to east Poland, Janowska labor camp and as a POW in Russia

Testimony

Testimony of Gershon Nest, born in Warsaw, 1922, regarding his experiences escaping to east Poland, Janowska labor camp and as a POW in Russia Family life before the occupation and attending a Jewish school. Escape to the east with the outbreak of the war and life in Lublin; detention in a church; escape to his uncle's house in Zlloczow via Lvov; mobilization order from the Red Army; pogrom and murder of his uncle; forced to wear a yellow badge and distress from hunger; rescue from "Aktions"; buying a birth certificate from a non-Jew and living under a false identity; life in Janowska labor camp and...

File Number : 11005

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Theodor Hatalgi regarding the experiences of his mother Felicia Sheinberg in Zbaszyn and the Warsaw Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Theodor Hatalgi regarding the experiences of his mother Felicia Sheinberg in Zbaszyn and the Warsaw Ghetto Witness is a student at the University of Warsaw; activities of his mother, Felicia, with the central committee for the relief of Jewa in Warsaw in establishing house committees, 1937-1939; activities of his mother in Zbaszyn helping refugees from Germany, 1938. German occupation; life in the Warsaw Ghetto ; the Jewish judge Topolska and her help in the organization's activities; activities of his mother organizing soup kitchens and helping an orphanage run by Janusz Korczak.

File Number : 3206

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Postcards and letter written by Professor Moshe Schorr and his wife in Warsaw and sent to Mirjam (Korman) Krischer in Jaslo and in Eretz Israel, and letters sent to a deputy chairman of the Tel Aviv municipality related to Mr. Krischer, and other material, 1928-1939 - Postcard written by Tamar Schorr in Warsaw and sent to Mirjam Korman in Jaslo, regarding Mirjam's studies, 31/07/1928; - Letter written by Sela Knoller in Przemyśl to her brother Salomon Krischer in Eretz Israel, including congratulations on the occasion of his wedding, 21/08/1934; - Letter written by Professor Moshe Schorr in Warsaw to his...

File Number : 4047

Type of Material : Letter, Internet Material, Certification, Postcard, Article

Language : Hebrew, Polish, German