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Testimony of Miriam Marila Liber Prague née Kostin, born in 1921 in Warsaw, about her experiences in the Warsaw ghetto, in Hungary, with the partisans in Yugoslavia, and as a forced laborer in Germany

Life before the war; German occupation ensues; dispossession; deportation to the Warsaw ghetto; life in the ghetto; escaping to the "Aryan" side with help of forged papers; marrying; escaping to Lwów; escaping back to Warsaw; escaping to Hungary; receiving privileges from the Polish Consulate; escaping to Yugoslavia; joining the partisans in March 1944; sabotaging a railroad track; arrested by the Germans and taken to Germany; working in a factory that manufactures spare parts for tanks; posing as a Croat; receiving extra privileges; liberated by American forces; reaching Buchenwald; encountering Holocaust...

File Number : 13612

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shulamit Folk, born in Presov, Czechoslovakia, 1928, regarding her experiences as a child in Presov and a camp in the Warsaw area

Testimony

Testimony of Shulamit Folk, born in Presov, Czechoslovakia, 1928, regarding her experiences as a child in Presov and a camp in the Warsaw area Life before the war; Orthodox family; attends a Jewish school; Bnei Akiva and Hashomer Hatzair activities; meets Jewish refugees from Poland; help to refugees. Information on the murder of Jews; closure of the store; Ukranian and Slovakian Hlinka Guard brutality; deportation to a camp in the Warsaw area; camp life; labor unloading coal; Wermacht control of the camp; cruelty of the Jewish Kapo from Poland; activities of the orchestra, Polish and Yiddish theatre;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of David Shein, born in Kovno, Lithuania, 1929, regarding his experiences as a child in the Kovno Ghetto and in Landsberg, Stutthof and Sanciai camps and more

Testimony

Testimony of David Shein, born in Kovno, Lithuania, 1929, regarding his experiences as a child in the Kovno Ghetto and in Landsberg, Stutthof and Sanciai camps and more Life before the war; Help extended by the Jewish community to the refugees, 1939; Soviet occupation, 1940; persecution of Zionists; German occupation, June 1941; murder of Jews by Lithuanians; murder of members of the intelligentsia in the Seventh Fort; anti-Jewish legislation; wearing the yellow badge; deportation to the Kovno Ghetto, August 1941; establishment of an illegal library; the family receives work certificates thanks to his...

File Number : 13327

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Szymon Laks, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1901, regarding his experiences in Auschwitz

Testimony of Szymon Laks, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1901, regarding his experiences in Auschwitz Deportation to Auschwitz, 1942; camp life including labor as a player in the camp orchestra until 1944.

File Number : 3312

Type of Material : Memoirs, Newspaper Clippings

Language : German

Documentation regarding Samuel Kotzer, a violinist in the orchestra that accompanied those condemned to death

Documentation regarding Samuel Kotzer, a violinist in the orchestra that accompanied those condemned to death Samuel Kotzer was a violinist in the Orchestra of Latvia; his dismissal from his position due to antisemitism; he joins a coffee house orchestra; when he was an inmate in a detention camp, he was forced to play in the inmates' orchestra that accompanied those who were condemned to death; Included in the file: - Copy of a photograph of Samuel Kotzer with his wife and his son Yuval; - Copy of a photograph of Samuel Kotzer in the "Wien am Ring" coffee house orchestra; - Copy of a photograph of...

File Number : 204

Type of Material : Documentary

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shmuel Bloch, born in Plzen, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding his experiences in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and on a death march

Testimony

Testimony of Shmuel Bloch, born in Plzen, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding his experiences in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and on a death march Childhood before the war; German occupation of the Sudetenland, 1938; drafting of his father and other family members to serve in the Czech Army; German occupation, March 1939; murder of the community leaders; abuse; confiscation of property; ant-Jewish legislation; deportation to Theresienstadt with help from community leaders and youth movement members; cultural life in the camp with the encouragement of the community leaders; orchestra, performances,...

File Number : 13969

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew