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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 Yekhezkel Tzukert, born in 1929 in Warsaw, about his experiences in the Warsaw ghetto and in camps in Poland, Germany, and Czechoslovakia during the war

Life before the war; offspring of an affluent traditional Zionist family; antisemitic manifestations before the war; attends a cheder and a Jewish government school; encounters Jewish refugees from Germany in 1938; war breaks out; ghettoization; studies in the underground until 1942; mutual assistance; epidemic typhus; placed in a Jewish hospital; sister and younger brother die; parents and remaining brother sent to Treblinka; adopted by Szmul Wajsman; smuggling food into the ghetto; arrested by Jewish police and sent to Majdanek; life in the camp; assigned to forced labor; physical abuse; cases of suicide;...

File Number : 13551

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 Schulamith Silvia (Wagenberg) Khalef, born in Dessau, Germany, 1928, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen

Testimony

Testimony of Schulamith Silvia (Wagenberg) Khalef, born in Dessau, Germany, 1928, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen Aliya of her father to Eretz Israel, 1938; life with her older sister in the Jewish orphanage in Berlin; detention of her mother and her escape to England; move of her sister to aliya training and the witness joins her; deportation and joins a transport to Auschwitz with her sister's aliya training group, April 1943; joins the women inmates' orchestra in camp as a recorder player, under the direction of Alma Rose; disease in camp; protection by the block elder who hides...

File Number : 6810

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Video testimony of Ester Persichella Calò, born in Rome, Italy on 25/08/1928, regarding life before the persecutions, escape during a manhunt, imprisonment in Le Mantellate, deportation to Fossoli di Carpi and Auschwitz-Birkenau camps, transfer to Bergen-Belsen camp, liberation, and return to Rome Her parents' names: Davide Calò and Allegra (Moscati) Calò; - Traditional education at home; she attends the Jewish school; happy childhood in a family with many children, despite her family's hardships in earning a livelihood; good relations with Jewish and Catholic neighbors; dismissal of her father from his...

Type of Material : Testimony

Testimony

Testimony of Esther Annie (Blum) Glückselig, born in 1929 in Wiener Neustadt, Austria, about her experiences as a girl in Vienna; immigration to Eretz Israel in 1940, and internment in Mauritius in 1940–1945 Life before the war; family background; escapes from Vienna in aftermath of Kristallnacht in 1938; difficulty in finding a place to life; "Aryanization" of business; restrictions imposed on Jews; witness moves to a hakhshara (Zionist training venue); deportation of non-citizens to Dachau and Buchenwald; obtaining "certificates" (Mandate Palestine immigration visas); immigration to Eretz Israel with...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Agnes (Bash) Azriel, born in 1930 in Debrecen, Hungary, about her experiences in Auschwitz and other camps

Testimony

Testimony of Agnes (Bash) Azriel, born in 1930 in Debrecen, Hungary, about her experiences in Auschwitz and other camps Childhood in an affluent family; father owns a down factory; mother has entrée in Hungarian high society; father dies; mother is the concubine of a high-ranking Hungarian officer; Aktion; family flees to hiding; denounced; deported to Auschwitz; witness sleeps on the floor; food and water withheld for several days; suicies; women's orchestra; witness sent on to Stutthof and thence to Turonia; inmates live in tents; witness suffer from lice and pyphus; grueling labor; digs pits; war ends;...

Type of Material : Testimony

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