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Memoirs of Frida (Blum) Fridman, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1921, regarding her experiences in the Mogilev camp and in a monastery in Rostov

Memoirs of Frida (Blum) Fridman, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1921, regarding her experiences in the Mogilev camp and in a monastery in Rostov Transfer to the Mogilev camp with her daughter Dora (Devora), born in 1941; camp life; transfer with her baby daughter to Rostov by a priest who visited the camp; life with the priest in the monastery and good treatment by the priest; replacement of the priest in Rostov and receiving information from him that he is Jewish; transfer back to the Mogilev camp; transfer to a monastery; end of the war. Return to Cernauti. Memoires of Devora (Herman) Berkovitz, the...

File Number : 8619

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, Ukrainian

Testimony of Shifra Ivri née Ionish, born in 1941 in Legjonów, Poland, about being left as an infant on a roadside on the way to Białołęka and being rescued by Leokadia Jaromirska on October 4, 1942

Parents from Radzymin; parents deported to the Legjonów ghetto; parents escape into the forests; witness left on the main road in Białołęka; rescued by a Polish woman on October 4, 1942; lives under a non-Jewish identity; wandering with her Polish mother after the Great Uprising in 1944; mother, Golda Ionish, murdered in Majdanek; father survives in Auschwitz; father searches for his daughter; father gains custody; living in children's houses in Petrolaszik and in Germany; immigration to Israel in 1948; Leokadia Jaromirska recognized as Righteous among the Nations in 1968.

File Number : 13643

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Eszter Majrovics, born in Nagykirva, Czechoslovakia, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Mátészalka Ghetto and in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Stutthof and Elbing camps and more

Testimony of Eszter Majrovics, born in Nagykirva, Czechoslovakia, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Mátészalka Ghetto and in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Stutthof and Elbing camps and more Imposition of restrictions on the movement of Jews, April 1944; escape to a forest before the deportation to the ghetto; escape back to the family home; being subjected to physical torture by the gendarmes due to the escape; deportation to the assembly point; deportation to the Mátészalka Ghetto; ghetto life for six weeks; searches in the ghetto; suicide of a Jewish policeman; Jews being subjected to punishments including the...

File Number : 1940

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

Diary kept by Klara (Grunfeld) Hendler in 1943–1945, as she escaped from Split with her infant daughter and as they wandered in Italy

Diary kept by Klara (Grunfeld) Hendler in 1943–1945, as she escaped from Split with her infant daughter and as they wandered in Italy Birth of Maya, the witness's daughter, in Split on July 19, 1943; Split bombarded in early September 1943; organizing an escape with the help of a non-Jewish neighbor; family escapes from Split in a small boat with Italian refugees on September 10, 1943; boat bombarded at sea; reaching the Italian shore; wandering from village to village; staying in Ortona, Aquila, Spoleto, etc.; help from the de Pompeis family of Filetto, Chiete subdistrict; witness's father leaves and...

File Number : 12340

Type of Material : Poem/song, Diary

Language : Hebrew, Croatian

Memoirs of Aliza Kek, born in Kopishche, regarding her family's escape from Olevsk in 1941, wandering around the Soviet Union during the war and staying in a DP camp in Italy in 1946-1949

Memoirs of Aliza Kek, born in Kopishche, regarding her family's escape from Olevsk in 1941, wandering around the Soviet Union during the war and staying in a DP camp in Italy in 1946-1949 Family life in Kopishche after World War I; riots against the Jews in Kopishche; the death of her father; moving to Olevsk when she was eight years old together with her mother and siblings; studies at a seminar for teachers in Berdichev; work as a teacher in Olevsk; the return of her mother (Gittel Kek) and her sister Bella with her baby from Chernowitz to Olevsk at the outbreak of war; escape of the family (the witness,...

File Number : 11517

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Jozef Zawada, regarding his experience in Lodz during the German occupation

Memoirs of Jozef Zawada of the expulsion of the Jewish population in Lodz from their homes to the ghetto in January 1940 The ghetto in Lodz was established in mid-January. Jozef Zawada describes how the Jews were transferred to the ghetto: entire families were dragged out of their homes in a brutal way; the entire yard next to Jozef's house was filled with Jews; the temperature -20°C and no warm clothes, these people were left ouside; only on the 3rd day they were loaded on trucks and taken away; Jozef's family found a trolley with a baby inside, who had perished from the cold. The parents couldn"t reach it...

File Number : 11296

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Documentation related to Chawa Ewa Margules, born in Sosnowitz, 1942, and her family members, and press clippings documenting the story of her rescue in 1943 and her experiences after the war

Documentation related to Chawa Ewa Margules, born in Sosnowitz, 1942, and her family members, and press clippings documenting the story of her rescue in 1943 and her experiences after the war Documentation related to the Margules family: – Birth certificate of Chawa Sara Margules, born to Abram Margules and Laja (Guterman), born in Sosnowitz, 2 March 1942 – Precis of the marriage registration of Abram Margules and Laja Guterman who were married in Niwka, 23 May 1932 – Letter from the District Jewish Committee in Lodz to the Central Jewish Committee in Warsaw, 1947, regarding the request of H. Binder in...

File Number : 1854

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Genealogy, Letter, Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, Polish, English

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : French

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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