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Letters sent by relatives and friends from Jaroslaw, Krakow and Warsaw to Gita Rebs during her stay in Poland until 1935, and afterwards in Eretz Israel, 1935-1936, and letters sent by her parents and sisters from Jaroslaw and Brzezany, 1939-1941 - Letters sent by relatives and friends of Gita Rebs to the Tel Chai group in Jaroslaw (letter from 11 September 1933), in Krakow and in Warsaw, 1933-1936 [?]; one of the letters was written in the form of a diary starting from 12 January 1933 and ending 22 November 1933 (it is not clear where it was written, but it is clear that it was not written in Warsaw); -...

File Number : 2229

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Polish

Letters and postcards sent to Shlomo Apelbaum and Rachil Gail in Eretz Israel by their family members and friends in Bielsk Podlaski, the Soviet Union, Poland, England and the United States, 1938-1943, and after the war - Letters and postcards sent to Shlomo Apelbaum and Rachil Gail in Eretz Israel by their family members and friends in Bielsk Podlaski, 1939-1940; - Two postcards sent by Rachil Apelbaum to the Gail family in Bielsk Podlaski, 1939; the postcards were returned to the sender; - Postcard sent from New York to Shlomo David Rockman in Eretz Israel, 04 June 1938; - Letter in Hebrew sent to...

File Number : 2048

Type of Material : Postcard, Letter

Language : Polish, Russian, Yiddish

Testimony of Matla (Kleiner) Blander, born in Hrubieszow, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences in Hrubieszow, Budzyn, Majdanek, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen and Thersienstadt

Testimony

Testimony of Matla (Kleiner) Blander, born in Hrubieszow, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences in Hrubieszow, Budzyn, Majdanek, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen and Thersienstadt Life before the war; attends a Polish school and a Beit Yaacov school. Outbreak of the war, 1939; Soviet occupation; German occupation, 1941; air-raids by the German Army; life in Hrubieszow including escape of Jews to the Soviet Union; establishment of the Judenrat; Jewish police activities; deportation of the Jews by Ukrainians in uniform and hiding in an attic; another deportation and finding a hiding place in the Judenrat...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe Gendelman, born in Rokitno, 1929, regarding his experiences in Rokitno and with partisan groups

Testimony

Testimony of Moshe Gendelman, born in Rokitno, 1929, regarding his experiences in Rokitno and with partisan units His father is a laborer; life in a village; return to Rokitno. Entry of the Soviets, 1939; entry of the Germans, 1941; life under German rule; transfer to a concentration point, 1942; escape; joins a small partisan group; leaves the partisans; joins a large partisan group; life with the partisans; liberation by the Red Army. Aliya to Eretz Israel, 1946.

File Number : 9477

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yitzhak Levkovitz, born in Wielun, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences as a forced laborer in the Poznan area, the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Radogoszcz and Gross-Rosen camps

Testimony

Testimony of Yitzhak Levkovitz, born in Wielun, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences as a forced laborer in the Poznan area, the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Radogoszcz and Gross-Rosen camps His family background; community life; learns in a yeshiva in Lodz. Outbreak of the war, 1939; air-raids on Wielun; escape to Lodz; return to Wielun; labor clearing rubble; establishment of the Judenrat; deportation to Radogoszcz labor camp, 1940; labor laying railroad tracks in the Poznan area; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto, 1942; forced labor in construction; hunger; liquidation of the Lodz Ghetto, August 1944;...

File Number : 9995

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Elkana Levkovitz, born in Lututow, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Zdunska Wola Ghetto, Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Landsberg and a death march

Testimony

Testimony of Elkana Levkovitz, born in Lututow, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Zdunska Wola Ghetto, Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Landsberg and a death march Move of his family to Zdunska Wola, 1929; vocational training in textiles; activities in the Hanoar Hatzioni movement. Forced labor on the pioneer farm in the Zdunska Wola Ghetto; mass hangings of Jews; smuggle of vegetables into the ghetto for his family; liquidation of the ghetto and transfer to the Lodz Ghetto, August 1942; attempts to establish an underground; labor on a plot of land; labor in a carpentry workshop; deportation to...

File Number : 9588

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Amos Munik Joselewski Yaron, born in Swierzen Nowy, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Swierzen Nowy Ghetto, in combat with the partisans and in the Red Army

Testimony

Testimony of Amos Munik Joselewski Yaron, born in Swierzen Nowy, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Swierzen Nowy Ghetto, in combat with the partisans and in the Red Army Life before the war. Taken to German captivity; return home; establishment of the Swierzen Nowy Ghetto, late November 1941; establishment of the Zionist-Hechalutz underground; ghetto is turned into a labor camp after the large "Aktion", November 1942; obtains weapons; training in the underground; escape to a forest, November 1943; joins a partisans unit; life with the partisans including participation in battles; partisans...

File Number : 9325

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Elikom Gecel Kupferstein, born in Hutkow, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in Hutkow, Krasnobrod, in hiding using a false identity and wanderings until the liberation

Testimony

Testimony of Elikom Gecel Kupferstein, born in Hutkow, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in Hutkow, Krasnobrod, in hiding using a false identity and wanderings until the liberation Life in Hutkow near Zamosc. Massacre in Krasnobrod (Lodz), October 1942; entry of the remaining Jews to an unfinished house and their murder; his escape and his sister's escape; in hiding near the village of their birthplace, Hutkow, where their family had lived as Jews for three generations; wanderings in distant villages and life using a false identity until the liberation by the Red Army, July 1944. Joins aliya...

File Number : 9123

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaim Bar Or, born in Rokitno, Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences in Rokitno, the Rokitno Ghetto and in hiding in forests in the area

Testimony

Testimony of Chaim Bar Or, born in Rokitno, Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences in Rokitno, the Rokitno Ghetto and in hiding in forests in the area Family background; community life; attends a Tarbut school. Annexation to the Soviet Union, 1939; life under Soviet rule; German occupation, 1941; establishment of the Rokitno Ghetto and the Judenrat, 1942; yellow badge; mass murder of Jews in a forest; escape of the witness to a forest; wanderings in forests; life in hiding; death of his mother and sister in the forest; in hiding in a bunker, 1943-January 1944; work for farmers in the area in exchange for...

File Number : 8941

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe Raziel, born in Prozow, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences as a forced laborer in camps in Poland and Germany

Testimony

Testimony of Moshe Raziel, born in Prozow, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences as a forced laborer in camps in Poland and Germany First-born son in a family with six members; religious home; displays of antisemitism. Assignment of Jews to various forced labors; appointment of a Judenrat by the Germans; murder of the witness' friends; deportation to Plaszow, 1941; labor paving roads and building railroad tracks; deportation to Slomniki with his parents, 1942; transfer from one camp to another; various labor assignments in construction; abuse by the local Poles; transfer to Skarzysko-Kamienna; labor...

File Number : 8788

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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