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Childhood in Zarki; antisemitism; move to Sosnowiec, 1934; antisemitism; German occupation, September 1939; abuse; anti-Jewish legislation; confiscation of property; Judenrat; deportation to the Johannsdorf labor camp, late 1939; work in excavations and laying railroad tracks; transfer to the Markstadt camp; various forced labors; transfer to the Klettendorf camp; labor as a porter; beatings; transfer to the Dyhernfurth camp to work in a weapons factory; beatings; hunger; death march to Bergen-Belsen; high mortality; hunger; liberation by the British Army, April 1945; Life after the war; aliya to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

estimony of Beverli Mizrahi Shreier, born in 1941 in Radziwillow, Poland, regarding her experiences in hiding with a Catholic family

Testimony of Beverli Mizrahi Shreier, born in 1941 in Radziwillow, Poland, regarding her experiences in hiding with a Catholic family. The family; giving the girl baby to a Polish servant; murder of the servant and her husband by the Gestapo; moving the baby to another hiding place; the baby's return to the family hiding her; fleeing towards Berlin; in the Russian sector; escape to the American sector; joining a street gang; emigration to the United States; adjusting to a new life.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Moshe Kaplan, born in Woronow, Poland, 1915, regarding his experiences in the Polish Army, the Tannenberg POW camp, the Woronow Ghetto, in hiding in the forest, as a partisan in the Naliboki forests and more Life in Woronow after World War I; death of his father Avraham Kaplan in 1922; attendance at the Tarbut elementary school; displays of antisemitism; membership in Hashomer Hatzair; underground activities and imprisonment of his brother as a member of the Communist Party; death of his mother, 1932; life in an aliya training kibbutz in Bialystok; meeting his future wife, Chaya; release of his...

File Number : 8643

Type of Material : Poems/songs, Genealogy, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Yisrael Klein, born in Radomysl, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in Radomysl, in hiding in the forest and being hidden by farmers, in Paleniec, in a commune of Jews hiding in the forests, as Red Army soldier and more Life before the war including the ultra-Orthodox way of life of his family. German occupation, 08 September 1939; hiding with his father in the attic during the concentration of the Jewish men in the municipal market; confinement of the Jews in the church without food or water for several days; murder of many Jews by shooting; transfer of the wounded to German military...

File Number : 8636

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Liliana Kaliger Giske, born in Lodz, Poland, in 1928 regarding the Lodz ghetto, Auschwitz and other camps

Childhood in Lodz; antisemitism; German occupation in September 1939; confiscation of property and businesses; acts of abuse on the steets, expulsion from apartment; curfew in the evenings; white band; deportation to the Lodz ghetto in February 1940; dysentery epidemic; starvation; death of the mother and niece; abuse; work at a knitting resort; arrival of refugees; the Judenradt; the Jewish police; doctors in the ghetto; improvement in September 1942; activity in the Communist underground; liquidation of the Lodz ghetto in the summer 1944; deportation to Auschwitz Birkenau; starvation; beatings; transfer to...

File Number : 13686

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Lazar Livshitz, born in Gomel, Belorussia, 1919, regarding his experiences as a Red Army soldier in Bialystok, using a false identity in the Baranovichi camp, the Biala Podlaska camp, the Deblin camp and more Part I (written 06 December 1945 as a letter to his beloved telling of his experiences): Outbreak of the war; being taken captive; transfer to the Baranovichi camp; camp life using a false identity (Nikolay Kulinenko); transfer to the Biala Podlaska camp; camp life in open cages without shelter from the rain and snow; abuse by the so-called camp police which was made up of inmates; transfer...

File Number : 8620

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Russian

Testimony of Rub Israel, born in Sasovo, Carpathian Ruthenia, Czechoslovakia, in 1923 regarding his arrest in Prague and Dresden and regarding Theresienstadt , Dachau and other camps

-Childhood in Sasovo and Trebusany in Carpathian Ruthenia; his family is from a hasidic background( Hasidut Dolina); attendance at the "heder" in Berehovo in 1934; Hungarian control in 1938; his family moves to Moravska Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, in 1938; attendance at a yeshiva in Solotvina, Carpathian Ruthenia(Hungary) in 1937; he goes back to his family in Moravska Ostrava in 1938; he joins the Bnei Akiva movement and moves to Prague, Czechoslovakia; agricultural training on a farm in Louny and in Stribrna Skalice; he goes back to Prague and moves to a farm in Hostoun Kladno; he is arrested by the gestapo in...

File Number : 13688

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Bela (Goldwater) Shonfeld, born in Leipzig, Germany in 1929, regarding her experiences in Leipzig, Amsterdam, and England

Testimony of Bela (Goldwater) Shonfeld, born in Leipzig, Germany in 1929, regarding her experiences in Leipzig, Amsterdam, and England Life with family in Leipzig; attending the Carlebach School; the festivals; the Nazi party’s rise to power; Jewish students from German schools joining the school; Kristallnacht; expulsion of grandfather and grandmother to the Polish border; the family’s transfer by rail, together with other Jews of Polish origin, to the Polish embassy in Leipzig; escape from the train; return to the family apartment two days later; finding the apartment destroyed; suffering abuse; move to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Halmuth Halpern Gershon Helmut, born in Borysław, Poland in 1922, regarding his experiences in Borysław Ghetto and forest

Testimony of Halmuth Halpern Gershon Helmut, born in Borysław, Poland in 1922, regarding his experiences in Borysław Ghetto and forest Childhood in the city; German occupation in September 1939; entry of Red Army several weeks later; nationalization of private businesses; German occupation on 1 July 1941; riots by Ukrainians; mass murders; robbery of property; acts of abuse; Judenrat; soup kitchens; Jewish police; white ribbon; abduction for forced labor; hunger; various types of forced labor via Judenrat; aktion of elderly and ill people in November 1941; witness’s labor as technician and map drafter in...

File Number : 13650

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yocheved Yehudit Hamburger Boxbaum, born in Brzesko, Poland, 1928, regarding the Bochnia ghetto and deportation to the Auschwitz II - Birkenau camp

Testimony of Yocheved Yehudit Hamburger Boxbaum, born in Brzesko, Poland, 1928, regarding the Bochnia ghetto and deportation to the Auschwitz II - Birkenau camp Family background, religious family; studies in a Polish school; life before the war. The outbreak of the war; dropping out of school; great fear of the Germans; deportation to the ghetto; aktions; deportation of the first intelligence personnel; whistleblowing by Jewish policemen on Jews; rumors of camps; construction of bunkers; hiding in hideout during an aktion; exposing the witness' family during the aktion and killing them; the escape of the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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