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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 Benjamin Beno Richtman, born in Bielsko, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Nisko, Jawornik, Plaszow, in hiding and with the Polish underground

Testimony

Testimony of Benjamin Beno Richtman, born in Bielsko, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Nisko, Jawornik, Plaszow, in hiding and with the Polish underground Life in a Zionist family in Bielsko, Silesia; financially secure; attends schools in German and Polish; membership in the Maccabi youth movement; work in sports. Outbreak of the war and escape in the direction of the East; hides a diary in their house; deportation to Nisko by train, October 1939; severely harsh conditions; meets Adolf Eichmann; speech by Eichmann to the Jews; order by Eichmann to hand over property; move to Krakow; transfer to...

File Number : 12168

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Announcement of a guest performance of the A. Schickler Circus at the Landsberg DP camp, 20 August 1946

File Number : 779

Type of Material : Announcement

Language : German

Invitation to the premier performance of the play, "Geblieben a Baal Chov" (Remaining a Debtor) by Y. Perelstein and the Drama Group from the Bad Reichenhall (Germany) DP camp

File Number : 645

Type of Material : Invitation

Language : Yiddish

Announcement of a performance of the play, "Der Czesterter Gan-Eidn" (The Destroyed Paradise), directed by the artist and director, Jakob Fiszer, with the participation of top actors

File Number : 633

Type of Material : Invitation

Language : Yiddish / Latin Characters

Announcement regarding a performance of "Kol Tuw" on the first day of Hanukkah by the Jakob Fischer Group at the Miniatur Theater in Feldafing (Germany)

File Number : 424

Type of Material : Invitation

Language : Yiddish / Latin Characters

Announcement of a performance of the play, "Der Blutiger Shpas" (The Bloody Hoax), by Shalom Aleichem under the directorship of the Wald Heinrich Artistic Group with participation by top artists

File Number : 418

Type of Material : Invitation

Language : Yiddish / Latin Characters

Announcement issued by the Jidisz Estrade Ansambl regarding an evening of music, dancing and speeches with the participation of top artists

File Number : 399

Type of Material : Invitation, Announcement

Language : Yiddish / Latin Characters

Testimony

Testimony of Avigdor Rosenzweig, born in Busko Zdroj, 1920, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Grunow camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Jaworzna camp and on a death march to Buchenwald concentration camp Childhood in Lodz; the family livelihood came from making bars for the factories in Lodz; learning to dance at the age of 16 (this would prove to be the profession that saved him later on). Deportation to the Lodz Ghetto with its establishment, 1940; deportation to Grunow camp; forced labor paving the Warsaw-Berlin highway; deportation to Kreising Gestapo camp; relations with the Gestapo; abuse;...

File Number : 11707

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Gad Granach, born in Berlin, 1915, regarding his experiences in Germany and his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1936

Testimony

Testimony of Gad Granach, born in Berlin, 1915, regarding his experiences in Germany and his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1936 Childhood and his family background in Berlin; stories about his father, Alexander Granach, the Berlin actor; memoirs from the German theater; various schools, 1933; economic boycott in Breslau, his mother's dismissal from her job; life in training in Hamburg, 1936 ; aliya to Eretz Israel; easy absorption; life on kibbutz, 1937; return visits to Germany and attitude to the Germans.

File Number : 11392

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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