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Testimony of Shoshana Zuzi Zhuzha (Polak) Levinger, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1932 regarding her experiences in Budapest in a marked house, in the ghetto and in a children's home

Testimony

Childhood in a secular family; living in various towns due to her father's work; good relations with Christians; Move to Budapest, summer 1942 or 1943; drafting of her father into a labor battalion, probably early 1944; German occupation, March 1944; air-raids; move to a marked house; move to a protected house; eviction of all the residents by members of the Arrow Cross Party, her father arrived in an army uniform and took her out of the group; continued life in the ghetto with many children; staying in shelter most of the time; liberation by the Red Army, January 1945; Joining Youth Aliyah; aliya to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Zalman Lanchner, born in Szczuczyn, Poland, 1917, regarding his experiences in Szczuczyn, forced labor in Lipnica, Radomsk, the Skarzysko-Kamienna camp, Buchenwald and the Schlieben camp

Memoirs of Zalman Lanchner, born in Szczuczyn, Poland, 1917, regarding his experiences in Szczuczyn, forced labor in Lipnica, Radomsk, the Skarzysko-Kamienna camp, Buchenwald and the Schlieben camp Burning of the family home during an air-raid early in the war; murder of friends; move to the home of the Pashvoneska family; deportation of Zalman and his brother Avraham Yitzchak to forced labor in Lipnica, 1942; transfer to Radomsk; deportation to Skarzysko-Kamienna, 03 January 1943; transfer to Buchenwald, September 1944; transfer to Schlieben; death of his brother.

File Number : 8648

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, Yiddish

Memoirs of Vladimir Melomedovski, born in Kamenka, Ukraine, 1932, regarding the evacuation of his family to the Rostov na Donu region and towards Stavropol, escape from the gendarmes in Razvilnoye and life in hiding in the Pavlovskaya district Evacuation to the Stalingrad region; death of his brother, 1941, and death of his mother, 1942; drafting of his father to the Red Army; life with relatives in the Rostov region; transfer of the family (Vladimir, his sister, his aunt and his grandmother) towards Stavropol; arrest by the gendarmes in Razvilnoye; Vladimir's escape; transfer of the rest of the family to...

File Number : 8656

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Russian

Testimony of Zelda (Komraz) Rosenberg, born in Utena, Lithuania, 1923 regarding her escape to Novosibirsk, USSR

Testimony

Childhood; attends in a Hebrew school, Utena; attends the Hebrew gymnasium, Ukmerge; Life under the Soviet regime, 1940; escapes with her family one day before the German occupation, 1941; escape via Rokiskis, Lithuania, and Daugavpils, Latvia; work on a kolkhoz; drafting of her father to the Red Army and his release; move to Novosibirsk; drafting of her brother to the Red Army and his falling in battle at the front, 1943; work in an airplane factory; End of the war and her return with her family to Vilna, Lithuania, 1945; rebuilding life after the war; aliya to Israel, 1972.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mina-Mira Rechter-Lavi, born in 1928 regarding her experiences in Chutin, Bessarabia and Romania, 1940-1947

Testimony of Mina-Mira Rechter-Lavi, born in 1928 regarding her experiences in Chutin, Bessarabia and Romania, 1940-1947 Occupation of Chutin by the Red Army,1940; closing of parents' store from fear of abuse by the Soviets; air-raids on Chutin by the Germans and Romanians, 1941; family moves to the home of Uncle Shlomo after their house is destroyed in the air-raids; deportation of the Jews of Chutin to Mogilev via Sikuren and other towns; deportation to the Mogilev Ghetto;draft of Leibel, her father, to forced labor; death of the father. Unsuccessful aliya attempt to Eretz Israel via Bucharest and from...

File Number : 351

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mordekhai Miklosh Shtraser born in Budapest, Hungary, 1931, regarding life in Budapest during the war in a protected house and using a false Christian identity

Testimony

Childhood in an indigent ultra-Orthodox family; life in a Jewish environment; studies in a Jewish school; drafting of his father and two brothers to a labor battalion; German occupation, March 1944; continued living in a marked house; bringing additional people into the house; air-raids; transfer to a protected house by a cousin, a refugee from Slovakia; with the assistance of the cousin, transfer with his family to the hiding place of a Jew who was deported, October 1944; living under a false Christian identity; bringing food from a pantry in a bombed house; living in a shelter from late 1944 until...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Khanam Urbakh Anet , born in Paris, France , in 1935 regarding her hiding in a French village in the region of Normandie

Testimony

German occupation in 1940; hiding during the deportation with friends from socialist organizations in 1941; arrest and deportation of the father to Drancy in 1942; smuggling of the witness, the brother and the members of the French foster family in the region of Normandie in 1942; life in the village; attending school as a French christian; evacuation to the forests in the area following the bombings by the Allies and return to the village in 1944; liberation by the American army in 1944; return to Paris by the mother; moving to a children's home in Calais with the help of the OSE organization and the...

File Number : 13699

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shoshana Zhuzhana Deizi Hendel (Unger) Klein, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1928 regarding the experiences of her family in Budapest during the period of German occupation

Testimony

Childhood in a well-to-do Orthodox family; her father is a Zionist and holds a central role in the Hamizrachi movement in Budapest; her parents' visit to Mandatory Palestine; additional visit to Mandatory Palestine in order to arrange aliya, 1939; return to Hungary; Outbreak of the war; German occupation, 10 March 1944; air-raids on Budapest; work as a clerk in the Judenrat; the family's move to the Glass House; distribution of protective passports from the Swiss Embassy to Jews outside the Glass House by her father; end of the war; Aliya to Israel with the last group of the Hamizrachi movement,1949;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Dvora Tolpin, born in Chisinau, Romania, 1931, regarding her experiences in children's homes in Orlovskaya and Kondryuchenskaya, and in Uzbekistan

Memoirs of Dvora Tolpin, born in Chisinau, Romania, 1931, regarding her experiences in children's homes in Orlovskaya and Kondryuchenskaya, and in Uzbekistan Outbreak of the war; escape of her family from Chisinau to Nikolayev; air-raids over Nikolayev; transfer to Orlovskaya by herself after the family is scattered; transfer to a children's home; life in the children's home until 1942; life in the home of the chairman of the Grekhov kolkhoz for a few months; transfer to a children's home in Kondryuchenskaya; life in the children's home (confirmation from the Tamara Petrichenko Children's Home). Locating...

File Number : 8635

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Russian

Documentation regarding Abraham Cymbalista, born in Chruszczybrod, Poland, 1896; documents dated, 1940-1942

Documentation regarding Abraham Cymbalista, born in Chruszczybrod, Poland, 1896; documents dated, 1940-1942 Original documents: - Two letters written to Abraham Cymbalista in Lens by a person in the prefecture in Quimper who is interested in helping regarding the confiscation of Cymbalista's business, 09 September 1940 and 05 December 1940; - Official letter sent by a military supervisor to Abraham Cymbalista in Lens, regarding the liquidation of expropriations and markets [?] in Paris, 21 March 1941; - Card attesting to Abraham Cymbalista's participation in a compensation fund for self-employed...

File Number : 540

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Personal Documents, Transport List

Language : French

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