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Research project written by Bella Haber, born in Horodenka, Poland, 1899, in the Chemistry Department of the University of Lwow, 1925-1926

Research project written by Bella Haber, born in Horodenka, Poland, 1899, in the Chemistry Department of the University of Lwow, 1925-1926 The research study was edited and republished by her daughter, Lili Chuwis-Thau, Haifa, 2008; - Attached is a review of Bella Haber's experiences: Childhood in Horodenka; childhood in Kolomea; studies at the University of Lwow; marriage; hiding of her daughter from the Germans during a large "Aktion", August 1942; capture by the Germans during an "Aktion"; death of Bella.

File Number : 1225

Type of Material : Research Article, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, Polish

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File Number : 1244

Type of Material : Booklet(s)

Language : Yiddish / Latin Characters

Testimony of Ilana Hochbaum Milikowski, born in Lyntupy, Poland, in 1936 regarding her escape from a liquidation"Aktion" and regarding the help of Russian partisans

Testimony

German occupation 1941; establishment of the ghetto; deportation with the parents to the Postawy ghetto; liquidation of the ghetto and uprising; smuggling with her sister by a Pole to Lyntupy; "Aktion" of liquidation; the grandfather is shot; escape with the sister and aunt during the "Aktion"; hiding with villagers; patronage and protection of Russian partisans; liberation in 1944; Soviet education and activity at the komsomol; aliya to Israel in 1960

File Number : 13757

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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File Number : 8663

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Yaakov Scheffel Palgi, born in Czesniki, Poland, 1906, regarding his experiences and the experiences of his wife Rachel (Herbst) Scheffel, 1906-1947, including their aliya to Eretz Israel, 1934, and the experiences of the Scheffel, Teichman and Herbst family members during the war Life before the war; move to the home of his grandparents, the Teichman couple, in Rohatyn when he was 6 years old; draft of his father Michael into the Polish Army, 1914; escape from the Russian Army along with his mother Esther, four siblings and his uncle Avraham and his family members; return to the family's home;...

File Number : 8628

Type of Material : Memoirs, Will, Letter, Death Certificate, Sentence

Language : Hebrew, Polish

Testimony of Shmuel Shvartz, born in Borszczow, Poland in 1936, regarding his experiences as a child in the Borszczow Ghetto and on the Aryan side, and while in hiding places in Zalozce and Karolowka

Testimony of Shmuel Shvartz, born in Borszczow, Poland in 1936, regarding his experiences as a child in the Borszczow Ghetto and on the Aryan side, and while in hiding places in Zalozce and Karolowka His father works in the management of an agricultural farm; German occupation in 1941; deportation to the Borszczow Ghetto; Borszczow Ghetto life; seven "Aktions" are conducted; concentration of the ghetto's Jews before deportation; murder of his grandmother; escape; deportation of his mother and siblings to Belzec camp during Sukkot (September-October) 1942; life in hiding in bunkers with his father during the...

File Number : 13794

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Dvora Doris Shner née Klatz, born in 1932 in Dortmund, Germany, about her experiences as a girl in Rożniatów, Bursztin, the Rohatyn ghetto, and in hiding with villagers during the war

Offspring of immigrant parents from Galicia, receiving a "certificate" (Mandate Palestine immigration visa); father deported to Zbąszyń in 1938; reunited with father in Rożniatów in 1939; Poland partititioned and life under Soviet occupation; escaping to Bursztin; German occupation ensues in June 1941; a German soldier warns the family about murder of Jews; establishment of Judenrat; father refuses to translate from German into Polish; receiving word about murder of people in pits in Rohatyn; receiving a postcard from a family member with information about sending of trains to Bełżec; deportation to the Rohatyn...

File Number : 13614

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ayalon (Windholtz) Yehuda, born in Berlin, Germany in 1930, regarding his experiences in Belgium in 1938 and in hiding from 1942 to 1944

Testimony

Testimony of Ayalon (Windholtz) Yehuda, born in Berlin, Germany in 1930, regarding his experiences in Belgium in 1938 and in hiding from 1942 to 1944 Orthodox family; detention of his uncles in Sachsenhausen; Kristallnacht; move, with help from assistance organizations, to Antwerp; parents crossing the border to Belgium illegally in 1939; occupation of Belgium in May 1940 by the German army; assembly of Jews without Belgian citizenship who had lived in Antwerp and expulsion to forced labor in Limborg district; living with local farmers and labor in farming for half a year; return of witness, with his mother,...

File Number : 13466

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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

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