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Testimony of Abraham Ernst Ponger, born in Mikulas Litovsky Svaty, Czechoslovakia, in 1922, regarding his experiences in the Sered camp and in the battle of the partisans

Childhood before the war; Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria 1938; expulsion from school and carpentry studies; independence of Slovakia and anti-Jewish legislation 1939; deportation of Jews and escape to the mountains in March 1942; going back home and deportation to the Sered camp,in April 1945; work in carpentry; underground in the camp; Slovak uprising and escape ,in August 1944; joining partisans; actions against Germans; liberation by the red army,in April 1945; joining aliya training; illegal immigration to Eretz Israel on the Theodor Herzl ship,on 01 April 1947; exile to Cyprus; aliya back to...

File Number : 13772

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letter sent by Kalman Rotenberg from Kaunas, Lithuania to the Popovsky family in Eretz Israel, 08 April 1939

Letter sent by Kalman Rotenberg from Kaunas, Lithuania to the Popovsky family in Eretz Israel, 08 April 1939 Life in Kaunas including attending a high school and preparing for the matriculation exams, 1939; desire to study in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; activities as a member of the Zionist Organization [and] in Hashomer Hatzair; request that his aunt clarify for him regarding the possibility of studying in the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and what the professional options will be upon completion of the academic studies; Note by the submitter of the material: Letter was sent to Avraham and...

File Number : 2057

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Menahem Lior, born in Bedzin, Poland in 1928, regarding his experiences during ‎deportation to the Bedzin Ghetto and the work camp in Kamionka; hidden by a Pole; escape to ‎Eretz Israel His childhood in a socialist Zionist home; refugees from Germany; rise of antisemitism; outbreak of ‎war on 1 September 1939; anti-Jewish laws and decrees; restriction of Jewish movement and ‎concentration in one area; youth movements; agricultural farm; Zionist and underground ‎activities; infiltrating into a nearby work camp; work collecting and sorting possessions of the Jews ‎in the ghetto; removing dead...

File Number : 13735

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letters and a postcard written in Hebrew by Noakh Bak, a pupil of the Hebrew high school in Vilna, born in 1924, to his family in Eretz Israel, 1935 - 1940

Letters and a postcard written in Hebrew by Noakh Bak, a pupil of the Hebrew high school in Vilna, born in 1924, to his family in Eretz Israel, 1935 - 1940 Noakh Bak was born in 1924 and attended a Hebrew high school in Vilna. He perished with his family in Vilna. His uncle David Gosreski made aliya to Eretz Israel with his wife Rivka in 1924. The last time Noakh wrote to his first cousin Aviva Gosreski, the submitter, was on 04 April 1940.

File Number : 1778

Type of Material : Letter, Postcard

Language : Hebrew, Russian

Testimony of Idel Yehuda Uchitel, born in 1916 in Zgurita, Romania, about his experiences in Zgurita, in the Kopaygorod ghetto, and with the partisans

Offspring of a religious Zionist family; Soviet occupation ensues in 1940; the German–Soviet war breaks out in 1941; witness escapes in the direction of Ukraine; circulates among villages in the area; arrested and deported to the Kopaygorod ghetto; life in the ghetto under dire conditions; working for a local peasant; escape with a friend to the forests; joins the partisans; the Germans close in and the witness retreats as far as Fergana; works in a textile plant; marries in a local synagogue; moves to Kiev in late 1944; rehabilitation; immigration to Israel in 1973; adjustment to life in Israel.

File Number : 13493

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shoshana Susanne (Eksiner) Dyke, born in Berlin, Germany, 1926, regarding her experiences in Berlin before the war, and her aliya to Eretz Israel, 1938

Testimony

Testimony of Shoshana Susanne (Eksiner) Dyke, born in Berlin, Germany, 1926, regarding her experiences in Berlin before the war, and her aliya to Eretz Israel, 1938 From an educated, Zionist family; childhood; visits by her father to Eretz Israel during the 1930s and his purchasing property there; studies in a dormitory school; life in Berlin, until 1938. Aliya to Eretz Israel with her father and her sister, autumn 1938; adjustment difficulties; travel to England for studies, 1947; move to Africa.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Rae Rose (Rothman) Rubinstein, born in Brisbane, Australia, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Australian Army, Bergen-Belsen DP camp, Linz DP camp, Wels DP camp and in other places

Testimony

Testimony of Rae Rose (Rothman) Rubinstein, born in Brisbane, Australia, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Australian Army, Bergen-Belsen DP camp, Linz DP camp, Wels DP camp and in other places Service in the Australian Air Force during World War II, 1945-1949 [should be: 1939-1945]. Travel to London, 1945; volunteers to work in Bergen-Belsen DP camp in the context of the Jewish Relief office, 1946; work in the camp as the person responsible for children ages 0-6 years old and women who are pregnant; help to the aliya institute [Jewish Agency] to coordinate the issue of forged documents and illegal...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Letters written by Marca Indig in Dejvice, 28 October 1938, and Zoli Indig, 03 March 1939, to their sister Ester (Indig) Rozentzveig in Bratislava

File Number : 1525

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Slovak, Hebrew

Testimony of Layzer Fuks, born in Sandrovo, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding his experiences in Sandrovo, in hiding, in the Sekernice Ghetto, the Chust Ghetto, Auschwitz and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Layzer Fuks, born in Sandrovo, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding his experiences in Sandrovo, in hiding, in the Sekernice Ghetto, the Chust Ghetto, Auschwitz and other places His childhood with his family in a village. Life under Hungarian rule, 1939; new anti-Jewish decrees on all the Jews; increase in antisemitism; German Army occupation of Sandrovo before Pesach (April), 1944; in hiding while hidden by neighbors during the deportation to the Sekernice Ghetto, in hiding in a forest; in hiding while hidden by his neighbors; transfer to the Sekernice Ghetto; escape to a forest during the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Itzhak Izi Strassberg Harari, born in Sulita, Romania, 1934, regarding his experiences in Sulita, Bucharest, Odessa and Israel

Testimony

Testimony of Itzhak Izi Strassberg Harari, born in Sulita, Romania, 1934, regarding his experiences in Sulita, Bucharest, Odessa and Israel His childhood in a traditional family; his father's work as a merchant in Eretz Israel; his aunt's aliya to Eretz Israel, 1934. Occupation of Sulita by the Soviet Army, 1940; draft of his father into the Red Army; his father's escape; his father's move back to Sulita; occupation of Sulita by the Romanian Army, 1941; murder of approximately 2,000 Jews; theft of property by neighbors; deportation of the Jews to the Bershad Ghetto; Bershad Ghetto life including sleeping...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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