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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 Rakhel (Veig) Davidovitz, born in Nagovo, Czechoslovakia in 1929, regarding her life in Nagovo, in Mateszalka Ghetto, and in Auschwitz, Fallersleben, and other camps

Testimony of Rakhel (Veig) Davidovitz, born in Nagovo, Czechoslovakia in 1929, regarding her life in Nagovo, in Mateszalka Ghetto, and in Auschwitz, Fallersleben, and other camps Childhood in Nagovo; antisemitism before the war; locale re-annexed to Hungary in 1940; revocation of family’s business license; mutual help; German occupation in March 1944; wearing of yellow badge; expulsion to Mateszalka Ghetto; life in the ghetto for several weeks; deportation to Auschwitz; family murdered in the camp; suffering abuse; roll calls; suffering from hunger; meeting with her two aunts; transfer to Fallersleben; life...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yehuda Haleman, born in Cluj, Romania in 1928, regarding his experiences in the ‎Cluj Ghetto and deportation to Auschwitz and Kaufering

Testimony of Yehuda Haleman, born in Cluj, Romania in 1928, regarding his experiences in the ‎Cluj Ghetto and deportation to Auschwitz and Kaufering His parents’ house; cessation of studies following the closure of the yeshivas in 1942; food ‎rationing; entry of the Germans in March 1944; Slovakian refugees; the yellow badge; restrictions ‎on movement; prohibition on traveling on public transportation; deportation to the ghetto on 3 ‎May 1944; Kastner’s speech in the ghetto to encourage people to go out to work; deportation to ‎Auschwitz on the last transport; selection; quarters in the gypsy camp; personal...

File Number : 13673

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Personal documentation belonging to William Wolfgang Brickman, born in the United States, 1913, a US soldier who spied in Germany

Personal documentation belonging to William Wolfgang Brickman, born in the United States, 1913, a US soldier who spied in Germany - Letter sent by William (Zeev) Wolfgang Brickman from Fürth-Unterfürberg, Germany, to Dr. Ernest O. Melby, Dean of the New York University School of Education requesting the renewal of his appointment as an Instructor in the Department of History of Education at the University, 04 February 1946; - Certificate confirming the completion of a course in the United States Military Intelligence Training Center awarded to William Wolfgang Brickman, 03 March 1945; - United States...

File Number : 1002

Type of Material : Personal Documents

Language : English, German

Letters sent to Ryfka (Taub) Taffet in Eretz Israel by her family members and friends from Debica, Krakow and Stryj, 1930-1932, and memoirs of Michael Taffet regarding his experiences in Pustkow, Plaszow, Auschwitz, Dachau, Ostrowiec and Mauthausen Michael Taffet: Deportation to the Plaszow Ghetto, 1941; Plaszow Ghetto life; deportation to Pustkow, December 1941; camp life, including mass murder [of inmates]; liquidation of the ghetto, April 1942; deportation of his family to Plaszow; transfer to Ostrowiec; transfer to Auschwitz; arrival to camp including selection and an error in the number tattooed on...

File Number : 1880

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony, Poem/song, Memoirs, Letter, Red Cross Letter

Language : Hebrew, Polish, English, German, Yiddish

Memoirs of US Army soldier Joseph Fish, a resident of New York, who was in German captivity as a POW during 23/07/1944-02/05/1945

File Number : 8418

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, English

Letters sent to Sidney Shafner in the United States from people in various places in Eretz Israel and Italy, with requests for help to make contact with their family members, 1945

Letters sent to Sidney Shafner in the United States from people in various places in Eretz Israel and Italy, with requests for help to make contact with their family members, 1945 Participation of Sidney Shafner in the liberation of Dachau camp, as a US Army soldier. The file includes: Information about Shafner and material documenting the deportation of Marcel Levi, born in Saloniki, Greece, 1925, to Auschwitz camp, 18 April 1943; Note: The letters were written by: Tova Szyper; F. Shalit; R. Borodavki; Wolf Feintuch.

File Number : 1783

Type of Material : Certification, Letter, Booklet(s)

Language : Hebrew, Polish, English, German, Yiddish

Testimony of Yitzhak Leibowitz, born in 1926 in Loza, Czechoslovakia, about the Munkacs ghetto and the Auschwitz, Gunskirchen, Mauthausen, and other camps

Life under Hungarian rule in 1939; father inducted into the Hungarian Army labor brigades in 1941 and returns; German occupation ensues in 1944; deportation to the Munkacs ghetto in 1944; deportation to Auschwitz in 1944; transferred to Mauthausen (in Austria) in 1944; forced labor: building an underground armaments factory; death march to the Gunskirchen camp in 1945; liberation by American forces in 1945; back to Loza, Carpathian Ruthenia, upon the end of the war in 1945; unsuccessful attepmpt to slip into Hungary in 1945; moving to Romania and thence to Budapest in 1946; joining a Hakibbutz Hameuhad...

File Number : 13480

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Isaac S. Morhaime, born in Seattle, United States, 1918, regarding his fighting against the Nazis as a soldier in the US Army

Memoirs of Isaac S. Morhaime, born in Seattle, United States, 1918, regarding his fighting against the Nazis as a soldier in the US Army The battles Morhaime participated in as a soldier in the US army, including participation in the occupation of Mannheim and the liberation of Dachau.

File Number : 8198

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English

Testimony of David Friedman, born in Miskolc, Hungary, 1923, regarding his experiences in Encs, Kosice, Hajmasker, on a death march, in Buchenwald and more

Testimony

Testimony of David Friedman, born in Miskolc, Hungary, 1923, regarding his experiences in Encs, Kosice, Hajmasker, on a death march, in Buchenwald and more Childhood in a religious home; learns in a "heder"; studies in a Yeshiva; attends a Hungarian elementary school; family life in Encs until being deported to a ghetto; antisemitic displays before the war. German occupation [of Encs], March 1944; life under German occupation including anti-Jewish decrees, travel restrictions; confiscation of property and yellow badge; deportation to Kosice; transfer to the ghetto in a brick factory in Kosice two weeks...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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