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Testimony of Shnirer Tulo, born in 1927 in Krakow, Poland, regarding transfer to the Krakow ‎Ghetto in 1941 and deportation to labor camps

Testimony

Testimony of Shnirer Tulo, born in 1927 in Krakow, Poland, regarding transfer to the Krakow ‎Ghetto in 1941 and deportation to labor camps Childhood: traditional family, Jewish school, antisemitism before the war, death of his father in ‎‎1936; German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939; anti-Jewish decrees; wearing the yellow ‎badge; limitations on movement; confiscation of property, etc.; German officials taking over part ‎of the family’s apartment; transfer to the Krakow Ghetto in March 1941; the Judenrat and the ‎Jewish police; forced labor inside and outside the ghetto; Jewish underground; Nazi...

File Number : 13740

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Confirmation issued in the Bergen-Belsen DP camp that Aron Brenner is planning to be married to Sara Solberg, and they need a room in which to conduct the wedding ceremony, 26 July 1945

Confirmation issued in the Bergen-Belsen DP camp that Aron Brenner is planning to be married to Sara Solberg, and they need a room in which to conduct the wedding ceremony, 26 July 1945 Note: Zeev Aron Brenner was born in Jedrzejow in 1919; his parents were Meyer and Hendel Brenner; Aron was one of six children, four sisters and two brothers; the family was incarcerated in the ghetto, their home having been included in the ghetto precincts, in 1940; capture of many Jews, including Zeev and his brother-in-law, and deportation for forced labor in Belzec; transfer of Zeev and his brother-in-law to the...

File Number : 710

Type of Material : Personal Documents

Language : English

Memoirs of Miriam Eva (Reiter) Zinger, born in Munkacs, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Munkacs Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and the Lenzing camp

Memoirs of Miriam Eva (Reiter) Zinger, born in Munkacs, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Munkacs Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and the Lenzing camp Life before the war; attends the Hebrew high school. German occupation; yellow badge; deportation to the Munkacs Ghetto; transfer of her father and other Jews to the Great Synagogue; abuse of the Jews by Hungarian soldiers; liquidation of the ghetto, April 1944; deportation to Auschwitz by death march; camp life; murder of her father, grandfather and grandmother; life in Birkenau in the Gypsy camp; transfer of the Gypsies to the gas...

File Number : 8517

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Postcards with Rosh Hashana greetings written by Majer Klajnman in Sandomierz to his son Nachman Kleinman in the United States and to the Fortgang family in Tarnobrzeg, Poland, dated, September (year unclear) Comments by the submitters of the material (Nechemia Chemia and Vivian Kleinman): The Fortgang family from Tarnobrzeg is part of the family of Esther (Shlissel) Kleinman, the wife of Yaakov Leib Kleinman (the son of Majer Klajnman); Nechemia Kleinman (the grandson of Majer Klajnman) was born in Sandomierz, Poland, 01/02/1932 (the date is not exact; Nechemia received the supposed date of birth upon...

File Number : 1857

Type of Material : Postcard

Language : Hebrew, Yiddish

Memoirs of Pinkhas Tzimerman, born in Trzebinia, Poland, 1917, regarding his experiences in the Trzebinia Ghetto, Chrzanow Ghetto, Dachau and Markstaedt camps, and in other places

Memoirs of Pinkhas Tzimerman, born in Trzebinia, Poland, 1917, regarding his experiences in the Trzebinia Ghetto, Chrzanow Ghetto, Dachau and Markstaedt camps, and in other places Life before the war; witness learns in a Talmud Torah; studies in a vocational-commercial school. German occupation, 1939; deportation to the Trzebinia Ghetto; deportation of young Jews including his brother Beniamin to forced labor in Germany; cooperation regarding the deportation of the young Jews, by the Judenrat and the Jewish police; labor in a carpentry workshop; finds a hiding place during an "Aktion", 01 June 1942;...

File Number : 8455

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Book containing the history of the Szmaragd family in Piotrkow, Zamosc and Warsaw, Poland; memoirs of Yisrael Szmaragd regarding his experiences in the Belzec camp and the Czestochowa camp in Poland and the family tree Memoirs of Yisrael Szmaragd: Learns in a "heder"; attends Yesodei Hatorah, the religious elementary school in Piotrkow; learns in the Beit Yosef yeshiva; membership in the Hashomer Hadati youth movement. Deportation to the Belzec work camp; labor digging anti-tank trenches; liberation from the Czestochowa labor camp by the Red Army. Wanderings in Poland after the war; joins the Lodz...

File Number : 8348

Type of Material : Biography, Genealogy, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Sara (Weissmann) Milgram, born in Kosice, Slovakia, 1939, regarding her experiences using a false identity in Budapest

Memoirs of Sara (Weissmann) Milgram, born in Kosice, Slovakia, 1939, regarding her experiences using a false identity in Budapest Life in Budapest using a false identity; deportation of her parents to Auschwitz; escape to various places. Aliya to Israel, 1949; life in Israel. Also in the file: - Excerpts from memoirs written by the witness' mother, Aliza Alice (Schlezinger) Rotman, a survivor of Auschwitz and other camps; - Red Cross letter from Alexander Weissmann in Eretz Israel to the witness' father, Abraham Weissmann, in Kassa, 13 March 1943; - Interview with Sara Milgram and her mother,...

File Number : 8494

Type of Material : Memoirs, Red Cross Letter, Genealogy

Language : Hebrew, English, German

Testimony of Eva (Grinwald) Veis, born in Zilina, Slovakia, 1929, regarding her experiences in Zilina, in prison in Ilava, in the Sered camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau and other places

Testimony of Eva (Grinwald) Veis, born in Zilina, Slovakia, 1929, regarding her experiences in Zilina, in prison in Ilava, in the Sered camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau and other places Life before the war; attendance at various schools until 1942; imposition of restrictions on the Jews. Transfer to a one room apartment, 1943; deportation to Ilava, September 1944; life in prison; deportation to the Sered camp; camp life until 28 September 1944; transfer to Auschwitz-Birkenau; camp life; transfer to the Bad-Kudowa camp; camp life including hospitalization in the sick room; [deportation to the Matzdorf camp;] life...

Type of Material : Secondary Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Transcript of the testimony of Eva (Grinvald) Veis born in Zilina, Slovakia, 1929, regarding her experiences in Zilina, in detention in Ilava, in Sered, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bad Kudowa and Matzdorf

Transcript of the testimony of Eva (Grinvald) Veis born in Zilina, Slovakia, 1929, regarding her experiences in Zilina, in detention in Ilava, in Sered, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bad Kudowa and Matzdorf Life before the war; attends various schools until 1942. Anti-Jewish legislation; forced transfer to a one room apartment, 1943; deportation to Sered via the Ilava prison, 1944; life in Sered until 28 September 1944; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; life in Birkenau for approximately one month; transfer to Bad Kudowa; camp life including hospitalization in the clinic; liberation by the Red Army. Return to...

File Number : 8321

Type of Material : Testimony, Genealogy

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Bunim Veintraub, born in 1929 in Bialobrzegi, Poland, about his experiences in the Bialobrzegi ghetto and in the Skarzysko Kamienna, Częstochowa, and other camps

Childhood in Bialobrzegi; attends a Polish school and a cheder; religious life; hoarding food and clothing in houses in 1939; ghettoization; father deported to an unknown destination; Jews rounded up and deported to an unknown destination; witness escapes to villages in the area; deportation to Skarzysko Kamienna; life in the camp; working at a light munitions plant; abuse and shooting typhus patients; sent to the Częstochowa camp; sent to Buchenwald; life in the camp; receiving parcels from British prisoners; sent to Schlieben; brother dies in Allied bombardment of Dresden; escapes to Bautzen; works in a...

File Number : 13457

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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