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Testimony of Ze'ev Yitzhaki, born in Iasi, Romania, 1936, regarding his experiences in Iasi during the war

Testimony

Testimony of Ze'ev Yitzhaki, born in Iasi, Romania, 1936, regarding his experiences in Iasi during the war Early childhood. Increase in anti-Semitism, 1939; anti-Jewish orders and legislation; pogrom at police stations and trains, June 1941; the bombings.Liberation by the Red Army, summer of 1944; joining the Dror organization; moving to a children's home in Piatra Neat; boarding the illegal immigrant ship Pan York, December 1947; exile to Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel, March 1948; absorption.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yisrael Veisvaser, born in 1922 in Krasnystaw, Poland, about the German occupation in September 1939 and his escape to the Soviet Union

Testimony

Testimony of Yisrael Veisvaser, born in 1922 in Krasnystaw, Poland, about the German occupation in September 1939 and his escape to the Soviet Union Childhood in a traditional home; attends a cheder and a Polish elementary school; active in the Betar movement; German occupation ensues; Soviet invasion ensues in 1939; witness escapes to Brest and thence to Minsk; back to Brest; on to Ludman; arrested due to Zionist activity; deported to a labor camp in Rom, Soviet Union; transferred to a camp for craftspersons; released in June 1943; reaches Zhitomir and Chełm; discharged from the Polish Army in 1946; moves...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Liliana Kaliger Giske, born in Lodz, Poland, in 1928 regarding the Lodz ghetto, Auschwitz and other camps

Testimony

Childhood in Lodz; antisemitism; German occupation in September 1939; confiscation of property and businesses; acts of abuse on the steets, expulsion from apartment; curfew in the evenings; white band; deportation to the Lodz ghetto in February 1940; dysentery epidemic; starvation; death of the mother and niece; abuse; work at a knitting resort; arrival of refugees; the Judenradt; the Jewish police; doctors in the ghetto; improvement in September 1942; activity in the Communist underground; liquidation of the Lodz ghetto in the summer 1944; deportation to Auschwitz Birkenau; starvation; beatings; transfer to...

File Number : 13686

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Fani Valdman, nee Soyfer, born in Stanita, Romania, in 1921, regarding her experiences in Stanita, in Roman and in labour camps

Testimony of Fani Valdman,nee Soyfer, born in Stanita, Romania, in 1921 regarding her experiences in Stanita, Roman and in labour camps Life in Stanita, her father owned a grocery store and a tavern; stabbing of her mother by anti-semitic thugs; German occupation in 1941; deportation on foot to Roman; liquidation of the family business; transfer to labour camps; family stays at the synagogue in Roman; they live on odd jobs; crossing the border to Hungary; aliya to Israel from Italy on the "Caserta" ship in 1948; absorption.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Abraham Ashkenazi, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1930 regarding his experiences in Pazardzhik

Manifestations of anti-semitism on the part of the teachers; moving to a Jewish school; Ben Gourion's visit to the city; recruiting his father for forced labour; deportation order to Pazardzhik; shelter in the local school; restrictions; loss of contact with his father; surviving on temporary jobs; going back to Sofia; joining the movement Poalei Zion Left; defense training; aliyah bet from Marseille on board the ship Pavio in 1948; participation in the Latrun battles and in the battles in Jerusalem

File Number : 13706

Type of Material : Testimony

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

Testimony of Lea Kanik Vinshtok, born in Darabani, Romania in 1927, regarding her experiences ‎of deportation to Transnistria, Tropova and Konatkovtsy

Testimony of Lea Kanik Vinshtok, born in Darabani, Romania in 1927, regarding her experiences ‎of deportation to Transnistria, Tropova and Konatkovtsy Her childhood before the war; the increase of nationalism and antisemitism in 1938; expulsion ‎from school; entry of Romania in the war against the Soviet Union in 1941; the pogrom in ‎Dorohoi; wearing the yellow badge; deportation from her home to Targu Jiu and from there to ‎Turnu Severin; help of the Jewish community; transfer to Dorohoi; deportation to Transnistria in ‎November 1941; theft of possessions; march to Tropovoye and from there to Konatkovtsy;...

File Number : 13670

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Renée Kenoshi née Gold, born in 1930 in Odorheiu, Romania, about her experiences in the Targu Mures ghetto and the Auschwitz and Ober-Hohenelbe camps

Life before the war; offspring of a religious family; Hungary re-annexes the area in 1940; promulgation of anti-Jewish laws; men inducted into labor brigades; antisemitic acts; German occupation ensues in March 1944; witness's mother accused of communist activity and imprisoned; wearing the yellow star; banishment to the Targu Mures ghetto on May 3, 19144; mutual assistance; plunder of valuables; deportation to Auschwitz on May 27, 1944; selections in the camp; diseases, roll calls, transferred to Ober-Hohenelbe; life in the camp; living conditions improve; working at welding aircraft parts; liberation by Red...

File Number : 13642

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Miriam Marila Liber Prague née Kostin, born in 1921 in Warsaw, about her experiences in the Warsaw ghetto, in Hungary, with the partisans in Yugoslavia, and as a forced laborer in Germany

Life before the war; German occupation ensues; dispossession; deportation to the Warsaw ghetto; life in the ghetto; escaping to the "Aryan" side with help of forged papers; marrying; escaping to Lwów; escaping back to Warsaw; escaping to Hungary; receiving privileges from the Polish Consulate; escaping to Yugoslavia; joining the partisans in March 1944; sabotaging a railroad track; arrested by the Germans and taken to Germany; working in a factory that manufactures spare parts for tanks; posing as a Croat; receiving extra privileges; liberated by American forces; reaching Buchenwald; encountering Holocaust...

File Number : 13612

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Eliezer Leo Matzger, born in Kiel, Germany, in 1920, regarding his experiences in ‎Kiel and Hamburg and his aliya to Eretz Israel

Testimony of Eliezer Leo Matzger, born in Kiel, Germany, in 1920, regarding his experiences in ‎Kiel and Hamburg and his aliya to Eretz Israel Born into a religious family from Galicia; life in Kiel in a non-Jewish area until 1933; life after the ‎Nazi Party came into power; membership in the Zionist Habonim Movement; aliya of his older ‎sisters to Eretz Israel in 1934; closing of the family store; escape to the Hechalutz Movement’s ‎aliya training center in Hamburg in 1936; decision of the movement’s leadership in spring 1939 to ‎send him to Eretz Israel; travel through the Czech region, Austria and Italy;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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