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Testimony of Genia (Nistenpover) Hermon, born in Pultusk, Poland, 1929 regarding the deportation of her family to Bialystok, USSR, and life in Berezniki, Ural

Testimony

German occupation, 1939; the family's escape to a nearby town and return after a short time; deportation on foot by the Germans to the Soviet border and transfer to a refugee camp in Bialystok; deportation by the Soviet authorities to Adamova Gora near Berezniki, Ural; her parents working in construction; liberation following the outbreak of the Soviet-German war; move to Orsha, Belorussia, 1941; approach of the front; air-raids; escape to Uzbekistan, 1941; move to a kolkhoz to work in cotton picking for several months; move to Kassansay; studies in a Soviet school; Her return with the family after the end...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letters written by Lina Gelber in Stanislau and Lemberg to her siblings Dave and Frida in the United States and letters received by Joe Gelber in San Francisco from his sister and brother in Philadelphia, 1936-1939 - Letter from Lina Gelber in Stanislau to her brother Dave in the United States, 12 March 1939; - Letter from Lina Gelber in Lemberg to her sister Frida in the United States in which she describes the displays of antisemitism and writes that the situation in Poland is very difficult, 09 June 1939; - Letter (in German) sent to Joe Gelber in San Francisco by his sister Frida in Philadelphia,...

File Number : 2107

Type of Material : Letter

Language : English, German

Testimony of Yocheved Yehudit Hamburger Boxbaum, born in Brzesko, Poland, 1928, regarding the Bochnia ghetto and deportation to the Auschwitz II - Birkenau camp

Testimony

Testimony of Yocheved Yehudit Hamburger Boxbaum, born in Brzesko, Poland, 1928, regarding the Bochnia ghetto and deportation to the Auschwitz II - Birkenau camp Family background, religious family; studies in a Polish school; life before the war. The outbreak of the war; dropping out of school; great fear of the Germans; deportation to the ghetto; aktions; deportation of the first intelligence personnel; whistleblowing by Jewish policemen on Jews; rumors of camps; construction of bunkers; hiding in hideout during an aktion; exposing the witness' family during the aktion and killing them; the escape of the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Esther Mirovski Asael, born in Bedzin, Poland in 1928, regarding her experiences ‎in the Bendin Ghetto and in various camps, including Dulak, Peterswaldau, Klettendorf, and ‎Gogolin

Testimony of Esther Mirovski Asael, born in Bedzin, Poland in 1928, regarding her experiences ‎in the Bendin Ghetto and in various camps, including Dulak, Peterswaldau, Klettendorf, and ‎Gogolin Occupation and life under German rule in 1939; deportation to the Bendin Ghetto in 1941; labor in ‎a sewing workshop making uniforms for the German army; sleeping at night with her mother in the ‎factory where her father worked, outside the ghetto, out of fear of the selections; deportation to ‎a transit camp in Sosnowiec in 1943; transfer to the concentration camp in Annaberg, Germany in ‎‎1943; deportation to the...

File Number : 13668

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 Avraham Iger, born in 1918 in Radom, Poland, about his experiences in Radom, the Jedlina ghetto, and camps in Poland and Austria, 1939–1945

German occupation ensues in 1939; witness assigned to felling timber as forced laborer; deportation to the Jedlina ghetto in 1941; forced labor in the ghetto; deportation with brother and sister to Pionki ni 1942; life in the camp; working in a gunpowder and munitions plant; transferred to Zwolen in 1942; interned there for severael weeks; sent back to Pionki; taken to Auschwitz in 1944; interned there for several days; sent on to Sosnowiec Srodula in 1944; life in the camp; working in an armaments plant; death march to Mauthausen in January 1945; transferred to Gunskirchen; interned there until liberated by...

File Number : 13611

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Michal Mishe Rauch née Löwenherz, born in 1926 in Przemyśl, Poland, about her experiences in the Przemyśl ghetto and in hiding on the "Aryan" side in a Ukrainian's home until liberation in 1944

German occupation of Przemyśl in 1939; riots; Soviet occupation ensues in 1939; German occupation ensues in 1941; restrictions on Jews and upturn in antisemitism; deportation to the Przemyśl ghetto with parents; family members receive labor permits; father works in a factory outside the ghetto and witness works with mother on a farm outside the ghetto in 1942; finding a hideout during the second Aktion; witness and parents arrested due to denunciation and taken to a lockup in Przemyśl; they escapes from the lockup and return to the ghetto (part of which has become a labor camp) in 1943; witness and parents...

File Number : 13595

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Irit Irena Nitzan née Tug, born in 1939 in Kraków, about her experiences under a false identity with Polish families in villages near Kraków and in Kraków

German occupation; witness and parents escape from Kraków in 1939; deportation, apparently to Treblinka, in 1942; witness and parents leap from train and hide in the forest (so she is told); father captured and sent to a concentration and extermination camp; placed in hideouts with non-Jewish Polish families in the countryside and in Kraków (approx. ten places during the war) under the false identity of a Polish girl; placed by her mother with various families until the war in Kraków ends in 1944; father returns from the camps in 1945; life in Kraków after the war; attends a Tarbut school; joins the Hashomer...

File Number : 13503

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Norbert Natan Lampert, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1935, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, being hidden by Poles on the Aryan side of Warsaw and in Malkinia; details regarding his mother, Sonia Zofia (Buchhalter) Lampert, his grandfather and grandmother, his father Grzegorz and his uncle Monis [Buchhalter] Details regarding the businesses of his father and his grandfather in Warsaw; escape of his father and uncle Monis to the Soviet occupied area , October-November 1939; attempt to acquire emigration papers to the United States for Norbert and his mother; establishment of the Warsaw...

File Number : 8435

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rudy Uri Ravid Schmuckler, born in Danzig, 1926, in the Free City, regarding his escape to the USSR and exile to Siberia

Testimony

Testimony of Rudy Uri Ravid Schmuckler, born in Danzig, 1926, in the Free City, regarding his escape to the USSR and exile to Siberia. Family background, Zionist family; his father's work as a Hebrew teacher; studies in a German general school. Great anti-Semitism; transfer to a Jewish school; aliya of his brother to Eretz Israel and his absorption in Kfar Giladi, 1937; knowledge of living conditions in Eretz Israel from letters from his brother; crushing Jewish shop windows; throwing stones at Jews; Crystal Night events; spraying house windows; the next day the Christian neighbors attempt to set things...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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