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Memoirs of Chaim Chacham, born in Iasi, Romania, 1936, regarding his experiences in hiding in Iasi and letters sent to his father, Avram Hahamu Chacham, head of the Jewish community in Iasi

Memoirs of Chaim Chacham, born in Iasi, Romania, 1936, regarding his experiences in hiding in Iasi and letters sent to his father, Avram Hahamu Chacham, head of the Jewish community in Iasi Life before the war; activities of his father, Avram Hahamu Chacham, as head of the Jewish community in Iasi, 1940-1944; his mother Esther (Shtruminger) Chacham. In hiding in a cellar underneath the synagogue; capture of his father by a German Army patrol (arrested with binoculars and a camera when Jews were required to turn in all the optical equipment they were holding), life in hiding during the pogrom in Iasi;...

File Number : 8526

Type of Material : Letter, Memoirs, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, Romanian

Memoirs of Aharon Renert, born in Vijnita, Romania, 1926, regarding his experiences in Vijnita, Mogilev, Yaruga and Skazintsy

Memoirs of Aharon Renert, born in Vijnita, Romania, 1926, regarding his experiences in Vijnita, Mogilev, Yaruga and Skazintsy Childhood with his family in Vijnita; beginning of the persecutions against the Jews, 1938; financial difficulties due to fines and heavy taxes; Bar-Mitzvah celebration; law according to which each school must have at least 50% non-Jewish registration; Soviet occupation; persecution of Jews by the Communist regime; retreat of the Soviets; pogroms perpetrated by Romanians against the Jews; deportation to Transnistria; arrival in Mogilev; transfer to Yaruga; life in Yaruga, until...

File Number : 8489

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Josef Rozenboim Vered, born in Alexandreni, Romania, 1935, regarding his experiences in Lencauti, Transnistria and Murafa

Testimony

Testimony of Josef Rozenboim Vered, born in Alexandreni, Romania, 1935, regarding his experiences in Lencauti, Transnistria and Murafa Life in Lencauti; increasing displays of antisemitism by the authorities. German occupation of [Lencauti?]; pulling Jewish men from their homes; murder of his father and the other men in a pit [in Lencauti?]; concentration of the women and children; deportation on foot to Transnistria; fear of being drowned in the Dniester River; transfer to Murafa; receiving aid from local Jews; life in Murafa including crowding and illness; survival of his mother by sewing for the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zeev Volf Yeger, born in Rona, Romania, 1918, regarding his experiences in Rona, Budapest, Szentkiralyszabadja, in hiding and in Bucharest and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Zeev Volf Yeger, born in Rona, Romania, 1918, regarding his experiences in Rona, Budapest, Szentkiralyszabadja, in hiding and in Bucharest and other places Draft into the Romanian Army and service in the army after unsuccessful attempts to make aliya to Eretz Israel; Hungarian Army occupation of Rona; release [from the military]; escape to Budapest, 1940; draft to labor battalions in Budapest, 1944; forced labor building an airfield in Szentkiralyszabadja, 1944; transfer with a labor battalion to forced labor in a copper mine in Serbia, 1944; acts of abuse by Hungarian soldiers; contact with...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zipora Pina (Simon) Eidelstein, born in Garlele Gazariei, 1937, Romania, regarding her experiences in Gazariei, Bacau and Moinesti

Testimony

Testimony of Zipora Pina (Simon) Eidelstein, born in Garlele Gazariei, 1937, Romania, regarding her experiences in Gazariei, Bacau and Moinesti Life in Gazariei; increase in antisemitism. Harrassment of Jews, 1940; deportation of the Jews of Gazariei, including her family, to Moinesti, 1943; transfer to Bacau, 1943; transfer of her father to forced labor; receiving medical help from a Romanian Army physician who risked his life to save Eidelstein from becoming disabled; liberation, 1944. Move to Moinesti, 1945; aliya [to Eretz Israel?] of her brother and sister through Youth Aliyah, 1947; life under...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Efraim Chaim Drori, born in Bucharest, Romania, 1930, regarding his experiences in Bucharest and Israel

Testimony

Testimony of Efraim Chaim Drori, born in Bucharest, Romania, 1930, regarding his experiences in Bucharest and Israel His childhood in a traditional family, including attending Jewish schools. Life under fascist rule including the theft of property and imposition of anti-Jewish restrictions; pogrom against the Jews including execution by hanging and acts of physical and verbal abuse; dismissal of his father from his work; draft of his father to the Romanian Army reserves; arrival of Jewish refugees from Poland en route to Eretz Israel; meets a childless family; aliya to Eretz Israel using a certificate of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yehoshua Moshkowitz Lakner, born in Suceava, Romania, 1938, regarding his experiences in Suceava, Transnistria, Shargorod, Mogilev and Israel

Testimony

Testimony of Yehoshua Moshkowitz Lakner, born in Suceava, Romania, 1938, regarding his experiences in Suceava, Transnistria, Shargorod, Mogilev and Israel His childhood; physical displays of antisemitism before the outbreak of the war. Deportation to Transnistria; life in Shargorod, including hunger; murder of his father by beatings; move of his family to Mogilev by his uncles; life in Mogilev in a room that contained four families; trade on the black market; Allied shelling; liberation of Mogilev by the Red Army; attitude of the soldiers toward the children, including cultural activities and giving them...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Registration form for residents of Jewish origin, filled out by Martin Kiczales, 27 May 1942

File Number : 294

Type of Material : Sketch

Language : Romanian

Testimony of Chaim Karol Ionas, born in Bucharest, Romania, 1922, regarding his experiences in a village in the Carpathian Mountains, Bucharest, Ploesti, Teisu and as a forced laborer in Brasov

Testimony

Testimony of Chaim Karol Ionas, born in Bucharest, Romania, 1922, regarding his experiences in a village in the Carpathian Mountains, Bucharest, Ploesti, Teisu and as a forced laborer in Brasov Life in a village in the Carpathian Mountains before the war; attends a local school. Termination of his studies by the Romanians; studies in Bucharest; life in Ploesti with his parents; deportation to Teisu; camp life including work, July-December 1941; transfer to Brasov; life in Brasov including forced labor from January 1942; liberation, August 1944. Meets Red Army soldiers; Gordonia and Hashomer Hatzair...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avraham Markovitz, born in Targu Neamt, Romania, 1926, regarding his experiences in Targu Neamt and Buhusi

Testimony

Testimony of Avraham Markovitz, born in Targu Neamt, Romania, 1926, regarding his experiences in Targu Neamt and Buhusi Life in Targu Neamt before the war. Deportation to Buhusi, Pesach (April), 1944; deportation to a camp; camp life including forced labor; liberation by the Red Army, August 1944. Return to his family's home; aliya training; illegal aliya attempt to Eretz Israel on the "Pan York" ship; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel, 14 April 1948.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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