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Testimony

Testimony of Moshe Zisman, born in Bucharest, Romania, 1937, regarding his experiences and the experiences of his family being rescued from deportation to Transnistria with the help of an Iron Guard man and in hiding in Bucharest Family life; synagogues in the community; attends the Achdut Jewish school; rise to power of the Iron Guard; draft to labor of the men including his father; a neighbor serving in the Iron Guard; forced labor [of his father]; his family's relationship with the neighbor; detention of his father and his release with the aid of his neighbor; pogroms in Bucharest; deportation of Jews...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Arnold Janculovich, born in Iasi, Romania, 1934, regarding his experiences in Iasi

Testimony

Testimony of Arnold Janculovich, born in Iasi, Romania, 1934, regarding his experiences in Iasi Immediate family; way of life; education; the local synagogue; difficuties in earning a living; displays of antisemitism in the city; persecution and torture by the Iron Guard; draft of his father to forced labor; hunger; murder of Jews in police headquarters on "Black Sunday", June 1941; murder by the Romanian gendarmes; herding the survivors onto sealed freight cars (his father among them); the harsh conditions on the train; death of people from thirst and asphyxiation; deportation [including the witness?] to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sylvia (Rozenblat) Levin, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1933, regarding her experiences as a child in the Cernauti Ghetto, Atachi, Cariera de Piatra, Ladyzhin and more

Testimony

Testimony of Sylvia (Rozenblat) Levin, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1933, regarding her experiences as a child in the Cernauti Ghetto, Atachi, Cariera de Piatra, Ladyzhin and more Life before the war. Soviet occupation, June 1940; illness of her father and his hospitalization; German-Romanian occupation, 1941; deportation of the family to the Cernauti Ghetto; deportation to Transnistria via Atachi on trains; crossing the river on boats; transfer to Cariera de Piatra; life in Cariera de Piatra; being guarded by Romanian gendarmes; transfer to various places; transfer to Ladyzhin; life in Ladyzhin; transfer...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Orders and instructions of Marshal Ion Antonescu and of Gheorghe Alexianu, Governor of Transnistria, from 1941

File Number : JM/11207

Type of Material : Telegram, Instruction, Map, Official Documentation, Order

Language : Romanian, Russian, German

Testimony of Joseph Iozhi Shnarkh, born in Vatra Dornei, Romania, 1933, regarding his experiences as a child in Vatra Dornei, Atachi, Mogilev-Podolski and Shargorod

Testimony

Testimony of Joseph Iozhi Shnarkh, born in Vatra Dornei, Romania, 1933, regarding his experiences as a child in Vatra Dornei, Atachi, Mogilev-Podolski and Shargorod Life before the war; his father's contacts with the locals. Murder of Jews by Romanians; German occupation, 1941; yellow badge; concentration of the Jews in a cellar and deportation in train cars to Transnistria; transfer to Atachi; crosses a river in boats; confiscation of valuables by Romanian gendarmes; march to Mogilev-Podolski; life in Mogilev-Podolski and concentration of the Jews in an abondoned building; transfer in a march to...

File Number : 13056

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shlomo Salo Shechter, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1921, regarding his experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto, in the Cernauti underground and Tiraspol

Testimony

Testimony of Shlomo Salo Shechter, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1921, regarding his experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto, in the Cernauti underground and Tiraspol Life before the war; from a religious family with hardships; learns in a Jewish school and a "heder"; work; joins Gordonia. Soviet occupation, 1940; Romanian-German occupation, 05 July 1941; murder of Jews next to the Prut river; forced agricultural labor; deportation to the Cernauti Ghetto, Sukkot (06 October) 1941; ghetto life including deportations of Jews to Transnistria; obtains a permit to live outside the ghetto due to his essential work as a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yocheved (Greenberg) Klauzner, born in Iasi, Romania, 1928, regarding her experiences in Iasi and en route to Eretz Israel

Testimony

Testimony of Yocheved (Greenberg) Klauzner, born in Iasi, Romania, 1928, regarding her experiences in Iasi and en route to Eretz Israel From a Zionist family; Jewish community; reception of Transnistria children; preparation for aliya to Eretz Israel, 1936. Outbreak of the war, June 1941; air-raids in the areas where Jews live; restrictions on Jews including yellow badge; murder of men and families in hiding; exemption from reporting to the Iasi death trains, Black Sunday, 29 June 1941; overcrowding of Jews into railroad cars including suffocation of many and burial in a mass grave; deportation of the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avraham Klein, born in Focsani, Romania, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Focsani Ghetto and as a forced laborer

Testimony

Testimony of Avraham Klein, born in Focsani, Romania, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Focsani Ghetto and as a forced laborer Life before the war; Zionist family; attends a public school; displays of antisemitism in school; Zionist youth movement activities; Jewish community; learns Hebrew; his father supports the establishment of a Jewish political party that was elected to the Romanian parliament; work as a reporter for the newspaper, "Techiyatenu". Ban on Zionist activities; pogroms; deportation to the Focsani Ghetto, 1940; ghetto life; food shortage in the ghetto; drafted to forced labor in a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation from the National Archives of Romania

Documentation from the National Archives of Romania The collection includes files created by various organizations: Reports by the central and the local administration regarding the persecution of Jews; files from the Military Cabinet of the Ion Antonescu government; decrees and decisions against the Jews, 1940-1944; surveillance reports by the Siguranta Security Police.

Type of Material : Legal Documentation, Official Documentation

Language : Romanian

Documentation from the archives of the Romanian Intelligence Service, 1936-1948

Documentation from the archives of the Romanian Intelligence Service, 1936-1948 Documentation from the Romanian Intelligence Service regarding the trials of Romanian war criminals. In the collection there is material from the Siguranta (Security Police), which was collected within the context of the trails of Romanian war criminals. The trials were conducted by "People's Tribunals" which were established and conducted in accordance with the regulations of Law No. 312 issued by the Romanian Justice Ministry, 21 April 1945. In addition to the legal material, there are many documents in the collection which...

Type of Material : Legal Documentation, Official Documentation

Language : Romanian

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