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Testimony of Talma Segal, born in 1937 in Viena, about her experiences as a girl in Vienna and Theresienstadt

Testimony

Testimony of Talma Segal, born in 1937 in Viena, about her experiences as a girl in Vienna and Theresienstadt Murder of grandfather in Kristallnacht events, November 1938; attempt to escape to Switzerland and forced return to Austria by the Gestapo in 1941; spared from deportation to Auschwitz in 1942; deportation to Theresienstadt and life there in 1943–1945; back to Vienna in 1945; mother dies of illness in 1949; immigration to Israel with the Hashomer Hatzair movement in 1957; establishment of Kibbutz Nir David; raising a family.

File Number : 13369

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Imre Yitzhak Kovach, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1925, regarding his experiences in Auschwitz and additional camps

Testimony

Testimony of Imre Yitzhak Kovach, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1925, regarding his experiences in Auschwitz and additional camps

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rina (Nacht) Radocki, born in Lwow, Poland, 1931

Testimony

Testimony of Rina (Nacht) Radocki, born in Lwow, Poland, 1931 From a traditional family. Disappearance of her father and brother; deportation of the witness and her mother to the Lwow Ghetto; disappearance of her mother; wanderings of the witness, who looks Aryan, among Polish houses in Lwow; purchase of forged documents in the name of Irena Shafoner in exchange for a coat; hospitalization in the Lwow hospital due to typhus; transfer to a Ukrainian orphanage in a monastery in Lwow based on her forged Aryan documents; Soviet occupation; transfer to a Soviet orphanage. Transfer of the group to Lodz and...

File Number : 13121

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mina (Lifshitz) Boier, born in Lodz, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Christianstadt and Bergen-Belsen

Testimony

Testimony of Mina (Lifshitz) Boier, born in Lodz, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Christianstadt and Bergen-Belsen Life before the war; her grandfather is the chief rabbi of Lodz; attends Jewish schools until 1939. German occupation, 1939; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto, early 1940; death of her mother, 1942; ghetto life including labor in crafts workshops; deportation to Auschwitz, summer 1944; transfer to Christianstadt, camp life including labor digging and laying large sewage pipes; death march in the direction of Bergen-Belsen, early 1945; liberation by the...

File Number : 12878

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Nachman Shivek, born in Czeladz, Poland, 1925, regading his experiences in the Czeladz abd Bedzin Ghettos, Sakrau and Markstaedt camp

Testimony

Testimony of Nachman Shivek, born in Czeladz, Poland, 1925, regading his experiences in the Czeladz abd Bedzin Ghettos, Sakrau and Markstaedt camp Life before the war; attends a school; relations with the local population. German occupation; confiscation of the family's shop; draft of his brother to a labor camp; deportation to the Czeladz Ghetto; ghetto life; detention in a cellar; yellow badge; transfer to the Bedzin Ghetto; ghetto life; transfer to Sosnowiec; transfer to Sakrau; life in Sakrau and labor in the Todt organization; attitude of the foreman to the inmates; deportation to Markstaedt; camp...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Broadsheets of Revisionist Zionist organizations in Bulgaria, 1927-1946

Broadsheets of Revisionist Zionist organizations in Bulgaria, 1927-1946 Broadsheet for the elections of representatives at the 15th Zionist Congress, 1927; Two broadsheets against antisemtism in Germany and Europe and promoting the establishment of a Jewish State in Eretz Israel, 1932, 1934; Broadsheet against the White Paper, March 1932; Broadsheet on the occasion of a Jewish assembly in Bulgaria, 1932; Broadsheet on the murder of Arlosoroff, 06 July 1933; Two broadsheets on independent Zionists (Revisionists after 1944), 1946; Broadsheet with pictures and names of five Bulgarian's, members of the...

File Number : 303

Type of Material : Manifesto, Poster

Language : Bulgarian

Testimony of Izhak Klein, born in Zsolcza, 1930, regarding his experiences in Miskolc, labor battalions in Bozsok and a death march to Mauthausen and Gunskirchen camps

Testimony

Testimony of Izhak Klein, born in Zsolcza, 1930, regarding his experiences in Miskolc, labor battalions in Bozsok and a death march to Mauthausen and Gunskirchen camps Move to Miskolc for financial reasons; attends a Jewish school and "heder"; activities in the Bnei Akiva youth movement. Deportation to the Miskolc Ghetto after German occupation, 1944; ghetto life; volunteers to a labor battalion; travel to Oroszvar with help from a Hungarian officer named Dkart Kalman; labor; labor digging anti-tank trenches in Bozsok; approach of the front; death march to Mauthausen and Gunskirchen camps; help from the...

File Number : 11667

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avraham Fein, born in Kaunas, 1931, regarding his experiences as a child in the Kaunas Ghetto, Palemonas and Landsberg forced labor camps and a death march

Testimony

Testimony of Avraham Fein, born in Kaunas, 1931, regarding his experiences as a child in the Kaunas Ghetto, Palemonas and Landsberg forced labor camps and a death march Childhood and education in the Jewish elementary school in Kaunas. Outbreak of the war, 1939; life under Soviet rule; activities in the Pioneer movement; German occupation, 1941; murder of his father; move of the family to the ghetto; living conditions; selection, 1941; looting; his mother's and sister's forced labor at the airfield; preserves an observant way of life in the ghetto; deportation with his mother and sister to the Palemonas...

File Number : 11624

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yekutiel Paul Kraus, born in Bustino, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding his experiences in a ghetto, Auschwitz, a death march, Gleiwitz and Mauthausen and various camps

Testimony

Testimony of Yekutiel Paul Kraus, born in Bustino, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding his experiences in a ghetto, Auschwitz, a death march, Gleiwitz and Mauthausen and various camps His immediate family; his father's livelihood; home life; Shabbat; the Jewish community; education; joins a youth movement; relations between school pupils. Hungarian occupation; arrival of refugees from Poland; exile of Jews; murder of Jews in Kamenets-Podolski; a friend who survived; draft of his brothers to labor camps; murder of his older brother; a brother is taken into Soviet captivity and his death from typhus; Pesach...

File Number : 11877

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of David Herman, born in Swirz, Poland, 1931, regarding his experiences in the Przemyslany Ghetto and with the partisans in forests

Testimony

Testimony of David Herman, born in Swirz, Poland, 1931, regarding his experiences in the Przemyslany Ghetto and with the partisans in forests Life before the war; German occupation; deportation to the Przemyslany Ghetto; liquidation of the ghetto, 1942; escape home; escape to forests; joins the partisans; death of his father in a forest, late 1942; life in a family camp in the forest; liberation by the Red Army, late 1944. Return to Swirz; aliya attempt; detention in Cyprus; aliya, 1947.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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