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Testimony of Melvina Malka Avrahami, born in Pavlovo, Czechoslovakia, 1924, regarding the deportation to the Munkac Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Melvina Malka Avrahami, born in Pavlovo, Czechoslovakia, 1924, regarding the deportation to the Munkac Ghetto Family background; life before the war. Entry of the Hungarians, 1938; lifestyle changes for worse; food rationing; a ban on Christian doctors to treat Jews; refusal to treat her sister and her death in a hospital; sewing studies at Munkac; transfer to Svalava; German occupation; deportation to the Munkac ghetto by Hungarian gendarmes; *Second part of the testimony is missing, the witness refused to continue being interviewed.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Emanuel Krauthamer Kruvi, born, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Bobrka Ghetto and in Romanow, forests and Swirz

Memoirs of Emanuel Krauthamer Kruvi, born, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Bobrka Ghetto and in Romanow, forests and Swirz Experiences of the Krauthamer family from the start of their wanderings from Krautheim, Germany until their settlement in Bobrka; German Army occupation [of Bobrka], 1941; establishment of the Bobrka Ghetto; Bobrka Ghetto life, including forced labor digging trenches and clearing snow; life in stables in groups of 50 young women and 50 young men; forced labor in sugar beet fields [on an agricultural farm in Romanow?] until October 1942; first "Aktion" in Bobrka; deportation of...

File Number : 8583

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Yshai Tartakovski, born in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, regarding his experiences as a Red Army soldier in Dnepropetrovsk, the Mogilev area, in hiding in Igren, in captivity in Traidersdorf and more Life in Dnepropetrovsk including being drafted into the Red Army, 1940; transfer to Moscow, October 1940; transfer to a military village in the Kalinin area; transfer to Vyshny Volochyok; transfer to Pukhovichi; outbreak of the war between the Soviet Union and Germany and transfer with the headquarters staff to a forest; transfer in the direction of the front on foot; execution of a captured German...

File Number : 8565

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Russian

Booklet containing research on the family history (roots) of Adela (Esther Ita) (Gerstman) Frenkel and Chaim Frenkel written by their daughter, Chana (Frenkel) Shtauber, 1990

Booklet containing research on the family history (roots) of Adela (Esther Ita) (Gerstman) Frenkel and Chaim Frenkel written by their daughter, Chana (Frenkel) Shtauber, 1990 Included in the booklet:: - Description of the experiences of Adela and Chaim Frenkel and their family until their aliya to Israel; - Certified testimonial declaration by Adela Frenkel in Pardes Chana, 23 October 1989, regarding her rescue during the war by a Polish woman, Wiktoria Szymanska, later recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem and invited by Adela Frenkel to visit Israel, (in Hebrew, with instructions...

File Number : 8537

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Testimony, Memoirs, Declaration, Photograph, Booklet(s)

Language : Hebrew, Polish

Memoirs of Moshe Zeev Gelbert, born in Ilisesti, Romania, 1937, regarding his experiences in Transnistria, Ataki, Mogilev and Katsmazov

Memoirs of Moshe Zeev Gelbert, born in Ilisesti, Romania, 1937, regarding his experiences in Transnistria, Ataki, Mogilev and Katsmazov Anti-Jewish legislation, 1941; deportation to Transnistria; order to remove jewelry and hand it over to Romanian soldiers in Burdujeni; arrival in Ataki; assembly of Jews in the synagogue; finding a sign on the wall written in blood, reading, "Jews were murdered in this place. You Jews passing by here, please say Kaddish"; murder of Jews by the Romanian gendarmerie; destruction of the certificates [of the murdered?] so that they could not be identified; arrival in Mogilev on...

File Number : 8497

Type of Material : Memoirs, List of Deportees, Red Cross Letter

Language : Hebrew, Romanian

Testimony of Eugenia Seinfeld, born in Majdan Sredni, Poland, 1898, regarding her experiences in Holoskow, the Tlumacz Ghetto and in hiding at the home of a Pole and in the fields

Testimony of Eugenia Seinfeld, born in Majdan Sredni, Poland, 1898, regarding her experiences in Holoskow, the Tlumacz Ghetto and in hiding at the home of a Pole and in the fields German occupation of Holoskow; seizure of the family farm by the Germans and Ukrainians; labor as a cook for the Germans until 1942; bribery; blackmail by Ukrainians, until the deportation of the eight Jewish families; deportation on foot, and beatings during the march to Otynia; march for another 20 kilometers to Tlumacz; concentration of several thousand Jews, including many refugees from surrounding towns and villages, in the...

File Number : 175

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Collective testimony of survivors Kurt Chaim Shternshus, born 1932 [?], Claire Shternshus, born 1936, Yehuda Tenenhaus, born 1928, Yehudit Yeti Elenbogen, born 1922, Joseph Vaserman, born 1930, Regina Kaufman, born 1933, Joseph Fishel Veinberg Carmin, born 1930, and David Bakal, born 1923, all born in Romania, and Yisrael Elenbogen, born in Austria, 1919, regarding the Murafa Ghetto, Transnistria Collective testimony of: Kurt Chaim Shternshus, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1932 [?], Claire Shternshus, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1936, Yehuda Tenenhaus, born in Suceava, Romania, 1928, Yisrael Elenbogen, born in...

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Edi Shpira, born in Vatra Dornei, Romania, 1938, regarding his experiences as a child in Vatra Dornei, Transnistria and Mogilev-Podolski

Testimony

Testimony of Edi Shpira, born in Vatra Dornei, Romania, 1938, regarding his experiences as a child in Vatra Dornei, Transnistria and Mogilev-Podolski Life before the war; Communist family. Deportation to Transnistria, autumn 1941; transfer to Mogilev-Podolski; life in Mogilev-Podolski; acts of brutality by Romanian soldiers; life living in a movie theater; receives a permit to stay there due to his father's profession; hunger and lack of lumber for heating; restrictions on movement; contact with the partisans; liberation by the Red Army, March 1944. Return to Romania; life under the Soviet regime;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Reports of the Sicherheitspolizei (SIPO-Security Police) and the Sicherheitsdiens (SD-Security Service) headquarters regarding military and political activity during the occupation of the Soviet Union: Report No. 74, 05/09/1941 Part 1 - Political Events: Setting fire to barns in the Vienna area; execution of 10 Communists in Untersteiermark in reaction to the assassination [attempt ?] of a policeman; Part 2 - Reports of the Einsatzgruppen: Einsatzgruppe C: Presence in Novo-Ukrainka; - Partisans: Checking the messages of local residents regarding partisans being hidden in the cities (the majority...

File Number : 164.74

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : German

Reports of the Sicherheitspolizei (SIPO-Security Police) and the Sicherheitsdiens (SD-Security Service) headquarters regarding military and political activity during the occupation of the Soviet Union: Report No. 81, 12/09/1941 Part 1 - Political Events: Finding kindling material in the warehouses of the Schienau Company and at the railroad station in Elbing; sabotage of railroad tracks near Treppau; confiscation of radios from the population in Norway; escape of inmates from the POW camps in Sokolow; Sidlce and other locations in Poland; assassination (attempt?) against a German Naval officer in Paris;...

File Number : 164.81

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : German

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