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Testimony of Yaacov Shvartz, born in Siauliai, Lithuania, in 1929 regarding the Siauliai ghetto, the Stutthof and other camps

Testimony

Childhood in Siauliai; entry of the Russians in 1940; arrival of Jewish refugees from Poland; German occupation in June 1941; pogrom by the Lithuanians; murder of the stratum of the Jewish intelligentsia including the father; deportation to the Siauliai ghetto; overcrowding; yellow badges; starvation; forced labor; smugglings of food;'aktion" of the elderly in 1942; 'aktion' of the children in November 1943; liquidation of the Siauliai ghetto in July 1944; deportation to Stutthof; physical and emotional abuse; meeting with Russian captives; starvation; fate of the mother who escaped from the killing pit near...

File Number : 13687

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Leb Margalit, born in Galgau, Romania, in 1928 regarding the Dej ghetto, Auschwitz Birkenau and other camps

Childhood in Galgau and in Deja; invasion of the Hungarians in 1940; anti-Jewish legislation; recruiting for labor battalions; deterioration of the economic situation; German occupation in March 1944; yellow badge; confiscation of property; deportation to the Dej ghetto; life under the sky; starvation; deportation to Auschwitz Birkenau in June 1944; camp admission process; life in the camp; starvation and thirst; transfer to Bremen about 2 months later; working in clearing the ruins; getting help from German citizens; mutual help; transfer to Bergen Belsen; typhus epidemic; piles of corpses; liberation by the...

File Number : 13712

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Correspondence of the regional branch of the Centralverein - CV (Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith) in Grenzmark Posen-Westpreussen, regarding current activities, the recruitment of new members, and other matters, 10/01/1933-07/05/1937

File Number : JM/28890

Type of Material : Brochure, Official Documentation

Language : German

Testimony of Tova (Gittel) Osher Vizel, born in Viseul de Sus, Romania, regarding her experiences during deportation to Auschwitz and other camps

Testimony of Tova (Gittel) Osher Vizel, born in Viseul de Sus, Romania, regarding her experiences during deportation to Auschwitz and other camps Her father’s death; leaving school to help support the family; Hungarian regime from 1939; rising antisemitism; German occupation in 1944; expulsion to the ghetto; mother’s illness; transport to Auschwitz; leaving her sick mother behind in the railway car; forcible separation from her younger brother; selection for labor in Gelsenkirchen in building refineries that were bombed; deaths of women prisoners in bombing of the camp; transfer to Sömmerda Weisensee and...

File Number : 13576

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letters sent by Margarete Stock from Schierstein to Manfred Hess in Eretz Israel, and to the Becker family in the United States, 1946-1947, and correspondence between Manfred Hess in Eretz Israel and his father, Julius Hess, in Frankfurt am Main via the Red Cross, 1941 - Letter sent to Fred [Manfred] Hess in Eretz Israel by Margarete Stock from Schierstein, a non-Jewish neighbor of the family in Frankfurt, with a description of her leave-taking from his parents, Julius and Emma Hess, 11 November 1941, and their subsequent deportation to Minsk, 19 January 1947; - Correspondence between Manfred Hess in...

File Number : 2023

Type of Material : Letter, Red Cross Letter

Language : German

Testimony of Ora Dobo Shvartz, born in 1925 in Satu Mare, Romania, about her wartime experiences in the Cluj ghetto and the Auschwitz Birkenau, Gross Rosen, and Bergen-Belsen camps

Life in Cluj; Hungary re-annexes the area in 1940; father inducted into the labor brigades in 1942; mother makes a living on the black market; promulgation of anti-Jewish laws; German occupation ensues; banishment to the ghetto; abuse of the wealthy; Kasztner's speech in the ghetto; deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau in June–October 1944; selections by Mengele; sent on to Gross Rosen; death march to Bergen-Belsen in March 1945; back to Romania after liberation; reunites with family; immigrates to Israel in 1949.

File Number : 13646

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Eva Goldberg née Avraham, born in 1929 in Cristur, Romania, about her experiences in the Auschwitz-Birkenau, Horneburg, Porta Westfalica, and Fallersleben camps, etc.

Antisemitism in Romaniain 1938; escapes from riots by members of the Legionnaire movement; Hungary re-annexes the area in 1940; father inducted into the labor brigades; German occupation ensues in 1944; concealing valuables; Jews rounded up in the Dej forest; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; selections; taken to a crematorium; hides in a hearse-cart and in a latrine; slips into a group selected for labor; transferred to Horneburg; life in the camp; manufacturing ship and aircraft parts; factory manager helps women prisoners; local German women help with food; cruelties by SS men; transferred to the Porta...

File Number : 13609

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Flora Henle Rothschild, born in Lehrensteinsfeld, Germany, 1920, regarding her experiences in Lehrensteinsfeld, Stuttgart, Urfeld, her aliya to Eretz Israel in 1940, and in other places

Testimony

Testimony of Flora Henle Rothschild, born in Lehrensteinsfeld, Germany, 1920, regarding her experiences in Lehrensteinsfeld, Stuttgart, Urfeld, her aliya to Eretz Israel in 1940, and in other places Life before the war; traditional family, who are landowners; life along with individual Jewish families; Nazi rise to power, 1933; her father receives beatings from Gestapo men; termination of studies; her brother makes aliya to Eretz Israel, 1936; her father visits in Eretz Israel, 1938; her father returns to Germany during the Kristallnacht events; her escape to Stuttgart along with her family; arrest, and...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Miriam Lengel, born in Cluj, Romania in 1921, regarding her experiences in Kneii Meze, in the Plaszow and Auschwitz-Birkenau camps, in a camp in the region of Buchenberg and more

Testimony of Miriam Lengel, born in Cluj, Romania, in 1921,regarding her experiences in Kneii Meze, in the camps Plaszow, Auschwitz-Birkenau, in the region of Buchenberg and more Life in Cluj; attending a Romanian Gymnasium; good relations with the neighbours; annexation of the place to Hungary; imposing restrictions on the Jews; imposing an economic boycott; anti-Semitism; deportation to Kneii Meze; life in a brick factory; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau by cargo train; selection and transfer to Block B'; transfer to Block C'; working in the kitchen and stealing food; food trading; transfer to Plaszow;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ann Wigoda née Mendelsohn, born in 1932 in Berlin, about her experiences as a girl in Berlin, her escape to Brussels, and her survival in orphanages and convents in Belgium under a false identity

Childhood in Berlin as the Nazis rise to power; escapes with parents to Brussels in 1938 (illegally); life under German occupation in 1940; father arrested and deported to a camp in 1941; mother falls ill and is taken to the Jewish Weisenbeek hospital near Brussels in 1941; witness placed in a residence at a teachers' college in Laeken in 1942 under a false identity; transferred to a convent in Chimay, spends several months there and is evicted in 1942; placed in the Pensiona des Soeurs de St. Vincent de Paul convent in Obourg, Mons Département; lives in the convcent under a false identity until liberation;...

File Number : 13517

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

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