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Testimony of Tzafrir Shteir Sara, born in Bedzin, Poland, in 1930 regarding the Srodula ghetto and regarding the Peterswaldau camp

Childhood before the war; programming aliya to Israel; aliya of the two brothers ; confiscation of family businesses; outbreak of the war; burning the synagogue and houses of Jews; deportation to ghetto; forced labor; murder of the father; "aktions"; deportation of the mother and sister to Auschwitz Birkenau; deportation of the witness with her sister to Peterswaldau; help of the German female commander; liberation by the Russians; escape to the American side; rehabilitation of life after the war; aliya to Israel in 1946

File Number : 13661

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ilana Hochbaum Milikowski, born in Lyntupy, Poland, in 1936 regarding her escape from a liquidation"Aktion" and regarding the help of Russian partisans

Testimony

German occupation 1941; establishment of the ghetto; deportation with the parents to the Postawy ghetto; liquidation of the ghetto and uprising; smuggling with her sister by a Pole to Lyntupy; "Aktion" of liquidation; the grandfather is shot; escape with the sister and aunt during the "Aktion"; hiding with villagers; patronage and protection of Russian partisans; liberation in 1944; Soviet education and activity at the komsomol; aliya to Israel in 1960

File Number : 13757

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shlomo Feldshtein, born in Przeworsk, Poland, in 1934, regarding his hiding with a Polish farmer in Grzeska between 1942-1944

Testimony

-Childhood before the war; relations with the local population; outbreak of the war; life until 1942; "Aktion"; escape of the family to the forest following a warning they got from a farmer; hiding with the farmer for 2 years 1942-1944; leaving the hiding place with the approach of the Russians; leaving Poland; reconstruction of life after the war; emigration to Israel; exile to Cyprus; Aliya back to Israel

File Number : 13758

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shifra Ivri née Ionish, born in 1941 in Legjonów, Poland, about being left as an infant on a roadside on the way to Białołęka and being rescued by Leokadia Jaromirska on October 4, 1942

Parents from Radzymin; parents deported to the Legjonów ghetto; parents escape into the forests; witness left on the main road in Białołęka; rescued by a Polish woman on October 4, 1942; lives under a non-Jewish identity; wandering with her Polish mother after the Great Uprising in 1944; mother, Golda Ionish, murdered in Majdanek; father survives in Auschwitz; father searches for his daughter; father gains custody; living in children's houses in Petrolaszik and in Germany; immigration to Israel in 1948; Leokadia Jaromirska recognized as Righteous among the Nations in 1968.

File Number : 13643

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Tzipora Sharf Klein, born in Stryi, Poland in 1936, regarding her experiences during ‎the liquidation of the Stryi ghetto and hiding in a bunker in 1943-1944‎

Testimony of Tzipora Sharf Klein, born in Stryi, Poland in 1936, regarding her experiences during ‎the liquidation of the Stryi ghetto and hiding in a bunker in 1943-1944‎ Her father was a timber merchant who was exiled to Siberia in 1940; the German conquest in ‎‎1941; looting of their house by Ukrainians; order to relinquish possessions; prohibition to leave the ‎house; sale of gold; expulsion to the ghetto; impersonating a Polish girl and escaping through the ‎ghetto fence; looking for food outside the ghetto at the age of five; murder of her grandmother ‎during the Great Aktion; hiding in a wine cellar;...

File Number : 13700

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Joseph Viner, born in Gradki, Poland, in 1932, regarding his experiences in the ‎deportation to Sine Waly estate, escape and hiding among farmers and in the forest‎

Testimony of Joseph Viner, born in Gradki, Poland, in 1932, regarding his experiences in the ‎deportation to Sine Waly estate, escape and hiding among farmers and in the forest‎ His childhood in a rural community; annexation to the Soviet Union in 1939; the German ‎occupation in June 1941; his expulsion from school; deportation to Sine Waly estate; escape and ‎hiding in the forest and with farmers in summer 1942; meeting his father and moving to a families ‎camp in the forest in autumn 1942; attack by a gang of Ukrainians; his father murdered and Joseph ‎injured; move to Dubno under a borrowed identity in...

File Number : 13682

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Mala Maroko Freund regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, on a death march, in Mauthausen, Bergen-Belsen and more

Memoirs of Mala Maroko Freund regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, on a death march, in Mauthausen, Bergen-Belsen and more Transfer of Mala Maroko Freund and her family from Lodz to within the Lodz Ghetto limits, November 1939; life in the Lodz Ghetto until 28 August 1944; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; transfer to the Langenbielau camp, September 1944; transfer to the Breslau-Hundsfeld camp, late September; death march to Gross-Rosen, December 1944; transfer to Mauthausen, January 1945; transfer to Bergen-Belsen, March 1945; liberation by the British Army, 15 April...

File Number : 8538

Type of Material : Interview(s), Excerpt(s)

Language : Swedish

Testimony of Miriam Marila Liber Prague née Kostin, born in 1921 in Warsaw, about her experiences in the Warsaw ghetto, in Hungary, with the partisans in Yugoslavia, and as a forced laborer in Germany

Life before the war; German occupation ensues; dispossession; deportation to the Warsaw ghetto; life in the ghetto; escaping to the "Aryan" side with help of forged papers; marrying; escaping to Lwów; escaping back to Warsaw; escaping to Hungary; receiving privileges from the Polish Consulate; escaping to Yugoslavia; joining the partisans in March 1944; sabotaging a railroad track; arrested by the Germans and taken to Germany; working in a factory that manufactures spare parts for tanks; posing as a Croat; receiving extra privileges; liberated by American forces; reaching Buchenwald; encountering Holocaust...

File Number : 13612

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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 Rachel Agron Kleinminz née Fisch, born in 1927 in Dębica, Poland, about her experiences in Dębica, the Rzeszów ghetto, and camps in Poland during the war

Offspring of a traditional family in Dębica; attends a public school; war breaks out in 1939; escapes to Rzeszów; deported to the ghetto; interned in the ghetto until 1943; sister and sister's husband captured and she joins them; deportation to the Huta Komorowska camp; transferred to Płaszów; interned in the camp for approx. a year; works with sister in sewing shop; camp liquidated in summer 1944 and witness sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau; interned there for approx. two months; escapes and joins a group in the "model camp" in Auschwitz; less-harsh living conditions; marched from the camp in December 1944; hides in...

File Number : 13638

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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