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Testimony of Bina (Iankovitz) Iakab, born in Stefanesti, Romania, 1934 regarding the deportation of the Jews of Stefanesti and wanderings in Romania

Testimony

Childhood in Stefanesti; Deportation from Stefanesti, 1941; looting of property by the local population; move to Sulita; deportation of the Jews of Sulita; transfer to Harlau; yellow badge; restriction of movement; antisemitism; hunger; liberation by the Red Army, 1944; Life after the war; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947; exiled to Cyprus; return aliya to Eretz Israel, 1948.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sylvia Rachel Davidovicz, nee Weiss, born in Sacalaseni, Romania, in 1929, regarding her experiences in the Baia Mare ghetto and in the Auschwitz Birkenau, Boizenburg and Ludwigslust camps

Testimony of Sylvia Rachel Davidowicz, nee Weiss, born in Sacalaseni, Romania, in 1929, regarding her experiences in the Baia Mare ghetto and in the Boizenburg, Auschwitz Birkenau and Ludwigslust camps Childhood in Baia Mare; re- annexation of the place to Hungary in 1940; transfer of ownership of the father's flour mill to Hungarians in 1941; the rise of antisemitism; interruption of studies; the German occupation in 1944; deportation to the ghetto in 1944; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau camp; transfer to Boizenburg; life in the camp; transfer to work in a factory manufacturing tanks and planes; transfer...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shmuel Hirsh, born in Iernut, Romania, in 1926 regarding his experiences in Detesan, in Ludus and in Turda

Testimony of Shmuel Hirsh, born in Iernut, Romania, in 1926 regarding his experiences in Detesan, in Ludus and in Turda Childhood in Detesani; son of a religious family that barely makes a living; life there as the only Jewish family; attending public school; good relations with the Romanians; deportation to Ludus at the end of 1941; transfer to Turda after 2 weeks; life there in an abandoned flour mill; transfer to forced labor in cleaning a military hospital; working there for about ayear and a half; liberation by the red army in 1944; life there after the liberation; military service in the lines of the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Shneider Yaakov Shmuel, born in Kosino, Czechoslovakia, 1932, regarding his experiences in the Berehovo ghetto and in the Auschwitz-Birkenau, Plaszow, Gross Rosen, Goerlitz and Zittau camps

Testimony

Schneider Shmuel Jacob, born in Kosino, Czechoslovakia, 1932, regarduing the Berehovo ghetto and deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Plaszow, Gross Rosen, Goerlitz and Zittau camps Family background; childhood in a religious family; his father is a hero of the World War I. Entry of the Hungarians; entry of the Germans, March 1944; deportation to the Berehovo ghetto; stay in a brick factory for several weeks; transfer to Auschwitz II-Birkenau; selection at the entrance to the camp; rescue by an anonymous inmate from the camp to the gas chambers and transfer to the camp; finding his father and relatives;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Lu Daniel (Levi Dan), born in Sibiu, Romania in 1934, regarding his childhood in Sibiu, Arad, and Deva

Testimony of Lu Daniel (Levi Dan), born in Sibiu, Romania in 1934, regarding his childhood in Sibiu, Arad, and Deva Dismissal of his father from his position as a physician due to his Jewishness in 1939; escape with his family from Sibiu to Arad; transfer of his father to Bershad because he was a physician; expulsion from school; life in poverty; suffering from beatings by young bullies; his father’s return in 1944; Hungarian occupation; bombings of the location by the Germans; escape to Deva; life there until liberation; joining the Zionist youth movement; move to the children’s home in Apeldoorn; aliya to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Iancu (Shufaru) Sufaru, born in Dorohoi, Romania in 1935, regarding his experiences as a child in Dorohoi and in Mogilev Podolskiy

Testimony of Iancu (Shufaru) Sufaru, born in Dorohoi, Romania in 1935, regarding his experiences as a child in Dorohoi and in Mogilev Podolskiy Life before the war; traditional family; Outbreak of the war, 1941; deportation of his father to forced labor, summer 1941; deportation to the Transnistria area, November 1941; escape from deportation; life in Mogilev Podolskiy; life in overcrowded conditions; receipt of limited help that was sent from Romania; death of family members; Return to Romania, December 1943; studies in Dorohoi; life in Dorohoi; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Itzhack Lehrer, born in Roman, Romania in 1926, regarding his experiences in Roman and in a camp in a forest

Testimony of Itzhack Lehrer, born in Roman, Romania in 1926, regarding his experiences in Roman and in a camp in a forest Life before the war; traditional family; his father was born in Germany; residence in a non-Jewish neighborhood; good relations with the non-Jews; Outbreak of the war; deportation to forced labor as a gardener in the municipality and forced labor at a sugar factory, 1942; transfer to labor, logging trees in a forest, 1943; life in a camp near the forest; attitude of the camp commander (a Russian spy); liberation, August 1944; Activities in the Gordonia movement; opening of a branch...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Berthold Dov Glaubach, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1929, regarding his experiences on the Aryan side in Cernauti

Testimony

Testimony of Berthold Dov Glaubach, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1929, regarding his experiences on the Aryan side in Cernauti Life before the war; secular family; Soviet occupation, 1940; work in a factory; transfer of the Cernauti to the Romanian authorities, 1941; loss of livelihood; termination of studies; deportation to the Cernauti Ghetto; Cernauti Ghetto life and [his family's?] personal contacts with the Romanian mayor; removal of lawyers from the deportation lists; [his family] receives a permit to reside outside the borders of the ghetto; expropriation of the family's home by a Romanian manager;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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File Number : 13651

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

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