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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 Shmuel Shvartz, born in Borszczow, Poland in 1936, regarding his experiences as a child in the Borszczow Ghetto and on the Aryan side, and while in hiding places in Zalozce and Karolowka

Testimony of Shmuel Shvartz, born in Borszczow, Poland in 1936, regarding his experiences as a child in the Borszczow Ghetto and on the Aryan side, and while in hiding places in Zalozce and Karolowka His father works in the management of an agricultural farm; German occupation in 1941; deportation to the Borszczow Ghetto; Borszczow Ghetto life; seven "Aktions" are conducted; concentration of the ghetto's Jews before deportation; murder of his grandmother; escape; deportation of his mother and siblings to Belzec camp during Sukkot (September-October) 1942; life in hiding in bunkers with his father during the...

File Number : 13794

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Dvora Doris Shner née Klatz, born in 1932 in Dortmund, Germany, about her experiences as a girl in Rożniatów, Bursztin, the Rohatyn ghetto, and in hiding with villagers during the war

Offspring of immigrant parents from Galicia, receiving a "certificate" (Mandate Palestine immigration visa); father deported to Zbąszyń in 1938; reunited with father in Rożniatów in 1939; Poland partititioned and life under Soviet occupation; escaping to Bursztin; German occupation ensues in June 1941; a German soldier warns the family about murder of Jews; establishment of Judenrat; father refuses to translate from German into Polish; receiving word about murder of people in pits in Rohatyn; receiving a postcard from a family member with information about sending of trains to Bełżec; deportation to the Rohatyn...

File Number : 13614

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Halmuth Halpern Gershon Helmut, born in Borysław, Poland in 1922, regarding his experiences in Borysław Ghetto and forest

Testimony of Halmuth Halpern Gershon Helmut, born in Borysław, Poland in 1922, regarding his experiences in Borysław Ghetto and forest Childhood in the city; German occupation in September 1939; entry of Red Army several weeks later; nationalization of private businesses; German occupation on 1 July 1941; riots by Ukrainians; mass murders; robbery of property; acts of abuse; Judenrat; soup kitchens; Jewish police; white ribbon; abduction for forced labor; hunger; various types of forced labor via Judenrat; aktion of elderly and ill people in November 1941; witness’s labor as technician and map drafter in...

File Number : 13650

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Anna Chana Edelshtein Braner, born in Ițcani in the Bukovina region of Romania in 1936, regarding her experiences during deportation to the Transnistria camps in 1941

Testimony of Anna Chana Edelshtein Braner, born in Ițcani in the Bukovina region of Romania in 1936, regarding her experiences during deportation to the Transnistria camps in 1941 Family’s origins from Lwów, Poland; parents’ aliya to pre-state Israel in 1938; expulsion by British to Romania; father drafted into Romanian army; German occupation in 1941; expulsion with mother to Mogilev in Transnistria; mother’s forced labor; search for food; father’s voluntary arrival in Transnistria; Tulchin and Pechora camps; hiding in Ukrainian woman’s home; deaths of grandmother and aunt in Transnistria; return to...

File Number : 13715

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ephraim Fogel, born in Suceava, Romania in 1934, regarding his experiences in the expulsion to the Shargorod Ghetto in Transnistria

Testimony of Ephraim Fogel, born in Suceava, Romania in 1934, regarding his experiences in the expulsion to the Shargorod Ghetto in Transnistria Family; German occupation in 1941; expulsion order; search for valuables in Atachi; march to Shargorod; deaths of grandmother, father, and uncle from typhus in winter of 1942; constant hunger; mother’s labor in kolkhoz; search for food; beatings by Ukrainians; organization of Jewish committee; assistance from Jews of Bucharest; daily soup distribution; return with Russians to Bukovina; orphanages in Romania from 1945 to 1947; Apeldoorn children’s home in The...

File Number : 13570

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 Yanina Hesheles Altman, born in Lwow, Poland in 1931, regarding her experiences ‎in Janowska camp and her rescue by the Zegota organization

Testimony of Yanina Hesheles Altman, born in Lwow, Poland in 1931, regarding her experiences ‎in Janowska camp and her rescue by the Zegota organization Her father was a Zionist journalist; outbreak of the war in September 1939; father’s escape to ‎Romania; his temporary detention in a Russian prison; the German occupation in June 1941; ‎pogrom carried out by Ukrainians in which her father was murdered; establishment of the Lwow ‎Ghetto; Aktions; hanging of the Judenrat leaders; failed attempt to hide with Christian families; ‎mother’s work at the Jewish hospital; liquidation of the ghetto; mother escapes to...

File Number : 13680

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

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File Number : 13651

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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