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Postcards sent to Szyfra Sara Gleitman in Parschnitz by various people, 1942-1943, and school report card of Miriam Gleitman from the Beit Yaakov school in Slawkow, 1935

Postcards sent to Szyfra Sara Gleitman in Parschnitz by various people, 1942-1943, and school report card of Miriam Gleitman from the Beit Yaakov school in Slawkow, 1935 - Postcards sent to Szyfra Sara Gleitman in Parschnitz by Estera Sara Grün, Maria Sara Gleitman, Josef Obicki, Jankiel Izr, Hersz Arbesman, Lela [?] Lola Sara Lieber, Estera Sava Sricu [last name is not clear] and Aron Frenkel, 1942-1943; - School report card of Miriam (Maria) Gleitman, born in 1926, who attended the Beit Yaakov school in Slawkow, 1935. Her mother's name was Rachel Gleitman. Note: The mother of Rosi Sternberg, who...

File Number : 2173

Type of Material : Postcard

Language : Yiddish / Latin Characters, German, Yiddish

Testimony of Eva (Balsam) Zweig, born in Debica, Poland, 1921, regarding her experiences in Debica, Sniatyn, using a false identity and in Krakow

Testimony

Testimony of Eva (Balsam) Zweig, born in Debica, Poland, 1921, regarding her experiences in Debica, Sniatyn, using a false identity and in Krakow German Army occupation of Debica, 1939; deportation of her father to forced labor; confiscation of the home and textile store [of her family], 1941; deportation to the Debica Ghetto; Debica Ghetto life including labor; "Aktions", 1941-1942; transfer of her sister to a Polish acquaintance outside the ghetto; move of her family to outside the ghetto, using forged documents with help from a Polish acquaintance, 1942; life in Sniatyn while using a false identity as a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaya Klara (Minster) Ovich Katvan, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1927, regarding her experiences in Cernauti, Bessarabia and Mogilev

Testimony

Testimony of Chaya Klara (Minster) Ovich Katvan, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1927, regarding her experiences in Cernauti, Bessarabia and Mogilev Her childhood in a family of Vizhnitz hasidim, including attending a Beit Yaakov school and Bnei Akiva activities; attends a Romanian high school in Cernauti. Outbreak of the war; Red Army occupation of Cernauti, 1940; deportation of wealthy people to Siberia; her father is in hiding; meets refugees from Poland; Romanian Army occupation of Cernauti, 1941; life under Romanian occupation including the looting of property; executions; assembly of the remaining Jews...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Miriam (Toder) Offen, born in Antwerp, Belgium, 1939, regarding her experiences in Antwerp, in hiding in Rumst, in hiding in Antwerp, in hiding in Liege, and in Brussels and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Miriam (Toder) Offen, born in Antwerp, Belgium, 1939, regarding her experiences in Antwerp, in hiding in Rumst, in hiding in Antwerp, in hiding in Liege, and in Brussels and other places German Army occupation of Antwerp, May 1940; unsuccessful attempt by her family to escape to France, 1940; life in Antwerp including anti-Jewish decrees; her family members hide in Rumst; move to a hiding place in Antwerp in the home of a non-Jewish woman, a member of the Flemish underground, "The White Brigade", autumn 1943; life in hiding including the holidays; move to a hiding place in Antwerp, in the home...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sara (Avraham) Izkovitz, born in Chust, Czechoslovakia, 1924

Testimony

Testimony of Sara (Avraham) Izkovitz, born in Chust, Czechoslovakia, 1924 From a religious family. Hungarian occupation; antisemitism; drafted into the Hungarian Army and labor battalion; deported to a ghetto for three weeks, 1944; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau Lager 9; transfer to a labor camp in Zittau, Germany, for forced labor in a factory; transfer to a military factory in Reichenberg; liberation by the Red Army, May 1945; transfer to Prague, Czechoslovakia and from there to Liberec, Germany. Illegal aliya to Eretz Israel; rehabilitation and acclimation.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Lea Lurzia (Leker) Doitsch, born in Vijnita, Romania, 1920, regarding her experiences in Vijnita, on a march to Transnistria and in Derebchin

Testimony

Testimony of Lea Lurzia (Leker) Doitsch, born in Vijnita, Romania, 1920, regarding her experiences in Vijnita, on a march to Transnistria and in Derebchin Orphaned; attends a Romanian school and Beit Yaakov for seven years; Maccabi activities; neighborly relations between Jews and non-Jews. Outbreak of war; anti-Jewish legislation; restrictions; ban on employing housemaids and on running businesses; professional training; draft of men to forced labor; deportation to Transnistria; transport on freight trains for about seven days; crossing the Dniester; deliberate drowning of Jews; march to Shargorod;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Elisheva (Stern) Tzimet, born in Sighet, Romania, 1932, regarding her experiences in the Sighet Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald and Torgau

Testimony

Testimony of Elisheva (Stern) Tzimet, born in Sighet, Romania, 1932, regarding her experiences in the Sighet Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald and Torgau Hungarian occupation; life in a religious family with 10 people; witness' father had been a well-to-do lumber merchant during the Romanian rule; attends a Beit Yaakov school; Zionism; contribution to the Herzliya Gymnasium in Tel Aviv; Hungarian occupation, 1940; anti-Jewish legislation and restrictions on the Jews; displays of antisemitism by the neighbors; eviction from her home, Pesach (7 April) 1944; life in the Sighet Ghetto for approximately one...

File Number : 13254

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Tonia (Meser) Shmerlowski, born in Sanok, Poland, 1932, regarding her experiences in Sanok, Turka, Siberia and Kazakhstan

Testimony

Testimony of Tonia (Meser) Shmerlowski, born in Sanok, Poland, 1932, regarding her experiences in Sanok, Turka, Siberia and Kazakhstan The witness' father is an intellectual; receives a Polish and a Jewish (Beit Yakov) education; relations between Poles and Jews; meeting with Jewish refugees from Germany; help to refugees before the war; hoarding food. Outbreak of the war; shelling; German occupation; restrictions on Jews; burning of synagogues; deportation to the Soviet Union; crossing the San; brutal treatment of the deportees by the Ukrainians; life in Turka for approximately nine months; attendance at...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Arie Leibish Zilberman, born in Rymanow, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in a kolkhoz in Uzbekistan, in Siberia and Tashkent

Testimony

Testimony of Arie Leibish Zilberman, born in Rymanow, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in a kolkhoz in Uzbekistan, in Siberia and Tashkent From an Orthodox family of merchants; Hebrew Zionist education; Bnei Akiva activities. Outbreak of the war; air-raids on Rymanow; deportation of the Jews to the Soviet Union; work in a kolkhoz in Uzbekistan; deportation to Siberia; hewing lumber and digging trenches; cold and hunger; escape to Tashkent; agricultural work; deaths of his parents from starvation and illness; end of the war. Return to Krakow, Poland; preparation for aliya to Eretz Israel;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Eva Chava (Rozenblum) Frankel Pshemyslavsky, born in Dzialoszyce, Poland, 1920, regarding her experiences in Malkinia, Bialystok, Jaroszewicze, Poltava and Orsk

Testimony

Testimony of Eva Chava (Rozenblum) Frankel Pshemyslavsky, born in Dzialoszyce, Poland, 1920, regarding her experiences in Malkinia, Bialystok, Jaroszewicze, Poltava and Orsk Ultra-Orthodox family; move to Lodz; joins the Communist party. German occupation, September 1939; capture of her father for forced labor; release of her father with help from the witness; Yom Kippur prayer, in opposition to the [authorities'] orders; escape in the direction of the east, November 1939; arrival to Malkinia; crosses the border to the Soviet occupied zone; move to Bialystok; move to a refugees center in Jaroszewicze;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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