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Testimony of Zwi Hershel Zeligman, born in Lodz, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Czestochowa, Buchenwald, Sonnenberg and on a death march

Testimony

Testimony of Zwi Hershel Zeligman, born in Lodz, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Czestochowa, Buchenwald, Sonnenberg and on a death march Family background; Shabbat and religious holidays; youth movements and synagogues in the community; assistance to the needy; Bnei Akiva activities; neighborly relations with the Volksdeutsche. German occupation of Lodz; being snatched up for forced labor; yellow badge; desecration of the synagogue; sealing of the ghetto, late April 1940; murder of his brother in Poznan; ghetto life; Judenrat actvities and Rumkowski; labor in the Resort...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaim Zvi Henik Luftman Sarid, born in Poznan, Poland, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz and more

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Renia Rivka (Viser) Tikotzki, born in Lodz, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences as a child in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Aschersleben, a death march and Theresienstadt Life in Lodz before the war; education; her father's activities in the Poalei Zion Left; displays of antisemitism in the school. German occupation, September 1939; kidnapping of people to forced labor, including her mother; her father's service in the Polish Army; destruction of synagogues; yellow badge; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto; Lodz Ghetto life; labor in a tailoring workshop; eats horse meat;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shlomo Yakubovitz, born in Lodz, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz and Hannover Stoecken Accumulat

Testimony

Testimony of Shlomo Yakubovitz, born in Lodz, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz and Hannover Stoecken Accumulat Life before the war; learns in a yeshiva in Sosnowiec. German occupation; anti-Jewish decrees including yellow badge and deportation to the ghetto; life in the Lodz Ghetto including labor tanning hides and the deaths of his parents from typhus; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life including his sister's death; transfer to Hannover Stoecken Accumulat; liberation by the US Army. Hospitalization and convalescence; marriage in Germany, 1947; aliya to Israel via...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Anna (Margolis) Veidhorn, born in Lodz, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Ravensbrueck and Wittenberg

Testimony

Testimony of Anna (Margolis) Veidhorn, born in Lodz, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Ravensbrueck and Wittenberg Traditional family; education. German occupation, September 1939; decrees including confiscation of her father's factory, the yellow badge and deportation to the Lodz Ghetto; deportation to Ravensbrueck; transfer to Wittenberg; liberation by the Red Army. Reunion with her father and brother; return to Lodz; marriage, 1946; aliya to Israel, 1949; starts a family.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avraham Pakula, born in Lodz, Poland, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, on a death march and Ebensee

Testimony

Testimony of Avraham Pakula, born in Lodz, Poland, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, on a death march and Ebensee Life before the war; education. German occupation; escape of Jewish men including his father to Warsaw; restrictions on the Jews including draft to forced labor; yellow badge and confiscation of property; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto; ghetto life including Jewish police activities; deportation of Jews to Chelmno; criminal trials; liquidation of the ghetto and deportation to Auschwitz; camp life including separation from his mother; suicide of a woman on the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Aharon Feldman, born in Lodz, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Czestochowa, HASAG camp and Buchenwald

Testimony

Testimony of Aharon Feldman, born in Lodz, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Czestochowa, a HASAG camp and Buchenwald His family before the war; attends public school and a "heder". German occupation; his brother's escape from Lodz; anti-Jewish legislation; murder of his older brother; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto; his father's arrest; ghetto life; disappearance of his brother and sister; deportation to Czestochowa; transfer to a HASAG camp; camp life including labor manufacturing ammunition; transfer to Buchenwald; camp life including typhus; liberation by the US Army....

File Number : 12275

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rina (Rozenzveig) Jelinek, born in Lodz, Poland, 1930, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Stutthof and Theresienstadt

Testimony

Testimony of Rina (Rozenzveig) Jelinek, born in Lodz, Poland, 1930, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Stutthof and Theresienstadt Elderly parents of a well-to-do family; her father is a metalworker. Loss of livelihood with the German occupation; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto to a building owned by the family; ghetto life and labor in a rubber factory; deportation of her mother and nephew to Chelmno; deportation of her father, two sisters and brother to a metal factory in Germany with the liquidation of the ghetto; deportation to Stutthof via Auschwitz; evacuation of the camp; death...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Menachem Kolton, born in Lodz, Poland, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Mauthausen, Gusen I and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Menachem Kolton, born in Lodz, Poland, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Mauthausen, Gusen I and other places Life before the war. German occupation; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto, 1940; labor in a workshop and cleaning the sewers; his brother's activities in the Gordonia movement; deportation with his family to Auschwitz, 1944; murder of his mother and younger brother; disappearance of his father and older brother; transfer to Mauthausen; transfer on foot to Gusen I; camp life including labor digging tunnels for the German Messerschmidt factory; injured by a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Trial against employees of the Berlin Gestapo, 1964-1965: Testimonies by perpetrators and Jewish survivors regarding the Lodz Gestapo, the Chelmno death camp and the deportation from Berlin; Legal proceedings against Max Bernhard Grautstück and Walter Stock from the Berlin Gestapo, for the arrest of Elisabeth and Gerd-Wilhelm Vogel in 1942 and their deportation to Auschwitz, 1946-1967

Trial against employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin, 1964-1965: Testimonies by perpetrators and Jewish survivors regarding the Lodz Gestapostelle, the Chelmno death camp and the deportation from Berlin; Criminal proceedings against Max Bernhard Grautstück and Walter Stock from the Berlin Gestapo, accused by Erich Vogel of being responsible for the arrest of the mixed family Vogel from Berlin in 1942 and the deportation of Elisabeth and Gerd-Wilhelm Vogel to Auschwitz, 1946 - 1967 Trial against employees of the Berlin Gestapo, 1964-1965: Testimonies by perpetrators and Jewish survivors...

File Number : 45

Type of Material : Document(s), Letter, Testimony

Language : German

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