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Testimony of Nancy Vera Rachel Arbel, born in Baktaloranthaza, Hungary, in 1826 regarding deportation to the Auschwitz Birkenau , Plaszow and Reichenbach camps

Testimony

Childhood before the war; coexistence; outbreak of the war; restrictions on Jews; German occupation in March 1944; deportation to ghetto; mutual help; robbery of property; fictitious marriage for the purpose of rescue; deportation to Auschwitz Birkenau; transfer to Plaszow; transfer to a protected camp; improvement in food and living conditions; transfer back to Auschwitz Birkenau; transfer to Germany for agricultural works and for working in a factory manufacturing planes; liberation by the Russians; rehabilitation of life after the war; aliya to Israel in 1949

File Number : 13703

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avigdor Rubinshtein, born in Sokolow, Poland in 1921, regarding his experiences in USSR, Siberia, and Bukhara, and his survival

Testimony

Testimony of Avigdor Rubinshtein, born in Sokolow, Poland in 1921, regarding his experiences in USSR, Siberia, and Bukhara, and his survival Life in a wealthy Zionist family; German occupation for ten days in September 1939; Russian domination until June 1941; escape to Siberia and life there in 1941 and 1942; move to Bukhara and life there until 1944; use of family home as center for Zionist activity, especially for Hashomer HaTza’ir youth movement and other youth movements; participation in Bricha in 1945; attempt to reach Eretz Israel and exile to Cyprus in 1946; aliya to Israel in early 1949; absorption.

File Number : 13763

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 : Excerpt(s), Interview(s)

Language : Swedish

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File Number : 13621

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Joseph Schlesinger, born in Rozan, Poland, 1935, regarding the murder of Rozan Jews and escape to the USSR

Testimony

Testimony of Joseph Schlesinger, born in Rozan, Poland, 1935, regarding the murder of Rozan Jews and escape to the USSR Family background, Orthodox family. The outbreak of war; entry of German soldiers into the town, September 1939; deportation from homes; the concentration of Jews in the synagogue courtyard; setting the synagogue on fire; shooting at fugitives; hiding the witness and his family in the forest; transfer to the Makow Mazowiecki ghetto; assistance of a German officer in escaping from the ghetto; escape towards the Russian border; crossing the Bug River in a boat; arrival in the city of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Leon Tabokh, born in 1926 in Thessaloniki, Greece, about his experiences in the Thessaloniki ghetto and in Auschwitz, Gross Rosen, Birkenau, and Mauthausen

Testimony

Testimony of Leon Tabokh, born in 1926 in Thessaloniki, Greece, about his experiences in the Thessaloniki ghetto and in Auschwitz, Gross Rosen, Birkenau, and Mauthausen Pre-war life; war with Italy breaks out in October 1940; German occupation begins in April 1941; hunger; dispossession of Jews in 1942; "black Sabbath" in July 1942; restrictions on Jews including the yellow star edict; eviction from home and confiscation of the house for Germans' residential use; life in the "Baron Hirsch" quarter of the ghetto in early 1943; deportation to Auschwitz in March 1943; life in Birkenau; working in the ADE...

File Number : 13563

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yona (Knobel) Amid, born in 1937 in Łódź, Poland, about escaping to Russia and Uzbekistan and immigrating to Eretz Israel illegally aboard the Exodus

Testimony

Testimony of Yona (Knobel) Amid, born in 1937 in Łódź, Poland, about escaping to Russia and Uzbekistan and immigrating to Eretz Israel illegally aboard the Exodus Father inducted into the Polish Army; sent to Białystok, Poland; escapes to Russia and Uzbekistan; hunger; diseases; witness placed in a Soviet orphanage; hospitalized; reunited with father; returns to Łódź; city is in ruins upon liberation; witness moves to an American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee camp in Germany; separated again from father, who escapes from American police (after being accused of black-market trading); escapes to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zahava Eugenia (Mas) Tzelner, born in Lwow, Poland, 1919, regarding her experiences in Lwow, Janowska, Warsaw and Krakow

Testimony

Testimony of Zahava Eugenia (Mas) Tzelner, born in Lwow, Poland, 1919, regarding her experiences in Lwow, Janowska, Warsaw and Krakow Her childhood in an assimilated family; attends a Polish elementary school and a vocational school; displays of antisemitism before the war. Outbreak of the war, 1939; Red Army occupation of Lwow; life under Soviet occupation including work, food and culture; work as a teacher in a vocational school; German Army occupation of Lwow, 1941; life under German occupation including acts of physical and verbal abuse; robbery of Jewish property, forced labor and the imposition of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rivka (Rider) Burshtein, born in Szczebrzeszyn, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in Szczebrzeszyn, Ukraine, Siberia, Uzbekistan and Poland

Testimony

Testimony of Rivka (Rider) Burshtein, born in Szczebrzeszyn, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in Szczebrzeszyn, Ukraine, Siberia, Uzbekistan and Poland Her father's work as a baker. Outbreak of the war, September 1939; German Army occupation of Szczebrzeszyn; baking for the military garrison; recommendation by a Soviet officer to escape to Ukraine; refusal by her mother to escape; move with her father and her sister to Ukraine; her father's work as a baker; decision to return to Poland; transfer to camps in Siberia; stoppage of the labor due to the conditions; German Army occupation of Siberia;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yehoshua Moshkowitz Lakner, born in Suceava, Romania, 1938, regarding his experiences in Suceava, Transnistria, Shargorod, Mogilev and Israel

Testimony

Testimony of Yehoshua Moshkowitz Lakner, born in Suceava, Romania, 1938, regarding his experiences in Suceava, Transnistria, Shargorod, Mogilev and Israel His childhood; physical displays of antisemitism before the outbreak of the war. Deportation to Transnistria; life in Shargorod, including hunger; murder of his father by beatings; move of his family to Mogilev by his uncles; life in Mogilev in a room that contained four families; trade on the black market; Allied shelling; liberation of Mogilev by the Red Army; attitude of the soldiers toward the children, including cultural activities and giving them...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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