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Testimony of Avraham Podchlebnik, born in Lodz, Poland, 1902, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto and Auschwitz

Testimony

Testimony of Avraham Podchlebnik, born in Lodz, Poland, 1902, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto and Auschwitz Death of his father when the witness was a toddler; learns in a "heder"; attends a local elementary school; learns to be a tailor from his brother; marriage, 1928; move to Lodz; his mother's death, 1938; separation from his wife. Outbreak of the war; escape to the Soviet Union; return to Lodz; life in the Lodz Ghetto; arrangement of a group marriage ceremony by Rumkowski, the Judenrat chairman; anti-Jewish decrees; deportation to Auschwitz, summer 1944; camp life including rescue during...

File Number : 3960

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Paula Frahm, Berlin, regarding her experiences as a blind inmate of Theresienstadt, 1941-1945

In her testimony, the authoress reports on her experiences since the evacuation of the Jewish home for the blind in Berlin Steglitz, where she had lived, and her transfer to the asylum for the deaf and dumb in Berlin-Weissensee in November 1941: - Deportation to Theresienstadt on 14 September 1942 (p. 4 f) - Conditions at Theresienstadt: Overcrowded accommodations; collapse of many old people; high mortality rate; daily routine and food supply; work in the mica splitting plant; cultural life (pp. 6-8) - Census at Bauschowitz on 11 November 1943 (p. 7 f) - Liberation on 8 May 194; return to Berlin...

File Number : 575

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : German

From the diary of Dr. Norbert Stern, Munich, Germany: Transcript of a radio broadcast based on Norbert Stern's experiences in the Theresienstadt Ghetto, 1942-1945

From the diary of Dr. Norbert Stern, Munich, Germany: Transcript of a radio broadcast based on Norbert Stern's experiences in the Theresienstadt Ghetto, 1942-1945 First deportations from Berlin, Munich, Cologne and Vienna to Theresienstadt, June 1942; deliberate misleading of the deportees by the Gestapo; handing over of large amounts of money by the deportees who had been led to believe that Theresienstadt was a gracious retirement home. Deportation of Dr. Norbert Stern, who was blinded during military service in World War I, from Munich to Theresienstadt, 21 July 1942; confiscation of his property;...

File Number : 1033

Type of Material : Diary, Reports, Radio Broadcasts

Language : German

Testimony of Dr. Sándor Garai, born in Szatmárnémeti, Hungary in 1905, regarding his experiences during service in a labor battalion in Csomád and Hegyeshalom, and in Mauthausen, Günskirchen and other camps Arrow Cross Party men break into the building in which the witness resided on 20/10/1944; transfer to the KISOK sports field in Budapest; appointment as a commander of the labor battalion (a battalion of sick, disabled and blind men, and men over age 60); transfer to Csomád on a march; men who remained behind are beaten with a bayonet, and murder by gunshot of the men who are unable to march; arrival to...

File Number : 2868

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

Memoirs of Salomon Schaefer and Nachman Schaefer, born in Luxembourg and Berlin, regarding their experiences in Berlin and England and the experiences of the Schaefer family

Memoirs of Salomon Schaefer and Nachman Schaefer, born in Luxembourg and Berlin, regarding their experiences in Berlin and England and the experiences of the Schaefer family - excerpt from a booklet entitled "Der jüdische blinden kalender" published in Berlin in 1936 or 1937, with the memoirs of Salomon Solly Schaefer "About a Blind Couple" regarding his experiences in Luxembourg, in a home for the blind in Berlin, and in Charlottenburg after his marriage; - memoirs of Nachman Norbert Schaefer, son of blind parents, regarding the family’s experiences in Berlin and England; The history of the Schaefer...

File Number : 11088

Type of Material : Memoirs, Biography

Language : Hebrew, English

Memoirs of Dr. Max Geffner, born in western Ukraine in 1904, regarding his experiences in Vienna, Austria during 1914-1940

Memoirs of Dr. Max Geffner, born in western Ukraine in 1904, regarding his experiences in Vienna, Austria during 1914-1940 Memoirs written in 1940 when he is in London, in a booklet titled "My life in Vienna before and after the Anschluss"; arrival of Max Geffner to Vienna at the age of ten, after he became blind due to an eye injury from a rock thrown at him in the town where his father was an agriculturalist; transfer to the Jewish Institute for the Blind in the capital city; studies and training as a teacher at the Jewish Institute for the Blind; hardships due to being blind and due to being a Jew in...

File Number : 10700

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : German