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Testimony of Shiye Zelig Litvak, born in Radom, Poland, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Radom Ghetto, Treblinka, Auschwitz, Oranienburg, Sachsenhausen and other camps

Testimony

Testimony of Shiye Zelig Litvak, born in Radom, Poland, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Radom Ghetto, Treblinka, Auschwitz, Oranienburg, Sachsenhausen and other camps Life before the war; relations with the non-Jewish populartion; learns in a "heder"; Beitar activities. German occupation, 1939; deportation to the Radom Ghetto, 1942; ghetto life including learning German and labor as a courier and translator; deportation to Treblinka; camp life including living in stables and labor as a courier and translator; transfer to Auschwitz; transfer to Oranienburg; transfer to Sachsenhausen; transfer to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Arie Leib Koziol Zohar, born in Zdunska-Wola, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Zdunska-Wola Ghetto, Lenzingen, Leszno, Auschwitz-Birkenau and other camps

Testimony

Testimony of Arie Leib Koziol Zohar, born in Zdunska-Wola, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Zdunska-Wola Ghetto, Lenzingen, Leszno, Auschwitz-Birkenau and other camps Outbreak of the war, 1939; escape to Lodz; return to Zdunska-Wola; ghetto life until 1941; forced labor in Lenzingen until 1943; transfer to Leszno; installation of a sports field for SS personnel on the site of a cemetery; transfer to Auschwitz-Birkenau, June 1943; transfer to a camp near Auschwitz; camp life including labor at a power station; typhus and hospitalization; transfer to Buna; camp life including labor digging...

File Number : 12256

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Haim Zander, born in Pzepince, 1920, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Zichlin, Birkenau and Dachau camps

Testimony

Testimony of Haim Zander, born in Pzepince, 1920, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Zichlin, Birkenau and Dachau camps Life before the war; studies in yeshivas; antisemitism before the war; ritual slaughter decrees in Poland. Outbreak of the war; entry of the Germans into Lodz; description of life in the Zichlin labor camp and return as a Muselmann to the Lodz Ghetto; escape from an "Aktion" and detention in prison; forced labor in prison and release from the prison; labor sweeping the Lodz Ghetto streets; deportation of the family to Chelmno extermination camp, 1941; "Aktion"...

File Number : 11291

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mordechai Feldman Shadmi, born in Riga, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Riga Ghetto and in Aachen, Stutthof, Kaiserwald and other camps

Testimony

Testimony of Mordechai Feldman Shadmi, born in Riga, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Riga Ghetto and in Aachen, Stutthof, Kaiserwald and other camps Religious family; active in the Hashomer Hatzair youth movement; antisemitism from the local youth; Soviet occupation, 1940; exile of Jewish Communists and capitalists to the Soviet Union; the youth movements went underground; Jewish culture was forbidden. German occupation, summer 1941; arrests of most of the Jews by the Latvian police; decrees against the Jews and forced labor; abuse; establishment of the ghetto, November 1941; "Aktions" in the...

File Number : 10317

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Aizik Srolovitz, born in Mukacevo, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding his experiences in Mukacevo, the Mukacevo Ghetto and in Auschwitz, Warszawa and Dachau camps

Testimony

Testimony of Aizik Srolovitz, born in Mukacevo, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding his experiences in Mukacevo, the Mukacevo Ghetto and in Auschwitz, Warszawa and Dachau camps His childhood and family background. Annexation to Hungary, winter 1940; deterioration of the situation; confiscation of Jewish property; German occupation, spring 1944; deportation to the Mukacevo Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz by train; selection by Mengele; transfer to Warszawa; forced labor clearing rubble from the ghetto; transfer on foot to Kutno for one week with the approach of the Red Army; transfer to Dachau, one week...

File Number : 8816

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Heinrich Dilcher, a political inmate, regarding his experiences in Buchenwald

Memoirs of Heinrich Dilcher, a political inmate, regarding his experiences in Buchenwald Life in Buchenwald as a political inmate; cruelty of the SS men and the convicted criminals; coordination of the political inmates including mutual help and taking on responsibilities; transfer of inmates from all the [Nazi] occupied countries to the camp; execution of the Communist leader, Ernst Thalmann; transfer of inmates from Eastern Europe to the camp; receiving information regarding the murder of the Jews in Auschwitz; activity of Karl Otto Koch, the camp commander.

File Number : 2410

Type of Material : Testimony, Memoirs

Language : German

Diary written by Gottfried Kahn, born in Giessen, Germany in 1913, during his escape from Germany to France in May-July 1933, and other documentation related to the experiences of Gottfried and Rudolf Kahn in Europe and in the United States during the 1930-1940s - Notebook with entries written by Gottfried Kahn, during the period of his escape from Giessen to Switzerland and then to France along with his brother Rudolf Rudi Kahn, 07/05-16/07/1933; - Letter sent to Fredi and Rudi Kahn in the United States by Odette and Clairette Fregonara in Nice, 26/11/1945; - Personal documentation of Gottfried Kahn,...

File Number : 10818

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Diary, Letter, Diploma, Passport

Language : Spanish, Catalan, French, English, German

Biographical documentation regarding the experiences of Izzy Fernbach before World War II in Germany and France and the aliya to Eretz Israel of the Fernbach family in the mid-1930s

Biographical documentation regarding the experiences of Izzy Fernbach before World War II in Germany and France and the aliya to Eretz Israel of the Fernbach family in the mid-1930s - Biography of Izzy Fernbach from before World War II, recorded by his son, Henri Fernbach: Persecution of Jews in Poland before World War I; move to Germany in order to avoid being drafted; work in Berlin and in Essen, Germany; illegal crossing of the French border and arrival in Strasbourg, France; return to Essen after a year; marriage to Sarafina Weschler, 1929; move to Metz in France on account of the rise of the Nazi...

File Number : 291

Type of Material : Personal Records, Documentary, Biography

Language : English, German

Survey of newspapers regarding Free Mason activities, surveillance of these activities, and finding Free Masons in Germany and around the world; documentation concerning Leon Blum, 1930-1934

Survey of newspapers regarding Free Mason activities, surveillance of these activities, and finding Free Masons in Germany and around the world; documentation concerning Leon Blum, 1930-1934 - Text of a lecture delivered at the Maimonides Free Mason Lodge affiliated with Bnei Brith, Nuremberg, 1933, pp. 2065-2070; - Translation of an article about Leon Blum published in a French newspaper; the article emphasizes his Judaism and his homosexual proclivities, 1911, pp. 2091-2092; - Information regarding Jewish members of Free Mason lodges, pp. 2093-2095, 2223, 2235, 2329, 2377, 2378; - Article...

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Official Documentation

Language : German

Documents pertaining to the fate of the Jews of Bialystok, Poland, and especially to the child Chana (Lin) Kizlsztejn, born in 1927, and the other children from Bialystok who were with her in the Droskinik Rest Home and evacuated to the Soviet Union at the outbreak of the war, 1941-2007 Among the documents are the memoirs of Chana (Lin) Kizlsztejn, in Yiddish and Hebrew, which appeared in an article entitled, "A Rescued Child Speaks", and in additional articles written by Chana (Lin) Kizlsztejn, including: - A description of the events of 22 June 1941, at the start of the war, when she and approximately...

File Number : 9403

Type of Material : Letter, Article, Record of Survivors, Memoirs, Survey Report, Newspaper Clippings, Brochure

Language : Hebrew, Polish, Russian, Yiddish