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Testimony of Chava (Komorovski) Weinstein, born in Cornesti, Romania, 1923, regarding her experiences in Cornesti, the Bershad Ghetto, in the partisans, in Vinnitsa, Sverdlovsk and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Chava (Komorovski) Weinstein, born in Cornesti, Romania, 1923, regarding her experiences in Cornesti, the Bershad Ghetto, in the partisans, in Vinnitsa, Sverdlovsk and other places Pogrom in Cornesti, 1938. Life under Soviet rule, 1940; escape to the Soviet Union before the war between Germany and the Soviet Union, June 1941; German occupation, 1941; deportation to the Bershad Ghetto; escape from the ghetto; joins the Soviet partisans in the forests in the vicinity, 1941; life in the partisans; move to Vinnitsa, 1941; life in Vinnitsa including work; move to the Caucasus region; life in the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Arnold Janculovich, born in Iasi, Romania, 1934, regarding his experiences in Iasi

Testimony

Testimony of Arnold Janculovich, born in Iasi, Romania, 1934, regarding his experiences in Iasi Immediate family; way of life; education; the local synagogue; difficuties in earning a living; displays of antisemitism in the city; persecution and torture by the Iron Guard; draft of his father to forced labor; hunger; murder of Jews in police headquarters on "Black Sunday", June 1941; murder by the Romanian gendarmes; herding the survivors onto sealed freight cars (his father among them); the harsh conditions on the train; death of people from thirst and asphyxiation; deportation [including the witness?] to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Personal file of Zaja Szmir and his family, Jewish refugees from Poland who illegally crossed the Swiss border; information regarding the return of Zaja and Fanny Szmir across the border by the Swiss authorities, and the fate of their son, Hory, 1944 Police report regarding Zaja Szmir and his family, Jewish refugees from Poland, completed by a Swiss border police officer in Chancy, Switzerland, 14 April 1944: - Zaja Szmir, a leather craftsman, born 15 March 1903, his wife Fanny, born 05 April 1912, and their child, Hory, born 20 April 1938, were arrested on the Vers Vaux road, near Chancy, Switzerland, by...

File Number : 119

Type of Material : Record of Persecuted Persons, Questionnaire, Form, Official Documentation

Language : French

Testimony

Testimony of Natan Neta Nikita Rozenfeld, born in Târgul Lăpuşului, Romania, 1920, regarding his experiences in prison in Gurani, labor battalion in Baia Mare, Nădăşelu, Domanevka Soviet camp and other places Life before the war; displays of antisemitism. Detention in prison in Gurani; transfer to a prison in Baia Mare; transfer to a prison in Budapest; visit of his parents to the prison; deportation to a labor camp in Gurani; return home; drafted to a labor battalion; forced labor in earthworks and laying railroad tracks in Baia Mare; transfer to Nădăşelu; transfer to Vişeul de Jos; labor building a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Tova Gizela (Berkovitz) Lumerman, born in Iasi, Romania, 1935, regarding the experiences of her family in Iasi

Testimony

Testimony of Tova Gizela (Berkovitz) Lumerman, born in Iasi, Romania, 1935, regarding the experiences of her family in Iasi Childhood in Iasi; Life under the fascist regime, including limitations and prohibitions, 1941; assumption of control over Jewish property by the Romanians; pogrom in Iasi; hiding by her father; capture of her father; death of her father at the train; death of her grandfather at the train; death of her uncle at the train; bombings; move to her aunt's house; more to an orphanage; liberation by the Red Army, 1944; Life under the Communist regime; aliya to Israel, 1950; life in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rivka Liana (Matiovitz) Dor, born in Bucharest, Romania, 1934, regarding her experiences in Bucharest

Testimony

Testimony of Rivka Liana (Matiovitz) Dor, born in Bucharest, Romania, 1934, regarding her experiences in Bucharest Childhood in Bucharest; Life under the fascist regime, including limitations and prohibitions, 1941; bombings; draft of her father to forced labor; release of her father in exchange for a bribe; liberation by the Red Army, 1944; Life under the Communist regime; aliya to Israel, 1950; life in Israel.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

An interview with Menakhem Mendel Vayngarten, born in Munkacs in 1928, regarding his experiences in the underground in Hungary and Romania

An interview with Menakhem Mendel Vayngarten, born in Munkacs in 1928, regarding his experiences in the underground in Hungary and Romania Tape 1: Meeting with three Warsaw Ghetto refugees in Budapest; issuing forged certificates for the refugees; contacting a guide in Romania; capture by Romanian border guard soldiers; torture and interrogations; pause in recording; music and songs; interview continues from 00:58:22: deportation to Hungarian territory; arrest by Hungarian soldiers; transfer to Kisvelence; handed over to investigators in civilian clothes; torture and interrogations; the situation of...

File Number : 11938

Type of Material : Interview(s), Music, Memoirs, Poems/songs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Gabriel Drori Deutsch, born in Lugoj, Romania in 1928, regarding his experiences in Romania and his aliya to Eretz Israel in 1941

Testimony

Testimony of Gabriel Drori Deutsch, born in Lugoj, Romania in 1928, regarding his experiences in Romania and his aliya to Eretz Israel in 1941 His childhood before the war; increase in antisemitism, 1940; the family business was looted ; expulsion from school; move to Bucharest; pogrom in Bucharest; return to Lugoj; looting of their home; his mother's collapse; draft of his father to labor battalions; joining "Youth Aliyah" (approximately two hundred children); aliya to Eretz Israel via Turkey, Syria and Lebanon, 1941; absorption.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew