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Testimony of Daniel Dino, born in Veroia, Greece in 1933, regarding his experiences in Veroia and in hiding

Testimony

Testimony of Daniel Dino, born in Veroia, Greece in 1933, regarding his experiences in Veroia and in hiding Sephardic community; his father is a well-to-do merchant; displays of antisemitism; Italian occupation; German occupation, 1942; receipt of information regarding the deportation of the Jews of Thessaloniki; deportation of Jews from Veroia to camps; his family escapes to the mountains; in hiding in the village of Sika; help from the local residents; they are informed on; entry of soldiers into the village, 1944; rescue by means of a bribe; liberation; return to Veroia; displays of antisemitism and acts...

File Number : 14284

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Meir Friedman, born in 1925 in Halmaj, Hungary, about his experiences in Halmaj and Budapest

Testimony

Testimony of Meir Friedman, born in 1925 in Halmaj, Hungary, about his experiences in Halmaj and Budapest Offspring of an Orthodox religious family in Halmaj; German occupation of Hungary begins in 1944; Jews of the area rounded up in a brick factory in Kosiĉe; witness is transferred with his family to Budapest by a brother; entering a marked house in April 1944; escaping to the "Glass House" in October 1944; Arrow Cross operatives assault the house; saved by a German officer from murder on the Danube on December 31, 1944; liberation by Red Army forces on January 18, 11945; half a year in Vienna;...

File Number : 13472

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Esther Mirovski Asael, born in Bedzin, Poland in 1928, regarding her experiences ‎in the Bendin Ghetto and in various camps, including Dulak, Peterswaldau, Klettendorf, and ‎Gogolin

Testimony of Esther Mirovski Asael, born in Bedzin, Poland in 1928, regarding her experiences ‎in the Bendin Ghetto and in various camps, including Dulak, Peterswaldau, Klettendorf, and ‎Gogolin Occupation and life under German rule in 1939; deportation to the Bendin Ghetto in 1941; labor in ‎a sewing workshop making uniforms for the German army; sleeping at night with her mother in the ‎factory where her father worked, outside the ghetto, out of fear of the selections; deportation to ‎a transit camp in Sosnowiec in 1943; transfer to the concentration camp in Annaberg, Germany in ‎‎1943; deportation to the...

File Number : 13668

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Miriam Marila Liber Prague née Kostin, born in 1921 in Warsaw, about her experiences in the Warsaw ghetto, in Hungary, with the partisans in Yugoslavia, and as a forced laborer in Germany

Life before the war; German occupation ensues; dispossession; deportation to the Warsaw ghetto; life in the ghetto; escaping to the "Aryan" side with help of forged papers; marrying; escaping to Lwów; escaping back to Warsaw; escaping to Hungary; receiving privileges from the Polish Consulate; escaping to Yugoslavia; joining the partisans in March 1944; sabotaging a railroad track; arrested by the Germans and taken to Germany; working in a factory that manufactures spare parts for tanks; posing as a Croat; receiving extra privileges; liberated by American forces; reaching Buchenwald; encountering Holocaust...

File Number : 13612

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yehudit Brok née Stern, born in 1925 in Galanta, Czechoslovakia, about her experiences in the ghettos of Galanta and Nove Zamky and in the Auschwitz and Hohenelbe camps until 1945

Hungary re-annexes the Galanta area and anti-Jewish violence in 1938; antisemitism escalates and authorities impose restrictions; German occupation ensues in 1944; father arrested and deported to a detention camp in Hungary in 1944; witness deported with mother and siblings to the Galanta ghetto for several days; deportation to a ghetto in a brickyard in Nove Zamky; deporation to Auschwitz in 1944; life in Auschwitz and receiving help from father; transferred to Hohenelbe; life in the camp; working at a factory that turns out aircraft parts; typhus; rescue by a non-Jewish Dutch nurse in 1945; liberation by Red...

File Number : 13525

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avraham Tavori Tureholz, born in Staszow, Poland, 1930, regarding deportation to Auschwitz, jumping off a train, joining partisans and assistance in the fighting against the German army

Testimony

Testimony of Avraham Tavori Tureholz, born in Staszow, Poland, 1930, regarding deportation to Auschwitz, jumping off a train, joining partisans and assistance in the fighting against the German army Family background, religious family; relocation to Arad, Romania, 1932; a visit to Eretz Israel, 1933, where his mother's family lives; attempt to stay in Eretz Israel; buying a plot of land; stabbing of his father by an Arab in Jaffa; the British authorities' investigation of the father and the understanding that there are no certificates for the family to remain in Eretz Israel; deportation within four weeks...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Michal Mishe Rauch née Löwenherz, born in 1926 in Przemyśl, Poland, about her experiences in the Przemyśl ghetto and in hiding on the "Aryan" side in a Ukrainian's home until liberation in 1944

German occupation of Przemyśl in 1939; riots; Soviet occupation ensues in 1939; German occupation ensues in 1941; restrictions on Jews and upturn in antisemitism; deportation to the Przemyśl ghetto with parents; family members receive labor permits; father works in a factory outside the ghetto and witness works with mother on a farm outside the ghetto in 1942; finding a hideout during the second Aktion; witness and parents arrested due to denunciation and taken to a lockup in Przemyśl; they escapes from the lockup and return to the ghetto (part of which has become a labor camp) in 1943; witness and parents...

File Number : 13595

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Berthold Dov Glaubach, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1929, regarding his experiences on the Aryan side in Cernauti

Testimony

Testimony of Berthold Dov Glaubach, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1929, regarding his experiences on the Aryan side in Cernauti Life before the war; secular family; Soviet occupation, 1940; work in a factory; transfer of the Cernauti to the Romanian authorities, 1941; loss of livelihood; termination of studies; deportation to the Cernauti Ghetto; Cernauti Ghetto life and [his family's?] personal contacts with the Romanian mayor; removal of lawyers from the deportation lists; [his family] receives a permit to reside outside the borders of the ghetto; expropriation of the family's home by a Romanian manager;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Yafa Kimchi, born in Raseiniai, Lithuania, 1922, regarding her experiences in Kaunas, the Gorkiy region, a kolkhoz in Samarkand, and other places

Memoirs of Yafa Kimchi, born in Raseiniai, Lithuania, 1922, regarding her experiences in Kaunas, the Gorkiy region, a kolkhoz in Samarkand, and other places Life before the war; participation in aliya training groups; attends a Hebrew high school. Soviet occupation; air-raids on Kaunas, June 1941; escape with members of the aliya training group; escape by train to the Gorkiy region; escape to Uzbekistan; life in Samarkand including labor in a kolkhoz; inadequate nutrition; draft of the men to the Red Army, including her brother; her brother is wounded in battle at the front; labor in food storerooms of...

File Number : 8293

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe Feldman, born in 1932 in Rozan, Poland, about escaping to Russia and a labor camp in Siberia, 1940–1944

Childhood; antisemitism before the war; war breaks out in 1939; Germans arrive; Jewish townspeople evicted; physical abuse and murder of the town's ritual slaughterer; reaching Maków Mazowiecki; men inducted for forced labor and murdered; escaping from the city; hiding out during the day; walking at night toward the Soviet border; bribing the Polish border guards; reaching Białystok; lack of solidarity on the part of the Jewish townspeople; grandmother dies; unsuccessful attempts to trace father, who remained in Warsaw; refugees deported to Siberia: a month and a half of travel by rail; many die; cases of...

File Number : 13664

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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