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Testimony of Menachem Mendel Fuks, born in Radauti, Romania, 1927, regarding his experiences in Atachi, Mogilev Podolskiy and in the underground in the Dzhurin Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Menachem Mendel Fuks, born in Radauti, Romania, 1927, regarding his experiences in Atachi, Mogilev Podolskiy and in the underground in the Dzhurin Ghetto Life before the war. Deportation to Atachi by the Romanian gendarmes; transfer to Mogilev-Podolskiy; transfer to the Dzhurin Ghetto, 1941; ghetto life including underground activities as part of Hanoar Hatzioni; liberation by the Red Army, 1944. Move to Brizheni; return to Radauti, 1945; life in Radauti; agricultural training at Oradea; aliya attempt to Eretz Israel; detention in Cyprus, 1947; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Bela (Zilbershlag) Shvartz, born in Gura Humorului, Romania, 1937, regarding her experiences as a young child in Gura Humorului, Transnistria and Shargorod

Testimony

Testimony of Bela (Zilbershlag) Shvartz, born in Gura Humorului, Romania, 1937, regarding her experiences as a young child in Gura Humorului, Transnistria and Shargorod Death of the witness' mother; deportation to Transnistria; life in Transnistria including eating potato peels; life in the Shargorod Ghetto, 1942; escape to Gura Humorului by truck; end of the war. Move to Bucharest; life in Bucharest including attending classes in a monastery; illegally crosses the border to France after paying a bribe; move to Marseilles; ferried out to an illegal immigrant ship by fishing boat; aliya attempt to Eretz...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sara (Shein) Eizenberg, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1930, regarding her experiences in the Budapest Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Sara (Shein) Eizenberg, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1930, regarding her experiences in the Budapest Ghetto From a traditional family; witness' father is a clerk; increase in antisemitism including her father's dismissal from work and his being drafted into a labor battalion. German occupation, March 1944; anti-Jewish decrees including expulsion from school and yellow badge; deportation to the Budapest Ghetto, December 1944; ghetto life including living in a school and help from the JDC; liberation by the Red Army, January 1945. Return home; joins aliya training; aliya attempt to Eretz...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Arje Rubens, "So Hat Es Angefangen" ("It All Began This Way") regarding the story of a Jewish family from Berlin, 1933-1945

Memoirs of Arje Rubens, "So Hat Es Angefangen" ("It All Began This Way") regarding the story of a Jewish family from Berlin, 1933-1945 Included in the file: [1-Scanned File; 119 pages in German] [2- Memoirs of Arje (Walter) Rubens, titled "So Hat Es Angefangen" ("It All Began This Way"); written in narrative form, primarily from a collection of letters by his mother in Berlin, his uncle in Vienna and his brother in Prague as well as excerpts from his own diary; memoirs published in 1992; - Summary of family background, parents' family history; - Childhood in Berlin including encounters with...

File Number : 4740

Type of Material : Photograph, Letter(s), Diary, Testimony, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, German

Testimony of Miriam (Neufeld) Breuer, born in Leipzig, Germany, 1921, regarding her emigration attempts and her experiences as a member of the ill-fated Kladovo-Šabac Transport

Testimony of Miriam (Neufeld) Breuer, born in Leipzig, Germany, 1921, regarding her emigration attempts and her experiences as a member of the ill-fated Kladovo-Šabac Transport Testimony of Miriam (Neufeld) Breuer, a passenger from the ship "Uranus", which was stopped at Kladovo, Yugoslavia during an unsuccessful attempt to transport Jews from Europe to Eretz Israel in 1939. - Unsuccessful emigration attempt to England; acceptance into the Sonderhachshara through the offices of Dr Joseph Burg, her former teacher in the Carlebach High school in Leipzig; description of the living condition for Jews; -...

File Number : 305