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File Number : 3745

Type of Material : Survey Report, Official Documentation

Language : Russian

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File Number : 3738

Type of Material : Survey Report, Official Documentation

Language : Russian

Testimony of Aharon Feigenblum, born in 1919 in Włocławek, Poland, about his experiences as a member of the Hashomer Hatzair movement in Kalisz, in Warsaw, and in the movement underground in the Soviet Union

Receives a religious education; joins the Hashomer Hatzair movement; lives in a hakhshara (training center) in Kalisz in 1937; Kol Nidre eve in 1939; three Jews murdered; witness escapes to his parents in Warsaw in November 1939; escapes to Wilno and lives there until June 1940; escapes to Tashkent and Samarkand in 1941; membership in the Hashomer Hatzair underground in the Soviet Union in 1941–1944; involved in the affair surrounding Mordechai Rozman, a leader of the underground, who succumbed to NKVD interrogation and surrendered names of underground members; liberation and return to Poland in December 1945;...

File Number : 13553

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe Brem, born in 1937 in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland, about his experiences as a boy in the Piotrków Trybunalski ghetto and in the Ravensbrück and Bergen-Belsen camps during the war

Life before the war; offspring of an affluent family; war breaks out; German occupation ensues in 1939; deportation to the ghetto; sewing for the Germans; receiving information about dates of Aktionen and slipping out of the ghetto along with his mother; father inducted into the Polish Army; father taken prisoner by the Red Army; joins Anders's Army; melts down jewelry and gold coins into ingots and distributes them to family members via grandfather; taken with mother by train to Ravensbrück; life in the camp under harsh conditions; hiding on the upper bunk while mother works; hunger and cold; women prisoners...

File Number : 13522

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation regarding the second Maccabiah Winter Games in Banská Bystrica, including outstanding sportsmen from the Maccabi Hatzair movement, songs of the Maccabi Hatzair and the [Jewish] Scouts movements, and other matters, 1936 Slovakian newspaper clippings with greetings on the occasion of the second Maccabiah Winter Games in Banská Bystrica, February 1936; Hungarian newspaper clipping from Pozsony with an article about outstanding sportsmen from the Maccabi Hatzair movement; pages with drawings of emblems of Jewish youth group movements and songs of the Maccabi and [Jewish] Scouts movements in...

File Number : 17

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Poems/songs, Drawing

Language : Slovak, German, Hungarian

Testimony of Tzvi Hershel Danik Ginka Rothstein, born in 1933 in Brody, Poland, about his deportation to Kazakhstan in 1940 and his immigration to Eretz Israel via the Dror movement in 1947

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Testimony of Tzvi Hershel Danik Ginka Rothstein, born in 1933 in Brody, Poland, about his deportation to Kazakhstan in 1940 and his immigration to Eretz Israel via the Dror movement in 1947 Father active in the Bund; father arrested and disappears during era of Soviet rule in 1940; witness deported with mother and sister to Kazakhstan in 1940; sent to the Marinovka kolkhoz (Soviet collective farm); corresponds with family in Brody; lives with Kazakh families; receives parcels from the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee; back to Langenbielau, Silesia, in 1946; joins a children's home of the Dror...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Regina Yaari née Blutshtein, born in Paris in 1928, about her experiences as a girl in Paris and Toulouse

Testimony

Testimony of Regina Yaari née Blutshtein, born in Paris in 1928, about her experiences as a girl in Paris and Toulouse Father dies in 1936; older brother serves in the French Army in 1940–1943; escaping from Paris with her mother in 1941; escaping back to Paris; life there; escaping to Toulouse in early 1943; life there until the liberation in August 1944; back to Paris; joining the Hashomer Hatzair movement in 1946; immigration to Israel in 1948; establishment of Kibbutz Karmia in 1949.

File Number : 13331

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Arie Leib Vered, born in Roman, Romania, 1921, regarding his experiences in Bucharest, in detention in Vacaresti; in detention in Zilava and in detention in Fetesti

Testimony

Testimony of Arie Leib Vered, born in Roman, Romania, 1921, regarding his experiences in Bucharest, in detention in Vacaresti; in detention in Zilava and in detention in Fetesti Family background; family makes aliya to Eretz Israel, 1923; return to Romania due to economic difficulties; move to Bucharest; displays of antisemitism; joining the Maccabi youth movement. Burning of the store and closing of the business, 1940; pogroms; rescue of his family; unsuccessful aliya attempt to Eretz Israel; return to Bucharest; detention by Romanian gendarmes; detention for 30 days for lack of possession of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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