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Testimony of Dvora Doris Shner née Klatz, born in 1932 in Dortmund, Germany, about her experiences as a girl in Rożniatów, Bursztin, the Rohatyn ghetto, and in hiding with villagers during the war

Offspring of immigrant parents from Galicia, receiving a "certificate" (Mandate Palestine immigration visa); father deported to Zbąszyń in 1938; reunited with father in Rożniatów in 1939; Poland partititioned and life under Soviet occupation; escaping to Bursztin; German occupation ensues in June 1941; a German soldier warns the family about murder of Jews; establishment of Judenrat; father refuses to translate from German into Polish; receiving word about murder of people in pits in Rohatyn; receiving a postcard from a family member with information about sending of trains to Bełżec; deportation to the Rohatyn...

File Number : 13614

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Dvora (Lichter) Levinson, born in Tarnopol, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Tarnopol Ghetto, using a false identity in villages and in a prison

Memoirs of Dvora (Lichter) Levinson, born in Tarnopol, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Tarnopol Ghetto, using a false identity in villages and in prison Life before the war; attendance at a Polish school; afternoon classes at the Hebrew school. Soviet occupation; closing of the Hebrew school; German occupation; draft of Jews to the Judenrat and murder of the draftees including her father; deportation to the Tarnopol Ghetto; ghetto life in hiding in a bunker; leaving the bunker with forged documents in the name of Stanislawa Dobryk; discovery of the bunker by the Germans and murder of those...

File Number : 8510

Type of Material : Memoirs, Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, Polish, German

Jewish work permit provided Zigmunt Spiegler in the Boryslaw Ghetto for working outside the ghetto, 1942

Jewish work permit provided Zigmunt Spiegler in the Boryslaw Ghetto for working outside the ghetto, 1942 Comments by the submitter of the material: Zigmunt Spiegler was born in Boryslaw, Poland, 1921; his father Yehoshua Spiegler was a Hassid who worked in the Chevra Kadisha (Jewish Burial Society) and buried the Jews who perished in the Boryslaw Ghetto; [his father] died of typhus; Zigmunt had a brother and a sister who perished in Auschwitz; Zigmunt worked as a bookkeeper in a factory outside of the Boryslaw Ghetto; during the last "Aktion" in the ghetto he escaped to the forest together with his future...

File Number : 1175

Language : German

Letters by siblings Shmuel and Michael Wolf, sent from Janowska to their sister Charlotte Wolf, born in Zolkiew, Poland, 1921, while she was in hiding in a bunker in Zolkiew, 1943

Letters by siblings Shmuel and Michael Wolf, sent from Janowska to their sister Charlotte Wolf, born in Zolkiew, Poland, 1921, while she was in hiding in a bunker in Zolkiew, 1943 Their sister Charlotte was in hiding in a bunker under a pigsty; her brother Michael, born, 1911, perished; her brother Shmuel, born, 1917, perished; her brother Laufold perished at the age of 17.

File Number : 1877

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Polish

Memoirs of Yaakov Szlim regarding the experiences of the family, 1939-1944

Memoirs of Yaakov Szlim regarding the experiences of the family, 1939-1944 Comments by Esther Churgin, the submitter of the material: Esther Churgin, Yaakov Szlim's daughter, born in Okrzeja, Poland, 1934; her sister Chana was born during the war and was hidden by a Polish family; Esther was deported from Okrzeja together with her parents, Yaakov and Feiga, to a labor camp; after escaping from the camp they found hiding places in bunkers in the forest and remained there together with the partisans; [Following the war] the family moved to an UNRRA DP camp where Esther went to school in a dormitory...

File Number : 8483

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Elisha Roshkin, born in 1936 in Zdzieciol, Poland, about his experiences as a boy in the Zdzieciol ghetto, in hiding in a bunker, and with the partisans in the forests until 1944

Life before the war; parents belong to the Hashomer Hatzair movement; German occupation ensues in June 1941; establishment of the ghetto; attempts to go into hiding with non-Jewish acquaintances; Aktion and murder of grandparents and sister in a killing trench; aunt escapes from the trench; building a bunker under the house for seventy people; father's relations with non-Jews and acquisition of weapons from them; father and uncles escape to the forests in March 1942; joining a Soviet partisan unit near the Niemen River; father murdered by a non-Jewsh villager; German manhunts in the forests; sustains a head...

File Number : 13521

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Sonia (Katzman) Vinogradov, born in Brody, Poland, 1922, and her husband Zalman Vinogradov, born in Lida, Poland, regarding her experiences in the Brody Ghetto, while in hiding in a forest and in Jaroslaw, and his experiences in Lida, Vilna and his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1941 Experiences of Sonia (Katzman) Vinogradov: Brody Ghetto life; escape with the help of forged documents; life in hiding in a forest; life in hiding in Jaroslaw; liberation. Experiences of Zalman Vinogradov: escape from the NKVD to an aliya training farm in Vilna; his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1941; life in Eretz Israel.

File Number : 8308

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Kalman Pshevorski, regarding his experiences in the Kosice Ghetto, Krakow Ghetto, Bochnia Ghetto, Plaszow camp, and other places

Memoirs of Kalman Pshevorski, regarding his experiences in the Kosice Ghetto, Krakow Ghetto, Bochnia Ghetto, Plaszow camp, and other places Memoirs of Kalman Pshevorski, regarding his wanderings between the Kosice Ghetto, Krakow Ghetto and the Bochnia Ghetto; escape attempt; rescue from execution; Plaszow camp life including forced labor; labor in the factory of Oskar Schindler and in Gusen II camp; liberation by the Red Army, 05 May 1945. Pshevorski's aliya to Eretz Israel via Italy, 1947; execution of his parents, Arye and Beila Pshevorski, in the Kosice Ghetto. Note: the original memoirs were...

File Number : 8295

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Hava Eva Elsa (Felsenburg) Timor, born in Nitra, Czechoslovakia, 1938

Testimony

Testimony of Hava Eva Elsa (Felsenburg) Timor, born in Nitra, Czechoslovakia, 1938 Life in hiding and being rescued in the Nitra area, 1944; murder of her mother in Auschwitz; return of her father. [Her father] starts a new family; return to the home in Nitra, 1945; aliya to Israel on the ship, "Izar" [?], 1949.

File Number : 13431

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Yisrael Avraham Bramzon, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1913, regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto and in hiding

Memoirs of Yisrael Avraham Bramzon, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1913, regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto and in hiding Life in the Bialystok Ghetto; participation in the Jewish uprising; escape and finding a hiding place in the home of a Polish family (the members of the family were later recognized as Righteous Among the Nations); life in the cellar; deaths of his wife and children; end of the war. Marriage to the cousin of his first wife, a survivor of the Majdanek, Treblinka and Blizin camps. The testimony was taken down in Polish, 1948, and kept in the Jewish Historical Institute in...

File Number : 8041

Type of Material : Memoirs, Documentary

Language : Hebrew

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