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Shneider Yaakov Shmuel, born in Kosino, Czechoslovakia, 1932, regarding his experiences in the Berehovo ghetto and in the Auschwitz-Birkenau, Plaszow, Gross Rosen, Goerlitz and Zittau camps

Schneider Shmuel Jacob, born in Kosino, Czechoslovakia, 1932, regarduing the Berehovo ghetto and deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Plaszow, Gross Rosen, Goerlitz and Zittau camps Family background; childhood in a religious family; his father is a hero of the World War I. Entry of the Hungarians; entry of the Germans, March 1944; deportation to the Berehovo ghetto; stay in a brick factory for several weeks; transfer to Auschwitz II-Birkenau; selection at the entrance to the camp; rescue by an anonymous inmate from the camp to the gas chambers and transfer to the camp; finding his father and relatives;...

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Letter written by Ruvim Oksenprus, a former resident of Ershtmaysk, to Ilya Ehrenburg regarding the murder of Jews in Ershtmaysk and Kalinindorf

Letter written by Ruvim Oksenprus, a former resident of Ershtmaysk, to Ilya Ehrenburg regarding the murder of Jews in Ershtmaysk and Kalinindorf Ruvim Oksenprus visited his birthplace after the liberation of Ershtmaysk in late August 1944, and saw that the 747 corpses of the Jews of Ershtmaysk who were murdered by the Germans were still in a well without a fence; the corpses of 2,500 Jews who were murdered in an anti-tank trench in Kalinindorf are still in the trench without a fence or a monument; Oksenprus points out that the residents that have returned from being evacuated cannot live in their houses,...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 151

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Letter

results.listIds.lang : Russian

Letter by Boris Ayzenberg, the director of a field hospital, including survey reports regarding the murder of Jews next to a glass factory near Minerlnye Vody in September 1942

Letter by Boris Ayzenberg, the director of a field hospital, including survey reports regarding the murder of Jews next to a glass factory near Minerlnye Vody in September 1942 - Survey report regarding the murder of the Jews of Yessentuki: Occupation of Yessentuki, 11/08/1942; establishment of the Jewish Committee, 15/08/1942; registration of all of the Jews of Yessentuki; forced labor; order given to the Jews to wear the badge of shame [yellow badge]; order given to the Jews to present themselves before the authorities next to the school building in Yessentuki on 07/09/1942; transfer [of the Jews] in...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 18

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Letter, Survey Report

results.listIds.lang : Russian

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results.listIds.fileNumber : 13621

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Letters from Gennadiy Grabovski, a Red Army officer, to his family members, and letters from friends in his brigade regarding the circumstances of his death and other matters, 1941-2010

Letters from Gennadiy Grabovski, a Red Army officer, to his family members, and letters from friends in his brigade regarding the circumstances of his death and other matters, 1941-2010 Letters from Gennadiy Grabovski, a Red Army officer, born in Kremenchug, Ukraine, 1921, to his family members in Kazakhstan, 28 November 1941-28 June 1942; The file includes: - Letter of testimony by his sister, Frida Beylinson, regarding the experiences of Gennadiy Grabovski and his place of burial; - Letters of testimony from friends of Gennadiy Grabovski in the tank brigade: - Letters of testimony from Imma...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 1796

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Newspaper Clippings, Letter of Testimony, Letter

results.listIds.lang : Russian

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results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Testimony of Eliahu Alter Likvornik, born in Balaceana, Romania, 1935, regarding his experiences in Balaceana, Suceava, Transnistria, Mogilev Podolski, Murafa and other places

Testimony of Eliahu Alter Likvornik, born in Balaceana, Romania, 1935, regarding his experiences in Balaceana, Suceava, Transnistria, Mogilev Podolski, Murafa and other places His childhood in Balaceana. Deportation to Suceava, 1941; life [in Suceava] including residence in the synagogue; transfer to Transnistria; life in Transnistria including the confiscation of their belongings; transfer to Mogilev Podolski via Atachi; life in Mogilev Podolski including overcrowding, hunger, stealing of food by children and a typhus epidemic; death of his parents from typhus, 1942; death of two siblings from typhus,...

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

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results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Testimony of Ovadia Pitzton, born in 1926 in Thessaoloniki, Greece, about his experiences in the Thessaloniki ghetto and in the Auschwitz, Landsberg, and Dachau camps, and more

Testimony of Ovadia Pitzton, born in 1926 in Thessaoloniki, Greece, about his experiences in the Thessaloniki ghetto and in the Auschwitz, Landsberg, and Dachau camps, and more Life before the war; antisemitism among the youth; German occupation begins in April 1941; trade relations with the Germans; issue of order to report to Freedom Square in 1942; the yellow star edict; food rationing; sealing off the Baron Hirsch residential area as a ghetto; receiving notice about impending deportation to Poland and a demand to convert propert into Polish złoty; life in Transport 109, the first transport to Auschwitz;...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 13529

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Testimony of Yisrael Zoldan Ben Meir Lax, born in 1920 in Selce (Siltse), Podkarpatska Rus, Czechoslovakia, about service in the Hungarian Armlabor brigades, 1939–1943, and deportation to Auschwitz in 1944

Testimony about an Orthodox family: transition to Hungarian rule in 1938; service in the labor brigades in October 1939–December 1943; infrastructure work in Ukrainian territory; non Jews' testimonies about murder of Jews in Kolomyja; murder of witness's family in Kamieniece Podolski; back to Siltse in December 1943; German occupation ensues in March 1944; building fences in the Chust ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz in June 1944; clearing rubble in the Warsaw ghetto; forced to march to Kraków, with mass mortality; transfer to Dachau; construction of the Kaufering camp; epidemic typhus; burying the dead in...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 13678

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

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