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Testimony of Mirka (Klaver) Zaklikovski, born in Lodz, Poland, 1927, regarding the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, and other camps, 1940-1945

Testimony

Childhood before the war; Outbreak of the war; arrival of refugees from Czechoslovakia and Germany; restrictions; deportation to the ghetto; curfew; forced labor; taking of her father to forced labor; "Aktions"; public hangings of Jews; escapes from the ghetto; cultural life in the ghetto; liquidation of the ghetto; transfer to labor camps in Germany; working in a weapons factory; reasonable treatment by the Germans; liberation by the British Army; Rebuilding life after the war; aliya to Israel, 1949.

File Number : 13855

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Tzafrir Shteir Sara, born in Bedzin, Poland, in 1930 regarding the Srodula ghetto and regarding the Peterswaldau camp

Childhood before the war; programming aliya to Israel; aliya of the two brothers ; confiscation of family businesses; outbreak of the war; burning the synagogue and houses of Jews; deportation to ghetto; forced labor; murder of the father; "aktions"; deportation of the mother and sister to Auschwitz Birkenau; deportation of the witness with her sister to Peterswaldau; help of the German female commander; liberation by the Russians; escape to the American side; rehabilitation of life after the war; aliya to Israel in 1946

File Number : 13661

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zelman Buchbinder, born in Ternovo, Czechoslovakia, in 1926 regarding the deportation to Auschwitz, Plaszow and regarding the labor camp Mauthausen

Testimony

Childhood in Ternovo; community life in Ternovo; good relations between Jews and non-Jews in Ternovo; invasion of the Hungarians in 1939; recruiting the elder brothers to Hungarian labor camps; anti-Jewish legislation;riots; harming the rabbi of the community; German occupation; deportation of the family to Mateszalka ghetto, Hungary in March 1944; conditions in the ghetto; diseases; yellow badge; deportation of the family to Auschwitz Birkenau; "aktion" by Mengele; crematorium; starvation; death of family members; transfer to Plaszow camp,Poland about 2 weeks later; beating of inmates; murder of inmates by the...

File Number : 13776

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rivka (Ovich) Shapira, born in Sacel, Romania, 1929 regarding her deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau and other camps

Testimony

From an Orthodox family; Hungarian rule, 1940; Deportation from her home to the Dragomiresti Ghetto; burying valuables in the yard; death of her father in the ghetto; deportation on a transport to Auschwitz-Birkenau; separation from her family; quarrying and paving work; insistence on observing religious commandments; selection for work and transfer to Ravensbrueck, October 1944; transfer to the Malchow camp for weapons production; approach of the Red Army and death march; liberation; Move to the Bergen-Belsen DP camp; legal aliya under the auspices of Agudat Israel, 1947.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony Joseph Fridman, born in Borsa, Romania, in 1927 regarding deportation to Auschwitz and other camps

Orthodox family; 10 Jewish families in the village; moving to Hungarian control in 1940; anti-Jewish laws; deportation to the Cluj ghetto in 1944; deportation by transport to Auschwitz Birkenau in May 1944; remaining with the father; transfer to Buchenwald and Magdeburg camps; injury of the father during the bombing of the camp; moving to the barrack for handicapped in Buchenwald; information regarding the death of the parents and the brothers; activity in aliya bet; illegal immigration on board the ship "Arba Hirouyot" (four freedoms) in 1946; exile to Cyprus; aliya back to Israel; establishment of the Odim...

File Number : 13692

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sherer Moshkovitz Lea Lula, born in Konin, Poland, in 1924 regarding the Ostrowiec ghetto and the Kamienna Skarzysko camps and others

Testimony

Antisemitism before the war; outbreak of war in 1939; arrest and deportation from the city; asylum in Ostrowiec; deportation to the ghetto; cleaning works; murder of the brother was he was trying to escape to Russia; murder of the mother and brothers in gas vansnear Konin in 1941; liquidation "aktion" of the Ostrowiec ghetto; deportation to the Skarzysko Kamienna camp in 1942; working in a porcelain factory; forced labor in moving stones from one place to the other in Auschwitz; going on the death march at the end of 1944-January 1945; deportation to the Kratzau and Gruental camps in the Sudetenland; forced...

File Number : 13741

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Dvora Shperling, nee Moskowitz, born in Satu Mare, Romania, in 1928, regarding her deportation to Auschwitz and other camps

Testimony

Parents are from Slovakia; Hungarian rule 1940; rumors about deportations in Slovakia in 1942; rise of anti-semitism; curfew; German occupation in 1944; deportation to the ghetto; brutality of the Hungarian gendarmes; deportation to Auschwitz; selections; transfer to a weapon factory Hasag; Germany; air-raids; Ukrainian and Yugoslavian POWs help Jewish inmates; air-raids on a train of female inmatesnear Neustadt; escape to the forest; liberation by the British 1945; return to Romania; aliya on the "Four Liberties"ship in 1946

File Number : 13474

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shmuel Hershkovitz, born in Somcuta Mare, Romania in 1922, regarding his experiences in Auschwitz and other camps

Testimony of Shmuel Hershkovitz, born in Somcuta Mare, Romania in 1922, regarding his experiences in Auschwitz and other camps Studies in yeshiva; good neighborly relations with the Romanian population; Hungarian regime in 1940; German occupation; expulsion to Baia Mare Ghetto; transport to Auschwitz-Birkenau with his siblings; dismantling of buildings in Warsaw Ghetto; march to Germany; digging in ground to find water; Dachau camp; Muehldorf and Mittergras camps; labor in forests; wounded by gunfire from a German commanding officer; approach of the front; murder of prisoners; liberation by the Americans...

File Number : 13742

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Tova (Gittel) Osher Vizel, born in Viseul de Sus, Romania, regarding her experiences during deportation to Auschwitz and other camps

Testimony of Tova (Gittel) Osher Vizel, born in Viseul de Sus, Romania, regarding her experiences during deportation to Auschwitz and other camps Her father’s death; leaving school to help support the family; Hungarian regime from 1939; rising antisemitism; German occupation in 1944; expulsion to the ghetto; mother’s illness; transport to Auschwitz; leaving her sick mother behind in the railway car; forcible separation from her younger brother; selection for labor in Gelsenkirchen in building refineries that were bombed; deaths of women prisoners in bombing of the camp; transfer to Sömmerda Weisensee and...

File Number : 13576

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Renée Kenoshi née Gold, born in 1930 in Odorheiu, Romania, about her experiences in the Targu Mures ghetto and the Auschwitz and Ober-Hohenelbe camps

Life before the war; offspring of a religious family; Hungary re-annexes the area in 1940; promulgation of anti-Jewish laws; men inducted into labor brigades; antisemitic acts; German occupation ensues in March 1944; witness's mother accused of communist activity and imprisoned; wearing the yellow star; banishment to the Targu Mures ghetto on May 3, 19144; mutual assistance; plunder of valuables; deportation to Auschwitz on May 27, 1944; selections in the camp; diseases, roll calls, transferred to Ober-Hohenelbe; life in the camp; living conditions improve; working at welding aircraft parts; liberation by Red...

File Number : 13642

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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