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Testimony of Yehoshua Flusberg, born in 1926 in Dobrzyn Nad Drweca, Poland, about his experiences in the Mława ghetto; the Auschwitz, Stutthof, and Gottsdorf camps; etc.

Life before the war in parents' home; antisemitism; boycott of Jews in 1938; escaping from family home in September 1939; life in the Skepe camp; returning to home; synagogue encircled by Germans on Rosh Hashana; men rounded up in the market; deported to Prussia; deported Jews murdered and buried in a common grave; deportation order from town in November 1939; living with the family in Mława; selling cigarettes; ghetto sealed in 1942; assigned to forced labor; synagogue in Mława set ablaze; mother deported in the elders' transport; labor terminated and back to the ghetto on August 10, 1942; deportation to...

File Number : 13516

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Jan Farsky, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1919, regarding his experiences in Prague, Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, Schwarzheide camp, and on a death march

Memoirs of Jan Farsky, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1919, regarding his experiences in Prague, Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, Schwarzheide camp, and on a death march Deportation of Farsky to Theresienstadt, 26 November 1942; transfer to Auschwitz along with his family members, 15 May 1944; transfer to Schwarzheide camp, 01 July 1944.

File Number : 13

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : German

Postcards sent to Dascha Kleinman in the United States by her relative Genendla Guenbaum in Plonsk, 21 January 1941 and 19 April 1941, and letters of family members

Postcards sent to Dascha Kleinman in the United States by her relative Genendla Guenbaum in Plonsk, 21 January 1941 and 19 April 1941, and letters of family members Experiences of the Szainmen family; Dora (Szainman) Spilman, born in Plonsk, Poland, 1924; the parents Chana Ana Kleinman and David Szainman are relatives of Ben Gurion who helped numerous family members make aliya to Eretz Israel; aliya of the father’s siblings to Eretz Israel before the war; death of her mother during the birth of a baby girl and death of the baby girl during the birth; remarriage of her father; birth of a son; death of her...

File Number : 1793

Type of Material : Postcard, Certification, Telegram, Letter

Language : Polish, English

Postcards sent by Aurelia Feldmann and her family to her daughter Klara Feldmann Weisz in Birkenau, 10 May 1943-12 June 1944

Postcards sent by Aurelia Feldmann and her family to her daughter Klara Feldmann Weisz in Birkenau, 10 May 1943-12 June 1944 Postcard written by Klara Feldmann in Birkenau and sent to Andrej Hermann, 27 April 1943; identity card of Aurelia Feldmann, 19 June 1944; two photographs of Pavel Feldmann and Jan Feldmann attached to Pages of Testimony from the Yad Vashem data base.

File Number : 1737

Type of Material : Postcard, Letter

Language : German

Testimony of Moshe Miklos Bleier Ofer, born in Berehovo, Czechoslovakia, 1931, regarding his experiences as a child in the Sevlus Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, on a death march and more

Testimony

Testimony of Moshe Miklos Bleier Ofer, born in Berehovo, Czechoslovakia, 1931, regarding his experiences as a child in the Sevlus Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, on a death march and more Childhood in a wealthy, religious family. Hungarian occupation and rise in displays of antisemitism; German occupation, 1944; yellow badge; robbery of valuables and assets; deportation to the Sevlus Ghetto, 1944; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; selection and transfer together with his twin brother to a camp hospital (Kranken Hause); medical experiments; transfer to Camp D and labor near Crematorium 2; approach of the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : 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

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;...

File Number : 13529

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation including reports by former inmates, regarding the fate of inmates in Auschwitz, Birkenau and other camps, dated, 1944-1962

Documentation including reports by former inmates, regarding the fate of inmates in Auschwitz, Birkenau and other camps, dated, 1944-1962 Interviews, testimonies, research reports, articles, and excerpts from books: Research report regarding activities by the underground in Monowitz camp, by British POW Charles Coward and his friends; Research report by Wladislaw Tejkiel, 28/07/1961; Protocol of an interview with Gerta Gerzonowa, a former inmate in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz and Flossenburg camps, 19/11/1945; Interviews with Elisabeth Guttenberger and Regine Lebensfeld-Hofstaedter, regarding...

File Number : JM/14175

Type of Material : Protocol, Interview(s), Survey Report, Correspondence, Statistics, Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Testimony

Language : Czech, French, English, German

Testimony of Rivka (Marmelstein) Berger, born in Svalava, Czechoslovakia, 1929, regarding her experiences in Svalava, the Mukacevo Ghetto, Auschwitz, Ravensbrueck, Neustadt Glewe and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Rivka (Marmelstein) Berger, born in Svalava, Czechoslovakia, 1929, regarding her experiences in Svalava, the Mukacevo Ghetto, Auschwitz, Ravensbrueck, Neustadt Glewe and other places Her parents' home. Hungarian Army occupation of Svalava, 1939; life under Hungarian occupation including acts of abuse against the Jews; arrival of refugees from Poland and Slovakia; deportation of people lacking citizenship; German Army occupation of Svalava, March 1944; life under German occupation including the placement of German officers in her family's home, her family's preparation of a stock of food...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Bella (Fridman) Berkovits, born in Berehovo, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Berehovo Ghetto, Auschwitz, Braunschweig, Bendorf and Bergen-Belsen

Testimony

Testimony of Bella (Fridman) Berkovits, born in Berehovo, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Berehovo Ghetto and in Auschwitz, Braunschweig, Bendorf and Bergen-Belsen From a well-to-do, Orthodox family; childhood; unsuccessful aliya attempt to Eretz Israel in the 1930s; annexation to Hungary, 1938; restrictions on Jews; curfew; cessation of studies; displays of antisemitism by neighbors. Outbreak of the war, 1939; information on the fate of the Jews in the occupied countries; meeting with Polish and Slovakian [Jewish] refugees; confiscation of bank accounts; black market activity;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Malka Margit (Fisher) Gilad, born in Tiszafured, Hungary, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Tiszafured Ghetto, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen

Testimony

Testimony of Malka Margit (Fisher) Gilad, born in Tiszafured, Hungary, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Tiszafured Ghetto, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen Childhood. Hungarian occupation, 1940; deportation to the Tiszafured Ghetto after the German occupation, 1944; deportation to Auschwitz, 1944; labor in Auskommando [labor unit outside the camp] in Auschwitz; meeting with her sister who worked in the Canada Kommando; deportation to Bergen-Belsen, 1944; typhus; liberation by the British Army, 1944. Hospitalization in Bergen-Belsen; transfer to a hospital in Lund, Sweden, 1945; move to Goteborg and...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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