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Testimony of Yaacov Shvartz, born in Siauliai, Lithuania, in 1929 regarding the Siauliai ghetto, the Stutthof and other camps

Testimony

Childhood in Siauliai; entry of the Russians in 1940; arrival of Jewish refugees from Poland; German occupation in June 1941; pogrom by the Lithuanians; murder of the stratum of the Jewish intelligentsia including the father; deportation to the Siauliai ghetto; overcrowding; yellow badges; starvation; forced labor; smugglings of food;'aktion" of the elderly in 1942; 'aktion' of the children in November 1943; liquidation of the Siauliai ghetto in July 1944; deportation to Stutthof; physical and emotional abuse; meeting with Russian captives; starvation; fate of the mother who escaped from the killing pit near...

File Number : 13687

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Yisrael Klein, born in Radomysl, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in Radomysl, in hiding in the forest and being hidden by farmers, in Paleniec, in a commune of Jews hiding in the forests, as Red Army soldier and more Life before the war including the ultra-Orthodox way of life of his family. German occupation, 08 September 1939; hiding with his father in the attic during the concentration of the Jewish men in the municipal market; confinement of the Jews in the church without food or water for several days; murder of many Jews by shooting; transfer of the wounded to German military...

File Number : 8636

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Lazar Livshitz, born in Gomel, Belorussia, 1919, regarding his experiences as a Red Army soldier in Bialystok, using a false identity in the Baranovichi camp, the Biala Podlaska camp, the Deblin camp and more Part I (written 06 December 1945 as a letter to his beloved telling of his experiences): Outbreak of the war; being taken captive; transfer to the Baranovichi camp; camp life using a false identity (Nikolay Kulinenko); transfer to the Biala Podlaska camp; camp life in open cages without shelter from the rain and snow; abuse by the so-called camp police which was made up of inmates; transfer...

File Number : 8620

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Russian

Testimony of Fredi Knoler, born in Vienna, Austria, in 1921 regarding the French resistance and the Drancy, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen camps

Testimony

German occupation and annexation of Austria( Anschluss) in 1938; Kristallnacht in 1938; crossing borders to Antwerpen,Belgium in 1938 where acquaintances of the family stayed; transfer to a camp for Jewish refugees (with the support of the Jewish community) in Merkplas in 1939; escape to France after the German occupation of Belgium in 1940; his detention in Lille,France because of his German (Austrian) nationality and transfer to the detention camp in St Cyprien in 1940; his escape from the camp to Gaillac and his work in agriculture in 1940; buying of forged certificates and his moving to Paris,as a French...

File Number : 13473

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Memoirs of Leibovitz family members from Certez, Czechoslovakia, regarding their experiences during the Holocaust; memoirs written, 2011

Memoirs of Leibovitz family members from Certez, Czechoslovakia, regarding their experiences during the Holocaust; memoirs written, 2011 Testimony of Sara Sari Valenta, taken in Brussels, 04 June 2011: German Army occupation of Certez, 1944; separation between the men, and the women and children; deportation of the men to Mauthausen; deportation of the women and children to Auschwitz; selection in Auschwitz; sending of the young children in their family to the gas chambers, including Etio, Ebi and Simon; murder of their father Levi Ludvig Leibovitz, in unknown circumstances; Sari and her sister Yuli are...

File Number : 8545

Type of Material : Documentary, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe Zagorski, born in 1927 in Wadowice, Poland, about being sent to the Groeditz, Faulbrück, and Gunzlau camps for forced labor, death march, and additional camps

Offspring of a well-to-do family; war breaks out in September 1939; escaping to relatives in Kraków; back to Wadowice; forced labor in Wadowice; deportation to Annaberg in autumn 1940 for forced labor; finds an uncle in the camp; transfer to Groeditz and life at a flour mill; cultural life in the camp; construction work in Faulbrück and separation from uncle; transferred to the Bunzlu camp apparently in summer 1942; Bunzlau becomes a concentration camp and assignment to young peole's block in May 1944; death march to Dora Mittelbau in February 1945 and several days in the camp; taken to Ellrich satellite camp;...

File Number : 13440

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Arie Eliash, born in Negresti, Romania, 1930, regarding his experiences in Negresti, the Satu Mare Ghetto, Auschwitz, Buna-Monowitz, Buchenwald and other places

Memoirs of Arie Eliash, born in Negresti, Romania, 1930, regarding his experiences in Negresti, the Satu Mare Ghetto, Auschwitz, Buna-Monowitz, Buchenwald and other places Life with his parents in Negresti; traditional family; good financial situation; attends a local school and a Jewish school; life under fascist Romanian rule including incitements. Hungarian occupation; harassment of the Jews; visit of an emissary from Poland to the synagogue; information regarding the murder of the Jews of Poland from the emissary; German occupation; refusal to escape to a hiding place in the forest; nationalization of...

File Number : 8242

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Tomas Hirshel, born in Kula, Yugoslavia, 1919, regarding his experiences in Kula, Szeged, Burgenland, Mauthausen and Gunskirchen

Testimony

Testimony of Tomas Hirshel, born in Kula, Yugoslavia, 1919, regarding his experiences in Kula, Szeged, Burgenland, Mauthausen and Gunskirchen His childhood in a well-to-do, secular family including attending a Serbian school and high school; activities in the Hashomer Hatzair movement. Outbreak of the war; German Army occupation of Kula, 1941; obtains forged documents; move to Szeged, 1942; draft of the men to forced labor; labor building an airfield and repairing railroad tracks in a military camp, 1943; hospitalization due to an injury; approach of the Red Army; transfer to Austria on foot; arrival to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yisrael Bak, born in Viseul de Sus, Romania, 1924, regarding his experiences in Svalava, in Subotica with Aryan documents; the Viseul de Sus Ghetto, Erlenbusch, on a death march and more

Testimony

Testimony of Yisrael Bak, born in Viseul de Sus, Romania, 1924, regarding his experiences in Svalava, in Subotica with Aryan documents; the Viseul de Sus Ghetto, Erlenbusch, on a death march and more Childhood in an ultra-Orthodox home. Annexation to Hungary, 1940; arrest for food smuggling and escape to his mother's family in Svalava, Slovakia; escape to Debrecen and from there to his uncle's house, 1943; move to Budapest; in hiding in a sawmill; receiving Aryan documents from the Chairman of the Judenrat; escape to Subotica and in hiding for a short period; return home to Viseul de Sus, April 1944;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe Liberman, born in Baia Mare, Romania, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Baia Mare Ghetto, labor battalions, Auschwitz, Gusen and on a death march to Gunskirchen

Testimony

Testimony of Moshe Liberman, born in Baia Mare, Romania, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Baia Mare Ghetto, labor battalions, Auschwitz, Gusen and on a death march to Gunskirchen Childhood; from a religious, Zionist family with eight children; studies in a "heder" and attendance in Romanian, Hungarian and vocational schools. Outbreak of the war; information regarding the fate of the Jews and disbelief; Hungarian occupation, 1938; draft to forced labor paving roads, 1942-1943; deportation to the Baia Mare Ghetto in a brick factory; murder of the intelligentsia and the wealthy members of the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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