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Memoirs of Moshe Kaplan, born in Woronow, Poland, 1915, regarding his experiences in the Polish Army, the Tannenberg POW camp, the Woronow Ghetto, in hiding in the forest, as a partisan in the Naliboki forests and more Life in Woronow after World War I; death of his father Avraham Kaplan in 1922; attendance at the Tarbut elementary school; displays of antisemitism; membership in Hashomer Hatzair; underground activities and imprisonment of his brother as a member of the Communist Party; death of his mother, 1932; life in an aliya training kibbutz in Bialystok; meeting his future wife, Chaya; release of his...

File Number : 8643

Type of Material : Memoirs, Poems/songs, Genealogy

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Kedar Fakdrager Yehuda, born in Amsterdam, Holland, in 1937, regarding the deportation to Westerbork and Bergen Belsen camps

Testimony

Family background ; appointment of the uncles to the Jewish Committee in Amsterdam during German occupation; death of the brother in the shelling of the city in 1943; deportation to Westerbork in September 1943; deportation of the family to The "star camp"(Sternenlager)in Bergen Belsen in January 1944; joining of the grandfathers to an inmate exchange deal with the Templars in 1944; death of the parents and grandmother in Bergen Belsen; joining the group of children sponsored by the Birenboim family; the labor train; liberation by the Russians in Troebitz in April 1944; living in the children's home of Rabbi...

File Number : 13800

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Meir Friedman, born in 1925 in Halmaj, Hungary, about his experiences in Halmaj and Budapest

Testimony

Testimony of Meir Friedman, born in 1925 in Halmaj, Hungary, about his experiences in Halmaj and Budapest Offspring of an Orthodox religious family in Halmaj; German occupation of Hungary begins in 1944; Jews of the area rounded up in a brick factory in Kosiĉe; witness is transferred with his family to Budapest by a brother; entering a marked house in April 1944; escaping to the "Glass House" in October 1944; Arrow Cross operatives assault the house; saved by a German officer from murder on the Danube on December 31, 1944; liberation by Red Army forces on January 18, 11945; half a year in Vienna;...

File Number : 13472

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe Amit Toker, born in Petroseni, Romania in 1934, regarding his childhood experiences in Petroseni and in Galati

Testimony of Moshe Amit Toker, born in Petroseni, Romania in 1934, regarding his childhood experiences in Petroseni and in Galati Life before the war; son of an Orthodox religious family; father born in Poland; receiving an expulsion order to Poland as stateless people in 1940; closing of the border and remaining in Romania; life in Galati; family receiving absorption assistance from the local Jews; suffering bombings; activity in Zionist youth movement after liberation; moving from Romania in a children’s group; life in Apeldoorn children’s home in 1947; aliya to Israel in 1948; absorption.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ephraim Fogel, born in Suceava, Romania in 1934, regarding his experiences in the expulsion to the Shargorod Ghetto in Transnistria

Testimony of Ephraim Fogel, born in Suceava, Romania in 1934, regarding his experiences in the expulsion to the Shargorod Ghetto in Transnistria Family; German occupation in 1941; expulsion order; search for valuables in Atachi; march to Shargorod; deaths of grandmother, father, and uncle from typhus in winter of 1942; constant hunger; mother’s labor in kolkhoz; search for food; beatings by Ukrainians; organization of Jewish committee; assistance from Jews of Bucharest; daily soup distribution; return with Russians to Bukovina; orphanages in Romania from 1945 to 1947; Apeldoorn children’s home in The...

File Number : 13570

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Lu Daniel (Levi Dan), born in Sibiu, Romania in 1934, regarding his childhood in Sibiu, Arad, and Deva

Testimony of Lu Daniel (Levi Dan), born in Sibiu, Romania in 1934, regarding his childhood in Sibiu, Arad, and Deva Dismissal of his father from his position as a physician due to his Jewishness in 1939; escape with his family from Sibiu to Arad; transfer of his father to Bershad because he was a physician; expulsion from school; life in poverty; suffering from beatings by young bullies; his father’s return in 1944; Hungarian occupation; bombings of the location by the Germans; escape to Deva; life there until liberation; joining the Zionist youth movement; move to the children’s home in Apeldoorn; aliya to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Rivka Silberstein regarding her experiences in Wroclaw, the Bindermichl DP camp and the Wasseralfingen DP camp, 1946-1948

Memoirs of Rivka Silberstein regarding her experiences in Wroclaw, the Bindermichl DP camp and the Wasseralfingen DP camp, 1946-1948 Deaths of five members of her family in Siberia; return from Siberia, 1946; life in Ukraine until March 1946; life on a kibbutz in Wroclaw for six months; locating and returning Jewish orphans entrusted to Christian families or institutions; escape to Austria; life in a Poalei Zion kibbutz in the Bindermichl DP camp in Linz; life in the Wasseralfingen DP camp. Aliya to Eretz Israel on the ship, "Galilah"; life in Eretz Israel.

File Number : 8642

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shulamit (Frederika) Goldlevitz Karmi, born in Gdynia, Poland in 1937, regarding her ‎experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto and in a Polish home under a false identity

Testimony of Shulamit (Frederika) Goldlevitz Karmi, born in Gdynia, Poland in 1937, regarding her ‎experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto and in a Polish home under a false identity The German occupation; move to Warsaw; transfer to the ghetto; acquisition of false identity ‎papers and move to Zabieniec; her father’s injury and hospitalization; her mother’s disappearance; ‎moving in with the Braniecka family; move to the cellar in her uncle’s building in Warsaw; ‎placement in the care of a Polish woman, Mrs. Domenska, via the Polish Central Welfare Council ‎‎(RGO); the Polish uprising; escape with Mrs. Domenska;...

File Number : 13694

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe Arno Porat Frish, born in Hajdunanas, Hungary in 1931 regarding his deportation to camps in Austria.

Testimony of Moshe Porat Frish, born in Hajdunanas, Hungary in 1931 He was born in an orthodox family; his father's recruitment in a labor battalion in 1943; imposing restrictions on the family business; disbelief in the rumors about the murder of Jews; concentration of the Jews of Hajdunanas in the brick factory in Debrecen for deportation in April 1944; bar mitzvah in the ghetto; deportation by convoy to Austria; death of people in the wagons; life in the camp in Vienna; working in construction; hospitalization of his brother and sister ; death march; the soldiers'abuse of the marchers; life in the...

File Number : 13744

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaia Edith Shapira née Goldshtein, born in 1932 in Izsak, Hungary about her experiences as a girl in Izsak, the Budapest ghetto, and in hiding in Pestszenterzsebet

Life before the war; offspring of an Orthodox religious family; father assigned to fortification work; father returns several months later in 1941; father falsely accused of communist tendencies; father arrested and released; father inducted into labor brigades; witness escapes to Budapest; German occupation ensues in March 1944; wearing the yellow star; escapes to marked houses in the Jewish quarter; evicted from marked houses; taken with brother to a house under Swedish protection; sent to Budapest ghetto in November 1944; joins mother; obtains false papers and escapes from the ghetto; encounters Father Re...

File Number : 13590

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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