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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Malka (Shpilman) Sigmond, born in Belusa, Czechoslovakia, 1921, regarding her experiences in Zilina, Vyhne, Nove Mesto, and using a false identity in Lubietova

Testimony

Testimony of Malka (Shpilman) Sigmond, born in Belusa, Czechoslovakia, 1921, regarding her experiences in Zilina, Vyhne, Nove Mesto and using a false identity in Lubietova From a traditional family; cultural life including participation in a choir; attends a Jewish elementary school and high school; learns to be a seamstress; membership in Maccabi Hatzair. Deportation to the Zilina camp, 1942; camp life; transfer to Vyhne; camp life including joining the camp infirmary staff, 1942; marriage; deportation to Poland; smuggling food and jewelry via a German soldier; escape from the camp and birth of her...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Melita Pesaty, born in Ciucea, Romania, 1933, regarding her experiences as a child in Ciucea and the Bershad Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Melita Pesaty, born in Ciucea, Romania, 1933, regarding her experiences as a child in Ciucea and the Bershad Ghetto Her childhood in a wealthy family; her father was a lumber merchant. Romanian occupation, 1941; her family's deportation and the concentration of Jews in Luzan; confiscation of property and jewelry; transfer of money to her family; throwing of corpses into the river; deportation to the Bershad Ghetto; hunger, disease, lice and typhus; smuggle of money into the Bershad Ghetto; her sister's escape; her sister's detention and death; ghetto choir; ghetto life including community...

File Number : 12199

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Alex Gross, born in Backa Palanka, Yugoslavia, 1929, regarding his experiences in Backa Palanka, Baja and as a forced laborer

Testimony

Testimony of Alex Gross, born in Backa Palanka, Yugoslavia, 1929, regarding his experiences in Backa Palanka, Baja and as a forced laborer Religious-Zionist family with many children; his father was the rabbi of the Neolog community in Backa Palanka; activities in the Beitar movement; names of Beitar members and counselors; movement activities and contact with the center in Poland; Jabotinsky's visit in Novi Sad; choir from Poland with Ida Zwilling; status and the image of the Jews; move of Jewish refugees en route to Eretz Israel; absorption of the refugees in the community before the outbreak of the...

File Number : 12107

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

הערות ביוגריפיות על SALOMON AVRAM DE MAYO(1865-1929 מאת אהרון אסא.

Biographical comments written by Aharon Asa on Salamon Avram De Mayo Essay on the history of the Sephardi Jews and the De Mayo family in the Ottoman Empire after 1942 in Solon and Bitola; Experiences of S. De Mayo in Belgrade and Sofia, 27 April 1865 and 08 March 1929; De Mayo activities in the Jewish community in Sofia including the establishment of Jewish choir, his appointment as a gabbai in the Great Synagogue, his activities as a member of charity organizations, building a building and arranging free food for Jewish pupils, and a committee member of the Red Cross in Bulgaria; Alfred De Mayo, his son,...

File Number : 235

Type of Material : Biography

Language : Bulgarian

Documentation submitted by Matylda Woliniewska regarding the experiences of female inmates in the Majdanek and Lipsk-Schoenfeld camps

Documentation submitted by Matylda Woliniewska regarding the experiences of female inmates in the Majdanek and Lipsk-Schoenfeld camps - Several pages from a theatrical play by an unknown author that takes place in a dining hall, a clinic, and a shelter in a labor camp; - An article by Matylda Woliniewska regarding female Polish inmates in Majdanek containing information concerning harsh living conditions; cultural activities; radio; concerts; a choir; friction between the inmates; attempts to make contact with families; incidents of assistance; political activity; committees set up by inmates: Sanitation...

File Number : 4237

Type of Material : Memoirs, Diary, Testimony, Letter, Poems/songs

Language : Polish

Testimony of Herszel Goldwaser, born in 1917 in Dzialoszyce, Poland, regarding his experience in Skarzysko Kamienna labor camp

Testimony of Herszel Goldwaser, born in 1917 in Dzialoszyce, Poland, regarding his experiences in Skarzysko Kamienna labor camp Herszel Goldwaser was a tailor in the Dzialoszyce ghetto, and was deported to the labor camp in Skarzysko Kamienna in November 1943 (by that time, his whole family had been murdered). In the camp he also worked as a tailor and at the ammunition production.Description of life in the camp; remembers four executions by hanging; the guards and foremen were Poles, often engaged in cooperation with the resistance movement and tried to help prisoners; there also was Jewish police...

File Number : 1825

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Five poems/songs by Gita Sudanska, "Portraits from the Vilna Ghetto", written in the Vilna Ghetto, 10 January 1943-10 January 1944

Five poems/songs by Gita Sudanska, "Portraits from the Vilna Ghetto", written in the Vilna Ghetto, 10 January 1943-10 January 1944 1) "Gens" - Jacob Gens, head of the Vilna Ghetto, a description of his personality and actions; description of his accomplishments, such as construction of hospitals, schools, a theatre, the establishment of a choir, cultural activities, help to the partisans, while on the other hand, sending Jews to their deaths in order to save others as much as possible; 2) "Levas" - Meir Levas, a policeman appointed as head of the ghetto gate watch, a cruel person who specialized in...

File Number : 120

Type of Material : Poems/songs

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Chaja (Oszlak) Sztajnhart, born in Warsaw, 1921, regarding her experiences in Poland and Uzbekistan

Testimony

Testimony of Chaja (Oszlak) Sztajnhart, born in Warsaw, 1921, regarding her experiences in Poland and Uzbekistan Her family; her father is a member of the Bund choir; activty in Freiheit (Dror) movement; summer vacation in a village and training near Lodz; influence of youth counselor Motke Tennenbaum. Receiving aliya permit as a prize for her activities, September 1939, but unable to use it due to outbreak of the war; joining a group of pioneers who organized an escape to Malkinia and then to Vilna; wanderings throughout Russia and settling in Urgench; living among Uzbeks and their relationship;...

File Number : 10843

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Boiana Iakoblevich, born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1922, regarding her experiences in Durazzo camp, Ferramonti Di Tarsa camp and with Tito's partisans

Testimony

Testimony of Boiana Iakoblevich, born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1922, regarding her experiences in Durazzo camp, Ferramonti Di Tarsa camp and with Tito's partisans Jewish life in Belgrade before the war; status of the Jews; Jewish community activities; the way of life of the Sephardi and Ashkenazi communities; Jewish contribution to the city; co-existence; good relations with the Serbs; absorption of Jewish refugees from Austria and Czechoslovakia under the protection of the Yugoslavian authorities. German occupation, 06 April 1941; demonstrations in the streets; air-raids on the city of Hapuch; escape...

File Number : 7266

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

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