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Testimony of Bracha (Shenfeld) Feigenblum, born in Drohobycz, Poland in 1926, regarding her experiences in Drohobycz, Stalingrad and Uzbekistan

Testimony of Bracha (Shenfeld) Feigenblum, born in Drohobycz, Poland in 1926, regarding her experiences in Drohobycz, Stalingrad and Uzbekistan German occupation of Drohobycz in September 1939; Soviet occupation; life under Soviet occupation until June 1941; escape to the Soviet Union in June 1941; escape to Stalingrad in February 1942; escape to Uzbekistan; life in Uzbekistan during 1942-1944; severely injured, and recuperation in 1943; search for and rescue of Jewish children in Lublin in 1945; escape over various borders in the context of the Bericha organization in 1946; aliya to Eretz Israel in April...

File Number : 13932

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chana Drori née Folk, born in 1931 in Prague, about her experiences as a girl in Olbramovice, Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and the Oederan camp up to April 1945

Childhood on a family farm in Olbamovice; Jews not allowed to own land and driven off the farm; mother lives in Prague; mother's home seized by a German officer; mother deported to Lodz in 1941; father assigned to work in building the Theresienstadt ghetto; witness deported to Theresienstadt along with uncles in July 1942; life in Room 28 (the Czech-speaking girls' quarters); studies in underground conditions; father deported and dies in Dachau; witness deported to Auschwitz in October 1944; works in a munitions plant at the Oederan camp; camp evacuated in April 1945; liberation in Theresienstadt; immigration...

File Number : 13527

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Juszko Josef Herz, born in 1927 in Zavazna Poruba, Czechoslovakia, about his experiences in Zavazna Poruba, Mikulas, hiding in Roksbany, etc.

Testimony

Testimony of Juszko Josef Herz, born in 1927 in Zavazna Poruba, Czechoslovakia, about his experiences in Zavazna Poruba, Mikulas, hiding in Roksbany, etc. Life in Zavazna Poruba as offspring of a lone Jewish family; deportation to Mikulas in 1941; typhus and hospitalization in April 1942; spared with parents from transport to camps; life in hiding in Roksbany from August 1942 to March 1944; taken to Lamsdorf; taken to Lichtenfeld; liberation in April 1945; immigration to Eretz Israel in 1947.

File Number : 13566

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yehuda Avrahami, born in Michalovce, Czechoslovakia, 1928, regarding his experiences in Michalovce, Novaky and in hiding in the Nitra area

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Testimony of Yehuda Avrahami, born in Michalovce, Czechoslovakia, 1928, regarding his experiences in Michalovce, Novaky and in hiding in the Nitra area Transfer of his Communist father to Prague; his father's life in Prague, 1938-1941; deportation of his father to Buchenwald, 1942; murder of his father in the camp; deportation of witness and his sibling[s] to a labor camp in Novaky, June 1943; camp life until September 1944; in hiding in the villages near Nitra until liberation; liberation, May 1945; death of his mother on a death march from Auschwitz, April 1945. Aliya to Eretz Israel, June 1946; death...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Talma Segal, born in 1937 in Viena, about her experiences as a girl in Vienna and Theresienstadt

Testimony

Testimony of Talma Segal, born in 1937 in Viena, about her experiences as a girl in Vienna and Theresienstadt Murder of grandfather in Kristallnacht events, November 1938; attempt to escape to Switzerland and forced return to Austria by the Gestapo in 1941; spared from deportation to Auschwitz in 1942; deportation to Theresienstadt and life there in 1943–1945; back to Vienna in 1945; mother dies of illness in 1949; immigration to Israel with the Hashomer Hatzair movement in 1957; establishment of Kibbutz Nir David; raising a family.

File Number : 13369

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Hannah (Kohn) Openheimer, born in Vienna, Austria, 1916, regarding her experiences in Dresden and Mannheim

Testimony

Testimony of Hannah (Kohn) Openheimer, born in Vienna, Austria, 1916, regarding her experiences in Dresden and Mannheim Childhood in a wealthy family with a paralyzed and blind brother; relocation to Dresden, 1918; loss of possessions in the Great Depression; Nazi Party rise to power, 1933; leaving school due to displays of antisemitism; German socialist youth activities; joining a Zionist youth movement; Zionist aliya training in Lithuania; youth group counselor in Mannheim, 1934-1937; antisemitic harrassment; transfer of her brother to a Jewish institution for the handicapped in Amsterdam; escape of her...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Nechama Natka (Liberman) Mintz, born in Lodz, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences in Bialystok, Kumy, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Waldenburg and other places

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Testimony of Nechama Natka (Liberman) Mintz, born in Lodz, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences in Bialystok, Kumy, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Waldenburg and other places Her father is a Zionist and Communist; aliya of her father to Eretz Israel, 1920s; her father's move back to Poland due to malaria illness. Participation in the defense of Warsaw, 1939; illegally crosses the border to Bialystok; return of her mother to Lodz in order to equip herself with belongings; volunteering for labor in Stolka [?] camp; her mother sends a letter to Stalin regarding the hunger; receipt of letters from her grandfather in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ehud Ernst Gewing, born in Leoben, Austria, 1932, regarding his experiences in Leoben, the Shanghai Ghetto, United States and Israel

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Testimony of Ehud Ernst Gewing, born in Leoben, Austria, 1932, regarding his experiences in Leoben, the Shanghai Ghetto, United States and Israel His childhood in Leoben, 1932-1938. Anschluss, annexation of Austria to Germany; deportation to Italy and then to Shanghai, China, March 1938; Shanghai Ghetto life; attacks by aircraft, 1943-1944; attitude of the Japanese toward the Chinese. Emigration to the United States, July 1948; aliya to Israel, 1951; life in Israel.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Batia (Baumgarten) Feled, born in Lodz, Poland, 1936, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Bialystok, Bogdanovich, Sverdlovsk and more

Testimony

Testimony of Batia (Baumgarten) Feled, born in Lodz, Poland, 1936, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Bialystok, Bogdanovich, Sverdlovsk and more From a close-knit, secular, Communist family; childhood. Outbreak of war; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto; escape from the ghetto with help from a smuggler; crossing the Bug River; detention by the Red Army; release; transfer to Bialystok; meeting with her family; transfer of the women to Kazakhstan; transfer of the men to labor in iron mines in northern Russia; death of her mother from typhus; transfer of the witness and her father to a labor camp in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Taube (Gelber) Livescu, born in Radauti, Romania, 1937, regarding her experiences in Marculesti, Yampol and the Obodovka Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Taube (Gelber) Livescu, born in Radauti, Romania, 1937, regarding her experiences in Marculesti, Yampol and the Obodovka Ghetto Deportation from Radauti to Transnistria, October 1941; transfer on foot via Marculesti, Besserabia, and crossing the Dniester river from Yampol; hardships en route for approximately one month; arrival in Obodovka; life in the Obodovka Ghetto including typhus, her father's work and the survival of the family, from 1941; liberation by the Red Army, April 1944. Her family's return to Romania, to Cernauti and Siret, 1944; return home to Radauti, 1944; rehabilitation of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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