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Testimony of Sela Shtovitska Uri Urlich, born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in 1930 regarding deportation to the Polish border and regarding his leaving nazi Germany in Kindertransport

Testimony

Childhood in Frankfurt an der Oder; life during nazi regime in 1933; arrest of the father accused of communist activity and his deportation to Poland as a Polish subject in 1933; attending the Jewish school Philanthropyn in 1936; moving to the Jewish Children's Home Stiftung in 1936; deportation with the mother from Frankfurt an der Oder to the Polish border in 1938; Kristallnacht riots; his joining a group of children who were sent by Kindertransport sponsored by James and Dorothy Rothschild in 1939; the journey via Hoek van Holland, Holland to London, Britain in 1939; moving to the estate of James Rotschild...

File Number : 13713

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Rub Israel, born in Sasovo, Carpathian Ruthenia, Czechoslovakia, in 1923 regarding his arrest in Prague and Dresden and regarding Theresienstadt , Dachau and other camps

-Childhood in Sasovo and Trebusany in Carpathian Ruthenia; his family is from a hasidic background( Hasidut Dolina); attendance at the "heder" in Berehovo in 1934; Hungarian control in 1938; his family moves to Moravska Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, in 1938; attendance at a yeshiva in Solotvina, Carpathian Ruthenia(Hungary) in 1937; he goes back to his family in Moravska Ostrava in 1938; he joins the Bnei Akiva movement and moves to Prague, Czechoslovakia; agricultural training on a farm in Louny and in Stribrna Skalice; he goes back to Prague and moves to a farm in Hostoun Kladno; he is arrested by the gestapo in...

File Number : 13688

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Tamara (Beilin) Berkovitz, born in Mstislavl, Belorussia in 1927, regarding her experiences in Mstislavl and in hiding in villages

Testimony of Tamara (Beilin) Berkovitz, born in Mstislavl, Belorussia in 1927, regarding her experiences in Mstislavl and in hiding in villages Her family escapes from Mstislavl, 22 June 1941; escape back to Mstislavl, a week later; abuse and rape of young and old women by the Germans; concentration of the Jews in the Technikum; murder of the Jews in killing pits; escape during the murder; wanderings; finding a hiding place in villages among soldiers and partisans, 1941-1945; Move to Moscow, May 1945; life in Moscow; return to Poland; aliya to Israel, 1956; move to Kibbutz Nir David, 1958; death in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Joseph Viner, born in Gradki, Poland, in 1932, regarding his experiences in the ‎deportation to Sine Waly estate, escape and hiding among farmers and in the forest‎

Testimony of Joseph Viner, born in Gradki, Poland, in 1932, regarding his experiences in the ‎deportation to Sine Waly estate, escape and hiding among farmers and in the forest‎ His childhood in a rural community; annexation to the Soviet Union in 1939; the German ‎occupation in June 1941; his expulsion from school; deportation to Sine Waly estate; escape and ‎hiding in the forest and with farmers in summer 1942; meeting his father and moving to a families ‎camp in the forest in autumn 1942; attack by a gang of Ukrainians; his father murdered and Joseph ‎injured; move to Dubno under a borrowed identity in...

File Number : 13682

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

List of Communists from the Za Otechestvo partisans detachment active in the Logoysk district, 1941-1944

File Number : 3551

Type of Material : List of Partisans, List of Communists

Language : Russian

Testimony of Michal Mishe Rauch née Löwenherz, born in 1926 in Przemyśl, Poland, about her experiences in the Przemyśl ghetto and in hiding on the "Aryan" side in a Ukrainian's home until liberation in 1944

German occupation of Przemyśl in 1939; riots; Soviet occupation ensues in 1939; German occupation ensues in 1941; restrictions on Jews and upturn in antisemitism; deportation to the Przemyśl ghetto with parents; family members receive labor permits; father works in a factory outside the ghetto and witness works with mother on a farm outside the ghetto in 1942; finding a hideout during the second Aktion; witness and parents arrested due to denunciation and taken to a lockup in Przemyśl; they escapes from the lockup and return to the ghetto (part of which has become a labor camp) in 1943; witness and parents...

File Number : 13595

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

"Resolution of N.Y. State CP [Communist Party] on Jewish Question in USSR", an article from "The Daily Worker" newspaper regarding the problem of the Jews in the Soviet Union

"Resolution of N.Y. State CP [Communist Party] on Jewish Question in USSR", an article from "The Daily Worker" newspaper regarding the problem of the Jews in the Soviet Union The position of various Communist parties regarding the problem of the Jews in the Soviet Union after the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union is discussed in the article; the Communist representatives hope and believe that the historic role of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union promises a return to the policy of Lenin regarding Jews, assimilation and the struggle against antisemitism.

File Number : 124

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings

Language : English

Testimony of Irit Irena Nitzan née Tug, born in 1939 in Kraków, about her experiences under a false identity with Polish families in villages near Kraków and in Kraków

German occupation; witness and parents escape from Kraków in 1939; deportation, apparently to Treblinka, in 1942; witness and parents leap from train and hide in the forest (so she is told); father captured and sent to a concentration and extermination camp; placed in hideouts with non-Jewish Polish families in the countryside and in Kraków (approx. ten places during the war) under the false identity of a Polish girl; placed by her mother with various families until the war in Kraków ends in 1944; father returns from the camps in 1945; life in Kraków after the war; attends a Tarbut school; joins the Hashomer...

File Number : 13503

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mikhael Miki Amodai, born in 1929 in Skopje, Yugoslavia, about his experiences in Belgrade, camps in Kavaje and Ferramonti di Tarsia, L'Aquila, and more

Testimony

Testimony of Mikhael Miki Amodai, born in 1929 in Skopje, Yugoslavia, about his experiences in Belgrade, camps in Kavaje and Ferramonti di Tarsia, L'Aquila, and more Childhood in Skopje and Belgrade; German occupation ensues on April 6, 1941; escaping with family to Herzegovina; escaping with family to Boka Kotorska in July 1941; deportation to the camp in Kavaje; treatment by the Italian commander; transfer to the Ferramonti di Tarsia camp in October 1941; escaping with his family to Abruzzi; escaping to Pizzoli; escaping to Confino Libero; encountering other refugees from Yugoslavia; German occupation...

File Number : 13523

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mikhail Rozenbaum, born in 1923 in Malice, Poland, about his survival in Siberia and Ukraine

Testimony

Testimony of Mikhail Rozenbaum, born in 1923 in Malice, Poland, about his survival in Siberia and Ukraine Deportation (escape) to Siberia and on to Ukraine; muarder of three older sisters and their children in Auschwitz in 1943; father joins partisans; family reunited; witness immigrates to Israel in June 1948.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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