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Testimony of Israel Siegfried Schwartz, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1928, regarding deportation to Transnistria

Testimony

Testimony of Israel Siegfried Schwartz, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1928, regarding deportation to Transnistria Childhood in a rich family; family residence in Calarasi; his family livelihood maintains a large vineyard, a wine factory, a flour mill and orchards; studies at a Romanian school; family move to Cernauti; annexation of territory to the Soviet Union; living in Cernauti; studies in a Soviet school. The outbreak of war, 1941; the withdrawal of the Red Army; the invasion of the Romanian army; deportation of his family to the ghetto; concentration of the Jewish population and deportation to the train...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Miriam (Shurek) Rozensweik, born in Wloclawek, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Wloclawek Ghetto, the Lodz Ghetto and labor camps in Germany

Testimony

Testimony of Miriam (Shurek) Rozensweik, born in Wloclawek, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Wloclawek Ghetto, the Lodz Ghetto and labor camps in Germany From a large family with hardships; orphaned; studies for a year; help in the family's livelihood. Outbreak of the war; deportation to the Wloclawek Ghetto; permit to leave the ghetto from the ghetto commander; buying food freely; transfer to the Lodz Ghetto; deportation to labor camps in Germany in the Posen district; labor in a Krupp weapons factory; liberation by the Red Army, 1945. Return to Wloclawek; move to DP camps in Germany;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Multiple Languages

Documentation of the Commissariat for Jewish Affairs in Bulgaria, 1942-1943

Documentation of the Commissariat for Jewish Affairs in Bulgaria, 1942-1943 Jewish communities regulations, 1942; Reports on Kev activities including the deportation of Thrace, Macedonia and Pirot Jewry, 1942-1943; Regulation #225 on economic issues, 31 October 1942.

File Number : 154

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : Bulgarian

Testimony of Shalom Segal, born in Herta, 1919, regarding his experiences during the Soviet occupation in Herta, deportation to Jedenec and Mogilev Podolsk, Pechora camp

Testimony

Testimony of Shalom Segal, born in Herta, 1919, regarding his experiences during Soviet occupation in Herta, deportation to Jedenec and Mogilev Podolsk, and in the Pechora camp Childhood and life before the war; family with many children and limited livelihood; the Jewish community in Herta; relations with Romanian neighbors. Soviet occupation and the consequent changes; confiscation of belongings of wealthy residents in town and deportation of some of them to Siberia, help for those with small earnings; Romanian re-occupation; escape of the family to Bessarabia with the withdrawal of the Soviets, and...

File Number : 11810

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Calendars for 1940, 1945, 1946 (Polish), and 1959 (Yiddish)

Calendars for 1940, 1945, 1946 (Polish), and 1959 (Yiddish). - Pocket calendar, 1940, Polish, for Poles in Romania, published in Bucharest and signed by S. Himpel, with several records in Polish handwriting; - Pocket calendar, 1945, Polish, published by the Riflemen's Association of the Laor Carpathian Polish Division in Jerusalem. Only the jacket and the first page are kept in the file; - Jewish calendar for 1959/60, published by the Union of Jewish Communities in Poland, Warsaw. Only the jacket is kept in the file.

File Number : 677

Type of Material : Calendar

Language : Polish, Yiddish

Testimony of Shoshan Cohen, born in Djerba, Tunisia, 1916, regarding his experiences in Tunisia

Testimony

Testimony of Shoshan Cohen, born in Djerba, Tunisia, 1916, regarding his experiences in Tunisia Family with many children; Jewish life in Djerba; learns in the "heder" of the local rabbi; Zionist activities in Ateret Tzion, 1936; displays of antisemitism by the Arabs; German occupation of France, 1940. German occupation of Tunisia, 02 November 1942; draft with other Jews to a German military camp, Marfak, located between Sfax and Gafsa; labor in cleaning and maintenance; transfer to Tunis to labor in ammunition storerooms and digging graves, February 1943; liberation, summer 1943. Sets sail to France,...

File Number : 9710

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation regarding Eliasch Lach, born in Pruszkow, Poland, 1907

Documentation regarding Eliasch Lach, born in Pruszkow, Poland, 1907 - Confirmation given by the Jewish Committee in Neustadt Holstein to Eliasch Lach, born in Pruszkow, 1907, that Eliasch Lach was deported to Auschwitz and Majdanek; confirmation dated, 30/01/1946; - Driver's license of Elyasz Lach, issued in Oldenburg, 24/06/1949; Comments by the submitter of the material (Nechama [Lach] Messer, the daughter of Eliyahu Lach): The parents of Eliasch Eliyahu Lach were Miriam and Zvi. The family members of Eliyahu Lach who perished during the Holocaust were: his parents Miriam and Zvi, and Hendel,...

File Number : 835

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Certification

Language : German

Memoirs of Edith Zuntz, born in Beuthen, Germany, regarding her experiences in Beuthen, Vienna and Trieste

Memoirs of Edith Zuntz, born in Beuthen, Germany, regarding her experiences in Beuthen, Vienna and Trieste Anti-Jewish pogrom in Germany, 01 April 1933; last aliya training in Mannheim, in preparation for aliya to Eretz Israel; arrival to Berlin in order to request an aliya certificate; return home to Beuthen; preparations for aliya to Eretz Israel, including receiving money from the Community Council; story regarding Mr. Zoglowek; anti-Jewish legislation in Germany, 1938; crosses the border to Poland, in order to purchase meat in a kosher butcher shop; purchases a suitcase, with her father; receives an...

File Number : 8713

Type of Material : Article, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Correspondence between Mina Lackenbacher in Hagalund and her sister Rosa Rachel Speiser and additional members of her family in Lwow, Sabac, Vienna, Kladovo and Tel Aviv, 1940-1945

Correspondence between Mina Lackenbacher in Hagalund and her sister Rosa Rachel Speiser and additional members of her family in Lwow, Sabac, Vienna, Kladovo and Tel Aviv, 1940-1945 Also in the file: - Letter sent to Mina Lackenbacher in Tel Aviv telling her of the efforts being made to acquire a certificate for legal aliya to Eretz Israel for her mother in Krakow, 25 September 1945; - Letter sent to Mina Lackenbacher by the Joint Distribution Committee in Belgrade notifying her that her sister, as well as Hans Dornreich, Elsa Stern, Emil Stern and Marianne Dornreich perished, 29 March 196[?]; -...

File Number : 2382

Type of Material : Letter, Correspondence

Language : German

"Mon Histoire" (My Story), a book written by Fela Gelman, born in Otwock, Poland, 1919, regarding her experiences in Otwock, Bialystok, Sabin, the Otwock Ghetto, in a forest, in hiding in Otwock and more Three preliminary versions of the writer's memoirs in Yiddish regarding her experiences early in the war; occupation of the city of Otwock by the German Army; anti-Jewish regulations; forced labor; move to Sabin; unsuccessful attempt to cross the border to the Soviet Union via Bialystok; arrest by Red Army soldiers; return to Otwock; life in the Otwock Ghetto, including the behavior of the Judenrat and the...

File Number : 1234

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Yiddish