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Testimony of Rozalia Shoshana Ronen Vazner, born in Gdynia, Poland in 1933, regarding her life in Przemysl Ghetto and in the home of a Polish family under a false identity

Testimony of Rozalia Shoshana Ronen Vazner, born in Gdynia, Poland in 1933, regarding her life in Przemysl Ghetto and in the home of a Polish family under a false identity German occupation in 1939; family’s expulsion to Przemyl; life under Soviet regime; German occupation and communist father’s escape to USSR in 1941; life under restrictions of German occupation; move to orphanage in the ghetto; escape with help from a Polish police officer to Christian acquaintances outside the ghetto in 1943; move to aunt’s home in Lwow; move, under a false Christian identity (as Rozalia Stanislawa Dozhinska) to a Polish...

File Number : 13708

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Miriam Marila Liber Prague née Kostin, born in 1921 in Warsaw, about her experiences in the Warsaw ghetto, in Hungary, with the partisans in Yugoslavia, and as a forced laborer in Germany

Life before the war; German occupation ensues; dispossession; deportation to the Warsaw ghetto; life in the ghetto; escaping to the "Aryan" side with help of forged papers; marrying; escaping to Lwów; escaping back to Warsaw; escaping to Hungary; receiving privileges from the Polish Consulate; escaping to Yugoslavia; joining the partisans in March 1944; sabotaging a railroad track; arrested by the Germans and taken to Germany; working in a factory that manufactures spare parts for tanks; posing as a Croat; receiving extra privileges; liberated by American forces; reaching Buchenwald; encountering Holocaust...

File Number : 13612

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Aharon Klepfer, born in 1930 in Zarnowiec, Poland, about his escape to the forests and hiding with Poles in 1942–1945

Childhood in a well-to-do Hasidic family; attending a cheder and a Polish school; antisemitic manifestations before the war; war breaks out; Germans arrive; anti-Jewish strictures; studies halted; business shut down; eviction from houses; men inducted; Aktion; murder; dispossession; burial of gold in the family's courtyard and depositing of furs with Polish friends; denunciation of Jews; abuse by members of the Hitlerjugend; Judenräte appointed and subsequently murdered; rumors about an additional Aktion; family escapes to the forest; builds a bunker; bunker discovered a Pole who informs on them to the Germans;...

File Number : 13312

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Dov Bene Weiss, born in Bekescsaba, Hungary, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Bekescsaba Ghetto, Budapest, Auschwitz and Muehldorf

Testimony

Testimony of Dov Bene Weiss, born in Bekescsaba, Hungary, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Bekescsaba Ghetto, Budapest, Auschwitz and Muehldorf Life in Bekescsaba. Deportation to the Bekescsaba Ghetto; transfer to Budapest; life in Budapest; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life; transfer to Muehldorf; camp life.

File Number : 13370

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Herman Stoleru, born in Pungesti, Romania, 1932, regarding his experiences in Pungesti and in the Vaslui Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Herman Stoleru, born in Pungesti, Romania, 1932, regarding his experiences in Pungesti and in the Vaslui Ghetto His childhood in a well-to-do, traditional family. Legionnaires' rise to power, 1940; deportation of Jews to labor digging trenches; opposition by the Jews, and their release; deportation to the Vaslui Ghetto, July 1941; deportation of his father to Targu Jiu; deportation of his brother to Transnistria; deportation of another brother to Tiraspol; move to the home of acquaintances in the city [?]; return of his brothers and his father; liberation. Aliya to Israel, 1950; life in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Jozef Schwartz, born in Bekecs, Hungary, 1921, regarding his experiences in labor battalions in Mohacs Mesto, Lazarea, Kosice and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Jozef Schwartz, born in Bekecs, Hungary, 1921, regarding his experiences in labor battalions in Mohacs Mesto, Lazarea, Kosice and other places From an Orthodox family; Beitar and Hapoel Hamizrachi activities; learns in a yeshiva in Tokaj; drafted into a Hungarian Army labor battalion, October 1942; displays of antisemitism; transfer to the Yugoslavian border; transfer to Mohacs Mesto; identification of the Jewish soldiers with a yellow stripe, December 1942; sapper's course and course in building bridges; labor building bridges over the Danube river; transfer to Lazarea; forced labor;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

List of Jews from Cernauti who converted to Christianity before 1928, prepared, 12/01/1942

File Number : JM/11339

Type of Material : List of Jewish Residents

Language : Romanian

Testimony

Testimony of Reveka (Levite) Levy, born in Raseiniai, Lithuania, 1922, regarding her experiences in Raseiniai, the underground in the Kaunas Ghetto, Kedainiai, with the partisans in a forest and in the Red Army Life before the war; well-to-do, assimilated family. Soviet occupation, 1940; German occupation, June 1941; harassment of Jews by Lithuanians; riots against Jews; escape and then return to her family's home; deportation to the Kaunas Ghetto, August 1941; Kaunas Ghetto life including an "Aktion"; observes the transfer of Jews to the Ninth Fort, October 1941; labor in an airfield; appointment as the...

File Number : 13009

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

List of Jews from Cernauti who converted to Christianity before 1928, prepared, 12/01/1942

File Number : 51

Type of Material : List of Jewish Residents

Language : Romanian

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