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Testimony

Testimony of Yeshayahu Shaike Goldhersh, born in Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland in 1934, regarding his experiences as a child in the Piotrkow Trybunalski Ghetto, and in Bergen-Belsen and Ravensbrueck camps Piotrkow Trybunalski Ghetto life; deportation to Ravensbrueck camp; transfer to Bergen-Belsen camp; Bergen-Belsen camp life, without work [labor]; suffering from diseases and hunger; apathy; cruelties by the Ukrainian guards; piles of corpses; liberation by the British Army on 15 April 1945; transfer to Sweden with his mother for the purpose of his mother's convalescence; he studies for the first time in a...

File Number : 13662

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Research regarding the place of burial of the inmates on the "Lost Transport" who perished during the evacuation of Bergen-Belsen and Neuengamme camps, 04/1945

Research regarding the place of burial of the inmates on the "Lost Transport" who perished during the evacuation of Bergen-Belsen and Neuengamme camps, 04/1945 The file includes a list of inmates who died during travel on the train from Bergen-Belsen and until the liberation near Troebitz, and a list from the diary of Dr. Ferdinand Szende that includes the names of inmates from the "Hungarian section" in Bergen-Belsen who perished near Lueneburg.

File Number : 1358

Type of Material : Photograph, Diagram, Official Documentation, Newspaper Clippings, List of Camp Inmates, Study, List of Murdered Jews, Letter

Language : Hebrew, English, Dutch, German

Documentation from the trial conducted in Landesgericht (regional court) in Klagenfurt, Salzburg and Vienna against members of the HSSPF Lublin: Volume 52; Testimonies by the German perpetrators Fritz Ernst Tauscher, Waltraut Emma Hanelt, Emil Pistor Talbot, Sturmbannführer Josef Opperbeck and Georg Michalsen regarding the SSPF Lublin, forced labor camps in the General Government, the extermination camp Belzec, the liquidations of ghettos in the General Government, the Warsaw Ghetto, the “Sommeraktion” in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the deportation of Jews to the extermination camp...

File Number : 110

Type of Material : Names of Perpetrators, Official Documentation, Legal Documentation

Language : German

Testimony of Agnes (Rosza) Choban, born in Szarvas, Hungary, 1938, regarding her experiences and those of her family in the Szarvas Ghetto, Strasshof and Breclav

Testimony

Testimony of Agnes (Rosza) Choban, born in Szarvas, Hungary, 1938, regarding her experiences and those of her family in the Szarvas Ghetto, Strasshof and Breclav From a wealthy family. German occupation, 19 March 1944; deportation to the Szarvas Ghetto; transfer to a brick factory; deportation to Strasshof; arrival of her grandfather in Strasshof; treatment for scarlatina in Breclav; transfer back to Strasshof; air-raids by United States and British aircraft; liberation by the Red Army, 1945. Move to Bratislava; help from the JDC; return to Szarvas; move to Budapest; illegally crosses the border into...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Photographs from the private collection of Rachel Auerbach

Photographs from the private collection of Rachel Auerbach - Passport photograph of Rachel Auerbach; - Photograph of the poet Itzik Manger, Rachel Auerbach and an unidentified person taken at a coffee shop in Tel Aviv, 18 May 1950; - Photomontage of materials from the Ringelblum Archive; - Photograph of unidentified persons; - Photographs of theater actors Miriam Orleska and Alex Stein who were friends of Rachel Auerbach; - Photographs of drawings created by Ester Carp; - Photographs of drawings created by Benn.

File Number : 2

Testimony of Felicja Bannet, born in Morawska Ostrawa, Czechoslovakia, 1904, regarding her experiences in Skarzysko Kamienna

Testimony of Felicja Bannet, born in Morawska Ostrawa, Czechoslovakia, 1904, regarding her experiences in Skarzysko Kamienna Arrival of a group of senior SS officers to Skarzysko Kamienna camp, early spring 1944; examinations are made by the officers, in a firing range that was used as an execution site and also as a burial place in mass graves, for the victims of mass murder by Ukrainians; fencing off of a part of a large forest, and the erection of black signs with a drawing of a skull, and an inscription in German and Polish which said: "Immediate death expected for anyone approaching the area"; arrival...

File Number : 214

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony by an unnamed Pole, regarding his experiences during his imprisonment in the Wolbrom prison after being falsely informed on as having a supposed Jewish identity and, including among other matters, regarding the murder of Jews in the Krakow Ghetto and the theft of valuables and clothing from the Jews' corpses, by a group of Germans Arrest and interrogation by the Gestapo in the Wolbrom prison, after being informed on by Polish collaborator that the witness is supposedly Jewish; release following interrogations and a bodily examination; he views the execution of a Jew who had converted to...

File Number : 151

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Letters written by a female resident of Artemovsk, a former neighbor of the Reznitzki family, to Lyudmila Reznitzkaya, with information regarding the murder of the members of the Reznitzki family on 11 January 1942, and the identification of their bodies in a mass grave in 1944 Letters written by a female resident of Artemovsk to Lyudmila Reznitzkaya, with information regarding the transfer of Jews from Artemovsk to the murder site on the night of 11 January 1942; the murder of the Jews at the site; robbery from Jewish apartments by the German authorities and collaborators; liberation of Artemovsk by the Red...

File Number : 3045

Type of Material : List of Murdered Persons, Memoirs

Language : Russian

Testimony of Sara Gerberg, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, regarding her experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto and in Stuttgart camp

Testimony of Sara Gerberg, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, regarding her experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto and in Stuttgart camp Accepting an offer to join the Kaunas underground in 1941; transfer of medical help to the ghetto residents; writing a record of the testimony of the Jews who escaped from Ninth Fort, riots against the Jews and the burning of bodies by the Germans on 26 December 1943; transfer to Stuttgart camp. Included in the file: - photocopy of the first page of written record of the testimony

File Number : 2741

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

Testimony of Israel Lisik regarding the burial of soap made from the fat of Jewish corpses in Shepetovka in May 1945

Testimony of Israel Lisik regarding the burial of soap made from the fat of Jewish corpses in Shepetovka in May 1945 Discharge from a hospital in Perm in April 1945; victory celebration in Shepetovka; receiving a box of soap as a gift from the Red Army soldiers who returned from Germany; the words "Reine Juden Fett" ("Pure Jewish fat") are visible on the soap; burial of the soap in the Jewish cemetery.

File Number : 2630

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

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