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Testimony of Mirka (Klaver) Zaklikovski, born in Lodz, Poland, 1927, regarding the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, and other camps, 1940-1945

Testimony

Childhood before the war; Outbreak of the war; arrival of refugees from Czechoslovakia and Germany; restrictions; deportation to the ghetto; curfew; forced labor; taking of her father to forced labor; "Aktions"; public hangings of Jews; escapes from the ghetto; cultural life in the ghetto; liquidation of the ghetto; transfer to labor camps in Germany; working in a weapons factory; reasonable treatment by the Germans; liberation by the British Army; Rebuilding life after the war; aliya to Israel, 1949.

File Number : 13855

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Elhanan Elkhononas Shokhoras Shahar, born in 1929 in Kaunas, Lithuania, about his experiences in the Kaunas ghetto, the Stutthof camp, and Dachau during the war

Life before the war; offspring of a traditional family; Soviet occupation ensues in 1940; nationalization of family business; Soviets retreat and German occupation ensues in June 1941; ghetto established and extended family joins witness in one apartment; wearing the yellow star; attending a vocational school; Aktionen; surrender of valuables and books; unsuccessful attempt to smuggle sister to the "Aryan" side; deportation from the ghetto in July 1944; parting from mother and sister in the Stutthof camp; taken to Landsberg (Dachau); life in the camp; hunger; the front closes in and the camp is evacuated on...

File Number : 13603

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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File Number : 13366

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

Testimony of Rut (Globinski) Marks, born in Kalisz, Poland, 1931 regarding her experiences during the German occupation of Kalisz, deportation to Sandomierz, in the Sandomierz Ghetto, escape to Warsaw and life using a false identity in Warsaw German occupation of Kalisz, and deportation of her family to Sandomierz, 1939; life in the Sandomierz Ghetto; her mother's work as a teacher in the ghetto; escape with her [female] cousin to the Aryan side of Warsaw, 1942; life with the Korstrzewe family using the false identy of a Polish Christian in Piastów, a suburb of Warsaw; arrest and execution of her cousin,...

File Number : 13442

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Miriam Marksheid, born in Moinesti, Romania, 1928, regarding her experiences in Moinesti and Bacau

Testimony

Testimony of Miriam Marksheid, born in Moinesti, Romania, 1928, regarding her experiences in Moinesti and Bacau Childhood in a traditional, Zionist family with four children; Hashomer Hatzair activities; attends a Hebrew kindergarten and a Hebrew elementary school. Outbreak of war; expulsion from the Romanian school, 1941; studies with private teachers; deportation to Bacau; yellow badge; restrictions on Jews; residence with her family members [?]; draft of the men to forced labor; selling of valuables in order to obtain food; death of her brother from typhus, 1942; cancellation of some of the...

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 Avraham Warshawsky, born in Lodz, Poland, 1933, regarding his experiences in Lodz, Warsaw and on the Aryan side while using a false identity

Testimony

Testimony of Avraham Warshawsky, born in Lodz, Poland, 1933, regarding his experiences in Lodz, Warsaw and on the Aryan side while using a false identity His childhood in a well-to-do, secular family including his family's attachment to Jewish tradition and Zionism; attends a Jewish kindergarten. Outbreak of the war, 1939; deportation [of Jews] to forced labor; move to Warsaw, December 1939; deportation to the Warsaw Ghetto, January 1940; move to his aunt's apartment in coordination with the Judenrat; Warsaw Ghetto life including overcrowding; move to the Aryan side using a false identity, in exchange for...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zipora Kohn, born in Lodz, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in Lodz, the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Stutthof, Groden and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Zipora Kohn, born in Lodz, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in Lodz, the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Stutthof, Groden and other places Her childhood in an Orthodox, religious family including attending a Hebrew school and Zionist activities. Outbreak of the war, 1939; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto; Lodz Ghetto life including labor in workshops; distribution of food; "Aktion" against children; arrival of Jewish refugees from Germany; lack of knowledge regarding [the fate of] the Jews in camps; liquidation of the ghetto, summer 1944; deportation to Auschwitz with her sister; camp life...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ruth Heilman, born in Sosnowiec, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences in Katowice, the Sosnowiec Ghetto, Srodula, in hiding and in other places

Testimony

Testimony of Ruth Heilman, born in Sosnowiec, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences in Katowice, the Sosnowiec Ghetto, Srodula, in hiding and in other places Her childhood; move to Katowice, 1929; life in Katowice including attending a school; attends a Polish high school; musical education and activities in Hanoar Hatzioni; displays of antisemitism before the war; help to Jewish refugees before the war; move back to Sosnowiec, 1939. Outbreak of the war; escape in a convoy to Katowice; burning of synagogues; move back to Sosnowiec; life in the Jewish area in Sosnowiec including acts of abuse on Jews and...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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