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Testimony of Arnold Janculovich, born in Iasi, Romania, 1934, regarding his experiences in Iasi

Testimony

Testimony of Arnold Janculovich, born in Iasi, Romania, 1934, regarding his experiences in Iasi Immediate family; way of life; education; the local synagogue; difficuties in earning a living; displays of antisemitism in the city; persecution and torture by the Iron Guard; draft of his father to forced labor; hunger; murder of Jews in police headquarters on "Black Sunday", June 1941; murder by the Romanian gendarmes; herding the survivors onto sealed freight cars (his father among them); the harsh conditions on the train; death of people from thirst and asphyxiation; deportation [including the witness?] to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Jehuda Zoltan Ferber, born in Satu Mare, Romania, 1923, regarding his experiences in a Hungarian labor battalion in Tasnad Blaja, Oradea, Cluj, Budapest and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Jehuda Zoltan Ferber, born in Satu Mare, Romania, 1923, regarding his experiences in a Hungarian labor battalion in Tasnad Blaja, Oradea, Cluj, Budapest and other places From a religious family; learns in a Romanian school and a "heder"; displays of antisemitism; under Iron Guard rule; membership in Hanoar Hatzioni.Re-annexation to Hungary, 1940; life during Hungarian rule including dental technician studies, 1940-1943; German occupation, March 1944; drafted into a labor battalion; life in the labor battalion including labor laying telephone lines in Tasnad Blaja, Oradea and Cluj; transfer to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Fishel Lang, born in Campulung, Romania, 1921, regarding his experiences in Cernauti, Atachi, Mogilev Podolskiy, Shargorod, Trichati and Odessa

Testimony

Testimony of Fishel Lang, born in Campulung, Romania, 1921, regarding his experiences in Cernauti, Atachi, Mogilev-Podolskiy, Shargorod, Trichati and Odessa From a traditional family; attends a Romanian school. German occupation; anti-Jewish decrees including yellow badge and arrest of his father; deportation to Cernauti; transfer to Atachi; transfer to Mogilev-Podolskiy; transfer to Shargorod; transfer to Trichati; transfer to Odessa; transfer back to Shargorod; camp life including his father's and brother's deaths; liberation. Return to Campulung; works as a shoemaker; marriage and starts a family,...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Itzaack Diamant, born in Iasi, Romania, 1925, regarding his experiences in Iasi

Testimony

Testimony of Itzaack Diamant, born in Iasi, Romania, 1925, regarding his experiences in Iasi From a traditional family; his father owns a shop; attends school. Rise of Antonescu to power, 1940; increase in antisemitism including expulsion from school and closure of the shop; German occupation; pogrom, 1941; in hiding in a warehouse and later with a neighbor; deportation of his father and his death; liberation. Completion of his studies; death of his mother, 1961; aliya to Israel, 1962; life in Israel including marriage, 1964.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Silvia Siegler, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1931, regarding her experiences in the Cernauti ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Silvia Siegler, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1931, regarding her experiences in the Cernauti ghetto From a traditional family; her father is a watchmaker and owned a jewelry store, he had been a soldier in the Austrian army and he was an active Zionist; displays of antisemitism under the A. C. Cuza regime; the beating of her father in the street by rioters and his being saved by a Romanian officer; learns in a Romanian school. Annexation to the Soviet Union in 1940; population exchange; bombings; the Russian retreat; chaos; the execution of the Chief Rabbi of the city, Rabbi Mark and prominent...

File Number : 11570

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Esther (Sapojnik) Roifman, born in Briceva, Romania, 1924, regarding her experiences in Briceva and in a village near Obodovka

Testimony

Testimony of Esther (Sapojnik) Roifman, born in Briceva, Romania, 1924, regarding her experiences in Briceva and in a village near Obodovka Well-to-do religious family with five children; her father owes a textile business; witness attends a Tarbut school and a Jewish high school; her family speaks Yiddish at home; membership in Gordonia; official displays of antisemitism during the regime of A. J. Cuza, 1938-1939. Soviet occupation, 1940; her father is on the list of capitalists; nationalization of the businesses; her father's work in a cooperative; Romanian and German re-occupation, June 1941; removal...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Irina (Fried) Faur, born in Cristelec, Romania, 1926, regarding her experiences in Szilagy Somlyo, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Duderstadt and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Irina (Fried) Faur, born in Cristelec, Romania, 1926, regarding her experiences in Szilagy Somlyo, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Duderstadt and other places From a traditional, partially Zionist family; work in the family grocery store; elementary education; displays of antisemitism; anti-Jewish legislation. Re-annexation to Hungary; attitude towards the Jews; studies and work as a professional knitter in Oradea Mare, 1943; contact with Jewish Communist youth; return home, January 1944; deportation to a brick factory in Szilagy Somlyo, April 1944; life in Szilagy Somlyo; deportation to Auschwitz,...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

Testimony of Klara (Kolman) Neuman, born in Oradea, Romania, 1915, regarding her experiences in the Oradea Ghetto, Auschwitz, Horneburg, Porta and Buchenwald

Testimony

Testimony of Klara (Kolman) Neuman, born in Oradea, Romania, 1915, regarding her experiences in the Oradea Ghetto, Auschwitz, Horneburg, Porta and Buchenwald From a large religious family; her father is a cantor and leader in the community; attends junior and high school; taught in Romanian; language at home is Hungarian; Hamizrachi activities; riots during the Cuza regime; burning of Torah scrolls. Re-annexation to Hungary, 1940; restrictions on the Jews including a demand that money and gold be handed in, from 1943; establishment of the Oradea Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz, Shavuot (28 May) 1944;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Angelica Pisam, born in Piatra Neamt, Romania, 1923, regarding her experiences in Transnistria, prison in Piatra, Iasi and Galati, and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Angelica Pisam, born in Piatra Neamt, Romania, 1923, regarding her experiences in Transnistria, prison in Piatra, Iasi and Galati, and other places Life before the war; attends Romanian schools; displays of antisemitism; rise of Antonescu to power; confiscation of the family's shop and part of their home; curfew on Jews; yellow badge from 1941; expulsion of Jewish pupils from schools by Romanians; establishment of a Jewish school; cultural activities; help to the poor; deportation to Transnistria, after June 1941; deportation of the men to forced labor; death of her parents; education until...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Romanian

Testimony of Margita (Katz Abramovicz) Faust, born in Vatra Dornei, 1928, regarding her experiences in Transnistria

Testimony

Testimony of Margita (Katz Abramovicz) Faust, born in Vatra Dornei, 1928, regarding her experiences in Transnistria An Orthodox, Zionist, affluent family of lumber merchants; agriculture and rafts; A.C. Cuza's Iron Guard, 1939; riots against the Jews; her grandfather from her mother's side, bought land in Eretz Israel, 1936; learning in elementary school in Dornei and junior high school in Campulung; Romania joins forces with Germany; restrictions on Jews and forbidden to go out after six in the evening; yellow badge; deportation to Transnistria, October 1941; saved with the help suitcases containing...

File Number : 11640

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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