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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

Personal documentation of Szeiman family members, including work permits, an application for unemployment benefits, a certificate confirming the employment of Mendel Szeiman as a policeman, and other documents, 1946-1949 - Identity cards of Majer Shejman, born in 1942, and Izchak Sheimann, born in 1943, issued in Wels DP camp, 30 October 1946; - Certificate confirming that Mendel Szeiman completed a Police training course in Ebelsberg DP camp, held, 07-12 March 1948; - Certificate confirming the employment of Mendel Scheinmann, born in Tomasow (apparently Tomaszow Lubelski), 25 December 1912, as a...

File Number : 754

Type of Material : Personal Documents

Language : English, German

Personal documents of Desider Dezső Fuchs and Maria (Salamon) Fuchs, including various certificates, a hospitalization record, a travel pass and more, May-July 1945

Personal documents of Desider Dezső Fuchs and Maria (Salamon) Fuchs, including various certificates, a hospitalization record, a travel pass and more, May-July 1945 Documents concerning Desider Fuchs, born in Margitta, 24 December 1904: - Explanatory document written by inmates of the Dachau camp, among them Desider Fuchs, shortly before the liberation, following a request made by Dr. Paul Husarek, the infirmary physician, that they sign a document attesting that he treated the inmates well, 01 May 1945; - Hospitalization record from the Dachau camp issued to Dezső Fuchs, 23 April 1945; -...

File Number : 753

Type of Material : Personal Records, Personal Documents, Official Documentation

Language : Czech, English, German, Hungarian

Personal documents of Jakob Hersch Klagsbald, born in Jedlicze, Poland, 1909, including an identity card, confirmation of his internment at the Dachau camp, confirmation of his transfer to the Feldafing DP camp and more - Certificate issued by the Union of Jewish Craftsmen in Krakow to Jakub Hersch Klagsbald, 17 July 1940; - Identity card of Jakob Hersch Klagsbald, issued in the Krakow Ghetto, 20 March 1941; the card contains exit permit stamps to forced labor assignments, 02 September 1941-02 February 1942; details of his three children are also recorded: Estera, born 09 December 1929; Mojzesz, born 28...

File Number : 1211

Type of Material : Personal Documents

Language : Polish, English, German

Testimony of Zelman Buchbinder, born in Ternovo, Czechoslovakia, in 1926 regarding the deportation to Auschwitz, Plaszow and regarding the labor camp Mauthausen

Testimony

Childhood in Ternovo; community life in Ternovo; good relations between Jews and non-Jews in Ternovo; invasion of the Hungarians in 1939; recruiting the elder brothers to Hungarian labor camps; anti-Jewish legislation;riots; harming the rabbi of the community; German occupation; deportation of the family to Mateszalka ghetto, Hungary in March 1944; conditions in the ghetto; diseases; yellow badge; deportation of the family to Auschwitz Birkenau; "aktion" by Mengele; crematorium; starvation; death of family members; transfer to Plaszow camp,Poland about 2 weeks later; beating of inmates; murder of inmates by the...

File Number : 13776

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rivka (Ovich) Shapira, born in Sacel, Romania, 1929 regarding her deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau and other camps

Testimony

From an Orthodox family; Hungarian rule, 1940; Deportation from her home to the Dragomiresti Ghetto; burying valuables in the yard; death of her father in the ghetto; deportation on a transport to Auschwitz-Birkenau; separation from her family; quarrying and paving work; insistence on observing religious commandments; selection for work and transfer to Ravensbrueck, October 1944; transfer to the Malchow camp for weapons production; approach of the Red Army and death march; liberation; Move to the Bergen-Belsen DP camp; legal aliya under the auspices of Agudat Israel, 1947.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letters and postcards received by Hermann Helfgott in a POW camp in Germany from his family members and friends in Serbia, Hungary and other places, 1941-1944, a letter written by his future wife Malvine Bodner, including information regarding her family's experiences, 09/12/1946, and personal and official documentation regarding Hermann Helfgott and the Bodner family - Letters and postcards received by Hermann Helfgott in a POW camp in Germany (he served in the Yugoslavian Army and was taken captive by the Germans in 1941) from his family members and friends in Vrsac, Budapest, Dragutinovo, Kragujevac,...

File Number : 2223

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Letter, Postcard, Official Documentation

Language : Serbian, Hebrew, Polish, English, German

Personal documentation of members of the Winter family, including confirmations regarding the parents' stay in DP camps, a birth certificate of their son Andras Winter, an income tax card of the father, and other documents, 1945-1949 - Confirmation issued in Wels DP camp that Ladislav Winter, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1906, was an inmate in a concentration camp in Germany, until the liberation; document dated, 10 May 1945; - Confirmation issued by the International Refugee Organization (IRO) in Kassel, that László Winter was classified as a 1st Class worker, 30 October 1947; - Income tax card of...

File Number : 747

Type of Material : Personal Documents

Language : German

Testimony of Genia (Nistenpover) Hermon, born in Pultusk, Poland, 1929 regarding the deportation of her family to Bialystok, USSR, and life in Berezniki, Ural

Testimony

German occupation, 1939; the family's escape to a nearby town and return after a short time; deportation on foot by the Germans to the Soviet border and transfer to a refugee camp in Bialystok; deportation by the Soviet authorities to Adamova Gora near Berezniki, Ural; her parents working in construction; liberation following the outbreak of the Soviet-German war; move to Orsha, Belorussia, 1941; approach of the front; air-raids; escape to Uzbekistan, 1941; move to a kolkhoz to work in cotton picking for several months; move to Kassansay; studies in a Soviet school; Her return with the family after the end...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Yisrael Klein, born in Radomysl, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in Radomysl, in hiding in the forest and being hidden by farmers, in Paleniec, in a commune of Jews hiding in the forests, as Red Army soldier and more Life before the war including the ultra-Orthodox way of life of his family. German occupation, 08 September 1939; hiding with his father in the attic during the concentration of the Jewish men in the municipal market; confinement of the Jews in the church without food or water for several days; murder of many Jews by shooting; transfer of the wounded to German military...

File Number : 8636

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

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