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Testimony of Yehuda Haleman, born in Cluj, Romania in 1928, regarding his experiences in the ‎Cluj Ghetto and deportation to Auschwitz and Kaufering

Testimony of Yehuda Haleman, born in Cluj, Romania in 1928, regarding his experiences in the ‎Cluj Ghetto and deportation to Auschwitz and Kaufering His parents’ house; cessation of studies following the closure of the yeshivas in 1942; food ‎rationing; entry of the Germans in March 1944; Slovakian refugees; the yellow badge; restrictions ‎on movement; prohibition on traveling on public transportation; deportation to the ghetto on 3 ‎May 1944; Kastner’s speech in the ghetto to encourage people to go out to work; deportation to ‎Auschwitz on the last transport; selection; quarters in the gypsy camp; personal...

File Number : 13673

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letters sent by Herman Gayst from Australia to his father, Szymon Gayst, in Kutno and the Konstancja camp through the Red Cross, 02 February 1940 and 12 December 1942

Letters sent by Herman Gayst from Australia to his father, Szymon Gayst, in Kutno and the Konstancja camp through the Red Cross, 02 February 1940 and 12 December 1942 The first letter received a reply from the Konstancja camp in1941; the second letter was answered by the German Red Cross informing the sender that the addressee no long resides at that address.

File Number : 1826

Type of Material : Red Cross Letter

Language : English, German

Letters of the Red Cross sent from Berlin by Max Israel Marcus to family members in Eretz Israel, 20 September 1942 - 15 March 1943, and correspondence of Chaim Buchaster in Italy with his family in Eretz Israel via the Apostolic Delegation, 1942 - 1943 The file also includes: Translation to Hebrew of a letter written in Poland by Shlomo Zigfried Marcus, German military medical officer, 15 August 1916.

File Number : 1810

Type of Material : Letter, Red Cross Letter

Language : Hebrew, German

Testimony of Yehoshua Flusberg, born in 1926 in Dobrzyn Nad Drweca, Poland, about his experiences in the Mława ghetto; the Auschwitz, Stutthof, and Gottsdorf camps; etc.

Life before the war in parents' home; antisemitism; boycott of Jews in 1938; escaping from family home in September 1939; life in the Skepe camp; returning to home; synagogue encircled by Germans on Rosh Hashana; men rounded up in the market; deported to Prussia; deported Jews murdered and buried in a common grave; deportation order from town in November 1939; living with the family in Mława; selling cigarettes; ghetto sealed in 1942; assigned to forced labor; synagogue in Mława set ablaze; mother deported in the elders' transport; labor terminated and back to the ghetto on August 10, 1942; deportation to...

File Number : 13516

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Dov Bandel, born in 1919 in Delmenhorst, Germany, about his experiences in hakhsharot in Gut Wingel and Britain and in a camp on the Isle of Man

Life under Nazi rule from 1933 on; antisemitism escalates and high-school studies are terminated; active in the Young Maccabi youth movement; sets out to a hakhshara (Zionist training activity) in Gut Winkel, in the vicinity of Berlin, in 1937; mother and brother are driven across the Polish border in 1938 as Jews who hold Polish nationality; Kristallnacht in 1938; escaping to London and joining a Bahad (Religious Pioneers Alliance) hakhshara in a Salvation Army camp in 1939; deported by the authorities to the Isle of Man due to citizenship in an enemy country; three months of internment in the camp in 1940;...

File Number : 13582

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Last letter sent by Hermann Gruenewald from Frankfurt am Main to his son Erwin Gruenewald in Eretz Israel via the Red Cross organization, 07 January 1942

File Number : 1771

Type of Material : Red Cross Letter

Language : German

Testimony of Anina Vohrazik Korty, born in 1921 in Prague, about illegal immigration to Eretz Israel in 1940 and deportation to Mauritius until 1945

Offspring of a Zionist family; membership in the Young Maccabi movement; parents support refugees from Germany, 1930s; movement training in Moravia, 1938; paying a ransom before immigration to Eretz Israel, 1939; illegal immigration vessels stuck in the Danube; brother taken to Sweden for survival; illegal immigration to Eretz Israel aboard the Atlantic; S.S. Milos Atlantic and Pacific detained; the Patria is blown up and sinks; deporation to Mauritius, December 1940–August 1945; temporary correspondence with parents via the Red Cross; exiles volunteer for service in the Allied armies; back to Eretz Israel in...

File Number : 13573

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Red Cross letters written by Adolf Lampel from Prossnitz sent to his brother-in-law Max Platschek and his daughter Trude Lampel in Eretz Israel, June-July 1942

Red Cross letters written by Adolf Lampel from Prossnitz sent to his brother-in-law Max Platschek and his daughter Trude Lampel in Eretz Israel, June-July 1942 Murder of Adolf Lampel and his wife in Auschwitz. The file also includes: Adolf Lampel's power of attorney given to Max Platschek to help Lampel make aliya to Eretz Israel; Red Cross letter written by Fritz Loew from Prossnitz to Max Platschek, 27 June 1942.

File Number : 1724

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Red Cross Letter

Language : English, German

Testimony of Yehezkel Barak Buchfuhrer, born in Düsseldorf, Germany, about his experiences in Köln, immigration to Eretz Israel in 1941; service in the British Army in Europe in 1943–1945, etc.

Testimony

Testimony of Yehezkel Barak Buchfuhrer, born in Düsseldorf, Germany, about his experiences in Köln, immigration to Eretz Israel in 1941; service in the British Army in Europe in 1943–1945, etc. Parents emigrate from Poland to Germany; antisemitism surges in 1935; moving to Köln; deportation to Zbąszyń due to lack of German citizenship, 1938; joining a Zionist pioneering training facility in Białystok; war breaks out; escaping to Wilno; escaping to Kaunas; parents escape to Dukla; organizing illegal immigration to Eretz Israel; receiving Polish Army passports; immigration to Eretz Israel in February 1941;...

File Number : 13384

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe Litmanowicz, born in Lodz, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, in Chelmno, Auschwitz, Braunschweig and more

Testimony

Testimony of Moshe Litmanowicz, born in Lodz, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Chelmno, Auschwitz, Braunschweig and more The immediate family; his parents' occupations; family lifestyle; his father's activities in the General Zionists. Occupation of Lodz; kidnapping of people for forced labor; yellow badge; destruction of synagogues in Lodz; sealing of the ghetto, late April 1940; work in a resort [workshop] ; residence in the ghetto; death of people from typhus and starvation; illness; activities of Rumkowski, head of the Judenrat; the Jewish Police in the ghetto; Gypsies in...

File Number : 13248

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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