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Testimony of Haim Rintovich, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1923, regarding his experiences in Kaunas, the Kaunas Ghetto, Kaufering, Lansberg and Dachau

Testimony

Testimony of Haim Rintovich, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1923, regarding his experiences in Kaunas, the Kaunas Ghetto, Kaufering, Landsberg and Dachau Childhood in a traditional family; attends Tarbut school for six years; assists his mother in her job in a candy factory. Outbreak of war; 1939; occupation [of Kaunas] by the Red Army, 1940; life [in Kaunas] until summer, 1941; outbreak of war between Germany and the Soviet Union, June 1941; occupation [of Kaunas] by the German Army; deportation to the Kaunas Ghetto; receiving gold and silver from a policeman acquaintance; obtaining a large amount of sugar...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Zvi Hirsh Ksienski, born in Jedrzejow, Poland, 1918, regarding his experiences in Jedrzejow, aliya to Eretz Israel, 1939, service in the British Army in Greece and in German captivity in Stalag 6 camp Life before the war; meets Menachem Begin; payment of bribery to Poles; aliya to Eretz Israel with Aliya Bet, 1939. Enlists in the British Army, 1940; life during service in the British Army in Greece including being taken captive, 1941; life in Germany in Stalag 6 camp; transfer on a death march; liberation, February 1945. Return to Eretz Israel, 1945.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaim Ringel, born in Rasice, Czechoslovakia, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Mateszalka Ghetto, Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Rehmsdorf, a death march and Theresienstadt

Testimony

Testimony of Chaim Ringel, born in Rasice, Czechoslovakia, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Mateszalka Ghetto, Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Rehmsdorf, a death march and Theresienstadt Life before the war. Re-annexation to Hungary; draft of his father into the Hungarian Army; decrees including deportation of Jews without Hungarian citizenship, forced labor and confiscation of property; return of his father; deportation to the Mateszalka Ghetto, 1944; ghetto life including labor as a postman; deportation to Auschwitz; transfer to Buchenwald; camp life including labor hauling rocks; transfer to Rehmsdorf;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Aizik Berkenstat, born in Czestochowa, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Czestochowa Ghetto, HASAG, Buchewald, Nordhausen, Rottleberode and a death march

Testimony

Testimony of Aizik Berkenstat, born in Czestochowa, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Czestochowa Ghetto, HASAG, Buchewald, Nordhausen, Rottleberode and a death march Traditional family; activities of his parents in the Bund party; aliya of his uncle to Eretz Israel, 1935. German occupation including detention in prison and the yellow badge; publication of the Bund's underground newspaper; arrest of his parents and sister; release of his mother; deportation of his father to Auschwitz; death of his father; closure of the Czestochowa Ghetto; transfer to the small ghetto after deportation of Jews...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zuita Hartman, born in Kielce, Poland, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Kielce Ghetto, the Radom Ghetto, the Warsaw Ghetto, Majdanek and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Zuita Hartman, born in Kielce, Poland, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Kielce Ghetto, the Radom Ghetto, the Warsaw Ghetto, Majdanek and other places From a traditional Zionist family. Outbreak of the war, 1939; her father escapes in the direction of the Soviet Union; deportation to the ghetto; ghetto life including smuggling food into the ghetto; capture and trial; escape to Radom, summer 1941; escape to the Warsaw Ghetto; ghetto life, including labor in the Tabens and Schultz factory; joins the Beitar underground, including missions inside and outside the ghetto; escape from the...

File Number : 12471

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation regarding Lieberose camp, including lists of Jews transferred from Auschwitz to Lieberose camp, 10-11/1944, and other documentation

Documentation regarding Lieberose camp, including lists of Jews transferred from Auschwitz to Lieberose camp, 10-11/1944, and other documentation - Lists of Jews transferred from Auschwitz to Lieberose camp, 10-11/1944; - Survery report written by Janek Kurz regarding the history of Lieberose camp (pp. 860-866); - Memoirs of M. Niemeс regarding his experiences during the war (pp. 867-875); - Photographs of the Jamlitz-Lieberose railroad station (pp. 877-879); - Newspaper clippings regarding the experiences of Holocaust survivors from Lieberose (pp. 880-892).

File Number : 276

Type of Material : List of Camp Inmates, Memoirs, Survey, Photograph, Newspaper Clippings

Language : German

Testimony of Lea (Saker) Kusznir, born in Vilna, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Kaiserwald, Strassenhof and Stutthof

Testimony

Testimony of Lea (Saker) Kusznir, born in Vilna, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Kaiserwald, Strassenhof and Stutthof Life before the war; attends a high school. Soviet occupation, 1939; German occupation, 1941; deportation to the Vilna Ghetto; ghetto life; labor for an estate owner in exchange for food; liquidation of the ghetto, 1943; disappearance of her parents after a selection; deportation to Kaiserwald; transfer to Strassenhof; camp life including forced labor digging trenches and in a carpet factory; deportation to Stutthof; camp life including forced labor digging...

File Number : 12447

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Efraim Perleman, born in Piaseczno, Poland, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, Majdanek, Skarzysko Kamienna, Czestochowa, Buchenwald and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Efraim Perleman, born in Piaseczno, Poland, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, Majdanek, Skarzysko Kamienna, Czestochowa, Buchenwald and other places Life before the war. Draft of his father and the outbreak of the war, 1939; return of his father and his escape to Warsaw; transfer to barracks near a forest; deportation to the Warsaw Ghetto, 1940; ghetto life and smuggling food into the ghetto; capture of relatives in the "Aktions", 1942; labor with his brothers in an engine factory; transfer back to the Warsaw Ghetto, 1943; sneaks into a labor group that labored outside the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Jana (Schindler) Sindelarova, born in Czechoslovakia, regarding her experiences in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen

Memoirs of Jana (Schindler) Sindelarova, born in Czechoslovakia, regarding her experiences in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen Life in Theresienstadt; life in Auschwitz; life in Bergen-Belsen.

File Number : 6504

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : German

Testimony

Testimony of Joseph Rozenberg Vardi, born in Sighet, 1931, regarding his experiences in Sighet, Auschwitz, Doernhau forest, Wuestegiersdorf camp, a death march to Hannover, Hildesheim and Bergen-Belsen camps Large extended, established, religious family in Sighet, 1939-1944; deterioration of the economic and social situation. Entry of the Germans and deportation to the ghetto, 1944; deportation to Auschwitz; labor with his brother in the Doernhau forest; witness and his brother are transferred to Wuestegiersdorf camp; improvement in living conditions; hospitalization; death march to Hannover with his...

File Number : 12135

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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