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Testimony of Reuven Monovitz, born in Czestochowa, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Czestochowa Ghetto and a HASAG labor camp

Testimony

Testimony of Reuven Monovitz, born in Czestochowa, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Czestochowa Ghetto and a HASAG labor camp Family before the war; displays of antisemitism. Outbreak of war; escape to village; return to Czestochowa; forced labor for the Germans; establishment of ghetto, April 1941; ghetto life until the "Aktion" of 22 September 1942; liquidation of ghetto; deportation to forced labor in a HASAG factory; attempt to escape from the small ghetto; hiding in the mikveh (ritual bath); life in the small ghetto including forced labor; detention by the Jewish police; saved from being...

File Number : 10366

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Jehuda Jedlinsk, born in Czestochowa, 1920, regarding his experiences in the Czestochowa Ghetto and Dora, Rottlebrode, Gardelagen and Buchenwald camps

Testimony

Testimony of Jehuda Jedlinsk, born in Czestochowa, 1920, regarding his experiences in the Czestochowa Ghetto and Dora, Rottlebrode, Gardelagen and Buchenwald camps His family before the war; "heder" and joining the Beitar movement; displays of antisemitism following the killing of a Pole by a Jew, 1937. Establishment of the large Czestochowa Ghetto, September 1939; abducting Jews for different types of labor; forced labor in a sawmill; arrest of mother in a selection and deportation of father to a metallurgics factory, 1940; establishment of the small ghetto; attempt to attack Germans and execution of 25...

File Number : 10350

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Dov Grosman, born in Praszka, 1919, regarding his experiences in Wielun, Sienkielow, Czestochowa and work for a farmer in Blumenthal while using a false identity

Testimony

Testimony of Dov Grosman, born in Praszka, 1919, regarding his experiences in Wielun, Sienkielow, Czestochowa and work for a farmer in Blumenthal while using a false identity Praszka community; life in Wielun from 1934 until the outbreak of the war. Entry of the Germans; decrees and restrictions on Jews; kidnapping of Jews on the streets; murder of Jews; deportation to camps; witness' escape from a church during a selection; obtains an Aryan birth certificate; life in Sienkielow; wounded during an "Aktion" in Sienkielow; escape to Czestochowa; labor in a HASAG casting factory; escape to the small ghetto...

File Number : 8237

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Jakob Jachimowicz, born in Czestochowa, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Goerlitz, Lukenwalde, Przyrow, Wereszyn and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Jakob Jachimowicz, born in Czestochowa, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Goerlitz, Lukenwalde, Przyrow, Wereszyn and other places Life in Czestochowa including escape in the direction of the Soviet Union with his brother, September 1939; capture by the Germans; deportation to Germany; life in Goerlitz; life in Lukenwalde; release, 1939; life in Poland; deportation to forced labor in Przyrow; transfer to Wereszyn camp; transfer to Oszczow; life in Oszczow; release in exchange for bribery payment to the Germans by a Judenrat person from Czestochowa; Czestochowa Ghetto life; rescue from...

File Number : 3180

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

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File Number : 1838

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Judith Irena (Lankinski) Ziblin, born in Czestochowa, Poland, in 1932, regarding the persecution of her family and her experiences in Poland

Testimony of Judith Irena (Lankinski) Ziblin, born in Czestochowa, Poland, in 1932, regarding the persecution of her family and her experiences in Poland Childhood in Czestochowa; German occupation in 1939; deportation to the Czestochowa Ghetto; transfer to the "small ghetto"; hospitalization due to appendicitis; escape to her uncle and aunt who were sent to work in a sewing workshop, before an Aktion on Yom Kippur; deportation of her parents to Treblinka; receiving protection and being rescued by the German commander Degenhart; transfer with her uncle and aunt to the Hasag camp in Poland to make weapons;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

הצהרותיהם של Lew Kusznir, אשתו Karola Kusznir וניצולי שואה אחרים על שהותם ב-Częstochowa, גטו Częstochowa ומחנה Hasag Pelcery ב-1939-1945 ותעוד הקשור בהם ובגורל יהודי Częstochowa, מ-1939-2001

Depositions of Lew Kusznir, husband of Karola Kusznir, and other Holocaust survivors about their stay in Częstochowa, the Częstochowa ghetto, and the Hasag Pelcery camp, 1939–1945, and documentation relating to them and to the fate of the Jews of Częstochowa, 1939–2001. - Documentation concerning compensation received by Lew and Karola Kusznir. --- Sworn depositions of Karola Kusznir née Sulkowski (b. 1912 in Częstochowa) about her doings in Częstochowa, the Częstochowa ghetto, and the Hasag Pelcery camp, 1939–1945 (undated). The Germans enter Częstochowa in September 1939; anti-Jewish enactments;...

File Number : 10017

Type of Material : Speech, Letter, Financial Records, Newspaper Clippings, Excerpt(s), Marriage Certificate, Diploma, Exhibition Catalog, Personal Documents, Identity Card, Memoirs, Declaration

Language : Hebrew, Polish, French, English, German, Yiddish