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Childhood in Dej; daily life; persecution of Jews, 1933; Deportation to a ghetto in a forest clearing in Dej; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; life in the camp; mutual assistance between sisters; transfer to the Langenbielau labor camp; liberation; Rebuilding life after the war; aliya to Israel, 1959.

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results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Testimony of Shmuel Hirsh, born in Iernut, Romania, in 1926 regarding his experiences in Detesan, in Ludus and in Turda

Testimony of Shmuel Hirsh, born in Iernut, Romania, in 1926 regarding his experiences in Detesan, in Ludus and in Turda Childhood in Detesani; son of a religious family that barely makes a living; life there as the only Jewish family; attending public school; good relations with the Romanians; deportation to Ludus at the end of 1941; transfer to Turda after 2 weeks; life there in an abandoned flour mill; transfer to forced labor in cleaning a military hospital; working there for about ayear and a half; liberation by the red army in 1944; life there after the liberation; military service in the lines of the...

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Memoirs of Eliezer Brenner, his sister Shaindel (Brenner) Vigenanski, and his wife, Yettie (Lanzet) Brenner, regarding their experiences in Krakow, the Melk camp, the Plaszow camp, Transnistria and more Experiences of Eliezer Brenner, born in Rzeszow, Poland, 1913: Deportation to the Krakow Ghetto; deportation to the Plaszow camp; camp life including labor in Wieliczka; camp life with his brother, Moshe; transfer to the Mauthausen camp; camp life; selection; labor in a quarry; transfer to the Melk camp; labor in a subterranean ammunitions factory; transfer to the Ebensee camp by death march; liberation in...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 8621

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Memoirs, Document

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Testimony of Zohar Shlomo zilgelshtein, born in Verecki Pss, Czechoslovakia, in 1923, regarding his hiding in the forests, his deportation to the Gusen and Mauthausen camps, Austria.

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Orthodox family related to "Sharf" from Sterlinsk (from the Greats of the hasidut); activity in the Beitar; transition to Hungarian rule in 1939; deportation order for the Jews without a Czech nationality towards the Polish border in 1939; housing the deportees in a house that was built on the border; smuggling of the deportees by the witness back to Czechoslovakia on hidden paths; hiding in the forests of Ukraine; capture by Germans; deportation to camps in Austria; forced labour in a quarry in the Gusen camp; he comes across his brother in Mauthausen; march to Gunskirchen; death of his brother; liberation in...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 13743

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Testimony of Yoseph Bar Gal [Burdzhel], born in Tunis, Tunisia in 1934, regarding his experiences in ‎Tunis under the German occupation, eviction from his home, and his activities in the Mossad in ‎Tunisia after the war

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Family background—traditional family; his father was director of a Jewish company that sold musical instruments; the neighborhood was mostly Italian-French; attendance at a French school; expulsion from school; German occupation at the end of 1942; air raids; sudden eviction from their home after their neighbors informed on them; German withdrawal in May 1943; return home; joining Hashomer Hatzair movement in 1948; active in the movement up to his aliya in 1956; training by the Mossad and return to Tunisia as a Mossad agent up to his official aliya to Israel in 1958; posting to France; his life up to this...

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Documentation regarding the Rosenfeld family including the political prisoner card for Chaim Rosenfeld, letter written by Mordokai Rosenfeld to his wife and children in Vittel camp and more, 1938-1996 Included in the documentation: - Identity card for Mordokai Rosenfeld, born in Jerusalem, Eretz Israel, 1906, issued in Nantes, 1938; - Letter written by Mordokai Rosenfeld to his wife and children in Vittel camp (names of four Rosenfeld family members from a list of survivors in Vittel camp are mentioned in the letter), 03 August 1943; - Political prisoner certificate for Chaim Rosenfeld, born in...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 534

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Identity Card, Document, Letter, Declaration

results.listIds.lang : French

Testimony of Hananya Rokach, born in 1933 in Syrte, Libya, regarding his experiences as a child in Syrte, Messurata and Tripoli

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Testimony of Hananya Rokach, born in 1933 in Syrte, Libya, regarding his experiences as a child in Syrte, Messurata and Tripoli Life before the war; member of a family of merchants; transfer to Nawfaliya by the Italian army; living there for several months; escape after the departure of the Italian army; escape to Syrte; deportation with the Jews to Messurata; escape with family to Tripoli in 1943; Zionist activity; aliya to Israel in 1951; absorption.

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Official documentation regarding the deportation of Desideriu Citron from Sanmiclaus, 1941, and his stay in Blaj until 1944

Official documentation regarding the deportation of Desideriu Citron from Sanmiclaus, 1941, and his stay in Blaj until 1944 The documentation includes: Original documents: - Document from the Romanian gendarmerie regarding the deportation of the Citron family from Sanmiclaus, 24 June 1941; - Forms ordering the payment of taxes to the Romanian Army filled out by Desideriu Citron, 1942-1944; - Letter sent to the Romanian Army by Desideriu Citron in Blaj regarding the lowering of the military tax load, 12 February 1942; - Reply from the Romanian Army to Desideriu Citron's letter, 04 March 1942; -...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 322

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Official Documentation

results.listIds.lang : Romanian

Letters sent to Rosa (Huino) Levi in Eretz Israel by her mother Mazal Tov Huino and her teacher Moshe Moise Vital in Rodos, Italy, 1939-1940, and by her sister Flora in Montevideo, Uruguay, 1939-1960

Letters sent to Rosa (Huino) Levi in Eretz Israel by her mother Mazal Tov Huino and her teacher Moshe Moise Vital in Rodos, Italy, 1939-1940, and by her sister Flora in Montevideo, Uruguay, 1939-1960 Comments by the submitter of the material (Matilda Mazal Levi): Mazal Tov (Filosof) Huino was born in Rodos, Italy, 13/04/1889; she was deported to Athens and then to Auschwitz, 07/1944, where she perished on 16/08/1944; her husband Yosef Huino died and was buried in Rodos; their daughter Rosa Huino made aliya to Eretz Israel with her brother Avraham as illegal immigrants in 1938; she married Menachem Levi in...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 1864

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Letter

results.listIds.lang : Spanish, Hebrew, Ladino

Memoirs of Margalit Mitzi (Cohen) Hagadi, born in Ionaseni, Romania, 1925, regarding her experiences in Botosani

Memoirs of Margalit Mitzi (Cohen) Hagadi, born in Ionaseni, Romania, 1925, regarding her experiences in Botosani Life before the war in the home of her parents, Toni and Moshe Cohen; increase in displays of antisemitism and fear. Iron Guard rise to power; persecution of the Jews; deportation of her family to Botosani; work for a shoemaker; escape of her employer in fear of the approaching Soviets and his leaving the keys to his property with the witness; running the business; robbery of the business by a group of Jewish students; end of the war. Move to Bucharest; work for the Jewish underground; time...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 8472

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Memoirs

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

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