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Testimony of an anonymous Jewish woman from the village of Rakow, Poland regarding her experiences in the Rakow Ghetto, escapes to the Aryan side using a false identity, hiding in the forest and in a Polish village and work in Germany using a false identity Life in Rakow at the time of the occupation including anti-Jewish legislation; life in the ghetto; capture of the witness; prevention of her deportation to Skarzysko-Kamienna due to the giving a bribe; escape of the family from the ghetto; hiding of the parents by farmers they had known before the war; trips taken to Czestochowa by train by the witness,...

File Number : 297.1

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Haddad Gaku, born in Sousse, Tunisia, 1933, regarding his experiences during the war

Testimony

Testimony of Haddad Gaku, born in Sousse, Tunisia, 1933, regarding his experiences during the war Family background; life before the war; studies in a French school. The outbreak of war; entry of German soldiers into the city; stigma; the bombings; taking his father to forced labor in Tunis; deportation of Jews from the city; his mother is pregnant, many difficulties, mother trying to ask S.S. people for permission to stay in town; the refusal of the Germans and the expulsion of the mother from the headquarters; transfer to Moknine; transfer to Sokrine; transfer to Mahdia; back to Sokrine. Liberation and...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Israel Alster, born in Czechoslovakia, 1915, regarding the history of the Jews of Rymanow, September 1939-August 1942

Testimony of Israel Alster, born in Czechoslovakia, 1915, regarding the history of the Jews of Rymanow, September 1939-August 1942 Arrival of Jewish refugees to Rymanow after the German occupation; German order to the local Jews to transfer to the Soviet side; return of most of the evacuees back to the city; relative quiet without any victims for two years, due to the work of the local Judenrat members; murder of a Jew with US citizenship by the Gestapo, 1942; "Aktion" of the ghetto's liquidation, 03 August 1942; selection of some of the older men and their deportation by truck to Barwinek on the...

File Number : 82

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Samuel Weiler, born in Vienna, Austria, 1914, regarding his experiences and those of the Jews of Brody, June 1941-December 1942

Testimony of Samuel Weiler, born in Vienna, Austria, 1914, regarding his experiences and those of the Jews of Brody, June 1941-December 1942 Air-raids on Brody by German aircraft, 22 June 1941; residents franticly buy food upon receiving news of the outbreak of the German-Soviet war; drafted into the Red Army; returns home after several days of combat and the occupation of surrounding towns by the Germans; Gestapo rule of Brody, and the robbery of Jewish property; "Aktion" against members of the Jewish intelligentsia and execution of 250 Jews in the Leszniow forests; forced contributions levied on the Jewish...

File Number : 473

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Dolek (alias), born in Poland, regarding his experiences in Krakow and Bobowa, as a forced laborer in Pustkow and other places, in Skarzysko and Biezanow camps, and in other places

Testimony of Dolek (alias), born in Poland, regarding his experiences in Krakow and Bobowa, as a forced laborer in Pustkow and other places, in Skarzysko and Biezanow camps, and in other places Life with his parents and two brothers in Krakow. Departure of his two brothers to the Soviet Union, after the outbreak of the war; forced labor in stone quarries in Krzeszowice, spring 1940; escape back to Krakow four weeks later; detention for eight days; deportation to Pustkow; labor logging trees and constructing barracks as preparation for the establishment of a camp at the site, under close supervision of the...

File Number : 457

Type of Material : Testimony, Poems/songs

Language : Polish

Testimony of Izrael Schorr, born in Husiatyn, Poland, 1898, regarding his experiences and the experiences of the Jews of Czortkow

Testimony of Izrael Schorr, born in Husiatyn, Poland, 1898, regarding his experiences and the experiences of the Jews of Czortkow Residence in Tarnopol during the German occupation, 02 July 1941; murder of approximately 5,600 Jews in a pogrom perpetrated with the cooperation of the local Ukrainians, 04 July 1941; return to Czortkow, 22 July 1941; establishment of the Judenrat following the pogrom in Czortkow, during which 360 Jewish men were murdered; "Aktion" on the streets, and mass murder by shooting in the nearby forest, early September 1941; removal of the skilled professionals, excepting the...

File Number : 441

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Sala Luftglas, born in Kalwaria, Poland, 1910, regarding her experiences in Tratenau and Parschnitz

Testimony of Sala Luftglas, born in Kalwaria, Poland, 1910, regarding her experiences in Tratenau and Parschnitz Labor in a spinning mill in Tratenau, with a group of 10 female inmates from Parschnitz camp; frequent dragging of spools that weigh 80 kilograms; labor processing flax in a room that was left open for air, also in the winter; frostbite on her limbs and ears, due to the extreme cold; additional labor after her return from labor to the camp - the obligation to sweep the yard and clear paths through the snow; receives beatings during labor and in the residential barracks, due to an attempt to draw...

File Number : 389

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Feliks Singer, born in Krakow, Poland, regarding his experiences in the Krakow Ghetto and in Auschwitz, Oranienburg and Lieberose camps

Testimony of Feliks Singer, born in Krakow, Poland, regarding his experiences in the Krakow Ghetto and in Auschwitz, Oranienburg and Lieberose camps He sleeps in the apartment of acquaintances in the Krakow Ghetto during rumors concerning an anticipated deportation from the ghetto, early October 1942; hides in a chest of drawers in the apartment, during the "Aktion"; detention of his relatives (who had escaped from Miechow) by the Jewish police, during the night of 24 November 1942; detention of the witness, and his interrogation along with all of the Jewish men who were residents in the building, and the...

File Number : 386

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Jehuda Czarnoczapka, born in Ilow, Poland, 1909, regarding his experiences in Poznan, Radziwillow, Jaworzno, Auschwitz, Blechhammer, Leitmeritz and Theresienstadt camps

Testimony of Jehuda Czarnoczapka, born in Ilow, Poland, 1909, regarding his experiences in Poznan, Radziwillow, Jaworzno, Auschwitz, Blechhammer, Leitmeritz and Theresienstadt camps Move to Izbica following the occupation of Lodz; deportation to Poznan, 24 June 1941; Poznan camp life, including a regime of punishments by death for the slightest of delinquencies; outbreak of a typhus epidemic, 1942; death of 500 of the 800 inmates in Radziwillow camp, 1942; transport of approximately 1,000 Jewish inmates from camps in Poznan to Auschwitz, 24 August 1943; transfer of the witness in a transport of 500 inmates...

File Number : 361

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Anonymous testimony regarding the experiences of the witness in the Dabrowice camp, his escape to Tomaszow Mazowiecki and in the Wolanow and Starachowice camps, April 1941-autumn 1943

Anonymous testimony regarding the experiences of the witness in the Dabrowice camp, his escape to Tomaszow Mazowiecki, and in the Wolanow and Starachowice camps, April 1941-autumn 1943 - Deportation from Warsaw on a transport of 200 people to the Dabrowice camp near Skierniewice, 15 April 1941; speech the evening of their arrival at the camp by the drunk commandant who releases them from standing for roll call after being given a bribe of bread and alcohol; labor in 10-12 hour shifts draining fields, unsupervised; mass escapes; replacing of the guards and tightening of discipline; - Escape from the camp...

File Number : 357

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

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