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Documentation regarding the Dora-Mittelbau camp and other camps near Nordhausen, 1949-1999

Documentation regarding the Dora-Mittelbau camp and other camps near Nordhausen, 1949-1999 The documentation was gathered by Holocaust survivor Moshe Leib Plachta, born in Lodz, Poland, 1926: - Testimony [of] Concentration Camp Prisoner B-7092: History of the family: Deportation of his sister Luba to the Czestochowa labor camp, 1943; deportation of Moshe Leib with his parents and younger brother to Auschwitz, August 1944; murder of his patents and brother in Auschwitz; transfer of Moshe Leib to the Fuerstengrube labor camp and from there to Dora-Nordhausen, March 1945; life of the inmates in Dora;...

File Number : 444

Type of Material : Correspondence, Maps, Photograph, Survey Report, Drawing, Administrative Documentation, Postcard, Diagram, Brochure, Personal Documents, Letter

Language : French, English, German

Testimony of Rivka Reuveni, born in Checiny, Poland, about her life in the ghetto and in the Częstochowa, Skarzysko, and Bergen-Belsen camps, and her 'aliya after the liberation

Testimony of Rivka Reuveni, born in Checiny, Poland, about her life in the ghetto and in the Częstochowa, Skarzysko, and Bergen-Belsen camps, and her 'aliya after the liberation. Rivka Reuveni lived in Checiny, Poland, with her parents and her four sisters. When the ghetto there was established, her aunt's family joined them. Rivka was sent to the Skarzysko Kamienna labor camp at the age of twelve. She fell ill with typhus and due to denunciation was sent to a death camp. With the help of a Jewish doctor, she recovered and returned to work. As the Red Army approached, she was sent to a labor camp in...

File Number : 1238

Type of Material : Testimony, Manuscript

Letter from Lajos Pásztor to his parents in Budapest written during his military service in the Hungarian Army in Nyíregyháza, including a description of the deportation of the Jews of the city and its surroundings to the local ghetto, 24 April 1944 Notes from Orna Noy who submitted the material The members of the Pásztor family from Budapest were recognized as Righteous Among the Nations. During the war, they hid the stepfather of Orna Noy, the submitter of the material.

File Number : 2226

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Hungarian

Testimony of Mina-Mira Rechter-Lavi, born in 1928 regarding her experiences in Chutin, Bessarabia and Romania, 1940-1947

Testimony of Mina-Mira Rechter-Lavi, born in 1928 regarding her experiences in Chutin, Bessarabia and Romania, 1940-1947 Occupation of Chutin by the Red Army,1940; closing of parents' store from fear of abuse by the Soviets; air-raids on Chutin by the Germans and Romanians, 1941; family moves to the home of Uncle Shlomo after their house is destroyed in the air-raids; deportation of the Jews of Chutin to Mogilev via Sikuren and other towns; deportation to the Mogilev Ghetto;draft of Leibel, her father, to forced labor; death of the father. Unsuccessful aliya attempt to Eretz Israel via Bucharest and from...

File Number : 351

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : Hebrew