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Testimony of Yeshayahu Shaike Goldhersh, born in Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland in 1934, regarding his experiences as a child in the Piotrkow Trybunalski Ghetto, and in Bergen-Belsen and Ravensbrueck camps Piotrkow Trybunalski Ghetto life; deportation to Ravensbrueck camp; transfer to Bergen-Belsen camp; Bergen-Belsen camp life, without work [labor]; suffering from diseases and hunger; apathy; cruelties by the Ukrainian guards; piles of corpses; liberation by the British Army on 15 April 1945; transfer to Sweden with his mother for the purpose of his mother's convalescence; he studies for the first time in a...

File Number : 13662

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Testimony

Childhood in Zarki; antisemitism; move to Sosnowiec, 1934; antisemitism; German occupation, September 1939; abuse; anti-Jewish legislation; confiscation of property; Judenrat; deportation to the Johannsdorf labor camp, late 1939; work in excavations and laying railroad tracks; transfer to the Markstadt camp; various forced labors; transfer to the Klettendorf camp; labor as a porter; beatings; transfer to the Dyhernfurth camp to work in a weapons factory; beatings; hunger; death march to Bergen-Belsen; high mortality; hunger; liberation by the British Army, April 1945; Life after the war; aliya to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Red Cross letters sent by Eduard and Schmuel Ullmann from Eretz Israel to their parents and siblings in the Nováky camp, November-December 1944

Red Cross letters sent by Eduard and Schmuel Ullmann from Eretz Israel to their parents and siblings in the Nováky camp, November-December 1944 - Red Cross letter sent by Eduard Ullmann from Eretz Israel to his parents (his father Heinrich Ullmann) in the Nováky labor camp, 20 November 1944; - Red Cross letter sent by Schmuel (Lazi) Ullmann from Eretz Israel to his brother Kolloman Ullmann in Nováky, 13 December 1944. Also in the file: Certificate issued by the General Bank in Bratislava to the Ullmann family regarding family jewelry deposited in the bank during the war, 15 January 1947. Notes from...

File Number : 2250

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Red Cross Letter

Language : Slovak, German

Testimony of Eduard Fosner, born 1927 in Bucharest, Romania, about expulsion to the Oradea ghetto, deportation to Auschwitz and other camps, death march, and escape

Testimony

Testimony of Eduard Fosner, born in Bucharest, Romania, in 1927 , regarding expulsion to the Oradea ghetto, deportation to Auschwitz and other camps, death march, and escape Childhood before the war; transfer to Oradea in 1938; entry of the Hungarians in 1940; expulsion from school; anti-Jewish legislation ; service in the Levente Association; German occupation in 1944; order to wear yellow badge, and other orders; expulsion to the ghetto in May 1944; deportation to Birkenau; hunger; roll-calls and selections; transfer to Buchenwald for a brief time and from there to Magdeburg; labor in rebuilding and...

File Number : 13773

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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File Number : 1244

Type of Material : Booklet(s)

Language : Yiddish / Latin Characters

Letters written by Max and Ernestina Wolf from Belgrade until October 1941, and apparently from the Sajmiste camp, to members of their family in Subotica

Letters written by Max and Ernestina Wolf from Belgrade until October 1941, and apparently from the Sajmiste camp, to members of their family in Subotica Also in the file: - Two letters in German sent by Max Wolf from the camp to his wife Ernestina in Belgrade, mid-October 1941. Notes from Vera Unger who submitted the material: Max Wolf, born in 1892, and Ernestina Wolf, also born in 1892, lived in Belgrade. In October 1941 the Germans deported the Belgrade Jews to the Sajmiste camp where they murdered the Jews with poison gas. Bela Wolf, Max Wolf's brother, born in 1900, was murdered with a group of...

File Number : 2244

Type of Material : Letter

Language : German, Hungarian

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

Language : French, English, German

Memoirs of Zalman Lanchner, born in Szczuczyn, Poland, 1917, regarding his experiences in Szczuczyn, forced labor in Lipnica, Radomsk, the Skarzysko-Kamienna camp, Buchenwald and the Schlieben camp

Memoirs of Zalman Lanchner, born in Szczuczyn, Poland, 1917, regarding his experiences in Szczuczyn, forced labor in Lipnica, Radomsk, the Skarzysko-Kamienna camp, Buchenwald and the Schlieben camp Burning of the family home during an air-raid early in the war; murder of friends; move to the home of the Pashvoneska family; deportation of Zalman and his brother Avraham Yitzchak to forced labor in Lipnica, 1942; transfer to Radomsk; deportation to Skarzysko-Kamienna, 03 January 1943; transfer to Buchenwald, September 1944; transfer to Schlieben; death of his brother.

File Number : 8648

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, Yiddish

Testimony of Moshe Klagsbald, born in Trzebinia, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Trzebinia Ghetto, in Markstaedt, Gogolin, Ebensee and the Jewish Brigade in Italy following liberation

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Personal documents of Jakob Hersch Klagsbald, born in Jedlicze, Poland, 1909, including an identity card, confirmation of his internment at the Dachau camp, confirmation of his transfer to the Feldafing DP camp and more - Certificate issued by the Union of Jewish Craftsmen in Krakow to Jakub Hersch Klagsbald, 17 July 1940; - Identity card of Jakob Hersch Klagsbald, issued in the Krakow Ghetto, 20 March 1941; the card contains exit permit stamps to forced labor assignments, 02 September 1941-02 February 1942; details of his three children are also recorded: Estera, born 09 December 1929; Mojzesz, born 28...

File Number : 1211

Type of Material : Personal Documents

Language : Polish, English, German

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