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Testimony of Mirka (Klaver) Zaklikovski, born in Lodz, Poland, 1927, regarding the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, and other camps, 1940-1945

Testimony

Childhood before the war; Outbreak of the war; arrival of refugees from Czechoslovakia and Germany; restrictions; deportation to the ghetto; curfew; forced labor; taking of her father to forced labor; "Aktions"; public hangings of Jews; escapes from the ghetto; cultural life in the ghetto; liquidation of the ghetto; transfer to labor camps in Germany; working in a weapons factory; reasonable treatment by the Germans; liberation by the British Army; Rebuilding life after the war; aliya to Israel, 1949.

File Number : 13855

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Tzafrir Shteir Sara, born in Bedzin, Poland, in 1930 regarding the Srodula ghetto and regarding the Peterswaldau camp

Childhood before the war; programming aliya to Israel; aliya of the two brothers ; confiscation of family businesses; outbreak of the war; burning the synagogue and houses of Jews; deportation to ghetto; forced labor; murder of the father; "aktions"; deportation of the mother and sister to Auschwitz Birkenau; deportation of the witness with her sister to Peterswaldau; help of the German female commander; liberation by the Russians; escape to the American side; rehabilitation of life after the war; aliya to Israel in 1946

File Number : 13661

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Miriam Marila Liber Prague née Kostin, born in 1921 in Warsaw, about her experiences in the Warsaw ghetto, in Hungary, with the partisans in Yugoslavia, and as a forced laborer in Germany

Life before the war; German occupation ensues; dispossession; deportation to the Warsaw ghetto; life in the ghetto; escaping to the "Aryan" side with help of forged papers; marrying; escaping to Lwów; escaping back to Warsaw; escaping to Hungary; receiving privileges from the Polish Consulate; escaping to Yugoslavia; joining the partisans in March 1944; sabotaging a railroad track; arrested by the Germans and taken to Germany; working in a factory that manufactures spare parts for tanks; posing as a Croat; receiving extra privileges; liberated by American forces; reaching Buchenwald; encountering Holocaust...

File Number : 13612

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Questionnaire regarding the experiences of Lejser Matz during the Holocaust

Questionnaire regarding the experiences of Lejser Matz during the Holocaust Lejser Matz, born in Vilna, Poland, 1929: Deportation to the Vilna Ghetto with his family, July 1942; his parents, one brother and two sisters were shot in his presence; transfer to the Ponary labor camp; transfer to Tallinn, Estonia, October 1943; forced labor; transfer to Buchenwald (Germany); liberation in Buchenwald by the US Army. Arrival at the Wolfratshausen DP camp, 12 November 1945.

File Number : 51

Type of Material : Record of Deportees, Questionnaire, Record of Survivors

Language : English

Testimony of Shmuel Fabian, born in Strzegowo, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in Strzegowo, Plonsk, the Strzegowo Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buna-Monowitz and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Shmuel Fabian, born in Strzegowo, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in Strzegowo, Plonsk, the Strzegowo Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buna-Monowitz and other places German Army occupation of Strzegowo, 1939; escape to Plonsk with his family; life with his family in Plonsk, for two weeks; move back to Strzegowo; deportation [to the Strzegowo Ghetto], 1940; Strzegowo Ghetto life including "Aktions" and the hanging of Jews, 1942; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1942; camp life with two brothers, including forced labor; transfer to Buna-Monowitz, 1943; camp life including forced labor;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Rut (Globinski) Marks, born in Kalisz, Poland, 1931 regarding her experiences during the German occupation of Kalisz, deportation to Sandomierz, in the Sandomierz Ghetto, escape to Warsaw and life using a false identity in Warsaw German occupation of Kalisz, and deportation of her family to Sandomierz, 1939; life in the Sandomierz Ghetto; her mother's work as a teacher in the ghetto; escape with her [female] cousin to the Aryan side of Warsaw, 1942; life with the Korstrzewe family using the false identy of a Polish Christian in Piastów, a suburb of Warsaw; arrest and execution of her cousin,...

File Number : 13442

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Lea Lola (Grinbaum) Israel, born in Sosnowiec, Poland, 1927, regarding her experiences in Sosnowiec and Gabersdorf

Testimony

Testimony of Lea Lola (Grinbaum) Israel, born in Sosnowiec, Poland, 1927, regarding her experiences in Sosnowiec and Gabersdorf Life in Sosnowiec. Deportation to Gabersdorf camp; camp life.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yael Yola (Shapira) Eilat, born in Krakow, Poland, 1934, regarding her experiences in Przemysl, Lwow, Siberia, Tashkent, Teheran and more

Testimony

Testimony of Yael Yola (Shapira) Eilat, born in Krakow, Poland, 1934, regarding her experiences in Przemysl, Lwow, Siberia, Tashkent, Teheran and more From a well-to-do Zionist family; her childhood. Outbreak of the war, September 1939; transfer to Przemysl with her mother and brother; her father joins the family and his escape for a short time; confiscation of her aunt's house by the Gestapo; transfer to her grandfather and grandmother in Lwow; deportation to Siberia; transfer to Tashkent, Uzbekistan, 1942. Move to Samarkand; joins the refugees and move to Teheran with Anders Army; draft of her father...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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