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Testimony of Israel Kasovicz, born in Cluj, (Hungary) Romania, 1930, regarding his experiences as a child on the Kasztner train and in Bergen-Belsen

Testimony of Israel Kasovicz, born in Cluj, (Hungary) Romania, 1930, regarding his experiences as a child on the Kasztner train and in Bergen-Belsen Family life; the Jewish community; studies; Gordonia activities by his father. Transfer to Cluj as refugees; draft of his father to labor service and to forced labor; desertion of his father; murder; numerus clausus and numerus nullus; arrest and interrogations; transfer to Budapest and being hidden in Jewish homes; his family joins the Kasztner group following his father's request; transport on a train to Bergen-Belsen and a stopover in Linz, Austria;...

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Helena (Hirsh) Mekhlovitz, born in Deda, Romania, 1927, regarding her experiences in Deda, the Reghin Ghetto, Krakow, Auschwitz and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Helena (Hirsh) Mekhlovitz, born in Deda, Romania, 1927, regarding her experiences in Deda, the Reghin Ghetto, Krakow, Auschwitz and other places Life before the war. Annexation to Hungary, 1940; draft of Jewish men to forced labor; payment of bribe to the Hungarian authorities; cancellation of the family business license; German occupation, March 1944; robbery of property; transfer with the Jews to a local school; deportation to the Reghin Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz during Shavuot, 1944; camp life with three sisters; transfer to Krakow; life in the Jewish cemetery; labor digging...

File Number : 13229

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Lea Karolina (Grinfeld) Goldstein, born in Dunajska Streda, Czechoslovakia, 1930, regarding her experiences in the Dunajska Streda Ghetto, Auschwitz, Krakow, Augsburg, Muehldorf and Sachsenhausen Life before the war; activities in Hashomer Hatzair. Re-annexation to Hungary, 1938; decrees including ban on ritual slaughter and deportation of Polish citizens, 1942; German occupation, March 1944; transfer to labor in a village; deportation to the Dunajska Streda Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; transfer to Krakow; camp life including labor smashing tombstones and in a quarry; transfer back to...

File Number : 12916

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Reports sent to the US State Department by US diplomatic delegations in Germany, regarding the Boycott of 01 April 1933 against Jewish businesses, and regarding the Kristallnacht riots, 1933-1938

Reports sent to the US State Department by US diplomatic delegations in Germany, regarding the Boycott of 01 April 1933 against Jewish businesses, and regarding the Kristallnacht riots, 1933-1938 Reports regarding the Boycott of 01 April 1933: - Report by the US Embassy in Berlin, 03/04/1933: Description of the background and aims of the boycott; Nazi Party propaganda; establishment of the "Central Committee for the Struggle against the Propaganda of Terror and for the Jewish Boycott" in Munich, and the local committee for the implementation of the boycott; regulations published regarding the...

File Number : 277

Type of Material : Record of Persecuted Persons, Survey Report, Lists of Businesses and Skilled Workers, Official Documentation

Language : English, German

Testimony of Gerschon Scher, born in Kalisz, 1921, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw and Rzeszow Ghettos, and in the Szebnie and Birkenau camps

Testimony

Testimony of Gerschon Scher, born in Kalisz, 1921, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw and Rzeszow Ghettos, and in the Szebnie and Birkenau camps From a Zionist family; his father is a shoe merchant; activity in the Hashomer Hatzair movement; rise in displays of antisemitism from 1934 and onwards; occupation, 1939. Escape; air-raid next to Lututow; injured; return to Kalisz; receiving extended medical treatment; murder of the community elders; deportation to the Warsaw Ghetto, January 1940; attempt to organize an escape to Russia (within the framework of Hashomer Hatzair); failure of the escape plan;...

File Number : 11734

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Aron Marcu, born in Iasi, Romania, 1921, regarding his experiences in Iasi, the Iasi Pogrom and forced labor in Romania and Ukraine

Testimony

Testimony of Aron Marcu, born in Iasi, Romania, 1921, regarding his experiences in Iasi, the Iasi Pogrom and forced labor in Romania and Ukraine Orthodox family with many children; drafted into pre-army service, 1939. Iasi Pogrom, 1941; forced labor in Romania and Ukraine; return to Iasi, 1943; life in hiding; liberation. Marriage; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947; service in the IDF.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Katarina (Fleischmann) Striborny, born in Dunajska Streda, Czechoslovakia, 1928, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz, Plaszow, Dachau and Bergen-Belsen

Testimony

Testimony of Katarina (Fleischmann) Striborny, born in Dunajska Streda, Czechoslovakia, 1928, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz, Plaszow, Dachau and Bergen-Belsen From an Orthodox, economically established family; her father is a showmaker; her mother is a mid-wife. Annexation to Hungary, 1938; loss of their livelihood; draft of her father and brother to labor camps in Hungary; German occupation, 1944; round-up of the Jews in the Great Synagogue; deportation to Auschwitz, June 1944; transfer to Plaszow; camp life including labor in a quarry; transfer back to Auschwitz; camp life until October 1944;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yehoshua Sofer, born in Borszczow, 1919, regarding his experiences in Borszczow and hiding in forests

Testimony

Testimony of Yehoshua Sofer, born in Borszczow, 1919, regarding his experiences in Borszczow and hiding in forests Traditional home. Occupation, summer 1941; forced labor; establishment of the Judenrat; three "Aktions" and liquidation of the ghetto during Shavuot, 1943; escape from the city to the forests; hiding in a bunker for a year; contact with Jewish partisans; help from local non-Jews in getting food and clothes; liberation by the Red Army, beginning 1944. Recruitment to the Polish Army; entering Majdanek camp as a soldier; wounded during battle near Gallowek, January 1945; recovery in a Polish...

File Number : 11338

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yechiel Gruntstein, born in Lodz, Poland, 1913, regarding his experiences in Lublin, Lodz, Slonim, as a partisan and rescuing Jewish children after the war

Testimony

Testimony of Yechiel Gruntstein, born in Lodz, Poland, 1913, regarding his experiences in Lublin, Lodz, Slonim, as a partisan and rescuing Jewish children after the war Life in Lublin before the war; move of the family to Lodz, 1939; drafted to the Polish Army in 1939 and move to Chestochowa. Outbreak of the war, September 1939; return to Lodz; escape to Slonim and time there until 21 June 1941; forced labor building roads; ghetto life; drafted to forced labor smashing gravestones of Jews; escape to the forests, partisans; life as a machine-gunner; antisemitism among the partisans; liberation by the Red...

File Number : 11279

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Abraham Hahamu, born in Raducaneni, Romania, 1902 regarding his experiences in Iasi

Testimony

Testimony of Abraham Hahamu, born in Raducaneni, Romania, 1902 regarding his experiences in Iasi Life in Iasi before the war; community institutions; progression of antisemitism from 1922. Deterioration of living conditions for the Jews, from June 1940; Iron Guardsmen activities against the Jews, from September 1940; community activity saving Jewish lives and property; desecration and destruction of synagogues by the Iron Guardsmen, 1940; Romanian Army activities against the Jews, 1942; anti-Jewish municipal activities, 1943-1944; desecration of the Ciurchi ancient cemetery by Nc. Ifrim, the mayor;...

File Number : 1749

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : French, Romanian

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