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Testimony of Joel Brandwein, born in 1928 in Piotrkow, Poland - regarding his experiences in the ghetto, Pionki camp and other camps

Testimony of Joel Brandwein, born in 1928 in Piotrkow, Poland - regarding his experiences in the ghetto, Pionki camp and other camps Childhood in Piotrkow; German occupation in September of 1939; abuse; cutting off beards and sidelocks of worshipers in the synagogue; community help to refugees from Germany; kidnappings for forced labor; expulsion to the Piotrkow Ghetto in October of 1939; the Judenrat; mutual aid; forced labor; receiving help from non-Jews; confiscation of property; liquidation of the large ghetto in October 1942; the family goes into hiding in the attic; captured by the Gestapo about two...

File Number : 13666

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Miriam Eva (Reiter) Zinger, born in Munkacs, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Munkacs Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and the Lenzing camp

Memoirs of Miriam Eva (Reiter) Zinger, born in Munkacs, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Munkacs Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and the Lenzing camp Life before the war; attends the Hebrew high school. German occupation; yellow badge; deportation to the Munkacs Ghetto; transfer of her father and other Jews to the Great Synagogue; abuse of the Jews by Hungarian soldiers; liquidation of the ghetto, April 1944; deportation to Auschwitz by death march; camp life; murder of her father, grandfather and grandmother; life in Birkenau in the Gypsy camp; transfer of the Gypsies to the gas...

File Number : 8517

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

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File Number : 13770

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Herman Leber, born in 1925 in Podkamien, Poland, about his experiences in the Pokdamien ghetto and camp, a bunker in the forest, and in the ranks of the Red Army

Life before the war; offspring of a traditional Zionist merchant family; attends a Polish-Russian school, a Jewish school, and a cheder; active in the Bnei Akiva movement; receiving refugees from Poland after war breaks out; Soviet occupation ensues in June 1939; refugees deported to Russia; German occupation ensues in 1941; Germans collaborate with Volksdeutsche (ethnic Germans); Jews deported to a ghetto out of town; men taken away for forced labor; 1,500 Jews ronded up in a synagogue that is blown up; men taken away for labor at a quarry near Sasów; prisoners abused by Lithuanian and Ukrainian guards; ghetto...

File Number : 13499

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Dov Beni Reicher, born in Rozwadow, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in Rozwadow, Ulanov, Lubaczow and Pervomaysk

Testimony

Testimony of Dov Beni Reicher, born in Rozwadow, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in Rozwadow, Ulanov, Lubaczow and Pervomaysk Life before the war; joins the Hashomer Hatzair movement; receives a Zionist education. Outbreak of the war, 1939; escape to Ulanov; escape back to Rozwadow; life in Rozwadow under the German occupation; deportation to forced labor; escape to Lubaczow with his family; life in Lubaczow under the Soviet occupation; escape to Pervomaysk; life in Pervomaysk; labor for the Soviets, 1940-1945; end of the war. Move to Waldenburg; life in Waldenburg; activities in the Hapoel...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zelig Indig, born in Reghin, Romania, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Reghin Ghetto, a labor battalion in Heviz and in Felsogalla

Testimony

Testimony of Zelig Indig, born in Reghin, Romania, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Reghin Ghetto, a labor battalion in Heviz and in Felsogalla Religious family. Annexation to Hungary, 1940; revocation of his father's business license; increase in antisemitism; restrictions on movement; life under the Hungarian regime, 1944; confiscation of property including their home; deportation to the Reghin Ghetto in a brick factory; overcrowding; draft to labor battalion number 110/33; transfer to Heviz; drills and humiliations; transfer to a railroad station in Monor approximately two weeks later; life in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yaakov Bar, born in Herta, Romania, 1928, regarding his experiences in Herta, Atachi, Mogilev-Podolski, Romanca and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Yaakov Bar, born in Herta, Romania, 1928, regarding his experiences in Herta, Atachi, Mogilev-Podolski, Romanca and other places Life in Herta before the war; education. Pogrom by the Romanians and Germans including desecration of Torah scrolls; murder of Jews and their burial in mass graves; concentration of Jews in the synagogue and a cellar under guard by Romanian gendarmes; murder of his grandmother; deportation to Transnistria; transfer to Atachi on foot; crossing the river on rafts and transfer to Mogilev-Podolski; scattering of the Jews in villages; transfer to Romanca with his family;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Menachem Haftka, born in Kozminek, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Kozminek Ghetto, Opatowek Ghetto, Schwenningen, Auschwitz and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Menachem Haftka, born in Kozminek, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Kozminek Ghetto, Opatowek Ghetto, Schwenningen, Auschwitz and other places Life before the war; education; Hechalutz activities; his father's death, 1937. German occupation; desecration of the synagogue and burning of Torah scrolls; shearing of beards of Jews; restrictions on the Jews including yellow badge; deportation to the Kozminek Ghetto; ghetto life; transfer to the Opatowek Ghetto; evacuation of the ghetto and murder of Jews in gas trucks; deportation of relatives to Lodz; deportation to Schwenningen by...

File Number : 12904

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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