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Testimony of Yeshayahu Nahum Horovitz, born in 1920 in Lodz, about his experiences in the Lodz ghetto and the Hasag camp during the war

Testimony

Life before the war; refugees from Germany arrive in 1938; German occupation ensues in September 1939; anti-Jewish legislation; dispossession; abductions for forced labor; plunder of property; desecration of synagogues; ghettoization in April 1940; activity of hakhsharot (training centers) in Marysin; activity of the Bnei Akiva movement; hunger; working in the Judenrat kitchens; deportation to Hasag, in Częstochowa, in March 1944; life in the camp; working in an armaments factory; religious life and faith; liberation by Red Army forces in January 1945; life after the war; antisemitism; immigration to Israel in...

File Number : 13615

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chava (Eva) Liber Benkel, born in 1927 in Lodz, Poland, regarding the Lodz ‎Ghetto, Auschwitz and other camps

Testimony

Childhood in Lodz; antisemitism before the war; German conquest and occupation in September 1939; the yellow star; burning of synagogues; liquidation of the Lodz ghetto in April 1940; starvation; arrival of refugees; constant struggle for survival; the Judenrat; deportations to Chelmno in January 1942; typhus epidemic; השפרה in September 1942; Jewish police; working in various workshops ("ressortes"); ghetto songs; deportation to Auschwitz in summer 1944; separation from family; transfer to Langenbielau a day later; transfer to Hundsfeld Breslau several days later; work in a munitions factory; starvation;...

File Number : 13796

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shoshana (Britman) Averbukh, born in Grodzisk Mazowiecki, Poland, 1931, regarding her deportation to the Warsaw Ghetto, escape from the ghetto, 1942, and hiding in the village of Osowiec

Testimony

Childhood in Grodzisk Mazowiecki; German occupation, September 1939; abductions for forced labor; confiscation of property; desecration of the synagogue; deportation to the Warsaw Ghetto; yellow badge; deaths of her parents from starvation; smuggling food; the Jewish police; escape from the Warsaw Ghetto, 1942; wanderings in the surrounding villages; hiding in Osowiec; life in the village; Liberation by the Soviets; life after the war; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1946.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Testimony

File Number : 13775

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shimon Wisbacher, born in 1927 in Aachen, Germany, regarding his experiences in Aachen and his aliya to Israel in 1939

Testimony of Shimon Wisbacher, born in 1927 in Aachen, Germany, regarding his experiences in Aachen and his aliya to Israel in 1939. Son of a religious Zionist family; the immigration of the brothers to Israel in 1934 and 1936; expelled from home in 1933; studies in a Jewish school; physical harassment by the Hitler Youth (Hitlerjugend - the Hitler Youth); imposition of various restrictions; the events of "Kristallnacht" in 1938, including the burning of the Great Synagogue; deportation of Jews to camps; furniture and people thrown from the apartments; joining the Youth Aliyah organization and aliya to...

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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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Nelly (Bloch) Lysek, born in Schirmeck, France, 1923, regarding her experiences in Schirmeck, Bordeaux, Bergerac and St. Foy La Grande

Testimony

Testimony of Nelly (Bloch) Lysek, born in Schirmeck, France, 1923, regarding her experiences in Schirmeck, Bordeaux, Bergerac and St. Foy La Grande Her childhood in Schirmeck, in a traditional family. Draft of her father, 1940; German Army occupation of the Schirmeck area; escape of her mother to Bordeaux with her daughters; rumors concerning actions against the Bordeaux Jews implemented by M. Monthuset, the manager of the office in which she worked; smuggled to the area of France under Vichy rule; move to Bergerac; move to St. Foy La Grande; receives help from Priest Cazales Trocmee, who helped to hide...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : French

Testimony of Meir Lipshitz, born in Lodz, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Kaufering, Dachau and Bergen-Belsen

Testimony

Testimony of Meir Lipshitz, born in Lodz, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Kaufering, Dachau and Bergen-Belsen His childhood in Lodz; displays of antisemitism. German Army occupation of Lodz, September 1939; life under German occupation including acts of abuse on the street, burning of the synagogues, burning of holy books and the confiscation of his family's shop; murder of his grandfather and grandmother on the street; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto; activities of the Judenrat; activities of the Jewish police; Lodz Ghetto life including labor distributing...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sima (Weichselbaum) Shmuelevitz, born in Beuthen, Germany, 1924, regarding her experiences in Beuthen, the Chrzanow Ghetto, Sosnowiec Dulag, Arnau and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Sima (Weichselbaum) Shmuelevitz, born in Beuthen, Germany, 1924, regarding her experiences in Beuthen, the Chrzanow Ghetto, Sosnowiec Dulag, Arnau and other places Her childhood; march of SA men. Life after the Nazi rise to power, including a pogrom; imposition of bans and anti-Jewish decrees and the burning of books; detention of her parents by the Gestapo; her parents' return; Kristallnacht events; eviction of people from their homes; burning of the synagogue; burning of the community center building; burning of the mikveh (ritual bath); deportation of the Polish nationals to the Polish...

File Number : 14302

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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