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Testimony of Ze'ev Yitzhaki, born in Iasi, Romania, 1936, regarding his experiences in Iasi during the war

Testimony

Testimony of Ze'ev Yitzhaki, born in Iasi, Romania, 1936, regarding his experiences in Iasi during the war Early childhood. Increase in anti-Semitism, 1939; anti-Jewish orders and legislation; pogrom at police stations and trains, June 1941; the bombings.Liberation by the Red Army, summer of 1944; joining the Dror organization; moving to a children's home in Piatra Neat; boarding the illegal immigrant ship Pan York, December 1947; exile to Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel, March 1948; absorption.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letters from Marianna Ertler in Ipolyság, Czechoslovakia to her [boy]friend István Lányi in Ipolynyék and Hévmagyarad, Czechoslovakia, 1944, last letter written by István Lányi's father before his deportation to Auschwitz, and letters sent by friends in Cyprus to István Lányi, 1947 - Last letter written by Sándor Lányi (father of István Lányi) to the members of his family regarding the handling of his land during his time in the detention camp in Hungary before his deportation to Auschwitz; - Letters from Marianna Ertler in Ipolyság to her [boy]friend István Pista Lányi in Ipolynyék and Hévmagyarad,...

File Number : 2191

Type of Material : Envelope, Article, Letter, Drawing

Language : Slovak, Hebrew, Hungarian

Testimony of Abraham Ernst Ponger, born in Mikulas Litovsky Svaty, Czechoslovakia, in 1922, regarding his experiences in the Sered camp and in the battle of the partisans

Childhood before the war; Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria 1938; expulsion from school and carpentry studies; independence of Slovakia and anti-Jewish legislation 1939; deportation of Jews and escape to the mountains in March 1942; going back home and deportation to the Sered camp,in April 1945; work in carpentry; underground in the camp; Slovak uprising and escape ,in August 1944; joining partisans; actions against Germans; liberation by the red army,in April 1945; joining aliya training; illegal immigration to Eretz Israel on the Theodor Herzl ship,on 01 April 1947; exile to Cyprus; aliya back to...

File Number : 13772

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letters and postcards sent to David and Gitta (Otensztejn) Rotter in Eretz Israel by relatives in Dubeczno, Riga and Krynki, 1939-1941

Letters and postcards sent to David and Gitta (Otensztejn) Rotter in Eretz Israel by relatives in Dubeczno, Riga and Krynki, 1939-1941 - Letters and postcards sent to Gitta Otensztejn in Eretz Israel by her father Abram Otensztejn and other family members, 1939-1941; - Letter and three postcards sent to David Rotter in Eretz Israel by his brother Zawel in Riga, 1939-1940; - Postcard written by David Rotter to his brother Zawel in Daugavpils; the postcard was not sent; - Letter sent to David Rotter by relatives in Dubeczno, 1939-1941; - Red Cross letter sent by David Rotter in Eretz Israel to his...

File Number : 2129

Type of Material : Letter, Postcard, Official Documentation, Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, Polish, English, Yiddish

Testimony of Moshe Saar (Simigran), born in Radziwillow, Poland in 1935, regarding his ‎experiences in the Radziwillow and Brody ghettoes, escape from Brody ghetto, and hiding in ‎the forest

Testimony of Moshe Saar (Simigran), born in Radziwillow, Poland in 1935, regarding his ‎experiences in the Radziwillow and Brody ghettoes, escape from Brody ghetto, and hiding in ‎the forest His family before the war; entry of the Russians in 1939; German conquest in June 1941; the ‎yellow badge; hiding valuables by his father; liquidation of the Radziwillow ghetto in April 1942; ‎the witness’s and his family’s experiences in the “productive” ghetto; starvation; his parents’ ‎forced labor; liquidation of the “unproductive” ghetto in May 1942; the Judenrat; the Jewish ‎police; escape from the ghetto before...

File Number : 13718

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaim Hauszman Nave, born in Budapest, Hungary in 1933, regarding his experiences as a child in hiding in Budapest

Testimony of Chaim Hauszman Nave, born in Budapest, Hungary in 1933, regarding his experiences as a child in hiding in Budapest Life in Budapest in the home of an assimilated family; German occupation, 1944; deportation from their home; separation from his mother; life in hiding in Budapest until the liberation in 1945; He joins a group of children who were gathered by the JDC organization and by members of the Gordonia movement; they set sail for Eretz Israel on the "Knesset Yisrael" ship; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel in 1947; service in the Israel Air Force, IAF; receipt of the Mofet...

File Number : 13579

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ruth (Zant) Helfman, born in Moldovita, Romania in 1930, regarding her experiences in Gura Humorului, Mogilev Podolskiy and Promesanita

Testimony of Ruth (Zant) Helfman, born in Moldovita, Romania in 1930, regarding her experiences in Gura Humorului, Mogilev Podolskiy and Promesanita Life before the war; move to Gura Humorului, 1937; Deportation to the Transnistria area, autumn 1941; transfer to Mogilev Podolskiy on a march via Atachi; transfer on a march in the direction of Promesanita; shooting of the weak people; entrance into Promesanita; life in Promesanita in a pigsty; hunger; typhus disease; mass mortality; imposition of travel restrictions; liberation by the Red Army, 1944; Return to Romania; attempt to make illegal aliya to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Natan Motovitz, born in Chust, Czechoslovakia in 1924, regarding his experiences in Chust and in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald and Flossenbuerg camps

Testimony of Natan Motovitz, born in Chust, Czechoslovakia in 1924, regarding his experiences in Chust and in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald and Flossenbuerg camps Life in the Carpathian Ruthenia area as a young child; move to Chust; he studies in a Czech school and in parallel in a heder; membership in the Hungarian Scouts movement; Deportation of his father to service in the labor battalions in 1939; deportation of his family to Ukraine, summer 1941; theft of valuables; they cross the Dniester River; return to Chust; his father returns; German occupation, March 1944; wearing a yellow badge; Chust...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avraham Iger, born in 1918 in Radom, Poland, about his experiences in Radom, the Jedlina ghetto, and camps in Poland and Austria, 1939–1945

German occupation ensues in 1939; witness assigned to felling timber as forced laborer; deportation to the Jedlina ghetto in 1941; forced labor in the ghetto; deportation with brother and sister to Pionki ni 1942; life in the camp; working in a gunpowder and munitions plant; transferred to Zwolen in 1942; interned there for severael weeks; sent back to Pionki; taken to Auschwitz in 1944; interned there for several days; sent on to Sosnowiec Srodula in 1944; life in the camp; working in an armaments plant; death march to Mauthausen in January 1945; transferred to Gunskirchen; interned there until liberated by...

File Number : 13611

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mikhael Fridman, born in Vaslui, Romania, in 1924, regarding his experiences in Vaslui and in the Doaga camp.

Testimony of Mikhael Fridman,born in Vaslui, Romania in 1924,regarding his experiences in Vaslui and in the Doaga camp He was born into a traditional family in Vaslui; attending a Romanian elementary school; he helps supporting the family; anti-Semitism before the war; imposing restrictions on the Jews; transfer to forced labour; escape; arrest and enduring the punishment of 25 lashes; forced labour in the extraction of sugar beets from farmers in the area; deportation to Doaga; life in the camp; working in digging tranches against tanks; liberation by the red army in 1944; smuggling the borders to Austria and...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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