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Translation of the memoirs of Erwin Miller, born in Vinkovci, Yugoslavia, 1922, regarding his experiences in Vinkovci, as a forced laborer in the Jasenovac camp and in Stara Gradiska

Translation of the memoirs of Erwin Miller, born in Vinkovci, Yugoslavia, 1922, regarding his experiences in Vinkovci, as a forced laborer in the Jasenovac camp and in Stara Gradiska Informed on; deportation from Vinkovci to the Jasenovac camp, December 1941; en route to the camp; labor in a workshop; various departments in the workshops; camoflauge of the extermination camp as a labor camp; labor division techniques; torture and abuse; hunger; labor logging trees and building a dam; execution of 50 Jews by shooting, as punishment for the attempted escape of two inmates; inclusion of the witness as one of...

File Number : 8399

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Adela Udel (Ehrenfeld) Gitli, born in Tamaseni, Romania, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Satu Mare Ghetto and Auschwitz

Testimony

Testimony of Adela Udel (Ehrenfeld) Gitli, born in Tamaseni, Romania, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Satu Mare Ghetto and Auschwitz Her childhood; good neighborly relations with the Hungarians. Outbreak of the war; annexation to Hungary; termination of her studies; eviction from their home; transfer to Satu Mare; German occupation, March 1944; deportation to the Satu Mare Ghetto; ghetto life including mutual help; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life including forced labor digging anti-tank trenches for approximately eight months; approach of the Red Army; death march; liberation by the US...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mordechai Iungreiss, born in Lorinci, Hungary, 1926, regarding his experiences in Kiskoros, the Salgotarjan Ghetto, Mauthausen and Gunskirchen

Testimony

Testimony of Mordechai Iungreiss, born in Lorinci, Hungary, 1926, regarding his experiences in Kiskoros, the Salgotarjan Ghetto, Mauthausen and Gunskirchen Life before the war; Orthodox family; attends a Hungarian school; learns in a "heder" and yeshiva; move to Kiskoros; life in Kiskoros. Outbreak of the war; restrictions on the Jews; deportation of his father to forced labor; return of his father; deportation to the Salgotarjan Ghetto; ghetto life; transfer with his father to forced labor; labor in construction of an airfield and digging anti-tank trenches; approach of the Red Army; transfer in a death...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Aharon Solomon, born in Bogarovice, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Mukacevo Ghetto, Auschwitz, Mauthausen and Gusen

Testimony

Testimony of Aharon Solomon, born in Bogarovice, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Mukacevo Ghetto, Auschwitz, Mauthausen and Gusen Well-to-do family who are landowners and owners of a farm, department store and a mortgage bank; investments in Eretz Israel by his mother, with the help of emissaries. Outbreak of the war; annexation to Hungary, 1940; anti-Jewish restrictions; forced labor digging bunkers and in agriculture in exchange for food; deportation to the Mukacevo Ghetto in a brick factory; deportation to Auschwitz; selection; murder of his mother and sisters; labor as a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Albert Glin-----, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in Warsaw, in the Plonsk Ghetto, Auschwitz, Stutthof and Bergen-Belsen

Testimony

Testimony of Albert Glin-----, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in Warsaw, in the Plonsk Ghetto, Auschwitz, Stutthof and Bergen-Belsen Zionist, traditional family; activities in the Hashomer Hatzair movement. Outbreak of the war; attempt to escape to the Soviet Union; shelling; deportation to a labor camp; labor digging trenches; his father and two brothers escape; help from Poles; move to Plonsk; deportation to the Plonsk Ghetto; Plonsk Ghetto life including forced labor paving roads; "Aktions" implemented by the Germans with the cooperation of the Jewish police; deportation of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Pnina Perel (Moskovich) Handelsman, born in Rona De Mijloc, Romania, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Rona De Mijloc Ghetto, Auschwitz, a camp in the north of Silesia and a death march Life before the war; Orthodox religious family with many children; her father was a shoemaker; witness attends a Romanian school. Re-annexation to Hungary, 1938; anti-Jewish restrictions including obligation to attend school on Shabbat, and Aryanization; ban on travel on trains; physical abuse including the tearing off and shearing of beards of Jews; offer of a hiding place to her family by Romanian...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Amatzia Marchel Libovitz Ron, born in Galati, Romania, 1924, regarding his experiences in Galati, as a forced laborer and in the Romanian Army in Cotu Lung

Testimony

Testimony of Amatzia Marchel Libovitz Ron, born in Galati, Romania, 1924, regarding his experiences in Galati, as a forced laborer and in the Romanian Army in Cotu Lung Life in Galati before the war; traditional family; attends a Romanian school; displays of antisemitism from 1933; meets members of the Iron Guard movement; meets refugees from Poland. Outbreak of the war; shelling of Galati, June 1941; deportation to forced labor; violence by Romanian gendarmes; yellow badge; deportation of the craftsmen to forced labor; labor as a chemist; receives food from the Jewish community; good work relations with...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yitzhak Gdalevski, born in Ostrog, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Ostrog, Stalingrad, in detention and as a Red Army soldier in Berlin

Testimony

Testimony of Yitzhak Gdalevski, born in Ostrog, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Ostrog, Stalingrad, in detention and as a Red Army soldier in Berlin From a family of limited means; attends a Polish school; displays of antisemitism; Beitar and Gordonia activities; enlists in the Irgun. German occupation; aliya training; arrest by the Soviet authorities; escape to the Soviet Union, 1941; transfer to Stalingrad; camp life including labor digging pits and in refineries; attempt to enlist in Anders Army; detention; drafted into the Red Army; combat in Berlin and liberation of a women's camp in the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Pre-trial hearings of former employees of the Berlin Gestapo for deportation of Jews to extermination camps: Examination of former employees of the Gestapo in Berlin, Duesseldorf and other cities; Testimonies by Jewish survivors, including survivors from Chelmno; Verdict by a German court against a Jewish survivor, suspected of collaboration with the Gestapo in Berlin, 1947-1968

Pre-trial hearings of former employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin for murder (deportation of Jews to extermination camps): Examination of former employees of Gestapoleitstelle (Gestapo Regional Headquarters) in Berlin, Duesseldorf and other cities; Testimonies by Jewish survivors, including survivors from Chelmno; Verdict by a German court against a Jewish survivor, suspected of collaboration with the Gestapo in Berlin, 1947 - 1968 The file consists mainly of testimonies of former Gestapo Berlin employees who worked in minor positions, not directly involved in the persecution of...

File Number : 49

Type of Material : Investigation Report, Testimony

Language : German

Testimony of Ziskin Podbereski, born in Wiszniewo, Poland in 1904, regarding the German occupation of Wiszniewo, the establishment of the Wiszniewo Ghetto, hunger, a massacre, escape to the forest, joining the partisans, and liberation by the Russian Army Personal details regarding the writer of the testimony: studies; profession; - Life before the outbreak of World War II; large family, his wife, children, parents, sisters and many friends; - Entry of the Germans into the city on 26 June 1941; approximately 1,500 people reside in the town of Wiszniewo; the town had a rabbi, three Batei Midrash...

File Number : 1310

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

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