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Testimony of Marta (Goldberger) Cohen, born in Dolne Ostrokovice, Czechoslovakia, 1936, regarding her experiences in Dolne Ostrokovice, Novaky, a forest and in hiding in Dolne Ostrokovice

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Testimony of Marta (Goldberger) Cohen, born in Dolne Ostrokovice, Czechoslovakia, 1936, regarding her experiences in Dolne Ostrokovice, Novaky, a forest and in hiding in Dolne Ostrokovice Her childhood in the only [Jewish] family in Dolne Ostrokovice; attitude of the local population; life in Dolne Ostrokovice until 1943. Arrival of a foreign family in the context of the Aryanization; life at home in one room; deportation of her father to Novaky camp, July 1943; deportation to Novaky camp; outbreak of the Slovak National Uprising, late August 1944; release [of her father from the camp]; move back home;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Hyman Chaim Treiber, born in Turka, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Turka, Carpathian Ruthenia, Oradea, Bucharest and the United States

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Testimony of Hyman Chaim Treiber, born in Turka, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Turka, Carpathian Ruthenia, Oradea, Bucharest and the United States His childhood in Turka in a family of hasidim, including Zionist activities, learning in a "heder" and attending a public school; life in Turka until 1939. Red Army occupation of Turka; German Army occupation of Turka, 1941; life under German occupation including hunger; "Aktion", 07 January 1942; murder of his father; murder of two sisters; deportation to a labor camp; escape with friends, several weeks later; life in a city [?] until the large...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Erica Kelerman née Shvartz, born in 1927 in Vranov, Slovakia, about her experiences in Vranov, Budapest, the Berehovo ghetto, Auschwitz, Ravensbrück, etc.

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Testimony of Erica Kelerman née Schwarz, born in 1927 in Vranov, Slovakia, about her experiences in Vranov, Budapest, the Berehovo ghetto, Auschwitz, Ravensbrück, etc. Childhood in Vranov, Slovakia; father dies in 1935; the Slovakian regime promulgates anti-Jewish decrees and laws from 1939 on; escape with mother and brother to Budapest in 1943; hiding by means of forged papers; hideout is discovered; arrest in Budapest; released by paying a bribe; escaping with mother to Berehovo in 1943; deportation to ghetto in a brick factory in Berehovo with the onset of the German occupation in 1944; sent to Auschwitz;...

File Number : 13388

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avraham Feiwisch, born in Lodz, Poland, 1917, regarding his experiences in the Piotrkow Trybunalski Ghetto, Piotrkow Trybunalski, Pionki, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Gleiwitz and more

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Testimony of Avraham Feiwisch, born in Lodz, Poland, 1917, regarding his experiences in the Piotrkow Trybunalski Ghetto, Piotrkow Trybunalski, Pionki, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Gleiwitz and more From a religious family who owned a small textile factory in Lodz; his early childhood; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1925; life in Eretz Israel; return to Lodz due to difficulties, 1936; life in Lodz including success in the volume of trade [?] in textile. Outbreak of the war, 1939; transfer of his ailing mother to Piotrkow Trybunalski; transfer to Piotrkow Trybunalski to be with his mother; [German occupation]; his mother's...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Marila Birman, born in Drohobycz, Poland, 1930

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Testimony of Marila Birman, born in Drohobycz, Poland, 1930 Childhood in a traditional, established family; good relations with the Christian [neighbors]. Outbreak of the war; Soviet occupation, 1939; outbreak of the war [between the Soviet Union and Germany]; German occupation, 1941; the pogrom in Drohobycz; contact with SS man Felix Landau; family home within the ghetto limits; ghetto life without hunger; illegal deportation to the Boryslaw camp, late 1942; camp life, until spring 1944; escape to another bunker after the discovery of the first ones; discovery of the third bunker by the German soldiers;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yehudit Giulia (Cittone) Toledo, born in Milan, Italy, 1937, regarding her experiences as a child in Milan, using a false identity in Udine, and in Varazze, Bolzano camp and other places

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Testimony of Yehudit Giulia (Cittone) Toledo, born in Milan, Italy, 1937, regarding her experiences as a child in Milan, using a false identity in Udine, and in Varazze, Bolzano camp and other places Life before the war. Entry of Italy into the war; life until 1943; escape in the Milan area; life in Udine with her father, her baby brother and two other people, while using a false identity; escape to Varazze; life in Varazze without departing from home; her mother departs for purchases; capture of her father in Milan, spring 1944; capture with her family; transfer to the "San Vittore" prison in Milan; life...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Tamara Tema (Shiferman) Bernholz, born in Sobolew, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Sobolew Ghetto, Korytnica, with the partisans in forests and in hiding in a village

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Testimony of Tamara Tema (Shiferman) Bernholz, born in Sobolew, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Sobolew Ghetto, Korytnica, with the partisans in forests and in hiding in a village Deportation to the Sobolew Ghetto, 1940; escape; life in Korytnice including work; capture by the Germans; transfer to the Sobolew Ghetto; escape to forests; life in the forests; joins a group of partisans along with her sister; murder of her sister and the partisans; finds a hiding place; escape; joins another partisans group; life in hiding in a village; liberation by the Red Army, May 1945. Return to Sobolew;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Hela Herta (Rotholtz) Mandelman, born in Oborniki, Poland, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, Majdanek, Skarzysko Kamienna and Leipzig

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Testimony of Hela Herta (Rotholtz) Mandelman, born in Oborniki, Poland, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, Majdanek, Skarzysko Kamienna and Leipzig Her childhood in Oborniki in a traditional family that was originally from Germany. Outbreak of the war, 1939; deportation to Poznan and Inowroclaw; deportation to the Warsaw Ghetto; Warsaw Ghetto life; work in a carton workshop; exposure of the hiding place in an attic during an "Aktion", 1942; murder of her mother; life in the small Warsaw Ghetto until the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, April 1943; life in a bunker; burning of the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shraga Birman, born in Bucharest, Romania, 1923, regarding his experiences in Bucharest, Sarata and Baldovinesti

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Testimony of Shraga Birman, born in Bucharest, Romania, 1923, regarding his experiences in Bucharest, Sarata and Baldovinesti From a traditional family; good relations with the Romanian neighbors; displays of antisemitism in the Romanian newspapers and rumors regarding what is happening in Europe from refugees from Poland; the Jewish men are taken for forced labor in a suburb next to Bucharest; work in a hospital and unloading cargo from trains; deportation to Sarata; camp life; transfer by cattle train for two days; mutual help among the camp inmates; forced labor and the humiliating attitude towards the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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