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Testimony of Yeshayahu Shaike Goldhersh, born in Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland in 1934, regarding his experiences as a child in the Piotrkow Trybunalski Ghetto, and in Bergen-Belsen and Ravensbrueck camps Piotrkow Trybunalski Ghetto life; deportation to Ravensbrueck camp; transfer to Bergen-Belsen camp; Bergen-Belsen camp life, without work [labor]; suffering from diseases and hunger; apathy; cruelties by the Ukrainian guards; piles of corpses; liberation by the British Army on 15 April 1945; transfer to Sweden with his mother for the purpose of his mother's convalescence; he studies for the first time in a...

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results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

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Testimony of Mirka (Klaver) Zaklikovski, born in Lodz, Poland, 1927, regarding the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, and other camps, 1940-1945

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Childhood before the war; Outbreak of the war; arrival of refugees from Czechoslovakia and Germany; restrictions; deportation to the ghetto; curfew; forced labor; taking of her father to forced labor; "Aktions"; public hangings of Jews; escapes from the ghetto; cultural life in the ghetto; liquidation of the ghetto; transfer to labor camps in Germany; working in a weapons factory; reasonable treatment by the Germans; liberation by the British Army; Rebuilding life after the war; aliya to Israel, 1949.

results.listIds.fileNumber : 13855

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

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Personal documents of Desider Dezső Fuchs and Maria (Salamon) Fuchs, including various certificates, a hospitalization record, a travel pass and more, May-July 1945

Personal documents of Desider Dezső Fuchs and Maria (Salamon) Fuchs, including various certificates, a hospitalization record, a travel pass and more, May-July 1945 Documents concerning Desider Fuchs, born in Margitta, 24 December 1904: - Explanatory document written by inmates of the Dachau camp, among them Desider Fuchs, shortly before the liberation, following a request made by Dr. Paul Husarek, the infirmary physician, that they sign a document attesting that he treated the inmates well, 01 May 1945; - Hospitalization record from the Dachau camp issued to Dezső Fuchs, 23 April 1945; -...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 753

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Personal Records, Personal Documents, Official Documentation

results.listIds.lang : Czech, English, German, Hungarian

Testimony of Eduard Fosner, born 1927 in Bucharest, Romania, about expulsion to the Oradea ghetto, deportation to Auschwitz and other camps, death march, and escape

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Testimony of Eduard Fosner, born in Bucharest, Romania, in 1927 , regarding expulsion to the Oradea ghetto, deportation to Auschwitz and other camps, death march, and escape Childhood before the war; transfer to Oradea in 1938; entry of the Hungarians in 1940; expulsion from school; anti-Jewish legislation ; service in the Levente Association; German occupation in 1944; order to wear yellow badge, and other orders; expulsion to the ghetto in May 1944; deportation to Birkenau; hunger; roll-calls and selections; transfer to Buchenwald for a brief time and from there to Magdeburg; labor in rebuilding and...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 13773

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Testimony of Rivka Reuveni, born in Checiny, Poland, about her life in the ghetto and in the Częstochowa, Skarzysko, and Bergen-Belsen camps, and her 'aliya after the liberation

Testimony of Rivka Reuveni, born in Checiny, Poland, about her life in the ghetto and in the Częstochowa, Skarzysko, and Bergen-Belsen camps, and her 'aliya after the liberation. Rivka Reuveni lived in Checiny, Poland, with her parents and her four sisters. When the ghetto there was established, her aunt's family joined them. Rivka was sent to the Skarzysko Kamienna labor camp at the age of twelve. She fell ill with typhus and due to denunciation was sent to a death camp. With the help of a Jewish doctor, she recovered and returned to work. As the Red Army approached, she was sent to a labor camp in...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 1238

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony, Manuscript

Testimony of Markovitz and Bar Zahava Golda, born in Uzhorod, Czechoslovakia, in 1927 regarding the Moskovitz ghetto, Auschwitz camp and Bruntal labor camp

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Childhood before the war; good relations between the local population and the Jews in Uzhorod; invasion of the Hungarians in 1938; antisemitism; looting and burning of the family property by Hungarian soldiers; yellow badge; confiscation of property by the Germans; deportation to Moskovitz ghetto in 1943; harsh physical and emotional conditions; starvation; smuggling of food; deportation to Auschwitz Birkenau; selection; separation from the family; forced labor; crematorium; starvation; brutal attitude of the kapo; gypsy inmates; clearing the corpses; roll-calls; help by the Blockalteste to the women inmates of...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 13769

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Testimony of Elza Zipora (Kamil) Pakher, born in Vijnita, Romania in 1933, regarding her experiences as a child in Vijnita, in Mogilev Podolskiy and in Dzhurin camp

Testimony of Elza Zipora (Kamil) Pakher, born in Vijnita, Romania in 1933, regarding her experiences as a child in Vijnita, in Mogilev Podolskiy and in Dzhurin camp Life before the war; Deportation of her family to the Transnistria area in 1941; transfer to Mogilev Podolskiy; transfer to Dzhurin camp; separation from her parents along with her younger brother; Dzhurin camp life for four years; she takes care of her brother; Dzhurin camp life along with the other children; hunger; suffering from diseases; death of children in the camp; abuse of children by the Ukrainians; smuggle of food for partisans in...

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Testimony of Mikhael Peter Hendrich Ben Dror Kelman, born in 1941 in Hilversum, Netherlands, about his experiences as an infant in the Amsterdam ghetto, in the Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen camps, and immigration to Eretz Israel as part of a prisoner swap

Parents born in Germany; grandson of the writer Georg Hermann Borchardt; family escapes from Germany to the Netherlands in 1933; grandfather's books burned in Germany; father, Herbert Kelman, escapes; deportation to the Amsterdam ghetto along with mother and grandfather; deportation to Westerbork in 1943; hospitalized in the camp and spared from the transports; grandfather sent to Auschwitz and transferred to Bergen-Belsen; swapping of Templer prisoners from Mandate Palestine; transported to Eretz Israel by train via Turkey in June 1944; received by Kibbutz Sede Nehemia.

results.listIds.fileNumber : 13546

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Testimony of Regina Tova Kaim Davidovitz, born in 1929 in Chust, Czechoslovakia, about her deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau

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Testimony of Regina Tova Kaim Davidovitz, born in 1929 in Chust, Czechoslovakia, about her deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau Daily life in Chust; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; witness and her two sisters survive; forced labor in a belt factory; death marches to Ravensbrück and thence to a labor camp in Neustadt Glewe; hospitalized in Prague; illegal immigration to Eretz Israel in 1947 aboard the Exodus; deportation; re-immigration to Israel in 1949.

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Testimony of Fuks Semion, born in Krasnoye, the Soviet Union in 1936, regarding his experiences in the ghetto in Transnistria

Testimony of Fuks Semion, born in Krasnoye, the Soviet Union in 1936, regarding his experiences in the ghetto in Transnistria Life before the war; German occupation, July 1941; Romanian occupation in August 1941; establishment of the Krasne Ghetto in Transnistria in autumn 1941; the obligation to wear a yellow badge, imposition of contributions; cold; typhus epidemic; death of his mother; agricultural labor; deportation of his father to Vinnitsa; liberation in March 1944; rehabilitation of life after the war; aliya to Israel on 28 November 1991.

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results.listIds.lang : Russian

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