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Testimony of Hela (Feltz) Reznik, born in Bedzin, Poland, 1925 regarding her experiences in the Parschnitz labor camp, Czechoslovakia

Testimony

Prewar childhood; antisemitism; plans for aliya to Eretz Israel; outbreak of the war; German occupation; burning of houses; deportation to the Parschnitz labor camp, Czechoslovakia; camp life, 1941-1945; hunger; longing; murder of her family; liberation by the Red Army; Rebuilding life after the war; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1948.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Katarina (Reisner) Klein, born in Salonta, Romania, 1928 regarding the Oradea ghetto, deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau and additional camps

Testimony

Her parents' home; membership in the "Dror Habonim" movement; Entry of the Hungarian Army, 1941; economic decrees; her father taken for forced labor; cessation of studies; antisemitism; prohibition on keeping a Christian maid; entrusting valuables for safekeeping with a neighbor; German Army occupation, March 1944; yellow badge; restrictions on movement; cessation of activity in the movement [Dror Habonim]; eviction from her home; gathering in a synagogue; deportation to the Oradea ghetto; deportation by train to Auschwitz-Birkenau; selection; entry to Barrack 16, Lager C, May 1944; transfer by truck to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rub Israel, born in Sasovo, Carpathian Ruthenia, Czechoslovakia, in 1923 regarding his arrest in Prague and Dresden and regarding Theresienstadt , Dachau and other camps

-Childhood in Sasovo and Trebusany in Carpathian Ruthenia; his family is from a hasidic background( Hasidut Dolina); attendance at the "heder" in Berehovo in 1934; Hungarian control in 1938; his family moves to Moravska Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, in 1938; attendance at a yeshiva in Solotvina, Carpathian Ruthenia(Hungary) in 1937; he goes back to his family in Moravska Ostrava in 1938; he joins the Bnei Akiva movement and moves to Prague, Czechoslovakia; agricultural training on a farm in Louny and in Stribrna Skalice; he goes back to Prague and moves to a farm in Hostoun Kladno; he is arrested by the gestapo in...

File Number : 13688

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letters written by Isak Holzer in Neukölln, Tarnow and Krakow to his daughter, Fanny (Holzer) Rosenbaum, in Eretz Israel, 1936-1941

Letters written by Isak Holzer in Neukölln, Tarnow and Krakow to his daughter, Fanny (Holzer) Rosenbaum, in Eretz Israel, 1936-1941 - Letter written by Ruth Holzer in Neukölln to Tommy, 01 November 1936; - Letters written by Isak Holzer in Neukölln (Germany) to his daughter, Fanny (and her husband Gershon after their marriage), in Eretz Israel, 01 November 1936-02 December 1937; Fanny's sister Ruth also wrote; receipt of a certificate for legal aliya to Eretz Israel for Ruth; journey by Ruth from Trieste, 05 January 1938, aliya to Eretz Israel, 10 January 1938; - Letters sent by Isak Holzer from...

File Number : 2046

Type of Material : Letter, Red Cross Letter

Language : German

Testimony of Batia (Blima) (Rozentzveig) Kahana, born in 1931 in Iasi, Moldova-Romania, about life in Iasi, persecution of Jews, and the pogrom in Iasi

Testimony

Testimony of Batia (Blima) (Rozentzveig) Kahana, born in 1931 in Iasi, Moldovia-Romania, about life in Iasi, persecution of Jews, and the pogrom in Iasi Childhood in Iasi; family life; persecution of Jews and antisemitism before the Holocaust; the pogrom in Iasi; activity in the Dror Habonim movement; immigration to Israel in 1948

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Joseph Krakauer, born in 1930 in Berlin, about his experiences as a boy in Berlin, deportation to Poland in 1938, and life in ghettos and hideouts in Poland until the liberation

Life before the war; offspring of a religious family; attends a Jewish elementary school; antisemitism; deportation to Poland before Kristallnacht in 1938; German occupation ensues in 1939; restrictions imposed on Jews, including the yellow star edict; dispossession; father arrested and murdered in 1940; deported to the Chrzanów ghetto; mother and brother sent to Auschwitz and perish; liquidation of the ghetto and finding a hideout; escaping to the Modrzejów ghetto in early 1943; liquidation of the ghetto and escaping toa hideout; escaping to the Sosnowiec ghetto; liquidation of the ghetto and escaping to the...

File Number : 13533

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yechiel Gitelman, born in Trojanowka, Poland, 1930, regarding his experiences in Trojanowka, the Liszniowka forests, partisans camps, Maniewicze, Rowne and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Yechiel Gitelman, born in Trojanowka, Poland, 1930, regarding his experiences in Trojanowka, the Liszniowka forests, partisans camps, Maniewicze, Rowne and other places Life under Soviet rule, 1939; German Army occupation [of Trojanowka?], 1941; his family members hide during an "Aktion"; escape of his family members to forests, 1941; life in the Liszniowka forests with his family members, 1941; murder of his mother, grandfather and grandmother by local Ukrainians, 1943; move to a families camp in a forest with his father and sister; his father joins the Soviet partisans; life in the partisans...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moiza (Weinstein) Aladar, born in Chilia Veche, Romania, 1929, regarding her experiences in Chilia Veche, Tulcea and Bucharest

Testimony

Testimony of Moiza (Weinstein) Aladar, born in Chilia Veche, Romania, 1929, regarding her experiences in Chilia Veche, Tulcea and Bucharest Her childhood in a traditional home; displays of antisemitism; confiscation of their home by Romanian Gendarmerie men. Deportation to Tulcea, 1940; life in Tulcea including the imposition of anti-Jewish decrees, confiscation of property, travel restrictions and expulsion from Romanian schools; life in Romania during the fascist regime; deportation of her brother to forced labor; death of her father, 1943; liberation by the Red Army, 1945. Joins the Dror Habonim...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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