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Testimony of Benyamin Feld, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1935, regarding his experiences in Warsaw, the Soviet Union, Luga, Peshma and in Ukraine and Israel

Testimony

Testimony of Benyamin Feld, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1935, regarding his experiences in Warsaw, the Soviet Union, Luga, Peshma and in Ukraine and Israel His childhood in a secular family. Outbreak of the war, 1939; shelling; escape to the Praga quarter; draft of his father to labor constructing camps; escape of his father to the Soviet Union with friends; women and children join the place [where the witness' father escaped]; group crosses the Bug [River] with help from border smugglers; group of women and children meets the men in Baranowicze; life in a synagogue for several weeks; move to Ural; life in a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Bella (Iagodnik) Goldstein, born in Ostrow Mazowiecka, Poland, 1931, regarding her experiences in Ostrow Mazowiecka, the Soviet Union, Tashkent, Siberia and more

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Testimony of Bella (Iagodnik) Goldstein, born in Ostrow Mazowiecka, Poland, 1931, regarding her experiences in Ostrow Mazowiecka, the Soviet Union, Tashkent, Siberia and more Childhood including being orphaned of her mother. Outbreak of the war; escape to the Soviet Union, deportation to Siberia; labor of her father in logging trees; mutual help among the refugees; attends a Soviet elementary school, for about two years; transfer to the Asian Soviet Union with the approach of the German Army; arrival at Tashkent; life in Tashkent including hunger and robberies; transfer to a kolkhoz; life in a kolkhoz...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Batia (Baumgarten) Feled, born in Lodz, Poland, 1936, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Bialystok, Bogdanovich, Sverdlovsk and more

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Testimony of Batia (Baumgarten) Feled, born in Lodz, Poland, 1936, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Bialystok, Bogdanovich, Sverdlovsk and more From a close-knit, secular, Communist family; childhood. Outbreak of war; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto; escape from the ghetto with help from a smuggler; crossing the Bug River; detention by the Red Army; release; transfer to Bialystok; meeting with her family; transfer of the women to Kazakhstan; transfer of the men to labor in iron mines in northern Russia; death of her mother from typhus; transfer of the witness and her father to a labor camp in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Miriam Folk, born in Lublin, Poland, 1934, regarding her experiences as a child in Lublin, Minsk, a camp in Siberia and Bazar

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Testimony of Miriam Folk, born in Lublin, Poland, 1934, regarding her experiences as a child in Lublin, Minsk, a camp in Siberia and Bazar Life before the war; well-to-do traditional family. Outbreak of the war; rumors of what is happening to the Jews in areas under German occupation; escape to the Soviet Union; crosses the Bug river; escape to Minsk; deportation to Siberia; camp life; labor logging trees; suicide of inmates; transfer to Uzbekistan; life in Uzbekistan; food shortage. Reunion with her father; move to a Polish orphanage in Bazar; orphanage life; knits clothing and sells them in exchange...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Joseph Folk, born in Cece, Hungary, 1926, regarding his experiences in Cece and labor battalions in Bor

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Testimony of Joseph Folk, born in Cece, Hungary, 1926, regarding his experiences in Cece and labor battalions in Bor Life before the war; well-to-do family; attends a Hungarian school and high school; unsuccessful emigration attempts to Australia and Eretz Israel, 1938; Zionist youth movement activities. Outbreak of the war; restrictions on the Jews; confiscation of businesses and livelihood; deportation with his father to Auschwitz; murder of his father, April 1944; transfer to a labor battalion in Bor (Mine); Yugoslavian partisan activities; deportation of the Hungarian Army; liberation, September...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mina (Veingarten-Karmi) Pshetitzki, born in Lublin, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in Lublin, Majdanek, Trawniki, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Aschersleben and Terezin

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Testimony of Mina (Veingarten-Karmi) Pshetitzki, born in Lublin, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in Lublin, Majdanek, Trawniki, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Aschersleben and Terezin Zionist, traditional family; activities in the Gordonia movement; witness attends a Tarbut school; displays of antisemitism before the war; meets refugees from Germany. Outbreak of the war; anti-Jewish decrees; forced labor in agriculture; "Aktions"; hidden by a Polish neighbor; informed on; disappearance of her father; deportation to Majdanek; labor camp life; labor in a workshop sorting clothing; infected with disease;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Jakob Weissman, born in Edineti, Romania, 1926, regarding his experiences in Mogilev, the Bershad Ghetto, an orphanage in Balta and in hiding while hidden by Ukrainians

Testimony

Testimony of Jakob Weissman, born in Edineti, Romania, 1926, regarding his experiences in Mogilev, the Bershad Ghetto, an orphanage in Balta and in hiding while hidden by Ukrainians Life before the war; learns in a heder and attends a Hebrew school; Zionist activities in the Gordonia movement. Soviet occupation; exile of wealthy Jews to Siberia; Romanian occupation; concentration of the Jews in a square; murder of young people in a common grave; theft of the Jewish property in the homes; murder of his father and older brother; deportation of the Jews to Transnistria; arrival to Mogilev and then to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Menachem Mendel Maringer, born in Brussels, Belgium, 1931, regarding his experiences while hidden by Catholic families in villages and in a monastery in Belgium

Testimony

Testimony of Menachem Mendel Maringer, born in Brussels, Belgium, 1931, regarding his experiences while hidden by Catholic families in villages and in a monastery in Belgium Orthodox, religious family; his family's unsuccessful attempts to make aliya to Eretz Israel, 1930s. Outbreak of the war; German occupation of Belgium, 1940; escape to the south of France; life in hiding; return to Belgium; anti-Jewish restrictions; move to a village in Belgium with his sister, with help from the underground; fostered by Catholic families in villages; life in hiding in a monastery; detention of his parents;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ruth Zahavi, born in Lodz, Poland, 1939, regarding her experiences in Piotrkow Trybunalski and Ravensbrueck

Testimony

Testimony of Ruth Zahavi, born in Lodz, Poland, 1939, regarding her experiences in Piotrkow Trybunalski and Ravensbrueck Zionist family; visits by her father in Eretz Israel. Outbreak of the war; deportation to the Piotrkow Trybunalski Ghetto; Piotrkow Trybunalski Ghetto life including shortages, hunger, cold and "Aktions"; hides in a closet; morning roll-calls; workshops; murder of her grandmother in Treblinka; murder of her father in Buchenwald; death of her older sister in Ravensbrueck; deportation to Ravensbrueck with her mother; camp life including her mother's labor in a laundry; help from women in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ada Rakocz, born in Gabin, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Gabin Ghetto, Warsaw Ghetto, in hiding, using a false identity and in the Polish underground

Testimony

Testimony of Ada Rakocz, born in Gabin, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Gabin Ghetto, Warsaw Ghetto, in hiding, using a false identity and in the Polish underground Life before the war; well-to-do family; her father was a member of the city council; witness receives a Hebrew and Zionist education; music studies; attempts to make aliya to Eretz Israel; meets Jewish refugees from Germany, 1938; receives knowledge regarding attacks against Jews and their property. Outbreak of the war, 01 September 1939; anti-Jewish restrictions; robbery of Jewish property; escape of her father and her older...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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