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Testimony of Jakob Glazer, born in Belz, Poland in 1938, regarding his experiences in Belz, Stettin and Kazakhstan

Testimony of Jakob Glazer, born in Belz, Poland in 1938, regarding his experiences in Belz, Stettin and Kazakhstan Life before the war; his parent's work; his father's illness, hospitalization and death; German occupation; burning of the synagogue; escape to Stettin; move to Kazakhstan by a person who later was recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations; separation from his mother; deportation of his mother and siblings to Auschwitz; murder of his siblings in Auschwitz, and his mother's survival; life in Kazakhstan including disease and hunger; end of the war; Return to Poland; reunion with his mother...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letter written by Mr. Blumenfruchte on behalf of Miriam Mindel (Birnbach) Popper, born in Szczuczyn, Poland, 30 September 1939

Letter written by Mr. Blumenfruchte on behalf of Miriam Mindel (Birnbach) Popper, born in Szczuczyn, Poland, 30 September 1939 The names of the girl's parents, Moshe and Golda (Brand) Birnbach, who were murdered, are included in the letter together with a request to transfer the girl to the Belzer Rebbe and raise her as a Jewess; also mentioned in the letter are the names of the contact persons, Shlomo Greiver from Bochnia and Bina Kerver who traveled to Kežmarok. Entrusting Miriam and her nephew Meir Brand from the ghetto to a non-Jewish family in Bochnia by a relative who wrote down the children's...

File Number : 1139

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Hinda Edit (Yakubovitz) Glazer, born in Uzhorod, Slovakia, 1927, regarding her experiences in Sekernice, the Chust Ghetto; Auschwitz, Ravensbrueck and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Hinda Edit (Yakubovitz) Glazer, born in Uzhorod, Slovakia, 1927, regarding her experiences in Sekernice, the Chust Ghetto; Auschwitz, Ravensbrueck and other places From a hasidic family; life in Negrovec before the war; attends a local school. Witness' father is drafted, 1938; hostility on the part of the Ukrainians; re-annexation to Hungary; anti-Jewish legislation; her father is drafted to labor battalions; deportation of those without Hungarian citizenship to Kamenets Podolskiy, 1941; release of her father; redraft of her father; German occupation, March 1944; expulsion of the family from...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of David Hofman, born in Janoshaza, Hungary, 1927, regarding his experiences in protected houses of the Swiss and Swedish in Budapest, the Budapest Ghetto and other places

Testimony

Testimony of David Hofman, born in Janoshaza, Hungary, 1927, regarding his experiences in protected houses of the Swiss and Swedish in Budapest, the Budapest Ghetto and other places Life in Sopron; orphaned at a young age; life in a marked house in Budapest, 17 June-14 October 1944; labor in a military factory near Budapest; transfer to anti-tank production; life in a Swiss protected house, 11 November 1944; move to a Swedish protected house; deportation to the Budapest Ghetto; ghetto life, 05-18 January 1945; liberation. Move to the southern Hungary; move to Germany; aliya to Israel; absorption.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chawa (Benet) Nehorai, born in Zawircie, 1929, regarding her experiences in Oswiecim, Sosnowiec Ghetto and aliya to Eretz Israel

Testimony

Testimony of Chawa (Benet) Nehorai, born in Zawircie, 1929, regarding her experiences in Oswiecim, Sosnowiec Ghetto and aliya to Eretz Israel Her childhood in Oswiecim; her parents' aliya to Eretz Israel, 1936. Outbreak of the war and implementation of decrees; forced labor, 1940; deportation to the Sosnowiec Ghetto; life and conditions in the ghetto; mutual aid, trade; hangings; observing the Shabbat in secret; Moniek Merin, head of the Judenrat; labor in the Hans Kremstein factory; aliya to Eretz Israel in the framework of the exchange deal between Templers and Jews having visas to Mandatory Palestine;...

File Number : 10895

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yaakov Kfir, born in Ilok, Yugoslavia, 1934, regarding his experiences in Hungary including in hiding places

Testimony

Testimony of Yaakov Kfir, born in Ilok, Yugoslavia, 1934, regarding his experiences in Hungary including in hiding places Childhood and family background in Ilok. Entry of the Germans; burning of religious books in the yard of his house; escape of the witness and his brother to relatives in Zenta and Debrecen; hiding for a year in a cellar in Debrecen; imprisonment in Budapest; deportation to a detention camp in Kistarcza and then to the Budapest Ghetto; life in a protected house; lice; executions near the Danube River; liberation. Return to Debrecen; aliya to Eretz Israel via Cyprus, 1947; absorption...

File Number : 10206

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew