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Memoirs of Bronia (Bratt) Landau, born in Kromolow, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Sagan and Gruenberg labor camps, on a death march to Helmbrechts, escape from the death march in Wildenau and wanderings until the liberation Deportation of male Jews to labor camps, including her brothers and her father; 1940-1941; return of her father, taking leave of her family and deportation to Sosnowiec, 10 February 1942; volunteering for labor and transfer together with 100 women to Sagan camp in Germany; transfer to Gruenberg camp, after seven months; camp life for approximately three years; labor in...

File Number : 8625

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, Polish, German

Memorial booklet written by Miriam Friedman Morris regarding the experiences of her parents, Hildegard (Taussig) Friedman, born in Berlin, Germany, 1921, and David Friedman, born in Märisch Ostrau, Czechoslovakia, 1893, in Prague, Theresienstadt, the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and other places - Experiences of Hildegard (Taussig) Friedman, who was born in Berlin, Germany, 06 April 1921, as described in the booklet: Her family's life before the war; German occupation, 1939; life under German occupation; deportation from Prague to Theresienstadt, 17 December 1941; labor planting trees in Krivoklat forest...

File Number : 8592

Type of Material : Letter, Memoirs, Postcard, Red Cross Letter, Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Documentary, Personal Documents, Newspaper Clippings

Language : Czech, English, German

Memoirs of Sheva (Levi) Kopolovitz, born in Lask, Poland, 1910, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, the Koenigsberg camp, using a false identity near the Baltic Sea and more

Memoirs of Sheva (Levi) Kopolovitz, born in Lask, Poland, 1910, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, the Koenigsberg camp, using a false identity near the Baltic Sea and more Life before the war; experiences of her father, Ephraim Fishel Levi as a merchant in Lask until 1934; move to Lodz with her family due to difficulties in supporting themselves. Escape of her brother Azriel to the Soviet Union; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto with her family; work as a seamstress in a workshop at No. 10 Jakuba Street; obtaining a food supplement (because of which she survived); receiving an order to...

File Number : 8569

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Memoires of Ire Ora (Minc) Orenbach, born in Lodz, Poland, 1929, regarding her experiences during the war and after her liberation from Bergen-Belsen, and poems she wrote in Germany and Eretz Israel

Memoirs of Ire Ora (Minc) Orenbach, born in Lodz, Poland, 1929, regarding her experiences during the war and after her liberation from Bergen-Belsen, and poems she wrote in Germany and Eretz Israel The memoirs were written down in a notebook given to her by her liberators, US Army soldiers; they include poems written by Ire Minc (in Polish and in Yiddish) both in Frankfurt en route to Eretz Israel and after her aliya to Eretz Israel, 14 October-03 November 1947. Poems such as "Litzmanstad ghetto" (Lodz Ghetto) or "Polska bez Zydow" (Poland Without Jews) were written about the events of the Holocaust. -...

File Number : 8564

Type of Material : Certification, Memoirs, Poems/songs

Language : Polish, Yiddish

Testimony of Eva Rocek, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding her experiences in Prague, Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, the Kurzbach camp and other places

Testimony of Eva Rocek, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding her experiences in Prague, Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, the Kurzbach camp and other places Life before the war; her parents are Viktor Porges, born in Horazdovice and Anna (Bondy), born in Horovice. German occupation; ban on owning animals by Jews; payment of a bribe to a veterinarian for certifying the euthanization of her dog; termination of studies by Jewish students, including high school studies; yellow badge; deportations to Lodz and Theresienstadt, 1941; deportation to Theresienstadt with her family, July 1942; life in camp in...

File Number : 8521

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English

Certification from the Odeljenje za zaštitu naroda (Department for the Defense of the People) that Manó Hahn escaped from an inmates' forced march and is now returning to Hungary, 1944, and a document certifying that the family of his father, Gerschon Hahn, numbers five children, 1943 The documentation includes: - Certification from the Odeljenje za zaštitu naroda that Manó Hahn, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1903, escaped from an inmates' forced march that originated in the Bor camp and is now returning to his homeland, issued in Bolec, 26 October 1944; - Document issued by the Population Registry of the...

File Number : 473

Type of Material : Personal Records

Language : Serbian, Hungarian

Testimony of Matvey Lichterman, born in Shumyachi, Soviet Union, 1921, regarding his experiences in the Red Army, in a POW camp in Uman and Vinnitsa

Testimony of Matvey Lichterman, born in Shumyachi, Soviet Union, 1921, regarding his experiences in the Red Army, a POW camp in Uman and Vinnitsa Participation in a Red Army military operation as a paratrooper; death of many soldiers and his capture by the German Army; transfer to Uman; life in a POW camp; hiding his Jewish identity; life using the false identity of Mikhail Garin; murder of many POWs; transfer to forced labor outside the camp; receiving food from the local population; survival due to the food; draft of Ukrainians as forced laborers for the German Army and the camp police; propaganda campaign...

File Number : 8509

Type of Material : Interview(s)

Language : Russian

Memoirs of Sonia Engelsberg, born in Torun, Czechoslovakia, 1924, regarding her experiences in Cesky Tesín, in a Polish village near the Dniester river, the Sevlus Ghetto, Auschwitz, the prison in Most, Theresienstadt and other places Move to Cesky Tesín, life with her parents and four siblings until 1938. Clash between the Polish Army and the Czechoslovakian Army; the German occupation; anti-Jewish legislation and regulations; draft of Jewish men to forced labor; escape of the family to Torun; annexation of the area to Hungary, 1939; deportation of the Jews without Hungarian citizenship to Poland,...

File Number : 8482

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Czech

Letter of testimony written by Anna Schorek regarding her experiences in Theresienstadt, the Christianstadt camp and on a death march, October 1945

Letter of testimony written by Anna Schorek regarding her experiences in Theresienstadt, the Christianstadt camp and on a death march, October 1945 The letter was written in Prague and sent to relatives of Anna Schorek in England, 18 October 1945. Time spent in Theresienstadt with her two daughters, Lizzi and Franzi, as forced laborers, September 1942-May 1944; the structure of the camp and its hierarchies; the fate of Jews who belonged to the upper class, during the liquidation of the camp; transfer to the Christianstadt camp; camp life until February, 1945; escape from the death march; help from a...

File Number : 8460

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony

Language : English

Letter written to the family of Dr. Erich Mosbach in Berlin on his experiences in Stettin, the Lublin Ghetto and Buchenwald, January 1946

Letter written to the family of Dr. Erich Mosbach in Berlin on his experiences in Stettin, the Lublin Ghetto and Buchenwald, January 1946 Life in Stettin; deportation to the Lublin Ghetto, 12 February 1940; life with his wife Vera nee Krueger and daughter Eva in the Lublin Ghetto; separation from his family and the deportation of Erich Mosbach to Buchenwald; deportation of his wife and daughter to Auschwitz; escape of Erich from a death march during the last days of the war; return to Stettin; reunion with his wife and daughter; move with his family to Berlin; move to New York, 20 May 1946. The file also...

File Number : 1743

Type of Material : Letter, Documentary

Language : English, German

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