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Testimony of Baruch Galeida Telem, born in Luck, Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences in Luck, in a forest in the Wolyn area, in hiding and in Prague

Testimony

Testimony of Baruch Galeida Telem, born in Luck, Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences in Luck, in a forest in the Wolyn area, in hiding and in Prague His childhood in a traditional family. Outbreak of the war, September 1939; Red Army occupation of Luck, November 1939; German Army occupation of Luck, June 1941; receives a permit to leave the Luck Ghetto; move to a village, summer 1942; receives knowledge regarding "Aktions" and the liquidation of the Luck Ghetto; execution of his family; escape to a forest, autumn 1942; life on his own in a forest in the Wolyn area, including searching for food, for...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chana Bickel Rozenshtein, born in Svalava, Czechoslovakia, about her experiences in Svalava and her escape with her mother from the crematoria at Auschwitz

Testimony

Testimony of Chana Bickel Rozenshtein, born in Svalava, Czechoslovakia, about her experiences in Svalava and her escape with her mother from the crematoria at Auschwitz Father is conscripted to a Hungarian labor camp; mother makes a living by sewing; cousin reports murder of Jews in Kamenets Podolski in 1941; deportation of Jews of Svalava to the Mukacevo ghetto; feeling thirsty aboard the transport; selection; taken with her mother to the crematoria; waiting at the crematoria; mother grows suspicious; mother exploits nightfall to escape with her daughter; walking by night, hiding by day; mother orders her...

File Number : 13329

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Batia Ida (Zangvil) As, born in Vilna, Poland, 1920, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Strasshof camp, Kaiserwald camp, Dresden camp and other

Testimony

Testimony of Batia Ida (Zangvil) As, born in Vilna, Poland, 1920, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Strasshof camp, Kaiserwald camp, Dresden camp and other Life before the war; attends a Tarbut school; cancellation of aliya plans at the last moment. German occupation, June 1941; kidnapping and murder of her husband in Ponary; ghetto life; evades deportation and finds a hiding place under a bush; receives a work permit with the use of forged documents; labor in a German kitchen; hides in the kitchen during a night "Aktion"; appeal to Abba Kovner to join the underground; liquidation of the...

File Number : 13164

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Halina (Harling) Fridman, born in Lodz, Poland, 1933, regarding her experiences as a child in Lodz, the Warsaw Ghetto and in hiding in the city suburbs

Testimony

Testimony of Halina (Harling) Fridman, born in Lodz, Poland, 1933, regarding her experiences as a child in Lodz, the Warsaw Ghetto and in hiding in the city suburbs Life in Lodz including German occupation; deportation and escape to Warsaw; ghetto life including labor in a Tobbens factory; labor under her uncle's management; escape from an "Aktion" against children; in hiding with her grandfather in a bunker in the apartment; escape from the ghetto, April 1943; escape to a villa in the city suburbs; life in hiding with six family members; liberation by the Red Army. Aliya to Israel, 1950.

File Number : 13029

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Roi Kleinman Kedar, born in 1937, regarding his escape from a Red Cross institution with his nine year old brother and their return to their family in the Budapest Ghetto in 1944

File Number : 7160

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Palo Sheiner, born in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia, 1904, regarding his experiences in Cernauti, a camp near Marculesti and Hungary

Testimony of Palo Sheiner, born in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia, 1904, regarding his experiences in Cernauti, a camp near Marculesti and Hungary Deportation from Cernauti to a camp near Marculesti; escape and crosses the Dniester river; escape along the Polish border; encounter with the Ukrainian Police and Gestapo; escape; capture and transfer to a cemetery; escape and rescue from shooting; escape to Hungary. The testimony was recorded during the war.

File Number : 61

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Georgian

Testimony of Mikhail Minkovicz, born in Polotsk, Belarus, 1927, regarding his experiences in Polotsk, Borovukha, Osveya, Svolno and the region

Testimony

Testimony of Mikhail Minkovicz, born in Polotsk, Belarus, 1927, regarding his experiences in Polotsk, Borovukha, Osveya, Svolno and the region Testimony of a tradition-keeping family in Polotsk; his parents work in a wine factory; his father's visits to a synagogue; studies in a Russian elementary school; closure of a Jewish school in the city, 1938. The outbreak of war, June 1941; the bombings; family escape to Sukhoy Bor; German occupation of the area; back to Polotsk; arrest of his brother by German soldiers and his murder with other Jews in the Borovukha area; establishment of a ghetto in the city;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

Testimony

Testimony of George Bill, born in Kobryn, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Kobryn Ghetto; hiding on the Aryan side in Warsaw and contacts with the Jewish and Polish underground outside the ghetto Traditional family, the father is a tradesman; emigration of four brothers to Argentina before the war. The German occupation, summer 1941; burning of Jewish homes; kidnapping of young men and murdering them near the town; establishment of a ghetto, receiving of a vital workers card until October 1942; liquidation of the ghetto; discovery of the family in an underground hiding place and their detention in...

File Number : 11412

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaim Harry Nieschawer, born in Grojec, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Grojec Ghetto, Warsaw Ghetto, Radom Ghetto, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Chaim Harry Nieschawer, born in Grojec, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Grojec Ghetto, Warsaw Ghetto, Radom Ghetto, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen and other places Life before the war; education. German occupation; life in Grojec; establishment of the Grojec Ghetto, 1940; Grojec Ghetto life; transfer to the Warsaw Ghetto; Warsaw Ghetto life including the activities of the Judenrat; escape to his grandmother's home in Radom; life in Radom including deportation to the Radom Ghetto; Radom Ghetto life including murder of Jews; labor in a weapons factory outside the ghetto; deportation to...

File Number : 5816

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Henryk Bergman, regarding his experiences while using a false identity on the Aryan side and the experiences of his family in the Chelm Ghetto, in Lwow, in hiding in Krakow and while using a false identity in Przemysl Letter written by Henryk Bergman to the Zydowska Komisja Historyczna (Jewish Historical Commission), in reply to an announcement regarding Jewish survivors, concerning Aryan documents; Labor at a flour mill in Chelm; escape to Lwow, using forged documents, before the liquidation of the ghetto, November 1942; his wife and son join him; travel by his wife to Warsaw to escape from...

File Number : 479

Type of Material : Letter, Testimony

Language : Polish

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