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Testimony of Mordechai Poznanski, born in Klodawa, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in Klodawa, as a forced laborer in Wittenberg, Britz, the Sudetenland, Buna, Auschwitz and on a death march

Testimony

Testimony of Mordechai Poznanski, born in Klodawa, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in Klodawa, as a forced laborer in Wittenberg, Britz, the Sudetenland, Buna, Auschwitz and on a death march Childhood in a traditional family. German occupation, 1939; termination of studies; drafted to perform labor assignments; his mother's escape to the East; deportation to Britz, 1940; labor paving the Warsaw-Berlin highway; typhus; transfer to Wittenberg; labor paving a highway, winter 1941-1942; hunger; transfer to Auschwitz, spring 1943; labor in construction; rescue from the gas chambers; transfer to Buna;...

File Number : 12586

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Mary (Wrzos) Seidenwurm, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1918, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, the Radom Ghetto, Majdanek, the Ostrowiec camp and other places

Memoirs of Mary (Wrzos) Seidenwurm, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1918, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, the Radom Ghetto, Majdanek, the Ostrowiec camp and other places Life in the Warsaw Ghetto; murder of her father Abraham Wrzos, her step-mother and her step-sister (Thea?) in Treblinka; loss of her brothers Max and Joachim, and her husband Michael Seidenwurm; life in the Radom Ghetto; life in Majdanek; life in the Ostrowiec camp; acquaintance with Nuchim Ancer, later her husband; life in Auschwitz; life in Bergen-Belsen. Transfer to Sweden; life in Sweden in rehabilitation institutions; reunion...

File Number : 1665

Type of Material : Testimony, Reports, Poems/songs, Memoirs

Language : German

Testimony of Ruth (Shpira) Galili, born in Kielce, 1931, regarding her experiences in Kielce, Wierzbnik Strachow Ghetto, Majowka, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen camps

Testimony

Testimony of Ruth (Shpira) Galili, born in Kielce, 1931, regarding her experiences in Kielce, Wierzbnik Strachow Ghetto, Majowka, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen camps Life with her mother and sister in Wierzbnik Strachowice. Ghetto life; deportation to Majowka labor camp before the deportation of the children; transfer to Auschwitz; witness escapes, naked, from a group of female inmates about to be sent to the gas chambers; witness takes the advice of the block elder and joins a group of female inmates who are about to be sent to Bergen-Belsen; survival, helped by two female acquaintances and two...

File Number : 7851

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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File Number : 3000

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Haszkel Fischerlovics, born in Neresnice, Czechoslovakia in 1930, regarding his experiences in the Mátészalka Ghetto, and in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Plaszów, Gross Rosen and other camps

Testimony of Haszkel Fischerlovics, born in Neresnice, Czechoslovakia in 1930, regarding his experiences in the Mátészalka Ghetto, and in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Plaszów, Gross Rosen and other camps Mátészalka Ghetto [life]; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau [on a deportation train]; arrival to Auschwitz-Birkenau camp; selection; transfer to Plaszów camp, three days later; Plaszów camp life; labor in construction for 10 hours a day; receipt of good food; allotment of food; residence in a large room in a barracks, with 60 inmates; evacuation of Plaszów camp, 11 months later; transfer to Gross Rosen camp; Gross...

File Number : 2584

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

Testimony of Etyu Lieber, born in Utczás, Czechoslovakia, 1930, regarding her experiences in the Ungvár Ghetto and in Auschwitz-Birkenau and Langenbielau camps

Testimony of Etyu Lieber, born in Utczás, Czechoslovakia, 1930, regarding her experiences in the Ungvár Ghetto and in Auschwitz-Birkenau and Langenbielau camps Life in Utczás; being subjected to abuses; deportation to the Ungvár Ghetto, April 1944; ghetto life; hunger; robbery of Jewish property; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; arrival in the camp, 15 May 1944; selection; camp life; roll calls; rescue from the gas chambers; hunger; transfer to Langenbielau camp, November 1944; arrival in the camp, 19 November 1944; camp life; labor in a weaving factory situated at a distance of 16 kilometers away from the...

File Number : 1887

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : German

Testimony of Miklós Herskovits, born in Botfalva, Czechoslovakia, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Ungvár Ghetto and in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Sachsenhausen and Lieberose camps and more

Testimony of Miklós Herskovits, born in Botfalva, Czechoslovakia, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Ungvár Ghetto and in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Sachsenhausen and Lieberose camps and more German occupation; revocation of the family's business license; robbery of Jewish possessions; deportation to the Ungvár Ghetto, 12 April 1944; ghetto life for six weeks; deportation to the railroad station and being subjected to physical torture by the gendarmes; being brought into the freight cars and deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; life in the freight cars for three days; arrival in the camp, 28 May 1944; selection...

File Number : 1864

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

Memoirs of David Frank, born in Tamasi, regarding his experiences in the Tamasi Ghetto and Auschwitz, Buchenwald and other camps in the years 1944-1945

Memoirs of David Frank, born in Tamasi, regarding his experiences in the Tamasi Ghetto and Auschwitz, Buchenwald and other camps in the years 1944-1945 Deportation of the Jews of Tamasi to the ghetto after the German occupation in 1944; deportation of his father to forced labor (perished); deportation of the rest of the family to Auschwitz camp; separation of the witness from his mother (perished) and his sister (survived); the witness's stay in Auschwitz and Buchenwald camps and in a labor camp in Germany; death march in April 1945; arrival in Theresienstadt; liberation and medical rehabilitation; return to...

File Number : 11606

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Sofia Wajsbard (maiden name: Petersztok), born in Warsaw, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto and in Majdanek, Auschwitz, Freiberg and other camps in 1940-1945

Memoirs of Sofia Wajsbard (maiden name: Petersztok), born in Warsaw, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto and in Majdanek, Auschwitz, Freiberg and other camps in 1940-1945 Life in Warsaw under German occupation; expulsion of the Jews to the ghetto; life with her family in the ghetto; her family's escape from the ghetto and their unsuccessful search for a hiding place; return to the Warsaw Ghetto; life in hiding in a bunker during the uprising in the ghetto on 19 April 1943; the discovery of the bunker by the Germans on 8 May 1943; deportation to Majdanek; separation from her father in the camp;...

File Number : 11249

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, Polish

Testimony of Jakob Zaide, born in 1928 in Zduńska Wola, Poland, regarding his experiences in Zduńska Wola, deportation to the Lodz ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Kaufering

Testimony

Testimony of Jakob Zaide, born in 1928 in Zduńska Wola, Poland, regarding his experiences in Zduńska Wola, the Lodz ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Kaufering Childhood in Zduńska Wola; studies in a primary school for Jewish students; manifestations of antisemitism before the war; the German occupation in September 1939; decrees against Jews; deportation to a local ghetto in August 1940; work as a servant for a German officer; stealing food for the family; Aktionen in the ghetto; his mother and two younger brothers deported to the Chełmno camp and their deaths at the camp; deported with father to the Łódź...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew