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Documentation on the deportation of Turkish Jews and Macedonian Jews, March 1943

Documentation on the deportation of Turkish Jews and Macedonian Jews, March 1943 Aliya attempts to Eretz Israel before the deportation to Pirot; Situation of the deportees in Lom; Information sheet on the dead in a transit camp in Dupnitsa; List of Jews from Skopie, March 1943; Photographs of the deportation of Jews from Macedonia; Newspaper articles with memoirs and notes of Benjamin Arditti.

results.listIds.fileNumber : 158

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Announcement, Article, List of Deportees, Letter, List, List of Names

results.listIds.lang : Bulgarian, Hebrew, English, German

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העד- בן למשפחה מסורתית; אירועי אנטישמיות בבית הספר לפני המלחמה; החיים ב-Kurow; פרוץ המלחמה ב-1939; פלישת הגרמנים לבית; בריחה לשדה חיטה; שהות בשדה במשך יום שלם; שיבה לבית בערב; מעצר הגברים היהודים; אירוע רצח של הסבתא ובני משפחה נוספים בתוך הבית; בריחת בני המשפחה הנותרים ליערות הסביבה; המשך בריחה דרך השדות; נדודים במקומות שונים; איסוף וריכוז יהודי הסביבה; העברה לבניין בית הכנסת ב-Belzyce; עבודות כפייה בסלילת כבישים; המשך החיים בבניין בית הכנסת שהפך למחנה עבודה עד 8 במאי 1943; הוצאת הילדים והנשים לחצר בית הכנסת; העמדתם על שפת שוחה ארוכה; הוצאתם להורג; גירוש גברים ובהם העד למחנה ריכוז Budzyn; מכות והתעללויות בידי...

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Reconstructed diary, written by Jozef Hilel Bornesztajn, regarding his experiences in Amsterdam, and in Westerbork, Auschwitz, Brünnlitz and other camps

Reconstructed diary, written by Jozef Hilel Bornesztajn, regarding his experiences in Amsterdam, and in Westerbork, Auschwitz, Brünnlitz and other camps Transfer from Amsterdam; deportation to Westerbork camp with his family, 06/1943; Westerbork camp life; transports [of deportees] are sent to Auschwitz camp every Tuesday; differences between the various barracks; various types of inmates (or prisoners); attitude toward the privileged inmates; transports (deportations) to Theresienstadt, 01-02/1944; transfer to Theresienstadt, 09/1944; he meets Jews from Denmark; life en route; life in Theresienstadt;...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 5273

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Memoirs

results.listIds.lang : Yiddish

Testimony of Henia Karmel Wolfe, born in 1921 in Warszawa, Poland, regarding her experience in Brzesko, Krakow; Plaszow camp; Skarzysko Kamienna labor camp and Leipzig-Schönefeld labor subcamp of Buchenwald concentration camp Henia Karmel Wolfe was in Skarzysko Kamienna labor camp, together with her mother and sister Ila; they were transferred to the Leipzig-Schönefeld subcamp (Außenkommando) of Buchenwald in Autumn 1944. The inmates were women of many nationalities, mostly Polish and Russian; conflicts between Russian and Jewish women. The camp commandant was quite tolerant, according to Henia; the block...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 3662

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Polish

Letter from Dow Lewi to his sister Fryda, regarding his experiences in Malines (Belgium), and in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Sachsenhausen and Ravensbruck concentration camps

Letter from Dow Lewi to his sister Fryda, regarding his experiences in Malines (Belgium), and in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Sachsenhausen and Ravensbruck concentration camps Dow Lewi describes the story of his survival in the letter to his sister Fryda. He was arrested on July 28, 1942; was detained in the city of Malines (Mechelen, Belgium) in the barracks that were used as collection place for Jews; on August 15, 1942 he among about 1,000 people was transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where they arrived after 2 days. Part of the people were sent to gas chambers after selection; Dow had a number tattooed on his...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 3616

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony, Letter of Testimony, Letter

results.listIds.lang : Polish

Testimony of Feliks Rosethal, regarding his Sonderkommando experience in the Auschwitz concentration camp

Testimony of Feliks Rosethal, regarding his work in the Sonderkommando in the Auschwitz death camp from November 1943, in Mauthausen and Gusen II camps until the liberation on May 5, 1945 Feliks Rosenthal was deported from Sosnowiec to the Auschwitz concentration camp in November 1943, where he was taken to work in the Sonderkommando unit in the disposal of gas chamber victims in the crematoria of Birkenau. Sonderkommando prisoners were separated from other camp inmates, living in a secluded barracks with a courtyard surrounded by a wall, first in Birkenau sector BIb, snd later in sector BIId. The...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 1867

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Polish

Testimony of Zahawa Stock (Jafa Smolarczyk), born in 1925 in Krakow, Poland, regarding her experience in Skarzysko Kamienna labor camp and Leipzig subcamp (Außenkommando) of Buchenwald concentration camp

Testimony of Zahawa Stock (Jafa Smolarczyk), born in 1925 in Krakow, Poland, regarding her experiences in Skarzysko Kamienna labor camp and Leipzig subcamp (Außenkommando) of Buchenwald concentration camp Zahawa Stock (Sztok), during the war - Jafa Smolarczyk, with her family left Krakow ghetto and went to Szczawnica. The last deportation of the Jews from Szczawnica took place in 1942; most of them were sent to Auschwitz / Oswiecim, while she, her two brothers and group of youngsters from Szczawnica where transferred to the Skarzysko Kamienna labor camp. There Zahawa and her brother, Aron, worked at...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 1843

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Polish

Testimony of Eda Jakubowicz (Yavin, Lewin), born in 1923 in Warsaw, Poland, regarding her experience in Majdanek concentration camp, Skarzysko Kamienna labor camp and Leipzig subcamp (Außenkommando) of Buchenwald concentration camp

Testimony of Eda Jakubowicz (Yavin, Lewin), born in 1923 in Warsaw, Poland, regarding her experiences in Skarzysko Kamienna labor camp, Leipzig camp and the death march Eda Jakubowicz Yavin (Edzia Lewin, during the war) between 1940 till 1943 was in the Warszawa Ghetto. Then from April 1943 was in Majdanek concentration camp till the June 1943, when she, her mother and sister Pola were transferred to the Skarzysko Kamienna labor camp. Eda worked at ammunition production in Werk C block under the supervision of a German named Schmitz. On September 16, 1943 18 people were injured in workshop accident; Pola...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 1838

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew, Polish

Memoirs of Rachela Spira regarding her experiences in the Torgau camp

Memoirs of Rachela Spira regarding her experiences in the Torgau camp Life in the Torgau camp including labor in an ammunitions factory; labor near boilers full of boiling chemicals; many roll calls; transfer by train deep into Germany.

results.listIds.fileNumber : 67

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Memoirs

results.listIds.lang : Polish

שפירא-אהרונוביץ', רחל: במחנה עבודה לנערות ב-SAXONY , TORGAU, בריחה ונדודים עד השחרור

Testimony of Rachel Shapiro - Abramovich regarding her experiences in Torgau camp, Saxonia, Germany, escaping and wandering till liberation by Red Army in Brandenburg In November 1944, she was deported from Bergen - Blesen to Torgau to a forced labor camp for women (750 female prisoners). Work with TNT, very hard and dangerous. Life in the camp, hunger, diseases, exhaustion, trinitrotoluene poisoning. On April 13, 1945, bombing took place, and the camp was evacuated in an unknown direction. Riding In closed wagons for 8 days. Prisoners escaped from the wagons during the bombardment. They were hiding in the...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 440

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Polish

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