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Testimony of Yisrael Leshch, born in Radom, Poland, 1934, regarding his experiences as a child in the Radom Ghetto, in hiding in an apartment in Warsaw and in hiding in Kamienna Wola

Testimony

Testimony of Yisrael Leshch, born in Radom, Poland, 1934, regarding his experiences as a child in the Radom Ghetto, in hiding in an apartment in Warsaw and in hiding in Kamienna Wola Life before the war; Revisionist Zionist family. German occupation, 08 September 1939; restrictions on the Jews, December 1939; Judenrat activities; establishment of the Radom Ghetto, March 1941; ghetto life; transfer to labor picking peat; transfer to labor in a factory; liquidation of the small ghetto and murder of his mother's family, 04 August 1942; transfer of men to labor burying corpses; receives information in advance...

File Number : 13093

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Dvora (Josefsberg) Buch, born in Boryslaw, Poland, 1938, regarding her experiences as a child in various hiding places

Testimony

Testimony of Dvora (Josefsberg) Buch, born in Boryslaw, Poland, 1938, regarding her experiences as a child in various hiding places German occupation; move of the family to in hiding with a Ukrainian family; eviction from the hiding place out of fear of being informed on; hiding of the witness in a sack on her father's back; her family joining the hiding place of her uncle and grandmother in the cellar of the Polish Borek family [later recognized as Righteous Among the Nations]; loneliness; muteness; the Borek family taking care of all the needs of the nine people in the cellar; the family leaves the hiding...

File Number : 13993

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Henry Fenichel, born in S Gravenhage, the Netherlands, 1938, regarding his experiences as a child in Westerbork, Bergen-Belsen and en route to Eretz Israel

Testimony

Testimony of Henry Fenichel, born in S Gravenhage, the Netherlands, 1938, regarding his experiences as a child in Westerbork, Bergen-Belsen and en route to Eretz Israel Only son of parents who are originally from Poland; his father owns a flower shop and his mother is a seamstress. German occupation, 1940; deportation of his father to Utrecht; move to a sanitorium for infectious diseases with help from non-Jews, 1942; deportation to Westerbork, autumn 1943; his mother's efforts to make aliya to Eretz Israel as part of a population exchange; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; transfer to Eretz Israel via Austria,...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Hana (Fruchter) Renert, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1934, regarding her experiences as a child in the Cernauti Ghetto, Bratslav, Tulchin, Iasi and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Hana (Fruchter) Renert, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1934, regarding her experiences as a child in the Cernauti Ghetto, Bratslav, Tulchin, Iasi and other places Traditional family; her father is a manager og a meat processing factory. Deportation to the Cernauti Ghetto, 1941; deportation to Transnistria, autumn 1941; transfer to Bratslav camp; murder of her father; in hiding during "Aktions"; forced labor of her mother and brother; receives help; transfer to Tulchin; transfer to Mogilev-Podolski with a group of orphans, with her mother using a false identity as a nurse; transfer to Iasi with a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Personal documentation regarding Yenta Lejzerson, born in 1907, and her children Jochiel and Rachel, from Bialystok, Poland

Personal documentation regarding Yenta Lejzerson, born in 1907, and her children Jochiel and Rachel, from Bialystok, Poland - Permits dated 26/10/1942, from the Police commander in the city of Bialystok, for Yenta Lejzerson, born in 1907, and her children Jochiel, born on 15/11/1929, and Rachel, born on 12/11/1933, to travel to Eretz Israel via Vienna in the context of the German-Eretz Israel population exchange agreement; Included in the file: exit permits from the Bialystok Ghetto, given to members of the Lejzerson family, their identity cards, inoculation certificates, travel tickets, and a certificate...

File Number : 602

Type of Material : Medical Documentation, Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, English, German, Yiddish

Newspaper clippings and book excerpts, particularly regarding relief activities for Jews in occupied Europe, 1946-1957

Newspaper clippings and book excerpts, particularly regarding relief activities for Jews in occupied Europe, 1946-1957 The file is organized by authors in alphabetical order: The file contains: Pages 1-3: Excerpt from a book (not identified) including a report from the Immigration into Palestine (IMPA) Section of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC- Red Cross) regarding its activities during and after the war, 1948; Pages 4-5: Excerpts from the book, "Shlichut Aluma" ["Secret Mission"] by Munia (Meir) Mardor, dealing with arms acquisitions, pp. 180, 274; Pages 6-14: Excerpts...

File Number : 73

Type of Material : Guide, Survey Report, Book, Research Article

Language : Hebrew, English, German

Memorandum from a meeting conducted by Reinhard Heydrich regarding the deportation of Jews, Poles and Gypsies from the areas of Poland annexed to the Reich, 30 January 1940

Memorandum from a meeting conducted by Reinhard Heydrich regarding the deportation of Jews, Poles and Gypsies from the areas of Poland annexed to the Reich, 30 January 1940 Establishment of RSHA, Referat IV D 4, Judenangelegenheiten, Auswanderung und Raeumung (Section IV D4- the Department for Jewish Affairs, Emigration and Evacuation), headed by Adolf Eichmann, in order to concentrate the deportations; participation in the meeting by the Security Police commanders from the area of Poland, Eichmann, Heinrich Müller and Rolf Günther.

File Number :

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, German

Testimony of Miriam Elichai, born in Neckarsteinach, Germany, 1935, regarding her experiences in Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen

Testimony

Testimony of Miriam Elichai, born in Neckarsteinach, Germany, 1935, regarding her experiences in Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen Move to the Netherlands, 1938. Deportation to Westerbork with her family; transfer to Bergen-Belsen because they have certificates for Eretz Israel and are designated for exchange with Germans in Eretz Israel, February 1944; camp life; departure from the camp on a train, April 1945; travel in an undefined direction during Allied air-raids; liberation by the Red Army at Trobitz. Return to the Netherlands; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947.

File Number : 6651

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew