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Testimony of Mirka (Klaver) Zaklikovski, born in Lodz, Poland, 1927, regarding the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, and other camps, 1940-1945

Testimony

Childhood before the war; Outbreak of the war; arrival of refugees from Czechoslovakia and Germany; restrictions; deportation to the ghetto; curfew; forced labor; taking of her father to forced labor; "Aktions"; public hangings of Jews; escapes from the ghetto; cultural life in the ghetto; liquidation of the ghetto; transfer to labor camps in Germany; working in a weapons factory; reasonable treatment by the Germans; liberation by the British Army; Rebuilding life after the war; aliya to Israel, 1949.

File Number : 13855

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Tzafrir Shteir Sara, born in Bedzin, Poland, in 1930 regarding the Srodula ghetto and regarding the Peterswaldau camp

Childhood before the war; programming aliya to Israel; aliya of the two brothers ; confiscation of family businesses; outbreak of the war; burning the synagogue and houses of Jews; deportation to ghetto; forced labor; murder of the father; "aktions"; deportation of the mother and sister to Auschwitz Birkenau; deportation of the witness with her sister to Peterswaldau; help of the German female commander; liberation by the Russians; escape to the American side; rehabilitation of life after the war; aliya to Israel in 1946

File Number : 13661

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Moshe Kaplan, born in Woronow, Poland, 1915, regarding his experiences in the Polish Army, the Tannenberg POW camp, the Woronow Ghetto, in hiding in the forest, as a partisan in the Naliboki forests and more Life in Woronow after World War I; death of his father Avraham Kaplan in 1922; attendance at the Tarbut elementary school; displays of antisemitism; membership in Hashomer Hatzair; underground activities and imprisonment of his brother as a member of the Communist Party; death of his mother, 1932; life in an aliya training kibbutz in Bialystok; meeting his future wife, Chaya; release of his...

File Number : 8643

Type of Material : Memoirs, Poems/songs, Genealogy

Language : Hebrew

Shneider Yaakov Shmuel, born in Kosino, Czechoslovakia, 1932, regarding his experiences in the Berehovo ghetto and in the Auschwitz-Birkenau, Plaszow, Gross Rosen, Goerlitz and Zittau camps

Testimony

Schneider Shmuel Jacob, born in Kosino, Czechoslovakia, 1932, regarduing the Berehovo ghetto and deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Plaszow, Gross Rosen, Goerlitz and Zittau camps Family background; childhood in a religious family; his father is a hero of the World War I. Entry of the Hungarians; entry of the Germans, March 1944; deportation to the Berehovo ghetto; stay in a brick factory for several weeks; transfer to Auschwitz II-Birkenau; selection at the entrance to the camp; rescue by an anonymous inmate from the camp to the gas chambers and transfer to the camp; finding his father and relatives;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoir book belonging to Friedl Gutman, with farewells, dedications and poems written to her by inmates who were in detention with her in Gross Sarne camp, 1942-1943, in Gross Masselwitz camp, August-September 1943, and in Freiburg camp, May 1944 The memoir book was created in Gross Sarne, 1942; it was made of tin and decorated with a Jewish star and a title relating to its place of creation: "RAB Lager Gross Sarne, 1942"; one of the dedications was written by her brother Emanuel, 19 March 1942; the inscriptions from Gross Sarne camp were written, 13 March 1942-02 March 1943; the inscriptions from Gross...

File Number : 1206

Type of Material : Personal Records, Memoir Book, Memoirs, Drawing

Language : Hebrew, Polish, French, English, German

Testimony of Sukhar Stolerman, born in Lipcani, Bessarabia, Romania in 1930, regarding his experiences during the expulsion to Zhmerynka in Transnistria

Testimony of Sukhar Stolerman, born in Lipcani, Bessarabia, Romania in 1930, regarding his experiences during the expulsion to Zhmerynka in Transnistria Childhood before the war; antisemitism; Jewish refugees from Poland in 1939; Russian occupation in 1940; change in their lifestyle; Russo–German war in June 1941; entry of Romanians and Germans; expulsion to Briceni; march to Atachi; continuation of march via Mogilev to Zhmerynka; life in the ghetto; the Jewish Committee; various types of labor; murder and abuse; partisans; liberation by Red Army in March 1944; return to Lipcani; rebuilding life after the...

File Number : 13697

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Menahem Lior, born in Bedzin, Poland in 1928, regarding his experiences during ‎deportation to the Bedzin Ghetto and the work camp in Kamionka; hidden by a Pole; escape to ‎Eretz Israel His childhood in a socialist Zionist home; refugees from Germany; rise of antisemitism; outbreak of ‎war on 1 September 1939; anti-Jewish laws and decrees; restriction of Jewish movement and ‎concentration in one area; youth movements; agricultural farm; Zionist and underground ‎activities; infiltrating into a nearby work camp; work collecting and sorting possessions of the Jews ‎in the ghetto; removing dead...

File Number : 13735

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Miriam (Rubin) David, born in Kapusany, Slovakia, 1943, regarding the experiences of her father, Moritz Moshe Rubin and the rest of her family during the Holocaust

Testimony of Miriam (Rubin) David, born in Kapusany, Slovakia, 1943, regarding the experiences of her father, Moritz Moshe Rubin and the rest of her family during the Holocaust - Moritz Moshe Rubin was born in Kapusany, Slovakia, 1912; the ninth out of 11 children of Hermina (daughter of Miriam and Yitzhak Hendler) and Emanuel (son of Mindel [Baum] and Joseph) Rubin; family ownership of a flour mill, a sawmill and land in Radvanovce, Slovakia; marriage of Moritz with Anna Chana Gross from Sečovce, Czechoslovakia, 1941. Aryanization of the family assets, 1942; deportation of the majority of the Rubin and...

File Number : 8556

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Dvora (Lichter) Levinson, born in Tarnopol, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Tarnopol Ghetto, using a false identity in villages and in a prison

Memoirs of Dvora (Lichter) Levinson, born in Tarnopol, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Tarnopol Ghetto, using a false identity in villages and in prison Life before the war; attendance at a Polish school; afternoon classes at the Hebrew school. Soviet occupation; closing of the Hebrew school; German occupation; draft of Jews to the Judenrat and murder of the draftees including her father; deportation to the Tarnopol Ghetto; ghetto life in hiding in a bunker; leaving the bunker with forged documents in the name of Stanislawa Dobryk; discovery of the bunker by the Germans and murder of those...

File Number : 8510

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, Polish, German

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

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