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Testimony of Zipora Piza (Peletz) Huberman, born in Bedzin, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Kamionka Ghetto and Peterswaldau

Testimony

Testimony of Zipora Piza (Peletz) Huberman, born in Bedzin, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Kamionka Ghetto and Peterswaldau Life before the war; Jewish community; attends a Beit Yaakov school; her father's activities in the Hamizrachi movement; youth movements; activities in Hashomer Hadati. German occupation, September 1939; burning of the synagogue; rescue of a Torah scroll by her grandfather; confiscation of property; armband; yellow badge; draft of Jews to labor in the construction of Auschwitz camp; activities in an aliya training "kibbutz"; establishment of a Judenrat; draft of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe Monik Yakubovitz, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, Majdanek, Budzyn, Mielec and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Moshe Monik Yakubovitz, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, Majdanek, Budzyn, Mielec and other places Life before the war; witness learns in a "heder" and attends the Tarbut school. German occupation, 1939; anti-Jewish restrictions including wearing an armband; shearing of [beards of] elderly Jews; deportation to the Warsaw Ghetto; Warsaw Ghetto life including the death of Jews from hunger and their burial in a mass grave; his Bar Mitzvah in the ghetto; activities of the Jewish police; activities of workshops; Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB);...

File Number : 12893

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Joseph Shapiro, born in Warsaw, 1930, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, villages and on the Aryan side

Testimony

Testimony of Joseph Shapiro, born in Warsaw, 1930, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, villages and on the Aryan side Life before the war; "heder"; displays of antisemitism. Outbreak of the war; move to the home of a relative; return home; German occupation; anti-Jewish legislation; abuse of his father; deportation to the ghetto; ghetto life; smuggling bread into the ghetto; punishment for smuggling bread into the ghetto; deaths of relatives; escape to the Aryan side; life on the Aryan side; wanderings between villages; labor as a cattle herder; return to the Aryan side of Warsaw; livelihood...

File Number : 12308

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Jacob Shurtz Shacharon, born in Krakow, 1928, regarding his experiences in Piotrkow, Czestochowa, HASAG labor camp, Buchenwald and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Jacob Shurtz Shacharon, born in Krakow, 1928, regarding his experiences in Piotrkow, Czestochowa, a HASAG labor camp, Buchenwald and other places Life before the war; attends public school and a "heder". German occupation; expulsion of Jewish students from the public school; confrontation with the priest; his home is turned into a convalescent home; escape to Piotrkow with his sister; his parents' escape to Czestochowa; meeting with his parents; ghetto life; deportation of Jews to Treblinka; in hiding in his uncle's house; Bar Mitzvah celebration in the ghetto; deportation to a HASAG camp...

File Number : 12272

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Raya Yanina (Rateizer) Guttman, born in Warsaw, 1934, regarding her experiences as a child in the Warsaw Ghetto, Czerniakow farm and in hiding using a false identity

Testimony

Testimony of Raya Yanina (Rateizer) Guttman, born in Warsaw, 1934, regarding her experiences as a child in the Warsaw Ghetto, Czerniakow farm and in hiding using a false identity Childhood in an established family. Air-raids over the city, September 1939; her grandparents' and aunts' deaths and injury of a brother; German occupation; deportation to the Warsaw Ghetto; ghetto life including the summer "Aktion", 1942; transfer to the Czerniakow farm; return to the ghetto; her brother Kazik's underground activities; escape to the country; life in hiding in a hayloft; her sister's disappearance; Warsaw...

File Number : 12291

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sara (Klain) Fishman, born in Warsaw, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, and her activities in the underground

Testimony

Testimony of Sara (Klain) Fishman, born in Warsaw, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, and her activities in the underground From a family with four children; her father was a merchant; very observant home, and Zionist; studies at a public school and at Beit Yaakov; friends in Hashomer Hatzair from age 12; her family moved into the ghetto, 1940; life in the ghetto; "Aktions"; move to the small ghetto, and the murders of her mother and sister in an "Aktion", 1942; loneliness; early activities smuggling Jews outside the ghetto to the Aryan side; keeping in touch with those who were smuggled...

File Number : 11847

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

To be translated

File Number : 3668

Type of Material : Correspondence, Testimony

Language : Polish

To be translated

File Number : 3586

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Report (by radio) of Dr. Szymon Datner regarding the life of the Jews and the Jewish underground in the Warsaw Ghetto in honor of the second anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1945

Report (by radio) of Dr. Szymon Datner regarding the life of the Jews and the Jewish underground in the Warsaw Ghetto in honor of the second anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1945 Life of the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto including "Aktions", hunger and executions, 1942-1943; deportation of Jews from the ghetto to Trawniki; deportation of Jews from the ghetto to their deaths in the gas chambers in Treblinka; establishment of the underground Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa (ZOB - Jewish Fighting Organization) in the ghetto; Jewish underground activities including fighting against the Germans; killing of...

File Number : 65

Type of Material : Survey

Language : Polish

Testimony of Mira Bernsztejn, born in Bialystok, regarding her experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto and on the Aryan side

Testimony of Mira Bernsztejn, born in Bialystok, regarding her experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto and on the Aryan side "Aktion" in the Bialystok Ghetto, 05 February 1943; membership in the Jewish underground in the ghetto; escape from the ghetto; transfer to a German family; work as a housemaid in the home of the German family; replacement of the old Polish passport with an identity card (Personalausweis); attitude of Polish friends; help from Polish friends; desire of Polish friends to betray the witness to the Germans; life on the Aryan side including maintaining contact with the anti-fascist...

File Number : 384

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

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