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Testimony of Nancy Vera Rachel Arbel, born in Baktaloranthaza, Hungary, in 1826 regarding deportation to the Auschwitz Birkenau , Plaszow and Reichenbach camps

Testimony

Childhood before the war; coexistence; outbreak of the war; restrictions on Jews; German occupation in March 1944; deportation to ghetto; mutual help; robbery of property; fictitious marriage for the purpose of rescue; deportation to Auschwitz Birkenau; transfer to Plaszow; transfer to a protected camp; improvement in food and living conditions; transfer back to Auschwitz Birkenau; transfer to Germany for agricultural works and for working in a factory manufacturing planes; liberation by the Russians; rehabilitation of life after the war; aliya to Israel in 1949

File Number : 13703

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Miriam Shtein Fuks, born in Gurghiu, Romania, in 1924 regarding deportation to Auschwitz Birkenau and other camps

Family background in Gurghiu; family with religious lifestyle; attending a local school; moving to a government gymnasium in Reghin; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish laws in 1942; deportation of the men to labor camps; moving to Cluj; attending the Jewish gymnasium; German occupation; yellow badge; concentration of the Jews in the ghetto; deportation by wagons to Auschwitz Birkenau; negative attitude of the blockalteste; life in the Czech barrack number 26 in the Lager B1; moving by train to Zschopau; working in a factory producing motorbikes; improvement of the living conditions; transfer to...

File Number : 13736

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Miriam Marila Liber Prague née Kostin, born in 1921 in Warsaw, about her experiences in the Warsaw ghetto, in Hungary, with the partisans in Yugoslavia, and as a forced laborer in Germany

Life before the war; German occupation ensues; dispossession; deportation to the Warsaw ghetto; life in the ghetto; escaping to the "Aryan" side with help of forged papers; marrying; escaping to Lwów; escaping back to Warsaw; escaping to Hungary; receiving privileges from the Polish Consulate; escaping to Yugoslavia; joining the partisans in March 1944; sabotaging a railroad track; arrested by the Germans and taken to Germany; working in a factory that manufactures spare parts for tanks; posing as a Croat; receiving extra privileges; liberated by American forces; reaching Buchenwald; encountering Holocaust...

File Number : 13612

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yekhezkel Tzukert, born in 1929 in Warsaw, about his experiences in the Warsaw ghetto and in camps in Poland, Germany, and Czechoslovakia during the war

Life before the war; offspring of an affluent traditional Zionist family; antisemitic manifestations before the war; attends a cheder and a Jewish government school; encounters Jewish refugees from Germany in 1938; war breaks out; ghettoization; studies in the underground until 1942; mutual assistance; epidemic typhus; placed in a Jewish hospital; sister and younger brother die; parents and remaining brother sent to Treblinka; adopted by Szmul Wajsman; smuggling food into the ghetto; arrested by Jewish police and sent to Majdanek; life in the camp; assigned to forced labor; physical abuse; cases of suicide;...

File Number : 13551

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Inga Tretyakova, born in Leningrad, the Soviet Union, 1933, regarding her experiences as a child in Leningrad during the siege of Leningrad, and in Pyatigorsk, Baku, Elektrostal and other places Life before the war; music studies. Outbreak of the war; her family's decision to stay in Leningrad; life during the siege of Leningrad; evacuation along with her mother, Yanina Mirlas, via the Lagoda Sea, March 1942; deportation on a train in the direction of the Stalinsk region; escape from the train; escape to Pyatigorsk; escape to Makhachkala; escape to Baku; life in an improvised refugee camp;...

File Number : 8415

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Memoirs

Language : Russian

Translation of the memoirs of Erwin Miller, born in Vinkovci, Yugoslavia, 1922, regarding his experiences in Vinkovci, as a forced laborer in the Jasenovac camp and in Stara Gradiska

Translation of the memoirs of Erwin Miller, born in Vinkovci, Yugoslavia, 1922, regarding his experiences in Vinkovci, as a forced laborer in the Jasenovac camp and in Stara Gradiska Informed on; deportation from Vinkovci to the Jasenovac camp, December 1941; en route to the camp; labor in a workshop; various departments in the workshops; camoflauge of the extermination camp as a labor camp; labor division techniques; torture and abuse; hunger; labor logging trees and building a dam; execution of 50 Jews by shooting, as punishment for the attempted escape of two inmates; inclusion of the witness as one of...

File Number : 8399

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mordekhai Teitelbaum born in 1927 in Ostrołęka, Poland, about his experiences in Ostrołęka, escape to the Soviet Union, to Lomzha, and evacuation to Gryazi and the Kemerovo area

Testimony

Childhood in Ostrołęka; community life; attending synagogue on Sabbaths; attending a Jewish elementary school; father dies in 1935; war with Germany breaks out in September 1939; family escapes to Ostrów Mazowiecka; lives in a synagogue; German occupation ensues; German soldiers enter town; curfew; order to leave town and live elsewhere; back to Ostrołęka; escaping to the east; slipping into Belorussia, Soviet Union; reaching Lomzha; living in a synagogue; receiving Soviet citizenship; transport by rail to Russia via Belostok; reaching Gryazi; mother works in a factory; witness attends a Russian elementary...

File Number : 13379

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Schmuel Heller, born in Bedzin, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Bedzin Ghetto, in Gross Sarne, Koenigshuette and Dyhernfurth camps, and in other places

Memoirs of Schmuel Heller, born in Bedzin, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Bedzin Ghetto, in Gross Sarne, Koenigshuette and Dyhernfurth camps, and in other places Bedzin Ghetto life until 1942; deportation to Koenigshuette camp; transfer to Gross Sarne camp; transfer to Gross Masselwitz camp; transfer to Dyhernfurth camp; transfer to Gross-Rosen camp; transfer to Mauthausen camp; liberation, January 1945. DP camp life; illegal aliya attempt to Eretz Israel; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Israel.

File Number : 8333

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Jack Gotfryd, formerly Yaakov Krapchik, born in Konin, Poland, regarding his experiences in Konin, the Ostrowiec Ghetto, forced labor, Mauthausen, Auschwitz, Ebensee, other camps and a death march Life in Konin, life in the Ostrowiec Ghetto; forced labor in a nearby factory until March 1942; life in Starachowice and Bleichen camps; life in Auschwitz, August - December 1944; death march; life in Mauthausen and Ebensee; liberation, May 1945.

File Number : 8306

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, English, Yiddish

Testimony of Bunim Veintraub, born in 1929 in Bialobrzegi, Poland, about his experiences in the Bialobrzegi ghetto and in the Skarzysko Kamienna, Częstochowa, and other camps

Childhood in Bialobrzegi; attends a Polish school and a cheder; religious life; hoarding food and clothing in houses in 1939; ghettoization; father deported to an unknown destination; Jews rounded up and deported to an unknown destination; witness escapes to villages in the area; deportation to Skarzysko Kamienna; life in the camp; working at a light munitions plant; abuse and shooting typhus patients; sent to the Częstochowa camp; sent to Buchenwald; life in the camp; receiving parcels from British prisoners; sent to Schlieben; brother dies in Allied bombardment of Dresden; escapes to Bautzen; works in a...

File Number : 13457

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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