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Personal documentation belonging to Yehuda Nir Korngold, born in Lublin, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences during the war and afterwards

Personal documentation belonging to Yehuda Nir Korngold, born in Lublin, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences during the war and afterwards - Excerpt from a book written Yehuda Nir Korngold's grandson (based on family stories) regarding Yehuda Korngold's experiences during the war and afterwards. In the excerpt there is information regarding Yehuda's life in Lublin until 1942; deportation to Belzec; escape back to Lublin; life in hiding in a cupboard in the family home; escape to his mother; life in hiding in an attic near the family home; escape to the forests in the area; surrendering himself to the...

File Number : 315

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Document, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, English

Diary of Heniek Veingarten, born in Niwice, Poland, 1910, regarding his experiences in Sosnowiec, Lwow, Luck, being hidden by farmers, as a partisan in the Rowne forest and more

Diary of Heniek Veingarten, born in Niwice, Poland, 1910, regarding his experiences in Sosnowiec, Lwow, Luck, being hidden by farmers, as a partisan in the Rowne forest and more Life with his family in Niwice; move to Wolbrom with his family due to difficulties in supporting themselves, 1920; abuse by gangs loyal to General Haller, including capture of his father and pulling out his beard; move of the family to Strzemieszyce, 1926; move of the family to Sosnowiec. Concentration of the Jews in the Szenja Hall in Sosnowiec, September, 1939; abuse of the Jews; mass murder of Jews; separation from his parents...

File Number : 8571

Type of Material : Diary

Language : Polish

Testimony of Mikhail Rozenbaum, born in 1923 in Malice, Poland, about his survival in Siberia and Ukraine

Testimony

Testimony of Mikhail Rozenbaum, born in 1923 in Malice, Poland, about his survival in Siberia and Ukraine Deportation (escape) to Siberia and on to Ukraine; muarder of three older sisters and their children in Auschwitz in 1943; father joins partisans; family reunited; witness immigrates to Israel in June 1948.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yitzchak Isak Yakubovitz, born in Vilna, Lithuania, 1928, regarding his experiences in Vilna, the Vilna Ghetto and in hiding

Testimony

Testimony of Yitzchak Isak Yakubovitz, born in Vilna, Lithuania, 1928, regarding his experiences in Vilna, the Vilna Ghetto and in hiding Life in Vilna with his family including attending the "Torat Emet" school; [description of] the great synagogue. Life under Soviet occupation; life under German occupation; deportation of the Jews to the Vilna Ghetto; Vilna Ghetto life including "Aktions", the imposition of anti-Jewish restrictions, decree regarding wearing a yellow badge, overcrowding and the smuggle of food into the ghetto; murder of his father in Ponary; liquidation of the ghetto; escape to a village...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Dov Bruno Liberfroind, born in Bielsko, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Bielsko, Katowice, Nisko, the Rawa Ruska forests, Lwow and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Dov Bruno Liberfroind, born in Bielsko, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Bielsko, Katowice, Nisko, the Rawa Ruska forests, Lwow and other places His childhood in a traditional family; activities in the Akiva Zionist youth movement; displays of antisemitism before the war; death of his father, 1938. German Army occupation of Bielsko, 01 September 1939; escape; wanderings; return home, approximately three weeks later; deportation to Katowice; transfer to Nisko, October 1939; gunshots in the direction of the deported Jews; escape to the Rawa Ruska forests, under Soviet control; meets...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mala (Kalmovitz) Jablonska, born in Brussels, Belgium, 1930, regarding her experiences as a child in Lwow, Chuvashskaya Assr, Cheboksary, in hiding in Krakow and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Mala (Kalmovitz) Jablonska, born in Brussels, Belgium, 1930, regarding her experiences as a child in Lwow, Chuvashskaya Assr, Cheboksary, in hiding in Krakow and other places Life in Krakow before the war; witness attends a municipal school. Outbreak of the war; escape to the Soviet Union; life in Lwow for approximately one year; deportation with her family in open train cars to Chuvashskaya Assr; life in forests including stealing food from Russians; escape to Cheboksary; life in Cheboksary; escape to Poland; life in Dolny Slask; life in Krakow including life in hiding while hidden by a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Julius Drukman, born in Radauti, Romania, 1929, regarding his experiences as a child in Cernauti, the Yampol region, Obodovka, Balta and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Julius Drukman, born in Radauti, Romania, 1929, regarding his experiences as a child in Cernauti, the Yampol region, Obodovka, Balta and other places Life in Radauti before the war; life in Banila; move to Cernauti; life in Cernauti. Deportation to Yampol on a train; transfer to a kolkhoz in the Yampol region; life in the kolkhoz; escape and joins a group of Jews in Cernauti; escape to Storojinet; life in Storojinet; escape to Obodovka; life in Obodovka including meeting a Jewish partisan; receives money from his family in Romania; move to Balta with Jewish orphans; move back to Obodovka due...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zvi Faier, born in Hrubieszow, Poland, 1934, regarding his experiences as a child in the Ural forests, Kaunas, Novosibirsk, Tashkent and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Zvi Faier, born in Hrubieszow, Poland, 1934, regarding his experiences as a child in the Ural forests, Kaunas, Novosibirsk, Tashkent and other places Life before the war; escape to the border with the Soviet Union; life in the Ural forests; escape to Kaunas; transfer to Novosibirsk with his family; transfer to Tashkent with his family; life in Tashkent including the deaths of his siblings; his father is drafted into the Red Army; escape to Tadzhikistan; life in an orphanage in Tadzhikistan; transfer of the orphanage to Poland. Life in Poland including reunion with his father; move to Stettin;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe Mishke Katz, born in Kurzeniec, Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences in Kurzeniec and in hiding in forests and villages

Testimony

Testimony of Moshe Mishke Katz, born in Kurzeniec, Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences in Kurzeniec and in hiding in forests and villages Life in Kurzeniec before the war; attends a Tarbut school. Soviet occupation, 1939; German occupation, June 1941; pogroms against the Jews by Polish villagers; finds a hiding place in a cowshed; escape to a forest with his family; life in forests and villages; attempt to join the partisans; life in bunkers in the forest; hunt for Jews by the Germans; liberation by the Red Army, 1944. Life with refugees in Lodz; life in Stettin; aliya to Israel by ship, 1950.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chanan Henrik Apteker, born in Rudnik, Poland, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in Rudnik, Ulanov, the Lubaczow Ghetto, in hiding in the Horinetz area and in other places

Testimony

Testimony of Chanan Henrik Apteker, born in Rudnik, Poland, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in Rudnik, Ulanov, the Lubaczow Ghetto, in hiding in the Horinetz area and in other places Life before the war. Outbreak of the war, 1939; deportation to Ulanov with his family; life in Ulanov in the home of a family; deportation to the Lubaczow Ghetto; Lubaczow Ghetto life; separation from his parents and escape to a forest in the Zimna Woda area; life in the forest; life in the Horinetz area including being hidden by a Polish farmer named Franktzishek Baran; hides in the Stroze forest due to being...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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