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Testimony of Katalin (Markovitz) Sharoni, born in Karcag, Hungary, 1921, regarding her experiences in Kistarcsa, Auschwitz, Ravensbrueck and Rechlin

Testimony

Testimony of Katalin (Markovitz) Sharoni, born in Karcag, Hungary, 1921, regarding her experiences in Kistarcsa, Auschwitz, Ravensbrueck and Rechlin Traditional family; move to Budapest. Increase in antisemitism from 1940; German occupation, 1944; escape with her sister to the train station; arrest by the gendarmes; deportation to Kistarcsa camp; deportation to Auschwitz, April 1944; camp life and labor in a weapons factory; transfer to Ravensbrueck, January 1945; camp life; transfer to Rechlin, early spring 1945; labor in a forest collecting branches and twigs; liberation by the Red Army, April 1945....

File Number : 12712

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Lea (Saker) Kusznir, born in Vilna, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Kaiserwald, Strassenhof and Stutthof

Testimony

Testimony of Lea (Saker) Kusznir, born in Vilna, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Kaiserwald, Strassenhof and Stutthof Life before the war; attends a high school. Soviet occupation, 1939; German occupation, 1941; deportation to the Vilna Ghetto; ghetto life; labor for an estate owner in exchange for food; liquidation of the ghetto, 1943; disappearance of her parents after a selection; deportation to Kaiserwald; transfer to Strassenhof; camp life including forced labor digging trenches and in a carpet factory; deportation to Stutthof; camp life including forced labor digging...

File Number : 12447

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Marcel Jablot, born in 1924, regarding his deportation from Nice and his experiences in a camp near Paris and in Auschwitz, Gunthergrube, and while in hiding

Testimony of Marcel Jablot, born in 1924, regarding his deportation from Nice and his experiences in a camp near Paris and in Auschwitz, Gunthergrube, and while in hiding Residence in Nice with his parents and grandmother while using a false identity with forged Aryan documents; arrival of the Gestapo to their apartment after being informed on, August 1943; transfer to a hotel and their stay there for one day along with several hundred Jews; transfer to a camp near the northern railroad station in Paris; deportation to Auschwitz on a train, 20 October 1943; separation of the witness from his parents and...

File Number : 21

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Documentation submitted by Matylda Woliniewska regarding the experiences of female inmates in the Majdanek and Lipsk-Schoenfeld camps

Documentation submitted by Matylda Woliniewska regarding the experiences of female inmates in the Majdanek and Lipsk-Schoenfeld camps - Several pages from a theatrical play by an unknown author that takes place in a dining hall, a clinic, and a shelter in a labor camp; - An article by Matylda Woliniewska regarding female Polish inmates in Majdanek containing information concerning harsh living conditions; cultural activities; radio; concerts; a choir; friction between the inmates; attempts to make contact with families; incidents of assistance; political activity; committees set up by inmates: Sanitation...

File Number : 4237

Type of Material : Letter, Testimony, Memoirs, Poems/songs, Diary

Language : Polish

Testimony of Lilly Grünfeld, born in Gát, Czechoslovakia in 1924, regarding her experiences in the Munkács Ghetto and in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Stutthof and Bromberg - Brahnau camps

Testimony of Lilly Grünfeld, born in Gát, Czechoslovakia in 1924, regarding her experiences in the Munkács Ghetto and in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Stutthof and Bromberg - Brahnau camps Deportation to the Munkács Ghetto; Munkács Ghetto life; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau camp; arrival to Auschwitz-Birkenau camp on 20/05/1944; Auschwitz-Birkenau camp life, for six weeks; transfer to Stutthof camp; Stutthof camp life, for three weeks; transfer to Bromberg - Brahnau camp; Bromberg - Brahnau camp life; labor in an ammunitions factory; transfer on a death march in an unknown direction on 20/01/1945; she escapes and...

File Number : 1387

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : German

Documentation from Russian State Military Archives (RGVA)

Documentation from Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi, RGVA), 1939-1944 years. Archive was established in 1920 as the Archive of the Red Army (from 1933 Central Archive of the Red Army, from 1941 Central State Archive of the Red Army, and from 1958 Central State Archive of the Soviet Army).In 1946 Institution had been supplied with separate subarchive, so called 'Separate Archive' that included documents collected by the Soviet Army during World War II in the other states and transferred here in 1946. In 1992, Special was renamed the Center for the Preservation of Historical and Documentary...

Type of Material : List of Deportees, List of Detainees, Instruction, Card File, Album, Names, List of Names, List of Deportation From France, Photograph, List of Perpetrators, List of Inmates, List, List of Deportation From Berlin, List of Collaborators, Official Documentation, List of Camp Inmates

Language : German

Report regarding Bergen-Belsen camp, prepared by First Lieutenant Dr. Salamon and various officers, and a letter of recommendation regarding Dr. Salamon, 1945

Report regarding Bergen-Belsen camp, prepared by First Lieutenant Dr. Salamon and various officers, and a letter of recommendation regarding Dr. Salamon, 1945 - Letter of recommendation regarding First Lieutenant Dr. Salamon, a physician in the service of the French Red Cross, written to the military authorities by the International Committee of the Red Cross organization in Lübeck, 06/05/1945; Dr. Salamon is meant to assist in the medical services in Bergen-Belsen camp; - Report titled, ''Renseignement généraux sur le camp de concentration Bergen Belsen'' ("General information regarding Bergen-Belsen...

File Number : 1027

Type of Material : Letter, Documentary

Language : French

Legal documentation regarding the activities of labor and concentration camps in Chelm, 1941-1944

Legal documentation regarding the activities of labor and concentration camps in Chelm, 1941-1944 - Report submitted by the Chelm police regarding labor and concentration camps in Chelm during the war; the survey was written 03 November 1967 for the Regional Commission for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes, including a basic description of a labor camp and a concentration camp on Lwowska Street for Soviet POWs that were active in Chelm, 1941-1944. Also mentioned is the annihilation camp in the Okszow neighborhood in Chelm and the Borek Forest where Jews and POWs were executed by the Germans. A handwritten...

File Number : 1348

Type of Material : Testimony, Investigation Report

Language : Hebrew, Polish

Letters and postcards sent to and received by the Lebrecht and Bloch families in France and elsewhere, 1940-1945; documentation regarding the Lebrecht and Bloch families; and documentation regarding the fate of Benjamin Lebrecht and Samuel Lebrecht Letters and postcards: - Postcard written by Benjamin Lebrecht in a military camp in Albi and sent to Klara Lebrecht in the Gurs camp regarding the possibility of sending documents confirming that he was drafted into the army, 14/06/1940; - Letter written by Jeannette Bloch to Claire Lebrecht, in which Jeannette writes that Benjamin was deported to an...

File Number : 2525

Type of Material : Identity Card, Envelope, Postcard, Personal Records, Certification, Membership Cards, Order, Notepad, Document, Personal Documents, Letter, Passport, Official Documentation

Language : French, German