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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ester (Klabin) Grobman, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1920, regarding her experiences in Kaunas, the Kaunas Ghetto, Aleksotas, Stutthof, on death marches and in other places

Testimony

Testimony of Ester (Klabin) Grobman, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1920, regarding her experiences in Kaunas, the Kaunas Ghetto, Aleksotas, Stutthof, on death marches and in other places Her youth in a traditional, Zionist family; participation in a youth movement of the Herzlia organization of the general Zionists; attends a high school; studies in university. Red Army occupation of Kaunas, 1940; life under Soviet occupation including the nationalization of property; German Army occupation of Kaunas, 1941; Kaunas Ghetto life, August 1941-October 1943; death of her grandfather; death of her grandmother;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

Testimony of Halina (Shmulevitz) Barkani, born in Czestochowa, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in Czestochowa, the Czestochowa Ghetto, Tarvisio, Cyprus and Israel

Testimony

Testimony of Halina (Shmulevitz) Barkani, born in Czestochowa, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in Czestochowa, the Czestochowa Ghetto, Tarvisio, Cyprus and Israel Her childhood in a Zionist family. German Army occupation of Czestochowa, 1939; life under German occupation including termination of studies, restrictions on earning a livelihood and the decree regarding wearing a yellow badge; deportation to the Czestochowa Ghetto; "Aktions"; obtaining of forged documents for the family members; receives a work permit with her aunt; hiding of her parents during the "Aktion"; capture of her mother;...

File Number : 13281

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

List of Zionists from Grodno

File Number : 2868

Type of Material : List of Zionists

Language : Russian

Testimony of Esther (Troppauer) Nir, born in Plauen, Germany, 1926

Testimony

Testimony of Esther (Troppauer) Nir, born in Plauen, Germany, 1926 Childhood in a traditional, well-to-do family; move of the family to Berlin, 1931; antisemitism; obligation to hand over gold items, 1934; deportation of her father to Poland, October 1938; Kristallnacht, November 1938; attempt to smuggle the witness, her sister and her mother to Poland after making contact with her father; being captured by the Germans and her father's success in transferring them to Poland; the difficult acclimation in Bedzin; German occupation of Bedzin, September 1939; antisemitism; wearing a white badge; deportation...

File Number : 13359

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shmuel Gulan Goldberg, born in Pruzana, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Pruzana Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ebensee, Mauthausen and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Shmuel Gulan Goldberg, born in Pruzana, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Pruzana Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ebensee, Mauthausen and other places Life before the war; member of the General Zionists party. Soviet occupation, September 1939; closure of the Jewish schools; German occupation, June 1941; confiscation of monies and valuables; burial of Torah scrolls in cemeteries; establishment of the Judenrat; deportation to the Pruzana Ghetto; ghetto life; deportation to the ghetto of Jews from Bialystok and the vicinity; underground activities; murder of Jews in killing pits;...

File Number : 13224

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rafael Lachman born in Zloczew, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Zloczew Ghetto, Zdunska Wola Ghetto, Lodz Ghetto, Kaufering and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Rafael Lachman born in Zloczew, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Zloczew Ghetto, Zdunska-Wola Ghetto, Lodz Ghetto, Kaufering and other places Life before the war; unsuccessful attempt to make aliya to Eretz Israel. German occupation; decrees; deportation to the Zloczew Ghetto; ghetto life; deportation to a camp in the Poznan area; camp life including forced labor; transfer to the Zdunska-Wola Ghetto; meeting with his mother; concentration of the Jews in a cemetery; selection and his mother's murder; injury; transfer to the Lodz Ghetto; his father's death; deportation to Auschwitz;...

File Number : 12700

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Kurt Dauber, born in Cernauti, 1929, regarding his experiences in Transnistria

Testimony

Testimony of Kurt Dauber, born in Cernauti, 1929, regarding his experiences in Transnistria Family background. Annexation to the Soviet Union, 1939; German occupation, 1941; murder of his father as part of a German reprisal for operations carried out by Russian partisans; agricultural labor; deportation to Transnistria with his mother, 1942; agricultural labor; labor as a translator for the Chief Agronomist; his mother's death from illness; transfer of orphans to Bucharest, 1944. Aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947; absorption.

File Number : 12524

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Yehuda Marshand, born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1914, regarding his experiences in the Dutch underground in Amsterdam, using a false identity with a non-Jewish family, Westerbork, Buna-Monowitz and other places Only son in a family who converted to Judaism; his father is active in the Sephardi community; attends a Jewish school; his mother is a feminist; member of the General Zionist party and Beitar; service as an officer in the Dutch Army; activities of his mother in a women's organisation for Eretz Israel; displays of antisemitism. Drafted into the army, 01 September 1939; release...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Uriel Levitan, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1940, regarding his experiences as a baby in the Kaunas Ghetto and hidden by a non-Jewish family

Testimony

Testimony of Uriel Levitan, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1940, regarding his experiences as a baby in the Kaunas Ghetto and hidden by a non-Jewish family Soviet occupation; exile of his grandparents to Siberia, 1940; German occupation, 1941; establishment of the Kaunas Ghetto; murder of his parents after they are informed on; life hidden by a non-Jewish family; liquidation of the ghettos and murder of most of the Kaunas Jews; liberation. Removal from his hiding place by a female relative; move to Poland under the auspices of Agudat Israel; aliya to Eretz Israel on the ship, “Kadima", 1947.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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