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Testimony of Tova Tauba (Topper) Cweczkenbaum, born in Tarnobrzeg, Poland, 1932, regarding her experiences in Tarnobrzeg, Lwow, Siberia and Uzbekistan

Testimony

Testimony of Tova Tauba (Topper) Cweczkenbaum, born in Tarnobrzeg, Poland, 1932, regarding her experiences in Tarnobrzeg, Lwow, Siberia and Uzbekistan From a religious family; father is drafted into the army, summer 1939. German occupation and bombings, September 1939; abuse of the synagogue beadle and the Rabbi; mandatory call-up in the city square and refusal by her mother to go; theft of their valuables; joining the convoy of the evacuated; march to Lwow; meeting her father; deportation to Siberia, summer 1941; transfer to camp at point 105; residence in shack with other children without adult...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Gerschon Scher, born in Kalisz, 1921, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw and Rzeszow Ghettos, and in the Szebnie and Birkenau camps

Testimony

Testimony of Gerschon Scher, born in Kalisz, 1921, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw and Rzeszow Ghettos, and in the Szebnie and Birkenau camps From a Zionist family; his father is a shoe merchant; activity in the Hashomer Hatzair movement; rise in displays of antisemitism from 1934 and onwards; occupation, 1939. Escape; air-raid next to Lututow; injured; return to Kalisz; receiving extended medical treatment; murder of the community elders; deportation to the Warsaw Ghetto, January 1940; attempt to organize an escape to Russia (within the framework of Hashomer Hatzair); failure of the escape plan;...

File Number : 11734

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Correspondence between various factories in Grodno and the local labor office (Arbeitsamt), regarding Jewish forced laborers from the Grodno Ghetto, 1942

Correspondence between various factories in Grodno and the local labor office (Arbeitsamt), regarding Jewish forced laborers from the Grodno Ghetto, 1942 Correspondence between German companies and institutions that had established branches in Grodno, including the Peter Ruppel and Karl Kunter companies, local industrial factories, the Grodno SS-Werkgruppe and the Grodno Wehrmacht Stadtkommandatur; the correspondence deals with orders for Jewish laborers, requests to give travel permits for specific Jewish laborers, Jews who were dismissed from work or who are no longer needed; notices regarding Jewish...

File Number : 3120

Type of Material : List of Forced Laborers, Official Documentation, List of Ghetto Inmates

Language : German

Testimony of Susanna (Szego) Gertler, born in Sajoszentpeter, Hungary, 1928, regarding her experiences as a child in the Sajoszentpeter Ghetto, Miskolc, Auschwitz and the Zittau camp

Testimony

Testimony of Susanna (Szego) Gertler, born in Sajoszentpeter, Hungary, 1928, regarding her experiences as a child in the Sajoszentpeter Ghetto, Miskolc, Auschwitz and the Zittau camp Life before the war; from a well-to-do family; her father is a bank manager. German occupation, 1944; establishment of the Sajoszentpeter Ghetto; ghetto life; volunteering to work with Jewish youth logging trees; escape to Miskolc; life in Miskolc; concentration of the Jews from the area in preparation for deportation to Auschwitz; deportation to Auschwitz with her father and family members, June 1944; transfer of her father...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rachel Helena (Aizman Gratz) Ronen, born in Lodz, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, and Auschwitz and Christianstadt camps

Testimony

Testimony of Rachel Helena (Aizman Gratz) Ronen, born in Lodz, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, and Auschwitz and Christianstadt camps Her father is an actor in the Yiddish theater; assimilated family. Escape of her father and brother to the Ural Mountains in the Soviet Union at the start of the German occupation; entry into the Lodz Ghetto; labor in a bra workshop; activities in Hanoar Hatzioni movement; a family acquaintance helps to prevent their deportation from the ghetto several times; deportation to Auschwitz, 1944; death of her mother; transfer to Christianstadt camp; forced...

File Number : 11702

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zeev Rosenblat Ronen, born in Lodz, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Dachau and Kaufering camps, and his escape from a death march

Testimony

Testimony of Zeev Rosenblat Ronen, born in Lodz, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Dachau and Kaufering camps, and his escape from a death march Assimilated family; his father is a tailor; activities in Hashomer Hatzair before the war. Life in the Lodz Ghetto, 1940-June 1944; forced labor, dismantling buildings; labor as a clerk in a Kleider Apteilung factory producing dresses; deportation to Auschwitz; death of his family; deportation to Dachau camp; entry into Kaufering camp; labor for the Moll company; forced labor building subterranean storerooms for weapons; death march...

File Number : 11699

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chawa Borenstein Trakinski, born in Podbrodzie, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, hiding in villages and in the Stutthof and Kaiserwald camps

Testimony

Testimony of Chawa Borenstein Trakinski, born in Podbrodzie, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, hiding in villages and in the Stutthof and Kaiserwald camps Traditional family, the father is a bookkeeper for the community affairs; antisemitism before the war. Move to Vilna with the outbreak of the war, 1939; after the German occupation detention in prison together with thousands of Jews; release with the help of non-Jewish acquaintance; murder of Jews in Ponary; help in getting out of the ghetto, September 1941; wanderings after losing the family; farm work and hiding with non-Jews;...

File Number : 11413

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Natan Grajcer Peled, born in Bedzin, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in camps in Silesia and Gross-Rosen

Testimony

Testimony of Natan Grajcer Peled, born in Bedzin, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in camps in Silesia and Gross-Rosen Poor family; contacts with non-Jews; attends a Jewish school in Bedzin. German occupation; capture by the Jewish police, early 1940; deportation to forced labor in camps in Silesia; transfer to Gross-Rosen, 1944; camp life including labor in construction and electricity; liberation by the Red Army. Work in the Red Army; joins an aliya training group, 1947; Irgun activities in Vienna; aliya to Eretz Israel on the "Altalena" ship.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Eva (Adler) Evron, born in Nagyvarad, Romania, 1929, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz, Ochsenzoll, Hamburg, Estonia and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Eva (Adler) Evron, born in Nagyvarad, Romania, 1929, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz, Ochsenzoll, Hamburg, Estonia and other places Religious family with limited means. German occupation; restrictions on Jews; deportation to a cement factory; deportation to Auschwitz; death of her family; murder of her twin brother; transfer to Ochsenzoll; camp life including labor in a bullet factory; transfer to Hamburg; camp life; transfer to Estonia; labor logging trees; death march to Bergen-Belsen; liberation of the camp. Reunion with her brother, a Jewish Brigade soldier; move to Milan; aliya...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Trial of staff members at the regional Gestapoleitstelle (Gestapo headquarters) in Berlin: Evidence and defendants in the trial against former staff members at the Gestapo regional headquarters in Berlin, 1941-1950 Reference to File No. 44 containing information regarding the deportation of Jews from Duesseldorf to Izbica, 22 April 1942 and 15 June 1942, on Transport Nos. Da 52 and Da 22 (locating Jewish residents, preparations, arrangements and implementation) In the file: - Pages 1-3: Table of contents; - Pages 4-13: RSHA (Reich Main Security Office) Guideline (signed by Adolf Eichmann) concerning...

File Number : 124

Language : German

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