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Testimony of Shnirer Tulo, born in 1927 in Krakow, Poland, regarding transfer to the Krakow ‎Ghetto in 1941 and deportation to labor camps

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Testimony of Shnirer Tulo, born in 1927 in Krakow, Poland, regarding transfer to the Krakow ‎Ghetto in 1941 and deportation to labor camps Childhood: traditional family, Jewish school, antisemitism before the war, death of his father in ‎‎1936; German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939; anti-Jewish decrees; wearing the yellow ‎badge; limitations on movement; confiscation of property, etc.; German officials taking over part ‎of the family’s apartment; transfer to the Krakow Ghetto in March 1941; the Judenrat and the ‎Jewish police; forced labor inside and outside the ghetto; Jewish underground; Nazi...

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Testimony of Mordechay (Paul Georg) Fleischer, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1926 regarding his escape to Budapest, deportation to detention camps, escape from a death march and residing in the Glass House

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Childhood before the war; Fascist Slovakia, 1938; antisemitic events; Attempts to move to Budapest, Hungary, winter 1942-1943; getting arrested by Hungarian soldiers while escaping; sent back to Slovakia; escape to Hungary with the aid of a smuggler; arrival in Budapest; capture and arrest; decrees and restrictions; transferred to a prison by two Hungarian soldiers; deportation to a brick factory; escape to a marked house; capture and deportation for labor building fortifications and digging anti-tank trenches near Solnok, late October 1944; march towards Austria; escape to the Red Cross house in Budapest...

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Testimony of Yisrael Veisvaser, born in 1922 in Krasnystaw, Poland, about the German occupation in September 1939 and his escape to the Soviet Union

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Testimony of Yisrael Veisvaser, born in 1922 in Krasnystaw, Poland, about the German occupation in September 1939 and his escape to the Soviet Union Childhood in a traditional home; attends a cheder and a Polish elementary school; active in the Betar movement; German occupation ensues; Soviet invasion ensues in 1939; witness escapes to Brest and thence to Minsk; back to Brest; on to Ludman; arrested due to Zionist activity; deported to a labor camp in Rom, Soviet Union; transferred to a camp for craftspersons; released in June 1943; reaches Zhitomir and Chełm; discharged from the Polish Army in 1946; moves...

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Childhood in Dej; daily life; persecution of Jews, 1933; Deportation to a ghetto in a forest clearing in Dej; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; life in the camp; mutual assistance between sisters; transfer to the Langenbielau labor camp; liberation; Rebuilding life after the war; aliya to Israel, 1959.

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Testimony of Fredi Knoler, born in Vienna, Austria, in 1921 regarding the French resistance and the Drancy, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen camps

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German occupation and annexation of Austria( Anschluss) in 1938; Kristallnacht in 1938; crossing borders to Antwerpen,Belgium in 1938 where acquaintances of the family stayed; transfer to a camp for Jewish refugees (with the support of the Jewish community) in Merkplas in 1939; escape to France after the German occupation of Belgium in 1940; his detention in Lille,France because of his German (Austrian) nationality and transfer to the detention camp in St Cyprien in 1940; his escape from the camp to Gaillac and his work in agriculture in 1940; buying of forged certificates and his moving to Paris,as a French...

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results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

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Testimony of Rakhel (Veig) Davidovitz, born in Nagovo, Czechoslovakia in 1929, regarding her life in Nagovo, in Mateszalka Ghetto, and in Auschwitz, Fallersleben, and other camps

Testimony of Rakhel (Veig) Davidovitz, born in Nagovo, Czechoslovakia in 1929, regarding her life in Nagovo, in Mateszalka Ghetto, and in Auschwitz, Fallersleben, and other camps Childhood in Nagovo; antisemitism before the war; locale re-annexed to Hungary in 1940; revocation of family’s business license; mutual help; German occupation in March 1944; wearing of yellow badge; expulsion to Mateszalka Ghetto; life in the ghetto for several weeks; deportation to Auschwitz; family murdered in the camp; suffering abuse; roll calls; suffering from hunger; meeting with her two aunts; transfer to Fallersleben; life...

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Documentation belonging to Henryk Zwi and Roza (Pomeranc) Rozenberg, 1946-1965

Documentation belonging to Henryk Zwi and Roza (Pomeranc) Rozenberg, 1946-1965 - Documentation belonging to Henryk Rozenberg with a list of milestones he wrote down in the Feldafing DP camp, including the dates on which the events occurred (translated into Hebrew); the list is divided by events that occurred during the war and events that occurred afterwards; - Affidavits made by Henryk Rosenberg and his wife Roza ((Pomeranc) Rozenberg regarding their experiences during the war, given in Stuttgart, 1949; in the affidavits there is information regarding Henryk's time in the Radom Ghetto, the Vaihingen camp...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 732

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Declaration, Official Documentation, Personal Documents

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew, Polish, English, German

Testimony of Noah Galkoff, born in Lodz, Poland, 1925, regarding the Lodz ghetto and the liquidation of the ghetto

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Testimony of Noah Galkoff, born in Lodz, Poland, 1925, regarding the Lodz ghetto and the liquidation of the ghetto Family background; his father is a butcher; good relations with the Polish and German neighbors; studies in a Jewish school. The outbreak of war; deportation to the ghetto; life in the ghetto; food stamps; cleaning work; the Great Children's Aktion "Shifra", 1942; Rumkowski's speech; a four-year stay in the ghetto; towards the last year, the witness' work in cleaning the houses of deported Jews, belonging to the "Yakuba" commando of the liquidation of the ghetto, named after Jakuba Street in...

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Testimony of Chaim Kohen, born in Thessaloniki, Greece in 1930, regarding his life in hiding among nuns and with a Greek Christian family in Athens, and his escape to Turkey

Testimony of Chaim Kohen, born in Thessaloniki, Greece in 1930, regarding his life in hiding among nuns and with a Greek Christian family in Athens, and his escape to Turkey Childhood and move to Athens; war with Italy in 1940; German occupation in 1941; escape with his family to the village of Plaka in 1941; hiding for about two months; family’s return to Athens in 1941; life under Italian regime; the great famine; move, with assistance from Italian governor (a friend of his father’s), into hiding among Italian nuns in the hospital complex in the Anaros region in 1942–1943; father’s move of the family to a...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 13767

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

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