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Testimony of Yeshayahu Shaike Goldhersh, born in Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland in 1934, regarding his experiences as a child in the Piotrkow Trybunalski Ghetto, and in Bergen-Belsen and Ravensbrueck camps Piotrkow Trybunalski Ghetto life; deportation to Ravensbrueck camp; transfer to Bergen-Belsen camp; Bergen-Belsen camp life, without work [labor]; suffering from diseases and hunger; apathy; cruelties by the Ukrainian guards; piles of corpses; liberation by the British Army on 15 April 1945; transfer to Sweden with his mother for the purpose of his mother's convalescence; he studies for the first time in a...

File Number : 13662

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rivka Reuveni, born in Checiny, Poland, about her life in the ghetto and in the Częstochowa, Skarzysko, and Bergen-Belsen camps, and her 'aliya after the liberation

Testimony of Rivka Reuveni, born in Checiny, Poland, about her life in the ghetto and in the Częstochowa, Skarzysko, and Bergen-Belsen camps, and her 'aliya after the liberation. Rivka Reuveni lived in Checiny, Poland, with her parents and her four sisters. When the ghetto there was established, her aunt's family joined them. Rivka was sent to the Skarzysko Kamienna labor camp at the age of twelve. She fell ill with typhus and due to denunciation was sent to a death camp. With the help of a Jewish doctor, she recovered and returned to work. As the Red Army approached, she was sent to a labor camp in...

File Number : 1238

Type of Material : Manuscript, Testimony

Testimony of Ilana Hochbaum Milikowski, born in Lyntupy, Poland, in 1936 regarding her escape from a liquidation"Aktion" and regarding the help of Russian partisans

Testimony

German occupation 1941; establishment of the ghetto; deportation with the parents to the Postawy ghetto; liquidation of the ghetto and uprising; smuggling with her sister by a Pole to Lyntupy; "Aktion" of liquidation; the grandfather is shot; escape with the sister and aunt during the "Aktion"; hiding with villagers; patronage and protection of Russian partisans; liberation in 1944; Soviet education and activity at the komsomol; aliya to Israel in 1960

File Number : 13757

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Shneider Yaakov Shmuel, born in Kosino, Czechoslovakia, 1932, regarding his experiences in the Berehovo ghetto and in the Auschwitz-Birkenau, Plaszow, Gross Rosen, Goerlitz and Zittau camps

Testimony

Schneider Shmuel Jacob, born in Kosino, Czechoslovakia, 1932, regarduing the Berehovo ghetto and deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Plaszow, Gross Rosen, Goerlitz and Zittau camps Family background; childhood in a religious family; his father is a hero of the World War I. Entry of the Hungarians; entry of the Germans, March 1944; deportation to the Berehovo ghetto; stay in a brick factory for several weeks; transfer to Auschwitz II-Birkenau; selection at the entrance to the camp; rescue by an anonymous inmate from the camp to the gas chambers and transfer to the camp; finding his father and relatives;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony Joseph Fridman, born in Borsa, Romania, in 1927 regarding deportation to Auschwitz and other camps

Orthodox family; 10 Jewish families in the village; moving to Hungarian control in 1940; anti-Jewish laws; deportation to the Cluj ghetto in 1944; deportation by transport to Auschwitz Birkenau in May 1944; remaining with the father; transfer to Buchenwald and Magdeburg camps; injury of the father during the bombing of the camp; moving to the barrack for handicapped in Buchenwald; information regarding the death of the parents and the brothers; activity in aliya bet; illegal immigration on board the ship "Arba Hirouyot" (four freedoms) in 1946; exile to Cyprus; aliya back to Israel; establishment of the Odim...

File Number : 13692

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Gover Branddshtein Agnes, born in Bustina, Czech Republic, in 1929 regarding Mateszalka ghetto, regarding deportation to Auschwitz Birkenau , Birnbaumel and others

Testimony

Parents'house; Hungarian occupation in 1939; deportation of the Jews without citizenship; getting Hungarian citizenship; studies in Mukacevo; expulsion from school in 1943; presence of people from the Arrow Cross Party in the village; curfew; yellow badge; searches at home; preparation for deportation; deportation of the father to a labor camp in 1941; moving to a small house; hiding the jewelry in the courtyard; concentration of the Jewish population in the synagogue; deportation to the Mateszalka ghetto; food parcels from the grandfather in Budapest; deportation to Auschwitz Birkenau in freight trains;...

File Number : 13705

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sherer Moshkovitz Lea Lula, born in Konin, Poland, in 1924 regarding the Ostrowiec ghetto and the Kamienna Skarzysko camps and others

Testimony

Antisemitism before the war; outbreak of war in 1939; arrest and deportation from the city; asylum in Ostrowiec; deportation to the ghetto; cleaning works; murder of the brother was he was trying to escape to Russia; murder of the mother and brothers in gas vansnear Konin in 1941; liquidation "aktion" of the Ostrowiec ghetto; deportation to the Skarzysko Kamienna camp in 1942; working in a porcelain factory; forced labor in moving stones from one place to the other in Auschwitz; going on the death march at the end of 1944-January 1945; deportation to the Kratzau and Gruental camps in the Sudetenland; forced...

File Number : 13741

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mikhael Peter Hendrich Ben Dror Kelman, born in 1941 in Hilversum, Netherlands, about his experiences as an infant in the Amsterdam ghetto, in the Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen camps, and immigration to Eretz Israel as part of a prisoner swap

Parents born in Germany; grandson of the writer Georg Hermann Borchardt; family escapes from Germany to the Netherlands in 1933; grandfather's books burned in Germany; father, Herbert Kelman, escapes; deportation to the Amsterdam ghetto along with mother and grandfather; deportation to Westerbork in 1943; hospitalized in the camp and spared from the transports; grandfather sent to Auschwitz and transferred to Bergen-Belsen; swapping of Templer prisoners from Mandate Palestine; transported to Eretz Israel by train via Turkey in June 1944; received by Kibbutz Sede Nehemia.

File Number : 13546

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Edita Alon Carl Shultz, born in Kosice, Czechoslovakia, in 1920 regarding the Kosice ghetto and her rescue in Budapest.

-About the family; transition to Hungarian ruling in 1939; she married a Jewish doctor, a refugee from Czechoslovakia in 1940; recruitment with protection to a unit of Hungarian doctors in 1941; confiscation of the shop owned by the family; expropriation of a room for the benefit of a Hungarian officer; German occupation in 1944; his mother was arrested for interrogation; confiscation of jewelry; deportation to the ghetto ; she got permission to reunite with her husband; rescue; moving to Budapest; birth of a son, starvation; double suicide attempt and rescue; hiding in the Jewish hospital; murder by people...

File Number : 13695

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shmuel Shvartz, born in Borszczow, Poland in 1936, regarding his experiences as a child in the Borszczow Ghetto and on the Aryan side, and while in hiding places in Zalozce and Karolowka

Testimony of Shmuel Shvartz, born in Borszczow, Poland in 1936, regarding his experiences as a child in the Borszczow Ghetto and on the Aryan side, and while in hiding places in Zalozce and Karolowka His father works in the management of an agricultural farm; German occupation in 1941; deportation to the Borszczow Ghetto; Borszczow Ghetto life; seven "Aktions" are conducted; concentration of the ghetto's Jews before deportation; murder of his grandmother; escape; deportation of his mother and siblings to Belzec camp during Sukkot (September-October) 1942; life in hiding in bunkers with his father during the...

File Number : 13794

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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