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Identity card of Cyla Bau, born in Stanislau, Poland, 1897, issued in the Krakow Ghetto, 04 March 1941

Identity card of Cyla Bau, born in Stanislau, Poland, 1897, issued in the Krakow Ghetto, 04 March 1941 Validity of the certificate of Cyla Bau, born in Stanislau, 08 April 1897, was renewed for the last time on 22 February 1942; the certificate also includes a record of departures to forced labor assignments; the last entry in the certificate was made on 10 September 1942.

File Number : 1209

Type of Material : Personal Documents

Language : German

Testimony of Moshe Hofshteter, born in Rzeszow, Poland in 1925, regarding his experiences in Rzeszow, in the Lwow Ghetto and while using a false identity

Testimony

Testimony of Moshe Hofshteter, born in Rzeszow, Poland in 1925, regarding his experiences in Rzeszow, in the Lwow Ghetto and while using a false identity Life before the war; Outbreak of the war and escape to Lwow with his family; German occupation; Lwow Ghetto life; "Aktions" and escape from the ghetto, using forged documents; liberation; Return to Lwow; studies; attempt to make aliya to Eretz Israel on the "Enzo Sereni" ship; detention in Atlit camp; starts a family.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Miriam Shtein Fuks, born in Gurghiu, Romania, in 1924 regarding deportation to Auschwitz Birkenau and other camps

Family background in Gurghiu; family with religious lifestyle; attending a local school; moving to a government gymnasium in Reghin; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish laws in 1942; deportation of the men to labor camps; moving to Cluj; attending the Jewish gymnasium; German occupation; yellow badge; concentration of the Jews in the ghetto; deportation by wagons to Auschwitz Birkenau; negative attitude of the blockalteste; life in the Czech barrack number 26 in the Lager B1; moving by train to Zschopau; working in a factory producing motorbikes; improvement of the living conditions; transfer to...

File Number : 13736

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Fuks Semion, born in Krasnoye, the Soviet Union in 1936, regarding his experiences in the ghetto in Transnistria

Testimony of Fuks Semion, born in Krasnoye, the Soviet Union in 1936, regarding his experiences in the ghetto in Transnistria Life before the war; German occupation, July 1941; Romanian occupation in August 1941; establishment of the Krasne Ghetto in Transnistria in autumn 1941; the obligation to wear a yellow badge, imposition of contributions; cold; typhus epidemic; death of his mother; agricultural labor; deportation of his father to Vinnitsa; liberation in March 1944; rehabilitation of life after the war; aliya to Israel on 28 November 1991.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

Testimony of Yisrael Salek Delayahu Dłuzniewski, born in 1926 in Łódź, about his experiences in the Łódź ghetto and in the Auschwitz, Gusen-Men, Birkenau, and Mauthausen camps

Life as a boy in Lodz; family background; attends a cheder and a Polish school; belongs to the Zionist youth movement; war erupts in 1939; shops vandalized; shortage of bread; witness escapes with mother to Tomaszow Mazowiecki; escapes back to Lodz; life in the ghetto; the Sperre Aktion; parting with mother and sister, who are deported to Chełmno; labor in a leather workshop; Jews from Germany arrive; the Yom Kippur fast in the ghetto in 1944; deportation by train to Auschwitz-Birkenau; the chair of the Judenrat, Chaim Rumkowski; witnessing the murder of the commander of the Jewish police (Hosenblat); life in...

File Number : 13620

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Gavriel Goldstein Avni, born in Oradea, Romania, 1923, regarding his experiences during the war, including a summary of his experiences before the war

Memoirs of Gavriel Goldstein Avni, born in Oradea, Romania, 1923, regarding his experiences during the war, including a summary of his experiences before the war Life in Bihor; death of his father, 1933; move to Oradea; learns Torah; attends an elementary school including studies in a Jewish high school in the afternoon; learns knitting in order to help earn the family's livelihood. German Army occupation of Hungary, 1944; life under German occupation including the imposition of decrees, obligation to wear a yellow badge, ban on entry into [public] places, and taxes; [deportation to the] ghetto; ghetto...

File Number : 8554

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mia (Ordinon) Beili, born in Cernauti, Romania in 1938, regarding her experiences as a child in the Cernauti Ghetto and on the Aryan side

Testimony of Mia (Ordinon) Beili, born in Cernauti, Romania in 1938, regarding her experiences as a child in the Cernauti Ghetto and on the Aryan side Life before the war; assimilated, Zionist family; Deportation to the Cernauti Ghetto; Cernauti Ghetto life including overcrowding; smuggled from the ghetto with her parents and taken to the smuggler's home; life on the Aryan side; retreat by the Germans; liberation by the Red Army; Move to Brasov with help from the Jewish community; she attends a Jewish school; attempt to make illegal aliya to Eretz Israel on the "Pan York" ship; detention in Cyprus;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Personal documents of the Brem family, 1989-2011

Personal documents of the Brem family, 1989-2011 Included in the file: - Biography of his grandmother Anna Brem, written by Yitzchak Gordon, 27 May 1989; - Copy of an article in an American newspaper about the Brem family when they received US citizenship, with mention of Paul Brem's work as a maintenance man and plumber at "Forest Park"; - Letter of testimony by Ellen Grosbard Brem regarding her parents' life during the war, dated, 04 April 2011 and an additional letter of testimony, dated, 02 May 2011; Note: Anna Brem, born 20 October 1924, was the daughter of Yitzhak Yaacov and Erlanki [?],...

File Number : 8581

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony, Biography, Article

Language : English

Testimony of Nina Reznik Sterniak, born in 1931 in Kupel, Soviet Union, about the Proskurov and Zhmerinka ghettos

Testimony

Testimony of Nina Reznik Sterniak, born in 1931 in Kupel, Soviet Union, about the Proskurov and Zhmerinka ghettos Childhood before the war; German occupation ensues in July 1941; Romanian occupation ensues in autumn 1941; Proskurov ghetto established; life in the ghetto; family members die in pogroms in November 1941; witness escapes on eve of liquidation of ghetto in autumn 1942; hides with a local woman; sent on to the Zhmerinka ghetto with help of the woman who concealed her; liberated in 1944; reestablishes life after the war; immigrates to Israel in 1991.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

Testimony of Arie (Label Leon) Sade (Bittersfeld), born in Krakow, Poland in 1928, regarding his ‎experiences in Plaszow and Brunnlitz camps

Testimony of Arie (Label Leon) Sade (Bittersfeld), born in Krakow, Poland in 1928, regarding his ‎experiences in Plaszow and Brunnlitz camps His childhood; his father’s work in Germany; deportation of his father to Dachau, his murder and ‎sending his ashes to the family n Krakow; outbreak of war in 1939; wearing a yellow badge; ‎expulsion to the ghetto; hospitalization and death of his mother; transfer to an orphanage; escape ‎from the orphanage; deportation to Plaszow; murder of Jews by Nazi Commandant Amon Göth; ‎Oskar Schindler; destruction of Plaszow; transfer to Brunnlitz via Gross Rosen; life in...

File Number : 13671

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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