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Testimony of Abraham Ernst Ponger, born in Mikulas Litovsky Svaty, Czechoslovakia, in 1922, regarding his experiences in the Sered camp and in the battle of the partisans

Childhood before the war; Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria 1938; expulsion from school and carpentry studies; independence of Slovakia and anti-Jewish legislation 1939; deportation of Jews and escape to the mountains in March 1942; going back home and deportation to the Sered camp,in April 1945; work in carpentry; underground in the camp; Slovak uprising and escape ,in August 1944; joining partisans; actions against Germans; liberation by the red army,in April 1945; joining aliya training; illegal immigration to Eretz Israel on the Theodor Herzl ship,on 01 April 1947; exile to Cyprus; aliya back to...

File Number : 13772

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaim Hauszman Nave, born in Budapest, Hungary in 1933, regarding his experiences as a child in hiding in Budapest

Testimony of Chaim Hauszman Nave, born in Budapest, Hungary in 1933, regarding his experiences as a child in hiding in Budapest Life in Budapest in the home of an assimilated family; German occupation, 1944; deportation from their home; separation from his mother; life in hiding in Budapest until the liberation in 1945; He joins a group of children who were gathered by the JDC organization and by members of the Gordonia movement; they set sail for Eretz Israel on the "Knesset Yisrael" ship; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel in 1947; service in the Israel Air Force, IAF; receipt of the Mofet...

File Number : 13579

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Menahem Lior, born in Bedzin, Poland in 1928, regarding his experiences during ‎deportation to the Bedzin Ghetto and the work camp in Kamionka; hidden by a Pole; escape to ‎Eretz Israel His childhood in a socialist Zionist home; refugees from Germany; rise of antisemitism; outbreak of ‎war on 1 September 1939; anti-Jewish laws and decrees; restriction of Jewish movement and ‎concentration in one area; youth movements; agricultural farm; Zionist and underground ‎activities; infiltrating into a nearby work camp; work collecting and sorting possessions of the Jews ‎in the ghetto; removing dead...

File Number : 13735

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Itzhack Lehrer, born in Roman, Romania in 1926, regarding his experiences in Roman and in a camp in a forest

Testimony of Itzhack Lehrer, born in Roman, Romania in 1926, regarding his experiences in Roman and in a camp in a forest Life before the war; traditional family; his father was born in Germany; residence in a non-Jewish neighborhood; good relations with the non-Jews; Outbreak of the war; deportation to forced labor as a gardener in the municipality and forced labor at a sugar factory, 1942; transfer to labor, logging trees in a forest, 1943; life in a camp near the forest; attitude of the camp commander (a Russian spy); liberation, August 1944; Activities in the Gordonia movement; opening of a branch...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chava (Komorovski) Weinstein, born in Cornesti, Romania, 1923, regarding her experiences in Cornesti, the Bershad Ghetto, in the partisans, in Vinnitsa, Sverdlovsk and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Chava (Komorovski) Weinstein, born in Cornesti, Romania, 1923, regarding her experiences in Cornesti, the Bershad Ghetto, in the partisans, in Vinnitsa, Sverdlovsk and other places Pogrom in Cornesti, 1938. Life under Soviet rule, 1940; escape to the Soviet Union before the war between Germany and the Soviet Union, June 1941; German occupation, 1941; deportation to the Bershad Ghetto; escape from the ghetto; joins the Soviet partisans in the forests in the vicinity, 1941; life in the partisans; move to Vinnitsa, 1941; life in Vinnitsa including work; move to the Caucasus region; life in the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Idel Yehuda Uchitel, born in 1916 in Zgurita, Romania, about his experiences in Zgurita, in the Kopaygorod ghetto, and with the partisans

Offspring of a religious Zionist family; Soviet occupation ensues in 1940; the German–Soviet war breaks out in 1941; witness escapes in the direction of Ukraine; circulates among villages in the area; arrested and deported to the Kopaygorod ghetto; life in the ghetto under dire conditions; working for a local peasant; escape with a friend to the forests; joins the partisans; the Germans close in and the witness retreats as far as Fergana; works in a textile plant; marries in a local synagogue; moves to Kiev in late 1944; rehabilitation; immigration to Israel in 1973; adjustment to life in Israel.

File Number : 13493

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Eti Iudit (Sin Iancu) Lupo, born in Botosani, Romania, 1932, regarding her experiences in Botosani and in hiding

Testimony

Testimony of Eti Iudit (Sin Iancu) Lupo, born in Botosani, Romania, 1932, regarding her experiences in Botosani and in hiding Outbreak of the war; termination of her studies in the school; studies in the synagogue; decree regarding wearing a yellow badge; displays of antisemitism; deportation of her father to forced labor; escape of her mother with her children to a village near Botosani; in hiding in a stable; move back to Botosani and then return to the stable, back and forth, until the end of the war. Joins the Gordonia movement, 1947; submittal of a request to make aliya to Israel, 1949; aliya to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Joseph Gendler, born in Secureni, Romania, 1930, regarding his experiences in the Edineti Ghetto, in a forest and in the Verkhovka Sovkhoz

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Testimony of Joseph Gendler, born in Secureni, Romania, 1930, regarding his experiences in the Edineti Ghetto, in a forest and in the Verkhovka Sovkhoz Childhood in an Orthodox family; Gordonia and Dror activities; studies in a Talmud Torah; Soviet occupation, 1940; deportation of the well-to-do to Siberia; abolition of private businesses; Romanian occupation, 1941; deportation to the Edineti Ghetto; Transnistria; living conditions; hunger; cold; mortality; bartering for food; physical abuse of Jews; living in a chicken coop and a stable; death of his mother and his sister in Pavlivka; escape to a forest...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Aliza Liza (Beer) Tannenbaum, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1932, regarding her experiences as a child in the Shargorod Ghetto, Cernauti Ghetto and the Bucharest Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Aliza Liza (Beer) Tannenbaum, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1932, regarding her experiences as a child in the Shargorod Ghetto, Cernauti Ghetto and the Bucharest Ghetto Family background. Deportation to the Cernauti Ghetto; yellow badge, 1941; deportation to Mogilev by freight train, October 1941; from there to Shargorod by wagon; life in the Shargorod Ghetto with her family; selling of goods to support the family; typhus fever; food parcels from the family in Bucharest; organized life in the ghetto, December 1942; Dr. Meir Teich; return to Suceava, 1944. Life with her family; move to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Juszko Josef Herz, born in 1927 in Zavazna Poruba, Czechoslovakia, about his experiences in Zavazna Poruba, Mikulas, hiding in Roksbany, etc.

Testimony

Testimony of Juszko Josef Herz, born in 1927 in Zavazna Poruba, Czechoslovakia, about his experiences in Zavazna Poruba, Mikulas, hiding in Roksbany, etc. Life in Zavazna Poruba as offspring of a lone Jewish family; deportation to Mikulas in 1941; typhus and hospitalization in April 1942; spared with parents from transport to camps; life in hiding in Roksbany from August 1942 to March 1944; taken to Lamsdorf; taken to Lichtenfeld; liberation in April 1945; immigration to Eretz Israel in 1947.

File Number : 13566

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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