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Testimony of Chaim Stern, born in Dornesti, Romania in 1934, regarding his experiences in Transnistria, Bershad Ghetto, and the children’s home in Apeldoorn, The Netherlands.

Testimony of Chaim Stern, born in Dornesti, Romania in 1934, regarding his experiences in Transnistria, Bershad Ghetto, and the children’s home in Apeldoorn, The Netherlands. His nuclear family; revolt of members of Iron Guard in January 1941; transfer to Radauti; antisemitic acts; religious life; expulsion by train to Transnistria; transit point in Atachi; confiscation of valuables by Romanian gendarmes; river crossing by raft; drownings; march to Bershad; typhus; types of labor performed by his mother; deaths of many people from cold, hunger, and disease; activity of the partisans; entry of the Russians in...

File Number : 13672

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Batya Hefetz née Fiser Szabo, born in 1923 in Viseul de Sus, Romania, about her experiences in the Viseul de Sus ghetto and in the Stutthof, Auschwitz, and Bromberg camps

Testimony

Testimony of Batya Hefetz née Fiser Szabo, born in 1923 in Viseul de Sus, Romania, about her experiences in the Viseul de Sus ghetto and in the Stutthof, Auschwitz, and Bromberg camps Hungary re-annexes Viseul de Sus; life under Hungarian rule in 1940; German occupation ensues in 1944; ghettoization; life in the ghetto in 1944; deportation with family to Auschwitz; transfer to Stutthof in autumn 1944; transfer to Bromberg; life in the camp; working in an armaments plant in 1944; death march; liberated by Red Army forces in January 1945; life in a Polish village nearby; convalescence; return to Viseul de Sus...

File Number : 13549

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Moshe Zisman, born in Bucharest, Romania, 1937, regarding his experiences and the experiences of his family being rescued from deportation to Transnistria with the help of an Iron Guard man and in hiding in Bucharest Family life; synagogues in the community; attends the Achdut Jewish school; rise to power of the Iron Guard; draft to labor of the men including his father; a neighbor serving in the Iron Guard; forced labor [of his father]; his family's relationship with the neighbor; detention of his father and his release with the aid of his neighbor; pogroms in Bucharest; deportation of Jews...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Miriam (Klughaupt) Nir, born in Iasi, Romania, 1926, regarding her experiences in Iasi

Testimony

Testimony of Miriam (Klughaupt) Nir, born in Iasi, Romania, 1926, regarding her experiences in Iasi Childhood in Iasi including religious life and a Zionist atmosphere; attends a Hebrew kindergarten and a Jewish school; move to a Romanian private school, 1939; increasing displays of antisemitism; worsening attitude toward Jews; yellow badge. The Iasi pogrom; Red Army occupation of Iasi. Life after the war; meeting with Transnistria orphans; unsuccessful aliya attempt to Eretz Israel on the ship "Medinat Hajehudim", detention in Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel; enlists into the Palmach; [emigration from...

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

Testimony of Sofia Doczminer née Fried, born in 1924 in Berbesti, Romania, about her experiences in Berbesti, Budapest, the Hunsfeld camp, Auschwitz, and elsewhere

Testimony

Testimony of Sofia Doczminer née Fried, born in 1924 in Berbesti, Romania, about her experiences in Berbesti, Budapest, the Hunsfeld camp, Auschwitz, and elsewhere Life before the war; connection with the Satmar Hasidim; antisemitism in Romania escalates; activity of the Iran Guard movement in 1937; Hungary re-annexes the area in 1940; antisemitism escalates and Jews are placed under restrictions; father's business is transferred to Sighet in 1940; escaping to relatives in Budapest in 1943; escaping back to Berbesti in 1944; deportation to Auschwitz in 1944; transfer with her three sisters to Hunsfeld; life...

File Number : 13453

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ilona Rachel Lea (Hershkovitz) Isaak, born in Coltirea, Romania, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Baia Mare Ghetto, Auschwitz and Goerlitz

Testimony

Testimony of Ilona Rachel Lea (Hershkovitz) Isaak, born in Coltirea, Romania, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Baia Mare Ghetto, Auschwitz and Goerlitz Her childhood in her parents' home. Romania joins the war, 1940; hiding of their valuables with their neighbors; deportation to the Baia Mare Ghetto; deportation on a train to Auschwitz; separation between men and women; selection by Dr. Mengele; tattooing of number 12473 on her arm; life in Auschwitz in Block 20, Camp C, together with her mother and another 1,200 women, including fasting on Yom Kippur; transfer to Block 16 in Camp B in Auschwitz;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Pnina Pearl (Wolf) Schachter, born in Seletin, Romania, 1933, regarding her experiences in Radauti, Transnistria, Mogilev, the Tropovoye Ghetto and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Pnina Pearl (Wolf) Schachter, born in Seletin, Romania, 1933, regarding her experiences in Radauti, Transnistria, Mogilev, the Tropovoye Ghetto and other places Life under Soviet occupation, 1940; life under Romanian occupation, 1941; move to Radauti; move back, 1941; deportation to Transnistria via Bessarabia; acts of harassment and riots by Ukrainians in Edineti, 1941; life in Mogilev; deportation of her father to forced labor; return of her father; transfer to Tropovoye, 1942; death of her mother due to typhus disease; death of her brother due to typhus disease; death of her sister due to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Dan Thomas Spira, born in Nitra, Czechoslovakia, 1932, regarding his experiences in Novaky, Nitra and Banska Bystrica

Testimony

Testimony of Dan Thomas Spira, born in Nitra, Czechoslovakia, 1932, regarding his experiences in Novaky, Nitra and Banska Bystrica His childhood in Novaky in a well-to-do, traditional family. Expulsion from the public school in Novaky in the context of the anti-Jewish restrictions, 1940; dismissal of his father by the fascist party from his position as a physician in Novaky; his family's move to Nitra; life in Nitra among the Orthodox religious community including the witness attending a Jewish school; deportation of his family to Novaky N-204 camp [?], 1942; camp life including his father's labor as the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zipora Pina (Simon) Eidelstein, born in Garlele Gazariei, 1937, Romania, regarding her experiences in Gazariei, Bacau and Moinesti

Testimony

Testimony of Zipora Pina (Simon) Eidelstein, born in Garlele Gazariei, 1937, Romania, regarding her experiences in Gazariei, Bacau and Moinesti Life in Gazariei; increase in antisemitism. Harrassment of Jews, 1940; deportation of the Jews of Gazariei, including her family, to Moinesti, 1943; transfer to Bacau, 1943; transfer of her father to forced labor; receiving medical help from a Romanian Army physician who risked his life to save Eidelstein from becoming disabled; liberation, 1944. Move to Moinesti, 1945; aliya [to Eretz Israel?] of her brother and sister through Youth Aliyah, 1947; life under...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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