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Testimony of Guta (Danziger) Steinfeld, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, Majdanek, Skarzysko-Kamienna and Leipzig

Testimony

Testimony of Guta (Danziger) Steinfeld, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, Majdanek, Skarzysko-Kamienna and Leipzig From a traditional family; lives on Leszno Street. Direct hit on her home the first day of the war; deportation to the Warsaw Ghetto; lives in her uncle's apartment, 1940; work in a Schultz shop sewing uniforms; family receives "Essential Workers" papers; "Aktions" and deportations of family members; rumors concerning annihilation; liquidation of the ghetto and hiding with other people in a bunker; demolition of the bunker by the Germans; murder of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Blanka (Kuenreich) Ickowicz, born in Krakow, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences as a child using a false identity in a village, in the Krakow Ghetto, Plaszow, Skarzysko Kamienna, Leipzig and a death march Life before the war. German occupation, 1939; confiscation of the family's property; restrictions on the Jews including wearing an armband; eviction from the family's home; life in a village in the home of a Polish family; life using a false identity as a non-Jew; escape of her father to Lwow; deportation to the Krakow Ghetto; ghetto life including walks to Krakow and bringing objects...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zehava (Margules) Kalstein, born in Bukaczowce, Poland, 1919, regarding her experiences in the Deblin Ghetto, Czestochowa and HASAG

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Testimony of Zehava (Margules) Kalstein, born in Bukaczowce, Poland, 1919, regarding her experiences in the Deblin Ghetto, Czestochowa and HASAG Life before the war; move to Deblin; studies. Outbreak of the war, 1939; draft of her father to labor; yellow badge; confiscation of valuables by Poles; deportation to the Deblin Ghetto; Deblin Ghetto life including the Judenrat and the Jewish police; religious life in the ghetto; mortality of people [in the ghetto] due to hunger and disease; lice plague and typhus disease; Jewish physicians in the ghetto; deportation to a labor camp near the ghetto; murder of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Arie Leib Goldring, born in Piotrkow, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Piotrkow Ghetto, Czestochowa and Buchenwald

Testimony

Testimony of Arie Leib Goldring, born in Piotrkow, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Piotrkow Ghetto, Czestochowa and Buchenwald Life in Piotrkow before the war; well-to-do, traditional family; his father is a merchant; witness learns in a "heder" and attends a Polish school. Air-raids on Piotrkow and Jews escape; deportation to the Piotrkow Ghetto; Piotrkow Ghetto life including the ban on the employment of Jews by Poles; deportation of his father to forced labor laying railroad tracks; flogging of his mother due to the smuggle of food; transfer of his mother to the prison; death of his...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mordechai Mieczyslaw Vulf, born in Czestochowa, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Czestochowa Ghetto, the HASAG camp, Buchenwald, Ravensbrueck and Sachsenhausen

Testimony

Testimony of Mordechai Mieczyslaw Vulf, born in Czestochowa, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Czestochowa Ghetto, the HASAG camp, Buchenwald, Ravensbrueck and Sachsenhausen Life before the war; move to Bedzin. Outbreak of the war, September 1939; move to his grandfather in Czestochowa; deportation to the Czestochowa Ghetto; ghetto life including labor in an ammunitions factory; transfer to the small ghetto; labor in the HASAG factory for recycling ammunition, late 1940; deportation to Buchenwald, late 1941; transfer to Ravensbrueck; camp life including labor in the mechanics commando in the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaim Kurland, born in Czestochowa, Poland, 1935, regarding his experiences as a child in the Czestochowa Ghetto and Bergen-Belsen

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Testimony of Chaim Kurland, born in Czestochowa, Poland, 1935, regarding his experiences as a child in the Czestochowa Ghetto and Bergen-Belsen From a traditional family. German occupation; life in the Czestochowa Ghetto; witness's father's labor in a HASAG recycling ammunitions factory; deportation to Bergen-Belsen disguised as a girl, 1945; deportation of his father to Buchenwald, 1945; liberation by the British Army, April 1945. Aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947; life on Kibbutz Usha.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yitzhak Iche Senderovitz, born in Sedziszow, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in Skarzysko Kamienna, Buchenwald and Schlieben

Testimony

Testimony of Yitzhak Iche Senderovitz, born in Sedziszow, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in Skarzysko Kamienna, Buchenwald and Schlieben Life before the war; the Jewish community; relations with the non-Jewish population. Outbreak of the war, September 1939; escape to villages; in hiding in forests; draft to forced labor; restrictions on Jews; shearing of beards; concentration of the Jews in the marketplace; deportation to Treblinka; labor in the area of the railroad station; transfer to Skarzysko Kamienna; camp life including labor in a HASAG factory; typhus; recuperation; attitude of the...

File Number : 12932

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Arye Edelist, born in Czestochowa, Poland in 1924, regarding his experiences in HASAG camp

File Number : 7237

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Binem Wrzonski, born in Lodz, Poland in 1928, regarding his experiences in a HASAG camp

File Number : 7183

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Jehuda Brukner, born in Zarnowica, Poland in 1924, regarding his experiences during the war and in particular in a HASAG camp

File Number : 7181

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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