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Letters of Shoshana Uspitz and Samuel Taboryski, former labor camp inmates in Vilna, written to Alfons von Deschwanden on their experiences in the HKP camp in Vilna and their rescue, 1971-1981

Letters of Shoshana Uspitz and Samuel Taboryski, former labor camp inmates in Vilna, written to Alfons von Deschwanden on their experiences in the HKP camp in Vilna and their rescue, 1971-1981 Alfons von Deschwanden's service in the German Army during the war under the command of Karl Plagge; help to Uspitz and Taboryski during the war from von Deschwanden; the story of von Deschwanden taken from the book of Michael Good on Karl Plagge (Second edition, 2006); translation of the letters to English by Patricia Ryan Brunner, Mimi Sherwin and Gottlieb Brunner; the letters are submitted by von Deschwanden's...

File Number : 1739

Type of Material : Letter

Language : English, German

Testimony of Israel Ben Efraim Buchbinder, born in Krakow, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Krakow Ghetto, the Bochnia Ghetto, Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Szebnie camps, and a death march

Testimony

Testimony of Israel Ben Efraim Buchbinder, born in Krakow, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Krakow Ghetto, the Bochnia Ghetto, Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Szebnie camps, and a death march Orthodox family. Move of the family to Dobczyce after the occupation, until the beginning of 1941; return to Krakow, living in the ghetto until its liquidation, March 1943; entry into the Bochnia Ghetto with his mother helped by Jewish police who had status and contacts in the Plaszow camp; contact with the Hechalutz Halochem - the Fighting Pioneer movement in the ghetto; deportation to Szebnie camp for two months,...

File Number : 11406

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Jaakov Shvartzberg born in Vilna, (Lithuania) Poland, 1934, regarding his experiences in the Vilna Ghetto and Herrenkraft Park camp

Testimony

Testimony of Jaakov Shvartzberg born in Vilna, (Lithuania) Poland, 1934, regarding his experiences in the Vilna Ghetto and Herrenkraft Park camp His family. German occupation, 1941; abuse; fate of his grandfather; kidnapping of Jews to forced labor or to be killed in Ponar; establishment of the Vilna Ghetto, September 1941; organization of the school in the Vilna Ghetto; steals bread; Jewish police; "Aktion", August 1943; mass deportations to Estonia; deportation with his parents to Herrenkraft Park camp, HKP; camp life and labor; "Aktion" against children; in hiding; lack of help; deportation a week...

File Number : 10906

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Perla (Skorecka) Mandel, born in Krakow, Poland, 1913, regarding her experiences in Krakow, Plaszow Auschwitz and Brunnlitz camps

Testimony

Testimony of Perla (Skorecka) Mandel, born in Krakow, Poland, 1913, regarding her experiences in Krakow, Plaszow Auschwitz and Brunnlitz camps Family life in Krakow before the war. Escape to Tarnopol for a few months; return with her baby under a false identity via Przemysl to Krakow and then Prokocim, spring 1940; meets with her husband and move to Wieliczka; her husband's involvement with H.K.P.; transfer of the female H.K.P. workers to the Krakow Ghetto and deportation of the remaining Jews to Belzec in an "Aktion", late 1942; among the deportees was her baby son who was hospitalized during the...

File Number : 10597

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mosze Fajgenberg, born in Dworce, Poland, 1909, regarding his experiences in the Vilna Ghetto and with the partisans in Rudnicka Puszcza

Testimony

Testimony of Mosze Fajgenberg, born in Dworce, Poland, 1909, regarding his experiences in the Vilna Ghetto and with the partisans in Rudnicka Puszcza Outbreak of the war, 1939; escape to Vilna; Soviet occupation; German occupation, 1941; deportation to the Vilna Ghetto; escape to Rudnicka Puszcza; joins Soviet partisans; life with the partisans in a forest as a physician; liberation. Aliya to Israel, 1948.

File Number : 2069

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Eliahu Iezerski, born in Grodno, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Grodno Ghetto, Bialystok Ghetto, Vilna Ghetto and with the partisans

Testimony of Eliahu Iezerski, born in Grodno, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Grodno Ghetto, Bialystok Ghetto, Vilna Ghetto and with the partisans Life before the war; his family; activities in Hashomer Hatzair; antisemitism. Soviet occupation, September 1939; economic situation; completion of his matriculation certificate; refugees; cessation of the youth movement activities; German occupation, 1941; anti-Jewish legislation; deportation to the Grodno Ghetto A; labor in a HKP engine repair workshop; Judenrat; Jewish police; escape to Kielbasin and return to the Grodno Ghetto, February 1943;...

File Number : 6166

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Eliahu Shachnovitz, born in Volkovyshki, Lithuania, 1914, regarding his experiences in the Kowno Ghetto, Stutthof, Landsberg, Dachau, in a forest and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Eliahu Shachnovitz, born in Volkovyshki, Lithuania, 1914, regarding his experiences in the Kowno Ghetto, Stutthof, Landsberg, Dachau, in a forest and other places Life before the war; attends school within the framework of ORT in Kowno; drafted into the Lithuanian Army, 1935; released from the army; work in a factory. Outbreak of the war between the Soviet Union and Germany, 22 June 1941; German occupation, 25 June 1941; murder of approximately 800 Jews in a suburb of Slobodka; escape of Jews to the Soviet border; Kramer, the German commander; anti-Jewish decrees; deportation to the Kowno...

File Number : 5961

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Gideon Arie, born in Vilna, Poland, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, the FPO, the United Partisan Organization, and in Kailis and H.K.P.

Testimony

Testimony of Gideon Arie, born in Vilna, Poland, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, the FPO, the United Partisan Organization, and in Kailis and H.K.P. Life before the war; attends a high school. German occupation, 1941; deportation to the Vilna Ghetto with his parents, autumn 1941; Vilna Ghetto life including work in carpentry and metal working and as an apprentice in a workshop; earns a livelihood from selling stamps, for approximately six months; "Aktions"; joins the FPO, the United Partisan Organization; capture of Yitzhak Wittenberg; liquidation of the Vilna Ghetto, 23 September...

File Number : 5148

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avraham Grund, born in Lvov, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in Lwow, Janowska, Brody, the Soviet Union and as a Red Army soldier

Testimony

Testimony of Avraham Grund, born in Lvov, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in Lwow, Janowska, Brody, the Soviet Union and as a Red Army soldier From an assimilated family. German occupation, 1941; riots against the Jews by Ukrainians; labor in a garage; deportation to Janowska; camp life; escape to Brody; joins Red Army soldiers and escape in the direction of the Soviet Union, winter 1942; life in the Soviet Union including enlists in the Red Army, August 1944; life as a Red Army soldier including combat; end of the war.

File Number : 4479

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Roza Niburg, born in Liepaja, Latvia, regarding her experiences in the Liepaja Ghetto, Riga, Danzig and Stutthof

Testimony

Testimony of Roza Niburg, born in Liepaja, Latvia, regarding her experiences in the Liepaja Ghetto, Riga, Danzig and Stutthof Life before the war. German occupation; pogroms; activities of Latvians with the Germans; deportation to forced labor; life in the Liepaja Ghetto; deportation to Riga; camp life including smuggling her daughter to non-Jewish acquaintances; labor in an HKP factory; transfer to Danzig by boat, August 1944; transfer to Stutthof; camp life including activities of Ukrainian female collaborators; liberation, January 1945. Finding her daughter.

File Number : 4508

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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