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Testimony of Fela Lewkowicz née Pozmanter, born in 1930 in Skepe, Poland, about her experiences as a girl in Skepe, in Gostynin, in hiding with a non-Jew in the countryside, and in Germany during the war

Life before the war; offspring of a Mirrer Hasidic family; attends a Polish high school; religious life; antisemitism in school; aunt who holds Polish citizenship deported from Hamburg; aunt reaches the family home; war erupts; Jews deported to Warsaw; witness escapes with family to Gostynin; life there in the home of a family member; manhunt for Jewish males; works in nearby villages and smuggles food home for the family; escapes wth mother and sister to nearby villages; peasants treat them positively; lives with a peasant named Pawlowski; Pawlowski helps to smuggle witness's mother to Rosenberg; growing sugar...

File Number : 13524

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Memoirs of Arie Eliash, born in Negresti, Romania, 1930, regarding his experiences in Negresti, the Satu Mare Ghetto, Auschwitz, Buna-Monowitz, Buchenwald and other places

Memoirs of Arie Eliash, born in Negresti, Romania, 1930, regarding his experiences in Negresti, the Satu Mare Ghetto, Auschwitz, Buna-Monowitz, Buchenwald and other places Life with his parents in Negresti; traditional family; good financial situation; attends a local school and a Jewish school; life under fascist Romanian rule including incitements. Hungarian occupation; harassment of the Jews; visit of an emissary from Poland to the synagogue; information regarding the murder of the Jews of Poland from the emissary; German occupation; refusal to escape to a hiding place in the forest; nationalization of...

File Number : 8242

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Shmuel Haler, born in Bedzin, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Bedzin Ghetto, Koenigshuette, Gross-Rosen, Mauthausen and other places

Memoirs of Shmuel Haler, born in Bedzin, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Bedzin Ghetto, Koenigshuette, Gross-Rosen, Mauthausen and other places Life in the Bedzin Ghetto until 1942; life in Koenigshuette; life in Gross Sarne; life in Gross Masselwitz; life in Dyhernfurth; life in Gross-Rosen; death march to Mauthausen; life in Mauthausen, January-May 1945; liberation by the US Army, May 1945. Unsuccessful aliya attempt via Italy; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Israel, 1949.

File Number : 8201

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Leon Tabokh, born in 1926 in Thessaloniki, Greece, about his experiences in the Thessaloniki ghetto and in Auschwitz, Gross Rosen, Birkenau, and Mauthausen

Testimony

Testimony of Leon Tabokh, born in 1926 in Thessaloniki, Greece, about his experiences in the Thessaloniki ghetto and in Auschwitz, Gross Rosen, Birkenau, and Mauthausen Pre-war life; war with Italy breaks out in October 1940; German occupation begins in April 1941; hunger; dispossession of Jews in 1942; "black Sabbath" in July 1942; restrictions on Jews including the yellow star edict; eviction from home and confiscation of the house for Germans' residential use; life in the "Baron Hirsch" quarter of the ghetto in early 1943; deportation to Auschwitz in March 1943; life in Birkenau; working in the ADE...

File Number : 13563

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Zeev Steinfeld, born in Krakow, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Bochnia Ghetto, Szebnie and Auschwitz

Memoirs of Zeev Steinfeld, born in Krakow, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Bochnia Ghetto, Szebnie and Auschwitz Deportation from the Bochnia Ghetto [to Szebnie], September 1943; life in Szebnie; [deportation to Auschwitz, 1943;] life in Auschwitz, from 1943; life using the false identity of Wolf Lehr; transfer by death march, 18 January 1945; transfer by train; escape.

File Number : 8037

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rachel (Freilikh) Eshed, born in Liege, Belgium, 1924, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz and medical experiments performed on her by Dr. Josef Mengele

Testimony

Testimony of Rachel (Freilikh) Eshed, born in Liege, Belgium, 1924, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz and medical experiments performed on her by Dr. Josef Mengele Childhood; Catholic school. Occupation of Liege; escape to a village; informed on and deportation with her son to Auschwitz; receives a number tattooed on her forearm; her hair on her head is shaved and teeth are removed; murder of her son in the gas chambers; medical experiments and sterilization; death march to Ravensbrueck and Neustadt; liberation by the US Army; the witness does not remember the place she was liberated by the US...

File Number : 13344

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Frania (Zaks) Rosenfeld, born in Sosnowiec, Poland, 1922, regarding her experiences in the open ghetto in Sosnowiec, the Srodula Ghetto, Graeben and Bergen-Belsen

Testimony

Testimony of Frania (Zaks) Rosenfeld, born in Sosnowiec, Poland, 1922, regarding her experiences in the open ghetto in Sosnowiec, the Srodula Ghetto, Graeben and Bergen-Belsen From a traditional family; life before the war. German occupation, September 1939; abuse of religious Jews; distribution of food ration coupons; hanging of Jewish merchants; concentration of the Jews and selection; deportation of some members of her family for annihilation; return home; establishment of the open ghetto; work in a workshop; obtains a work card; orders to move to the closed ghetto in Srodula; capture by the Jewish...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zvi Unger, born in Sosnowiec, Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences as a child in Wodzislaw, the Zawierice Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Zvi Unger, born in Sosnowiec, Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences as a child in Wodzislaw, the Zawierice Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald and other places Life before the war; ultra-Orthodox family; harassment of Jewish store owners, 1936; his father is called upon to get prepared against the Germans. German occupation; escape to family members in Wodzislaw; murder of Jews; smuggled to family members in the Zawiercie Ghetto, 1941; ghetto life; shooting and slashing of dogs throats in the ghetto by SS; liquidation of the ghetto, August 1943; in hiding with 50 additional people in an...

File Number : 13080

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Menachem Cohen Shtol, born in Sighet, Romania, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Sighet Ghetto, Auschwitz and camps in the Silesia area

Testimony

Testimony of Menachem Cohen Shtol, born in Sighet, Romania, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Sighet Ghetto, Auschwitz and camps in the Silesia area Life before the war; Orthodox family; attends school and a "heder". Annexation to Hungary, 1940; restrictions on the Jews; Jews prepare for aliya to Eretz Israel, 1942; deportation of Jews without Hungarian or Ukranian citizenship to Ukraine; receives knowledge on the murder of Jews due to lack of food; termination of his education, 1942; Jewish police activities; soup kitchen; death of his mother from surgery in Budapest, 1943; deportation of the Jews...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Veva Zeev Segal, born in Bershad , Ukraine, 1937, regarding his experiences as a child in the Bershad Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Veva Zeev Segal, born in Bershad , Ukraine, 1937, regarding his experiences as a child in the Bershad Ghetto Life in Bershad before the war; from a religious hasidic family. Deportation to the Bershad ghetto; ghetto life including a German raid on the houses and taking out the Jewish men; his father's escape; his father hides; loading of Jews on trucks; hanging the Jewish men on electric poles; his father's escape back; shortage of clothing; guarding of the ghetto by Germans, Romanians and Hungarians; approach of the war front; liberation by the Red Army. Escape of the Germans; move to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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