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Testimony of Rut (Fefer) Shemonovitz, born 1925 in Ostrog, Poland; on her life in Ostrog and in Britvino

Testimony of Rut (Fefer) Shemonovitz, born in Ostrog, Poland in 1925, regarding her life in Ostrog and in Britvino Life before the war; Soviet occupation; German occupation in 1941; expulsion and escape toward the east; escape to various villages; escape to Britvino; liberation; return to Poland; joining a group of the HaPoel HaMizrahi movement; aliya to Israel on the ship “Galila” in 1949; raising a family.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letters and translations of letters received by Avraham Yitzchak Merhavia in Eretz Israel from his family in Radzilow, 1935-1939, and from his brother Eliezer during the period of Eliezer's military service in the Jewish Brigade, 1942-1945 - Three letters written in Yiddish sent by Eliezer in Radzilow to his brother Avraham Yitzchak Merhavia in Eretz Israel, 1938-1939; - Letters written in Hebrew sent by Eliezer during the period of his military service in the Jewish Brigade to his brother Avraham Yitzchak Merhavia in Eretz Israel, 1942-1945; - Two letters written by Eliezer in Belgium after the war,...

File Number : 2172

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Hebrew, Yiddish

Testimony of Esther Mirovski Asael, born in Bedzin, Poland in 1928, regarding her experiences ‎in the Bendin Ghetto and in various camps, including Dulak, Peterswaldau, Klettendorf, and ‎Gogolin

Testimony of Esther Mirovski Asael, born in Bedzin, Poland in 1928, regarding her experiences ‎in the Bendin Ghetto and in various camps, including Dulak, Peterswaldau, Klettendorf, and ‎Gogolin Occupation and life under German rule in 1939; deportation to the Bendin Ghetto in 1941; labor in ‎a sewing workshop making uniforms for the German army; sleeping at night with her mother in the ‎factory where her father worked, outside the ghetto, out of fear of the selections; deportation to ‎a transit camp in Sosnowiec in 1943; transfer to the concentration camp in Annaberg, Germany in ‎‎1943; deportation to the...

File Number : 13668

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letters and postcards from family in Nitra and Michalovce to Chiskijahu Mittelman and Lea Lenerovic Mittelman in Eretz Israel, 1934-1950

Letters and postcards from family in Nitra and Michalovce to Chiskijahu Mittelman and Lea Lenerovic Mittelman in Eretz Israel, 1934-1950 - Letters and postcards sent to Chiskijahu Mittelman in Haifa by his parents Isak and Chedwa Mittelman from Nitra, 1934-1936; - Letters from the Lenerovic famly in Michalovce to Lea Mittelman in Eretz Israel, 1936-1939; - Letters from her uncle Hellel Lenerovic in Michalovce to Lea Mittelman in Eretz Israel, 1950. Comments by the submitter of the material regarding the experiences of Lea (Gisela) Lenerovic Mittelman, born in Michalovce, Czechoslovakia, 1905: -...

File Number : 1980

Type of Material : Postcard, Letter

Language : German, Yiddish, Hungarian

Testimony of Eva Goldberg née Avraham, born in 1929 in Cristur, Romania, about her experiences in the Auschwitz-Birkenau, Horneburg, Porta Westfalica, and Fallersleben camps, etc.

Antisemitism in Romaniain 1938; escapes from riots by members of the Legionnaire movement; Hungary re-annexes the area in 1940; father inducted into the labor brigades; German occupation ensues in 1944; concealing valuables; Jews rounded up in the Dej forest; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; selections; taken to a crematorium; hides in a hearse-cart and in a latrine; slips into a group selected for labor; transferred to Horneburg; life in the camp; manufacturing ship and aircraft parts; factory manager helps women prisoners; local German women help with food; cruelties by SS men; transferred to the Porta...

File Number : 13609

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yisrael Fiser, born in 1929 in Borsa, Romania, about his experiences in Borsa, the Viseul de Sus ghetto, and camps in Poland and Germany during the war

Life before the war; offspring of an Orthodox religious family; antisemitic harassment in school; Hungary re-annexes the area in 1939; father inducted into the labor brigades in 1941; economic hardship; ban on kosher slaughter; Passover in April 1944; Jews rounded up in a synagogue; deportation to the Viseul de Sus ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; family lost in a selection in the camp; transferred to Fürstengrube; coal mining at the camp; death march; transported in open freight cars and mortality among prisoners; taken to Dora Mittelbau and Bergen-Belsen; liberation; Hapoel Hamizrachi movement activity in...

File Number : 13640

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe Arno Porat Frish, born in Hajdunanas, Hungary in 1931 regarding his deportation to camps in Austria.

Testimony of Moshe Porat Frish, born in Hajdunanas, Hungary in 1931 He was born in an orthodox family; his father's recruitment in a labor battalion in 1943; imposing restrictions on the family business; disbelief in the rumors about the murder of Jews; concentration of the Jews of Hajdunanas in the brick factory in Debrecen for deportation in April 1944; bar mitzvah in the ghetto; deportation by convoy to Austria; death of people in the wagons; life in the camp in Vienna; working in construction; hospitalization of his brother and sister ; death march; the soldiers'abuse of the marchers; life in the...

File Number : 13744

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Aharon Renert, born in Vijnita, Romania, 1926, regarding his experiences in Vijnita, Mogilev, Yaruga and Skazintsy

Memoirs of Aharon Renert, born in Vijnita, Romania, 1926, regarding his experiences in Vijnita, Mogilev, Yaruga and Skazintsy Childhood with his family in Vijnita; beginning of the persecutions against the Jews, 1938; financial difficulties due to fines and heavy taxes; Bar-Mitzvah celebration; law according to which each school must have at least 50% non-Jewish registration; Soviet occupation; persecution of Jews by the Communist regime; retreat of the Soviets; pogroms perpetrated by Romanians against the Jews; deportation to Transnistria; arrival in Mogilev; transfer to Yaruga; life in Yaruga, until...

File Number : 8489

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shmuel Fabian, born in Strzegowo, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in Strzegowo, Plonsk, the Strzegowo Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buna-Monowitz and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Shmuel Fabian, born in Strzegowo, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in Strzegowo, Plonsk, the Strzegowo Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buna-Monowitz and other places German Army occupation of Strzegowo, 1939; escape to Plonsk with his family; life with his family in Plonsk, for two weeks; move back to Strzegowo; deportation [to the Strzegowo Ghetto], 1940; Strzegowo Ghetto life including "Aktions" and the hanging of Jews, 1942; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1942; camp life with two brothers, including forced labor; transfer to Buna-Monowitz, 1943; camp life including forced labor;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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