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Testimony of Avigdor Rubinshtein, born in Sokolow, Poland in 1921, regarding his experiences in USSR, Siberia, and Bukhara, and his survival

Testimony

Testimony of Avigdor Rubinshtein, born in Sokolow, Poland in 1921, regarding his experiences in USSR, Siberia, and Bukhara, and his survival Life in a wealthy Zionist family; German occupation for ten days in September 1939; Russian domination until June 1941; escape to Siberia and life there in 1941 and 1942; move to Bukhara and life there until 1944; use of family home as center for Zionist activity, especially for Hashomer HaTza’ir youth movement and other youth movements; participation in Bricha in 1945; attempt to reach Eretz Israel and exile to Cyprus in 1946; aliya to Israel in early 1949; absorption.

File Number : 13763

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Personal documents, including correspondence between Joel Rybak and his family, and a Red Cross letter sent by Mirjam and Rachel Grosfeld in Eretz Israel to their mother Nuta Grosfeld in Bedzin; documents dated, 1932-1941 Included in the file: - Letters sent by Joel Rybak from Rowne to his sister Mirjam in Eretz Israel, 1932-1935; - Letters sent by Joel Rybak from the "Owadja" (Ovadia) aliya training "kibbutz" in Slawkow to his sister Mirjam and her husband Avraham Kreizer, 1936-1937; - Postcard sent by Joel Rybak from Slawkow to his father Aron in Rowne; - Letters and postcards sent by Aron and...

File Number : 2019

Type of Material : Postcard, Personal Documents, Red Cross Letter, Letter

Language : Polish, English, Yiddish

Testimony of Aharon Shmidt, born in 1922 in Warsaw, about his escape to Białystok

Testimony

Testimony of Aharon Shmidt, born in 1922 in Warsaw, about his escape to Białystok Childhood in a secular home; antisemitism before the war; German occupation ensues in September 1939; witness escapes with brother to Soviet-controlled Białystok in January 1941; imiprisoned; exiled to Siberia; forced labor in forests and laying railroad tracks; cold and hunger; allowed to leave Siberia in 1943; enlists in Anders's Army under a Polish identity; fights alongside and under command of the Red Army; fighting all the way to Berlin; wounded and hospitalized in Germany and Warsaw; moves to Sosnowiec for training with...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Testimony

Testimony of Shoshana Roza (Goldshtein) Viner, born in Dresden, Germany, 1924, regarding her experiences in Dresden, the deportation of the family to Poland before the war, in Bialystok, Vilna and aliya to Eretz Israel, April 1940 Childhood in Dresden; Nazi rise to power, January 1933; abuse of Jews on the streets; displays of antisemitism in the school; Bachad (Brit Halutzim Datiim) Zionist activities; expulsion from school, 1935; transfer to a Jewish school with lecturers dismissed from the universities as teachers; deportation of the family to Poland, 28 October 1938; transfer to relatives in Gorlice;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Meir Bendori, born in Niepolomice, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in Niepolomice, the Krakow Ghetto, Mauthausen and Gusen

Testimony

Testimony of Meir Bendori, born in Niepolomice, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in Niepolomice, the Krakow Ghetto, Mauthausen and Gusen His childhood in a Zionist, traditional family including attending Hebrew schools; activities in Zionist youth organizations; sports activities; coordination of self-defense against the Endeks; help to Jewish refugees from Germany; Kristallnacht. Outbreak of the war, September 1939; German Army occupation of Niepolomice; life under German occupation including the imposition of anti-Jewish restrictions, acts of physical abuse against Jews and forced labor;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Kalman Stromer, born in Lwow, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Lwow, Vilna, Kaunas, Israel and in Jordanian captivity

Testimony

Testimony of Kalman Stromer, born in Lwow, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Lwow, Vilna, Kaunas, Israel and in Jordanian captivity His childhood in a religious, Zionist family; life including activities in Bnei Akiva and attending Jewish schools, until 1939. Outbreak of the war, 1939; occupation of Lwow by the Soviet Army; move to Vilna with a small group; detention on the border of Lithuania; interrogation by the Soviets; arrival to a Hashomer Hadati "kibbutz" in Vilna, with support from the JDC, 01 January 1940; occupation of Vilna by the Soviet Army; labor logging trees; receives a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Daniel Herbert Spier, born in Guxhagen, Germany, 1931, regarding his experiences in the Riga Ghetto and in Kaiserwald and Stutthof camps

Testimony

Testimony of Daniel Herbert Spier, born in Guxhagen, Germany, 1931, regarding his experiences in the Riga Ghetto and in Kaiserwald and Stutthof camps Childhood in the village of Guxhagen; life under the Nazi regime and strengthening of antisemitism, 1933; Kristallnacht, 1938; deportation of his father to Buchenwald and his return, in 1938; deportation of the family to the Riga Ghetto, Latvia, 1941; ghetto life and forced labor of his parents; deportation of the family to labor in the Wehrmacht warehouses, in the Riga area, 1942; deportation to the Kaiserwald labor camp, 1943; being separated from his mother;...

File Number : 13386

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Jochanan Twersky, born in Vienna, Austria, 1925, regarding his experiences in Vienna on Kristallnacht, in Belgium and England

Testimony

Testimony of Jochanan Twersky, born in Vienna, Austria, 1925, regarding his experiences in Vienna on Kristallnacht, in Belgium and England Raised in a modern Orthodox family; his father served as President of Hamizrachi in Vienna and head of the synagogue [prayer house] "Beit Yaakov Yosef"; death of his father, 1931; Kristallnacht; leaving Vienna with the help of a female smuggler, June, 1939; move to Belgium for two weeks. Escape to England; receiving an Affidavit from Rabbi Twersky and arrival in London; the "Blitz"; evacuation to a village within the framework of Rabbi Dr. Sheinfeld's Jewish schools;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Haja Ilona (Roth) Weiss, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1923, regarding her experiences in labor battalions, using a false identity and in the Jewish underground

Testimony

Testimony of Haja Ilona (Roth) Weiss, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1923, regarding her experiences in labor battalions, using a false identity and in the Jewish underground Aliya to Eretz Israel, 1945.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaja (Patoka) Belczynski, born in Sarny, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences in Sarny, Kiev, Stalingrad and in the Red Army

Testimony

Testimony of Chaja (Patoka) Belczynski, born in Sarny, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences in Sarny, Kiev, Stalingrad and in the Red Army Life before the war; traditional family. Outbreak of the war, September 1939; life under Soviet occupation; German occupation, June 1941; escape to Kiev, June 1941; escape to Veresnya; life in Veresnya including work in agriculture; escape to Stalingrad; escape to a kolkhoz; escape to Stalingrad; escape to Baratovka; life in Baratovka including work in a sawmill; escape to Stalingrad; arrival of the German Army to Stalingrad; escape in the direction of the east,...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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