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Testimony of Mirka (Klaver) Zaklikovski, born in Lodz, Poland, 1927, regarding the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, and other camps, 1940-1945

Testimony

Childhood before the war; Outbreak of the war; arrival of refugees from Czechoslovakia and Germany; restrictions; deportation to the ghetto; curfew; forced labor; taking of her father to forced labor; "Aktions"; public hangings of Jews; escapes from the ghetto; cultural life in the ghetto; liquidation of the ghetto; transfer to labor camps in Germany; working in a weapons factory; reasonable treatment by the Germans; liberation by the British Army; Rebuilding life after the war; aliya to Israel, 1949.

File Number : 13855

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Eduard Fosner, born 1927 in Bucharest, Romania, about expulsion to the Oradea ghetto, deportation to Auschwitz and other camps, death march, and escape

Testimony

Testimony of Eduard Fosner, born in Bucharest, Romania, in 1927 , regarding expulsion to the Oradea ghetto, deportation to Auschwitz and other camps, death march, and escape Childhood before the war; transfer to Oradea in 1938; entry of the Hungarians in 1940; expulsion from school; anti-Jewish legislation ; service in the Levente Association; German occupation in 1944; order to wear yellow badge, and other orders; expulsion to the ghetto in May 1944; deportation to Birkenau; hunger; roll-calls and selections; transfer to Buchenwald for a brief time and from there to Magdeburg; labor in rebuilding and...

File Number : 13773

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Moshe Kaplan, born in Woronow, Poland, 1915, regarding his experiences in the Polish Army, the Tannenberg POW camp, the Woronow Ghetto, in hiding in the forest, as a partisan in the Naliboki forests and more Life in Woronow after World War I; death of his father Avraham Kaplan in 1922; attendance at the Tarbut elementary school; displays of antisemitism; membership in Hashomer Hatzair; underground activities and imprisonment of his brother as a member of the Communist Party; death of his mother, 1932; life in an aliya training kibbutz in Bialystok; meeting his future wife, Chaya; release of his...

File Number : 8643

Type of Material : Genealogy, Memoirs, Poems/songs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zelda (Komraz) Rosenberg, born in Utena, Lithuania, 1923 regarding her escape to Novosibirsk, USSR

Testimony

Childhood; attends in a Hebrew school, Utena; attends the Hebrew gymnasium, Ukmerge; Life under the Soviet regime, 1940; escapes with her family one day before the German occupation, 1941; escape via Rokiskis, Lithuania, and Daugavpils, Latvia; work on a kolkhoz; drafting of her father to the Red Army and his release; move to Novosibirsk; drafting of her brother to the Red Army and his falling in battle at the front, 1943; work in an airplane factory; End of the war and her return with her family to Vilna, Lithuania, 1945; rebuilding life after the war; aliya to Israel, 1972.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mordechay (Paul Georg) Fleischer, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1926 regarding his escape to Budapest, deportation to detention camps, escape from a death march and residing in the Glass House

Testimony

Childhood before the war; Fascist Slovakia, 1938; antisemitic events; Attempts to move to Budapest, Hungary, winter 1942-1943; getting arrested by Hungarian soldiers while escaping; sent back to Slovakia; escape to Hungary with the aid of a smuggler; arrival in Budapest; capture and arrest; decrees and restrictions; transferred to a prison by two Hungarian soldiers; deportation to a brick factory; escape to a marked house; capture and deportation for labor building fortifications and digging anti-tank trenches near Solnok, late October 1944; march towards Austria; escape to the Red Cross house in Budapest...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Judit (Kraus) Lahav, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1930 regarding the move of her family to Komarom, deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, additional camps and death march

Testimony

Childhood before the war; annexation of Slovakia by Nazi Germany, 1938; move of her family to Komarom, Hungary; Drafting of her father to labor battalions; increase in antisemitism; German invasion, 19 March 1944; anti-Jewish legislation; deportation for a short time to a citadel in the city that became a ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; selection and transfer to Plaszow; labor paving roads; return to Auschwitz for a short time and from there to Rochlitz for labor in a factory producing airplane parts; transfer to Calw to an airplane factory; death march to Buching; liberation, late April...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Excerpt from the diary of Joseph Richter written in Shaidan, Tadzhikistan, April-May 1942, and prewar personal documentation belonging to Helena Balter and her family from Rowne

Excerpt from the diary of Joseph Richter written in Shaidan, Tadzhikistan, April-May 1942, and prewar personal documentation belonging to Helena Balter and her family from Rowne Documentation including: - Excerpt from the diary of Joseph (Zunik) Richter written in Yiddish in Shaidan, Tadzhikistan, April-May 1942 (including a translation into Hebrew by his sister Miriam Yechieli-Richter [the submitter of the material]); -Invitation to the Engagement Ceremony of Zus Richter and Liza Balter held in Rowno, 29 March 1913 (sent to Mr. Balter in Rowno); - Temporary identity card issued 18 December 1919 in...

File Number : 8638

Type of Material : Postcard, Official Documentation, Personal Documents, Diary

Language : Polish, Russian, Yiddish

Testimony of Genia (Nistenpover) Hermon, born in Pultusk, Poland, 1929 regarding the deportation of her family to Bialystok, USSR, and life in Berezniki, Ural

Testimony

German occupation, 1939; the family's escape to a nearby town and return after a short time; deportation on foot by the Germans to the Soviet border and transfer to a refugee camp in Bialystok; deportation by the Soviet authorities to Adamova Gora near Berezniki, Ural; her parents working in construction; liberation following the outbreak of the Soviet-German war; move to Orsha, Belorussia, 1941; approach of the front; air-raids; escape to Uzbekistan, 1941; move to a kolkhoz to work in cotton picking for several months; move to Kassansay; studies in a Soviet school; Her return with the family after the end...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation regarding the Rosenfeld family, including letters and postcards sent to Alfred Rosenfeld in Bratislava and Eretz Israel by his family in Ivančice, testimonial letters by Otto Rosenfeld and his daughter Helly regarding their experiences during the war, personal documents of the family members and more, 1929-2011 Letters and postcards: - Two postcards sent to Alfred Rosenfeld in Bratislava by his parents and sister Helly Helena in Ivančice, December 1939; - Two letters sent to Alfred Rosenfeld in Eretz Israel by his parents and sister in Ivančice, January 1940; - Postcard sent to Otto...

File Number : 2208

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony, Vouchers, Personal Documents, Passport, Official Documentation, Letter, Postcard

Language : Czech, English, German

Testimony of Leon Genislav, born in Brussels, Belgium in 1927, regarding his experiences while in hiding in Brussels

Testimony of Leon Genislav, born in Brussels, Belgium in 1927, regarding his experiences while in hiding in Brussels Family of emigres from Poland that resided in Brussels; his father is a coal miner; good relations with the local population; outbreak of the war in 1940; life under German occupation; dispersion of his family to various hiding places in 1942; they are informed on; detention of his parents and their deportation to Mechelen camp; life with the Nils family until 1944; liberation; information regarding his parents' fate; he joins the Hashomer Hatzair movement and makes aliya to Eretz Israel from...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : French

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