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Testimony of Avraham Iger, born in 1918 in Radom, Poland, about his experiences in Radom, the Jedlina ghetto, and camps in Poland and Austria, 1939–1945

German occupation ensues in 1939; witness assigned to felling timber as forced laborer; deportation to the Jedlina ghetto in 1941; forced labor in the ghetto; deportation with brother and sister to Pionki ni 1942; life in the camp; working in a gunpowder and munitions plant; transferred to Zwolen in 1942; interned there for severael weeks; sent back to Pionki; taken to Auschwitz in 1944; interned there for several days; sent on to Sosnowiec Srodula in 1944; life in the camp; working in an armaments plant; death march to Mauthausen in January 1945; transferred to Gunskirchen; interned there until liberated by...

File Number : 13611

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Vita Henig Kozlowski, born in Przytyk, Poland, 1911, regarding her aliya to Israel in 1936

Testimony

Testimony of Vita Henig Kozlowski, born in Przytyk, Poland, 1911, regarding her aliya to Israel in 1936 Family background, religious family; great anti-Semitism on the part of the Poles; studies in a Polish school; community life; memories of the First World War; marriage, 1935; her husband's desire to make an aliya to Eretz Israel; obtaining a certificate of aliya; anger on the part of her father over the witness to make aliya to Eretz Yisrael; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1936; a pogrom in Przytyk by Poles and the murder of two Jews, 1936; receiving letters from her mother; the difficult situation in Poland;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avraham Gavner, born in 1921 in Lodz, about his experiences in the Lodz ghetto and in the Auschwitz and Ebensee camps during the war

Life before the war; life as a Gerrer Hasid and an ordained rabbi; war breaks out; family-owned enterprises are confiscated; sidelocks forcibly shorn; cleaning streets; deportation to the Lodz ghetto; father dies of exhaustion; mother and five siblings deported in Aktionen; working at a shop for disassembly of deported Jews' shoes; ghetto liquidated in August 1944; witness depoted to Auschwitz; selection in the camp and assignment to labor in November 1944; digging ditches for telephone lines; life in the Ebensee camp in January 1945; digging below ground; liberation by American forces; life in the Zeilsheim...

File Number : 13605

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Leah Freundlich Golod, born in 1937 in Belz, Poland, about hiding in the bunker of a Polish peasant in a village near Złoczów

German occupation ensues in 1939; witness escapes with her family to a village in the Złoczów area; life under Soviet rule; German occupation ensues again in 1941; family hides in a bunker in the yard of a Polish peasant from December 1942 to the liberation by Red Army forces in 1944; moving to Złoczów after the liberation due to antisemitic manifestations and threats of revenge against the peasant's family in 1944; moving to Paris in 1948; immigrating to Israel in 1949; adjusting to life in Israel.

File Number : 13492

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Halina Gerstman, born in Bedzin, Poland, 1915, regarding her experiences in the Sosnowiec Ghetto, Srodula Ghetto, and Annaberg and Blechhammer camps

Testimony

Testimony of Halina Gerstman, born in Bedzin, Poland, 1915, regarding her experiences in the Sosnowiec Ghetto, Srodula Ghetto, Annaberg and Blechhammer camps Family of Gur hasidim; life before the war; attends a Jewish elementary school and Beit Yaakov school; joins a Zionist movement. Outbreak of the war, 1939; looting of Jewish houses by their neighbors; economic hardships; deportation to the Sosnowiec Ghetto; ghetto life including forced labor in a German factory, 1940; transfer to the Srodula Ghetto, 1942; ghetto life including forced labor; marriage; in hiding during an "Aktion"; liquidation of the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Hana (Ruckenstein) Abramson, born in Suceava, Romania, 1918, regarding her experiences in Atachi and Mogilev-Podolski

Testimony

Testimony of Hana (Ruckenstein) Abramson, born in Suceava, Romania, 1918, regarding her experiences in Atachi and Mogilev-Podolski Religious family; her father is a Vizhnitzer hasid; attends a general school; move to study at the university in Budapest, 1937; return to Suceava after the ban on Jews to study at university, 1938. Deportation to Transnistria, autumn 1941; transfer to Atachi; transfer to Mogilev-Podolski; life there and the death of her father; liberation by the Red Army, March 1944. Return to Suceava; marriage, 1947; aliya to Israel, 1951.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sima (Sternhertz) Gamburg, born in Krivay Rog, Ukraine, 1935, regarding her experiences during her escape to the Soviet Union, in Makhachkala and Tbilisi

Testimony

Testimony of Sima (Sternhertz) Gamburg, born in Krivay Rog, Ukraine, 1935, regarding her experiences during her escape to the Soviet Union, in Makhachkala and Tbilisi Religious family; her father is a Breslev hasid; escape from air-raids, June 1941; move to the Soviet Union, end of 1941; move to Makhachkala; wanderings between villages; move to Tbilisi. Graduation from high school; marriage, 1954; aliya to Israel, 1969.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shmuel Koren, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1928, regarding his experiences in a marked house, the Columbus compound and the Budapest Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Shmuel Koren, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1928, regarding his experiences in a marked house, the Columbus compound and the Budapest Ghetto From a hasidic family; learns in a heder and a Talmud Torah of Belz hasidim. German occupation, March 1944; termination of studies; his father's deportation to a forced labor camp; transfer to a marked house, summer 1944; life in a marked house; transfer to the protected Columbus compound; deportation to the Budapest Ghetto, November 1944; ghetto life; liberation by the Red Army, January 1945. Return home; return to studies and a yeshiva; aliya to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Anna (Eibushitz) Eilenberg, born in Lodz, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences in Lodz and in the Lodz Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Anna (Eibushitz) Eilenberg, born in Lodz, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences in Lodz and in the Lodz Ghetto Life in an ultra-Orthodox family; Gur hasidim [activities] in Lodz; Beit Yaakov activities in Lodz. [Deportation to the Lodz Ghetto]; Lodz Ghetto life including hunger and acts of harassment by the Germans on Jews of ultra-Orthodox appearance.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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