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Testimony of Sylvia Rachel Davidovicz, nee Weiss, born in Sacalaseni, Romania, in 1929, regarding her experiences in the Baia Mare ghetto and in the Auschwitz Birkenau, Boizenburg and Ludwigslust camps

Testimony of Sylvia Rachel Davidowicz, nee Weiss, born in Sacalaseni, Romania, in 1929, regarding her experiences in the Baia Mare ghetto and in the Boizenburg, Auschwitz Birkenau and Ludwigslust camps Childhood in Baia Mare; re- annexation of the place to Hungary in 1940; transfer of ownership of the father's flour mill to Hungarians in 1941; the rise of antisemitism; interruption of studies; the German occupation in 1944; deportation to the ghetto in 1944; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau camp; transfer to Boizenburg; life in the camp; transfer to work in a factory manufacturing tanks and planes; transfer...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Research by Ayala Hinda (Cytrynbaum) Gal-Or, regarding the experiences during 1939-1966, of her parents, Tzvi and Jehudit Idel (Milgrom) Cytrynbaum, who were born in Deblin Modrzyce, Poland, 1914

Research by Ayala Hinda (Cytrynbaum) Gal-Or, regarding the experiences during 1939-1966, of her parents, Tzvi and Jehudit Idel (Milgrom) Cytrynbaum, who were born in Deblin Modrzyce, Poland, 1914 Introduction, including her family's background; chapter titled: Historical survey regarding Poland and its Jewish residents; map describing a route used by Jews during their escape from occupied Poland, 1939, including a notation of significant dates; survey regarding the life of Jews in Deblin-Modrzyce before the Holocaust, including photographs; Jehudit's memories of her childhood; survey regarding the events in...

File Number : 1262

Type of Material : Document, Poems/songs, Survey Report

Language : Hebrew, Polish, Yiddish

Testimony of Rub Israel, born in Sasovo, Carpathian Ruthenia, Czechoslovakia, in 1923 regarding his arrest in Prague and Dresden and regarding Theresienstadt , Dachau and other camps

-Childhood in Sasovo and Trebusany in Carpathian Ruthenia; his family is from a hasidic background( Hasidut Dolina); attendance at the "heder" in Berehovo in 1934; Hungarian control in 1938; his family moves to Moravska Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, in 1938; attendance at a yeshiva in Solotvina, Carpathian Ruthenia(Hungary) in 1937; he goes back to his family in Moravska Ostrava in 1938; he joins the Bnei Akiva movement and moves to Prague, Czechoslovakia; agricultural training on a farm in Louny and in Stribrna Skalice; he goes back to Prague and moves to a farm in Hostoun Kladno; he is arrested by the gestapo in...

File Number : 13688

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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 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

Testimony of Bunim Veintraub, born in 1929 in Bialobrzegi, Poland, about his experiences in the Bialobrzegi ghetto and in the Skarzysko Kamienna, Częstochowa, and other camps

Childhood in Bialobrzegi; attends a Polish school and a cheder; religious life; hoarding food and clothing in houses in 1939; ghettoization; father deported to an unknown destination; Jews rounded up and deported to an unknown destination; witness escapes to villages in the area; deportation to Skarzysko Kamienna; life in the camp; working at a light munitions plant; abuse and shooting typhus patients; sent to the Częstochowa camp; sent to Buchenwald; life in the camp; receiving parcels from British prisoners; sent to Schlieben; brother dies in Allied bombardment of Dresden; escapes to Bautzen; works in a...

File Number : 13457

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

Testimony of David Desider Steinmetz, born in 1925 in Satu Mare, Romania, about his experiences in Heide, Oostende, Marseille, the Les Milles camp, and other locations

Testimony of David Desider Steinmetz, born in 1925 in Satu Mare, Romania, about his experiences in Heide, Oostende, Marseille, the Les Milles camp, and other locations Life before the war; offspring of a Satmar and Sighet Hasidic family; emigration to Belgium in 1937; life in Antwerp; attending a yeshiva in Heide; German occupation ensues in 1940; escaping to Oostende; bombardment of Dunkirk; escaping to Gravelines in 1940; fleeing back to Antwerp; life under German occupation; escaping to Paris in 1941 after receiving a deportation order in Limbourg; escaping to Marseille (in the Free Zone) in 1941; life...

File Number : 13437

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sofia Doczminer née Fried, born in 1924 in Berbesti, Romania, about her experiences in Berbesti, Budapest, the Hunsfeld camp, Auschwitz, and elsewhere

Testimony of Sofia Doczminer née Fried, born in 1924 in Berbesti, Romania, about her experiences in Berbesti, Budapest, the Hunsfeld camp, Auschwitz, and elsewhere Life before the war; connection with the Satmar Hasidim; antisemitism in Romania escalates; activity of the Iran Guard movement in 1937; Hungary re-annexes the area in 1940; antisemitism escalates and Jews are placed under restrictions; father's business is transferred to Sighet in 1940; escaping to relatives in Budapest in 1943; escaping back to Berbesti in 1944; deportation to Auschwitz in 1944; transfer with her three sisters to Hunsfeld; life...

File Number : 13453

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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