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Testimony of Tzafrir Shteir Sara, born in Bedzin, Poland, in 1930 regarding the Srodula ghetto and regarding the Peterswaldau camp

Childhood before the war; programming aliya to Israel; aliya of the two brothers ; confiscation of family businesses; outbreak of the war; burning the synagogue and houses of Jews; deportation to ghetto; forced labor; murder of the father; "aktions"; deportation of the mother and sister to Auschwitz Birkenau; deportation of the witness with her sister to Peterswaldau; help of the German female commander; liberation by the Russians; escape to the American side; rehabilitation of life after the war; aliya to Israel in 1946

File Number : 13661

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Gover Branddshtein Agnes, born in Bustina, Czech Republic, in 1929 regarding Mateszalka ghetto, regarding deportation to Auschwitz Birkenau , Birnbaumel and others

Testimony

Parents'house; Hungarian occupation in 1939; deportation of the Jews without citizenship; getting Hungarian citizenship; studies in Mukacevo; expulsion from school in 1943; presence of people from the Arrow Cross Party in the village; curfew; yellow badge; searches at home; preparation for deportation; deportation of the father to a labor camp in 1941; moving to a small house; hiding the jewelry in the courtyard; concentration of the Jewish population in the synagogue; deportation to the Mateszalka ghetto; food parcels from the grandfather in Budapest; deportation to Auschwitz Birkenau in freight trains;...

File Number : 13705

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zeev Semel On, born in Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland, in 1924, regarding labour camps, his deportation to Buchenwald and other camps

Testimony

-Parents'house; anti-semitism; air-raids; occupation by the German army on 04 September,1939; humiliations; forced labour; deportation to the Piotrkow Trybunalski ghetto; the father is a member of the Judenradt; contribution demand; confiscation of furs; walking on the pavement is forbidden; starvation; passing of valuables to local neighbours; reduction of the ghetto; issuance of working papers on 21 October 1942; his work as a porter in "Shneider shop" (tailor shop) for the needs of the German army and cargo transfer from place to place; assembling the children in the big synagogue and their murder;...

File Number : 13463

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony [in a letter] regarding the experiences of Rene Carasso Bensoussan and his family members, from Thessaloniki, 1941-1945

Testimony [in a letter] regarding the experiences of Rene Carasso Bensoussan and his family members, from Thessaloniki, 1941-1945 German Army occupation of Thessaloniki, 09 April 1941; dismissals at his place of work; escape to Athens with his wife Aline and their daughter Flora; detention; deportation to Chaidari; transfer to Bergen-Belsen, 02 April 1944; liberation from camp by the US Army in the Magdeburg area, 13 April 1945. Move via DP camps in Charleroi, Courbevoie and Namur; move via Paris to Marseilles; move via Bari; arrival to Greece, 04 September 1945; Note: Included with the testimony is...

File Number : 8611

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : French

Testimony of Yehuda Haleman, born in Cluj, Romania in 1928, regarding his experiences in the ‎Cluj Ghetto and deportation to Auschwitz and Kaufering

Testimony of Yehuda Haleman, born in Cluj, Romania in 1928, regarding his experiences in the ‎Cluj Ghetto and deportation to Auschwitz and Kaufering His parents’ house; cessation of studies following the closure of the yeshivas in 1942; food ‎rationing; entry of the Germans in March 1944; Slovakian refugees; the yellow badge; restrictions ‎on movement; prohibition on traveling on public transportation; deportation to the ghetto on 3 ‎May 1944; Kastner’s speech in the ghetto to encourage people to go out to work; deportation to ‎Auschwitz on the last transport; selection; quarters in the gypsy camp; personal...

File Number : 13673

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Miriam Marila Liber Prague née Kostin, born in 1921 in Warsaw, about her experiences in the Warsaw ghetto, in Hungary, with the partisans in Yugoslavia, and as a forced laborer in Germany

Life before the war; German occupation ensues; dispossession; deportation to the Warsaw ghetto; life in the ghetto; escaping to the "Aryan" side with help of forged papers; marrying; escaping to Lwów; escaping back to Warsaw; escaping to Hungary; receiving privileges from the Polish Consulate; escaping to Yugoslavia; joining the partisans in March 1944; sabotaging a railroad track; arrested by the Germans and taken to Germany; working in a factory that manufactures spare parts for tanks; posing as a Croat; receiving extra privileges; liberated by American forces; reaching Buchenwald; encountering Holocaust...

File Number : 13612

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yona Yonas Tzeiger, born in Radauti, Romania in 1939, regarding his experiences as a child in Radauti, Obodovka, Yampol, Dorohoi and more.

Testimony of Yona Yonas Tzeiger, born in Radauti, Romania in 1939, regarding his experiences as a child in Radauti, Obodovka, Yampol, Dorohoi and more. Life in his parents' home; his father's recruitment to the Romanian army in 1939; his father's release due to his Jewish identity in 1940; " the uprising of the Legionnaires" in 1941; deportation to Obodovka in October 1941; outbreak of a typhus epidemic in 1941; working with villagers; existence of a torah scroll and orgazing a minyan for prayers; starvation; his father's transfer to construction works of a bridge over the Bug river in 1942; approach of the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yekhezkel Tzukert, born in 1929 in Warsaw, about his experiences in the Warsaw ghetto and in camps in Poland, Germany, and Czechoslovakia during the war

Life before the war; offspring of an affluent traditional Zionist family; antisemitic manifestations before the war; attends a cheder and a Jewish government school; encounters Jewish refugees from Germany in 1938; war breaks out; ghettoization; studies in the underground until 1942; mutual assistance; epidemic typhus; placed in a Jewish hospital; sister and younger brother die; parents and remaining brother sent to Treblinka; adopted by Szmul Wajsman; smuggling food into the ghetto; arrested by Jewish police and sent to Majdanek; life in the camp; assigned to forced labor; physical abuse; cases of suicide;...

File Number : 13551

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Personal documentation belonging to Izaak Schreiber, born in Poland, 1916, from Krakow, Drohobycz, Brzezany and Wieliczka, 1937-1942

Personal documentation belonging to Izaak Schreiber, born in Poland, 1916, from Krakow, Drohobycz, Brzezany and Wieliczka, 1937-1942 - Student certificate from Jagiellonian University in Krakow, 1939; - Confirmation of studies at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow for the academic years 1936-1937; - Additional certificates from 1937 regarding studies at the University in Krakow; - Studies certificate from the Technicum in Drohobycz, 06 July 1940; - Confirmation of completion of studies at the Technicum in Drohobycz, 15 June 1940; - Confirmation from David Fraer that Izaak Schreiber has been...

File Number : 1166

Type of Material : Personal Documents

Language : Polish, Russian, German, Ukrainian

Testimony of Malka Bakon née Varshavski, born in 1934 in Drohiczyn, Poland, about her experiences as a girl in the Drohiczyn ghetto, in hiding with villagers in the vicinity, and immigration to Eretz Israel in 1944

Life in Drohiczyn; ghettoization; life in hiding with various villagers for a year and a half; liberation by Red Army forces; immigration to Eretz Israel in 1944; rehabilitation and adjustment to life in Eretz Israel.

File Number : 13555

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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