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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 Regev Yisrael Gerber, born in Mukacevo, Czechoslovakia, in 1927, regarding the Garan camp, Slovakia.

Testimony

Childhood in Mukacevo; Hebrew school founded and managed by his father; life under Hungarian ruling in 1938; they received a deportation order according to which the whole family was to leave Hungary within 30 days because they didn't have a Hungarian nationality; at the same time his father got a recruitment order for the labor service within the Hungarian army in 1940;his father's service in the labour service during 9 months; return of his father and deportation of the family to the Garan detention camp, Slovakia in 1941; ( because they didn't have a Hungarian nationality); stay in the camp for a few months;...

File Number : 13774

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sinai Perski, born in Jonava, Lithuania, 1927, regarding his experiences in Jonava, the Kaunas Ghetto, Stutthof, Kuremaa and Neuengamme and Bergen-Belsen

Testimony

Testimony of Sinai Perski, born in Jonava, Lithuania, 1927, regarding his experiences in Jonava, the Kaunas Ghetto, Stutthof, Kuremaa and Neuengamme and Bergen-Belsen Life before the war; education; membership in Beitar youth movement. Annexation to the Soviet Union; nationalization of property; outbreak of the war, 1941; German occupation; escape to Slobodka; pogrom; hidden by his uncle; deportation to the large ghetto in Kaunas; ghetto life; the large "Aktion"; deportation to Estonia; life in Kuremaa camp; deportationr via Danzig to Stutthof; transfer to Neuengamme camp; labor digging; dysentery;...

File Number : 12603

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Miriana Ivkovic Slehan, born in Osijek, Yugoslavia, 1926, regarding her experiences in Yugoslavia, Ferramonti camp, in hiding, using a false identity and with the partisans

Testimony

Testimony of Miriana Ivkovic Slehan, born in Osijek, Yugoslavia, 1926, regarding her experiences in Yugoslavia, Ferramonti camp, in hiding, using a false identity and with the partisans Childhood in a traditional family in Zagreb; joins the Maccabi movement; learns Hebrew. German occupation, April 1941; arrest of her father; her father is in hiding from the Ustasha; arrest of her family; confiscation of their house; escape to Italy with forged documents; arrest by the Ustasha; detention in prison; release; escape to Susak; in hiding for one month; escape to Ljubljana; in hiding; hospitalization; escape...

File Number : 12505

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Lea (Saker) Kusznir, born in Vilna, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Kaiserwald, Strassenhof and Stutthof

Testimony

Testimony of Lea (Saker) Kusznir, born in Vilna, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Kaiserwald, Strassenhof and Stutthof Life before the war; attends a high school. Soviet occupation, 1939; German occupation, 1941; deportation to the Vilna Ghetto; ghetto life; labor for an estate owner in exchange for food; liquidation of the ghetto, 1943; disappearance of her parents after a selection; deportation to Kaiserwald; transfer to Strassenhof; camp life including forced labor digging trenches and in a carpet factory; deportation to Stutthof; camp life including forced labor digging...

File Number : 12447

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Miriam (Sher) Kagan, born in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, 1920, regarding her experiences in the Panevezys Ghetto and in hiding in a village

Testimony

Testimony of Miriam (Sher) Kagan, born in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, 1920, regarding her experiences in the Panevezys Ghetto and in hiding in a village Move to Panevezys; her family owns a wholesale business for flour and food products; witness attends a Hebrew school and Yavneh high school; death of her father. Outbreak of the war; Soviet occupation; nationalization of the family's property; exile of her mother to Siberia; her older brothers work as salaried employees in the family business; German occupation, 1941; deportation to the Panevezys Ghetto; ghetto life including labor peeling potatoes and...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Pinkas Rosengarten, born in Nowy Sacz, Poland, 1913, regarding his experiences in Nowy Sacz, prisons in the Soviet Union and service in Iran as a military chaplain in Anders Army

Testimony

Testimony of Pinkas Rosengarten, born in Nowy Sacz, Poland, 1913, regarding his experiences in Nowy Sacz, prisons in the Soviet Union and service in Iran as a military chaplain in Anders Army Life before the war; education; ordination as a rabbi; move to Krakow; academic studies; return to Nowy Sacz; work as a teacher in a Tarbut high school; community life; establishment of a Hashomer Hadati chapter. German occupation; forced labor; escape to the Soviet Union; arrest on the charge of espionage; detention in various prisons; prison life including forced labor and illnesses; hospitalization; pardon after...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letters from the Cohen family in Lithuana to relatives in Eretz Israel, before the war, and documentation of Šolem and Tehila Cohen, born in Lithuania

Letters from the Cohen family in Lithuana to relatives in Eretz Israel, before the war, and documentation of Šolem and Tehila Cohen, born in Lithuania Documentation of the Cohen family in Panevėžys, Lithuania, and in Eretz Israel, 1921–1965 - Šolem Kagan/ Kohn/ Cohen, born in Subačius in 1903; - his wife Tehila Cohen, born in Lithuania in 1906. Also in the file: - contract between Yehiel Goldenberg and Eliyahu Goldman, drawn up in Netanya in 1941; - family tree of Reuven and Shoshana Elta Goldman.

File Number : 5578

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Letter, Genealogy

Language : Lithuanian, Hebrew, Arabic, English, Yiddish

Documentation associated with the history of Ephraim Frantisek Singer and Miriam Eva Singer née Reiter, born in Mukacevo (Munkacs), during and after the war, and letter from Mendel Reiter, Mukacevo, to his sister in the United States, 1933 Documentation associated with Frantisek Singer: - certificate of discharge from military service (List o odchodu z činně služby) of Frantisek Singer, issued in Litomerice on September 17, 1945, with mention of his next destination: Liberec. - abridged war history of Ephraim Frantisek Singer, with list of places where he had been during and after the war and the...

File Number : 475

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Letter, Memoirs, Passport

Language : Hebrew, Czech, German, Yiddish

Certificates given to Rebeka Koen, born in Plovdiv in 1934, by Hebrew schools in Plovdiv during 1941-1948

Certificates given to Rebeka Koen, born in Plovdiv in 1934, by Hebrew schools in Plovdiv during 1941-1948 - Certificates given to Rebeka Koen, the daughter of Yosef, born in Plovdiv in 1934, by the Hebrew kindergarten, Hebrew elementary school and Hebrew high school in Plovdiv during 1941-1948; Included in the file: - Two pages from a Jewish prayer book including notes written by Nisim Elbaz (the grandfather of the husband of Rivka [Coen]), in "solitario" [solitary?] script with notation of the years 1932, 1933 and 5696 [1936].

File Number : 96

Type of Material : Personal Documents

Language : Bulgarian, Hebrew

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