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List that was hung on the wall of barracks no. 64 in Iampol camp, including the names of the Feller family members from Cernauti who resided there, 1941: Moses Feller (born 1902), Fany Feller (born 1903), and their children, Ruth (born 1930) and Nelly (born 1936) The list includes the stamp of the Iampol police; the barracks was located on Adolf Hitler Street; Notes by the submitter of the material: Moshe Feller, the father, was a baker and the owner of a large bakery in Cernauti; deportation of the family to the Cernauti Ghetto, July 1941; deportation of the parents and their two daughters on foot, to...

File Number : 401

Type of Material : Personal Records, List

Language : Romanian

Memoirs of Tzali Goronovski, born in Baranowicze, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Baranowicze Ghetto, the Koldyczewo camp and as a partisan in the Naliboki forest

Memoirs of Tzali Goronovski, born in Baranowicze, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Baranowicze Ghetto, the Koldyczewo camp and as a partisan in the Naliboki forest Life before the war; work manufacturing tin products with his father. German occupation; unsuccessful attempt to escape to the East; deportation to the Baranowicze Ghetto; deportation of his father to forced labor in the Molodechno Ghetto; murder of forced laborers including his father; murder of his mother and sisters, Bela and Perl; transfer to the Koldyczewo camp, 1941; camp life; beatings from a policeman; help from Yorun, a...

File Number : 8559

Language : Polish, Russian

Memoirs of Pavel Klein regarding his experiences in a labor battalion in Budapest, Hungary, his desertion from the battalion during a death march to Stary Oskol, his imprisonment in a Soviet POW camp and his service as a physician on the front lines in the Czech unit of the Red Army Work as a physician in the Jewish hospital in Budapest, Hungary. Outbreak of the war; draft of the Jewish men to labor battalions at the front; draft of his brother, Laci; message regarding the death of his brother; draft of Pavel to a labor battalion as a physician, late 1942; final preparations and arrival in Ersekujvar;...

File Number : 8555

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Alexander Javor Kahn, born in Rajec, Czechoslovakia, 1902, regarding his experiences in Nove Mesto, Piestany, in hiding in Bratislava and with the partisans in Pastuchov

Testimony of Alexander Javor Kahn, born in Rajec, Czechoslovakia, 1902, regarding his experiences in Nove Mesto, Piestany, in hiding in Bratislava and with the partisans in Pastuchov Life before the war; attends an elementary school; life in Zilina including attending high school; attends the agricultural academy; drafted to the Czechoslovakian Army (discharged with the rank of First Lieutenant); life in Male Lednice including work on the family farm; move to Germany, 1926; life in Germany; work on an experimental farm raising domestic animals; visits to experimental farms in Sweden and Denmark; marriage to...

File Number : 8513

Type of Material : Memoirs, Personal Documents

Language : Slovak, Hebrew

Last postcard sent by Betka Guttmann from Kosice to her daughter Gabriela Ella Schwarcz, 1944, actual and false documents of Gabriela and Ernest Schwarcz, and memoirs of Lea (Guttmann) Schwarcz, born in Bardejov, Slovakia, 1914, regarding her experiences during the war Included in the file: - Postcard sent to Gabriela Ella Guttmann in Kosice, 04/02/1935; - Last postcard sent by Betka Guttmann to her daughter Ella Schwarcz, 22/05/1944; the postcard was sent from Kosice to Secovce and was received by Ella only at the end of the war (it was written in German and is translated to Hebrew); - Wedding...

File Number : 1893

Type of Material : Memoirs, Personal Documents, Postcard

Language : Slovak, Hebrew, German

Testimony of Yehudit Berkovitz née Fridman, , born in 1933 in Szikszó, Hungary, about her experiences as a girl in Szikszo, in the Košice ghetto, and in hiding with a Hungarian peasant in Felsovadasz until winter 1945

Life before the war; refugees from Poland arrive; antisemitism; German occupation ensues in March 1944; serving German officers who invade the family home; deportation to the Košice ghetto; wearing the yellow star; living in a brickyard; family escapes from the ghetto with help from a Hungarian friend of the witness's father; finding a hideout with the friend in Felsovadasz; hiding in a granary for three and a half months; hunger, cold, and lice; liberation by Red Army forces in winter 1945; poor physical and mental condition; back to Szikszó; life after the war; immigration to Israel in 1949; adjustment to...

File Number : 13598

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Forged Belgian identity card with the name Antoinette Marie Bergs, issued in Achel, Belgium, 10 March 1940, for Tauba Edelsztejn, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1930

Forged Belgian identity card with the name Antoinette Marie Bergs, issued in Achel, Belgium, 10 March 1940, for Tauba Edelsztejn, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1930 Move of Edelsztejn to Amsterdam when she was seven years old. German Army occupation of Amsterdam; deportation of her family to a concentration camp; Tauba jumps from the train with her twin sister Adela during its travel in Belgium; injury of her sister; search for help; receives help from a Belgian family; her sister undergoes surgery; transfer of her sister to a monastery; Tauba's life with the Belgian family, including work as a housemaid;...

File Number : 88

Type of Material : Personal Records

Language : Dutch

Memoirs of Alek Elias Kleiner, born in Krakow, Poland, 1930, regarding his experiences in the Plaszow camp, Skawina and a labor camp near Landsberg

Memoirs of Alek Elias Kleiner, born in Krakow, Poland, 1930, regarding his experiences in the Plaszow camp, Skawina and a labor camp near Landsberg Outbreak of the war; transfer to Skawina, deportation to the Plaszow camp; forced labor in Skawina; "Aktion" in Skawina; separation from his mother, sister and brother(s); typhus; hospitalization in the clinic in Plaszow; liquidation of the camp, 1943; selection; death march; transfer to a labor camp near Landsberg; camp life including forced labor at an airport; transfer on foot to the railroad station for Kaufering; escape; wanderings; finding a hiding place in...

File Number : 8486

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English

German passport of Otto Weisz, born in Lemberg, Poland, 1913; passport issued in Neunkirchen, 12 December 1938

German passport of Otto Weisz, born in Lemberg, Poland, 1913; passport issued in Neunkirchen, 12 December 1938 Included in the file: - Documentation regarding the experiences of Otto Pesach Weisz and his parents, Ignaz Yitzhak Weisz and Anna Esther (Price) Weisz, written by Esther (Weisz) Ohr, the daughter of Otto Pesach Weisz, April 2011; Note: Ignaz Yitzhak Weisz was born in Kuty, 03 September 1883; he moved to Vienna as a youth and opened a business for plumbing and electrical appliances, several years later; Ignaz served as the treasurer of the synagogue in Neunkirchen; he emigrated to the...

File Number : 625

Type of Material : Passport, Documentary

Language : Hebrew, German

Memoirs of Sonia Engelsberg, born in Torun, Czechoslovakia, 1924, regarding her experiences in Cesky Tesín, in a Polish village near the Dniester river, the Sevlus Ghetto, Auschwitz, the prison in Most, Theresienstadt and other places Move to Cesky Tesín, life with her parents and four siblings until 1938. Clash between the Polish Army and the Czechoslovakian Army; the German occupation; anti-Jewish legislation and regulations; draft of Jewish men to forced labor; escape of the family to Torun; annexation of the area to Hungary, 1939; deportation of the Jews without Hungarian citizenship to Poland,...

File Number : 8482

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Czech

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