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Testimony of Zvie Warszawski, born in Lodz, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in forced labor in Oswiecim, Annaberg, Klettendorf, Groeditz and other places

Testimony of Zvie Warszawski, born in Lodz, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in forced labor in Oswiecim, Annaberg, Klettendorf, Groeditz and other places Religious, traditional, lower middle-class family; his father is a tailor; move to Oswiecim, 1933. German occupation; forced labor paving roads in Oswiecim, September 1939-November 1940; separation from his parents; deportation to labor camps near Gross-Rosen from November 1940; transfer to Annaberg; camp life and labor paving roads; transfer to Gross-Sarne; camp life and labor paving roads; transfer to Klettendorf; camp life and labor loading...

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Natan Ginsberg, born in Tarnow, 1924, regarding his experiences in Tarnow and in the Mauthausen, Gusen, and Gunskirchen camps

Testimony

Testimony of Natan Ginsberg, born in Tarnow, 1924, regarding his experiences in Tarnow and in the Mauthausen, Gusen, and Gunskirchen camps Life before the war; entry of the Germans 07 September 1939; "Aktions"; rescued from an "Aktion", September 1942; work at refurbishing Jewish furniture for the Germans; labor cleaning; burning corpses; organizing furniture; planning an escape that did not succeed; deportation to Plaszow, February 1944; snow removal, leather work, and carpentry; transfer with thousands of people to Mauthausen, 08 August 1944; forced labor in the quarry; transfer to Gusen I and Gusen II;...

File Number : 11244

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation from 1942-1969 regarding activities of the "L'Aide aux Meres" children's home in the Chamonix area, France, 1944-1947

File Number : 330

Type of Material : Record of Survivors, Personal Documents, Official Documentation, Newspaper

Language : Hebrew, French

Reports regarding the tapping and listening on the telephone conversations of the Ghettoverwaltung (German administration) of the Lodz Ghetto, which were connected to the Forschungsstelle A intelligence department, 1939-1945 The item contains two volumes; Volume A: List of names of the officials in the Ghettoverwaltung (German administration) of the Lodz Ghetto and in the Judenrat (page 2); Reported are eavesdropping from the conversations of the following persons or regarding the following subjects: Chairman of the Judenrat, Rumkowski (pp. 3, 19, 29, 63), 13/04-30/06/1944; Deportation of Jews...

File Number : 13

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Testimony of Ester (Harf) Shumsky, born in Warsaw, 1929, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, living on the Aryan side and during the Warsaw Polish Uprising

Testimony

Testimony of Ester (Harf) Shumsky, born in Warsaw, 1929, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, living on the Aryan side and during the Warsaw Polish Uprising Family history and life in Warsaw until the outbreak of war; hiding in bunkers during the bombing; return home; in the Small Ghetto until 1942; everyday life in the ghetto; learning in small groups; hunger and the atrocities; the survivor and her mother were taken in an "Aktion" to the Umschlagplatz; bribing the Jewish policeman with gold and escaping back home; repairing German Army uniforms, 1942; escape to the Aryan side of the city at the...

File Number : 10586

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation associated with Evelyn Chenkin née Freedman, born in 1922 in London, and her participation in the return to Jewish hands of children who had been hidden during the Holocaust in convents or with non-Jewish families, 1945–2018 - booklet with list including data on orphaned Jewish children who had been accommodated in various places in France, noting region and departement, child's first and last name, date of birth, and address; - notebook with various entries; - the notebook has content related to the project of returning children to Jewish hands; - correspondence concern the activities of...

File Number : 1702

Type of Material : Poem/song, Memoirs, Notepad, List, Correspondence

Language : Hebrew, French, English

Testimony of Zehava (Muzykant) Yarkoni, born in Banila, Romania, 1931, regarding the deportation to Transnistria

Childhood; studies at a Romanian public school; antisemitism before the war. Soviet occupation, 1940; deportation of Jews to the eastern Soviet Union; reoccupation by the Romanians, 1941; roundup of the city's Jews and their forced march; hunger and sleeping by the roadside in the freezing cold; transfer to Edineti Sat and Storojinet; murder of Jewish children by Romanian gendarmes; arrival in Atachi; transfer to Mogilev Podolskiy; continuation of the forced march to Krichanovka and transfer to Vendichany; death of her father. Liberation by the Red Army, 1944; return to Cernauti; transfer to Storojinet...

File Number : 14243

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Correspondence conducted between the Chief Rabbi of Israel, Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, with various organizations and institutions around the world and with clergy, on behalf of Jews during World War II and on behalf of survivors after the war - Letters, telegrams and other documentation related to the contacts between Rabbi Herzog and various clergy people, from 1935 and until after the Holocaust (original material and copies), including: --- Letter regarding contacts with clergy on behalf of the struggle against antisemitism, sent to Rabbi Herzog (the Chief Rabbi of Ireland) by J. H. Hertz in London (the...

File Number : 3515

Type of Material : Survey Report, Protocol, Telegram, Official Documentation, Letter, Speech

Language : Hebrew, French, English, German

Testimony of Yaffa (Losch) Hala, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1923, regarding the Toebbens workshop and regarding Majdanek, Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen camps

Testimony

Testimony of Yaffa (Losch) Hala, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1923, regarding the Toebbens workshop and regarding Majdanek, Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen camps Childhood in an aristocratic family of nine children; attending a Jewish Polish school for girls; entry of German occupation forces in September 1939; labor in a Toebbens workshop sewing uniforms for the Wehrmacht; wearing a yellow badge; Aryanization of the parent's store; deportation of the father and younger brothers to Treblinka; transfer to the Warsaw Ghetto; the witness and her mother are saved during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, due to the transfer the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shlomo Sendor Brody, born in 1929 in Huedin, Romania, about his deportation to the Cluj ghetto and to the Auschwitz, Mauthausen, Melk, and Gunskirchen camps

Testimony

Testimony of Shlomo Sendor Brody, born in 1929 in Huedin, Romania, about his deportation to the Cluj ghetto and to the Auschwitz, Mauthausen, Melk, and Gunskirchen camps Childhood in Huedin; life under Hungarian rule in 1940; family jailed in Budapest for lack of Hungarian citizenship; sent to a quarantine camp for the stateless in Budapest; transferred to a children's summer camp in Bekescaba in 1941; released and back to Huedin in 1942; moves to Budapest in 1943; back to Huedin; German occupation ensues in 1944; deportation to the Cluj ghetto; life in the ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; forced labor;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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