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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yona Goldes Zahavi, born in Mielnica, Poland, 1932, regarding his experiences in the Korolowka Ghetto, the Borszczow Ghetto, in the forest and in hiding

Testimony

Testimony of Yona Goldes Zahavi, born in Mielnica, Poland, 1932, regarding his experiences in the Korolowka Ghetto, the Borszczow Ghetto, in the forest and in hiding Family background. Outbreak of the war, 1939; life under Soviet occupation; German occupation, 1941; concentration of the residents in the city square; escape from the "Aktion" with his mother; arrest and deportation to the Korolowka Ghetto; transfer to the Borszczow Ghetto; escape to the forest; survival; murder of his mother by Ukrainians; in hiding in a bunker in the city; attitude of the local population; liberation by the Red...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Baruch Abend, born in Tyczyn, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in Tyczyn, Lwow, the Rzeszow Ghetto, Szebnie, Buna and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Baruch Abend, born in Tyczyn, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in Tyczyn, Lwow, the Rzeszow Ghetto, Szebnie, Buna and other places Life before the war; religious family. Outbreak of the war, 1939; escape to Lwow; life in Lwow including deportation to Rybinsk by the Soviets; camp life; return to Lwow; move to Tyczyn; deportation to the Rzeszow Ghetto, 1942; Rzeszow Ghetto life; activities of the Judenrat; transfer with the Jews to a square; selection and the deportation of his parents; selection and deportation to Szebnie, 1943; camp life; transfer to Auschwitz- Birkenau; camp life...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Luba (Sher) Kaplansky, born in Plunge, Lithuania, 1931, regarding her experiences in Telsiai, Viesvenai, Giruliai, in hiding in villages and forests, using a false identity and in the Siauliai Ghetto Life before the war; displays of antisemitism. Soviet occupation, 1940; German occupation, June 1941; her family's escape to Telsiai; murder of her injured father by Germans; deportation to Viesvenai; guarded by Lithuanians; mutual help; abuse of men; witness is hidden during an "Aktion" against elderly people and children; transfer to Giruliai; women and children remain without the men;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yitzhak Tzenki Ben Zvi, born in Wohyn, Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Miedzyrzec Ghetto, Auschwitz, Plaszow and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Yitzhak Ben Zvi, born in Wohyn, Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Miedzyrzec Ghetto, Majdanek, Auschwitz, Plaszow and other places Life before the war; young people prepare themselves for defense against antisemitic mobs. Outbreak of the war, September 1939; burning of the family home during air-raids; German occupation; termination of studies; evades the deportation of children and elderly people to Treblinka, summer 1941; Germans break into the family's home, 1943; murder of his father while attempting to defend the family; family escapes to a forest; return home; deportation...

File Number : 12785

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yaakov Aviram, born in Kock, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Lukow Ghetto, in hiding and the underground

Testimony

Testimony of Yaakov Aviram, born in Kock, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Lukow Ghetto, in hiding and the underground From a well-to-do traditional family; learns in a "heder" and a Polish school; Hashomer Hatzair activities. Outbreak of the war; escape to a village; return home; death of his sister; deportation to the Lukow Ghetto with his father; escape; finds a place to hide in a bunker; death of his father, March 1943; joins the Armia Ludova (AL) underground organization; liberation, July 1944. Draft into the Polish police in Lublin; move to Berlin; arrest by the Soviets, release;...

File Number : 12825

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimonial letter from Anna Szelagowska, a Polish woman, to the Zydowska Komisja Historyczna (Jewish Historical Commission) in Krakow regarding [her] help to the Szpidbaum family in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation Inclusion of the apartment building owned by the witness within the Warsaw Ghetto boundaries; leaving the place and transferring the apartment, including the telephone, to the Szpidbaum family; keeping in touch with the family members; help in obtaining Aryan documents for the family members and finding a hiding place for the children.

File Number : 483

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony

Language : Polish

זיכרונותיה של Leya Gonikman לבית Krikofeld, ילידת Balcauti 1936, על גירוש משפחתה לטרנסניסטריה וקורותיה במחנה Florino בזמן המלחמה

File Number : 12366

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Russian

Memoirs of Eva Gutfreund, born in Transylvania, regarding her experiences in a labor camp in Turda, hiding in Sebes, and after the war in Romania and Israel

Religious family; rise of the Iron Guard; looting of Jewish homes and businesses; deportation of her family to Turda, 1941; taking fathers and sons for forced labor in Ocna Sibiului; mass murders of Jews in Nagysarmas and Marosludas; SS officers fatally abused her sisters Sara, Fajga, and Rajza Heller; the escape of her family from the camp and reaching Sebes; hiding by local farmers; liberation by the Red Army; assistance from a Jewish officer in the Red Army; aliya of her siblings and parents to Israel of after the war; death of her brother Joszef Czitrom in Israel’s War of Independence at age 23; her visit...

File Number : 12015

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hungarian

Memoirs of Shimon Simon Gonen Goldshtein, born in Stefanesti in 1934, about the riots in Iasi and his experiences with his family in hiding in Iasi and in Roman during the war

Memoirs of Shimon Simon Gonen Goldshtein, born in Stefanesti in 1934, about the riots in Iasi and his experiences with his family in hiding in Iasi and in Roman during the war - part of a “roots” study on the fate of Romanian Jews during the Holocaust and the riots in Iasi, written by a student of Paz Sports High School - the grandson of Shimon Gonen Goldshtein: Shimon Gonen Goldshtein’s parents - Leon and Anotza Goldshtein; family life in Iasi before the war; the absence of anti-Semitism and good relations with the Romanian neighbors; outbreak of war and the warning given by a senior commander in the Iasi...

File Number : 11528

Type of Material : School Projects, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

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