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Testimony of Judith Brinkman (Rubin), born in Kobenhavn, Denmark in 1926, regarding her experiences in Kobenhavn and in Theresienstadt from 1943

Childhood in an ultra-orthodox family in Kobenhavn; outbreak of the war, 1940 and invasion of the Germans; attendance at public school and sewing studies; sudden expulsion from home to the port during the night after Rosh Hashana 1943, from there to Germany by boat and to Theresienstadt by train; life with her mother and sister; prolonged hospital stay; death of her father,February 1944; working in a factory and in a children's home with babies; visit of the Danish delegation and the Red Cross; moving to another apartment in preparation for the visit; getting packages; liberation 15 April,1945; warm reception...

File Number : 13467

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Postcard sent by Simon Dasberg from Bergen-Belsen to Switzerland, 1944; letter sent by members of the Franck family from Eretz Israel to Simon and Isabella Dasberg in Groningen, 1942, greetings and drawings prepared by their children during the family's stay in Bergen-Belsen - Chanukah song written by their daughter, Fani Dasberg in Bergen-Belsen, 1944; - "A Taste of Mother", sketches by Fani Dasberg drawn in Bergen-Belsen, reflecting her dreams about the family home (meals prepared by her mother and a bathtub in the garden); - Poem written in Dutch and Hebrew by Simon Dasberg in honor of the Bat...

File Number : 2203

Type of Material : Poem/song, Letter, Red Cross Letter, Drawing, Postcard

Language : Hebrew, Dutch, German

Testimony of Melvina Malka Avrahami, born in Pavlovo, Czechoslovakia, 1924, regarding the deportation to the Munkac Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Melvina Malka Avrahami, born in Pavlovo, Czechoslovakia, 1924, regarding the deportation to the Munkac Ghetto Family background; life before the war. Entry of the Hungarians, 1938; lifestyle changes for worse; food rationing; a ban on Christian doctors to treat Jews; refusal to treat her sister and her death in a hospital; sewing studies at Munkac; transfer to Svalava; German occupation; deportation to the Munkac ghetto by Hungarian gendarmes; *Second part of the testimony is missing, the witness refused to continue being interviewed.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shlomo Pash, born in Landsberg Warthe, Germany in 1935, regarding his ‎experiences as a child in Berlin, Potenza, a Jewish orphanage in Torino, on a farm in the area of ‎Casale Monferrato, and more Life in Berlin before the war; his father’s position as a judge; deportation of his father to a ‎concentration camp and his poisoning in 1939; escape with his mother to Potenza; escape to ‎Torino; life in a Jewish orphanage; attitude of the Jewish community after the German occupation ‎of northern Italy; escape with other children from the orphanage to Casale Monferrato; closure of ‎the orphanage and...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avraham Iger, born in 1918 in Radom, Poland, about his experiences in Radom, the Jedlina ghetto, and camps in Poland and Austria, 1939–1945

German occupation ensues in 1939; witness assigned to felling timber as forced laborer; deportation to the Jedlina ghetto in 1941; forced labor in the ghetto; deportation with brother and sister to Pionki ni 1942; life in the camp; working in a gunpowder and munitions plant; transferred to Zwolen in 1942; interned there for severael weeks; sent back to Pionki; taken to Auschwitz in 1944; interned there for several days; sent on to Sosnowiec Srodula in 1944; life in the camp; working in an armaments plant; death march to Mauthausen in January 1945; transferred to Gunskirchen; interned there until liberated by...

File Number : 13611

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yehudit Brok née Stern, born in 1925 in Galanta, Czechoslovakia, about her experiences in the ghettos of Galanta and Nove Zamky and in the Auschwitz and Hohenelbe camps until 1945

Hungary re-annexes the Galanta area and anti-Jewish violence in 1938; antisemitism escalates and authorities impose restrictions; German occupation ensues in 1944; father arrested and deported to a detention camp in Hungary in 1944; witness deported with mother and siblings to the Galanta ghetto for several days; deportation to a ghetto in a brickyard in Nove Zamky; deporation to Auschwitz in 1944; life in Auschwitz and receiving help from father; transferred to Hohenelbe; life in the camp; working at a factory that turns out aircraft parts; typhus; rescue by a non-Jewish Dutch nurse in 1945; liberation by Red...

File Number : 13525

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Miriam Lengel, born in Cluj, Romania in 1921, regarding her experiences in Kneii Meze, in the Plaszow and Auschwitz-Birkenau camps, in a camp in the region of Buchenberg and more

Testimony of Miriam Lengel, born in Cluj, Romania, in 1921,regarding her experiences in Kneii Meze, in the camps Plaszow, Auschwitz-Birkenau, in the region of Buchenberg and more Life in Cluj; attending a Romanian Gymnasium; good relations with the neighbours; annexation of the place to Hungary; imposing restrictions on the Jews; imposing an economic boycott; anti-Semitism; deportation to Kneii Meze; life in a brick factory; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau by cargo train; selection and transfer to Block B'; transfer to Block C'; working in the kitchen and stealing food; food trading; transfer to Plaszow;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yeshayahu Nutman, born in Breslau, Germany in 1923, regarding his experiences in Breslau and his aliya to Eretz Israel in 1937

Testimony of Yeshayahu Nutman, born in Breslau, Germany in 1923, regarding his experiences in Breslau and his aliya to Eretz Israel in 1937 Life in Breslau as a child; he attends a Jewish school; membership in the Bachad youth movement, 1933; Nazis hold parades in the streets; shouting of anti-Jewish slogans by the Nazis, 1935; publication of the Nuremberg Laws and ban on his father's work as a Notary; easing of the watch over the laws during the Olympic events; life during the last months before his aliya to Eretz Israel; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1937; studies in the Kadoorie school.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation from Stuttgart and from Radom including an identity card for Lejzor Herszek Konar, 1944, and flyers announcing festive events in "Beit Bialik", the Jewish school in Stuttgart

Documentation from Stuttgart and from Radom including an identity card for Lejzor Herszek Konar, 1944, and flyers announcing festive events in "Beit Bialik", the Jewish school in Stuttgart - Identity card for Lejzor Herszek Konar, born in Maciejowice, Poland, 1923, issued in Radom, 02 April 1944; - Commemorative ad issued by Itzhak Leib Richtman in memory of his parents and his sister; - Announcement sent by the German authorities to the Jews of Radom regarding the establishment of a ghetto; the original announcement can be found in the Ghetto Fighters' Museum Archive; - [Document cotaining...

File Number : 1170

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Map, Poster, Announcement, Official Documentation, Newspaper Clippings

Language : Hebrew, Polish, English, German, Yiddish

Testimony of Bunim Veintraub, born in 1929 in Bialobrzegi, Poland, about his experiences in the Bialobrzegi ghetto and in the Skarzysko Kamienna, Częstochowa, and other camps

Childhood in Bialobrzegi; attends a Polish school and a cheder; religious life; hoarding food and clothing in houses in 1939; ghettoization; father deported to an unknown destination; Jews rounded up and deported to an unknown destination; witness escapes to villages in the area; deportation to Skarzysko Kamienna; life in the camp; working at a light munitions plant; abuse and shooting typhus patients; sent to the Częstochowa camp; sent to Buchenwald; life in the camp; receiving parcels from British prisoners; sent to Schlieben; brother dies in Allied bombardment of Dresden; escapes to Bautzen; works in a...

File Number : 13457

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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