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Testimony of Tzafrir Shteir Sara, born in Bedzin, Poland, in 1930 regarding the Srodula ghetto and regarding the Peterswaldau camp

Childhood before the war; programming aliya to Israel; aliya of the two brothers ; confiscation of family businesses; outbreak of the war; burning the synagogue and houses of Jews; deportation to ghetto; forced labor; murder of the father; "aktions"; deportation of the mother and sister to Auschwitz Birkenau; deportation of the witness with her sister to Peterswaldau; help of the German female commander; liberation by the Russians; escape to the American side; rehabilitation of life after the war; aliya to Israel in 1946

File Number : 13661

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Edith Stern, from Vienna, regarding her experiences at the Vienna University Eye Hospital

Testimony of Edith Stern, from Vienna, regarding her experiences at the Vienna University Eye Hospital - Humiliating attitude toward the witness, including an antisemitic tone, by Professor Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth and others.

File Number : 252

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : English

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

Personal documentation belonging to the Wolfgang family from Vienna from the prewar and postwar periods, 1886-1970

Personal documentation belonging to the Wolfgang family from Vienna from the prewar and postwar periods, 1886-1970 - Invitation to the wedding of Regine (Loewy) and Isaias Weissman (the parents of Julie [Weissman] Wolfgang), 15 June 1886; - Birth certificate issued in the name of Karl Wolfgang (husband of Julie [Weissman] Wolfgang), born 01 March 1892 (He was actually born on 29 February, however, because the date recurs only once every four years, the 01 March date was entered in the birth certificate); - Plumbing certification document issued to Karl Wolfgang in Vienna, 13 September 1909; -...

File Number : 249

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Official Documentation, Red Cross Letter, Letter

Language : English, German

List of Jews in the hospital in Vught camp in the Netherlands, 09/05/1943

File Number : 8

Type of Material : List of Sick People, List of Camp Inmates

Language : Dutch

Testimony of Yisrael Veisvaser, born in 1922 in Krasnystaw, Poland, about the German occupation in September 1939 and his escape to the Soviet Union

Testimony

Testimony of Yisrael Veisvaser, born in 1922 in Krasnystaw, Poland, about the German occupation in September 1939 and his escape to the Soviet Union Childhood in a traditional home; attends a cheder and a Polish elementary school; active in the Betar movement; German occupation ensues; Soviet invasion ensues in 1939; witness escapes to Brest and thence to Minsk; back to Brest; on to Ludman; arrested due to Zionist activity; deported to a labor camp in Rom, Soviet Union; transferred to a camp for craftspersons; released in June 1943; reaches Zhitomir and Chełm; discharged from the Polish Army in 1946; moves...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Zeev Semel On, born in Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland, in 1924, regarding labour camps, his deportation to Buchenwald and other camps

Testimony

-Parents'house; anti-semitism; air-raids; occupation by the German army on 04 September,1939; humiliations; forced labour; deportation to the Piotrkow Trybunalski ghetto; the father is a member of the Judenradt; contribution demand; confiscation of furs; walking on the pavement is forbidden; starvation; passing of valuables to local neighbours; reduction of the ghetto; issuance of working papers on 21 October 1942; his work as a porter in "Shneider shop" (tailor shop) for the needs of the German army and cargo transfer from place to place; assembling the children in the big synagogue and their murder;...

File Number : 13463

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Medical Clearance Certificate of Nathan Prins, from Amsterdam, issued by the American authorities in Germany, 09 June 1945, for his move to the Netherlands, and a postcard sent from Eindhoven to his family in Amsterdam, by means of his former neighbors - Medical Clearance Certificate in the name of Nathan Prins, born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 22 September 1913, issued by the US Occupation authorities in Germany, 09 June 1945, for his move to the Netherlands; his move to Bergen-Belsen DP camp via Hallen and then to Amsterdam; - Postcard sent by Nathan Prins from Eindhoven, to his former neighbors in...

File Number : 722

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Postcard

Language : Dutch

Postcards and letters sent to Cywia Laufer and to Josef and Enia Clodarz by their family members and friends in Jadow, Bobruysk and various places in Poland and Belorussia, 1939-1941, including letters received by Cywia Laufer after the war - Postcards sent to Tzivia Laufer in Bialystok by relatives in Bobruysk, Krasnaya Sloboda and Beshenkovichi, 1939; - Postcards and letters sent by Majer Laufer from Jadow to his daughters Cywia and Enia during their stay in Veselov Navolok (the Osta area), the Soviet Union, 1940-1941; - Postcards sent by Mordekhai Trop in Grodno to Cywia, Enia and Josef Clodarz (the...

File Number : 2066

Type of Material : Letter, Certification, Postcard, Poem/song

Language : Polish, Russian, Yiddish

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

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