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Testimony of Ze'ev Yitzhaki, born in Iasi, Romania, 1936, regarding his experiences in Iasi during the war

Testimony

Testimony of Ze'ev Yitzhaki, born in Iasi, Romania, 1936, regarding his experiences in Iasi during the war Early childhood. Increase in anti-Semitism, 1939; anti-Jewish orders and legislation; pogrom at police stations and trains, June 1941; the bombings.Liberation by the Red Army, summer of 1944; joining the Dror organization; moving to a children's home in Piatra Neat; boarding the illegal immigrant ship Pan York, December 1947; exile to Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel, March 1948; absorption.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Chaim Chacham, born in Iasi, Romania, 1936, regarding his experiences in hiding in Iasi and letters sent to his father, Avram Hahamu Chacham, head of the Jewish community in Iasi

Memoirs of Chaim Chacham, born in Iasi, Romania, 1936, regarding his experiences in hiding in Iasi and letters sent to his father, Avram Hahamu Chacham, head of the Jewish community in Iasi Life before the war; activities of his father, Avram Hahamu Chacham, as head of the Jewish community in Iasi, 1940-1944; his mother Esther (Shtruminger) Chacham. In hiding in a cellar underneath the synagogue; capture of his father by a German Army patrol (arrested with binoculars and a camera when Jews were required to turn in all the optical equipment they were holding), life in hiding during the pogrom in Iasi;...

File Number : 8526

Type of Material : Letter, Official Documentation, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, Romanian

Testimony of Batia (Blima) (Rozentzveig) Kahana, born in 1931 in Iasi, Moldova-Romania, about life in Iasi, persecution of Jews, and the pogrom in Iasi

Testimony

Testimony of Batia (Blima) (Rozentzveig) Kahana, born in 1931 in Iasi, Moldovia-Romania, about life in Iasi, persecution of Jews, and the pogrom in Iasi Childhood in Iasi; family life; persecution of Jews and antisemitism before the Holocaust; the pogrom in Iasi; activity in the Dror Habonim movement; immigration to Israel in 1948

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Josef Finkelstein, "Iasii Mei" ("My Iasi"), regarding the pogrom in Iasi, 27 June 1941

Memoirs of Josef Finkelstein, "Iasii Mei" ("My Iasi"), regarding the pogrom in Iasi, 27 June 1941 The file includes: - Confirmation by the commander of Calarasi camp that Iosef Finkelstein was an inmate in the camp after his deportation from Iasi, 06 July-25 August 1941; - Death certificates of Hersch Finkelstein and Leonte Finkelstein, who were murdered during the pogrom; - Photographs of a Jewish cemetery in Romania.

File Number : 8401

Type of Material : Death Certificate, Certification, Memoirs

Language : Romanian

Testimony of Miriam (Klughaupt) Nir, born in Iasi, Romania, 1926, regarding her experiences in Iasi

Testimony

Testimony of Miriam (Klughaupt) Nir, born in Iasi, Romania, 1926, regarding her experiences in Iasi Childhood in Iasi including religious life and a Zionist atmosphere; attends a Hebrew kindergarten and a Jewish school; move to a Romanian private school, 1939; increasing displays of antisemitism; worsening attitude toward Jews; yellow badge. The Iasi pogrom; Red Army occupation of Iasi. Life after the war; meeting with Transnistria orphans; unsuccessful aliya attempt to Eretz Israel on the ship "Medinat Hajehudim", detention in Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel; enlists into the Palmach; [emigration from...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rachel (Feldman) Gam, born in Podoleni, Romania, 1923, regarding her experiences in Podoleni and Iasi

Testimony

Testimony of Rachel (Feldman) Gam, born in Podoleni, Romania, 1923, regarding her experiences in Podoleni and Iasi Her childhood including attending six years of elementary school; orphaned of her father; help to her mother, selling fish. Outbreak of the war; deportation to Iasi. Work as a salesperson; activities in a Zionist youth organization with the aim of making aliya to Eretz Israel; aliya to Israel, 1951.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yehoshua Ozi Grinberg, born in Iasi, Romania, 1937, regarding his experiences in Iasi

Testimony

Testimony of Yehoshua Ozi Grinberg, born in Iasi, Romania, 1937, regarding his experiences in Iasi Life in Iasi. Pogrom in Iasi, 29 June 1941.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yanko Mariam Maria (Yanko) Rotman, born in Iasi, Romania, 1929, regarding her experiences in Iasi and Israel

Testimony

Testimony of Yanko Mariam Maria (Yanko) Rotman, born in Iasi, Romania, 1929, regarding her experiences in Iasi and Israel Her childhood in a Zionist family. Anti-Jewish legislation; deterioration of the economic situation; expulsion from the school, based on racial background, 1940; pogrom in Iasi, June 1941; deportation of her father on a train to Ialomita [?]; release of her mother and the children. Gathering together in Iasi with other survivors; orphanhood; illegal aliya attempt to Eretz Israel, 1947; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947; life in Israel.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation of Leiba Herscu regarding her experiences in the Holocaust, 1941-1948

Documentation of Leiba Herscu regarding her experiences in the Holocaust, 1941-1948 - Certification that Leiba Herscu was in the "Death Train," in which Jews who had survived the Iasi Pogrom were deported, 28-29 June 1941; - Certification that Leiba Herscu returned to Iasi, 06 September 1941; - Survivor's notebook certifying that Leiba Herscu was deported to Podul Iloaei, where she remanied from June-September 1941 [?].

File Number : 302

Type of Material : Personal Documents

Language : Romanian

Testimony of Baruch Bernard Leib Lev, born in Iasi, Romania, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in hiding in Iasi

Testimony

Testimony of Baruch Bernard Leib Lev, born in Iasi, Romania, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in hiding in Iasi Life before the war; assimilated family. Outbreak of the war; closure of Jewish businesses; finds a hiding place in the cellar of a bakery along with other people; capture with the Jews; Jews receive beatings; murder of Jews in the death train; murder of his father; escape from a police building; life in hiding; escape and change of hiding place; liberation by the Red Army. Move to Bucharest; life in an orphanage in Bucharest; activities in the Gordonia movement; aliya to Eretz...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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