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Testimony of Itzhak Rozenzweig born in Dubeczno, Poland, 1916

Testimony

Testimony of Itzhak Rozenzweig born in Dubeczno, Poland, 1916 Move to Wlodawa at the age of 3; murder of his father and his grandfather; attendance at a Bund school; Hechalutz activities; studying carpentry; move to Warsaw; draft into the Polish Army, 1938. Outbreak of the war; taken captive by the German Army; release following injury; escape to the Soviet Union; deportation to Siberia; labor camp; forced labor; logging trees and then opening up a carpentry shop; being accused of activity against the regime; detention in prison; end of the war and liberation. Arrival at Tashkent in Uzbekistan and...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Susie (Lang) Margalit, born in Vienna, Austria, 1924, regarding her experiences during Kristallnacht, Trieste, Lyme Regis, Liverpool and Boston

Testimony

Testimony of Susie (Lang) Margalit, born in Vienna, Austria, 1924, regarding her experiences during Kristallnacht, Trieste, Lyme Regis, Liverpool and Boston Well-to-do assimilated family. Anschluss, 1938; Kristallnacht; detention of her father in Dachau and his release; joins Maccabi Hatzair; wait in Trieste for a visa to England. Life in England including learns in a Christian school in Lyme Regis; move to Liverpool; detention of her father on suspicion of being a spy; obtains a visa to the United States; move to Boston, late 1941; joins Hashomer Hatzair; aliya to Eretz Israel, early 1948.

File Number : 12847

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letter written by Piero Sonnino in Fossoli camp to his family members in Italy, 15/02/1944; documentation regarding the experiences of Piero Sonnino, who was born in Ancona in 1900, during the Holocaust - Letter written by Piero Sonnino while in prison in Italy, addressed to his family members in Italy, 15/02/1944; in the letter he requests that his letter be given to his family, three months after the end of the war, in the event that he does not return; Documentation regarding Piero Sonnino: - Excerpt from the book, ''Il libro della memoria: gli ebrei deportati dall'Italia 1943-1945'', by Liliana...

File Number : 1022

Type of Material : Letter, Excerpt(s)

Language : Italian

Correspondence and announcements of the Amsterdam Joodse Raad (Jewish Council) to the Friesland District Joodse Raad branch, 1942-1943

Correspondence and announcements of the Amsterdam Joodse Raad (Jewish Council) to the Friesland District Joodse Raad branch, 1942-1943 Orders and instructions of the German occupation authorities passed on by the Amsterdam Joodse Raad to its branches in outlying cities; the orders and instructions include explanations on the following subjects: rights of the Staatenlosen (stateless), distribution of the yellow badge, arrest of discharged Jewish soldiers; draft of labor for Germany; education; streets on which Jews are permitted to live in Amsterdam; places where Jews can sleep overnight when travelling; work...

File Number : 5

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : Dutch, German

Testimony of Josef Friedman, born in Dawidgrodek, Poland, 1895, regarding his experiences in Warsaw, Belorussia and in detention in Dzhizak

Testimony

Testimony of Josef Friedman, born in Dawidgrodek, Poland, 1895, regarding his experiences in Warsaw, Belorussia and in detention in Dzhizak Escape from besieged Warsaw to Belorussia, September 1939; work in a Soviet office; detention; transfer to Dzhizak, Uzbekistan, June 1940; receives a pardon, and his return to the Soviet Union, September 1941; unsuccessful attempt to make aliya to Eretz Israel. Repatriation to Poland, 1946.

File Number : 2111

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Feliks Singer, born in Krakow, Poland, regarding his experiences in the Krakow Ghetto and in Auschwitz, Oranienburg and Lieberose camps

Testimony of Feliks Singer, born in Krakow, Poland, regarding his experiences in the Krakow Ghetto and in Auschwitz, Oranienburg and Lieberose camps He sleeps in the apartment of acquaintances in the Krakow Ghetto during rumors concerning an anticipated deportation from the ghetto, early October 1942; hides in a chest of drawers in the apartment, during the "Aktion"; detention of his relatives (who had escaped from Miechow) by the Jewish police, during the night of 24 November 1942; detention of the witness, and his interrogation along with all of the Jewish men who were residents in the building, and the...

File Number : 386

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Jozef Klein, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1917, regarding his experiences in a prison in Slovakia, in Dubnica, Stanesti, and Auschwitz

Testimony of Jozef Klein, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1917, regarding his experiences in a prison in Slovakia, in Dubnica, Stanesti, and Auschwitz Expulsion of the socialist students from the universities in Slovakia, 1938; Publication of the Nuremburg Laws in Slovakia, 1941; imprisonment of the witness, three months later, for a period of three years; prison life, without separation between the Jews and the non-Jews in the cells, and the possibility of bringing food to the prison from the outside; German occupation, 1944; transfer of the witness along with the Polish inmates, to Dubnica...

File Number : 33

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Gerth Pfefferkorn, born in Krakow, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in Paris, Theresienstadt and Auschwitz

Testimony of Gerth Pfefferkorn, born in Krakow, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in Paris, Theresienstadt and Auschwitz Outbreak of the war; life in Paris, including studies in a regular (public) school as a Mischlinge, because his mother is a non-Jew; ban on studies in a public school; detention by the Gestapo, 27 June 1944; transfer to a prison; interrogation in the Gestapo station, regarding his origin; he signs a document confessing to his Jewish origin, without being given the possibility of reading the confession; transport by train to Theresienstadt, August 1944; life in a block with 100 Jewish...

File Number : 30

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Mendel Mordkowicz, born in Blaszki, Poland, 1886, regarding his experiences in Poznan camp, the Wroclaw, Sieradz and Czestochowa prisons, Inowroclaw camp, Auschwitz and Mauthausen

Testimony of Mendel Mordkowicz, born in Blaszki, Poland, 1886, regarding his experiences in Poznan camp, the Wroclaw, Sieradz and Czestochowa prisons, Inowroclaw camp, Auschwitz and Mauthausen Life in Lubraniec before the war. German occupation; deportation of the men to Fort Radziwill in the Poznan camp several months later; camp life, including labor digging trenches in the forest, extracting gravel from the Warta River; murder of many inmates; severely injured by a Gestapo man; transfer to Kobyle Pole; labor in a glass factory, while using a false identity; receives help from laborers in the factory;...

File Number : 221

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Mendel Teichtal, born in Krakow, Poland, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in Brzesko, Bochnia, Montelupich and Bergen-Belsen

Testimony of Mendel Teichtal, born in Krakow, Poland, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in Brzesko, Bochnia, Montelupich and Bergen-Belsen Transfer from Krakow to Brzesko after the German occupation; living conditions in the open ghetto in Brzesko; murder of Uszer Landau, head of the Judenrat, by the Gestapo; sent away to Krakow by his mother before the anticipated "Aktion" in Brzesko; joins his mother in hiding during the "Aktion"; mass murder of the Jews of Brzesko; concentration of the Jews from the surrounding area in Brzesko and sealing of the ghetto; transfer to Bochnia four weeks later;...

File Number : 145

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

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