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Testimony of Mirka (Klaver) Zaklikovski, born in Lodz, Poland, 1927, regarding the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, and other camps, 1940-1945

Testimony

Childhood before the war; Outbreak of the war; arrival of refugees from Czechoslovakia and Germany; restrictions; deportation to the ghetto; curfew; forced labor; taking of her father to forced labor; "Aktions"; public hangings of Jews; escapes from the ghetto; cultural life in the ghetto; liquidation of the ghetto; transfer to labor camps in Germany; working in a weapons factory; reasonable treatment by the Germans; liberation by the British Army; Rebuilding life after the war; aliya to Israel, 1949.

File Number : 13855

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rivka van Coevorden née van Amstel, born in 1924 in Coevorden, Netherlands, about her experiences in Amsterdam and in hiding in the Netherlands during the war

Testimony

Life before the war; offspring of a family that had lived in the Netherlands since 1400; moving to Amsterdam in 1938; war breaks out in 1940; deportation to a labor camp; escape; assigned to farm labor; marries and gives birth to a daughter; hiding in various places; liberation; reunited with daughter; life after the war; immigration to Israel in 1951; adjustment to life in Israel.

File Number : 13536

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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 Tzipora Frieda (Markovitz) Nemesh, born in Mukačevo, Czechoslovakia in 1919, regarding her experiences in Mukačevo Ghetto and Auschwitz-Birkenau and Zittau camps

Testimony of Tzipora Frieda (Markovitz) Nemesh, born in Mukačevo, Czechoslovakia in 1919, regarding her experiences in Mukačevo Ghetto and Auschwitz-Birkenau and Zittau camps Life before the war; receiving a Hebrew education; activity in Hashomer Hatza’ir youth movement; publication of blood libel; German occupation in March 1944; expulsion to ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; murder of part of the family in camp; transfer to Zittau about six months later; life in camp; labor in factory; liberation by Red Army; life after the war; aliya to Israel in 1956; absorption.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Joint testimony of Sara (Weissmann) Milgram, born in Kosice, Czechoslovakia in 1939, regarding her experiences as a toddler in a children's home and in a Christian's home while using a Christian identity, and testimony of her mother Alice (Shlezinger) Rotman, born in Kosice in 1920, regarding her experiences in Budapest while using a false identity, and in Lippstadt and other places Testimony of Sara (Weissmann) Milgram: Early childhood in Kosice; escape with her parents to Budapest, 1944; life in Budapest as Christians; capture of her parents after being informed on; transfer by her step-grandmother to a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Judith (Moshkovitz) Natt, born in Uzhorod, Czechoslovakia, 1932, regarding her experiences in Uzhorod, Budapest, the Uzhorod Ghetto and in hiding in Budapest

Testimony

Testimony of Judith (Moshkovitz) Natt, born in Uzhorod, Czechoslovakia, 1932, regarding her experiences in Uzhorod, Budapest, the Uzhorod Ghetto and in hiding in Budapest Hungarian Army occupation [of Uzhorod]; life under Hungarian occupation, 1938; increase in the displays of antisemitism; importance to the Hungarians of the brick factory owned by her father; German Army occupation [of Uzhorod], 1944; Germans take control of the factory owned by her father; her family receives a special permit from the Hungarian Minister of the Interior and an exemption from the anti-Jewish restrictions imposed on the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Zahava Eugenia (Mas) Tzelner, born in Lwow, Poland, 1919, regarding her experiences in Lwow, Janowska, Warsaw and Krakow

Testimony

Testimony of Zahava Eugenia (Mas) Tzelner, born in Lwow, Poland, 1919, regarding her experiences in Lwow, Janowska, Warsaw and Krakow Her childhood in an assimilated family; attends a Polish elementary school and a vocational school; displays of antisemitism before the war. Outbreak of the war, 1939; Red Army occupation of Lwow; life under Soviet occupation including work, food and culture; work as a teacher in a vocational school; German Army occupation of Lwow, 1941; life under German occupation including acts of physical and verbal abuse; robbery of Jewish property, forced labor and the imposition of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rita Riva (Gershgorin) Kreizel, born in Calarasi, Romania, 1922, regarding her experiences in Calarasi, Gulyayevka, in hiding and in Berezovka, Mostovoi and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Rita Riva (Gershgorin) Kreizel, born in Calarasi, Romania, 1922, regarding her experiences in Calarasi, Gulyayevka, in hiding and in Berezovka, Mostovoi and other places Her childhood in a traditional family of merchants, including attending a Romanian elementary school and a Romanian high school. Red Army occupation of Calarasi, 1939; deportation of merchants and wealthy people to the Soviet Union; Romanian Army occupation of Calarasi, 1941; deportation on foot to Gulyayevka including people freezing to death; digging of a mass grave in Gulyayevka; mass murder; witness pretends to be dead;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ruth Heilman, born in Sosnowiec, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences in Katowice, the Sosnowiec Ghetto, Srodula, in hiding and in other places

Testimony

Testimony of Ruth Heilman, born in Sosnowiec, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences in Katowice, the Sosnowiec Ghetto, Srodula, in hiding and in other places Her childhood; move to Katowice, 1929; life in Katowice including attending a school; attends a Polish high school; musical education and activities in Hanoar Hatzioni; displays of antisemitism before the war; help to Jewish refugees before the war; move back to Sosnowiec, 1939. Outbreak of the war; escape in a convoy to Katowice; burning of synagogues; move back to Sosnowiec; life in the Jewish area in Sosnowiec including acts of abuse on Jews and...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Dov Bene Weiss, born in Bekescsaba, Hungary, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Bekescsaba Ghetto, Budapest, Auschwitz and Muehldorf

Testimony

Testimony of Dov Bene Weiss, born in Bekescsaba, Hungary, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Bekescsaba Ghetto, Budapest, Auschwitz and Muehldorf Life in Bekescsaba. Deportation to the Bekescsaba Ghetto; transfer to Budapest; life in Budapest; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life; transfer to Muehldorf; camp life.

File Number : 13370

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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