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Testimony of Hannah (Loewy) Peleg, born in Vienna, Austria, 1924, regarding her experience in Vienna and Great Britain

Testimony of Hannah (Loewy) Peleg, born in Vienna, Austria, 1924, regarding her experience in Vienna and Great Britain Life in Vienna; attends a non-Jewish elementary school; coping with displays of antisemitism; attends a Jewish high school, until 1938; Anschluss; Kristallnacht; move of Hannah, her brother Issaschar Dov (Bernhard) and her sister Lisa (Ilse) to Great Britain, in the context of the Kindertransport; Life in Great Britain as a young Jewish refugee girl in non-Jewish surroundings; joins aliya training in Brosgrove, following activities in the Bachad youth movement; marriage to Yaakov Felsen;...

File Number : 253

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avraham Marciszewer, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Dachau

Testimony

Testimony of Avraham Marciszewer, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Dachau Traditional family; activities in the Poalei Zion Party. Establishment of the Warsaw Ghetto; ghetto life; evades "Aktions" with the help of his father; joins in the preparation for the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; life in a bunker; the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 19 April 1943; discovery of the bunker by the Germans; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; receives food and medication for his father; transfer to Dachau; death march, March 1945; liberation by the US Army. Move...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letters sent from Sweden to his family members in Yugoslavia by Drago Singer, who was born in Yugoslavia, regarding his experiences during the Holocaust period, dated, 1946-1948

Letters sent from Sweden to his family members in Yugoslavia by Drago Singer, who was born in Yugoslavia, regarding his experiences during the Holocaust period, dated, 1946-1948 Drago Singer died in battle in the Negev during the Israel War of Independence, 18 July 1948; Included in the file: Materal written in memory of Drago Singer.

File Number : 989

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of David Eitan Fichman, born in Lipcani, 1923, regarding his experiences in Bojan, hiding, the Cernauti Ghetto and Mogilev Podolski labor camp

Testimony

Testimony of David Eitan Fichman, born in Lipcani, 1923, regarding his experiences in Bojan, hiding, the Cernauti Ghetto and Mogilev Podolski labor camp Well-to-do-family, owners of a flour mill in Lipcani; move to Bojan after entry of Russians, 1940. Avoiding deportation to Siberia by the Russians; evasion of farmers’ riots; hiding in attic; escape in middle of night and wanderings to Cernauti; entry into the ghetto; various forms of forced labor; deportation via train to Atachi, autumn 1941 and then to Mogilev Podolski; life in the camp without food and sanitary conditions; lice, typhus and other...

File Number : 11819

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Edward Eliahu Segal, born in Synowodzko Wyzne, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences during his service in the Polish Army in Iraq, Teheran, Mandatory Palestine, Australia and India

Testimony

Testimony of Edward Eliahu Segal, born in Synowodzko Wyzne, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences during his service in the Polish Army in Iraq, Teheran, Mandatory Palestine, Australia and India His childhood and youth in Synowodzko-Wyzne; attends school in Lwow. Life under the Soviet occupation, 1939; German occupation, 1941; escape into the depth of the Soviet Union via Dolina and Novosibirsk; enlists in the Polish Army in Vladivostock; service in Iraq and Teheran; arrival to Mandatory Palestine in the context of his military service; combat in Egypt and then retreat from Tobruk; treatment and...

File Number : 11087

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Tzadok Raab, born in Velky Meder, 1922, regarding his experiences in Budapest, active in rescue activities and leaving on the Kasztner train from Hungary

Testimony

Testimony of Tzadok Rab, born in Velky Meder, 1922, regarding his experiences in Budapest, active in rescue activities and leaving on the Kasztner train from Hungary Life in a traditional, Zionist family in Czechoslovakia; moved to Trnava, 1939; work in agriculture; moved to Budapest for training and work as a counselor in Bnei Akiva youth movement, summer of 1939; received his draft papers; adopting a false Hungarian name; activities in the Hechalutz underground in Budapest; forging papers to allow refugees to pass from Poland to Slovakia; work on a training farm in villages in the area; return to Budapest,...

File Number : 11116

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Joseph Kapel, born in Radom, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Radom Ghetto and as a forced laborer in camps in Poland and Germany

Testimony

Testimony of Joseph Kapel, born in Radom, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Radom Ghetto and as a forced laborer in camps in Poland and Germany German occupation of Radom followed by the arrival of SS and SA units and the security police, 08 September 1939; kidnapping of Jews to forced labor accompanied by beatings and torture; confiscation of his father's furniture and carpentry store and the appointment of a non-Jewish trustee, a Volksdeutsche man who ran the business on behalf of the German authorities; establishment of two ghettoes in Radom - the small ghetto and large ghetto; murder of...

File Number : 6608

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Aleksander Shaike Agas Grushka, born in Kowel, Poland, 1919 or 1920, regarding his experiences fighting alongside the partisans in the Kowel area during the war, and against Ukrainian nationalists in the Maniewicze area and acts of revenge against Germany, after the war Life before the war. Life in Warsaw during the outbreak of the war, September 1939; participation as a volunteer in the defense of Warsaw; surrender of Poland and escape of his father on foot to the family home in Powórsk; life in Kowel including labor in railroad workshops repairing trains, 1939-1940; attendance at a...

File Number : 1

Type of Material : Letter, Letter of Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Diaries written by an anonymous person, regarding Jews in Poland and in Eretz Israel after the war, including poems, stories, a letter, and other writings

Diaries written by an anonymous person, regarding Jews in Poland and in Eretz Israel after the war, including poems, stories, a letter, and other writings - Story, titled, "Za nasza wolnosc", regarding the experiences of Holocaust survivor Marek in Eretz Israel, during the first years after the war; - Poems related to the war, written by an anonymous author, in Polish; - Diary written by an anonymous Holocaust survivor, who made aliya to Israel in April 1949; - Love story, between Holocaust survivor Heniek and Tunia, which took place in Krakow after the war; - Letter written by Rozia Landsberg and her...

File Number : 5653

Type of Material : Letter, Stories, Poems/songs

Language : Hebrew, Polish, Russian

Letters from Hillel Zeidel in Tel Aviv to members of the Central Committee and the Chief Administration in Poland, 21 September 1948

Letters from Hillel Zeidel in Tel Aviv to members of the Central Committee and the Chief Administration in Poland, 21 September 1948 In his letter, Zeidel gives an overview of the situation of the Yishuv (Jewish population of Israel prior to establishment of the State) after the establishment of the State of Israel; the economic situation of the soldiers and their families; the political situation and the consolidation of the small political parties into bigger units; problems of finding residences for the immigrants due to the increase in the numbers of immigrants on the one hand, and the lack of means and...

File Number : 98

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Hebrew

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