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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Efraim Simon, born in Focsani, Romania, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Mogilev-Podolski Ghetto, Luchinets and Tulchin

Testimony

Testimony of Efraim Simon, born in Focsani, Romania, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Mogilev-Podolski Ghetto, Luchinets and Tulchin Traditional family; attends a "heder" and school. Outbreak of the war; move to Herta, 1941; murder of Jews after their concentration in a synagogue; deportation on foot to Edineti; life in Edineti; transfer to Atachi; life in Atachi; transfer to the Mogilev-Podolski Ghetto; ghetto life; transfer to Luchinets; transfer from place to place until Tulchin; life in Tulchin including labor in a coal mine; escape; return to the Mogilev-Podolski Ghetto; help from the Jews in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Marta Hermina (Ander) Sigler, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto and Bucharest

Testimony

Testimony of Marta Hermina (Enzer) Sigler, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto and Bucharest Life before the war; attends school; the Jewish community. Soviet occupation, 1940; Romanian reoccupation, 1941; decrees; deportation to the Cernauti Ghetto; permission to leave the ghetto; return home; her father was considered an essential worker as a veterinariant surgeon; aliya of her brother to Eretz Israel, 1942; separation from her parents; move to her aunt's in Bucharest, 1943. Aliya to Eretz Israel with a group via Bulgaria, Turkey, Syria and Lebanon; life...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Karl Ruhm, born in Suceava, Romania, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in Atachi and Mogilev-Podolski, Skazinets, Shargorod and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Karl Ruhm, born in Suceava, Romania, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in Atachi and Mogilev-Podolski, Skazinets, Shargorod and other places Life before the war. Deportation to Atachi; deportation to the Mogilev-Podolski Ghetto; his family leave the ghetto with the help of an acquaintance, a Romanian officer; life in the city; move to the Skazinets Ghetto, 1942; ghetto life; deportation of his father to a labor camp, from where he did not return; transfer to Tibrif; the partisans help him leave the camp with his mother; deportation to the Shargorod Ghetto; ghetto life; separation...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Zvi Henryk Zimermann, born in Skala, Poland, 1913, regarding his experiences in the Krakow Ghetto, Plaszow, in hiding in a forest using a Polish identity, with an organization to free Poland based in Hungary and other places Life as an orphan during World War I; move to Tarnow; life with his adult brothers; studies Law at Krakow University; student organization activities. Joins the Judenrat at the time of the German occupation; ghetto life including labor as a social worker in the ghetto's welfare department; help to deportees during "Aktions"; member of a delegation checking on the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sania Gonski, born in Briceva, Romania, 1927, regarding his experiences in Olgopol, Obodovka, Bershad, the Berski kolkhoz and Nikolayev

Testimony

Testimony of Sania Gonski, born in Briceva, Romania, 1927, regarding his experiences in Olgopol, Obodovka, Bershad, the Berski kolkhoz and Nikolayev From a traditional family; learns in a "heder" and a Romanian school; pogrom and detention of Jews, 1937. Soviet occupation, 1940; return to Romanian control, 1941; deportation with the family on foot to Yampol; deportation to Olgopol; camp life; transfer on foot to Obodovka; transfer to a kolkhoz near Berski; labor for Ukrainians; murder of his mother and brother by a Romanian gendarme; transfer to Bershad; camp life; labor paving roads for the Germans in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Ita Cukier, born in Radom, Poland, 1918, regarding her experiences in the Radom Ghetto, Radom Szkolnastrasse and using a false identity

Testimony

Testimony of Ita Cukier, born in Radom, Poland, 1918, regarding her experiences in the Radom Ghetto, Radom Szkolnastrasse and using a false identity Life before the war; her father's visit in Eretz Israel, 1934-1935. Outbreak of the war; German occupation; deportation to the Radom Ghetto, 1940; ghetto life including typhus; deportation of her parents to extermination camps; transfer to the small ghetto; life in the small ghetto including forced labor; liquidation of the ghetto; deportation to Radom Szkolnastrasse; camp life including marriage and miscarriage (abortion?) of her baby outside the camp;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Lili (Donnenfeld) Pitaru, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1930, regarding her experiences in Atachi, Mogilev-Podolski; Luchinets; Heromiura and Obodovka

Testimony

Testimony of Lili (Donnenfeld) Pitaru, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1930, regarding her experiences in Atachi, Mogilev-Podolski; Luchinets; Heromiura and Obodovka Life before the war; attends a local school. Soviet occupation, 1940; German occupation, 1941; anti-Jewish legislation including yellow badge; deportation to Atachi, autumn 1941; transfer to Mogilev-Podolski; transfer to Luchinets; transfer to Heromiura; camp life including typhus and death of the witness' mother; transfer to Obodovka; liberation by the Red Army, 1944. Return to Cernauti; marriage and starts a family; life under Communist...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Samuel Pitaru, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto, Atachi, Mogilev-Podolski, Luchinets and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Samuel Pitaru, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto, Atachi, Mogilev-Podolski, Luchinets and other places Family with hardships; life before the war. Soviet occupation, 1940; Romanian occupation, 1941; decrees; deportation to the Cernauti Ghetto; deportation with his family to Atachi, autumn 1941; transfer to Mogilev-Podolski; transfer on foot to Luchinets; transfer to Nemerche; life in an animal coup; death of his parents and brother; transfer with his little sister to their aunt's; transfer with a group of orphans to Romania, 1944; life in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of a Jewish fighter regarding the Warsaw Polish Uprising including participation by Jews in the uprising and the hiding of their Jewish identity due to displays of antisemitism by [other] uprisers, August-October 1944; testimony written, August 1945 Outbreak of the Warsaw Polish Uprising; attitude of the local population; killing of a German policeman by two Jews, 01 August 1944; waving of a Polish flag by the Jews who killed the policeman; strengthening of antisemitism among the Poles; participation of Jews in the Warsaw Polish Uprising; hiding of many Jews on the Aryan side of Warsaw during the...

File Number : 519

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

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