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Memoirs of Schmerel Cynamon, born in Lodz, Poland in 1909, regarding his experiences in Lodz, in the Polish Army, in Bialystok after the division of Poland, and in the Lodz Ghetto following the return of Lodz to the German authorities; included is his testimony regarding Nazi collaborators among Jews and members of the Judenrat in the Lodz Ghetto

File Number : 7673

Type of Material : Letter, Memoirs

Language : English, Yiddish

Testimony of David Fiszerung, born in Chorzele, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Makow Ghetto and the Mlawa Ghetto, Birkenau, a death march, Ebensee and more

Testimony

Testimony of David Fiszerung, born in Chorzele, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Makow Ghetto and the Mlawa Ghetto, Birkenau, a death march, Ebensee and more Childhood. German occupation, 1939; forced labor in Chorzele; destruction of the synagogue and community institutions; volunteering to work for pay; confiscation of valuables; yellow badge; deportation to the Makow Ghetto, November 1941; residence in the synagogue; labor outside the ghetto in the Nowa Wies camp; liquidation of the ghetto, November 1942; transfer to the Mlava Ghetto; deportation of family to Treblinka; from there after a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Aleksander Benedak, born in Caraseu, Romania, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Satu Mare Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Lieberose and Mauthausen

Testimony

Testimony of Aleksander Benedak, born in Caraseu, Romania, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Satu Mare Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Lieberose and Mauthausen Life before the war; religious family. Annexation to Hungary; draft of his brother to labor battalions; restrictions on movement; confiscation of property; draft of his father to forced labor; release of his father; German occupation, March 1944; yellow badge; deportation to the Satu Mare Ghetto, May 1944; ghetto life; activities of the Judenrat and the Jewish Police; work as a policeman in the Jewish Police; deportation to Birkenau; camp life;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Schmuel Eisenberg, born in Hotin, Romania, 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in Hotin, Kopaygorod and Bucharest and his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1944

Testimony

Testimony of Schmuel Eisenberg, born in Hotin, Romania, 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in Hotin, Kopaygorod and Bucharest and his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1944 Life before the war. Deportation to Transnistria on trains; transfer on marches; Kopaygorod Ghetto life; his illness with typhus and dysentery; life in an orphanage; transfer from Transnistria to Bucharest with other orphans; his aliya to Eretz Israel with the orphans, 1944.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Iva (Volovski) Gold, born in Chisinau, Romania, 1925, regarding her experiences in Chisinau, Transnistria and Balta

Testimony

Testimony of Iva (Volovski) Gold, born in Chisinau, Romania, 1925, regarding her experiences in Chisinau, Transnistria and Balta Life before the war. Deportation on a march to Transnistria; life in Transnistria; her mother's suicide; life in Balta in an orphanage. Aliya to Israel, 1963.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mina Mania Malka Eva (Krakovski) Zeiger, born in Sosnowiec, Poland, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Sosnowiec Ghetto and in Hannsdorf and Bernsdorf camps

Testimony

Testimony of Mina Mania Malka Eva (Krakovski) Zeiger, born in Sosnowiec, Poland, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Sosnowiec Ghetto and in Hannsdorf and Bernsdorf camps Life before the war; religious family; witness attends a Beit Yaakov school and a Polish elementary school. Soviet occupation, 1939; German occupation, 1941; imposition of anti-Jewish restrictions including wearing a yellow badge; restrictions on travel; anti-Jewish decrees; deportation to the Sosnowiec Ghetto; deportation to Hannsdorf; camp life; labor in a clothing factory; rescue by her supervisors during selections, due to her...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Joseff Pepo Esformes, born in Thessaloniki, Greece, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Thessaloniki Ghetto, in Auschwitz, Dachau and Waldlager camps and in other places

Testimony

Testimony of Joseff Pepo Esformes, born in Thessaloniki, Greece, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Thessaloniki Ghetto, in Auschwitz, Dachau and Waldlager camps and in other places Life before the war. German occupation, April 1941; confiscation of property; difficulties with observance of kashrut; concentration of the Jewish men including his father and their transfer to the "Liberty" stadium, July 1942; physical and emotional abuse; wears a yellow badge; Thessaloniki Ghetto life in the "Baron Hirsch" neighborhood; activities of the Judenrat; activities of the Jewish police; deportation to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation from the trial of Hermann Hoefle held in the Salzburg Regional Court; Testimonies by survivors living in Israel regarding the Sobibor death camp; Statement by Georg Michalsen (SSPF Lublin) regarding the activity of the SSPF Lublin and "Aktion Reinhard", 1963 - 1964 Requests for testimonies Transcript of a letter by the state prosecutor at the Regional Court in Hamburg regarding the testimony of Benjamin Eichner and the request to ask him about the activities of Dirke, Bernd and Schubert (28/02/1964) pp.6-7 Requests by the Vienna Regional Court to Israeli authorities to gather information...

File Number : 109

Type of Material : Names of Perpetrators, Legal Documentation, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, French, German

Testimony of Rachel (Mitman) Brot, born in Baligrod, Poland, 1922, regarding her experiences in 'S Gravenhage and Westerbork

Testimony

Testimony of Rachel (Mitman) Brot, born in Baligrod, Poland, 1922, regarding her experiences in 'S Gravenhage and Westerbork Life before the war; emigration to 'S Gravenhage, the Netherlands, 1929; separate synagogue for Jews from eastern Europe. German occupation; life during the German occupation; concentration of the city's Jews and their deportation to Westerbork, 1942; forced labor in agriculture for farmers in the vicinity; deportation of her family to Auschwitz; fictitious marriage to a Jewish policeman; liberation by the Canadian Army, 1945. Move to Amsterdam; joins Bnei Akiva; illegally...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Malvina (Berger) Babitzki Levavi, born in Stanislawow, Poland, 1914, regarding her experiences in the Stanislawow Ghetto, Janowska camp, Budapest and while using a false identity in a village Life in Stanislawow before the war; death of her father, 1921. Soviet occupation, 1939; marriage, 1940; draft of her husband to a labor brigade; German occupation, 1941; deportation to the Stanislawow Ghetto; forced labor in agriculture outside the ghetto; murder of her family members in the large "Aktion"; selections at the place of labor; deportation to Janowska camp; labor in a weaving workshop;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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