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Testimony of Shlomo Feldshtein, born in Przeworsk, Poland, in 1934, regarding his hiding with a Polish farmer in Grzeska between 1942-1944

-Childhood before the war; relations with the local population; outbreak of the war; life until 1942; "Aktion"; escape of the family to the forest following a warning they got from a farmer; hiding with the farmer for 2 years 1942-1944; leaving the hiding place with the approach of the Russians; leaving Poland; reconstruction of life after the war; emigration to Israel; exile to Cyprus; Aliya back to Israel

results.listIds.fileNumber : 13758

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Testimony of Miriam Marila Liber Prague née Kostin, born in 1921 in Warsaw, about her experiences in the Warsaw ghetto, in Hungary, with the partisans in Yugoslavia, and as a forced laborer in Germany

Life before the war; German occupation ensues; dispossession; deportation to the Warsaw ghetto; life in the ghetto; escaping to the "Aryan" side with help of forged papers; marrying; escaping to Lwów; escaping back to Warsaw; escaping to Hungary; receiving privileges from the Polish Consulate; escaping to Yugoslavia; joining the partisans in March 1944; sabotaging a railroad track; arrested by the Germans and taken to Germany; working in a factory that manufactures spare parts for tanks; posing as a Croat; receiving extra privileges; liberated by American forces; reaching Buchenwald; encountering Holocaust...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 13612

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

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results.listIds.fileNumber : 480

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Official Documentation, Statistical Data, Cd, Appeal to the Authorities

results.listIds.lang : German

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results.listIds.fileNumber : 479

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Official Documentation, Record of Persecuted Persons

results.listIds.lang : German

Testimony of Bracha (Sheinbin) Wisbert, born in 1938 in Malynsk, Poland - regarding her experiences as a child in Malynsk, in the Berezne Ghetto and while hiding in villages and forests in the area during the war. Life before the war; daughter of a family that owned land and property; German occupation in June 1941; wearing a yellow badge; moved to forced labor; deportation to the Berezne Ghetto in June 1942; the family's escape from the ghetto the day before the ghetto’s liquidation in August 1942; finding a hiding place with a Ukrainian farmer; escape to the forests in the region; the father’s...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 13901

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

File Collection: Correspondence of Rudolph Erwin Alexander Schwalb regarding reparations

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Letter, Newspaper Clippings

Testimony of Aharon Klepfer, born in 1930 in Zarnowiec, Poland, about his escape to the forests and hiding with Poles in 1942–1945

Childhood in a well-to-do Hasidic family; attending a cheder and a Polish school; antisemitic manifestations before the war; war breaks out; Germans arrive; anti-Jewish strictures; studies halted; business shut down; eviction from houses; men inducted; Aktion; murder; dispossession; burial of gold in the family's courtyard and depositing of furs with Polish friends; denunciation of Jews; abuse by members of the Hitlerjugend; Judenräte appointed and subsequently murdered; rumors about an additional Aktion; family escapes to the forest; builds a bunker; bunker discovered a Pole who informs on them to the Germans;...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 13312

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

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results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Testimony of Reuven Vitzrabin, born in Lipcani Targ, Romania, 1931, regarding his experiences in Lipcani Targ and Tulchin

Testimony of Reuven Vitzrabin, born in Lipcani Targ, Romania, 1931, regarding his experiences in Lipcani Targ and Tulchin Childhood in a traditional family; obtaining a certificate for legal aliya to Eretz Israel; attempt by his mother to prevent his aliya to Eretz Israel. Restrictions on the Jews; information received regarding life of the Jews under German occupation; Red Army occupation [of Lipcani Targ]; releasing Communists from prisons; deportation of the wealthy to Siberia, 1939; life under Romanian rule, 1941; escape of Jews out of fear of retaliation; burning of [Lipcani Targ] by the Red Army;...

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Correspondence between Rudolph Erwin Alexander Schwab and family members who survived the Holocaust, 1946-1952

Correspondence between Rudolph Erwin Alexander Schwab and family members who survived the Holocaust, 1946-1952 Page 18: - Letter from Rudolf Schwab with the information that his relatives, including his mother, grandmother, brother Hans and aunt Alice with her family, were deported to Poland in 1941, 23 February 1946; Page 57: - Letter from Edgar Tuteur (a cousin) in New York, with the information that his parents, his younger sister and most of his close relatives were murdered by the Germans, but that his brother Harald survived and emigrated to Buenos Aires, 15 June 1946; Page 60: - Letter from...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 1589.4

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Letter

results.listIds.lang : French, English, German

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