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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

Testimony

-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

File Number : 13758

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : 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...

File Number : 13612

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

File Collection: Correspondence of Rudolph Erwin Alexander Schwalb regarding reparations

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Letter

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;...

File Number : 13312

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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

Testimony

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;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : 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...

File Number : 1589.4

Type of Material : Letter

Language : French, English, German

Testimony of Alexander Erlichman, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1930, regarding his experiences in Warsaw, Staszow, in a forest and in Lodz

Testimony

Testimony of Alexander Erlichman, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1930, regarding his experiences in Warsaw, the Warsaw Ghetto, Staszow, in a forest and in Lodz Childhood in a wealthy, secular family; arrival of Austrian and German refugees. Occupation of Warsaw by the German Army, 1939; life under the German occupation including restrictions, decrees and prohibitions; closure of the ghetto; escape to Staszow; in hiding during the "Aktion", late 1942; escape to a forest, March 1943; murder of his parents and his sister; receiving aid from the local villagers; liberation by the Red Army, summer 1944. Move to a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mose Scortaru, born in Calugareni, Romania, 1924, regarding his experiences in Calugareni, Botosani, Suceava and Siberia

Testimony

Testimony of Mose Scortaru, born in Calugareni, Romania, 1924, regarding his experiences in Calugareni, Botosani, Suceava and Siberia His parents' home; Goga-Cuza rise to power; displays of antisemitism, 1936. Escape to Botosani on a wagon with horses; life in Botosani including the decree regarding wearing the yellow badge and restrictions on movement; forced labor in Suceava; receives a draft order, July 1942; transfer by train to Siberia; labor in a stone quarry in Causanii Noui including hepatitis disease and being wounded; exempt from labor for two months; return to labor in the quarry; Red Army...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Amalia Mali (Khaimov) Alcalay, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, 1928, regarding her experiences in Sofia and Khaskovo

Testimony

Testimony of Amalia Mali (Khaimov) Alcalay, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, 1928, regarding her experiences in Sofia and Khaskovo Her childhood in a secular family that observed Jewish tradition. Life under fascist rule including the imposition of anti-Jewish decrees and bans, 1941; draft of her father to labor; transfer to Khaskovo, 1942; life in her uncle's home; Communist activities; help to political prisoners; liberation by the Red Army, 09 September 1944. Aliya to Israel, 1948; life in Israel.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zwi David Obstfeld, born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1939, regarding his experiences as a child in Amsterdam and being hidden by a Dutch family in Laren

Testimony

Testimony of Zwi David Obstfeld, born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1939, regarding his experiences as a child in Amsterdam and being hidden by a Dutch family in Laren Life in Amsterdam under German occupation, 1940-42; life being hidden by a Dutch couple in Laren, 1942; transfer to a family in Laren, 1942; life of his parents in hiding in Haarlem, 1942. Life with his family in Laren after the war; ties with his family; move to Amsterdam, 1948; studies; aliya to Israel, 1962; return to Amsterdam, 1966; return aliya, 1968.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

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