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Testimony of Mirka (Klaver) Zaklikovski, born in Lodz, Poland, 1927, regarding the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, and other camps, 1940-1945

Testimony

Childhood before the war; Outbreak of the war; arrival of refugees from Czechoslovakia and Germany; restrictions; deportation to the ghetto; curfew; forced labor; taking of her father to forced labor; "Aktions"; public hangings of Jews; escapes from the ghetto; cultural life in the ghetto; liquidation of the ghetto; transfer to labor camps in Germany; working in a weapons factory; reasonable treatment by the Germans; liberation by the British Army; Rebuilding life after the war; aliya to Israel, 1949.

File Number : 13855

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Menahem Lior, born in Bedzin, Poland in 1928, regarding his experiences during ‎deportation to the Bedzin Ghetto and the work camp in Kamionka; hidden by a Pole; escape to ‎Eretz Israel His childhood in a socialist Zionist home; refugees from Germany; rise of antisemitism; outbreak of ‎war on 1 September 1939; anti-Jewish laws and decrees; restriction of Jewish movement and ‎concentration in one area; youth movements; agricultural farm; Zionist and underground ‎activities; infiltrating into a nearby work camp; work collecting and sorting possessions of the Jews ‎in the ghetto; removing dead...

File Number : 13735

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Survey report prepared by partisans for the partisans headquarters, regarding the murder of Jews, non-Jews, and POWs in the Tolochin district, 1941-1942

Survey report prepared by partisans for the partisans headquarters, regarding the murder of Jews, non-Jews, and POWs in the Tolochin district, 1941-1942 Survey report regarding the murder of Jews in pits near Tolochin, 1941-1942 (p. 7); suppression and murder of the local population and POWs in the Tolochin district, 1941-1943; names of collaborators and names of partisans active in the Vitebsk region, 1941-1943.

File Number : 3474

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Survey Report, שמות משתפי פעולה, Names of Partisans

Language : Russian

Transcript of an interview conducted by Yehuda Bauer with Moshe Trosman, Yissachar Trosman, Chaim Bar-Or and others regarding their experiences in the Rokitno Ghetto, in hiding in the forests and nearby villages after their escape from the ghetto and their joining the partisans Jewish life in Glinna and the nearby villages prior to the war; Administration of the Judenrat in the Rokitno Ghetto and the extent of its cooperation with the Germans; the role of Sokolovsky, the head of the gendarmie in Rokitno, in the rescue of Jews; escape from the Rokitno Ghetto and hiding in the forest; attitude of the rural...

File Number : 8458

Type of Material : Interview(s)

Language : Hebrew

Diary written by Brendla (Fiszbajn) Siekierka, from Minsk Mazowiecki, Poland, while in hiding in an attic in Cisie, June-July 1944, and in Lodz, February-March 1949

Diary written by Brendla (Fiszbajn) Siekierka, from Minsk Mazowiecki, Poland, while in hiding in an attic in Cisie, June-July 1944, and in Lodz, February-March 1949 Establishment of the Minsk Mazowiecki Ghetto; draft of people to forced labor; acts of abuse by the Germans and the Jewish police; escape from the Minsk Mazowiecki Ghetto; attempts to find a hiding place in a forest and in the surrounding area; wanderings in the nearby villages; attitude of the local population; move to Cisie; life in hiding with her husband and two children, who were born in 1933 and 1938, while hidden in the attic of a cowshed...

File Number : 8394

Type of Material : Diary, Memoirs

Language : Polish

Memoirs of Schmuel Heller, born in Bedzin, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Bedzin Ghetto, in Gross Sarne, Koenigshuette and Dyhernfurth camps, and in other places

Memoirs of Schmuel Heller, born in Bedzin, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Bedzin Ghetto, in Gross Sarne, Koenigshuette and Dyhernfurth camps, and in other places Bedzin Ghetto life until 1942; deportation to Koenigshuette camp; transfer to Gross Sarne camp; transfer to Gross Masselwitz camp; transfer to Dyhernfurth camp; transfer to Gross-Rosen camp; transfer to Mauthausen camp; liberation, January 1945. DP camp life; illegal aliya attempt to Eretz Israel; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Israel.

File Number : 8333

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ita (Weber) Vinogron, born in Vilna, Lithuania, 1933, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Kaiserwald, Thorn and on a death march

Testimony of Ita (Weber) Vinogron, born in Vilna, Lithuania, 1933, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Kaiserwald, Thorn and on a death march Murder of the witness' father in Ponary; murder of her mother and older sister in a concentration camp in Estonia; life in the Vilna Ghetto with her remaining sisters; hiding of the witness in a flour sack by her sister during the "Aktions"; liquidation of the Vilna Ghetto; deportation to Kaiserwald; transfer to Danzig; transfer to Thorn; life in Thorn including being hidden under a bed by a female SS officer during the "Aktions"; death march, January 1945;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Research paper written by the student, Tatyana Nikitina, regarding the diary of Roman Kravchenko from Kremenets, written 1941-1944

Research paper written by the student, Tatyana Nikitina, regarding the diary of Roman Kravchenko from Kremenets, written 1941-1944 Outbreak of the war; life under the German occupation including the wearing of the yellow badge and anti-Jewish legislation; deportation of Jews to the Kremenets Ghetto; closure of the ghetto, 01 March 1942; appointment of a Judenrat; establishment of the Jewish police; ghetto life including forced labor; burning of the synagogue; receiving information regarding the mass murder of Jews in Kiev and Rovno; murder of Jews outside the city near the [?], 10-21 August 1942; robbery [of...

File Number : 8266

Type of Material : Diary, Study

Language : Russian

Memoirs of Yoel Yullek Reich, born in Rzeszow, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Rzeszow Ghetto, Flossenbuerg, Sachsenhausen, Oranienburg and other places

Memoirs of Yoel Yullek Reich, born in Rzeszow, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Rzeszow Ghetto, Flossenbuerg, Sachsenhausen, Oranienburg and other places Occupation of Rzeszow, establishment of the Rzeszow Ghetto, transfer to an aircraft motor factory (Flugmotorwerk) in Rzeszow with a group of professionally skilled Jews; life in the factory; murder of his father by Ester, a Gestapo man; labor in Ester's supplementary farm; transfer back to the factory in Rzeszow; transfer of the factory to Urbis via Wieliczka, Plaszow and Flossenbuerg; escape; capture; decision that the author be executed for...

File Number : 8244

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Rachel (Lauden) Rolnitzki, born in Sosnowiec, Poland 1926, regarding her experiences in Sosnowiec and labor camps in Germany

Memoirs of Rachel (Lauden) Rolnitzki, born in Sosnowiec, Poland 1926, regarding her experiences in Sosnowiec and labor camps in Germany Her father joins the partisans, 1939; her father is turned over to the Germans by Poles; her father's murder; her mother is accused of espionage; deportation of her mother to prison; deportation of her mother to Auschwitz; selection of children in Sosnowiec, 1942; deportation of children over the age of 15 to labor camps; deportation of children under the age of 15 to Auschwitz; separation from her oldest sister; escape from the transport; joins her oldest sister; transfer...

File Number : 8228

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

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