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Testimony of Sonia (Binstok) Elster, born in Chelm, Poland, 1921, regarding her experiences in Chelm, Luboml, Siberia, Kazakhstan and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Sonia (Binstok) Elster, born in Chelm, Poland, 1921, regarding her experiences in Chelm, Luboml, Siberia, Kazakhstan and other places Her childhood in a traditional family; attends a Jewish elementary school; studies sewing. Outbreak of the war; air-raids; arrival of refugees; escape to the Soviet Union on the initiative of the Soviets; escape to the Soviet Union with a girl friend, at the request of her parents; move to Luboml; help to refugees; receives knowledge regarding the murder of Chelm Jews; move to Kowel, approximately one year later; refusal to receive Soviet citizenship; exile of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Gershon Shapiro, born in Lodz, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in Lodz, the Lodz Ghetto, HASAG Czestochowa and in Germany

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Testimony of Gershon Shapiro, born in Lodz, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in Lodz, the Lodz Ghetto, HASAG Czestochowa and in Germany His childhood in a traditional, Zionist family. German Army occupation of Lodz, September 1939; escape to Warsaw; return to Lodz; life in Lodz including decrees and restrictions; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto, 1940; Lodz Ghetto life including activities by Rumkowski, the head of the Judenrat; "Sperre", curfew "Aktion", 1942; labor in the hospital; deportation to HASAG Czestochowa camp, January 1944; camp life including labor in a weapons factory; liberation by the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Judith Ester (Heilper) Marmor, born in Targu Mures, Romania, 1927

Testimony

Testimony of Judith Ester (Heilper) Marmor, born in Targu Mures, Romania, 1927 Childhood in a traditional family. Annexation to Hungary, summer 1940; transfer to a Reform [Hebrew] school; detention of her sister for being a Communist and her imprisonment in Budapest, autumn, 1941; the effect on the family, autumn 1941; anti-Jewish legislation, 1941; German occupation, March 1944; yellow badge; restrictions and prohibitions; deportation to the ghetto to a brick factory, May 1944; establishment of a study framework; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, June 1944; transfer to Lager B, September 1944; transfer...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Anny (Dirnfeld) Gotlib, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1932, regarding her experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto, in Kukavka and the Mogilev Ghetto

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Testimony of Anny (Dirnfeld) Gotlib, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1932, regarding her experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto, in Kukavka and the Mogilev Ghetto Loss of livelihood during the Soviet regime, 1940. German occupation, 1941; deportation to the Cernauti Ghetto, 1941; robbery of property by the neighbors; detention of her father as a hostage in order to receive a "contribution" [from the Jews]; deportation to Transnistria; rescue of her grandparents and uncles by use of "essential worker" certificates; coordination [of the people] in Kukavka village; her father earns a livelihood as a barber;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaim Volf, born in Radauti, Romania, 1927, regarding his experiences in Radauti, Mogilev-Podolski, the Dzhurin Ghetto, and his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1944

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Testimony of Chaim Volf, born in Radauti, Romania, 1927, regarding his experiences in Radauti, Mogilev-Podolski, the Dzhurin Ghetto, and his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1944 Life before the war; death of his mother, 1930; activities in the Beitar movement. Transfer of Jews from villages to Radauti, late 1939; help by the Jewish community to the refugees; arrival of German soldiers, 1940; yellow badge; removal of Jews from the schools; attends an improvised Jewish school; pogrom by people in the Iron Guard movement; capture of Jewish hostages including his uncle; secret activities in the Beitar movement;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Irit Irena (Shmaltzbach) Ben Zvi, born in Pawlosiow, Poland, 1940, regarding her experiences as a toddler in Pawlosiow, in hiding in a monastery and in Krakow

Testimony

Testimony of Irit Irena (Shmaltzbach) Ben Zvi, born in Pawlosiow, Poland, 1940, regarding her experiences as a toddler in Pawlosiow, in hiding in a monastery and in Krakow Well-to-do secular family; her family owns a farm. Outbreak of the war; establishment of a German Army headquarters in the yard of the farm; good attitude of German officers toward her family; offer by an Austrian officer to move her to Austria; appointment of her father as the person responsible for the labor of the Jews in villages in the area; murder of her father; finds a hiding place in the granary of a Polish farmer; life in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sara Klara Karolina (Marmelstein) Berkovitz, born in Berehovo, Czechoslovakia, 1921, regarding her experiences in the Berehovo Ghetto, Auschwitz, Gelsenkirchen, Essen and Bergen-Belsen

Testimony

Testimony of Sara Klara Karolina (Marmelstein) Berkovitz, born in Berehovo, Czechoslovakia, 1921, regarding her experiences in the Berehovo Ghetto, Auschwitz, Gelsenkirchen, Essen and Bergen-Belsen From a well-to-do family. Re-annexation to Hungary, 1939; restrictions on Jews including annulment of the license for her family's business; ban to work her family's land; her father is drafted into labor battalions, 1941; arrival of refugees from Poland, 1942; German occupation, March 1944; capture of Jews and ransom demands for them; unsuccessful attempt of her father to find non-Jews who would hide his...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaia Hermina (Kaufman) Adler, born in Chust, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Chust Ghetto, Auschwitz, Boizenburg and a death march

Testimony

Testimony of Chaya Hermina (Kaufman) Adler, born in Chust, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Chust Ghetto, Auschwitz, Boizenburg and a death march Life before the war; the witness's father owns a hides store. Re-annexation to Hungary, 1938; restrictions on Jews including ban on commerce with non-Jews; transfer of the hides store to non-Jewish ownership; father secretly engages in commerce; termination of studies, 1942; draft of her brothers to forced labor; arrival of refugees from Poland; receives help from Jewish community institutions; deportation of relatives without...

File Number : 12889

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation regarding Frampol during the Holocaust, and commemoration of the victims after the war

Documentation regarding Frampol during the Holocaust, and commemoration of the victims after the war - List of Jews who perished in Frampol; - Survey report by Alexander Liebman regarding the fate of the Jews of Frampol (pp. 345-366); - Map of the ghetto [apparently, the Frampol Ghetto], prepared by Alexander by Liebman (pp. 379-380).

File Number : 387

Type of Material : List of Murdered Persons, Survey, Diagram

Language : Russian

Testimony of Rachel (Pinchusowicz) Litwak, born in Baranowicze, 1920, regarding her experiences in Baranowicze Ghetto, Koldyczewo camp and her escape to the partisans

Testimony

Testimony of Rachel (Pinchusowicz) Litwak, born in Baranowicze, 1920, regarding her experiences in Baranowicze Ghetto, Koldyczewo camp and her escape to the partisans Traditional, well-to-do family, six children; her father was an industrialist, her mother was very charitable; Jewish community was highly educated with many yeshivas; learns in a school in Baranowicze; studies in Yiddish in a teachers college in Krakow. Termination of studies with the Soviet occupation; wants to make aliya to Eretz Israel; antisemitism, numerus clausus; gives food to the deportees to Siberia; German occupation of the Soviet...

File Number : 11523

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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