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.
Prewar childhood; antisemitism; plans for aliya to Eretz Israel; outbreak of the war;
German occupation; burning of houses; deportation to the Parschnitz labor camp, Czechoslovakia; camp life, 1941-1945; hunger; longing; murder of her family; liberation by the Red Army;
Rebuilding life after the war; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1948.
Life before the war; offspring of a family that had lived in the Netherlands since 1400; moving to Amsterdam in 1938; war breaks out in 1940; deportation to a labor camp; escape; assigned to farm labor; marries and gives birth to a daughter; hiding in various places; liberation; reunited with daughter; life after the war; immigration to Israel in 1951; adjustment to life in Israel.
Childhood before the war; programming aliya to Israel; aliya of the two brothers ; confiscation of family businesses; outbreak of the war; burning the synagogue and houses of Jews; deportation to ghetto; forced labor; murder of the father; "aktions"; deportation of the mother and sister to Auschwitz Birkenau; deportation of the witness with her sister to Peterswaldau; help of the German female commander; liberation by the Russians; escape to the American side; rehabilitation of life after the war; aliya to Israel in 1946
Testimony of Zvi Hefetz, born in Iwje, Poland, in 1933 regarding his experiences in Iwje and in Kazakhstan
life at home in Iwje; outbreak of the war; escape to Kazakhstan; life in a village there; end of the war; return to Poland; moving to Berlin, to the area under the control of the American army; joining the "Irgun"; life with a forged identity with a certificate for Moshe Lefkowicz; aliya to Israel on board the "Altalena" ship in the Port De Boud port; shelling of the "Altalena" in June 1948; life in Israel
-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
Testimony of Tzipora Frieda (Markovitz) Nemesh, born in Mukačevo, Czechoslovakia in 1919, regarding her experiences in Mukačevo Ghetto and Auschwitz-Birkenau and Zittau camps
Life before the war; receiving a Hebrew education; activity in Hashomer Hatza’ir youth movement; publication of blood libel; German occupation in March 1944; expulsion to ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; murder of part of the family in camp; transfer to Zittau about six months later; life in camp; labor in factory; liberation by Red Army; life after the war; aliya to Israel in 1956; absorption.
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...
Testimony of Lea Kanik Vinshtok, born in Darabani, Romania in 1927, regarding her experiences of deportation to Transnistria, Tropova and Konatkovtsy
Her childhood before the war; the increase of nationalism and antisemitism in 1938; expulsion from school; entry of Romania in the war against the Soviet Union in 1941; the pogrom in Dorohoi; wearing the yellow badge; deportation from her home to Targu Jiu and from there to Turnu Severin; help of the Jewish community; transfer to Dorohoi; deportation to Transnistria in November 1941; theft of possessions; march to Tropovoye and from there to Konatkovtsy;...
Testimony of Alexander Grootman van der Knopp, born in 1939 in Amsterdam, about his experiences as a boy under a false identity with a non-Jewish Dutch family in Amsterdam
Life in Amsterdam at the beginning of the German occupation in 1940; placement with a non-Jewish Dutch couple (evidently in 1941); life under a false identity as the van der Knopps' son until the end of the war in 1045; placement in the Beit Dina Jewish orphanage in Sant Port in 1946; joiing a family that holds “certificates” (Mandate Palestine immigration visas); immigration to Eretz Israel in 1947.