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Testimony of Liliana Kaliger Giske, born in Lodz, Poland, in 1928 regarding the Lodz ghetto, Auschwitz and other camps

Testimony

Childhood in Lodz; antisemitism; German occupation in September 1939; confiscation of property and businesses; acts of abuse on the steets, expulsion from apartment; curfew in the evenings; white band; deportation to the Lodz ghetto in February 1940; dysentery epidemic; starvation; death of the mother and niece; abuse; work at a knitting resort; arrival of refugees; the Judenradt; the Jewish police; doctors in the ghetto; improvement in September 1942; activity in the Communist underground; liquidation of the Lodz ghetto in the summer 1944; deportation to Auschwitz Birkenau; starvation; beatings; transfer to...

File Number : 13686

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yaakov Hofman Hauchmann, born in 1929 in Glebokie, Poland, about his experiences in the Glebokie ghetto, in hiding with villagers, with the partisans in 1942–1944, and in the Red Army

Offspring of a traditional family in Glebokie; Soviet occupation ensues in 1939; German occupation ensues in June 1941; hears rumors about murder in nearby forests; searching for food in villages at night; establishment of the ghetto; establishment of a Judenrat; hunger; volunteering for nighttime work in return for food; brother dies in the first Aktion; building hideouts; ghetto liquidated in August 1942; witness escapes during the Aktion; lives in hiding with villagers; handed over to Russian partisans; integration into a partisan unit; activity in 1942–1944; a decade of service in the Red Army; receiving...

File Number : 13637

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

Testimony of Yanina Hesheles Altman, born in Lwow, Poland in 1931, regarding her experiences ‎in Janowska camp and her rescue by the Zegota organization

Testimony of Yanina Hesheles Altman, born in Lwow, Poland in 1931, regarding her experiences ‎in Janowska camp and her rescue by the Zegota organization Her father was a Zionist journalist; outbreak of the war in September 1939; father’s escape to ‎Romania; his temporary detention in a Russian prison; the German occupation in June 1941; ‎pogrom carried out by Ukrainians in which her father was murdered; establishment of the Lwow ‎Ghetto; Aktions; hanging of the Judenrat leaders; failed attempt to hide with Christian families; ‎mother’s work at the Jewish hospital; liquidation of the ghetto; mother escapes to...

File Number : 13680

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaia Shvartzman Kaplan, born in Alytus, Lithuania in 1926, regarding her ‎experiences in the Slobodka Ghetto, Stutthof camp, and the death march

Testimony of Chaia Shvartzman Kaplan, born in Alytus, Lithuania in 1926, regarding her ‎experiences in the Slobodka Ghetto, Stutthof camp, and the death march Family move to Kazlu Rhuda in 1930; her childhood in a Zionist traditional home; studies at a ‎Lithuanian school; antisemitism; joining Hashomer Hatzair; entry of the Russians in 1939; ‎nationalization of her father’s bakery; death of her mother from illness; German occupation in ‎June 1941; wearing the yellow badge; escape with her family to Kaunas; arrest by the Lithuanians ‎and deportation to the Seventh Fort; release of the women and children and...

File Number : 13652

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Antonin Antel Motovitz, born in Chust, Czechoslovakia, in 1927, regarding his ‎experiences in the Chust Ghetto and in Auschwitz and Mauthausen camps, and forced labor in ‎Ebensee

Testimony of Antonin Antel Motovitz, born in Chust, Czechoslovakia, in 1927, regarding his ‎experiences in the Chust Ghetto and in Auschwitz and Mauthausen camps, and forced labor in ‎Ebensee His childhood in a traditional home; his studies in a Czech secondary school; the Hungarian ‎invasion on 17 March 1939; the schools’ adoption of “Numerus Clausus” policy (Jewish quotas) in ‎‎1940; antisemitism; recruit of his father to the labor battalions in 1940; deportation of his family in ‎a freight train to Yasina and crossing the Dniester River to Ukraine on 15 July 1941; looting by ‎Ukrainians; failed attempt by...

File Number : 13702

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Mala Maroko Freund regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, on a death march, in Mauthausen, Bergen-Belsen and more

Memoirs of Mala Maroko Freund regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, on a death march, in Mauthausen, Bergen-Belsen and more Transfer of Mala Maroko Freund and her family from Lodz to within the Lodz Ghetto limits, November 1939; life in the Lodz Ghetto until 28 August 1944; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; transfer to the Langenbielau camp, September 1944; transfer to the Breslau-Hundsfeld camp, late September; death march to Gross-Rosen, December 1944; transfer to Mauthausen, January 1945; transfer to Bergen-Belsen, March 1945; liberation by the British Army, 15 April...

File Number : 8538

Type of Material : Interview(s), Excerpt(s)

Language : Swedish

Testimony of Edmund Dikman, born in Bukaczowce (Bukachivtsi), Poland, in 1929, regarding his ‎experiences in the Bukaczowce and Rohatyn ghettos and in Lawrykowce, Rohatyn and other ‎camps Testimony of Edmund Dikman, born in Bukaczowce (Bukachivtsi), Poland, in 1929, regarding his ‎experiences in the Bukaczowce and Rohatyn ghettos and in Lawrykowce, Rohatyn and other ‎camps

Testimony of Edmund Dikman, born in Bukaczowce (Bukachivtsi), Poland, in 1929, regarding his ‎experiences in the Bukaczowce and Rohatyn ghettos and in Lawrykowce, Rohatyn and other ‎camps Life before the war; move of his family to Lukowicze in 1930; childhood in the village; studies at a ‎Polish school and with a “melamed;” antisemitism; Soviet occupation in 1939; escape to a ‎boarding school in Lwow in 1940; occupation by the Germans; escape to Lukowicze; payment of ‎ransom by the Bukaczowce Judenrat in money and furs; deportation to Bukaczowce in 1942; life in ‎the ghetto; deportation to Bronislawowka;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shmuel Gutner, born in 1931 in Kaunas, Lithuania, about his experiences in the Kaunas ghetto, Dachau, the Landsberg camp, and Auschwitz during the war

Life before the war; Soviet occupation ensues in 1940; property nationalized; German occupation ensues in June 1941; anti-Jewish legislation; the yellow star edict; witness deported to the Kaunas ghetto in August 1941; life in overcrowded conditions; Aktion in October 1941; activity of the Jewish police; mother smuggles food; studies in the ghetto; hides in a loft during the children's and elders' Aktion in March 1944; ghetto liquidated in summer 1944; women and young children deported to Stutthof; children and fathers separated in the Landsberg camp; witness remains with a group of 131 children who survived...

File Number : 13627

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yehoshua Flusberg, born in 1926 in Dobrzyn Nad Drweca, Poland, about his experiences in the Mława ghetto; the Auschwitz, Stutthof, and Gottsdorf camps; etc.

Life before the war in parents' home; antisemitism; boycott of Jews in 1938; escaping from family home in September 1939; life in the Skepe camp; returning to home; synagogue encircled by Germans on Rosh Hashana; men rounded up in the market; deported to Prussia; deported Jews murdered and buried in a common grave; deportation order from town in November 1939; living with the family in Mława; selling cigarettes; ghetto sealed in 1942; assigned to forced labor; synagogue in Mława set ablaze; mother deported in the elders' transport; labor terminated and back to the ghetto on August 10, 1942; deportation to...

File Number : 13516

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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