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Testimony of Veronika (Sztrul) Friedmann, born in Sarmas, Transylvania, 1918, regarding her experiences before the Holocaust and in the Plaszów, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Parschnitz camps

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Testimony of Veronika (Sztrul) Friedmann, born in Sarmas, Transylvania, 1918, regarding her experiences before the Holocaust and in the Plaszów, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Parschnitz camps Born to an observant family in Sarmas (Hungarian: Salamas); her parents were Adolf, born in Bilbor and Eszter (Rubin) Sztrul, born in Salamas; her siblings were Jenő Sztrul and Ernő Sztrul; her other siblings were not mentioned by name; her maternal grandfather was Salamon Rubin whose two sons Adolf and Herman perished in the Holocaust, and whose daughter, the witness' mother, and the two children of his second daughter,...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

Testimony of Judith (Moshkovitz) Natt, born in Uzhorod, Czechoslovakia, 1932, regarding her experiences in Uzhorod, Budapest, the Uzhorod Ghetto and in hiding in Budapest

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Testimony of Judith (Moshkovitz) Natt, born in Uzhorod, Czechoslovakia, 1932, regarding her experiences in Uzhorod, Budapest, the Uzhorod Ghetto and in hiding in Budapest Hungarian Army occupation [of Uzhorod]; life under Hungarian occupation, 1938; increase in the displays of antisemitism; importance to the Hungarians of the brick factory owned by her father; German Army occupation [of Uzhorod], 1944; Germans take control of the factory owned by her father; her family receives a special permit from the Hungarian Minister of the Interior and an exemption from the anti-Jewish restrictions imposed on the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

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 Eliezer Leizer Lis Shuali, born in Wierzbnik, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in Wierzbnik, Lublin, Radom, Auschwitz and other places

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Testimony of Eliezer Leizer Lis Shuali, born in Wierzbnik, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in Wierzbnik, Lublin, Radom, Auschwitz and other places Life in Wierzbnik including outbreak of the war, 1939. Restrictions on the Jews; work in a weapons factory; deportation to Lublin by truck; life in Lublin including digging anti-tank trenches; labor building the Majdanek camp; escape to Radom; escape to the family home; life in Wierzbnik including his father's work as Judenrat chairman; deportation of adults, including his parents, to Treblinka; stealing food; detention; rescue by a Soviet physician;...

File Number : 12945

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Cila (Folkenflick) Kurc, born in Buczacz, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, Stutthof, Auschwitz, Ravensbrueck and other places

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Testimony of Cila (Folkenflick) Kurc, born in Buczacz, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, Stutthof, Auschwitz, Ravensbrueck and other places Life before the war; move to Bialystok; life in Bialystok. Soviet occupation; German occupation; Bialystok Ghetto life, 1941-1943; liquidation of the Bialystok Ghetto; deportation to Stutthof; camp life including labor in a factory for the German Army; transfer to Auschwitz; camp life including labor in a Union weapons factory; life in a subterranean factory; destruction of the crematoria, 1944; death march to Ravensbrueck; camp life;...

File Number : 12907

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avraham Blender, born in Hrubieszow, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Hrubieszow Ghetto, Budzyn, Mielec and Wieliczka

Testimony of Avraham Blender, born in Hrubieszow, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Hrubieszow Ghetto, Budzyn, Mielec and Wieliczka Life before the war. Outbreak of the war, 1939; German occupation; assembly of men ages 16-65 years in a field; transfer on foot to an unknown destination; escape; in hiding in a cellar; typhus; forced labor; deportation to the Hrubieszow Ghetto; arrival of refugees from Warsaw; in hiding during "Aktions"; informed on; detention; escape together with 10 people; return to the city; transfer to Germany; murder of his parents; life in Budzyn including labor in a...

Type of Material : Cd

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Reuven Rubin Kamrat, born in Skala, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in Skarzyski-Kamienna, Plaszow, Prokocim camp, Buchenwald and other places

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Testimony of Reuven Rubin Kamrat, born in Skala, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in Skarzyski-Kamienna, Plaszow, Prokocim camp, Buchenwald and other places Life before the war. Outbreak of the war, 1939; life until 1941; deportation to Prokocim, 1941; camp life; life in Plaszow camp; life in nearby camps; escape of his father and brother; deportation during the "Aktion"; transfer to Plaszow; camp life for a few days; transfer to Skarzysko-Kamienna; camp life in factory C; labor in shifts until summer 1944; transfer by train to Buchenwald; camp life including futile shifting of rocks from place to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Heinrich Herbert Salomon Staniszewski, born in Bielsko, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in the Lomza Ghetto, the Zambrow Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Allach

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Testimony of Heinrich Herbert Salomon Staniszewski, born in Bielsko, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in the Lomza Ghetto, the Zambrow Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Allach From a traditional established family; contacts with the non-Jewish population; sporting activities; graduation from high school; move to work in his uncle's cotton wool and bandage factory in Lomza. Outbreak of the war, 1939; Soviet occupation; German occupation, 1941; escape of his parents to the Soviet Union; labor with his uncle in the factory for the German Army; labor as a translator; massacre of a group of Jews by the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Official documentation regarding real estate belonging to Boris Kabachnik, an inmate in the Vilna Ghetto, and lists of Jews residing in Vilna, 1939

File Number : 91

Type of Material : List of Names, Lists, List of Jews, Official Documentation

Language : Lithuanian

Testimony of Aharon Rudolf Visman Veis, born in Vinogradov, Czechoslovakia, 1928, regarding his experiences in hiding in Ilnice and using a false identity in Budapest

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Testimony of Aharon Rudolf Visman Veis, born in Vinogradov, Czechoslovakia, 1928, regarding his experiences in hiding in Ilnice and using a false identity in Budapest Childhood in Vinogradov and Ilnice; his father's death, 1937; learns to be a tailor until 1944. German occupation; escape from deportation, April 1944; life in hiding; escape to Arded; joins a Soviet workers' camp; escape to Budapest; life in Budapest using a false identity; supply of forged documents to escaping Jews; move to a protected house under the protection of Raoul Wallenberg; fostered by a Jewish Red Army officer; drafted into...

File Number : 12658

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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