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File Number : 13676

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Uri Charles Landau, born in 1928 in Pforzheim, Germany, about his experiences in the Gurs camp in 1940, in a children's home in Aspet, in a residence in Moissac, and in hiding in the mountains

Kristallnacht in 1938; father arrested and sent to Dachau; Jews of Baden district sent to the Gurs camp in November 1940; bringing a Torah scroll into the camp; taking care of parents; children released under protection of the Quakers in February 1941; life in a children's home in Aspet; German occupation of the Free Zone of France in 1942; receiving information about parents' deportation; placed in a residence in Moissac; finding a temporary hideout in the mountains; resistance activity in the area; liberation in summer 1944; immigration to Eretz Israel aboard the Tel Hai in 1946; adjustment to life in Eretz...

File Number : 13588

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Bianka Zaoui née Halpern, born in 1927 in Sulita, Romania, about her experiences in Villeneuve Saint Georges and on a farm in Lorcy

Family life in Sulita Sat; witness moves to Paris at age three; then moves to Villeneuve Saint Georges; attends a municipal school there; antisemitism in school; German occupation ensues; authories impose restrictions; forced to surrender radio sets; ban on playing in public parks; BBC radio broadcasts at neighbors' homes; father arrested by French gendarmes and taken to police station; the yellow star edict; father deported to a labor camp near Treves; father escapes and returns to family home; witness escapes with mother to a farm in Lorcy; liberation by American forces; back to Villeneuve Saint Georges; life...

File Number : 13510

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Aharon Lencicky, born in Lodz, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in Lodz, Bialystok, Ural, Tashkent, Irbith and Hindenburg

Testimony

Testimony of Aharon Lencicky, born in Lodz, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in Lodz, Bialystok, Ural, Tashkent, Irbith and Hindenburg German Army occupation of Lodz, 1939; life under German occupation including forced labor; travel restrictions and anti-Jewish decrees; escape to Bialystok, December 1939; life in Bialystok under Soviet rule; move to initiated labor in a mine in the Moscow area, 1940; transfer to a labor camp producing bricks in Ural, 1940; release from the camp; move to Tashkent, 1941; outbreak of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union, 1941; transfer with a labor battalion to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaya (Barmapov) Beilin, born in Daugavpils, Latvia, 1926, regarding her experiences in Daugavpils, Ural, Chelyabinsk and Dvinsk

Testimony

Testimony of Chaya (Barmapov) Beilin, born in Daugavpils, Latvia, 1926, regarding her experiences in Daugavpils, Ural, Chelyabinsk and Dvinsk Life in Daugavpils under Soviet occupation, 1940; outbreak of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union; escape to Belorussia; life in the Pierva Maya kolkhoz in the Ural area including labor, 1941; draft of her father into the Red Army, 1941; draft of her brother into the Red Army, 1941; life in a Sovkhoz near Chelyabinsk, 1942. Life in Dvinsk after the war, 1945; aliya to Israel, 1966.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Dov Bernard Berl Zisovitz, born in Volove, Czechoslovakia, 1920, regarding his experiences in Volove, Rimavska, Miskolc, Bucharest and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Dov Bernard Berl Zisovitz, born in Volove, Czechoslovakia, 1920, regarding his experiences in Volove, Rimavska, Miskolc, Bucharest and other places His childhood and youth in Volove. Hungarian Army occupation of Volove, 1939; life under Hungarian rule including antisemitism; anti-Jewish legislation and policies, 1940; confiscation of his father's textile store; deportation to forced labor for the Hungarian Army including in Rimavska Sobota, Eger and Bistrica; escape; liberation by the Red Army in Miskolc; transfer to a Soviet POW camp, 1944; escape; in hiding in the mountains in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Announcement regarding the repair of the mikveh (ritual bath) in the city of Fulda and its return to use, including a call for the revival of Family Purity observance, posted by the Religion Committee in the Bad Salzschlirf DP camp

File Number : 979

Type of Material : Announcement

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Fajwusz Goldszmidt regarding the workshop system in the Kaunas Ghetto

Testimony of Fajwusz Goldszmidt regarding the workshop system in the Kaunas Ghetto Problems related to living quarters and the crowding created in the Kaunas Ghetto after its establishment; the need to repair houses to expand the living facilities; establishment of a workshop system in the ghetto in which the witness took part along with other functionaries; at the end of the testimony there is a list of people who were part of the system.

File Number : 1291

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew, Yiddish

Article about Dr. Vladimir Ioffe (Yerachmiel Ze'ev Yoffe), born in Mglin in 1898, and his activities in the fields of medicine, science and the preservation of Jewish tradition in the Soviet Union from the 1920s to the 1970s Childhood in Perm and medical studies in Kazan; working as a doctor in Perm; work at the Institute of Experimental Medicine in Leningrad, 1924-1979; research in the fields of clinical immunology, microbiology, bacteriology, epidemiology and more; scientific recognition; activity in the Jewish community; management of medical services in besieged Leningrad during his service in the Red...

File Number : 641

Type of Material : Article

Language : Hebrew

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