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Testimony of Hela (Feltz) Reznik, born in Bedzin, Poland, 1925 regarding her experiences in the Parschnitz labor camp, Czechoslovakia

Testimony

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.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letters sent by Dora Helfer from Paris to her sister in Germany, 1946-1947, a letter sent via the Red Cross by Markus Helfer in Algeria to his mother, Maria Helfer, in Chrzanow, 25 December 1940, and a diary containing poems written by Dora Helfer in the Peterswaldau camp, 1944-1945 Letters: - Letters sent by Dora Helfer from Paris to her sister Rachel Reich in Germany, 1946-1947; - Letter sent by Ida Weinstock from Sweden to Dola Helfer in Paris, 16 January 1946; - Letter sent by Markus Helfer (brother of Dola Helfer) from Algeria via the Red Cross to his mother, Maria Helfer, in Chrzanow, 25...

File Number : 2015

Type of Material : Poems/songs, Red Cross Letter, Diary, Official Documentation, Letter

Language : Polish, French, German

Testimony of Renée Kenoshi née Gold, born in 1930 in Odorheiu, Romania, about her experiences in the Targu Mures ghetto and the Auschwitz and Ober-Hohenelbe camps

Life before the war; offspring of a religious family; Hungary re-annexes the area in 1940; promulgation of anti-Jewish laws; men inducted into labor brigades; antisemitic acts; German occupation ensues in March 1944; witness's mother accused of communist activity and imprisoned; wearing the yellow star; banishment to the Targu Mures ghetto on May 3, 19144; mutual assistance; plunder of valuables; deportation to Auschwitz on May 27, 1944; selections in the camp; diseases, roll calls, transferred to Ober-Hohenelbe; life in the camp; living conditions improve; working at welding aircraft parts; liberation by Red...

File Number : 13642

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Miriam Marila Liber Prague née Kostin, born in 1921 in Warsaw, about her experiences in the Warsaw ghetto, in Hungary, with the partisans in Yugoslavia, and as a forced laborer in Germany

Life before the war; German occupation ensues; dispossession; deportation to the Warsaw ghetto; life in the ghetto; escaping to the "Aryan" side with help of forged papers; marrying; escaping to Lwów; escaping back to Warsaw; escaping to Hungary; receiving privileges from the Polish Consulate; escaping to Yugoslavia; joining the partisans in March 1944; sabotaging a railroad track; arrested by the Germans and taken to Germany; working in a factory that manufactures spare parts for tanks; posing as a Croat; receiving extra privileges; liberated by American forces; reaching Buchenwald; encountering Holocaust...

File Number : 13612

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letter from Martin and Lina Neumeyer of Munich to their daughter Luise in Eretz Israel, 14 April 1940, letter of testimony from a German friend of Luise describing the fate of Luise's parents, 09 February 1947 - Letter from Martin and Lina Neumeyer of Munich to their daughters Luise and Lisa in Eretz Israel, containing information that the parents must leave their home and move to another place in Munich within a few days, 14 April 1940; - Writing of a copy of the letter to Annemerie , a German school friend of Luise; - Sending of the letter to Switzerland where Annemerie is living; - Itemization...

File Number : 1956

Type of Material : Letter, Letter of Testimony, Personal Documents

Language : German

Testimony of Esther Irena Gabrieli, nee Zielke, born in Berlin, Germany in 1921, regarding her experiences in Amsterdam and her hiding in Liege.

Testimony

Testimony of Esther Irena Gabrieli, nee Zielke,born in Berlin, Germany in 1921 Childhood in a well-to-do orthodox family; attending a school of the orthodox community; the family moves to Amsterdam in 1936; attending a Jewish school; German occupation of Holland in May 1940; decrees against Jews; street ban; possession of a radio is prohibited; detention of her father and brother in a prison in Scheveningen and their deportation to Auschwitz; suicide of her mother on the 9th of Av,in July 1942; her escape to Maastricht, to her sister in December 1942; smuggling the border into Belgium with the help of...

File Number : 13500

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sara (Libovitz) Bialik, born in Plunge, Lithuania in 1922, regarding her experiences in Klaipeda, in Latvia and Samarkand

Testimony of Sara (Libovitz) Bialik, born in Plunge, Lithuania in 1922, regarding her experiences in Klaipeda, in Latvia and Samarkand Her parents are dentists; studies in Klaipeda; her father visits Eretz Israel in 1938; outbreak of the war; visit by Hitler to Klaipeda, and the annexation of Klaipeda to Germany; escape to Lithuania; German occupation, 1941; escape to Latvia on the day of the invasion; murder of Jewish students at the university; air-raids on convoys of escapees; she gets onto the last train traveling toward the east; escape to Samarkand; her father's suicide attempt; detention of her...

File Number : 13619

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shmuel Berkovitz, born in 1925 in Sangeorgiul De Padure, Romania, about his experiences in Sangeorgiul De Padure, the Targu Mures ghetto, the Gleiwitz and Buna Monowitz camps, etc.

Testimony of Shmuel Berkovitz, born in 1925 in Sangeorgiul De Padure, Romania, about his experiences in Sangeorgiul De Padure, the Targu Mures ghetto, the Gleiwitz and Buna Monowitz camps, etc. Son of a Religious Zionist family; antisemitism; Hungary re-annexes the area in 1939; persecution of Zionists and Communists; inducted into labor battalions; German occupation ensues in March 1944; deportation to the Targu Mures ghetto; life in a brick factory, dispossession; deportation to Auschwitz several weeks later; transfer to Buna Monowitz; life in the camp; assigned to forced labor; hunger; Yom Kippur;...

File Number : 13870

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letter of testimony written by Lev Rozhetskiy, a 7th grade student from Odessa, regarding his experiences in the Slobodka Ghetto and in various camps, 1941-1944

Letter of testimony written by Lev Rozhetskiy, a 7th grade student from Odessa, regarding his experiences in the Slobodka Ghetto and in various camps, 1941-1944 Lev Rozhetskiy's family did not manage to be evacuated from Odessa before the Romanian occupation; Lev Rozhetskiy remained there with his mother and seven year old brother, Anatoliy; on 16 October 1941, the Romanian Army forces occupied Odessa. Order given to all the Jews of Odessa to go to the village of Dalnik and register; non-compliance with the order by Lev Rozhetskiy's family; knowledge afterwards that all the Jews who went to Dalnik to be...

File Number : 177

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony, Names of Perpetrators, Poems/songs, Testimony, Names of Rescuers

Language : Russian

The testimony of Chaim Berchiyahu Barcher, born in 1933 in Kolomyja, Poland

The testimony of Chaim Berchiyahu Bercher, born in 1933 in Kolomyja, Poland. Childhood in a Hasidic family; Soviet occupation in 1939; German occupation in 1941; riots in the first days of the occupation; decrees; Aktions; establishment of a ghetto in 1942; Aktions; frequent selections; suicide of the head of the Judenrat; escape to Tluste during Hanukkah 1942; transfer to an agricultural farm in Holowczynce; Aktionin June 1943; transfer to Tluste for warehouse labor; attack by Bandra people on Purim 1944; liberation by the Red Army in March 1944; return to Krakow; manifestations of anti-Semitism; smuggled...

File Number : 13389

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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