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Testimony of Tzafrir Shteir Sara, born in Bedzin, Poland, in 1930 regarding the Srodula ghetto and regarding the Peterswaldau camp

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

File Number : 13661

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Nancy Vera Rachel Arbel, born in Baktaloranthaza, Hungary, in 1826 regarding deportation to the Auschwitz Birkenau , Plaszow and Reichenbach camps

Testimony

Childhood before the war; coexistence; outbreak of the war; restrictions on Jews; German occupation in March 1944; deportation to ghetto; mutual help; robbery of property; fictitious marriage for the purpose of rescue; deportation to Auschwitz Birkenau; transfer to Plaszow; transfer to a protected camp; improvement in food and living conditions; transfer back to Auschwitz Birkenau; transfer to Germany for agricultural works and for working in a factory manufacturing planes; liberation by the Russians; rehabilitation of life after the war; aliya to Israel in 1949

File Number : 13703

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Correspondence of the regional branch of the Centralverein - CV (Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith) in Brandenburg, regarding various subjects, 03/01/1933-25/06/1936

Correspondence of the regional branch of the Centralverein - CV (Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith) in Brandenburg, regarding various subjects, 03/01/1933-25/06/1936 - Internal correspondence by members of the regional branch of the Centralverein - CV in Brandenburg regarding conferences, elections, activities and events, publicity, and the number of members in the Centralverein - CV; distribution of the "CV - Zeitung" newspaper; distribution of the "Der Morgen" newspaper monthly publication; - Dismissal of Jews from the Workers Committees and the Deutsche Arbeitsfront (German...

File Number : JM/28889

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Testimony of Joseph Lavi, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1919, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, Majdanek and Budzyn camps and using a false identity in Warsaw

Testimony of Joseph Lavi, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1919, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, Majdanek and the Budzyn camp and using a false identity in Warsaw Life in Warsaw during the war; establishment of the Warsaw Ghetto; selections; deportations of Jews to various camps; confiscation of Jewish property before boarding the trains; shooting into the train cars as a means of instilling fear; experiences of Jews who had converted [to Christianity] (they did not receive preferential treatment); labor in a garage; Judenrat activities on behalf of the Jews; children's homes and youth group...

File Number : 8515

Type of Material : Interview(s), Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sara Aharoni née Iudovitz, born in 1928 in Chust, Czechoslovakia, about her experiences in the Chust ghetto, Auschwitz, and Theresienstadt during the war

Life before the war; offspring of a religious family; Shabbat and festivals; attends a Jewish school; Jewish community life; activity of synagogues and Zionist youth movements; witness joins the Bnei Akiva movement; Hungary re-annexes the area in 1939; men inducted into the labor service; witness deported to the Chust ghetto; life in the ghetto; cultural and religious life; Hungarian gendarmes guard the ghetto; confiscation of valuables; witness wears the yellow star; deported to Auschwitz; selection in the camp and separation of family members; sister sent to Bergen-Belsen and dies from typhus there; roll...

File Number : 13610

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yeshayahu Nutman, born in Breslau, Germany in 1923, regarding his experiences in Breslau and his aliya to Eretz Israel in 1937

Testimony of Yeshayahu Nutman, born in Breslau, Germany in 1923, regarding his experiences in Breslau and his aliya to Eretz Israel in 1937 Life in Breslau as a child; he attends a Jewish school; membership in the Bachad youth movement, 1933; Nazis hold parades in the streets; shouting of anti-Jewish slogans by the Nazis, 1935; publication of the Nuremberg Laws and ban on his father's work as a Notary; easing of the watch over the laws during the Olympic events; life during the last months before his aliya to Eretz Israel; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1937; studies in the Kadoorie school.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Eliahu Zikher, born in 1931 in Dubeczno, Poland, about his experiences as a boy in the Włodawa ghetto, forests in the Lublin area, with a peasant, etc., during the war, and in children's homes after the war

Life before the war; offspring of a traditional affluent family; active in the Betar movement; attends a Polish school and a cheder at the same time; German occupation ensues; children's Aktion and rescue by mother; deportation to the Włodawa ghetto; Aktion; mother murdred; escapes ith father and sister to the Hadampol camp (an open camp); Aktion the camp and escape to nearby forests; father murdered by Poles; lives in forests near Lublin for two and a half years; difficulty in joining groups in the forests as children; works as a shepherd for a peasant on Zahajki; liberation and return to Dubeczno; joins the...

File Number : 13557

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Ryshek Rudolf Reichman, born in Pardubice, Czechoslovakia, 24/08/1921, regarding his experiences in the Kolin district, in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, Schwarzheide camp, and on a death march Death of his mother in Theresienstadt; death of his sister Chana in Bergen-Belsen camp; His memoirs were put in writing by his grandson, 26/02/2007.

File Number : 14

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Documentation regarding the second Maccabiah Winter Games in Banská Bystrica, including outstanding sportsmen from the Maccabi Hatzair movement, songs of the Maccabi Hatzair and the [Jewish] Scouts movements, and other matters, 1936 Slovakian newspaper clippings with greetings on the occasion of the second Maccabiah Winter Games in Banská Bystrica, February 1936; Hungarian newspaper clipping from Pozsony with an article about outstanding sportsmen from the Maccabi Hatzair movement; pages with drawings of emblems of Jewish youth group movements and songs of the Maccabi and [Jewish] Scouts movements in...

File Number : 17

Type of Material : Poems/songs, Drawing, Newspaper Clippings

Language : Slovak, German, Hungarian

Correspondence of the Centralverein - CV (Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith), regarding various subjects, 24/11/1932-28/09/1934

Correspondence of the Centralverein - CV (Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith), regarding various subjects, 24/11/1932-28/09/1934 - Official correspondence regarding the Jewish Workers Club in Berlin and the Reichsjugendausschuß (youth representation), 1932-1934; - List of legal procedures and, in particular, regarding Jewish subjects, 1930-1932 (pp. 256-262); - Summary of the "Zeitschrift für die Geschichte der Juden in Deutschland" newspaper, issue no. 4, published, 02/03/1932 (pp. 281-282).

File Number : JM/28886

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Newspaper Clippings

Language : German

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