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Testimony of Jakub Trzcina, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1920, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, Budzin, Mielec, Flossenbuerg and Mauthausen

Testimony

Testimony of Jakub Trzcina, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1920, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, Budzin, Mielec, Flossenbuerg and Mauthausen Hasidic family; attends a "heder" and a rabbinical "Beit Midrash" (religious study hall); studies economics at the University of Warsaw; displays of antisemitism; membership inf Beitar youth movement; Zionist activities; activities in the Revenge resistance group; establishment of the Warsaw Ghetto; ghetto life; Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Pesach 1943; deportation to Budzin; life in Budzin including forced labor in an aircraft factory; transfer to Mielec; transfer...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Avraham Altman, born in Lodz, regarding his experiences in the Opatow Ghetto and forced labor in Skarzysko Kamienna

Testimony

Testimony of Avraham Altman, born in Lodz, regarding his experiences in the Opatow Ghetto and forced labor in Skarzysko Kamienna Move of his family from Lodz to Opatow before the sealing of the Lodz Ghetto, winter 1940; deportation of the Jews of Turka, Kalisz and Komin to Opatow and Ostrowce; establishment of a welfare committee for the refugees and an educational system in a "Beit Midrash” (religious study hall) for the refugees' young children; typhus plague and closure of the religious study halls and synagogues; deportation to Treblinka between 23-21 December 1942; deportation with 300 young people to...

File Number : 7838

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Article by Yaacov Rabinovitz, born in Telsiai, Lithuania, published in the Forverts newspaper regarding the murder of the Jews of Telsiai

Article by Yaacov Rabinovitz, born in Telsiai, Lithuania, published in the Forverts newspaper regarding the murder of the Jews of Telsiai Jewish town life before the war; employment and cultural life; "Etz Haim" yeshiva; teachers college; school; "Batei Midrash" (religious study halls) and other institutions. German occupation; desecration of religious articles by Lithuanian collaborators; looting of property; restrictions on Jews; arrest of Jews; abuse and murder of Jews by Lithuanians; deportation of Jews from Rietavas, Varniai and Plunge to a forest; murder of Jews; murder of Chaim Rabinovitz, head of...

File Number : 59

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings

Testimony of Basye Bloch, born in Tytuvenai, Lithuania, 1917; regarding her experiences in the Siauliai Ghetto, Stutthof and hearsay testimony of the experiences of the Jews in Tytuvenai

Testimony of Basye Bloch, born in Tytuvenai, Lithuania, 1917; regarding her experiences in the Siauliai Ghetto, Stutthof and hearsay testimony of the experiences of the Jews in Tytuvenai Life before the war; move to Siauliai, 1933. Ghetto life; deportation to Stutthof; camp life; release; list of names of collaborators; receives information about the experiences of the Tytuvenai Jews from two Jewish women; receives information about the local German occupation; restrictions on the Jews; establishment of a local civil authority led by the Lithuanian Ruseckis and others; arrest of Jews; transfer of the...

File Number : 54

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Elke Flaks, born in Kraziai, Lithuania, 1923, regarding her experiences in Kaunas, the Soviet Union, the Red Army in Lithuania and hearsay testimony of the experiences of the Jews in Kraziai Life before the war; move to Kaunas, 1939; life in Kaunas and attends a high school. Outbreak of the war, 22 June 1941; escape with her father to the Soviet Union; life within the Red Army; transfer within the Red Army to Lithuania, 1944; release from the Red Army; visit in Kraziai; receives information about the German occupation in Kraziai, 24 June 1941; activities against the Jews by Lithuanians led...

File Number : 51

Type of Material : Testimony

Testimony of Chana (Magidovits) Goldman, born in Jurbarkas, Lithuania, 1920, regarding her experiences in Jurbarkas, Kaunas, Slobodka, the Kaunas Ghetto, Stutthof and other places

Testimony of Chana (Magidovits) Goldman, born in Jurbarkas, Lithuania, 1920, regarding her experiences in Jurbarkas, Kaunas, Slobodka, the Kaunas Ghetto, Stutthof and other places Life in Jurbarkas before the war. Outbreak of the war; escape of Jewish youth to the Soviet Union; German occupation, 22 June 1941; activities against the Jews by Lithuanians led by the Mayor Gegner Saukaitis, the Vakseliai brothers and others; abuse of Jews; drowning of Jews in a river; desecration of religious articles; murder of men in a Jewish cemetery; includes a list of names of those murdered; murder of children, women,...

File Number : 49

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Miscellaneous documentation regarding Dr. Otto Hirsch, a leading member of the board of the Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland (Reich's Deputation of German Jews), 1933-1941

Miscellaneous documentation regarding Dr. Otto Hirsch, a leading member of the board of the Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland (Reich's Deputation of German Jews), 1933-1941 In the file: - Covering report prepared by Dr. Kurt Ball-Kaduri regarding a speech delivered by Jenny Cramer at the commemoration ceremony held for Dr. Otto Hirsch in Moshav Shavei Tzion, July 1941 (p. 2), April 1960; - Speech delivered by Jenny Cramer at the commemoration ceremony held for Dr. Otto Hirsch in Moshav Shavei Tzion, July 1941, describing Otto Hirsch as a personal friend in the context of a Jewish discussion...

File Number : 267

Type of Material : Newspaper, Reports, Speech, Memoirs, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, German

Letters and postcards from Hannah Karminski in Berlin to family members in Switzerland, 1938–1942, and additional documentation associated with her

Letters and postcards from Hannah Karminski in Berlin to family members in Switzerland, 1938–1942, and additional documentation associated with her - letters and postcard sent by Johanna (Hannah) Sara Karminski, sometimes with additional text by Paula Fürst in Berlin, to her parents, Adolf and Selma Karminski, and her sister, Erna Berlowitz, in Switzerland, July 1938–October 1942; in one of the postcards, added text by Hildegard Böhme appears. Attached to the letters and apparently sent with them are the following: - a poem by Hannah Karminski for the birthday of Cora Berliner, January 23, 1940; -...

File Number : 5028

Type of Material : Poems/songs, Letter, עבודת מחקר, Correspondence, Postcard

Language : Hebrew, German