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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shimon Ladislav Zelman, born in Secovce, Czechoslovakia, 1931, regarding his experiences as a child in Secovce, Levice, Hannover camp and Bergen-Belsen

Testimony

Testimony of Shimon Ladislav Zelman, born in Secovce, Czechoslovakia, 1931, regarding his experiences as a child in Secovce, Levice, Hannover camp and Bergen-Belsen Life before the war. German occupation; Aryanization of the family business, 1942; restrictions on the Jews including yellow badge; restrictions on movement; escape from the "Aktion" and finds a hiding place; arrest with the family; deportation to Levice; life in a Jewish school due to his father's foreign citizenship; transfer to a camp for POW exchanges in Hannover; deportation to Bergen-Belsen; camp life; search for food and medication;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ina (Kandzerski) Kornitzer, born in Vilna, Poland, 1940, regarding her experiences as a child in hiding in the home of Professor Lucjan Klein in Vilna

Testimony

Testimony of Ina (Kandzerski) Kornitzer, born in Vilna, Poland, 1940, regarding her experiences as a child in hiding in the home of Professor Lucjan Klein in Vilna Life in Vilna; from an assimilated home; her mother has a Ph.D; her mother's friendship with a colleague in the high school she taught in, Professor Lucjan Klein; the professor agreeing to hiding Ina in his home; (information was found at a later date regarding the underground cell, Komórek Ucha, (listening cell) that Professor Klein was a member in); End of the war; return of her mother to take her back; the daughter's difficulty in joining...

File Number : 13192

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Lea (Bzhostek) Itzkovitz, born in Wyszkow, Poland, 1934, regarding her experiences in Magnitogorsk, Tulchin, an International kolkhoz, an orphanage and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Lea (Bzhostek) Itzkovitz, born in Wyszkow, Poland, 1934, regarding her experiences in Magnitogorsk, Tulchin, an International kolkhoz, an orphanage and other places Traditional family; her father is a shoemaker; her mother is a housewife; middle-class family. German occupation, 1939; murder of her father; life with her mother's sister in Pultusk; labor of her mother in agriculture; move to another town; deportation on foot to Bialystok; deportation to the Ural mountains in the Soviet Union; life in Magnitogorsk; transfer to Tulchin with the help of a Jewish man called Dimshitz; life in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Israel Schwarz, born in Rimavska Sec, Czechoslovakia, 1921, regarding his experiences in Bratislava, Transylvania, Novi Sad, Bergen-Belsen and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Israel Schwarz, born in Rimavska Sec, Czechoslovakia, 1921, regarding his experiences in Bratislava, Transylvania, Novi Sad, Bergen-Belsen and other places Life before the war; life in Bratislava; learns in the Yesodei Hatorah yeshiva. Re-annexation to Hungary; deportation to camps in Hungary, 1942; deportation to Transylvania, April 1943; transfer to Novi Sad, January 1944; transfer to Budapest, August 1944; transfer to Bergen-Belsen, December 1944; transfer in the direction of Theresienstadt; liberation en route. Life in Michalovce in an aliya training facility; move to Italy with help...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Klara (Rosenthal) Stern, born in Sighet, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Sighet Ghetto, and in the Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen camps

Testimony

Testimony of Klara (Rosenthal) Stern, born in Sighet, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Sighet Ghetto, and in the Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen camps From a religious family; keeping kosher; studies in a state-run elementary school; studies in the Jewish school, Beit Yaakov; as a result of the numerus clausus policy, studying in a high school run by nuns, 1940; deportation to the Sighet Ghetto, 1944; deportation by train to Auschwitz; separation from her parents; tattooing of number A-8071; forced labor as a porter for the Germans; with the approaching of the front, deportation to Bergen Belsen;...

File Number : 11728

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zohar Frida (Horowitz Sternfeld) Shchori, born in Olkusz, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Olkusz Ghetto, Bedzin, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen

Testimony

Testimony of Zohar Frida (Horowitz Sternfeld) Shchori, born in Olkusz, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Olkusz Ghetto, Bedzin, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen Hasidic family. Outbreak of the war, 1939; deportation to the Olkusz Ghetto, 1941; transfer to Bedzin Ghetto, 1942; ghetto life including labor in a sewing factory; deportation to Auschwitz, late 1943; life in Birkenau including labor carrying and chiseling rocks and labor gathering potatoes; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; liberation. Bergen-Belsen DP camp life until 1947; move to a DP camp in the Munich area; studies; move to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sandor Shlomo Singer, born in Papa, 1926, regarding his experiences in labor battalions in Kocsihegy and Szolnok

Testimony

Testimony of Sandor Shlomo Singer, born in Papa, 1926, regarding his experiences in labor battalions in Kocsihegy and Szolnok Orthodox family; attends a school run by monks. Drafted to labor battalions in Kocsihegy and Szolnok; labor and the attitude of the Hungarian staff after the entry of the Germans, 1944; liberation by the Red Army and return to Papa, 1945. Knowledge of his family's fate; joining Bnei Akiva; training in Sered and Miskolcs; aliya to Eretz Israel via Bratislava, Salzburg and Marseille on the "Kedmah" ship; establishment of Kibbutz Beerot Yitzchak; leaving the kibbutz and...

File Number : 11898

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zev Lissner, born in Zelow, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald and Theresienstadt

Testimony

Testimony of Zev Lissner, born in Zelow, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald and Theresienstadt Learns in a yeshiva. German occupation, September 1939; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto; ghetto life including labor in a shoe factory; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1944; camp life including agricultural labor; death march to Buchenwald; transfer to Theresienstadt; liberation by the Red Army, May 1945. Life in a Poalei Agudat Israel kibbutz; aliya to Eretz Israel on the ship, "Kedmah", 1947.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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