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Testimony of Sima (Weichselbaum) Shmuelevitz, born in Beuthen, Germany, 1924, regarding her experiences in Beuthen, the Chrzanow Ghetto, Sosnowiec Dulag, Arnau and other places

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Testimony of Sima (Weichselbaum) Shmuelevitz, born in Beuthen, Germany, 1924, regarding her experiences in Beuthen, the Chrzanow Ghetto, Sosnowiec Dulag, Arnau and other places Her childhood; march of SA men. Life after the Nazi rise to power, including a pogrom; imposition of bans and anti-Jewish decrees and the burning of books; detention of her parents by the Gestapo; her parents' return; Kristallnacht events; eviction of people from their homes; burning of the synagogue; burning of the community center building; burning of the mikveh (ritual bath); deportation of the Polish nationals to the Polish...

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results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Testimony of Joseph Kornreich, born in Tylicz, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in Staszkowka, Bobowa, Plaszow, Bierzanow and Buchenwald

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Testimony of Joseph Kornreich, born in Tylicz, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in Staszkowka, Bobowa, Plaszow, Bierzanow and Buchenwald Life before the war; the Jewish community; studies in Krynica; learns in a yeshiva in Nowy Sacz. Outbreak of the war, September 1939; abuse of Jews; deportation of the family, 1940; transfer to Staszkowka; life in Staszkowka; transfer to Bobowa, 1942; transfer to Plaszow; transfer to Bierzanow; transfer to Buchenwald; transfer to Skarzysko Kamienna; transfer back to Buchenwald; liberation, April 1945. Life on Kibbutz Buchenwald; aliya to Eretz Israel onboard...

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

List of Jews who perished in Sachsenhausen camp, and sections from the diary of Meyer Levin regarding the establishment of the Buchenwald "kibbutz"

List of Jews who perished in Sachsenhausen camp, and sections from the diary of Meyer Levin regarding the establishment of the Buchenwald "kibbutz" Sections from the diary of Meyer Levin regarding the aliya to Eretz Israel of a group of pioneers who were Holocaust survivors, and regarding the establishment of the Buchenwald "kibbutz".

results.listIds.fileNumber : 200

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Diary, List of Murdered Persons

results.listIds.lang : German

Testimony of Arie Leibel Akst, born in Bodzanow, Poland, 1915, regarding his experiences in the Czestochowa Ghetto and Buchenwald

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Testimony of Arie Leibel Akst, born in Bodzanow, Poland, 1915, regarding his experiences in the Czestochowa Ghetto and Buchenwald Life before the war; membership in the Bund movement; work in his father's factory; marriage and the birth of two children. Outbreak of the war, 1939; life in Bodzanow; work distributing eggs and in a flour mill; help to refugees; deportation to the Czestochowa Ghetto, 1941; life in a synagogue; deportation of his wife and children to Treblinka; labor in German factories laying railroad tracks; labor repairing weapons brought from the Russian front; activities in the socialist...

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Testimony of Lea Lola (Sultanik) Ahuvia, born in Ksiaz Wielki, 1925, regarding her experiences in Ksiaz Wielki and Prokocim Skrzysko labor camps

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Testimony of Lea Lola (Sultanik) Ahuvia, born in Ksiaz Wielki, 1925, regarding her experiences in Ksiaz Wielki and Prokocim Skrzysko labor camps Deportation to Cracow and forced labor on a farm, spring 1942; transfer back to Ksiaz Wielki, summer 1942; murder of her father and brother during the deportation of the town's Jews, August 1942; deportation to Prokocim labor camp, September 1942; deportation to Skrzysko labor camp; deportation to a labor camp in Leipzig, April 1944; on a death march east on foot, April-May 1945; escape and wandering; joining Kibbutz Buchenwald.

results.listIds.fileNumber : 6503

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaim Tzamit, born in Jasienica, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in Prokocim, Biezanow, Skarzysko Kamienna, Buchenwald and other places

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Testimony of Chaim Tzamit, born in Jasienica, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in Prokocim, Biezanow, Skarzysko-Kamienna, Buchenwald and other places Occupation of Krynica on the third day of the war; attitude towards the Jews; information regarding the head of the Judenrat who was murdered by the Germans; "Aktion", summer 1940; deportation with his family to Biecz; deportation to an extermination camp, 1942; labor with his brother and a group of youths paving roads in the vicinity of Nowy Sacz; transfer to Prokocim; transfer to Biezanow; transfer to Skarzysko-Kamienna; camp life including labor in a...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 3116

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

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Testimony of Mosze Wiszogrodzki, born in Lutomiersk, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences as a forced laborer in Lutomiersk, Libenau, Kreuzsee, Fuerstenberg, Auschwitz and Buna, and on a death march Life before the war; his father is a grain merchant; witness learns in a yeshiva. German occupation and assembly of the Jews in the marketplace; murder of seven Jews; smuggle of goods to Jews in Lodz until the establishment of the ghetto; forced labor in Lutomiersk; burning of the ancient synagogue; establishment of the Lutomiersk Ghetto; joins a group of deportees being deported to Libenau, in place of his...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 3864

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Poems/songs, Testimony, Memoirs

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew, Yiddish

Testimony of Aron Gepner, born in Lodz, Poland, 1917, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, Czestochowa Ghetto, Bedzin Ghetto and in Laufen

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Testimony of Aron Gepner, born in Lodz, Poland, 1917, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, Czestochowa Ghetto, Bedzin Ghetto and in Laufen Life before the war; move to Warsaw. German occupation, September 1939; deportation to the Warsaw Ghetto; ghetto life including underground activities as part of Gordonia; escape to Czestochowa; life in the Czestochowa Ghetto including continued underground activities as part of Gordonia; escape to Bedzin; life in the Bedzin Ghetto including help in obtaining forged passports from the Hechalutz movement in Switzerland; transfer to Laufen; liberation...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 2910

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Testimony of Aliza (Lipszyc) Kokocinska Besser, born in Brzeznica, Poland, 1917, regarding her experiences in Brzeznica, in a forest in the Lodz district, Miedzno, Kuznica and other places

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Testimony of Aliza (Lipszyc) Kokocinska Besser, born in Brzeznica, Poland, 1917, regarding her experiences in Brzeznica, in a forest in the Lodz district, Miedzno, Kuznica and other places Life before the war. German occupation, 03 September 1939; life in a forest in the Lodz district including murder of Jews by the Germans; life in Brzeznica including deportation of youths to Posgenburg camp, summer 1941; deportation of youths to Kahlfelde camp, summer 1941; deportation of youths to Hasenheide camp, summer 1941; life in Miedzno including deportation with Jews from the area to Kuznica; deportation to...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 3394

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony, Memoirs

results.listIds.lang : Polish

Testimony of Ita (Rozencwajg) Diamant, born in Jeziorna, Poland, 1918, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto and as a Polish worker in Germany

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Testimony of Ita (Rozencwajg) Diamant, born in Jeziorna, Poland, 1918, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto and as a Polish worker in Germany Life in the Warsaw Ghetto; activities in the Jewish hospital; establishment of a children's play corner; rescue from deportation through her marriage to a non-Jew; Gordonia activities including contact with movement members in Czestochowa, Parczew and Lukow; activities of the head of the movement; unsuccessful Gordonia resistance; murder of her Polish rescuer; escape using a false identity as a Pole to Germany; life in Germany as a Polish worker using a false...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 3153

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony, Memoirs

results.listIds.lang : Polish

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