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Testimony of Zelda (Komraz) Rosenberg, born in Utena, Lithuania, 1923 regarding her escape to Novosibirsk, USSR

Testimony

Childhood; attends in a Hebrew school, Utena; attends the Hebrew gymnasium, Ukmerge; Life under the Soviet regime, 1940; escapes with her family one day before the German occupation, 1941; escape via Rokiskis, Lithuania, and Daugavpils, Latvia; work on a kolkhoz; drafting of her father to the Red Army and his release; move to Novosibirsk; drafting of her brother to the Red Army and his falling in battle at the front, 1943; work in an airplane factory; End of the war and her return with her family to Vilna, Lithuania, 1945; rebuilding life after the war; aliya to Israel, 1972.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Dvora Tolpin, born in Chisinau, Romania, 1931, regarding her experiences in children's homes in Orlovskaya and Kondryuchenskaya, and in Uzbekistan

Memoirs of Dvora Tolpin, born in Chisinau, Romania, 1931, regarding her experiences in children's homes in Orlovskaya and Kondryuchenskaya, and in Uzbekistan Outbreak of the war; escape of her family from Chisinau to Nikolayev; air-raids over Nikolayev; transfer to Orlovskaya by herself after the family is scattered; transfer to a children's home; life in the children's home until 1942; life in the home of the chairman of the Grekhov kolkhoz for a few months; transfer to a children's home in Kondryuchenskaya; life in the children's home (confirmation from the Tamara Petrichenko Children's Home). Locating...

File Number : 8635

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Russian

Testimony of Avigdor Rubinshtein, born in Sokolow, Poland in 1921, regarding his experiences in USSR, Siberia, and Bukhara, and his survival

Testimony

Testimony of Avigdor Rubinshtein, born in Sokolow, Poland in 1921, regarding his experiences in USSR, Siberia, and Bukhara, and his survival Life in a wealthy Zionist family; German occupation for ten days in September 1939; Russian domination until June 1941; escape to Siberia and life there in 1941 and 1942; move to Bukhara and life there until 1944; use of family home as center for Zionist activity, especially for Hashomer HaTza’ir youth movement and other youth movements; participation in Bricha in 1945; attempt to reach Eretz Israel and exile to Cyprus in 1946; aliya to Israel in early 1949; absorption.

File Number : 13763

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Postcards and letters sent to Mordechai Hochberg and Ester (Malamant) Hochberg in Eretz Israel, by their family members and fathers Wolf Hochberg and Abram Malamant in Tarutino, 1936-1941

Postcards and letters sent to Mordechai Hochberg and Ester (Malamant) Hochberg in Eretz Israel, by their family members and fathers Wolf Hochberg and Abram Malamant in Tarutino, 1936-1941 Included in the file: - Postcard sent to Mordechai Hochberg in Eretz Israel by Abram Malamant during his stay in a kolkhoz in the Dzhambul district, 28 April 1943; - Postcard in Romanian sent by Mania Kischler from Galati to her cousin Ester, 1934; - Letter in Polish sent from Kowel, 03 January 1937 (sender unclear); - Another letter, sent by the same person (undated); Comments by the submitter of the...

File Number : 2076

Type of Material : Postcard, Letter

Language : Polish, Romanian, Yiddish

Memoirs of Raisa Yudovich, born in 1918, regarding her experiences in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, and using a false identity in Bar

Memoirs of Raisa Yudovich, born in 1918, regarding her experiences in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, and using a false identity in Bar Life in Dnepropetrovsk, including dismissal from her work as an engineer, 16 June 1941; escape to Bar with her baby daughter (born 11 July 1940); life in Bar; work in a kolkhoz; the German occupation; murder of Jews; life in the home of Yevdokiya Karelova, who worked in the kolkhoz; preparation of forged documents in the name of Raisa Yurovaya by the partisans; baking bread for the partisans; detention with her daughter; life in a cell with other women and children under crowded...

File Number : 2050

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Personal Records, Memoirs, Letter

Language : Russian, Ukrainian

Memoirs of Rabbi Hillel Kustanowicz, born in Luban, Poland, 17 August 1900, regarding his experiences in Lachowicze and Siberia during the Soviet occupation, 1941-1946

Memoirs of Rabbi Hillel Kustanowicz, born in Luban, Poland, 17 August 1900, regarding his experiences in Lachowicze and Siberia during the Soviet occupation, 1941-1946 His childhood in Luban with his father Shimon Arie and his mother Lena Reisel; learns in a yeshiva in Sluck; continues his learning in a yeshiva in Kleck; move to Nieswiez; return to Kleck; move to Lachowicze; marriage to Sonia Rozowski. Red Army occupation; return to Luban; move to Sluck and then to Bobroisk; return to Lachowicze; retreat of the Soviets, June 1941; evacuation to the East; travel by train via Minsk, Baranowicze and...

File Number : 8529

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English

Testimony of Aharon Feigenblum, born in 1919 in Włocławek, Poland, about his experiences as a member of the Hashomer Hatzair movement in Kalisz, in Warsaw, and in the movement underground in the Soviet Union

Receives a religious education; joins the Hashomer Hatzair movement; lives in a hakhshara (training center) in Kalisz in 1937; Kol Nidre eve in 1939; three Jews murdered; witness escapes to his parents in Warsaw in November 1939; escapes to Wilno and lives there until June 1940; escapes to Tashkent and Samarkand in 1941; membership in the Hashomer Hatzair underground in the Soviet Union in 1941–1944; involved in the affair surrounding Mordechai Rozman, a leader of the underground, who succumbed to NKVD interrogation and surrendered names of underground members; liberation and return to Poland in December 1945;...

File Number : 13553

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Moshe Zeev Gelbert, born in Ilisesti, Romania, 1937, regarding his experiences in Transnistria, Ataki, Mogilev and Katsmazov

Memoirs of Moshe Zeev Gelbert, born in Ilisesti, Romania, 1937, regarding his experiences in Transnistria, Ataki, Mogilev and Katsmazov Anti-Jewish legislation, 1941; deportation to Transnistria; order to remove jewelry and hand it over to Romanian soldiers in Burdujeni; arrival in Ataki; assembly of Jews in the synagogue; finding a sign on the wall written in blood, reading, "Jews were murdered in this place. You Jews passing by here, please say Kaddish"; murder of Jews by the Romanian gendarmerie; destruction of the certificates [of the murdered?] so that they could not be identified; arrival in Mogilev on...

File Number : 8497

Type of Material : Memoirs, List of Deportees, Red Cross Letter

Language : Hebrew, Romanian

Letter written by S. Yakhot and M. Brechman, regarding the murder of Jews in Yaryshev in August 1942

Letter written by S. Yakhot and M. Brechman, regarding the murder of Jews in Yaryshev in August 1942 - Occupation of Yaryshev on 15/07/1941; murder of 25 Jewish men on the day of the occupation; - Establishment of the Yaryshev Ghetto on 25/01/1942; - "Aktion" on 21/08/1942; mass murder of Jewish inmates of the Yaryshev Ghetto; division of the inmates into two groups: members of the first group were murdered immediately near the cemetery in Yaryshev, and members of the second group were sent to forced labor and perished in Letichev camp; - Death of 25 Jews who survived the "Aktion", in October...

File Number : 31

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Russian

Memoirs written in 1945 by Genya (Tractenbroit) Ben Tov, born in Lipcani, Romania, regarding her experiences in Bessarabia, Edineti, Mogilev-Podolski, Rublenitsa, Secureni and Kosharintsy, 1940-1941 [1945] Occupation of Bessarabia by the Red Army; escape of the Romanians and the rejoicing of the Jews (at the arrival of the Red Army]; retreat by the Red Army; acts of retaliation against the Jews by the Germans and the Romanians; robbery and breaking into shops; escape from Lipcani by her family; deportation to Transnistria; transfer to Edineti; transfer to Mogilev-Podolski; transfer of the family back to...

File Number : 8474

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Yiddish

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