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Testimony of Elizabeth Bates, born in Gabin, Poland, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto and using a false identity in Warsaw

Testimony

Testimony of Elizabeth Bates, born in Gabin, Poland, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto and using a false identity in Warsaw Zionist, traditional family; activities in the Hashomer Hatzair movement; knowledge regarding the deportation of Jews from Germany, 1938. Outbreak of the war; escape to Warsaw; return to Gabin; escape to the Warsaw Ghetto with her father; Warsaw Ghetto life including labor in a workshop sewing uniforms and in a children's hospital; acquaintanceship with Janusz Korczak; death of her father due to typhus disease; escape from the Warsaw Ghetto; life while using a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Ada Rakocz, born in Gabin, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Gabin Ghetto, Warsaw Ghetto, in hiding, using a false identity and in the Polish underground

Testimony

Testimony of Ada Rakocz, born in Gabin, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Gabin Ghetto, Warsaw Ghetto, in hiding, using a false identity and in the Polish underground Life before the war; well-to-do family; her father was a member of the city council; witness receives a Hebrew and Zionist education; music studies; attempts to make aliya to Eretz Israel; meets Jewish refugees from Germany, 1938; receives knowledge regarding attacks against Jews and their property. Outbreak of the war, 01 September 1939; anti-Jewish restrictions; robbery of Jewish property; escape of her father and her older...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rita (Dvorman) Gotman, born in Lwow, Poland, 1933, regarding her experiences as a child in Lwow, the Warsaw Ghetto and in hiding outside the ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Rita (Dvorman) Gotman, born in Lwow, Poland, 1933, regarding her experiences as a child in Lwow, the Warsaw Ghetto and in hiding outside the ghetto Life before the war; assimilated well-to-do family; identifies with Eretz Israel. Outbreak of the war; rejection of help from the Romanian consul; Soviet occupation; restrictions on Jewish businesses; sending of parcels to Siberia; arrest and murder of her father; temporary living quarters at their maid's who is originally from Germany; escape to Warsaw; difficulties in entering the sealed ghetto; ghetto life; attends a school for converted...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ruth Rita (Bornstein) Rubin, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1932, regarding her experiences as a child in Warsaw, Brzesc Nam Bugiem, Siberia and Vashinka

Testimony

Testimony of Ruth Rita (Bornstein) Rubin, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1932, regarding her experiences as a child in Warsaw, Brzesc Nam Bugiem, Siberia and Vashinka Life in Warsaw before the war; her father is a Bund activist. Outbreak of the war, September 1939; air-raids on Warsaw; escape to the Soviet Union; crossing the Bug river; escape to Brzesc Nad Bugiem; her father's escape back to Warsaw; murder of her father; deportation to Siberia with her mother; life in Siberia including work logging trees; putting up barracks; release, 1941; escape to Vashinka; life in a Polish orphanage in Vashinka,...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zipora Piza (Peletz) Huberman, born in Bedzin, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Kamionka Ghetto and Peterswaldau

Testimony

Testimony of Zipora Piza (Peletz) Huberman, born in Bedzin, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Kamionka Ghetto and Peterswaldau Life before the war; Jewish community; attends a Beit Yaakov school; her father's activities in the Hamizrachi movement; youth movements; activities in Hashomer Hadati. German occupation, September 1939; burning of the synagogue; rescue of a Torah scroll by her grandfather; confiscation of property; armband; yellow badge; draft of Jews to labor in the construction of Auschwitz camp; activities in an aliya training "kibbutz"; establishment of a Judenrat; draft of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Personal documentation, letters, newspaper clippings, photographs, a pin and medals pertaining to the story of the Janusz Korczak orphanage, belonging to Stella Gutman Faitek Fajtek, an orphan who grew up in the orphanage

File Number : 1057

Type of Material : Letter, Personal Documents, Photograph, Newspaper Clippings

Language : Polish, English, Russian

Testimony of Samuel Nissenbaum, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in forests and as a Red Army soldier

Testimony

Testimony of Samuel Nissenbaum, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in forests and as a Red Army soldier His father leaves the house; family is under the protection of the Jewish Committee in Warsaw; life in Janusz Korczak's children's home including illness; placed in an orphanage for children with learning disabilities. Outbreak of the war, 1939; his mother's and sisters' deaths in German air-raids; escape in the direction of the Soviet Union; escape to forests; life in the forests including being taken under the wing of a Polish partisan until 1944; drafted into the Red Army until...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rachel (Erlich) Malz, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Rachel (Erlich) Malz, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto Life in the Warsaw Ghetto; labor as a clerk in the Judenrat in the Warsaw Ghetto; personal meeting with Janusz Korczak; eyewitness testimony to the deportation of Korczak and the children to the extermination camp. Marriage, 1948; aliya to Israel, 1949.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Alexander Fried, born in Kralovo, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Zilina camp under a false identity, in the partisans, in the Sered and Sachsenhausen camps, and in the death march His immediate family; his father's livelihood; life at home; studies in a "heder" and a Jewish school; the community in Zilina; holidays at home; sports activity; relations with the neighbors; training work; the draft notice; the concentration of Zilina's Jews; beatings in the camp; roll calls; meeting the camp commander; deportations from Zilina; friends who perished at Majdanek; Jews from Slovakia who...

File Number : 11802

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yitzchak Perla, born in Warsaw, 1925, regarding his experiences in Janusz Korczak's orphanage, escape to Russia and joining the Polish Army

Testimony

Testimony of Yitzchak Perla, born in Warsaw, 1925, regarding his experiences in Janusz Korczak's orphanage, escape to Russia and joining the Polish Army Born without a father; his mother was ill with tuberculosis; staying with relatives; getting used to life on the street; entered Janusz Korczak's orphanage, 1936; life in the orphanage until 1939; work as an apprentice and student; death of his mother during Sukkot, 1939; escape with his brother and uncle to Russia; life as a refugee; volunteer for the Polish Army, 1943. Return to Poland; transfer to Germany; training on a kibbutz; life in Fohrenwald DP...

File Number : 11118

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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