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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

Testimony of Lea (Filip) Amir, born in Bucharest, Romania in 1938, regarding her experiences as a child in hiding in Bucharest

Testimony of Lea (Filip) Amir, born in Bucharest, Romania in 1938, regarding her experiences as a child in hiding in Bucharest Life in hiding while hidden by a woman friend of her family in 1942; her father escapes to Cluj; life in a cellar; Move to a children's home in Apeldoorn; studies; declaration of the establishment of the State of Israel; move to a children's home in Zandvoort; aliya to Israel; life in Kibbutz Ein HaHoresh.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Natan Zhepkovich, born in 1920 in Włocławek, Poland, about his experiences in the Warsaw ghetto; the Pustków Strzyzew, and Gleiwitz camps; etc.

German occupation ensues in 1939; parents and brother escape; remaining at home after receiving an induction notice for the Polish army; Germans enter grandmother's house and grandmother dies; two synagogues torched in September 1939; witness arrested by the Germans and sent away for forced labor; attempts unsuccessfully to escape to the Soviet Union; escapes to Warsaw in 1939; assigned to forced labor at an airfield in 1939; life in the Warsaw ghetto in 1940; arrested by the Jewish police and escapes; finds a forged labor permit and joins a work group exiting the ghetto; sent to Strzyzew in 1941; life in the...

File Number : 13496

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Riva (Shmukler) Reichel, born in Vilna, Poland, 1927, regarding her experiences in Vilna, the Vilna Ghetto, Stutthof, Hamburg and Bergen-Belsen

Testimony

Testimony of Riva (Shmukler) Reichel, born in Vilna, Poland, 1927, regarding her experiences in Vilna, the Vilna Ghetto, Stutthof, Hamburg and Bergen-Belsen Her childhood in Vilna in a traditional family, including attending a Yiddish school. Life under Soviet rule including displays of antisemitism and acts of self-defense by the Jewish youth, 1939-1941; German Army occupation of Vilna, 1941; receives information about what happened in Ponary; unsuccessful escape attempt; Vilna Ghetto life including overcrowding and forced labor; liquidation of the ghetto; deportation of the Jews to Estonia, September...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Anatol Krakowski regarding his experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Kailis and as a partisan in the forests

Memoirs of Anatol Krakowski regarding his experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Kailis and as a partisan in the forests Life in the Vilna Ghetto; life in Kailis until September 1943; escape from the ghetto; life as a partisan in the surrounding forests under the command of Abba Kovner; rescue of Jewish partisans arrested by the NKVD by Professor Rebelski after the liberation of Vilna; establishment of an orphanage in Vilna by Professor Rebelski, a senior physician in the Red Army. Also in the file: Introduction written by Anatol Krakowski's wife, Nahama Krakowski, including translations from French to Hebrew...

File Number : 8193

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : French

Testimony of Yocheved Chava (Beitelman) Gil, born in Hotin, Romania, 1927, regarding her experiences during the deportation to Transnistria and in an orphanage in Bucharest

Testimony

Testimony of Yocheved Chava (Beitelman) Gil, born in Hotin, Romania, 1927, regarding her experiences during the deportation to Transnistria and in an orphanage in Bucharest Death of her father, 1933, and of her oldest brother, 1937. Deportation to Transnistria together with her younger sister, 1941; death of her mother, 1943; return to Romania, 1944; life in orphanages in Bucharest, June-December 1944. Unsuccessful aliya attempt to Eretz Israel on the ship, "Taurus", December, 1944; detention in Atlit; absorption in Kibbutz Shaar Haamakim.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Slomo Kless, born in 1920 in Sarny, Poland, about activity in the Hashomer Hatzair underground and the Bricha movement

Testimony

Testimony of Slomo Kless, born in 1920 in Sarny, Poland, about activity in the Hashomer Hatzair underground and the Bricha movement Training with Hashomer Hatzair in Rowne in 1939; slipping across borders in Kolomyja and Orodanka ahead of illegal immigration to Eretz Israel in summer 1940; moving to Zarnovice in 1940; moving to Wilno up to June 22, 1941; retreat to Central Asia; activity in the Hashomer Hatzair underground in the Soviet Union in 1940–1944; the Mordecai Rozman affair; manhunt for Rozman and Kless as wanted persons across the Soviet Union; induction into the Polish Army in the Soviet Union;...

File Number : 13383

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Batia Ida (Zangvil) As, born in Vilna, Poland, 1920, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Strasshof camp, Kaiserwald camp, Dresden camp and other

Testimony

Testimony of Batia Ida (Zangvil) As, born in Vilna, Poland, 1920, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Strasshof camp, Kaiserwald camp, Dresden camp and other Life before the war; attends a Tarbut school; cancellation of aliya plans at the last moment. German occupation, June 1941; kidnapping and murder of her husband in Ponary; ghetto life; evades deportation and finds a hiding place under a bush; receives a work permit with the use of forged documents; labor in a German kitchen; hides in the kitchen during a night "Aktion"; appeal to Abba Kovner to join the underground; liquidation of the...

File Number : 13164

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Stefi (Shantzer) Spigel, born in Bielsko, Poland, 1920, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Stutthof, Lauenburg and Riga

Testimony

Testimony of Stefi (Shantzer) Spigel, born in Bielsko, Poland, 1920, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Stutthof, Lauenburg and Riga Family with hardships; witness's mother is the sole provider for the family's livelihood. Outbreak of the war; escape to Vilna with Akiva members; life in the Vilna Ghetto with a group of friends, 1941-1943; forced labor in nearby camps; falling-out with Abba Kovner over whether to join the partisans before the liquidation of the ghetto; transfer to Riga; transfer to Lauenburg; transfer to Stutthof; death march; liberation by the Red Army. Soviet Union...

File Number : 12016

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Tuvia Gris Hutner, born in Tarnow, Poland in 1921, regarding his experiences during the war

Memoirs of Tuvia Gris Hutner, born in Tarnow, Poland in 1921, regarding his experiences during the war Active member of the Hashomer Hadati movement in the city; unsuccessful attempt to escape from the occupied area at the start of the war on 05/09/1939; additional departure with four friends, two months later; efforts and hardships; move to the area of Lithuania, until reaching Vilna; move to Panevezys in April 1940; participation in the establishment of aliya training; move to Moscow, approximately one year later, with the aim of obtaining an entrance permit to Eretz Israel; receipt of an entrance permit...

File Number : 7256

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

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