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Testimony of Faibush Kramer, born in Comanesti, Romania, 1921, regarding his experiences in Comanesti, Suceava and the Murafa Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Faibush Kramer, born in Comanesti, Romania, 1921, regarding his experiences in Comanesti, Suceava and the Murafa Ghetto Life before the war. Escape to Suceava, deportation to Transnistria; transfer to Murafa in exchange for a bribe; life in Murafa; witness contracts typhus; receives medicine from the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC); transfer by train in the direction of Trihati with Jewish youth; jumping from the train; life in the Krupp factory building columns for bridges; beatings; escape in the direction of Odessa in exchange for a bribe; escape to the Murafa Ghetto; ghetto life...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Hubert Karden, regarding the women's camp in Essen that belonged to the Krupp company, submitted, 1945

Testimony of Hubert Karden, regarding the women's camp in Essen that belonged to the Krupp company, submitted, 1945 The population in the camp was in most part Jewish women from Hungary and Romania who were transferred to the camp in early 1944; camp life, including the daily schedule in the factory and the food; attitude of the camp's staff to the women inmates, including acts of abuse on the women inmates by the camp commander, SS-Oberscharfuehrer Rick; The document is part of the Evidence material at the Nuremberg Trial; The document is in the books: Blue series, xxxv, 55-56; Red series, supplement...

File Number : 39

Type of Material : Investigation Report

Language : German

Testimony of Etelca (Auslander) Perlmutter, born in Teocul de Jos, Romania, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Gherla Ghetto, Cluj Ghetto, Auschwitz and Halbstadt

Testimony

Testimony of Etelca (Auslander) Perlmutter, born in Teocul de Jos, Romania, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Gherla Ghetto, Cluj Ghetto, Auschwitz and Halbstadt Traditional family; life before the war; attends a Romanian school; relations with the local population. German occupation, 1944; decrees and restrictions; deportation to the Gherla Ghetto; transfer to the Cluj Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from her parents; camp life with her sister; transfer to Halbstadt; camp life including labor in a Krupp ammunitions factory; liberation by the Red Army. Convalescence; return to Teocul...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Romanian

Testimony of Pinchas Jaskierowicz, born in Zawiercie, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in Zawiercie and labor camps in Germany

Testimony

Testimony of Pinchas Jaskierowicz, born in Zawiercie, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in Zawiercie and labor camps in Germany Harsh economic situation and difficult childhood; learns in a "heder"; antisemitism before the war. Outbreak of the war, 1939; German occupation; his capture on the street and deportation to forced labor in Ebensee, Gruenheide and Markstaedt camps; labor in a Krupp factory; suffering, hunger and lack of medical treatment; liberation by the US Army, 1945. Hospitalization; meets Jewish Brigade soldiers; move to Modena, Italy; help from UNRRA; aliya attempt to Eretz Israel...

File Number : 12195

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chana Hana (Reizmovitz) Leibowicz, born in Teresva, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz, Gelsenkirchen Horst, Essen and Bergen-Belsen

Testimony

Testimony of Chana Hana (Reizmovitz) Leibowicz, born in Teresva, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz, Gelsenkirchen Horst, Essen and Bergen-Belsen From a religious family; attends a Czech school. Re-annexation to Hungary; increase in antisemitism; German occupation; deportation to the Teresva Ghetto, 1944; ghetto life including labor in a hospital; deportation to Auschwitz; transfer to Gelsenkirchen Horst; camp life including labor in a factory; transfer to Essen; camp life including labor in a factory; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; camp life including typhus; liberation by the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Testimony

Testimony of David Eizenberg, born in Dabrowa-Gornicza, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in Dabrowa-Gornicza, in the Dabrowa-Gornicza Ghetto, in hiding, in the Sosnowiec Ghetto, in Birkenau and in other places Life with his family including learning in a "heder" and attending school; attitude of the non-Jewish pupils; Jewish community [activities]; death of his father; work in the context of the municipality and in the police [?]; membership in Hashomer Hatzair. Burning of the synagogue; rescue of Jews by a priest; kidnapping of Jews on the streets by Germans; [life under German occupation...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of the Jewish Historical Documentation Center in Linz regarding branches of "Krupp" factories in various labor camps

File Number : 501

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : German

Orders by the head of the Gauleiter headquarters in Essen to the Friedrich Krupp factory, regarding inclusion of the factory's guards in the Volkssturm

File Number : 366

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : English, German

Testimony of Adam (Naparstek) Naor, born in Bedzin, 1921, regarding his experiences in prison in Sosnowiec, and in the Anhalt, Markstadt, Fuenfteichen and Flossenbuerg camps

Testimony

Testimony of Adam (Naparstek) Naor, born in Bedzin, 1921, regarding his experiences in prison in Sosnowiec, and in the Anhalt, Markstadt, Fuenfteichen and Flossenbuerg camps From an upper middle class family; studies in elementary school and in a Jewish high school; the German occupation; expelled from their apartment to a shack; forced labor in the Schneider workshop in Kassel; arrested and charged with having relations with German women in the Sosnowiec prison, September 1941; released from prison and deported to forced labor in construction work in Anhalt; deportation to Markstadt and forced labor,...

File Number : 10667

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Miriam (Klein) Berger, born in Odoreu, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Satu-Mare Ghetto and Auschwitz, Gelsenberg, Essen and Bergen-Belsen camps

Testimony

Testimony of Miriam (Klein) Berger, born in Odoreu, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Satu-Mare Ghetto and Auschwitz, Gelsenberg, Essen and Bergen-Belsen camps Her family before the war. Hungarian rule: anti-Jewish legislation and confiscation of the family business, 1940-1944; deportation to the Satu-Mare Ghetto, 1944; deportation to Auschwitz; transfer to Gelsenberg, August 1944; forced labor in an ammunitions factory; transfer to Essen; Allied air-raids on the city; life in a bunker; forced labor in a Krupp factory; deportation to Bergen-Belsen; camp life; typhus; liberation. Return home;...

File Number : 10334

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

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