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Testimony of Rivka (Marmelstein) Berger, born in Svalava, Czechoslovakia, 1929, regarding her experiences in Svalava, the Mukacevo Ghetto, Auschwitz, Ravensbrueck, Neustadt Glewe and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Rivka (Marmelstein) Berger, born in Svalava, Czechoslovakia, 1929, regarding her experiences in Svalava, the Mukacevo Ghetto, Auschwitz, Ravensbrueck, Neustadt Glewe and other places Her parents' home. Hungarian Army occupation of Svalava, 1939; life under Hungarian occupation including acts of abuse against the Jews; arrival of refugees from Poland and Slovakia; deportation of people lacking citizenship; German Army occupation of Svalava, March 1944; life under German occupation including the placement of German officers in her family's home, her family's preparation of a stock of food...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Naomi Vaana, born in Thessaloniki, Greece in 1920, regarding her experiences while in detention in Pavlou Mela, in Auschwitz camp, during labor in a Kommando, and liberation by the Red Army Deportation from Volos with her mother, and detention in prisons in Pavlou Mela for a period of approximately two weeks; transfer to the prison in Thessaloniki; she is put onto a transport of the Jews of Corfu and deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, approximately one month later; selection; tattooing of a number; labor in various Kommando groups, first at labor breaking rocks and gravel, and later on...

File Number : 6576

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Greek

Testimony of Lion Ben Meir, born in Thessaloniki, Greece, 1915, regarding his experiences in Thessaloniki, in service in the military, in the Thessaloniki Ghetto, in Auschwitz and on a death march

Testimony of Lion Ben Meir, born in Thessaloniki, Greece, 1915, regarding his experiences in Thessaloniki, in service in the military, in the Thessaloniki Ghetto, in Auschwitz and on a death march History of the Hamizrachi youth movement; history of the Beitar youth movement; visit by Jabotinsky; service in the military; work as a translator for the Italians, 1940-1941. German Army occupation, 09 April 1941; return on foot from the front in Albania; attempts to earn a livelihood; order to concentrate the Jews in Eleftherias Square, 11 July 1942; recommendation by an acquaintance who is an officer not to...

File Number : 6557

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Greek

Testimony of Chanan Akiva, born in Siget, Romania, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Siget Ghetto, Auschwitz, Birkenau, Buna and Bergen-Belsen

Testimony

Testimony of Chanan Akiva, born in Siget, Romania, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Siget Ghetto, Auschwitz, Birkenau, Buna and Bergen-Belsen The witness' father, Chaim Jakobovits, is a merchant and head of the Jewish community; studies in Budapest. Annexation to Hungary; return home; German occupation; deportation to the Siget Ghetto with his family; deportation to Auschwitz by train, 21 March 1944; transfer to Birkenau; transfer to Buna; camp life including labor at carpentry in Kommando 90; transfer to labor in an anti-aircraft weapons factory, September-December 1944; death march to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Leon Leib Gelberger, born in Brzesko, Poland, 1909, regarding his experiences in the Wolbrom Ghetto, Sosnowiec, Breslau Wenkirch, the Sosnowiec Ghetto and Auschwitz-Birkenau

Testimony of Leon Leib Gelberger, born in Brzesko, Poland, 1909, regarding his experiences in the Wolbrom Ghetto, Sosnowiec, Breslau Wenkirch, the Sosnowiec Ghetto and Auschwitz-Birkenau Outbreak of the war; Wolbrom Ghetto life; illegal move from the Generalgouvernement area to Sosnowiec, November 1942; presents himself to the authorities for labor; deportation to Breslau Wenkirch camp; Breslau Wenkirch camp life, including harsh forced labor paving railroad tracks, hunger, disease, and mass mortality; labor as a physician, under harsh conditions; sending of patients under treatment whose numbers are above...

File Number : 311

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Bronislawa Lesniowska, born in Tarnow, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in Plaszow camp

Testimony of Bronislawa Lesniowska, born in Tarnow, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in Plaszow camp Plaszow camp life, including forced labor in a stone quarry in a Kommando loading wheelbarrows with stones and conveying the stones, in order to pave a road; labor by Polish female inmates during the day shift, while the Jewish female inmates labor during the night shift; labor in the freezing cold every night, under the direct supervision of camp commander Amon Goeth; arthritis and pneumonia disease, and the frequent breaking of arms and legs; intervention by Chilowicz with Goeth, that lead to the...

File Number : 149

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Documents concerning a lawsuit for compensation, submitted by Jewish former forced laborers against a German construction company from Andernach, due to abduction, forced labor and mistreatment in Bratslav at Bug (Ukraine) between 08/1942-12/1943; documents dated, 1942-1950 Included in the file: Note: The last names were blacked out in all documents. 18/12/1957 Statement of claim[s] concerning a lawsuit by a Jewish former forced laborer before the Labor Court in Neuwied, the Rhine province (Germany), against a German construction company from Andernach, due to abduction, forced labor and...

File Number : 148

Type of Material : Document(s), List of Forced Laborers, Testimony, Legal Documentation

Language : German

Fragments of the diary by Marceli Stark, regarding his experience in the Warsaw ghetto and in Lublin and Budzyn forced labor camps; published in the "Wiez" magazine No.3 / March 1975 (pages 50-69)

Fragments of the diary by Marceli Stark, regarding his experience in the Warsaw ghetto and in Lublin and Budzyn forced labor camps; published in the "Wiez" magazine No.3 / March 1975 (pages 50-69) From the publication introduction: Marceli Stark, born in Lviv, was a Polish mathematician, a pre-war communist. The diary was written at the turn of the years 1945 and 1946, and the published fragments cover the period from January 1942 until the selection in the Plaszow camp in 1943. The author passed through all possible degrees of degradation and life-threatening; subsequent stages of imprisonment, forced labor...

File Number : 5650

Type of Material : Diary, Testimony

Language : Polish

Memoirs of David Shentow, regarding his experiences in Auschwitz camp and in a labor group at the rubble of the Warsaw Ghetto

Memoirs of David Shentow, regarding his experiences in Auschwitz camp and in a labor group at the rubble of the Warsaw Ghetto Transfer from Auschwitz camp, in service in a labor group at the rubble of the Warsaw Ghetto following the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; transferred in September 1943; life in the train en route without receiving any food; suffering from hunger [starvation]; he meets a Belgian Jew named Katzenelleboigen, who found a hiding place in the rubble of the former Warsaw Ghetto with other Jews; death of the Belgian Jew due to starvation, in front of the witness' eyes; lack of...

File Number : 4762

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English

Testimony of Leon Cymiel, born in 1924 in Chelm Lubelski, Poland, about his experiences in Chelm Lubelski, the Chelm camp, Sobibór, with the partisans in the Lublin area, etc.

Testimony of Leon Cymiel, born in 1924 in Chelm Lubelski, Poland, about his experiences in Chelm Lubelski, the Chelm camp, Sobibór, with the partisans in the Lublin area, etc. Establishment of an open ghetto in Chelm Lubelski; imposition of “contributions” by the authorities; execution of hostages as punishment for failure by the Judenrat to meet the deadline or for failing to raise the requisite sum; toughening of anti-Jewish policies in 1941, including the establishment of camps in and around Chelm; imposing a harsh regimen on prisoners in the camps in the Chelm area; beatings, starvation, assignment of...

File Number : 4057

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

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