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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Dina (Zipper) Eitan, born in Lwow, Poland, 1939; regarding her experiences as a baby with a Polish family in Lwow and as part of Lena Kichler children's group after the war

Testimony

Testimony of Dina (Zipper) Eitan, born in Lwow, Poland, 1939; regarding her experiences as a baby with a Polish family in Lwow and as part of Lena Kichler children's group after the war Life before the war; Outbreak of the war, September 1939; being entrusted by her parents to a Polish family, 1941; life with the Polish family; end of the war, spring 1945; Transfer by a Jewish woman to the Jewish Committee Home in Krakow; being placed with Lena Kichler children's group; move to Rabka together with the children's group; life there including antisemitic attacks; escape with the children to Zakopane;...

File Number : 13288

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sara Sonia (Chait) Weinstein, born in Stepan, Poland, 1935, regarding her experiences in the Stepan Ghetto, Berezne Ghetto, Malynsk and a forest

Testimony

Testimony of Sara Sonia (Chait) Weinstein, born in Stepan, Poland, 1935, regarding her experiences in the Stepan Ghetto, Berezne Ghetto, Malynsk and a forest Life before the war. German occupation, September 1939; deportation to the Stepan Ghetto; escape to her family's home in Malynsk; deportation to the Berezne Ghetto; Berezne Ghetto life until 1943; smuggled from the ghetto with her family to the home of a non-Jewish friend, by her friend's son, who worked in the ghetto; life in hiding while hidden in the home of the friend, for approximately one month; discovered by the neighbors; burning of the house...

File Number : 13054

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Miriam (Brem) Erlich, born in Kalisz, Poland, 1935, regarding her experiences as a small child in the Wlodowa Ghetto, a labor camp, using a false identity while living with a non-Jewish family, a monastery in Krakow and other places Outbreak of the war, 1939; deportation to Wlodowa; absorption of refugees by local Jews; deportation to the Wlodowa Ghetto, 1941; "Aktions", 1942; deportation to a labor camp; camp life including her parents' labor logging trees in a forest; murder of her father; escape; hidden by the camp commander; her mother's labor in the kitchen; labor in the vegetable garden;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

O.36 - David Boder Collection: Testimonies of survivors in DP camps in Germany

O.36 - David Boder Collection: Testimonies of survivors in DP camps in Germany This record group is a collection of testimonies recorded by David Boder, a Professor of Psychology at the Illinois Institute of Technology, in DP camps in Europe in 1946. The collection is comprised of testimonies of Jews and non-Jews, recorded in various languages and translated into English. The testimonies focus on the events in the lives of the survivors during the war in the ghettos and camps, while serving in the military, in hiding and in children's homes. The testimonies also contain information regarding the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Julian (Goldman) Gilead, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1930, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, on the Aryan side of Warsaw and Auschwitz

Testimony

Testimony of Julian (Goldman) Gilead, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1930, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, on the Aryan side of Warsaw and Auschwitz From a middle-class, assimilated family; an educated family; displays of antisemitism; studies in a Jewish-Polish school; the German invasion into Poland, 01 September 1939; Germans reside in their apartment; escape to an uncle in Krzemieniec; his mother is arrested at the border; escape to Vilna; his father returns to the Warsaw Ghetto, 1941; his mother, sister and relatives return to the ghetto; ghetto life; earning a livelihood; learns in the...

File Number : 11748

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zvi Filchenik, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1935, regarding his experiences as a child in Warsaw, the Warsaw Ghetto and an orphanage in Zakopane

Testimony

Testimony of Zvi Filchenik, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1935, regarding his experiences as a child in Warsaw, the Warsaw Ghetto and an orphanage in Zakopane His childhood in Warsaw. Outbreak of the war, 1939; escape of his parents to the Soviet Union; witness is fostered by the owner of a suitcase factory; disappearance of the witness' brother; life in the Warsaw Ghetto; hunger; "Aktions"; Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, April 1943; in hiding in a bunker with another 400 Jews; rumors concerning cannibalism; escape to the Aryan side via the sewers during the liquidation of the ghetto; hidden by a Polish couple...

File Number : 8912

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of David Jakubowicz (b. 1935 in Kraków) about his history in Kraków, Tarnów, Košice, Budapest, Vác, Krupina, Nováky, Nitra, Sered, Terezín, etc.

Testimony of David Jakubowicz (b. 1935 in Kraków) about his history in Kraków, Tarnów, Košice, Budapest, Vác, Krupina, Nováky, Nitra, Sered, Terezín, etc. History of the family in Kraków: father religious, mother not; uncles make 'aliya in the 1920s; father refuses; war breaks out in September 1939; father flees with younger sister and both return; moving to father's family in Tarnów in 1940; Germans capture and murder two family members arriving from the USSR; Aktion; mother and sister leave for Kraków; mother visits; mother smuggles the witness out of the ghetto; going into hiding; entering the Kraków...

File Number : 14383

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Michael Meitek Werner, born in Lwow, Poland in 1937, regarding his experiences in the Lwow Ghetto, in hiding in Warsaw, in the south of Poland, and in Switzerland

Testimony of Michael Meitek Werner, born in Lwow, Poland in 1937, regarding his experiences in the Lwow Ghetto, in hiding in Warsaw, in the south of Poland, and in Switzerland His parents are merchants; his father is a soccer referee; contacts with Poles; German occupation; Lwow Ghetto life; his mother escapes to Warsaw with the family's children; help from the Polish underground; his mother's activities in the underground; his mother's absence; detention of his aunt in the Pawiak prison; escape to Malinowka; his baby sister is entrusted to a non-Jewish family; help from the town's priest in the hiding of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zahava Stefina (Morgenshtern) Ikar, born in Krakow, Poland in 1937, regarding her rescue in a Polish village and a lost identity

Testimony of Zahava Stefina (Morgenshtern) Ikar, born in Krakow, Poland in 1937, regarding her rescue in a Polish village and a lost identity Family background; religious family; German occupation; her family entrusts her to a Christian family in a village, where she lived during 1942-1945; lack of information regarding her family roots; work as a shepherdess; manhunts by Poles; she is hidden in a barn; liberation by the Russians; Injured by a hand-grenade; hospitalization; transfer to the Jewish Committee in Krakow; move to a group of orphans in Zakopane supervised by Lena Kichler; aliya to Israel,...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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