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Testimony of Silvia Sala (Barend) Yisraeli, born in Tarnow, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Tarnow Ghetto, Plaszow, Auschwitz, Ravensbrueck and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Silvia Sala (Barend) Yisraeli, born in Tarnow, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Tarnow Ghetto, Plaszow, Auschwitz, Ravensbrueck and other places Life before the war; well-to-do traditional family. German occupation, September 1939; restrictions on the Jews, confiscation of property and yellow badge; "Aktion" at the square; separation from her mother and brother, September 1942; deportation to the Tarnow Ghetto, October 1942; ghetto life; labor sewing uniforms in the factory for Julius Madritsch , later recognized as Righteous Among the Nations; liquidation of the ghetto;...

File Number : 13042

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Menachem Kolton, born in Lodz, Poland, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Mauthausen, Gusen I and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Menachem Kolton, born in Lodz, Poland, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Mauthausen, Gusen I and other places Life before the war. German occupation; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto, 1940; labor in a workshop and cleaning the sewers; his brother's activities in the Gordonia movement; deportation with his family to Auschwitz, 1944; murder of his mother and younger brother; disappearance of his father and older brother; transfer to Mauthausen; transfer on foot to Gusen I; camp life including labor digging tunnels for the German Messerschmidt factory; injured by a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Material regarding the situation of the German Jews, 1933-1945, and from immediately after the war, as well as postwar correspondence, reports and memoirs, 1956-1960

Material regarding the situation of the German Jews, 1933-1945, and from immediately after the war, as well as postwar correspondence, reports and memoirs, 1956-1960 Material regarding the situation of the German Jews, 1933-1945, and from immediately after the war, as well as postwar correspondence between Jewish organizations, 1956-1960, reports submitted by historical commissions and memoirs of contemporary witnesses. In the file: - Report concerning the deportation of Jews from Hamburg to Riga, 06 December 1941, among the deportees: Rabbi Dr. Joseph Zwi Carlebach, the former rabbi of the Jewish...

File Number : 334

Type of Material : Memoirs, Letter(s), Correspondence, Telegram, Testimony, Newspaper Clippings, Postcard, Reports

Language : Hebrew, English, German

Documentation of Julius Madritsch (recognized as a Righteous Gentile) regarding the employment of Jews in his factories, 1942-1944

Documentation of Julius Madritsch (recognized as a Righteous Gentile) regarding the employment of Jews in his factories, 1942-1944 - Help extended by Julius Madritsch to Jews in Poland by employing them in his factories including Jews who are not qualified for labor; help extended by Madritsch to help them survive the "Aktions" and to escape across the border; - Correspondence of the Madritsch business with other businesses in Krakow, with the SS and with the Reichsministers für Bewaffnung und Munition (Reich Ministry for armaments and munitions) regarding the utilization of Jewish labor in labor camps...

File Number : 59

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Testimony of Miriam (Goldberg) Novogrod, born in Tarnow, Poland, 1921, regarding her experiences in the Tarnow Ghetto, Plaszow, various camps and a death march

Testimony

Testimony of Miriam (Goldberg) Novogrod, born in Tarnow, Poland, 1921, regarding her experiences in the Tarnow Ghetto, Plaszow, various camps and a death march Her childhood. German occupation, 08 September 1939; decrees, humiliation of rabbis and religious leaders; deportation to the Tarnow Ghetto, June 1942; labor in the Schlesinger workshop; receives "A" card because of labor sewing for the wives of SS officers; murders; a mother who refused to hand over her baby; liquidation of the Tarnow Jews; Judenrat and Jewish police; deportation to Plaszow with the Schlesinger workshop, 1943; camp life; labor in...

File Number : 10878

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rena (Pachanover) Mildner, born in Krakow, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Krakow Ghetto, Plaszow labor camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ravensbruek and Malhot camps and death march

Testimony

Testimony of Rena (Pachanover) Mildner, born in Krakow, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Krakow Ghetto, Plaszow labor camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ravensbruek and Malhot camps and a death march Her family; childhood; attends a Polish school. Entry of the Germans; sanctions, restrictions and termination of studies; deportation to ghetto; sealing the ghetto; organization in the ghetto: school and library; life with mother and selling valuables in order to exist; labor in knitting factory; deportations and rumors about the killing of Jews; liquidation of ghetto, March 1943; transfer to Plaszow labor camp;...

File Number : 10830

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rosa (Szlezynger) Weit, born in Dabrowa Tarnowska, Poland, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Tarnow Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Chrastava

Testimony

Testimony of Rosa (Szlezynger) Weit, born in Dabrowa Tarnowska, Poland, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Tarnow Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Chrastava Life before the war. German occupation, 1939; deportation to the Tarnow ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; transfer to Chrastava; liberation.

File Number : 2176

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Documentation regarding Julius Madritsch, recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations, including his report concerning "People in Dire Straits"

Documentation regarding Julius Madritsch, recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations, including his report concerning "People in Dire Straits" In the file: - Introduction prepared by Dr. Kurt Ball-Kaduri regarding the material concerning Julius Madritsch, recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations (pp. 2-3), May 1957; - Letter from Oskar Schindler addressed to Dr. Ball-Kaduri in which Schindler raises heavy criticism of Julius Madritsch, claiming that Madritsch did not supported him at all in his attempt to rescue 800 Jewish inmates (pp. 4-5), 21 October 1956; - Letter from Yad Vashem to Julius...

File Number : 165

Type of Material : Testimony, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, German

Documentation regarding the Plaszow camp written in Stockholm, May-August 1945, by Plaszow survivor, the engineer, Jakub Stendig; protocol of his testimony given before the Central Commission for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes in Poland, 23 October 1945 - Description of the Plaszow camp written by Plaszow survivor, Jakub Stendig, in Stockholm, May-August 1945, and dedicated to the memory of his wife, Felicja who perished in Bergen-Belsen, 1945; - Additional descriptions related to the various facilities, as well as events and aspects of the lives of the inmates in Plaszow, such as fumigation (the bath...

File Number : 9065

Type of Material : Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Testimony, Survey Report, Diagram, Poems/songs, Memoirs

Language : Polish, German

Poems by Holocaust survivor Rina Wohlfeiler, later Birnhack, written during her imprisonment in Amsterdam, 1945

- Poems written by Rina (Wohlfeiler) Birnhack during her family's imprisonment in Amsterdam. (They were arrested by Dutch police after being liberated from the Brünnlitz camp, while en route to DP camps. More details appear in her testimony - Record Group O.93, File No. 49926.) The poems mention her experiences during the Holocaust (time spent in the ghetto and in the Płaszów camp). Comments by the submitter of the material (Rina Birnhack): The submitter of the material Rina (Wohlfeiler) Birnhack was born to an established family in Krakow, Poland in 1927. Her father worked as an importer of Suchard...

File Number : 318

Type of Material : Poems/songs

Language : Polish

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