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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 Nisim Nathan, born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 1922, regarding his experiences in Belgium, Vidin, Plovdiv and a labor camp

Testimony

Testimony of Nisim Nathan, born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 1922, regarding his experiences in Belgium, Vidin, Plovdiv and a labor camp His childhood within the Jewish community, including his education; emigration to Belgium; move back to Bulgaria, several years later; his father's service in the Bulgarian Army; activities in Beitar. Deportation to Vidin; transfer back to Plovdiv; life in Plovdiv including decree to wear a yellow badge; draft to forced labor in a labor camp; death of his brother in a labor camp; camp life including hunger and punishment; death of his mother; activities of Bulgarian Gendarmerie...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Bella (Iagodnik) Goldstein, born in Ostrow Mazowiecka, Poland, 1931, regarding her experiences in Ostrow Mazowiecka, the Soviet Union, Tashkent, Siberia and more

Testimony

Testimony of Bella (Iagodnik) Goldstein, born in Ostrow Mazowiecka, Poland, 1931, regarding her experiences in Ostrow Mazowiecka, the Soviet Union, Tashkent, Siberia and more Childhood including being orphaned of her mother. Outbreak of the war; escape to the Soviet Union, deportation to Siberia; labor of her father in logging trees; mutual help among the refugees; attends a Soviet elementary school, for about two years; transfer to the Asian Soviet Union with the approach of the German Army; arrival at Tashkent; life in Tashkent including hunger and robberies; transfer to a kolkhoz; life in a kolkhoz...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Taube (Gelber) Livescu, born in Radauti, Romania, 1937, regarding her experiences in Marculesti, Yampol and the Obodovka Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Taube (Gelber) Livescu, born in Radauti, Romania, 1937, regarding her experiences in Marculesti, Yampol and the Obodovka Ghetto Deportation from Radauti to Transnistria, October 1941; transfer on foot via Marculesti, Besserabia, and crossing the Dniester river from Yampol; hardships en route for approximately one month; arrival in Obodovka; life in the Obodovka Ghetto including typhus, her father's work and the survival of the family, from 1941; liberation by the Red Army, April 1944. Her family's return to Romania, to Cernauti and Siret, 1944; return home to Radauti, 1944; rehabilitation of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Hana Anya (Kaliger) Mekel, born in Luck, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences as a young child in Dubno, Ural, Andizhan, Szczucin and more

Testimony

Testimony of Hana Anya (Kaliger) Mekel, born in Luck, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences as a child in Dubno, Ural, Andizhan, Szczucin and more Life before the war; activities of her father in the Bund organization; move to Dubno with her family, 1936. Soviet occupation, 1939; assistance to Polish refugees; the Red Army flees, June 1941; escape with a convoy of Red Army tanks; escape on refugee trains in the Soviet Union; volunteering to labor laying train tracks in Ural; camp life; escape on foot; life in Uzbekhistan in a kolkhoz; life in Andizhan; hunger; receiving information regarding Poland from...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avram Langbaum, born in Zamosc, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in Zamosc, Lwow, camps in the Soviet Union and his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1942

Testimony

Testimony of Avram Langbaum, born in Zamosc, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in Zamosc, Lwow, camps in the Soviet Union and his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1942 Life before the war; well-to-do family; displays of antisemitism; numerus clausus; harassment of Jewish businesses by Endeks; receives knowledge regarding the murder of Jews and regarding Kristallnacht. German occupation, 15 September 1939; capture of Jewish and Polish hostages; murder of the hostages; Soviet occupation; German occupation; escape of Communists to the Soviet Union; escape to Lwow with his brothers; life in Lwow including...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avraham Balag Bodenstein, born in Narol, Poland, 1928, regarding his experiences in Narol, in hiding in villages in Poland and in the Orel area and Tashkent

Testimony

Testimony of Avraham Balag Bodenstein, born in Narol, Poland, 1928, regarding his experiences in Narol, in hiding in villages in Poland and in the Orel area and Tashkent Life before the war; witness learns in a "heder" and attends school; his sister makes aliya to Eretz Israel, 1935. German occupation; confiscation of food by Gestapo people with help from a rabbi; murder of Jews; escape and finds a hiding place in Polish villages; burning of Narol and desecration of synagogues; burning of a family member; Soviet occupation; escape on foot in the direction of the Bug River; escape on trains with other Jews...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Malka (Shvartz) Gruzman, born in Briceni, Romania, 1927, regarding her experiences in Mogilev-Podolskiy and the Bershad Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Malka (Shvartz) Gruzman, born in Briceni, Romania, 1927, regarding her experiences in Mogilev-Podolskiy and the Bershad Ghetto Life before the war; the family own a grocery store; attends a Romanian school; activities in Hashomer Hatzair. Outbreak of the war, 1939; Soviet occupation; life under Soviet occupation including pogroms and confiscation of their grocery store; German occupation, 1941; murder of her father; deportation to Mogilev-Podolskiy; deportation to Bershad Ghetto; ghetto life including the death of her mother from typhus and living off the labor of her sister sewing;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation belonging to Yosif Jack Assa, born in Burgas, Bulgaria, 1923, relating to the World War II period

Documentation belonging to Yosif Jack Assa, born in Burgas, Bulgaria, 1923, relating to the World War II period Photocopies of documents belonging to Yosif Jack Assa relating to the time of the persecution of the Jews in Bulgaria, including an identity card, declaration, autobiography from 2001, birth certificate and medical opinion regarding his physical condition.

File Number : 61

Type of Material : Document, Identity Card, Personal Documents, List of Names, Official Documentation, List of Deportees

Language : Bulgarian

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