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Testimony of Hela (Feltz) Reznik, born in Bedzin, Poland, 1925 regarding her experiences in the Parschnitz labor camp, Czechoslovakia

Prewar childhood; antisemitism; plans for aliya to Eretz Israel; outbreak of the war; German occupation; burning of houses; deportation to the Parschnitz labor camp, Czechoslovakia; camp life, 1941-1945; hunger; longing; murder of her family; liberation by the Red Army; Rebuilding life after the war; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1948.

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Testimony of Nancy Vera Rachel Arbel, born in Baktaloranthaza, Hungary, in 1826 regarding deportation to the Auschwitz Birkenau , Plaszow and Reichenbach camps

Childhood before the war; coexistence; outbreak of the war; restrictions on Jews; German occupation in March 1944; deportation to ghetto; mutual help; robbery of property; fictitious marriage for the purpose of rescue; deportation to Auschwitz Birkenau; transfer to Plaszow; transfer to a protected camp; improvement in food and living conditions; transfer back to Auschwitz Birkenau; transfer to Germany for agricultural works and for working in a factory manufacturing planes; liberation by the Russians; rehabilitation of life after the war; aliya to Israel in 1949

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Testimony of Katarina (Reisner) Klein, born in Salonta, Romania, 1928 regarding the Oradea ghetto, deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau and additional camps

Her parents' home; membership in the "Dror Habonim" movement; Entry of the Hungarian Army, 1941; economic decrees; her father taken for forced labor; cessation of studies; antisemitism; prohibition on keeping a Christian maid; entrusting valuables for safekeeping with a neighbor; German Army occupation, March 1944; yellow badge; restrictions on movement; cessation of activity in the movement [Dror Habonim]; eviction from her home; gathering in a synagogue; deportation to the Oradea ghetto; deportation by train to Auschwitz-Birkenau; selection; entry to Barrack 16, Lager C, May 1944; transfer by truck to...

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Memoirs of Roza (Segal) Romascanu, born in Lespezi, Romania, 1929, regarding her experiences and those of her family in Lespezi, Pascani, Falticeni, Botosani and Communist Romania

Memoirs of Roza (Segal) Romascanu, born in Lespezi, Romania, 1929, regarding her experiences and those of her family in Lespezi, Pascani, Falticeni, Botosani and Communist Romania Life at home; the Jewish community in Lespezi before the war; displays of antisemitism among the neighbors. Outbreak of the war; deportation of the Jewish men to an unknown place, among them, Roza's father, Shmuel Segal; deportation of Roza with her mother Rachel, her sisters, Mitza and Sophie along with the rest of the Jews from the village, to Pascani; transfer of the family to Falticeni two months later; release of her...

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Shneider Yaakov Shmuel, born in Kosino, Czechoslovakia, 1932, regarding his experiences in the Berehovo ghetto and in the Auschwitz-Birkenau, Plaszow, Gross Rosen, Goerlitz and Zittau camps

Schneider Shmuel Jacob, born in Kosino, Czechoslovakia, 1932, regarduing the Berehovo ghetto and deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Plaszow, Gross Rosen, Goerlitz and Zittau camps Family background; childhood in a religious family; his father is a hero of the World War I. Entry of the Hungarians; entry of the Germans, March 1944; deportation to the Berehovo ghetto; stay in a brick factory for several weeks; transfer to Auschwitz II-Birkenau; selection at the entrance to the camp; rescue by an anonymous inmate from the camp to the gas chambers and transfer to the camp; finding his father and relatives;...

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Testimony of Chaim Stern, born in Dornesti, Romania in 1934, regarding his experiences in Transnistria, Bershad Ghetto, and the children’s home in Apeldoorn, The Netherlands.

Testimony of Chaim Stern, born in Dornesti, Romania in 1934, regarding his experiences in Transnistria, Bershad Ghetto, and the children’s home in Apeldoorn, The Netherlands. His nuclear family; revolt of members of Iron Guard in January 1941; transfer to Radauti; antisemitic acts; religious life; expulsion by train to Transnistria; transit point in Atachi; confiscation of valuables by Romanian gendarmes; river crossing by raft; drownings; march to Bershad; typhus; types of labor performed by his mother; deaths of many people from cold, hunger, and disease; activity of the partisans; entry of the Russians in...

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Testimony of Sukhar Stolerman, born in Lipcani, Bessarabia, Romania in 1930, regarding his experiences during the expulsion to Zhmerynka in Transnistria

Testimony of Sukhar Stolerman, born in Lipcani, Bessarabia, Romania in 1930, regarding his experiences during the expulsion to Zhmerynka in Transnistria Childhood before the war; antisemitism; Jewish refugees from Poland in 1939; Russian occupation in 1940; change in their lifestyle; Russo–German war in June 1941; entry of Romanians and Germans; expulsion to Briceni; march to Atachi; continuation of march via Mogilev to Zhmerynka; life in the ghetto; the Jewish Committee; various types of labor; murder and abuse; partisans; liberation by Red Army in March 1944; return to Lipcani; rebuilding life after the...

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Testimony of Ruth (Zant) Helfman, born in Moldovita, Romania in 1930, regarding her experiences in Gura Humorului, Mogilev Podolskiy and Promesanita

Testimony of Ruth (Zant) Helfman, born in Moldovita, Romania in 1930, regarding her experiences in Gura Humorului, Mogilev Podolskiy and Promesanita Life before the war; move to Gura Humorului, 1937; Deportation to the Transnistria area, autumn 1941; transfer to Mogilev Podolskiy on a march via Atachi; transfer on a march in the direction of Promesanita; shooting of the weak people; entrance into Promesanita; life in Promesanita in a pigsty; hunger; typhus disease; mass mortality; imposition of travel restrictions; liberation by the Red Army, 1944; Return to Romania; attempt to make illegal aliya to...

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Testimony of Sara Aharoni née Iudovitz, born in 1928 in Chust, Czechoslovakia, about her experiences in the Chust ghetto, Auschwitz, and Theresienstadt during the war

Life before the war; offspring of a religious family; Shabbat and festivals; attends a Jewish school; Jewish community life; activity of synagogues and Zionist youth movements; witness joins the Bnei Akiva movement; Hungary re-annexes the area in 1939; men inducted into the labor service; witness deported to the Chust ghetto; life in the ghetto; cultural and religious life; Hungarian gendarmes guard the ghetto; confiscation of valuables; witness wears the yellow star; deported to Auschwitz; selection in the camp and separation of family members; sister sent to Bergen-Belsen and dies from typhus there; roll...

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