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Testimony of Sara (Libovitz) Bialik, born in Plunge, Lithuania in 1922, regarding her experiences in Klaipeda, in Latvia and Samarkand

Testimony of Sara (Libovitz) Bialik, born in Plunge, Lithuania in 1922, regarding her experiences in Klaipeda, in Latvia and Samarkand Her parents are dentists; studies in Klaipeda; her father visits Eretz Israel in 1938; outbreak of the war; visit by Hitler to Klaipeda, and the annexation of Klaipeda to Germany; escape to Lithuania; German occupation, 1941; escape to Latvia on the day of the invasion; murder of Jewish students at the university; air-raids on convoys of escapees; she gets onto the last train traveling toward the east; escape to Samarkand; her father's suicide attempt; detention of her...

File Number : 13619

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of an anonymous Jewish woman from the village of Rakow, Poland regarding her experiences in the Rakow Ghetto, escapes to the Aryan side using a false identity, hiding in the forest and in a Polish village and work in Germany using a false identity Life in Rakow at the time of the occupation including anti-Jewish legislation; life in the ghetto; capture of the witness; prevention of her deportation to Skarzysko-Kamienna due to the giving a bribe; escape of the family from the ghetto; hiding of the parents by farmers they had known before the war; trips taken to Czestochowa by train by the witness,...

File Number : 297.1

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Yehudit Ben Tzvi, born in 1931 in Vienna, about her experiences as a girl in Zagreb, in hiding in Antwerp, in children's homes in Provence, in Annemasse, etc.

Testimony

Testimony of Yehudit Ben Tzvi, born in 1931 in Vienna, about her experiences as a girl in Zagreb, in hiding in Antwerp, in children's homes in Provence, in Annemasse, etc. Life before the war; attending an Austrian school; transferring to a Jewish school, escaping to Zagreb; escaping to La Chaux Fonds; escaping to Antwerp; father is arrested and deported to the south of France due to noncitizen status; escaping with family to the Spanish border; escaping back to Lapan, on the Belgian border; escaping to Antwerp; finding a hideout with mother and brother; escaping by train to Marseilles; receiving a letter...

File Number : 13406

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yona (Knobel) Amid, born in 1937 in Łódź, Poland, about escaping to Russia and Uzbekistan and immigrating to Eretz Israel illegally aboard the Exodus

Testimony

Testimony of Yona (Knobel) Amid, born in 1937 in Łódź, Poland, about escaping to Russia and Uzbekistan and immigrating to Eretz Israel illegally aboard the Exodus Father inducted into the Polish Army; sent to Białystok, Poland; escapes to Russia and Uzbekistan; hunger; diseases; witness placed in a Soviet orphanage; hospitalized; reunited with father; returns to Łódź; city is in ruins upon liberation; witness moves to an American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee camp in Germany; separated again from father, who escapes from American police (after being accused of black-market trading); escapes to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rachel Raaya (Alman) Fribman regarding her experiences in Zgurita, deportation to Transnistria and in the Bershad Ghetto

Testimony of Rachel Raaya (Alman) Fribman regarding her experiences in Zgurita, deportation to Transnistria and in the Bershad Ghetto Pogrom in Zgurita, July 1941; deportation on foot to the Dniester River; from there to Yampol; death of her father en route; murder of 6,000 Jews including relatives, in Kossautch [Cosauti ?]; mass grave; rescue from being raped; death of her mother; deportation on foot to the Bershad Ghetto, December 1941; cold; forced labor; hunger; liberation, 1944. Survival together with her sister; reunion with relatives; studies; work; aliya to Israel, 1991.

File Number : 13

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shmuel Vinitzki, born in Lomza, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in Lenina and Hancewicze

Testimony

Testimony of Shmuel Vinitzki, born in Lomza, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in Lenina and Hancewicze Religious, Zionist family. Outbreak of the war, 1939; Soviet occupation until 1941; German occupation, June 1941; escape to forests during air-raids; return from the forests; deportation to Lenina, August 1941; transfer to Hancewicze, March 1942; camp life including labor as a blacksmith; escape, April 1944; liberation by the Red Army, summer 1944. Return to Poland; reunion with his parents; displays of antisemitism; escape to Czechoslovakia; move to Germany via Austria; aliya training; aliya...

File Number : 12729

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yisrael Horovitz, born in Katowice, Poland, 1918, regarding his experiences in Stryj, the Holobutow Ghetto, Budapest and his aliya to Eretz Israel in 1943

Testimony of Yisrael Horovitz, born in Katowice, Poland, 1918, regarding his experiences in Stryj, the Holobutow Ghetto, Budapest and his aliya to Eretz Israel in 1943 Life as a POW in German captivity including activities as a translator; transfer to a prison in Stryj; life in Holobutow including murder of Jews; receives information about an "Aktion" in Stryj, 17 October 1942; establishment of a ghetto, 01 December 1942; ghetto life; murder of Jews as a punishment in retaliation that Jewish youth joined the partisans, February 1943; liquidation of the ghetto, June 1943; camp life in a glass factory;...

File Number : 60

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Georgian

Testimonies of Antoni?owski [name not fully decipherable] about the Wlodawa ghetto and the Sobibór extermination camp in 1941–1944, of Eda Richtman about deportation from Kraków to Sobibór, of Rubin Floman about various camps, of Jehuda Elberg about the Warsaw ghetto uprising, and of Pinkus about the liquidation of the amp in Poniatowa. - Testimony of Antoni?owski [name not fully decipherable], a Polish physician from Wlodawa, about the establishment of the Wlodawa ghetto in 1941, construction of the Sobibór extermination camp, and the camp's internal structure. Arrival of trains carrying Jews from Poland...

File Number : 875

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Szyfra Westreich, born in Mlodow, Poland, 1904, regarding her experiences in underground activities to help Polish Jewish refugees move to Hungary

Testimony

Testimony of Szyfra Westreich, born in Mlodow, Poland, 1904, regarding her experiences in underground activities to help Polish Jewish refugees move to Hungary Participation in underground activities including smuggling Galician Jews into Hungary via Slovakia, 1943; arranges help for Jewish refugees from Poland; contact with a relief organization for Polish refugees in Hungary; deportation of Jewish refugees to the Kadarkut camp; German occupation of Hungary, 1944; persecution of Jewish refugees; escape of the Jewish refugees to Romania.

File Number : 1955

Type of Material : Photograph, Survey, Testimony

Language : German

Testimony of Eugeniusz Redlich, born in Krakow, Poland, 1923, regarding the Sonderkommando uprising in Birkenau

Testimony of Eugeniusz Redlich, born in Krakow, Poland, 1923, regarding the Sonderkommando uprising in Birkenau Selection among the Sonderkommando inmates, October 1944; transfer of 200 inmates to Auschwitz, with the promise to transfer them to another camp; the inmates receive new clothing, after taking a shower; the inmates are then sent to the gas chambers; coordination of an uprising among the Sonderkommando inmates, mainly by Jews, before the next selection, and the preparation of weapons and ammunition; explosion of the two large crematoria, as a central aim; disarming of 14 SS men and a German Kapo of...

File Number : 375

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

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