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Testimony of Shalom Jakubovitz, born in Sighetul Marmatiei, Romania, 1926, regarding his experiences in Sighetul Marmatiei, Auschwitz-Birkenau; Buna-Monowitz and Buchenwald

Testimony of Shalom Jakubowitz, born in Sighetul Marmatiei, Romania, 1926, regarding his experiences in Sighetul Marmatiei, Auschwitz-Birkenau; Buna-Monowitz and Buchenwald Life before the war in Sighetul Marmatiei; Outbreak of the war, 1939; increasing displays of antisemitism; draft of Jews to labor battalions; deportation to Auschwitz, 1944; forced labor; transfer to Buna-Monowitz; forced death march of the inmates, 18 January 1945; travel on a train for eight days including mortality and eating snow; arrival in Buchenwald; life in the children's block in Buchenwald; liberation; Aliya to Eretz...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Matvey Lichterman, born in Shumyachi, Soviet Union, 1921, regarding his experiences in the Red Army, in a POW camp in Uman and Vinnitsa

Testimony of Matvey Lichterman, born in Shumyachi, Soviet Union, 1921, regarding his experiences in the Red Army, a POW camp in Uman and Vinnitsa Participation in a Red Army military operation as a paratrooper; death of many soldiers and his capture by the German Army; transfer to Uman; life in a POW camp; hiding his Jewish identity; life using the false identity of Mikhail Garin; murder of many POWs; transfer to forced labor outside the camp; receiving food from the local population; survival due to the food; draft of Ukrainians as forced laborers for the German Army and the camp police; propaganda campaign...

File Number : 8509

Type of Material : Interview(s)

Language : Russian

Testimony of Ben Barnea, born in Dorohoi, Romania, 1934, regarding his experiences in Dorohoi, Transnistria, the Mogilev Ghetto and the Tropova Ghetto

Testimony of Ben Barnea, born in Dorohoi, Romania, 1934, regarding his experiences in Dorohoi, Transnistria, the Mogilev Ghetto and the Tropova Ghetto His childhood with his family; persecution of Jews, 1941-1944. Deportation to Transnistria; death march; life in Transnistria; Mogilev Ghetto life; Tropova Ghetto life. Zionist activities in the context of Hashomer Hatzair; aliya to Israel, 1948.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation of Moisey Grinberg, Chairman of the Judenrat in the Obodovka Ghetto, charged with collaboration with the German-Romanian occupation authorities and persecution of the Jews in the Obodovka Ghetto, 1941-1943 Investigation file of the NKGB Counter-Espionage Department, National Commission of Internal Affairs of Moldavia, against Moisey Grinberg, Chairman of the Judenrat in the Obodovka Ghetto, conducted in Kishinev, 18/01/1945-31/08/1945: - Decision to open up an investigation file against Moisey Grinberg, handed down in Kishinev, 09/04/1945; - Arrest warrant against Moisey Grinberg, issued...

File Number : 47

Type of Material : Indictment, Sentence, Investigation Reports, Record of Survivors, Legal Documentation, Detention Order, List of Witnesses

Language : Russian

Testimony of Zeev Zawadzki, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1934, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, escape from the ghetto with the help of Irena Sandler (later recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations) and using a false identity Life before the war. Outbreak of the war; draft of his father into the Polish Army; disappearance of his father in the Soviet Union; deportation to the small ghetto; ghetto life; assistance to Jewish refugees from Berlin; "Aktions"; remaining of corpses on the streets; finding a hiding place during the "Aktions"; lack of food; transfer to the large ghetto; escape from...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shalom Weiss, born in Békéscsaba, Hungary, 1929, regarding his experiences in Békéscsaba, Ópályi, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Trzebinia and Bergen-Belsen

Testimony of Shalom Weiss, born in Békéscsaba, Hungary, 1929, regarding his experiences in Békéscsaba, Ópályi, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Trzebinia and Bergen-Belsen Childhood in Békéscsaba; religious family; studies in a 'room'; studies at a yeshiva in Ópályi for a year, 1943; the Law on the enlistment of Jews for forced labor; enlistment of his father and eldest brother into labor troops, father from 1942, and brother in 1944; arrival of many Jewish refugees in the town. German occupation, March 1944; stigma; arrest and deportation by train to Auschwitz-Birkenau; tattoo number on the hand; entrance to a gypsy...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Translation from Dutch to Hebrew, of a letter sent by Abraham Sarlouis from Amsterdam to Yaakov Yanai in Eretz Israel, who was a friend from the sick barracks in Bergen-Belsen camp, regarding his experiences during the last months before the liberation; letter dated, 04 October 1945 Abraham Sarlouis was the son of the Chief Rabbi of Amsterdam; he met Yaakov (Jupp) Yanai in the sick barracks in Bergen-Belsen camp; separation from Yanai in July 1944, due to the exchange of Yanai and his family with German Templers who were in Eretz Israel; transfer of Yanai to Eretz Israel; morbidity in Bergen-Belsen camp,...

File Number : 655

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Fela (Fiszel) Weisenberg, born in Bedzin, Poland, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Parschnitz camps, in a labor camp (Dulag) in Sosnowiec, on the death march to Bergen Belsen and liberation Deportation to Parschnitz labor camp in the Sudeten mountains after the German occupation; prolonged illness and release, return to Sosnowiec; living with her sister until selection; placement in a group of the sick and the elderly; escape to another group of women who were sent to Parschnitz camp; treatment of female prisoners in the camp by the commandants; liquidation of the camp and forced march in...

File Number : 5723

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Group testimony of Jonas Beer, born in Jaworow, Poland, 1911, and of Wlodzimierz Hochberg, born in Ozomla, Poland, 1907, regarding the experiences of the Jews of Jaworow after the German occupation

Group testimony of Jonas Beer, born in Jaworow, Poland, 1911, and of Wlodzimierz Hochberg, born in Ozomla, Poland, 1907, regarding the experiences of the Jews of Jaworow after the German occupation Order of the Germans to establish a Judenrat for continuous supply of Jewish laborers according to demand and carrying out of any other orders, immediately after the occupation of Jaworow, 05 June 1941; success of a few in crossing the border to the Soviet side; taking of Jews for forced labor without pay or food; order for an immediate clearing of the Jewish cemetery of all tomb stones and leveling of the area by...

File Number : 514

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

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