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Testimony of Chaja (Patoka) Belczynski, born in Sarny, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences in Sarny, Kiev, Stalingrad and in the Red Army

Testimony

Testimony of Chaja (Patoka) Belczynski, born in Sarny, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences in Sarny, Kiev, Stalingrad and in the Red Army Life before the war; traditional family. Outbreak of the war, September 1939; life under Soviet occupation; German occupation, June 1941; escape to Kiev, June 1941; escape to Veresnya; life in Veresnya including work in agriculture; escape to Stalingrad; escape to a kolkhoz; escape to Stalingrad; escape to Baratovka; life in Baratovka including work in a sawmill; escape to Stalingrad; arrival of the German Army to Stalingrad; escape in the direction of the east,...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zvia Zeshe (Ioskovitz) Lishe, born in Zawiercie, Poland, 1927, regarding her experiences in Chorzow, the Zawiercie Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Ravensbrueck

Testimony

Testimony of Zvia Zeshe (Ioskovitz) Lishe, born in Zawiercie, Poland, 1927, regarding her experiences in Chorzow, the Zawiercie Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Ravensbrueck Life before the war; move to Chorzow with her family; life in Chorzow. Outbreak of the war; escape to Zawiercie; life in Zawiercie including confiscation of property by the Germans; deportation to forced labor; deportation to the Zawiercie Ghetto; ghetto life including Judenrat and Jewish police activities; plucking of Jewish men's beards; murder of Jews; armband and yellow badge; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; camp life including...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shoshana Junger, born in Vijnita, Romania, 1932, regarding her experiences as a child in Atachi, Mogilev and Shargorod

Testimony

Testimony of Shoshana Junger, born in Vijnita, Romania, 1932, regarding her experiences as a child in Atachi, Mogilev and Shargorod From a religious family; Beit Yaakov activities. Soviet occupation; life during the Soviet occupation; move to Atachi, October 1941; life in Atachi; move to Mogilev; life in Mogilev; murder of her grandmother; move to Shargorod; life in Shargorod; her sister's death; move to a village; arrest by gendarmes; forced labor in tobacco; liberation. Move to Cernauti; her mother's death; move to Bucharest; membership in Bnei Akiva; unsuccessful aliya attempt; detention in...

File Number : 12377

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sara (Roth) Rath, born in Roskovany, Romania, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Inter Visheve Ghetto, Birkenau and Wustegiersdorf

Testimony

Testimony of Sara (Roth) Rath, born in Roskovany, Romania, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Inter Visheve Ghetto, Birkenau and Wustegiersdorf From a religious family with many children; her father is a Visheve hasid and a community leader in Inter Visheve. Outbreak of the war; German occupation; initial decrees including ban on ritual slaughter and the obligation to attend school on Shabbat, March 1943; concentration of the Jews in the synagogue, March 1944; deportation to the Visheve Ghetto, March 1944; deportation to Auschwitz; transfer to Birkenau; camp life including the murder of her family;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shlomo Tzwaifeler, born in Buczacz, Poland, 1931, regarding his experiences in Kopyczyńce and using a false identity with a non-Jewish family in the area

Testimony

Testimony of Shlomo Tzwaifeler, born in Buczacz, Poland, 1931, regarding his experiences in Kopyczyńce and using a false identity with a non-Jewish family in the area Life before the war; community life; attends school and a "heder"; relations with the local population. Annexation to the Soviet Union; life under Soviet occupation; German occupation; murder of his father; deportation of the family to Kopyczyńce; camp life; escape to a forest; hidden by a non-Jewish family; assumes a false identity; work in agriculture; leaves the family; return to Buczacz; liberation. Move to Poland; return to Judaism;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of David Ladislav Sporer, born in Subotica, 1919, regarding his experiences in Novi Sad, Budapest and joining the partisans

Testimony

Testimony of David Ladislav Sporer, born in Subotica, 1919, regarding his experiences in Novi Sad, Budapest and joining the partisans Testimony about his immediate family; his parents' livelihood; home lifestyle; Shabbat and religious holidays; attends school; the Jewish community; youth movement activities; Jewish studies. Entry of the Hungarians into the area; attitude of the Hungarians to the Jews; murder of Jews in the river; massacre of Novi Sad's Jews; move to Budapest; his brother falls captive; drafted to labor battalions; his father is taken hostage; public hanging of Jews in the city center;...

File Number : 11990

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Correspondence arranged in alphabetical order (mem, in Hebrew) regarding the publication of articles in "Die Zukunft", New York and "Davar", Tel Aviv

Correspondence arranged in alphabetical order (mem, in Hebrew) regarding the publication of articles in "Die Zukunft", New York and "Davar", Tel Aviv The file includes: - correspondence with Foreign Minister Golda Meir regarding help from Israel's ambassadors to Israeli authors overseas, 1964.

File Number : 24

Type of Material : Letter, Newspaper Clippings

Testimony of Lea (Sufman) Nayer, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1915, regarding her experiences in Warsaw, a partisan unit, the Red Army and with the Jewish brigade

Testimony

Testimony of Lea (Sufman) Nayer, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1915, regarding her experiences in Warsaw, a partisan unit, the Red Army and with the Jewish brigade Her childhood in Warsaw; religious family; father is a teacher in a Talmud Torah; witness helps to earn a livelihood for the family and raise 15 siblings, instead of attending school; atmosphere at home; modesty and joy of life; religious education. Escape to the Soviet Union, at her father's request; travel with other refugees to Belorussia; helps to establish a partisan unit in forests in the Vitebsk area; organization of the unit and its division...

File Number : 10873

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Yaakov Levavi, born in Kaliny, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding his experiences in Kaliny, the Stanislawow Ghetto, as a refugee in Szeged, and in Magdeburg, Buchenwald and Berga Elster camps Deportation to the Stanislawow Ghetto, July 1941; escape to Szeged, 1942; deportation to Auschwitz, 1944; transfer to Buchenwald and Magdeburg camps, November 1944; transfer to Berga Elster camp; camp life; escape, March 1945; in hiding in villages; liberation. Move to Prague; stay in an UNRRA DP camp; illegal aliya attempt to Eretz Israel and detention in Cyprus, 1947; aliya to Israel.

File Number : 9938

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ita (Rechtman) Gershon, born in Kutno, Poland, 1918, regarding her experiences in Kutno, Warsaw and Vilna

Testimony

Testimony of Ita (Rechtman) Gershon, born in Kutno, Poland, 1918, regarding her experiences in Kutno, Warsaw and Vilna Life before the war; activities in Zionist youth movements; aliya training in Grodno, 1937; move to Gdynia, late 1938; establishment of a school for fishermen by the Hechalutz, Gordonia and Hashomer Hatzair movements. Outbreak of the war; return to Kutno; escape to Warsaw; escape to Vilna with Hechalutz people; aliya to Eretz Israel via the Soviet Union, 1941; report to Golda Meyerson (later Golda Meir) about what is happening in Poland; life in Kibbutz Eilon.

File Number : 9473

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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