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Testimony of Hadasa Hinda (Tzudzinovski) Gerstner, born in Sosnowiec, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in Langenbielau camp, a ghetto and additional camps

Testimony

Testimony of Hadasa Hinda (Tzudzinovski) Gerstner, born in Sosnowiec, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in Langenbielau camp, a ghetto and additional camps The immediate family; her parents livelihood; life at home including Shabbat, religious holidays and Pesach; education; Jewish schools and synagogues in the community; youth movements and activities in Hanoar Hatzioni. German occupation, September 1939; escape of the family to Drohobycz; return home; hunger; decrees; draft of her father to forced labor; death of her father from a disease; desecration of the Great Synagogue and burning of the...

File Number : 13322

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zigmund Goldberg, born in Brzezinka, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in Brzezinka, Lwow, Auschwitz, Annaberg and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Zigmund Goldberg, born in Brzezinka, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in Brzezinka, Lwow, Auschwitz, Annaberg and other places Life before the war. German occupation; escape to Lwow; life in Lwow; search on his body for money and valuables, with the help of a bayonet; murder attempt by Germans, in a pit near Rozwadow; escape; life in Brzezinka including deportation to forced labor by the Judenrat; labor in the construction and renovation of Auschwitz camp, 1940; replaced in his labor by members of the intelligentsia and priests, June 1940; transfer to Annaberg with young people, 1940;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Pink Pinchas Rozenberg, born in Sosnowiec, Poland, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Sosnowiec Ghetto, Bunzlau, Goerlitz, Bergen-Belsen and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Pink Pinchas Rozenberg, born in Sosnowiec, Poland, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Sosnowiec Ghetto, Bunzlau, Goerlitz, Bergen-Belsen and other places Life before the war; Jewish community; neighborly relations; witness' sister's activities in Hanoar Hatzioni; displays of antisemitism. German occupation, September 1939; anti-Jewish decrees; deportation to forced labor; distribution of labor certificates and food ration cards; labor providing equipment to the German Army; confiscation of property; deportation to the Sosnowiec Ghetto; witness' relative hides in a barrel; Judenrat and...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of David Mandelbaum, born in Sosnowiec, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Auschwitz, Johannsdorf O.S., Brande, Dyhernfurth and other camps

Testimony

Testimony of David Mandelbaum, born in Sosnowiec, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Auschwitz, Johannsdorf O.S., Brande, Dyhernfurth and other camps From a traditional family; activities in Hanoar Hatzioni movement. Escape to Dzialoszyce with his family, 30 August 1939; outbreak of the war, 01 September 1939; return to Sosnowiec with his mother and sister; meets with friends and counselors from Hanoar Hatzioni; yellow badge; forced labor; kidnapped on the street and transfer to the outskirts of the city; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life including labor in renovations and construction;...

File Number : 12749

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Menachem Szpigelman, born in Strzemieszyce, Poland, 1934, regarding his experiences in the Sosnowiec Ghetto, the Srodula Ghetto, Zabkowice, being hidden by non-Jews and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Menachem Szpigelman, born in Strzemieszyce, Poland, 1934, regarding his experiences in the Sosnowiec Ghetto, the Srodula Ghetto, Zabkowice, being hidden by non-Jews and other places Life before the war; move to Sosnowiec, learns in a "heder". German occupation; anti-Jewish decrees; life in the cellar of the Hebrew high school building; turning in valuables; life in the Sosnowiec Ghetto including Jewish police activities; in hiding in a bunker; transfer to the Srodula Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; smuggled into the Zabkowice labor camp; camp life; his uncle's service in the Jewish police;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Survey of the condition of the Jews in Nazi-occupied countries, Eretz Israel and neighboring countries, as reported in the Nazi and local press and by witnesses, October 1943

Survey of the condition of the Jews in Nazi-occupied countries, Eretz Israel and neighboring countries, as reported in the Nazi and local press and according to eye-witnesses, October 1943 Poland: Riots in the Bialystok Ghetto and the Lodz Ghetto including burning of factories, breaking down of walls and joining the partisans; liquidation of the Bochnia Ghetto; deportation of Jews to annihilation; the Bedzin affair and deception of the Jews by the Germans; the exhibition "The Jewish World Plague" in Krakow; Denmark: The Jews of Denmark and the reaction of the Danish and Swedish population; Italy: Levying of...

File Number : 21

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Regina (Fertig) Scheinmann, born in Berlin, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Sosnowiec Ghetto, Neusalz, on a death march, Flossenbuerg and Bergen-Belsen camps

Testimony

Testimony of Regina (Fertig) Scheinmann, born in Berlin, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Sosnowiec Ghetto, Neusalz, on a death march, Flossenbuerg and Bergen-Belsen camps The Fertig household; childhood in Hindenburg. Deportation to Oswiecim, 28 October 1938; deportation of her father to a labor camp; life in the Sosnowiec Ghetto with her mother and sister, 1941-1942; deportation of her mother and sister to Auschwitz; transfer of the witness to the Neusalz labor camp; camp life and labor in the Gruschwitz Werke factory, 1942-1945; death march to Flossenbuerg camp; transfer to Bergen-Belsen by...

File Number : 12151

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of David Eizenberg, born in Dabrowa-Gornicza, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in Dabrowa-Gornicza, in the Dabrowa-Gornicza Ghetto, in hiding, in the Sosnowiec Ghetto, in Birkenau and in other places Life with his family including learning in a "heder" and attending school; attitude of the non-Jewish pupils; Jewish community [activities]; death of his father; work in the context of the municipality and in the police [?]; membership in Hashomer Hatzair. Burning of the synagogue; rescue of Jews by a priest; kidnapping of Jews on the streets by Germans; [life under German occupation...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Correspondence between the Lodz Ghetto community system and various organizations and institutions: Letter from Rumkowski to Moshe Merin (Chairman of the Central Judenrat of the Eastern Upper Silesia area), 23 September 1940 Rumkowski's request that Merin no longer correspond with him through the Ghetto Administration Authority, as this disturbs Hans Biebow, the head of the Lodz Ghetto Administration; Merin should use the ghetto postal service for future correspondence.

File Number : 561

Type of Material : Letter

Language : German

Testimony of Dan Wischnitzer, born in Liberec, Czechoslovakia, 1920, regarding his experiences in Sosnowiec transition camp, a refugee camp in Slovakia and with a Jewish family in Ruzomberok

Testimony

Testimony of Dan Wischnitzer, born in Liberec, Czechoslovakia, 1920, regarding his experiences in Sosnowiec transition camp, a refugee camp in Slovakia and with a Jewish family in Ruzomberok Life before the war; life in Jablonec; move to Prague, 1939, life in Prague. Arrest for Polish citizenship; deportation to Sosnowiec transit camp; camp life; labor in the SA barracks; evacuation of the camp, February 1940; transfer to a refugee camp in Slovakia; life with a Jewish family in Ruzomberok. Aliya to Eretz Israel, May 1941; enlists in the British Army; military service in North Africa; meets with Jews...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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