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Testimony of Zeev Yakubovitz, born in Lodz, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Vechelde and Ludwigslust

Testimony

Testimony of Zeev Yakubovitz, born in Lodz, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Vechelde and Ludwigslust Life before the war. Deportation to the Lodz Ghetto; ghetto life including labor of his father as the manager of a furniture workshop until 1942; activities of Mordechai Rumkowski head of the Judenrat; Jewish police activities; death of his brother; aliya training with Gordonia in the Marysin Ghetto; deportation with his brother to Auschwitz, September 1942; transfer to Vechelde; camp life including labor in a military vehicle factory; liberation in Ludwigslust,...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Vladimir Aurovski, born in Bessarabia, Romania, 1919, regarding his experiences as a soldier, in wanderings and in Bukhara, Uzbekistan

Testimony of Vladimir Aurovski, born in Bessarabia, Romania, 1919, regarding his experiences as a soldier, in wanderings and in Bukhara, Uzbekistan Drafted into the Red Army, early in the war; dispersion of the division on the Moldovan border; wanderings; illness; escape on foot to Dnepropetrovsk, Soviet Union; wanderings, until Buchara, Uzbekistan; work in Buchara, until 1946. Return home and news regarding the murder of his parents and his brother in a killing pit following being informed on by their neighbors in Marculesti early in the war, and the robbery of the family assets.

File Number : 42

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Aliza (Wohl) Hirsh, born in Oradea, Romania on 02/10/1923, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz camp, in an explosives factory in Flossenburg camp and in Theresienstadt

File Number : 7261

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shlomo Skotchilas, born in Lodz, 1921; regarding his experiences in Warsaw; in the Skarzysko Kamienna forced labor camp; in Czestochowa; and in the Buchenwald, Flossberg; and Mauthausen camps

Testimony

Testimony of Shlomo Skotchilas, born in Lodz, 1921; regarding his experiences in Warsaw; in Skarzysko Kamienna labor camp; in Czestochowa; and in Buchenwald, Flossberg; and Mauthausen camps Childhood in Alexandrow, and life until the outbreak of the war; deportation of all the Jews to Glowno, January 1940; trip with his parents, six siblings, and extended family to Warsaw; life in a school; his parents' deaths from starvation, 1942; deportation to Majdanek; transfer to Skarzysko Kamienna; plumbing work in Plant A; preferential treatment by Weber, the German supervisor; approach of the Red Army, 1944, and...

File Number : 11830

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of L. Unger, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1915, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto and in Skarzysko, Buchenwald, Schlieben and Theresienstadt camps

Testimony of L. Unger, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1915, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto and in Skarzysko, Buchenwald, Schlieben and Theresienstadt camps Hasidic family; his father was a merchant; completion of high school studies in Lodz; work in the family business representing the "Asher Cohen" company in Lodz; Outbreak of the war; escape of his father with his sister and two brothers to Warsaw, to their father Mordechai Mendel Unger; the witness remains with his mother in Lodz; establishment of the Lodz Ghetto; death of his mother in ghetto due to starvation, 1942; death of his father in...

File Number : 86

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Diary of Felitzia (Beant) Sheftler regarding her experiences in the Leipzig Schoenefeld Camp

Diary of Felitzia (Beant) Sheftler regarding her experiences in the Leipzig Schoenefeld Camp Transfer of 140 [female] Jewish inmates from the Skarzysko-Kamienna camp to the Leipzig Schoenefeld camp; life in the camp; crowding, filth and hunger; registration for work; starting to work manufacturing weapons for the Wehrmacht (German Army); attempts to sabotage the production; abuse of the inmates by the personnel of the factory and of the camp; information on the hierarchy among the inmates; fasting on Yom Kippur; rumors about the approach of the Red Army and the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising;...

File Number : 4096

Type of Material : Diary

Language : Polish

Memoirs written by Hanoch Green, regarding his experiences during the Holocaust period in the town of Korczyn, in the Rzeczow Ghetto and in camps

Memoirs written by Hanoch Green, regarding his experiences during the Holocaust period in the town of Korczyn, in the Rzeczow Ghetto and in camps Wanderings between towns near the Russian border immediately after the outbreak of the war in September 1939 and the German occupation of Poland, with the aim of illegally crossing the border into the Soviet Union; return to his town of birth Korczyn; "Aktion" in Korczyn; labor in a quarry in Dukla; liquidation of the Jews of the town of Dukla; labor in the Jewish Sonderkommando, collecting the corpses of murdered people; looting and theft of Jewish property by the...

File Number : 2387

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs written by Israel Orzech, regarding his experiences during the Holocaust period in the Sosnowiec Ghetto, Srodula Ghetto and in camps

Memoirs written by Israel Orzech, regarding his experiences during the Holocaust period in the Sosnowiec Ghetto, Srodula Ghetto and in camps Sosnowiec Ghetto life and living conditions, until the liquidation of the ghetto in 1943; transfer of the remainder of the Jews to the Srodula Ghetto; attempts by the Jews to find a hiding place; abuse of Jews who possessed a traditional appearance; holding of prayers by the underground; kidnappings of people to forced labor; draft to Arbeits Einsatz; public hangings; "Aktion" in August 1942; participation of the Jewish police in the "Aktion" and in other "Aktions";...

File Number : 2368

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Personal documentation regarding Rubin Beiser, Rissa Weissbach and Juda Lewit, from Lwow, 1942-1943

Personal documentation regarding Rubin Beiser, Rissa Weissbach and Juda Lewit, from Lwow, 1942-1943 - Personal documentation regarding Rubin Beiser, born in Jaremcze, Poland on 21/07/1906. In the file are a work certificate, two identity cards from 1942-1943, and a photograph of a tag with the letter "W" on it, confirming that Ruben Beiser was employed at a Wehrmacht factory in the position of a metals sorter; all of the documents are from Lwow; - Personal documentation regarding Rissa Weissbach, from Lwow. In the file is a work certificate, dated 17/03/1942, according to which she and her mother, who was...

File Number : 585

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Certification

Language : English, German

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