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Diary by Mordechai Motka Gorski Gor, born in Baranowicze, Poland, 1919, written, 01 December 1943-24 August 1945, and his memoirs regarding his experiences in a Soviet labor camp in the Kemerovo area and in Baydayevka Life in a Soviet labor camp in the Kemerovo area, including labor in a coal mine; description of the inmate population and the hierarchy among the inmates; clauses of crimes whose sentence was imprisonment in the camp; methods by which the food, that was sent to the inmates by their families, was stolen from them; inmates with "light" crimes were removed from the camp and sent to the front;...

File Number : 8589

Type of Material : Memoirs, Diary

Language : Hebrew, Yiddish

Letters to Albert Weinstein, born in Germany, while in Morocco, from his mother Ida Weinstein in Leipzig, 1940-1941, his sister Susi in London, 14 September 1943, and his cousins in the United States, 1945 Letters and postcards: - Letters from his cousins Richard and Helen in the United States to Albert Weinstein in Morocco, January-April 1945; - Postcard from his mother Ida Weinstein in Germany to Albert Weinstein (known as Alli) in France, 17 April 1940; - Two letters to Albert Weinstein in Morocco from his mother Ida Weinstein in Leipzig through the Red Cross, April 1941 and September 1941;...

File Number : 1959

Type of Material : Letter, Red Cross Letter, Death Certificate, Documentary, Postcard, Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, French, English, German

Memoirs of Joseph Kashinski, born in Dabrowa Gornicza, Poland, 1920, regarding his experiences in Lublin, Lwow, Kazakhstan, Uzbekhistan and other places

Memoirs of Joseph Kashinski, born in Dabrowa Gornicza, Poland, 1920, regarding his experiences in Lublin, Lwow, Kazakhstan, Uzbekhistan and other places German declaration of the Upper Silesia area, including Dabrowa Gornicza, as "Judenrein" (Free of Jews), 1939; German intention to build a colony in the Lublin area; Kashinski's agreement to move to Lublin; escape to the Soviet Union after discovering that the colony will be turned into the Majdanek concentration camp; sending a letter to the Red Cross with a request that they clarify his parents' fate; receiving an answer from the Red Cross regarding his...

File Number : 8227

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Experiences of Wolfgang Zeev Blumenreich, who was arrested in the Creuse Region of France in 1942, was deported to the Nexon and Drancy camps, to camps in Poland, Germany and Austria, and was liberated from Dachau by the United States Army Experiences of Wolfgang Zeev Blumenreich during the Holocaust, written 20 July 2009: Arrest of Wolfgang Zeev Blumenreich in the Creuse Region of France, 26 August 1942; deportation to the Nexon camp; transfer to the Drancy camp; transfer to the Fürstengrube camp and forced labor in coal mines; periods of time in various camps, including Buchenwald, Mauthausen, Auschwitz,...

File Number : 182

Type of Material : Documentary

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Judit Aharoni, born in Baia Mare, Romania, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Baia Mare Ghetto, Auschwitz, Stutthof, Gleiwitz and more

Testimony

Testimony of Judit Aharoni, born in Baia Mare, Romania, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Baia Mare Ghetto, Auschwitz, Stutthof, Gleiwitz and more From a Zionist family; her childhood; visit to Eretz Israel, 1935. Outbreak of the war; annexation to Hungary, 1940; limits on the Jews and persecution: numerus clausus, robbery of property, Aryanization of the family businesses, yellow badge, curfew; attends a Hebrew school in Cluj; dismissal of academic government workers; arrests; German occupation, March 1944; deportation to a ghetto in a brick factory for several weeks; attempts of two priests to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rivka Neudorfer, born in Majdan, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in Lwow, Siberia, Zatobolsk and Uzbekistan

Testimony

Testimony of Rivka Neudorfer, born in Majdan, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in Lwow, Siberia, Zatobolsk and Uzbekistan From an Orthodox family; displays of antisemitism before the war. Outbreak of the war; escape to the Soviet Union; arrival in Lwow; deportation to Siberia; transfer to Zatobolsk; life in a camp with barracks; her parents' work digging pits; work in coal mines in exchange for bread; transfer to Uzbekistan; work at weaving; typhus; end of the war. Return to Poland; help from UNRRA; move to a DP camp in Austria; Dror-Habonim activities in preparation for aliya; aliya to Eretz...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avram Langbaum, born in Zamosc, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in Zamosc, Lwow, camps in the Soviet Union and his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1942

Testimony

Testimony of Avram Langbaum, born in Zamosc, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in Zamosc, Lwow, camps in the Soviet Union and his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1942 Life before the war; well-to-do family; displays of antisemitism; numerus clausus; harassment of Jewish businesses by Endeks; receives knowledge regarding the murder of Jews and regarding Kristallnacht. German occupation, 15 September 1939; capture of Jewish and Polish hostages; murder of the hostages; Soviet occupation; German occupation; escape of Communists to the Soviet Union; escape to Lwow with his brothers; life in Lwow including...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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