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Testimony of Yisrael Leshch, born in Radom, Poland, 1934, regarding his experiences as a child in the Radom Ghetto, in hiding in an apartment in Warsaw and in hiding in Kamienna Wola

Testimony

Testimony of Yisrael Leshch, born in Radom, Poland, 1934, regarding his experiences as a child in the Radom Ghetto, in hiding in an apartment in Warsaw and in hiding in Kamienna Wola Life before the war; Revisionist Zionist family. German occupation, 08 September 1939; restrictions on the Jews, December 1939; Judenrat activities; establishment of the Radom Ghetto, March 1941; ghetto life; transfer to labor picking peat; transfer to labor in a factory; liquidation of the small ghetto and murder of his mother's family, 04 August 1942; transfer of men to labor burying corpses; receives information in advance...

File Number : 13093

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Nina (Wertans) Admoni, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1932, regarding her experiences in Vilna, Kobe, and the Hongkew Ghetto in Shanghai

Testimony

Testimony of Nina (Wertans) Admoni, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1932, regarding her experiences in Vilna, Kobe, and the Hongkew Ghetto in Shanghai From a wealthy traditional family; the witness's father is an academic who owns storage silos; her mother is the daughter of a Vilna Jewish community leader. Escape of the family to Vilna, September 1939; life under Soviet rule; attends a Soviet school; Soviet investigation of her father; acquires a transit visa to Japan from the Japanese consul in Kaunas, Sempro Sugihara, who was later recognized by Yad Vashem as a Righteous Among the Nations; move to Moscow,...

File Number : 12836

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Matitiahu Mats Merkel, born in Rymanow, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in Wieliczka, Sulejow, Plaszow, Skarzysko Kamienna and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Matitiahu Mats Merkel, born in Rymanow, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in Wieliczka, Sulejow, Plaszow, Skarzysko Kamienna and other places From an ultra-Orthodox family; learns in a "heder" and a Polish school; move to Pinsk; learns in a yeshiva; return home, summer 1939. Outbreak of the war; deportation to Wieliczka; camp life including labor on the railroad; transfer to Plaszow; transfer to Sulejow; camp life including digging anti-tank trenches; transfer to Skarzysko Kamienna; camp life including tank repair; transfer to Czestochowa; transfer to Buchenwald; camp life including...

File Number : 12671

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shmuel Cesler, born in Mir, 1920, regarding his experiences in the Mir Ghetto, escape with the help of Brother Daniel, joining the partisans and drafting into the Red Army

Testimony

Testimony of Shmuel Cesler, born in Mir, 1920, regarding his experiences in the Mir Ghetto, escape with the help of Brother Daniel, joining the partisans and drafting into the Red Army Traditional impoverished family with three children; learns in a Polish school and "heder"; learns in the yeshivas in Mir and Baranowicze; joining Hashomer Hatzair youth movement; entry of the Russians to the area, September 1939; worsening of the economic situation; different livelihoods; entry of the Germans, June 1941; burning of most of the town; accomodating refugees from western Poland; harassments from non-Jews; daily...

File Number : 11884

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yehuda Gesik, born in Turzec, Poland, 1914, regarding his experiences in Turzec, Swierzen camp and with the partisans

Testimony

Testimony of Yehuda Gesik, born in Turzec, Poland, 1914, regarding his experiences in Turzec, Swierzen camp and with the partisans Traditional family, owners of a grocery store; attends an elementary school and learns in the Mir Yeshiva; help to earn the family's livelihood. Unsuccessful attempt to escape to Lithuania with the outbreak of war between Germany and the Soviet Union; life under Soviet occupation; German occupation; life in Turzec including forced labor and "Aktions"; transfer to a labor camp in Swierzen, November 1941; camp life including forced labor in a sawmill; escape to forests in the...

File Number : 8039

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Telegrams and correspondence of the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington and various US Embassies regarding matters related to Sweden, 1944

Telegrams and correspondence of the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington and various US Embassies regarding matters related to Sweden, 1944 Page 1: Telegram from the War Refugee Board (WRB) to Johnson and Olsen in Sweden, transmitted via the US Embassy in Stockholm, with a request to intensify diplomatic activity on behalf of Hungary following reports that mass exterminations had begun there, 23 May 1944; Pages 2-3: Telegram from the WRB to the US Embassy in Ankara regarding assistance from the Swedish Government in attempting to convince the Germans to permit the transfer of refugees from Constanza to...

File Number : 110

Type of Material : Telegram, Official Documentation

Language : English

Documentation regarding Orthodox Jewry in Germany, especially the organizations associated with the separatist Orthodoxy, 1930-1941

Documentation regarding Orthodox Jewry in Germany, especially the organizations associated with the separatist Orthodoxy, 1930-1941 Volume I: Correspondence of Rabbi Yehiel Michel Schlesinger with the members of the Halachische Kommission (the Halacha [Religious Law] Commission attached to the Vereinigung traditionell gesetztreuer Rabbiner [Association of Halachic Law Observant Rabbis]); In the volume (the page numbers refer to the frame numbers in the Scan): Pp. 2-3: Letter dealing with administrational matters written on stationery from the Rabbinical Seminary in Berlin, 29 Tammuz 5682 [??] (25...

File Number : 44

Type of Material : Survey Report, Letter

Language : Hebrew, German

Testimony of Zvi Kahana, born in Sarny, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in Sarny, Lithuania and Japan

Testimony

Testimony of Zvi Kahana, born in Sarny, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in Sarny, Lithuania and Japan Childhood in Sarny; studies in the Mir yeshiva. Life under Soviet rule starting September 1939; move to Vilna and its annexation to Lithuania, June 1940; departure from Lithuania using a Polish passport, Japanese and Russian visas and travel via Siberia to Japan; life in Kobe for eight months; move to Shanghai following problems with Jewish law related to keeping Shabbat; life in Shanghai under Japanese rule. Aliya to Eretz Israel via Egypt and France, 1948.

File Number : 6762

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shmuel Orlanski, born in Kamieniec Litewski, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Mir, Curacao and Shanghai

Testimony

Testimony of Shmuel Orlanski, born in Kamieniec Litewski, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Mir, Curacao and Shanghai Life before the war; learns in a Mir yeshiva. Outbreak of the war, 1939; Soviet occupation; receives an entry visa for Curacao with the help of the Dutch consul De Jong; emigration to Shanghai due to the entry visa for Curacao; end of the war, 1945.

File Number : 3038

Type of Material : Letter, Testimony

Language : Hebrew, German

Joint testimony of Chaim Szmulewicz and Miriam Szmulewicz, born in Lithuania, regarding their experiences in Mir, Krakinava, Curacao, the Shanghai Ghetto and other places

Testimony

Joint testimony of Chaim Szmulewicz and Miriam Szmulewicz, born in Lithuania, regarding their experiences in Mir, Krakinava, Curacao, the Shanghai Ghetto and other places Life before the war; Chaim is the head of a yeshiva in Mir. Outbreak of the war, 1939; Soviet occupation; deportation to Kedainiai; transfer to Krakinava; transfer to Kriukai; receipt of entry visas to Curacao with help from the Dutch consul; emigration to Shanghai via Japan due to the entry visas to Curacao; transfer to the Shanghai Ghetto; ghetto life including help from the JDC; liberation, 1945. Emigration to the United States;...

File Number : 3034

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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