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Testimony of Yisrael Shpira, born in Radomsko, Poland in 1936, regarding his experiences as a young boy in Radomsko, his hiding in the home of a Polish family in Warsaw and in Radom

Testimony of Yisrael Shpira, born in Radomsko, Poland in 1936, regarding his experiences as a young boy in Radomsko, his hiding with a Polish family in Warsaw and in Radom Life before the war; he was born into a well -to-do secular family; outbreak of the war in 1939; obtaining forged papers; escape with his family to Warsaw; arrest by the Germans and transfer to the "Pawiak" prison under a fake non-Jewish identity; release after a short while; escape and hiding in the home of a respected Polish family; life in the family until the " Polish uprising" in August 1944; bombings; deportation with all the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documents of the Bernhard and Fischmann families, 1920-1944

Documents of the Bernhard and Fischmann families, 1920-1944 Letters written by Fritz Bernhard in Berlin to his sister in Eretz Israel, 1937-1938; regular letter and letters of the Red Cross organization, sent from Sered camp by Alexander (Sandor) Fischmann to Fritz Bernhard in Eretz Israel, 1943-1944; The file includes: - History of the family and material submitted by Joseph Bernhard, the son of Fritz Bernhard; Max Bernhard (father of Fritz) was a Zionist; decision by the father to make aliya to Eretz Israel, 1933; atmosphere of fear in their home before their aliya; aliya of the Bernhard family to...

File Number : 1805

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Red Cross Letter, Letter

Language : Hebrew, English, German

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Testimony

File Number : 13448

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Baruch Holtzman, born in Wyszkow, Poland, 1933, regarding his experiences in Bialystok, Siberia, Kazakhstan, Stettin and Israel

Testimony

Testimony of Baruch Holtzman, born in Wyszkow, Poland, 1933, regarding his experiences in Bialystok, Siberia, Kazakhstan, Stettin and Israel His childhood in a Revisionist, traditional family. Outbreak of the war, 1939; escape to Bialystok; his father opens a soup kitchen; Zionist activities; detentions; transfer to a labor camp in Siberia; camp life for 14 months; transfer to Kazakhstan; transfer to a kolkhoz; attends a Soviet and Polish school; establishment of a clubhouse for young people; Zionist activities; end of the war. Move back to Stettin, Poland; antisemitism; activities in a Hashomer...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zvi Hershele Birenbaum, born in Proszowice, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in Bedzin, the Kamionka Ghetto, Birkenau, Theresienstadt, Nordhausen and on a death march

Testimony

Testimony of Zvi Hershele Birenbaum, born in Proszowice, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in Bedzin, the Kamionka Ghetto, Birkenau, Theresienstadt, Nordhausen and on a death march Childhood orphaned of his father; move to Bedzin with his mother and siblings. Outbreak of the war, 1939; escape to Lwow; life as a refugee; return to Bedzin; yellow badge; selection [during an Aktion] and rescue of his mother from deportation; deportation to the Kamionka Ghetto; ghetto life including work in a sewing workshop; deportation to Birkenau; camp life including labor in the craftsmen's block as a tailor and a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mirjam Gross (Sternberg) Ben David, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1928, regarding her experiences in Budapest, using a false identity among Catholics and her aliya to Eretz Israel, 1944

Testimony

Testimony of Mirjam Gross (Sternberg) Ben David, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1928, regarding her experiences in Budapest, using a false identity among Catholics and her aliya to Eretz Israel, 1944 Childhood in Budapest; attends an Orthodox Jewish school and learns Hebrew at home; joining Hashomer Hatzair while at the same time a member of Hamizrachi. Election of her father to the Judenrat, March 1944; leaving their home by her family; transfer to the Hagadush family (Catholics) using a false identity; family stays for two months; escape of the family to Bucharest in a group of 19 Polish refugees with help...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Eliezer Albert Templer Dviri, born in Brussels, Belgium, 1933

Testimony

Testimony of Eliezer Albert Templer Dviri, born in Brussels, Belgium, 1933 Escape of the family from Brussels, Belgium before the German occupation of southern France, 1940; in hiding in towns and villages in southwest France under the Vichy government, in Buzet and Le Magny; his siblings' work for French farmers; unsuccessful attempt to escape to Spain; arrest by the Spanish authorities and the family is transferred back to the south of France, 1942; stay in a children's home in southern France via the OSE (Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants) organization; hidden by a French farmer without the rest of the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rosa Shoshana (Ratcimor) Bly, born in Belzec, Poland, 1934, regarding her experiences as a child in Rawa Ruska, the Talalayevka camp, Salair and Biysk

Testimony

Testimony of Rosa Shoshana (Ratcimor) Bly, born in Belzec, Poland, 1934, regarding her experiences as a child in Rawa Ruska, the Talalayevka camp, Salair and Biysk Childhood in Belzec. Her family's escape to Rawa Ruska, which was under Soviet control, with the German occupation, September 1939; deportation of her family to the Talalayevka labor camp in Siberia, the Soviet Union, 1940; transfer of the family to Salair and Biysk, 1941; life in Siberia until 1945. Move to Szczecin, Poland, 1945; move to a camp near Linz, Austria with help from Bericha, 1946; aliya to Israel, 1948.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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