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Memoirs of Moshe Lederman, born in Jedrzejow, Poland, 1913, regarding his experiences in Jedrzejow, Czechia, Fiume, his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1938 and more

Memoirs of Moshe Lederman, born in Jedrzejow, Poland, 1913, regarding his experiences in Jedrzejow, Czechia, Fiume, his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1938 and more Life before the war; attends a government elementary school; attends a Hamizrachi school conducted in Hebrew; displays of anti-Semitism; imposition of a commercial boycott on Jews; life in an aliya training facility; move to Czechia; move to Austria; move to Fiume; life at the Fiume port; aliya to Eretz Israel, 20 September 1938.

File Number : 8508

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Esther Dvora (Reiner Raanan) Greenbaum, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1930, regarding her experiences in Budapest, Bergen-Belsen, Switzerland, Sankt Gallen and Eretz Israel

Testimony

Testimony of Esther Dvora (Reiner Raanan) Greenbaum, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1930, regarding her experiences in Budapest, Bergen-Belsen, Switzerland, Sankt Gallen and Eretz Israel Her childhood in Budapest. German Army occupation of Budapest, March 1944; life under German occupation; joins the Kasztner train; transfer of the Kasztner train people to Bergen-Belsen, June 1944; camp life until December 1944; transfer to Switzerland by the Germans; life in Sankt Gallen, including in the Montreux area, until August 1945. Aliya attempt to Eretz Israel by ship, August 1945; detention in Atlit camp for...

File Number : 13135

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Esther Elizabett Hirsch, born in Cluj, (Hungary) Romania, 1919, regarding her experiences in the Budapest Ghetto and being hidden by a Hungarian using a false identity

Testimony

Testimony of Esther Elizabett Hirsch, born in Cluj, (Hungary) Romania, 1919, regarding her experiences in the Budapest Ghetto and being hidden by a Hungarian using a false identity Childhood in an ultra-Orthodox family in Ghiriseni; relocation to Cluj, 1937; joining the Mizrahi youth movement; move to Budapest, 1940; deportation to the ghetto with other family members, March 1944; escape from the ghetto following receipt of information regarding an expected deportation in the direction of Vienna; removal of her sister from a protected house; in hiding with the help of a Hungarian acquaintance using a false...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zeev Horowitz, born in Goworowo, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in Ural, as a Red Army soldier and in Gorkiy

Testimony

Testimony of Zeev Horowitz, born in Goworowo, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in Ural, as a Red Army soldier and in Gorkiy Childhood and adolescence. Escape with his family to Bialystok after the outbreak of the war, 1939; transfer by the Soviets to Nizhniy Tagil, Soviet Union, 1940; life and work in Ural; move to Novozlatopol, Ukraine, 1941; separation from his family; drafted into the Red Army; work on fortifications and defense near the Dniester River; retreat to the area of the Don river, circa 1942; retreat in the direction of Rostov; escape from the Red Army to Gorkiy, 1943; work in a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Aviva Alida Henriete (Rodelsheim) Duizend Ben Heled, born in Watergraafsmeer, the Netherlands, 1915, regarding her experiences in the underground in Rotterdam, and in Westerbork, Auschwitz, Ravensbrueck and Neustadt Glewe Activities in the "Zichron Yaakov" Hamizrachi movement; joins an aliya training "kibbutz" in Loosdrecht, 1938. German occupation, 1940; move to a Youth Aliyah home; hidden by Christian families with help form the underground; activities in the underground in Rotterdam to assemble the pioneers before they are smuggled from the Netherlands; detention by Gestapo men;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Baruch Goldfinger, born in Krynica, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in Siberia, Berezniki, Bukhara and Krasnovishersk

Testimony

Testimony of Baruch Goldfinger, born in Krynica, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in Siberia, Berezniki, Bukhara and Krasnovishersk Religious-Zionist family from a family of Bubover hasidim. Outbreak of the war, September 1939; move by train to Lwow; air-raids; his mother's injury; arrival to Sambor; help from the Jews; his mother's hospitalization; German occupation; Soviet occupation; death of his mother; move to Lwow; deportation by freight train to Berezniki, Ural; transfer to a camp for families in the forests of Siberia; move to Krasnovishersk; outbreak of the war between Germany and the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Channah (Pinchover) Uhrbach, born in Breslau, Germany, 1918, regarding her experiences in Cologne, Berlin, Breslau, her aliya to Eretz Israel, 1939 and more

Testimony

Testimony of Channah (Pinchover) Uhrbach, born in Breslau, Germany, 1918, regarding her experiences in Cologne, Berlin, Breslau, her aliya to Eretz Israel, 1939 and more Life before the war; education; Nazi rise to power; economic boycott; "Nuremberg" laws, 1935; opening of the liberal Jewish school; studying Hebrew; life in Moravska-Ostrava including agricultural labor; deportation of Jews to Sachsenhausen; murder of Jews in the camp and sending their ashes to their families; escape to Cologne; life in Cologne including training by Bachad (Brit Chalutzim Datiim); choosing of children in Blakenese for legal...

File Number : 13043

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chedva Valeria (Bradovka) Slomovits, born in Kosice Mesto, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau and a camp in Estonia

Testimony

Testimony of Chedva Valeria (Bradovka) Slomovits, born in Kosice Mesto, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau and a camp in Estonia From a Neolog family; attends a Jewish elementary school and a local high school; her mother's death; Beitar membership. German occupation, 1944; the street is turned into a ghetto; deportation by freight train to Auschwitz-Birkenau; selection by Josef Mengele; camp life including labor at an airfield; transfer to a camp in Estonia; labor in an oil processing factory; help from the Estonian residents; transfer back to Auschwitz; German Army...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zipora (Hamajda) Shapira, born in Levice, Czechoslovakia, 1930, regarding her experiences as a child in Velky Kazimir and Budapest

Testimony

Testimony of Zipora (Hamajda) Shapira, born in Levice, Czechoslovakia, 1930, regarding her experiences as a child in Velky Kazimir and Budapest Life in Velky Kazimir before the war; Orthodox religious family. Attempts to illegally cross the border into Hungary, from 1942; life in Budapest until 1944; deportation of her father to forced labor; placed in a Swedish protected house by her mother; disappearance of her mother; escape of her father and he joins the Soviet partisans; reunion of the family. Move to Kosice with her family, 1945; life in Kosice; preparations for aliya to Eretz Israel by the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Aba Shvartz, born in Nyirbator, Hungary, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Simapuszta Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Rehnsdorf camp, Buchenwald and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Aba Shvartz, born in Nyirbator, Hungary, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Simapuszta Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Rehnsdorf camp, Buchenwald and other places Life before the war; religious family; attends a "heder" and a Jewish school; studies in a small Yeshiva. Deportation of the father to a labor battalion; German occupation, 1944; deportation to the Simapuszta Ghetto; deportation with the family to Auschwitz-Birkenau; camp life; remains with his father and older brother without action; selection; escape with his brother to his father's group; transfer with his father to Buchenwald;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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