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Testimony of Natan Frydman, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1931, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto and using a false identity in a monastery in Kielce

Testimony

Testimony of Natan Frydman, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1931, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto and using a false identity in a monastery in Kielce Life before the war. Outbreak of the war; burning of his father's shop; deportation to the Warsaw Ghetto; ghetto life; his mother's death from typhus; hides during "Aktions"; forced labor in the Tebens workshop in the ghetto; deportation of his father to Treblinka; escape from the ghetto; in hiding on the Aryan side; the Warsaw Polish Uprising and his role as a courier; capture and escape from a deportation train to Auschwitz; move to Kielce;...

File Number : 12297

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Gideon Herbert Vogelsang, born in Dortmund, Germany, 1922, regarding his experiences in Dortmund including Kristallnacht and aliya to Eretz Israel aboard the "Patria"

Testimony

Testimony of Gideon Herbert Vogelsang, born in Dortmund, Germany, 1922, regarding his experiences in Dortmund including Kristallnacht and aliya to Eretz Israel aboard the "Patria" Life before the Nazi rise to power; death of his mother; remarriage of his father; relations with the neighbors; attends school; member of Habonim youth movement; studies a vocation; relations with the pupils in school; destruction of Jewish owned property and burning of synagogues during Kristallnacht; detention with his father by the police; deportation of his grandfather to a labor camp; registration for aliya training; labor in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Roza (Kushcinsky) Lewkowicz, born in Baranowicze, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences in Siniawka, forests, in hiding and Uzbekistan

Testimony

Testimony of Roza (Kushcinsky) Lewkowicz, born in Baranowicze, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences in Siniawka, forests, in hiding and Uzbekistan From a traditional family; education; sport; move to her grandparents' home in Siniawka. Life under Soviet rule including confiscation of property and her father's arrest; German occupation; hidden by a Pole; escape to forests with her brother; hiding in a village including labor milking cows; escape to Uzbekistan; life on a kolkhoz including her brother's illness; escape; liberation. Reunion with her father; nursing studies; return to Poland; marriage...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Pinkas Rosengarten, born in Nowy Sacz, Poland, 1913, regarding his experiences in Nowy Sacz, prisons in the Soviet Union and service in Iran as a military chaplain in Anders Army

Testimony

Testimony of Pinkas Rosengarten, born in Nowy Sacz, Poland, 1913, regarding his experiences in Nowy Sacz, prisons in the Soviet Union and service in Iran as a military chaplain in Anders Army Life before the war; education; ordination as a rabbi; move to Krakow; academic studies; return to Nowy Sacz; work as a teacher in a Tarbut high school; community life; establishment of a Hashomer Hadati chapter. German occupation; forced labor; escape to the Soviet Union; arrest on the charge of espionage; detention in various prisons; prison life including forced labor and illnesses; hospitalization; pardon after...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation on the Jewish question, 1938-1944

Documentation on the Jewish question, 1938-1944 Photographs of the Munich summit and the Molotov-Rippentrop pact; documents of the Ministry of Labor and the German Army.

File Number : 185

Type of Material : Documentary

Language : German

Joint testimony of Yakov Galler, born in 1933 and his brother Israel Galler, born in 1938 in Jaroslav, regarding their experiences in Siberia

Testimony

Joint testimony of Yakov Galler, born in 1933 and his brother Israel Galler, born in 1938 in Jaroslav, regarding their experiences in Siberia Joint testimony about the immediate family; the father's livelihood; religious holidays at home; murder of relatives; relations with the non-Jewish neighbors; studying in "heder"; the Torah scroll that was given to them by their father; drafting of their father for forced labor; hiding of their valuables by their mother; transfer to Jaworow; life in Jaworow; deportation in loaded train cars to Siberia; the clothing trade; capture of their father by the NKVD; murder of...

File Number : 11940

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Meir Grajewski Ronen, born in Jedwabne, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in Siberia and Kazakhstan

Testimony

Testimony of Meir Grajewski Ronen, born in Jedwabne, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in Siberia and Kazakhstan From a traditional family; learns in a "heder" and at school; displays of antisemitism. Outbreak of the war, 1939; Soviet occupation; deportation to Siberia; transfer to Kazakhstan; life in Kazakhstan including studies at a vocational school and hospitalization due to gas poisoning; end of the war. Return to Poland, 1946; displays of antisemitism including pogrom in Kielce; joins the Bericha organization and Hechalutz movement; illegally crosses the border to Czechoslovakia; aliya...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Dov Heintz Sternlicht, born in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding his experiences in Theresienstadt and Berlin

Testimony

Testimony of Dov Heintz Sternlicht, born in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding his experiences in Theresienstadt and Berlin Life before the war; education. German occupation, 1939; learns carpentry; member of Hashomer Hatzair; escape of his father to the Soviet Union and his death; labor clearing snow; deportation to Theresienstadt Ghetto; ghetto life including labor in carpentry and building barracks; deportation to Germany; life in a forest including labor building barracks; transfer to Berlin; deportation back to Theresienstadt; ghetto life including meeting his mother and typhus; liberation by...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avraham Kron, born in Wizna, Poland, 1918, regarding his experiences in Germany, Bialystok and the Soviet Union

Testimony

Testimony of Avraham Kron, born in Wizna, Poland, 1918, regarding his experiences in Germany, Bialystok and the Soviet Union Traditional family. Outbreak of the war, September 1939; in hiding in a cellar; escape to his grandfather's home; escape to Germany; return to Wizna; escape to Bialystok; escape to the Soviet Union; draft to labor in forests for the Red Army; end of the war. Move to Austria; joins Beitar movement; move to Italy; aliya attempt; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Israel; life in Israel including marriage; starts a family.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Pinchas Grossman, born in Gurki, 1926, regarding his experiences in Antwerp and while in hiding

Testimony

Testimony of Pinchas Grossman, born in Gurki, 1926, regarding his experiences in Antwerp and while in hiding His parents’ livelihood; his father moves to Belgium; holidays at home; studies in school and in a “heder”; the Jewish community; neighborly relations; the family moves to Belgium; studies in Antwerp; joining Bnei Akiva; German occupation, May 1940; attempt to flee on foot in the direction of France; reaching De Panne and hiding in a bunker; the Germans’ appearance; the way back; a pogrom in Antwerp; lack of food; yellow badge; restrictions on the Jews; buying food in neighboring villages; encounter...

File Number : 11746

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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