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Travel diary written by the youth, Matan Borenstein, during his [school] trip to Poland, March 2010
 Travel diary written by the youth, Matan Borenstein, during his [school] trip to Poland, March 2010 Writing of the diary in the form of conversations with his dead grandfather regarding his visit to Warsaw, Majdanek, Lublin, Auschwitz, Plaszow, Krakow, Lodz and Treblinka
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Extermination Camps
Murder Sites
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Shneider Yaakov Shmuel, born in Kosino, Czechoslovakia, 1932, regarding his experiences in the Berehovo ghetto and in the Auschwitz-Birkenau, Plaszow, Gross Rosen, Goerlitz and Zittau camps
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 Schneider Shmuel Jacob, born in Kosino, Czechoslovakia, 1932, regarduing the Berehovo ghetto and deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Plaszow, Gross Rosen, Goerlitz and Zittau camps Family background; childhood in a religious family; his father is a hero of the World War I. Entry of the Hungarians; entry of the Germans, March 1944; deportation to the Berehovo ghetto; stay in a brick factory for several weeks; transfer to Auschwitz II-Birkenau; selection at the entrance to the camp; rescue by an anonymous inmate from the camp to the gas chambers and transfer to the camp; finding his father and relatives;...
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Antisemitism After the War
Assistance and Rescue
Assistance to Jews
Attitude Towards the Jews - Romanian Population
Attitude Towards the Jews - Ukrainian Population
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Testimony of Zohar Shlomo zilgelshtein, born in Verecki Pss, Czechoslovakia, in 1923, regarding his hiding in the forests, his deportation to the Gusen and Mauthausen camps, Austria.
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 Orthodox family related to "Sharf" from Sterlinsk (from the Greats of the hasidut); activity in the Beitar; transition to Hungarian rule in 1939; deportation order for the Jews without a Czech nationality towards the Polish border in 1939; housing the deportees in a house that was built on the border; smuggling of the deportees by the witness back to Czechoslovakia on hidden paths; hiding in the forests of Ukraine; capture by Germans; deportation to camps in Austria; forced labour in a quarry in the Gusen camp; he comes across his brother in Mauthausen; march to Gunskirchen; death of his brother; liberation in...
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Border Crossing
Deportation During the War
Deportation to Camps
Dp Camps
Escape to Forests
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Testimony of Shmuel Shvartz, born in Borszczow, Poland in 1936, regarding his experiences as a child in the Borszczow Ghetto and on the Aryan side, and while in hiding places in Zalozce and Karolowka
 Testimony of Shmuel Shvartz, born in Borszczow, Poland in 1936, regarding his experiences as a child in the Borszczow Ghetto and on the Aryan side, and while in hiding places in Zalozce and Karolowka His father works in the management of an agricultural farm; German occupation in 1941; deportation to the Borszczow Ghetto; Borszczow Ghetto life; seven "Aktions" are conducted; concentration of the ghetto's Jews before deportation; murder of his grandmother; escape; deportation of his mother and siblings to Belzec camp during Sukkot (September-October) 1942; life in hiding in bunkers with his father during the...
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Aktions
Attitude Towards the Jews - Ukrainian Population
Children
Dp Camps
Escape From an Aktion
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Testimony of Dvora Doris Shner née Klatz, born in 1932 in Dortmund, Germany, about her experiences as a girl in Rożniatów, Bursztin, the Rohatyn ghetto, and in hiding with villagers during the war
 Offspring of immigrant parents from Galicia, receiving a "certificate" (Mandate Palestine immigration visa); father deported to Zbąszyń in 1938; reunited with father in Rożniatów in 1939; Poland partititioned and life under Soviet occupation; escaping to Bursztin; German occupation ensues in June 1941; a German soldier warns the family about murder of Jews; establishment of Judenrat; father refuses to translate from German into Polish; receiving word about murder of people in pits in Rohatyn; receiving a postcard from a family member with information about sending of trains to Bełżec; deportation to the Rohatyn...
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results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony
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Aktions
Attitude Towards the Jews - Ukrainian Population
Bunker
Certificate
Children
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Testimony of Yaakov Hofman Hauchmann, born in 1929 in Glebokie, Poland, about his experiences in the Glebokie ghetto, in hiding with villagers, with the partisans in 1942–1944, and in the Red Army
Offspring of a traditional family in Glebokie; Soviet occupation ensues in 1939; German occupation ensues in June 1941; hears rumors about murder in nearby forests; searching for food in villages at night; establishment of the ghetto; establishment of a Judenrat; hunger; volunteering for nighttime work in return for food; brother dies in the first Aktion; building hideouts; ghetto liquidated in August 1942; witness escapes during the Aktion; lives in hiding with villagers; handed over to Russian partisans; integration into a partisan unit; activity in 1942–1944; a decade of service in the Red Army; receiving...
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Aktions
Attitude of the Polish Population
Attitude of the Population
Children
Escape From an Aktion
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Testimony of Menahem Lior, born in Bedzin, Poland in 1928, regarding his experiences during ‎deportation to the Bedzin Ghetto and the work camp in Kamionka; hidden by a Pole; escape to ‎Eretz Israel
 Testimony of Menahem Lior, born in Bedzin, Poland in 1928, regarding his experiences during ‎deportation to the Bedzin Ghetto and the work camp in Kamionka; hidden by a Pole; escape to ‎Eretz Israel His childhood in a socialist Zionist home; refugees from Germany; rise of antisemitism; outbreak of ‎war on 1 September 1939; anti-Jewish laws and decrees; restriction of Jewish movement and ‎concentration in one area; youth movements; agricultural farm; Zionist and underground ‎activities; infiltrating into a nearby work camp; work collecting and sorting possessions of the Jews ‎in the ghetto; removing dead...
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Aliya - Plans
Anti-Jewish Orders and Decrees
Antisemitism Before the War
Assistance to Jews
Badge of Shame
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Testimony of Yanina Hesheles Altman, born in Lwow, Poland in 1931, regarding her experiences ‎in Janowska camp and her rescue by the Zegota organization
 Testimony of Yanina Hesheles Altman, born in Lwow, Poland in 1931, regarding her experiences ‎in Janowska camp and her rescue by the Zegota organization Her father was a Zionist journalist; outbreak of the war in September 1939; father’s escape to ‎Romania; his temporary detention in a Russian prison; the German occupation in June 1941; ‎pogrom carried out by Ukrainians in which her father was murdered; establishment of the Lwow ‎Ghetto; Aktions; hanging of the Judenrat leaders; failed attempt to hide with Christian families; ‎mother’s work at the Jewish hospital; liquidation of the ghetto; mother escapes to...
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Anti-Jewish Orders and Decrees
Attitude Towards the Jews - Ukrainian Population
Children
False Identity
Ghettoization
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Testimony of Irka Rivka Golan née Gantovnik, born in 1941 in Święciany, Poland, about her experiences as an infant in the Opsa, Postawy, and Święciany ghettos and with a Russian family in 1942–1944
 Soviet occupation ensues in 1939; German occupation follows; witness born in Święciany in September 1941; life in hiding in forests at one month of age; internment in the Opsa, Postawy, and Święciany ghettos; hearing rumors about liquidation of shtetlakh in Lithuania and Belorussia; escaping from Aktionen; adoption by a Russian family in October 1942; parents survive in the ghettos in 1943; liquidation of the Święciany ghetto and murder of the Jews in Ponary; parents hide until the liberation in July 1944; family reunited; they move to Poland and Germany; mother teaches in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons...
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Aktions
Babies
Children
Dp Camps
Escape From an Aktion
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Testimony of Joel Brandwein, born in 1928 in Piotrkow, Poland - regarding his experiences in the ghetto, Pionki camp and other camps
 Testimony of Joel Brandwein, born in 1928 in Piotrkow, Poland - regarding his experiences in the ghetto, Pionki camp and other camps Childhood in Piotrkow; German occupation in September of 1939; abuse; cutting off beards and sidelocks of worshipers in the synagogue; community help to refugees from Germany; kidnappings for forced labor; expulsion to the Piotrkow Ghetto in October of 1939; the Judenrat; mutual aid; forced labor; receiving help from non-Jews; confiscation of property; liquidation of the large ghetto in October 1942; the family goes into hiding in the attic; captured by the Gestapo about two...
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Abuse
Confiscation of Property
Death Marches
Deportation From the Ghettos
Deportation to the Ghettos
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