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Letter of testimony written by Yaakov From in a DP camp in Italy to his brother, Shalom From, in Eretz Israel, 14 November 1945, with testimony regarding his experiences in Rutka, a POW hospital in Bialystok, the Lomza Ghetto, the Zambrow camp and more Life in Lomza including air-raids in September 1939; escape to Rutka with his family; life in Rutka during the German occupation; deportation of the Jews (approximately 1,500 people) to a potato field, and their being forced to lie down on the ground; remaining on the ground until 10:00 the following morning; transfer back to Rutka and their concentration in...

File Number : 8614

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Felicja (Rosenblueth) Wachs, born in Krakow, Poland, 1919, regarding her experiences during the Holocaust in the Krakow Ghetto and in Plaszow and Bruenlitz camps, and her personal documents from before and after the war Memoirs: Completion of medical studies; work in the Jewish hospital in Krakow, 1940; confiscation of Jewish homes and businesses; imposition of restrictions and bans on the Jews of Krakow; deportation to the Krakow Ghetto, 1941; labor as a nurse in the prison; the first transports from the ghetto, June 1942; the large "Aktion", October 1942; liquidation of the ghetto and the...

File Number : 8604

Type of Material : Memoirs, Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, Polish, French

Postcards written by Sara Halberstadt in Siedlce to her sister Salka Sluszny in Paris, 1941-1942, postcards sent by Herszek Sluszny from Drancy to his family in Paris, 1942, and personal documents of Benyamin and Sara Halberstadt, from the war and postwar period - Postcards sent by Sara (Jontof) Halberstadt, from Siedlce, to her sister Salka Sluszny in Paris, 1941-1942; - Postcards sent by Herszek Sluszny from Drancy, to his wife Salka and his son Michel in Paris, 1942; - Essay, "A letter to my mother", written by Michel Sluszny (the son of Herszek and Salka Sluszny) during his studies in school in...

File Number : 2094

Type of Material : School Project, Personal Documents, Postcard, Official Documentation

Language : Polish, French, English, German

Documentation containing a list of children from various European countries who were transferred from Auschwitz to the Neuengamme camp for medical experiments and murdered in Hamburg, 20 April 1945, and an article by S. Y. Frankel regarding these children

File Number : 1456

Type of Material : List of Jewish Children, Article, List of Camp Inmates, List of Murdered Persons

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Hela (Jacobi) Kozlowski [born, 1920], regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto and in Auschwitz, Freiberg and Mauthausen camps

Memoirs of Hela (Jacobi) Kozlowski [born, 1920], regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto and in Auschwitz, Freiberg and Mauthausen camps German occupation of Lodz; escape of her siblings to another city; mass murders and theft by the Germans; eviction of her family from their home; murder of a boy who was 7 or 8 years old, right in front of her eyes; deportation of her sister to Auschwitz, late 1942 or early 1943; hunger; help from an anonymous German who brought her food; her father receives beatings; announcement regarding the sending of the ghetto residents to forced labor; deportation to Auschwitz...

File Number : 8543

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sam Katz, born in Tels, Lithuania, regarding his experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto, in Slobodka, in the Slobodka Ghetto, in Augsburg and in Stutthof

Testimony of Sam Katz, born in Tels, Lithuania, regarding his experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto, in Slobodka, in the Slobodka Ghetto, in Augsburg and in Stutthof Death of his mother when he was 8 years old; studies in a "heder" in Tels; family life; treatment by the local population; sympathy for the Communist Party; escape of his brother Chaim to the Soviet Union; detention of his brother Chaim in a camp for several years; emigration of his sister to Rhodesia; move to Slobodka due to his marriage to Masha Mishkovski, 1935; birth of his son, Yakov, 1937; death of his father, February 1939; work as a...

Type of Material : Interview(s)

Language : English

Testimony of Sam Katz, born in Tels, Lithuania, regarding his experiences in hiding in the Slobodka Ghetto, in the Stutthof area and in the Augsburg camp

Testimony of Sam Katz, born in Tels, Lithuania, regarding his experiences in hiding in the Slobodka Ghetto; the Stutthof area and the Augsburg camp Life before the war; death of his mother when he was 8 years old; learns in a "heder"; affinity towards the Communist movement; escape of his brother Chaim to the Soviet Union; deportation of his brother to a camp; move to Slobodka following his marriage to Masha Mishkovski, 1935; life in Slobodka; birth of his son, Yakov, 1937, death of his father, February, 1939. The Soviet occupation; labor as a watchmaker; his appointment as a Commisar; fleeing of the Red...

File Number : 8505

Type of Material : Interview(s)

Language : English

Memoirs and poems written in Yiddish and Russian by Elzbieta Liza (Masovetzky) Kaplinski, born in Mosty, Poland, 1891, regarding her experiences in the Zhetl Ghetto, 1941-1942, including letters received by relatives after the war Liza Kaplinski: Life with 11 brothers and sisters; work by her father, Barukh Masovetzky, as a lumber merchant; loss of her father’s assets after the sinking of the ships on which the tree trunks were being conveyed; death of her father at the age of 39 years, 1893; life in Grodno with her sister Rivka; marriage with Shaul Kaplinski. Outbreak of the war; life in Zhetl with...

File Number : 8504

Type of Material : Passport, Memoirs, Official Documentation, Certification, Letter, Poems/songs

Language : Polish, Russian, German, Yiddish

Letters sent to Pesa (Shnitman) Bruk, including notification that her brother Aizik Shnitman died in battle at the front and regarding the experiences of Pesa's sister Riva Shnitman while in the partisans, and personal documentation regarding service by her husband David Bruk as a Red Army soldier and by Matvey Antonovskiy as a partisan; documents dated, 1943-1970 - Letter sent to Pesa (Shnitman) Bruk by Aleksandr Yeryomin, a friend of her sister Riva, 10/01/1944; the letter tells about the fate of Riva Shnitman, born in 1924, during the war: Murder of the Jews in Rodnya by the Germans, 03/1944; escape of...

File Number : 1906

Type of Material : Personal Records, Postcard, Letter of Testimony

Language : Russian

Memoirs of Fani Sholomon, born in Munkacs, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Munkacs Ghetto and in Auschwitz, Hochweiler and Bergen-Belsen

Memoirs of Fani Sholomon, born in Munkacs, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Munkacs Ghetto and in Auschwitz, Hochweiler and Bergen-Belsen Life in Munkacs during the re-annexation to Hungary, 1938; deportation of people with Czechoslovakian citizenship; imposition of evening curfew on the Jews; prohibition on Jews managing businesses, from 1940; continuing running her father's business by means of bribery; deportation to the Munkacs Ghetto, April 1944; transfer together with the Jews to a brick factory, 17 May 1944; deportation by train to Auschwitz; life on the train; hearing the...

File Number : 8500

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

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