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Testimony of Shlomo Feldshtein, born in Przeworsk, Poland, in 1934, regarding his hiding with a Polish farmer in Grzeska between 1942-1944

-Childhood before the war; relations with the local population; outbreak of the war; life until 1942; "Aktion"; escape of the family to the forest following a warning they got from a farmer; hiding with the farmer for 2 years 1942-1944; leaving the hiding place with the approach of the Russians; leaving Poland; reconstruction of life after the war; emigration to Israel; exile to Cyprus; Aliya back to Israel

results.listIds.fileNumber : 13758

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Letters and postcards sent to Chaim and Hadasa (Storch) Bester in Eretz Israel from their family in Lacko and Oleszyce, 1936-1940

Letters and postcards sent to Chaim and Hadasa (Storch) Bester in Eretz Israel from their family in Lacko and Oleszyce, 1936-1940 - Letter from Shmuel Bester of Lacko to his brother Chaim and sister-in-law Hadasa Bester in Eretz Israel, on the occasion of the birth of their daughter Devora, 28 December 1936; stationary bears the family logo on it - Distillers of Slivovitz [plum brandy]; - Postcard from the Storch family of Oleszyce to Chaim and Hadasa Bester in Eretz Israel, on the occasion of the birth of their daughter Tehilla, 25 November 1938; - Letter from The Hague to Hadasa Bester in Eretz...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 1948

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Postcard, Letter

results.listIds.lang : Polish, Yiddish

Testimony of Aharon Klepfer, born in 1930 in Zarnowiec, Poland, about his escape to the forests and hiding with Poles in 1942–1945

Childhood in a well-to-do Hasidic family; attending a cheder and a Polish school; antisemitic manifestations before the war; war breaks out; Germans arrive; anti-Jewish strictures; studies halted; business shut down; eviction from houses; men inducted; Aktion; murder; dispossession; burial of gold in the family's courtyard and depositing of furs with Polish friends; denunciation of Jews; abuse by members of the Hitlerjugend; Judenräte appointed and subsequently murdered; rumors about an additional Aktion; family escapes to the forest; builds a bunker; bunker discovered a Pole who informs on them to the Germans;...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 13312

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Postcard sent by Michal Freundlich from Dolina to Zvi Freundlich in Tel Aviv, 20 May 1941, regarding the murder of a family member during the mass murder in Zloczow, and a postcard sent by Hersch Wohl from Lwow to his son Isak Wohl in Tel Aviv, before the war Included in the file: - Article written by Nirit Shalev-Khalifa, regarding the family's photograph album; - Translation to Hebrew of the postcard sent by Freundlich; - Scans from the photograph album of Zipora (Spiegel) and Isak Wohl.

results.listIds.fileNumber : 1697

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Article, Postcard

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew, Yiddish

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results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

List of Jews who were murdered in the Kielce pogrom, 04/07/1946

List of Jews who were murdered in the Kielce pogrom, 04/07/1946 The list was prepared based on death notices published in newspapers, 25/07/1946.

results.listIds.fileNumber : 1194

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : List of Murdered Jews

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Documentation regarding the Kielce pogrom, 04/07/1946 and the history of the Jewish community in Kielce

Documentation regarding the Kielce pogrom, 04/07/1946 and the history of the Jewish community in Kielce - List of Jews murdered during the Kielce pogrom, 07/1946; - List prepared based on obituary notices published in newspapers, 25/07/1946; - Research paper by Efraim Weichselfisch regarding the Kielce riots and an article concerning the history of the Jewish community in Kielce.

results.listIds.fileNumber : 1194

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Article, Study, List of Murdered Jews

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Testimony of Tamara Tema (Shiferman) Bernholz, born in Sobolew, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Sobolew Ghetto, Korytnica, with the partisans in forests and in hiding in a village

Testimony of Tamara Tema (Shiferman) Bernholz, born in Sobolew, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Sobolew Ghetto, Korytnica, with the partisans in forests and in hiding in a village Deportation to the Sobolew Ghetto, 1940; escape; life in Korytnice including work; capture by the Germans; transfer to the Sobolew Ghetto; escape to forests; life in the forests; joins a group of partisans along with her sister; murder of her sister and the partisans; finds a hiding place; escape; joins another partisans group; life in hiding in a village; liberation by the Red Army, May 1945. Return to Sobolew;...

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Testimony of Zvi Rozenbaum Ben Ami, born in Dobrogoszczyce, Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, in hiding on the Aryan side, Czestochowa, in a bunker in the Sokolniki forest and while hidden in the home of the mayor of Lelow German occupation, September 1939; deportation to the Warsaw Ghetto; Warsaw Ghetto life including forced labor in exchange for food; Jewish police; smuggled to the Aryan side; hides in the cemetery during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, April 1943; sneaks onto a passenger train, several days later; secret move to Czestochowa; wanderings in fields in the area;...

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Testimony of Zvi Hershel Rozenfeld, born in Janow Lubelski, Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences in Janow Lubelski, Jedrzejow, the Pilatka forest, in hiding in Godziszow using a false identity and in other places Life before the war; religious family with many children; his father was a fish merchant. Outbreak of the war, September 1939; destruction of the family's home; escape to Jedrzejow with his family; life in Jedrzejow including transfer of his older brother to forced labor in a forest; "Aktion"; murder of his mother and grandmother, October 1942; escape to forests in the area; life in a forest...

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

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