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Testimony of Mirka (Klaver) Zaklikovski, born in Lodz, Poland, 1927, regarding the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, and other camps, 1940-1945

Testimony

Childhood before the war; Outbreak of the war; arrival of refugees from Czechoslovakia and Germany; restrictions; deportation to the ghetto; curfew; forced labor; taking of her father to forced labor; "Aktions"; public hangings of Jews; escapes from the ghetto; cultural life in the ghetto; liquidation of the ghetto; transfer to labor camps in Germany; working in a weapons factory; reasonable treatment by the Germans; liberation by the British Army; Rebuilding life after the war; aliya to Israel, 1949.

File Number : 13855

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Hela (Feltz) Reznik, born in Bedzin, Poland, 1925 regarding her experiences in the Parschnitz labor camp, Czechoslovakia

Testimony

Prewar childhood; antisemitism; plans for aliya to Eretz Israel; outbreak of the war; German occupation; burning of houses; deportation to the Parschnitz labor camp, Czechoslovakia; camp life, 1941-1945; hunger; longing; murder of her family; liberation by the Red Army; Rebuilding life after the war; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1948.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ze'ev Yitzhaki, born in Iasi, Romania, 1936, regarding his experiences in Iasi during the war

Testimony

Testimony of Ze'ev Yitzhaki, born in Iasi, Romania, 1936, regarding his experiences in Iasi during the war Early childhood. Increase in anti-Semitism, 1939; anti-Jewish orders and legislation; pogrom at police stations and trains, June 1941; the bombings.Liberation by the Red Army, summer of 1944; joining the Dror organization; moving to a children's home in Piatra Neat; boarding the illegal immigrant ship Pan York, December 1947; exile to Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel, March 1948; absorption.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chava (Eva) Liber Benkel, born in 1927 in Lodz, Poland, regarding the Lodz ‎Ghetto, Auschwitz and other camps

Testimony

Childhood in Lodz; antisemitism before the war; German conquest and occupation in September 1939; the yellow star; burning of synagogues; liquidation of the Lodz ghetto in April 1940; starvation; arrival of refugees; constant struggle for survival; the Judenrat; deportations to Chelmno in January 1942; typhus epidemic; השפרה in September 1942; Jewish police; working in various workshops ("ressortes"); ghetto songs; deportation to Auschwitz in summer 1944; separation from family; transfer to Langenbielau a day later; transfer to Hundsfeld Breslau several days later; work in a munitions factory; starvation;...

File Number : 13796

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Tzafrir Shteir Sara, born in Bedzin, Poland, in 1930 regarding the Srodula ghetto and regarding the Peterswaldau camp

Childhood before the war; programming aliya to Israel; aliya of the two brothers ; confiscation of family businesses; outbreak of the war; burning the synagogue and houses of Jews; deportation to ghetto; forced labor; murder of the father; "aktions"; deportation of the mother and sister to Auschwitz Birkenau; deportation of the witness with her sister to Peterswaldau; help of the German female commander; liberation by the Russians; escape to the American side; rehabilitation of life after the war; aliya to Israel in 1946

File Number : 13661

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Nancy Vera Rachel Arbel, born in Baktaloranthaza, Hungary, in 1826 regarding deportation to the Auschwitz Birkenau , Plaszow and Reichenbach camps

Testimony

Childhood before the war; coexistence; outbreak of the war; restrictions on Jews; German occupation in March 1944; deportation to ghetto; mutual help; robbery of property; fictitious marriage for the purpose of rescue; deportation to Auschwitz Birkenau; transfer to Plaszow; transfer to a protected camp; improvement in food and living conditions; transfer back to Auschwitz Birkenau; transfer to Germany for agricultural works and for working in a factory manufacturing planes; liberation by the Russians; rehabilitation of life after the war; aliya to Israel in 1949

File Number : 13703

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yuta Margot Herman, born in Cernauti, Bukovina, Romania, 1930 regarding her deportation to Transnistria and life in Mogilev Podolskiy

Testimony

Childhood in a well-to-do traditional family; German cultural influence; attends a local school; Soviet occupation, 1940; rumors of deportation to Siberia and escape; outbreak of the war, June 1941; German invasion; disappearance of her father with additional men; deportation to a ghetto, 11 October 1941; deportation by train to Mogilev Podolskiy, Transnistria; bribing Romanian policemen to prevent further deportation; living with the extended family, 26 people, in one house in the ghetto under crowded conditions; participation in a children's theater; liberation by the Soviets, spring 1944; Return to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mordechay (Paul Georg) Fleischer, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1926 regarding his escape to Budapest, deportation to detention camps, escape from a death march and residing in the Glass House

Testimony

Childhood before the war; Fascist Slovakia, 1938; antisemitic events; Attempts to move to Budapest, Hungary, winter 1942-1943; getting arrested by Hungarian soldiers while escaping; sent back to Slovakia; escape to Hungary with the aid of a smuggler; arrival in Budapest; capture and arrest; decrees and restrictions; transferred to a prison by two Hungarian soldiers; deportation to a brick factory; escape to a marked house; capture and deportation for labor building fortifications and digging anti-tank trenches near Solnok, late October 1944; march towards Austria; escape to the Red Cross house in Budapest...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Judith Brinkman (Rubin), born in Kobenhavn, Denmark in 1926, regarding her experiences in Kobenhavn and in Theresienstadt from 1943

Childhood in an ultra-orthodox family in Kobenhavn; outbreak of the war, 1940 and invasion of the Germans; attendance at public school and sewing studies; sudden expulsion from home to the port during the night after Rosh Hashana 1943, from there to Germany by boat and to Theresienstadt by train; life with her mother and sister; prolonged hospital stay; death of her father,February 1944; working in a factory and in a children's home with babies; visit of the Danish delegation and the Red Cross; moving to another apartment in preparation for the visit; getting packages; liberation 15 April,1945; warm reception...

File Number : 13467

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mordekhai Miklosh Shtraser born in Budapest, Hungary, 1931, regarding life in Budapest during the war in a protected house and using a false Christian identity

Testimony

Childhood in an indigent ultra-Orthodox family; life in a Jewish environment; studies in a Jewish school; drafting of his father and two brothers to a labor battalion; German occupation, March 1944; continued living in a marked house; bringing additional people into the house; air-raids; transfer to a protected house by a cousin, a refugee from Slovakia; with the assistance of the cousin, transfer with his family to the hiding place of a Jew who was deported, October 1944; living under a false Christian identity; bringing food from a pantry in a bombed house; living in a shelter from late 1944 until...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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