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Memoirs of Tanya (Shuchmacher) Uzenkel, born in Proskurov, Ukraine, 1925, regarding her experiences in the ghetto, in a camp, in hiding in Proskurov and in the Stanislavchik Ghetto

Memoirs of Tanya (Shuchmacher) Uzenkel, born in Proskurov, Ukraine, 1925, regarding her experiences in the ghetto, in a camp, in hiding in Proskurov and in the Stanislavchik Ghetto Life in Proskurov at the time of the outbreak of the war; deportation to the Proskurov Ghetto; deportation to forced labor at the military headquarters in Leznevo; liquidation of the ghetto and murder of the Jews with the exception of the professionally skilled workers (among them, her mother, who was a seamstress); deportation of the family to the local camp; "Aktion" and being hidden with her family in the cellar in the home of...

File Number : 8631

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Russian

Testimony of Bracha (Shenfeld) Feigenblum, born in Drohobycz, Poland in 1926, regarding her experiences in Drohobycz, Stalingrad and Uzbekistan

Testimony of Bracha (Shenfeld) Feigenblum, born in Drohobycz, Poland in 1926, regarding her experiences in Drohobycz, Stalingrad and Uzbekistan German occupation of Drohobycz in September 1939; Soviet occupation; life under Soviet occupation until June 1941; escape to the Soviet Union in June 1941; escape to Stalingrad in February 1942; escape to Uzbekistan; life in Uzbekistan during 1942-1944; severely injured, and recuperation in 1943; search for and rescue of Jewish children in Lublin in 1945; escape over various borders in the context of the Bericha organization in 1946; aliya to Eretz Israel in April...

File Number : 13932

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Pavel Klein regarding his experiences in a labor battalion in Budapest, Hungary, his desertion from the battalion during a death march to Stary Oskol, his imprisonment in a Soviet POW camp and his service as a physician on the front lines in the Czech unit of the Red Army Work as a physician in the Jewish hospital in Budapest, Hungary. Outbreak of the war; draft of the Jewish men to labor battalions at the front; draft of his brother, Laci; message regarding the death of his brother; draft of Pavel to a labor battalion as a physician, late 1942; final preparations and arrival in Ersekujvar;...

File Number : 8555

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Zinoviy Rodshtein, born in Kiev, Ukraine, regarding his experiences in prisons in Gorkiy, Kharkov, Kiev, in a Soviet forced labor camp in the Kirov region and more

Memoirs of Zinoviy Rodshtein, born in Kiev, Ukraine, regarding his experiences in prisons in Gorkiy, Kharkov, Kiev, in a Soviet forced labor camp in the Kirov region and more Life before the war; work as the Executive Secretary of the local Comsomol Movement (Union of Communist Youth) Committee, 1936; detention of his friend, Mitya Komardinov; Rodshtein's refusal to accept the accusations leveled against his friend; dismissal from work due to his friendship with a Trotsky-terrorist; expulsion from the Communist Party; arrest, 28 October 1937; interrogations; life in prison; crowding in the cells; abuse by...

File Number : 8546

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Memoirs

Language : Russian

Testimony of Aharon Feigenblum, born in 1919 in Włocławek, Poland, about his experiences as a member of the Hashomer Hatzair movement in Kalisz, in Warsaw, and in the movement underground in the Soviet Union

Receives a religious education; joins the Hashomer Hatzair movement; lives in a hakhshara (training center) in Kalisz in 1937; Kol Nidre eve in 1939; three Jews murdered; witness escapes to his parents in Warsaw in November 1939; escapes to Wilno and lives there until June 1940; escapes to Tashkent and Samarkand in 1941; membership in the Hashomer Hatzair underground in the Soviet Union in 1941–1944; involved in the affair surrounding Mordechai Rozman, a leader of the underground, who succumbed to NKVD interrogation and surrendered names of underground members; liberation and return to Poland in December 1945;...

File Number : 13553

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sara (Libovitz) Bialik, born in Plunge, Lithuania in 1922, regarding her experiences in Klaipeda, in Latvia and Samarkand

Testimony of Sara (Libovitz) Bialik, born in Plunge, Lithuania in 1922, regarding her experiences in Klaipeda, in Latvia and Samarkand Her parents are dentists; studies in Klaipeda; her father visits Eretz Israel in 1938; outbreak of the war; visit by Hitler to Klaipeda, and the annexation of Klaipeda to Germany; escape to Lithuania; German occupation, 1941; escape to Latvia on the day of the invasion; murder of Jewish students at the university; air-raids on convoys of escapees; she gets onto the last train traveling toward the east; escape to Samarkand; her father's suicide attempt; detention of her...

File Number : 13619

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Yizhak Zwik, born in Ulyaniki, Ukraine, 1924, regarding his experiences in Torchin, Kiev, Dobranichevka, Pereyaslav and in hiding, 1941-1945

Memoirs of Yizhak Zwik, born in Ulyaniki, Ukraine, 1924, regarding his experiences in Torchin, Kiev, Dobranichevka, Pereyaslav and in hiding, 1941-1945 Outbreak of the war; German Army occupation of Ulyaniki; life under German occupation including acts of abuse and murder; move to Torchin with his family; his mother and sister move to Ozdeniz; deportation of men ages 17-60 to forced labor; deportation to Kiev; confiscation of valuables; camp life including labor unloading and loading various materials; murder of inmates and execution of sick people in the camp; plan to escape; injury of his father; transfer...

File Number : 8502

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Russian

Personal documents of Leib Ovseevich, born in Poltava, Ukraine, 1925, and memoirs of his daughter Raisa Kotlyar, regarding the experiences of the Ovseevich family

Personal documents of Leib Ovseevich, born in Poltava, Ukraine, 1925, and memoirs of his daughter Larisa Kotlyar, regarding the experiences of the Ovseevich family - Confirmation regarding the deferment of the draft of Leib Ovseevich to the Red Army, issued in Kirov, 05 June 1943; - Description of the personal character of Leib Ovseevich by the Technikum in Tashkent, in which Ovseevich studied, 1946-1950; - Certificate presented to Leib Ovseevich, 20 June 1950; - Confirmation regarding the cancellation of charges against Meyer Ovseevich, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1900, who was detained by the NKVD...

File Number : 373

Type of Material : Documentary, Memoirs, Personal Documents, Certification

Language : Russian

Memoirs of Leah (Szklasz) Goltzman, born in Chelm, Poland, 1936, regarding her experiences during wanderings in the Ukraine and Stalinsk

Memoirs of Leah (Szklasz) Goltzman, born in Chelm, Poland, 1936, regarding her experiences during wanderings in the Ukraine and Stalinsk Family life in Chelm. German occupation; escape of her family from Chelm, 1939; death of her grandfather, David Szklasz, apparently from starvation, in Ukraine; arrival in Stalinsk; arrest of her father by the NKVD and his deportation to a camp; life in Stalinsk with her mother until 1945. Return to Poland with her mother after the war; arrival in Szczecin; move to a DP camp in Austria under the protection of the US military government; DP camp life in the Linz area...

File Number : 8405

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English

Memoirs of Jerzy Swierkosz, born in Lwow, Poland, 02 May 1934, regarding the experiences of his family in the Grabowa area within a historical and geographical context, and the fate of the Jewish community during the war Memoirs of Jerzy Swierkosz written for his grandchild; a history of the area of the Kamionka Strumillowa district, survey of the activities of the residents, notes on the personalities of various people in the vicinity, a description of daily life in the villages, local folklore, about the family and contacts with the neighbors. Chapter devoted to the destruction of the local Jewish...

File Number : 8365

Type of Material : List of Names, Memoirs, Photograph, Diagram, List of Residents

Language : Polish

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