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Announcement of the opening of a new session at Kibbutz Kovshei Hayam, the sailors' kibbutz at the Judische Marineschule in the Deggendorf DP camp, posted by the main administration of Noar Chaluzi Meuchad (Nocham) in Germany

File Number : 786

Type of Material : Announcement

Language : Yiddish

Advertisements for the exhibition "The Task of Construction" sponsored by the HaHistadrut HaZionit Achida (United Zionist Federation) and Nocham (Noar Chaluzi Meuchad)

File Number : 686

Type of Material : Poster

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Samuel Fischer, born in Jaworzno, 1913, regarding his experiences in Wolfsberg, Barth, Gogolin, Ottmuth, Markstaedt, Fuenfteichen and Bergen-Belsen camps

Testimony

Testimony of Samuel Fischer, born in Jaworzno, 1913, regarding his experiences in Wolfsberg, Barth, Gogolin, Ottmuth, Markstaedt, Fuenfteichen and Bergen-Belsen camps His family; attends a Polish school and "heder"; work in the family grocery store. German occupation of Poland and anti-Jewish legislation, 01 September 1939; yellow badge; restrictions and bans; deportation of the men to Ottmuth to Zwangsarbeitlager - forced labor camp; transfer from one camp to another from 1940 until liberation, 1945: Golomik, Wolfsberg, Barth, Gogolin, Markstaedt and Fuenfteichen; labor uprooting trees, laying roads and...

File Number : 11862

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Tzipora Fany (Alperowitz) Erel, born in Vilna, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, hiding, Kaiserwald, Strassenhof, Stutthof and a death march

Testimony

Testimony of Tzipora Fany (Alperowitz) Erel, born in Vilna, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, hiding, Kaiserwald, Strassenhof, Stutthof and a death march Her family and life before the war; hostile attitude of Poles towards Jews. Entry of the Russians and the change in their lives; entry of the Germans and the immediate ramifications; decrees against Jews; organization of cultural activities by the Jewish community; school activities and the children's clubhouse in the ghetto; "Aktions"; her family hides and is discovered; deportation of her family to Kaiserwald and then to Strassenhof...

File Number : 10857

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zalman Dukstulski, born in Dubinowo, 1918, regarding his experiences in Woronowo, Dubinowo, Lida prison and with partisans in Vilna area forests

Testimony

Testimony of Zalman Dukstulski, born in Dubinowo, 1918, regarding his experiences in Woronowo, Dubinowo, Lida prison and with partisans in Vilna area forests Childhood without a father; education in Vilna. Entry of the Soviets, 1940; return to Dubinowo; entry of the Germans, 1941; escape of Jews towards Russia; deportation to a ghetto; forced labor removing peat; wanderings between Vilna and Dubinowo; marriage; detention; detention in a Lida prison; murder of the witness' mother and wife after bring informed on; joining the partisans in the forest; rescue of Jews from the Vilna Ghetto; hiding Jews with a...

File Number : 10016

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yaakov Golan, born in Daugavpils, Latvia, 1923, regarding his experiences in Riga and the Red Army

Testimony

Testimony of Yaakov Golan, born in Daugavpils, Latvia, 1923, regarding his experiences in Riga and the Red Army Death of his mother; move to Riga, 1929; attends a Hebrew school; membership in Hashomer Hatzair; displays of antisemitism. Annexation to the Soviet Union, 1940; German occupation, 03 July 1941; escape to the East; draft into the Red Army, late 1941; wounded, August 1942; hospitalization in Yaroslavl for six months; return to the front, summer 1943; wounded; transfer to the Belorussian front, summer 1944; end of the war. Release from the Red Army, 1946; disguises as a Polish civilian; move...

File Number : 9984

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Elkana Levkovitz, born in Lututow, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Zdunska Wola Ghetto, Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Landsberg and a death march

Testimony

Testimony of Elkana Levkovitz, born in Lututow, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Zdunska Wola Ghetto, Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Landsberg and a death march Move of his family to Zdunska Wola, 1929; vocational training in textiles; activities in the Hanoar Hatzioni movement. Forced labor on the pioneer farm in the Zdunska Wola Ghetto; mass hangings of Jews; smuggle of vegetables into the ghetto for his family; liquidation of the ghetto and transfer to the Lodz Ghetto, August 1942; attempts to establish an underground; labor on a plot of land; labor in a carpentry workshop; deportation to...

File Number : 9588

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Genia Gita Lerner, born in Bedzin, Poland, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Sosnowiec Ghetto, Gelenau, Langenbielau and Bergen-Belsen

Testimony

Testimony of Genia Gita Lerner, born in Bedzin, Poland, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Sosnowiec Ghetto, Gelenau, Langenbielau and Bergen-Belsen Life before the war. German occupation; attends a secret Jewish school; move with Hanoar Hatzioni to a farm in Sosnowiec; rescue from selections; deportation to the Sosnowiec Ghetto, 1942; ghetto life; deportation to Gelenau; camp life including forced labor in a weaving factory; transfer to Langenbielau, 1944; camp life; transfer to Bergen-Belsen, February 1945; typhus; liberation by the British Army, 15 April 1945. Lengthy hospitalization; move...

File Number : 9231

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avraham Barak, born in Sighet, Romania, regarding his experiences in Auschwitz and Birkenau

Testimony

Testimony of Avraham Barak, born in Sighet, Romania, regarding his experiences in Auschwitz and Birkenau Life before the war; his father is a tailor; witness attends a "heder" and a public school; work at a young age as a metalworker's apprentice. Hungarian occupation, 1941; displays of antisemitism; deportation of his father to a labor camp; his father returns home; deportation to a ghetto, early 1943; deportation to Auschwitz; transfer to Birkenau; transfer to various camps; camp life including forced labor assignments logging trees, builds a bridge in a quarry; liberation. Typhus; return home;...

File Number : 8195

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Pinchas Grinberger, born in Baiamare, Romania, 1929, regarding his experiences in Baiamare and camps

Testimony

Testimony of Pinchas Grinberger, born in Baiamare, Romania, 1929, regarding his experiences in Baiamare and camps His chiidhood in an ultra-Orthodox home; life under Romanian rule until 1940; antisemitism; Subbotniks; his brother Hirsh "abandons" their background and becomes a Zionist; his brother's influence. Hungarian occupation from 1940; antisemitism and shearing of sidelocks; rumors concerning what is happening in Poland, 1943; deportation to the ghetto; concentration in a brick factory; attitude of the neighbors; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, May 1944; transfer to labor clearing the rubble of...

File Number : 7899

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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