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Testimony of Ovadia Walter Lapid Gebrandsdoffer, born in 1927 in Frankfurt Am Main, Germany, regarding his experiences in Frankfurt Am Main, in Strasbourg, in the Dordagne area, and in the ranks of the underground during the war, and more. Son of a traditional, non-Zionist family in Frankfurt Am Main; studies in a Jewish school; activity in the Habonim movement; deportation of his maternal grandparents to Krakow in 1934, because they were Polish citizens; confrontations with the Hitler Youth (Hitlerjugend -); escape to Strasbourg in 1937; studying in a non-Jewish school; antisemitism; government-initiated...

File Number : 13902

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zacharia Khimovitz, born in Zadne, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Sighet Ghetto, Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Theresienstadt

Testimony

Testimony of Zacharia Khimovitz, born in Zadne, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Sighet Ghetto, Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Theresienstadt Ultra-Orthodox family; learns in a "heder" and yeshivas in Mukacevo and Bekescsaba. Life under Czech and Hungarian rule; German occupation, 1944; deportation of the family to the Sighet Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from his family; selection and transfer to Buchenwald; forced labor in a Szikin factory; approach of the front and evacuation of the inmates on foot to Theresienstadt; liberation by the Red Army. Under the auspices of UNRRA,...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of David Monk, born in Szydlowiec Bei Radom, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in Wolanow, Radom, Pforzheim and Dachau

Testimony

Testimony of David Monk, born in Szydlowiec Bei Radom, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in Wolanow, Radom, Pforzheim and Dachau Life before the war; learns in a "heder" and a Polish school. German occupation, 1939; deportation to Wolanow, 1941; transfer to Radom; camp life including labor in a weapons factory; transfer to Pforzheim, 1942; camp life including labor digging tunnels; transfer to Dachau; camp life including typhus; liberation by the US Army. Medical treatment in Feldafing; studies in Stuttgart under the auspices of ORT; receives help from UNRRA, 1948; aliya to Israel, 1948;...

File Number : 12721

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew