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Testimony of David Zilbert, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, in hiding on the Aryan side and during the Warsaw Polish Uprising

Testimony

Testimony of David Zilbert, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, in hiding on the Aryan side and during the Warsaw Polish Uprising Leaving the Warsaw Ghetto, late 1940; selling newspapers; selling cigarettes in the Three Crosses Square; in hiding in various places in Warsaw using a false identity, 1941-1944; murder of his family in Treblinka, 1942; taking part in the Warsaw Polish Uprising, August 1944. Living in a Coordination organization kibbutz, 1946; unsuccessful aliya attempt to Eretz Israel, 1947; detention in Cyprus; fighting with the Palmach, 1947-1948;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Trial by the district courts in Klagenfurt, Vienna, Salzburg and Linz against members of the HSSPF Lublin, Volume 30; Testimony of Marcel Reich-Ranicki, an inmate of the Warsaw Ghetto, 1940-1943

Documentation from trials conducted in Landesgericht Klagenfurt (the Klagenfurt District Court), Landesgericht Wien (the Vienna District Court), Landesgericht Salzburg (the Salzburg District Court) and Landesgericht Linz (the Linz District Court) against members of the HSSPF (Höhere SS- und Polizeiführer-Higher SS and Police Leader) Lublin: Documentation of the trial, Volume 30; Testimony of Marcel Reich-Ranicki, an inmate of the Warsaw Ghetto, 1940-1943

File Number : 88

Type of Material : Legal Documentation, Names of Perpetrators, Official Documentation

Language : German

Trial by the district courts in Klagenfurt, Vienna, Salzburg and Linz against members of the HSSPF Lublin, Volume 5: Trial against Hermann Hoefle: Testimonies by German perpetrators and Jewish survivors, 1961

Documentation from trials conducted in Landesgericht Klagenfurt (the Klagenfurt District Court), Landesgericht Wien (the Vienna District Court), Landesgericht Salzburg (the Salzburg District Court) and Landesgericht Linz (the Linz District Court) against members of the HSSPF (Höhere SS- und Polizeiführer-Higher SS and Police Leader) Lublin: Trial against Hermann Hoefle; Testimonies by German perpetrators and Jewish survivors, 1961 Documentation from a trial conducted against Austrian war criminals, most of whom participated in "Aktion Reinhardt": - Investigation against Hermann Hoefle started in...

File Number : 62

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Names of Perpetrators, Legal Documentation

Language : German

Testimony

Testimony of Yehoshua Hotner, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1910, regarding his aliya to Eretz Israel in 1934 and the experiences of Avraham Levin, his brother-in-law, in the Warsaw Ghetto including the writing of a diary for the Oneg Shabbat Archives and his murder in Treblinka camp Life before the war; attends a Jewish high school and his teacher is Arie Levin; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1934; activities of Avraham Levin in the Oneg Shabbat Archives in the Warsaw Ghetto; discovery of Levin's diary in the Archives after the war; testimony of the murder of Avraham Levin in Treblinka; publication of the diary, 1969. ...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shalom Veis, born in Bekescsaba, Hungary, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Bekescsaba Ghetto, Auschwitz, Trzebinia, Sachsenhausen and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Shalom Veis, born in Bekescsaba, Hungary, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Bekescsaba Ghetto, Auschwitz, Trzebinia, Sachsenhausen and other places From an ultra-Orthodox family; antisemitism before the war. Anti-Jewish legislation; drafted to forced labor in the army; deportation of his father and brother to labor battalions, 1944; German occupation; deportation to the Bekescsaba Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life, June 1944; murder of his mother and younger siblings; transfer to Trzebinia, October 1944; camp life including forced labor setting up a crude oil refinery;...

File Number : 12260

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Lea (Rozin) Strosman born in Koenisberg, Germany, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto, Stutthof, Freudendorf and Leibisch camps

Testimony

Testimony of Lea (Rozin) Strosman born in Koenisberg, Germany, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto, Stutthof, Freudendorf and Leibisch camps Childhood in Vilkaviskis; attends a Hebrew school. Soviet occupation; rescue from deportation to Siberia; outbreak of the war, 1941; murder of her father, July 1941; transfer with her mother to her eldest sister's house in the Kaunas Ghetto, October 1941; transfer with her sister to a nearby camp; murder of her mother in the large "Aktion", October 1943; evacuation of the camp, summer 1944; deportation to Stutthof; camp life; transfer to Freudendorf...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yitzhak Ros, born in Lodz, Poland, 1915, regarding his experiences in Lubicz and the Lodz Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Yitzhak Ros, born in Lodz, Poland, 1915, regarding his experiences in Lubicz and the Lodz Ghetto Escape from Lodz, September 1939; rescue from the shelling; capture in Lubicz; escape to Lodz the day before Yom Kippur (27 September) 1939; life in Lodz; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto, May 1940; ghetto life; appointment of Mordechai Rumkowski as Judenalteste; power struggle within the ghetto administration including the distribution of jobs; work caring for the deportees from Czechoslovakia until 1943; running a pharmacy; evacuation of the ghetto and finding a hiding place in a bunker with his...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yechiel Gruntstein, born in Lodz, Poland, 1913, regarding his experiences in Lublin, Lodz, Slonim, as a partisan and rescuing Jewish children after the war

Testimony

Testimony of Yechiel Gruntstein, born in Lodz, Poland, 1913, regarding his experiences in Lublin, Lodz, Slonim, as a partisan and rescuing Jewish children after the war Life in Lublin before the war; move of the family to Lodz, 1939; drafted to the Polish Army in 1939 and move to Chestochowa. Outbreak of the war, September 1939; return to Lodz; escape to Slonim and time there until 21 June 1941; forced labor building roads; ghetto life; drafted to forced labor smashing gravestones of Jews; escape to the forests, partisans; life as a machine-gunner; antisemitism among the partisans; liberation by the Red...

File Number : 11279

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letter sent by Mordechai Tenenbaum-Tamaroff from Bialystok to his friends in Eretz Israel regarding the fate of the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, April 1943

Letter sent by Mordechai Tenenbaum-Tamaroff from Bialystok to his friends in Eretz Israel regarding the fate of the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, April 1943 Dror activities in Poland, 1941-1943; German policy regarding the Jews; life in Warsaw and in the ghetto including the economic and social situation; the Ringelblum Archives; the various parties in the ghetto; preparations for the uprising; the fate of Tema Schneiderman; negotiations with the Armia Krajowa (AK) and the Polska Partia Robotnicza (PPR- Communist Workers Party). Note: Copy of the original material from the ghetto archive dug up from deep in...

File Number : 9

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Hebrew

Script written by Rachel Auerbach for the film, "Heart Catchers" that portrays Holocaust survivors searching for relatives in the State of Israel

Script written by Rachel Auerbach for the film, "Heart Catchers"; the film portrays Holocaust survivors searching for their relatives in the State of Israel

File Number : 82

Type of Material : Play(s), Script(s)

Language : Hebrew, English, Yiddish

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