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Testimony of Moshe Vegner, born in 1923 in Mihaileni, Romania, about his experiences in the Mogilev Podolski ghetto, in Dorohoi, immigration to Eretz Israel via Istanbul in 1944, and more

Testimony

Testimony of Moshe Vegner, born in 1923 in Mihaileni, Romania, about his experiences in the Mogilev Podolski ghetto, in Dorohoi, immigration to Eretz Israel via Istanbul in 1944, and more Life before the war, membership in the Hanoar Hazioni youth movement; Soviet occupation ensues in 1940; antisemitism in Dorohoi; arrest of rabbi in Mihaileni; synagogue is searched; arrest of brother in 1940; German-Soviet war breaks out; evacuation of Dorohoi in 1940; witness sent to forced labor in Atachi; deportation by ferry to Mogilev Podolski ghetto; life in an open ghetto; given shelter in a synagogue; life in...

File Number : 13475

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Aliza Liza (Beer) Tannenbaum, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1932, regarding her experiences as a child in the Shargorod Ghetto, Cernauti Ghetto and the Bucharest Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Aliza Liza (Beer) Tannenbaum, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1932, regarding her experiences as a child in the Shargorod Ghetto, Cernauti Ghetto and the Bucharest Ghetto Family background. Deportation to the Cernauti Ghetto; yellow badge, 1941; deportation to Mogilev by freight train, October 1941; from there to Shargorod by wagon; life in the Shargorod Ghetto with her family; selling of goods to support the family; typhus fever; food parcels from the family in Bucharest; organized life in the ghetto, December 1942; Dr. Meir Teich; return to Suceava, 1944. Life with her family; move to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rosa (Shekhtman) Zelichowski, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1929, regarding her experiences in Cernauti, Atachi, Mogilev, Yaruga, Skazintsy and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Rosa (Shekhtman) Zelichowski, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1929, regarding her experiences in Cernauti, Atachi, Mogilev, Yaruga, Skazintsy and other places Her childhood with her parents. Red Army occupation of Cernauti, 1940; witness attends a Jewish school; German Army occupation of Cernauti, June 1941; establishment of the Cernauti Ghetto; her father's labor as a barber in service of the Gestapo; life under German occupation including restrictions on travel and the termination of studies; her family receives a warning concerning a Gestapo raid; deportation in the direction of the east toward...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Lea (Shvarts) Gildin, born in Vilna, (Lithuania) Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in Vilna, the Oszmiana Ghetto, Miligan, Janischken, in hiding and in other places

Testimony

Testimony of Lea (Shvarts) Gildin, born in Vilna, (Lithuania) Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in Vilna, the Oszmiana Ghetto, Miligan, Janischken, in hiding and in other places Her childhood with her parents. Red Army occupation of Vilna, September 1939; arrival of refugees from Poland; German Army occupation of Vilna, 1941; deportation of her brother to forced labor; deportation to the Vilna Ghetto; life under German occupation including the imposition of decrees and termination of studies; escape from the ghetto; transfer to the Oszmiana Ghetto; selection in the ghetto; concentration of Jews in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Esther Ton, born in Kursenai, Lithuania, 1919, regarding her experiences in Raseiniai, the Siauliai Ghetto and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Esther Ton, born in Kursenai, Lithuania, 1919, regarding her experiences in Raseiniai, the Siauliai Ghetto and other places Her parents' home; move to Raseiniai; marriage, 1939. Red Army occupation of Lithuania; nationalization of Jewish property; escape to a village; air-raids, June 1941; murder of her husband; German Army occupation of Lithuania, 1941; life under German occupation including the imposition of restrictions and decrees; murder of her father; transfer of her mother and her sister to Zagreb; decree regarding wearing a yellow badge; concentration of the Jews in a storeroom;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rachel (Kertovitz) Vigoda, born in Rozan, Poland, 1929

Testimony

Testimony of Rachel (Kertovitz) Vigoda, born in Rozan, Poland, 1929 Her parents' home. Concentration of the Polish Army in Rozan; German occupation, 1939; leaving her home; air-raids; escape to Ostrow; German occupation of Ostrow; travel restrictions; shearing of beards; bread rationing; opportunity to transfer to the Soviet Union; warm welcome in Bialystok, the Soviet Union; living in a synagogue; transfer to Pochowic, Belorussia; living quarters in a cinema; transfer to the Pochowic railroad station; attends a Soviet school; invasion of the German Army into the Soviet Union, June 1941; escape by train;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Lucyna (Szwarc) Bilotinsky, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1937, regarding her experiences as a child in Bialystok, her escape to the Soviet Union, in the Mordovkaya region and in Saransk

Testimony

Testimony of Lucyna (Szwarc) Bilotinsky, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1937, regarding her experiences as a child in Bialystok, her escape to the Soviet Union, in the Mordovkaya region and in Saransk Family background; family life at home; arrest of her parents on the charge of Communist activities. Occupation of Bialystok; life under Soviet rule; reoccupation by the Germans after the outbreak of the war between the Soviet Union and Germany, 1941; escape to the East on a freight train; shooting and air-raids by the Germans; in hiding and losing property; travel by train; approaching Minsk; burning of the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Baruch Feldman, born in Lomazy, Poland, 1927, regarding his experiences in Brzesc Nad Bugiem, Zhlobin, Sutkowtsy, Ural, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan

Testimony

Testimony of Baruch Feldman, born in Lomazy, Poland, 1927, regarding his experiences in Brzesc Nad Bugiem, Zhlobin, Sutkowtsy, Ural, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan Childhood in Lomazy; death of his mother, and his father's emigration to Argentina; living with his grandmother and aunt; learns in a yeshiva in Brzesc Nad Bugiem. German occupation, 1939; escape of the family to Brzesc Nad Bugiem which is under Soviet control; transfer to Zhlobin, Belorussia, 1939; transfer to an orphanage in Sutkowtsy, 1940; at the outbreak of the war between the Soviet Union and Germany, transfer to a kolkhoz in Novo Petroka,...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Golda (Rudashevsky) Messeg, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1930, regarding her experiences in Dzhizak, Vilna and Siberia

Testimony

Testimony of Golda (Rudashevsky) Messeg, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1930, regarding her experiences in Dzhizak, Vilna and Siberia Childhood. Occupation of Lithuania by the Red Army, 1940, German Army air-raids; hints to her father about his expected detention; escape in a wagon in the direction of Latvia; crossing the border to the Soviet Union; travel on a freight train via Samarkand and Tashkent; arrival at Dzhizak, Uzbekistan; hunger; her mother's labor in a kolkhoz; demand from the authorities for the return of her father for work, January 1945. Return to Vilna; activities of her father in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Eugenia Jenya (Rabinovitz) Sartena, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1930, regarding her experiences in Warsaw, a children's home in Sarapul, in Siberia and Oro Ktura

Testimony

Testimony of Eugenia Jenya (Rabinovitz) Sartena, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1930, regarding her experiences in Warsaw, a children's home in Sarapul, in Siberia and Oro Ktura Childhood, emigration to France and return to Poland. German occupation, September 1939; Soviet occupation; transfer of her family to a house on the outskirts of the city and definition as an unwanted element; Operation Barbarossa; deportation of her family to Siberia; life in the Sarapul children's home in Ural; transfer to Karakulino; lice, hepatitis; hunger; labor in the fields; search for her parents; unification of the family; move...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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