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Testimony of Elhanan Elkhononas Shokhoras Shahar, born in 1929 in Kaunas, Lithuania, about his experiences in the Kaunas ghetto, the Stutthof camp, and Dachau during the war

Life before the war; offspring of a traditional family; Soviet occupation ensues in 1940; nationalization of family business; Soviets retreat and German occupation ensues in June 1941; ghetto established and extended family joins witness in one apartment; wearing the yellow star; attending a vocational school; Aktionen; surrender of valuables and books; unsuccessful attempt to smuggle sister to the "Aryan" side; deportation from the ghetto in July 1944; parting from mother and sister in the Stutthof camp; taken to Landsberg (Dachau); life in the camp; hunger; the front closes in and the camp is evacuated on...

File Number : 13603

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Zeev Steinfeld, born in Krakow, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Bochnia Ghetto, Szebnie and Auschwitz

Memoirs of Zeev Steinfeld, born in Krakow, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Bochnia Ghetto, Szebnie and Auschwitz Deportation from the Bochnia Ghetto [to Szebnie], September 1943; life in Szebnie; [deportation to Auschwitz, 1943;] life in Auschwitz, from 1943; life using the false identity of Wolf Lehr; transfer by death march, 18 January 1945; transfer by train; escape.

File Number : 8037

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Edith (Veis) Rothschild, born in Balassagyarmat, Hungary, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Balassagyarmat Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Oberhohenelbe

Testimony

Testimony of Edith (Veis) Rothschild, born in Balassagyarmat, Hungary, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Balassagyarmat Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Oberhohenelbe Life before the war; the Jewish community. Discriminatory laws, 1938; effect of the laws on the Jews; drafting of her father and brother to forced labor at service jobs; arrival of refugees in the town; German occupation, March 1944; her mother's hospitalization in a hospital in Budapest; deportation to the Balassagyarmat Ghetto, 1944; ghetto life; guarding of the ghetto by Hungarian gendarmes; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau by train;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avraham Reinitz, born in Kosice Mesto, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding his experiences in Kosice Mesto, Auschwitz, Wustegiersdorf, Schottenwerk and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Avraham Reinitz, born in Kosice Mesto, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding his experiences in Kosice Mesto, Auschwitz, Wustegiersdorf, Schottenwerk and other places Life before the war; displays of antisemitism; his siblings' activities in Zionist movements. Outbreak of the war; re-annexation to Hungary; anti-Jewish restrictions; detention of his father; confiscation of Jewish property; transfer along with other Jews to the courtyard of the synagogue; deportation to a brick factory; life in the brick factory including labor in cleaning; deportation to Auschwitz, April 1944; camp life including...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Leon Herman Borer, born in Rudki, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Rudki Ghetto and in hiding in Rudki, Janovska, in the forest and in hiding in a village

Testimony

Testimony of Leon Herman Borer, born in Rudki, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Rudki Ghetto and in hiding in Rudki, Janovska, in the forest and in hiding in a village Life before the war; from a traditional family; attends a local school. German occupation, 1939; murder of Jews; Soviet occupation; danger of deportation to Siberia; termination of employment; draft of his brother into the Red Army; German occupation, 1941; restrictions on the Jews including white armband and Jewish star; travel restrictions; abuse of Jews; deportation to forced labor; "Aktion"; finds a hiding place with his...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe Monik Yakubovitz, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, Majdanek, Budzyn, Mielec and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Moshe Monik Yakubovitz, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, Majdanek, Budzyn, Mielec and other places Life before the war; witness learns in a "heder" and attends the Tarbut school. German occupation, 1939; anti-Jewish restrictions including wearing an armband; shearing of [beards of] elderly Jews; deportation to the Warsaw Ghetto; Warsaw Ghetto life including the death of Jews from hunger and their burial in a mass grave; his Bar Mitzvah in the ghetto; activities of the Jewish police; activities of workshops; Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB);...

File Number : 12893

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Menachem Haftka, born in Kozminek, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Kozminek Ghetto, Opatowek Ghetto, Schwenningen, Auschwitz and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Menachem Haftka, born in Kozminek, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Kozminek Ghetto, Opatowek Ghetto, Schwenningen, Auschwitz and other places Life before the war; education; Hechalutz activities; his father's death, 1937. German occupation; desecration of the synagogue and burning of Torah scrolls; shearing of beards of Jews; restrictions on the Jews including yellow badge; deportation to the Kozminek Ghetto; ghetto life; transfer to the Opatowek Ghetto; evacuation of the ghetto and murder of Jews in gas trucks; deportation of relatives to Lodz; deportation to Schwenningen by...

File Number : 12904

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Collection of the Van Leer Stichting (Van Leer Institute) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1941-1959

Collection of the Van Leer Stichting (Van Leer Institute) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1941-1959 The Van Leer Stichting (Van Leer Institute) was established in 1941 following anti-Jewish legislation in the Netherlands; financing of the institute came from the dissolution of the factory of B. van Leer, a Jewish industrialist who emigrated from the Netherlands to the United States; the anti-Jewish legislation, whose implementation in the Netherlands was appointed to H. A. Rauter, isolated the Jews from the cultural life in the Netherlands as of 15/09/1941; the Van Leer Institute provided a response, on one...

Type of Material : Protocol, Reports, Announcement, Notebook, Correspondence, Financial Accounts

Language : Dutch

Testimony of Shlomo Aleksander Berlinerblau, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, Zaporozhye, Kazakhstan and in the Red Army

Testimony

Testimony of Shlomo Aleksander Berlinerblau, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, Zaporozhye, Kazakhstan and in the Red Army From a traditional tailoring family with limited means; education; work as a welder; Hashomer Hatzair activities. Outbreak of the war, 1939; escape; return to Warsaw; deportation to the Warsaw Ghetto; escape in the direction of the Soviet Union, late 1940; arrest in Zaporozhye; German invasion of the Soviet Union, 1941; release from detention; travel to Kazakhstan; life in a kolkhoz including labor welding; drafted into the Red Army, winter...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shmuel Rapaport, born in Sobrance, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding his experiences in Uzhorod, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buna-Monowitz, a death march, Gleiwitz and Buchenwald

Testimony

Testimony of Shmuel Rapaport, born in Sobrance, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding his experiences in Uzhorod, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buna-Monowitz, a death march, Gleiwitz and Buchenwald From a traditional family; attends public school; studies to be a tailor. Re-annexation to Hungary; deportation to Uzhorod; return to Sobrance; German occupation, 1944; decrees including yellow badge; meets his brother; transfer back to Uzhorod; transfer to Auschwitz-Birkenau; camp life including the deaths of his parents; transfer to Buna-Monowitz; death march to Gleiwitz; transfer to Buchenwald; liberation by the US...

File Number : 12774

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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