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Testimony of Baruch Holtzman, born in Wyszkow, Poland, 1933, regarding his experiences in Bialystok, Siberia, Kazakhstan, Stettin and Israel

Testimony of Baruch Holtzman, born in Wyszkow, Poland, 1933, regarding his experiences in Bialystok, Siberia, Kazakhstan, Stettin and Israel His childhood in a Revisionist, traditional family. Outbreak of the war, 1939; escape to Bialystok; his father opens a soup kitchen; Zionist activities; detentions; transfer to a labor camp in Siberia; camp life for 14 months; transfer to Kazakhstan; transfer to a kolkhoz; attends a Soviet and Polish school; establishment of a clubhouse for young people; Zionist activities; end of the war. Move back to Stettin, Poland; antisemitism; activities in a Hashomer...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Lidia Gorovitz, born in Hotin, Ukraine, 1922, regarding her experiences in Hotin and Kamenets Podolsk

Testimony of Lidia Gorovitz, born in Hotin, Ukraine, 1922, regarding her experiences in Hotin and Kamenets Podolsk From a traditional family; marriage, 1940. Outbreak of the war and draft of her husband after one month when the witness is pregnant; German occupation; murder of Jews; robbery of property; escape of the family to Kamenets Podolsk; rape by a German soldier and a Romanian soldier and pregnancy; deportation of her father and her brother to Babi Yar; giving birth and murder of the baby by a German soldier. Remarriage after 20 years; aliya to Israel, 1989.

File Number : 36

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Ignác Horovic, born in Subotica, Yugoslavia, 1897, regarding his experiences as a forced laborer in the Hungarian Army labor battalions, 1939-1945

Memoirs of Ignác Horovic, born in Subotica, Yugoslavia, 1897, regarding his experiences as a forced laborer in the Hungarian Army labor battalions, 1939-1945 Vacation spent by Ignác Horovic and his wife Éva in Malo-les-Bains, France, 31 August 1939. Order expelling foreign citizens from France; failure of Ignác and Éva Horovic to obtain a visa to countries in South America; decision to return to Subotica; German occupation of Yugoslavia and annexation of the Délvidék area (including Subotica) to Hungary, spring 1941; execution of Jews suspected of anti-Hungarian activities; anti-Jewish legislation; mass...

File Number : 97

Type of Material : Musical Notes, Memoirs

Language : Hungarian

Memoirs of Arie Laban regarding his experiences in Warsaw, Minsk Mazowiecki and Kaluszyn

Memoirs of Arie Laban regarding his experiences in Warsaw, Minsk Mazowiecki and Kaluszyn Life in Warsaw before the war. Air-raids on Warsaw by the German Army; mass escape of residents, September 1939; escape on foot with a group to Minsk Mazowiecki during air-raids; sleeping in Minsk Mazowiecki in the home of a former student; life in Kaluszyn including the increase in air-raids and setting fire to wooden homes; German occupation; escape and unsuccessful attempt to find a hiding place in a nearby village; concentration of the young men in the area by German soldiers; deportation on a forced march with...

File Number : 184

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Polish

Memoirs in Polish and Hebrew of Rachel Auerbach (1903–1976), Yiddish-language author and journalist, concerning the eruption of the war in Warsaw in Septembeer 1939 and the fate of her relatives and acquaintances in the Holocaust Working as a proofreader for the Jewish newspaper Nasz Przegląd, summer 1939; tense atmosphere on the eve of the war; war breaks out; a Jewish institution for ill children in Otwock is bombarded; correspondence with relatives in Lwów until their deportation in summer 1942; lack of information about fate of nephew Mundek, whose traces vanished in Lwów in August 1942. The story of...

File Number : 1188

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

עדותו של Jack Friedman, קודם Ayzik Jakob Frydman, יליד Biała Podlaska, על קורותיו בפולין, ברה''מ, ליטא, יפן וסין בתקופת השואה

File Number : 12976

Type of Material : תמליל, Testimony

Language : English

זיכרונותיו של Menasha Balan יליד Balti 1933 על קורותיו בתקופת השואה

File Number : 12297

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Russian

Memoirs of Albin Ostrowski, formerly Hersz Chaim Watcblum, regarding the fate of the Jews of Zofiówka

- experiences of Zofiówka Jews during the war, written by Albin Ostrowski in 1944-1945: Description of Zofiówka (Sofievka, Trokhimbrod) – a Jewish village; arrival of the witness to Zofiówka at the end of 1939 as a refugee from Poland, and his work at a Jewish school in the village; life in Zofiówka under Soviet rule; outbreak of war on 22 June 1941; retreat of the Red Army through Zofiówka; persecution of Jews by Ukrainian nationalists; occupation by the Germans; robbery of Jewish property; forced labor; description of Dr. Klinger - a Jew who presented himself as a German, provided Zofiówka Jews with work...

File Number : 12267

Type of Material : Memoirs, Personal Documents

Language : English

Memoirs of Zhanna Zhermen Petyanchin, born in Kharkov, 1933, regarding her family's experiences in 1941, and documentation related to the Mezhibovskiy, Rafalskiy, and other families

--Memoirs of Zhanna Zhermen Petyanchin regarding her experiences at the outbreak of the war: -her father is a military pilot; childhood in transitions from place to place; arrival of the family in Medved, June 1941; the outbreak of war and the departure of her father to the front; - Memoirs of Zhanna Petyanchin about her visit to Ruzhin in 2015 as part of a roots journey; - History of the Rafalskiy, Petyanchin, Mezhobovskiy and other families, by Tal Rafalskaya; - Personal documentation of Yefim Mezhibovskiy and his wife Ida (nee Velikhovskiy) from the 1920s and 1950s; - An article about Maria...

File Number : 12128

Type of Material : Correspondence, Book, Personal Documents, Memoirs, Article, Letter

Language : Russian, Ukrainian

Memoirs of Zinaida Sorinzon (maiden name: Feygin), born in Gomel in 1934, regarding her family's experiences during the war

Memoirs of Zinaida Sorinzon (maiden name: Feygin), born in Gomel in 1934, regarding her family's experiences during the war - memoirs of Zinaida Sorinzon, with additions by her brother Mark Feygin, born in Gomel in 1929: Childhood in Gomel; air-raids at the outbreak of war; evacuation and arrival in Krasnaya Sloboda; her father's conscription into the Red Army in August 1941; life with her brother Mark and family in Krasnaya Sloboda and Chistopol from autumn 1942; information regarding her father's experiences in the Red Army (stay at the front in winter 1942; wounded and captured by the Germans in February...

File Number : 11984

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Russian

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