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Testimony of Simcha David Licht, born in Belzyce, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in Belzyce, the Koprzywnica Ghetto, Skarzysko, Buchenwald, Schlieben and Theresienstadt

Testimony

Testimony of Simcha David Licht, born in Belzyce, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in Belzyce, the Koprzywnica Ghetto, Skarzysko, Buchenwald, Schlieben and Theresienstadt His family's life in Belzyce before the war; relations with the Poles. German occupation and decrees; Boyaner Rebbe's life as a refugee in the witness' family home; kidnappings to forced labor; establishment of the Koprzywnica Ghetto; ghetto life; Shabbat services in private homes; various forced labor assignments in the ghetto; kidnapping of the witness and his deportation to Skarzysko camp; camp life; humiliation by the...

File Number : 12119

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Saul Nisan Cohen, born in Arnhem, the Netherlands, 1935, regarding his experiences using a false identity with a non-Jewish family

Testimony

Testimony of Saul Nisan Cohen, born in Arnhem, the Netherlands, 1935, regarding his experiences using a false identity with a non-Jewish family Life before the war in Amsterdam; community life. German occupation; attends school; goes underground; placed with a Protestant family; assumes a false identity; learning Christian practises and goes to church; liberation. Reunion with his parents; studies a profession; aliya to Israel, 1949; studies in the Netherlands; life in Israel.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Eva Bluma (Apel) Goldstein, born in Salistea De Sus, Romania, 1931, regarding her experiences in Dragomiresti, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Georgenthal

Testimony

Testimony of Eva Bluma (Apel) Goldstein, born in Salistea De Sus, Romania, 1931, regarding her experiences in Dragomiresti, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Georgenthal Religious family; attends a Romanian school. Soviet occupation, 1940; German occupation; deportation to Dragomiresti, 1944; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; camp life including labor digging ditches; transfer to Georgenthal, December 1944; camp life including labor in an ammunitions factory; liberation. Return to Romania; aliya to Israel, 1982.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of David Friedman, born in Miskolc, 1915, regarding his experiences in the Munka camp, in the Budapest Ghetto; and in Auschwitz and other camps

Testimony

Testimony of David Friedman, born in Miskolc, 1915, regarding his experiences in the Munka camp, in the Budapest Ghetto; and in Auschwitz and other camps One of 11 children. Yellow badge; houses marked with a Jewish star; deportation to Munka camp; his father's murder in the camp; deportation to the Budapest Ghetto; transfer to a forced labor camp and Auschwitz; makes sacrifices in order to observe religious commandments; transfer to various camps, 1945. Return to Budapest at the end of the war; from there to Bucharest to search for survivors; registering for Aliyah Bet and travel to Italy; joining an...

File Number : 11641

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Pnina (Zin) Orren, born in Herincse, 1932, regarding her experiences in ghettos in Czechoslovakia, in the Birkenau camp, in the Tarnow forced labor camp, and on the death march

Testimony

Testimony of Pnina (Zin) Oren, born in Herincse, 1932, regarding her experiences in ghettos in Czechoslovakia, in the Birkenau camp, in the Tarnow forced labor camp, and on the death march Her father was a clerk, her mother a housewife; childhood in the village - holidays, every day life; education of the children -"heder" for boys and "heder" for girls before school hours; antisemitism in the village; the entry of the Hungarians, 1941; decrees directed against the Jews announced in the village by town crier and drums; forced labor for men; deportation to the Iza ghetto, April 1944, and from there to Chust;...

File Number : 11383

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ada Hinda (Rotman) Haimi, born in Hotin, Romania, 1934, regarding her experiences in Hotin, Mogilev and in an orphanage in Mogilev

Testimony

Testimony of Ada Hinda (Rotman) Haimi, born in Hotin, Romania, 1934, regarding her experiences in Hotin, Mogilev and in an orphanage in Mogilev Her childhood in Hotin. German Army occupation of Hotin, 1941; deportation to Transnistria on foot and in wagons; life in Mogilev-Podolski including hunger and collecting potato peels from the yards of Ukrainians, for several months; death of her mother; deportation to the [Zekisha?] Ghetto; ghetto life including hunger and acts of abuse on women; escape to her uncle's home in Mogilev; placed in an orphanage in Mogilev; orphanage life; liberation by the Red...

File Number : 11069

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Israel Lejbisz, born in 1919, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto and in the Auschwitz and Althammer camps

Testimony of Israel Lejbisz, born in 1919, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto and in the Auschwitz and Althammer camps Life in Lodz before the war; activities in the Poalei Agudat Israel party; the German occupation; holding underground meetings of party members and religious Jews in his home, including prayers, reading newspapers, studying Torah and listening to the radio; holding cultural events For religious Jews in his home; the guidance of the Rabbi from Kaliszki urging his followers not to believe the Germans, and to find a hiding place because of the deportation of the Jews for...

File Number : 1907

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Parties

Parties Short overview of Agudas Israel activities in the Leipheim DP camp, 1945-1946: establishment of a kosher kitchen, a study hall, a ritual bath, founding of the Chofetz Chaim Kibbutz, and the aliya of 60-70 members to Eretz Israel, 1946-1947, handwritten in Yiddish, one page; three pages in German. Also in the file: - Appeal from the Agudas Israel Party to the She'erith Hapletah in Germany; - Appeal from the Agudas Israel in the Leipheim DP camp to observe the sanctity of the Sabbath, in Yiddish, one page.

File Number : 26

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : Yiddish

Testimony

Testimony of Rywa (Ehrenberg) Abramowitz, born in Krakow, Poland, 1935, regarding her experiences as a young child in the Krakow Ghetto, Bochnia, in a protected house for orphaned children in Budapest and Bergen-Belsen From a religious family; life before the war. German occupation; deportation to the Krakow Ghetto; rescue of the family from deportation; in hiding during the final liquidation of the Krakow Ghetto; deportation to Bochnia; camp life; transfer to Budapest with help from smugglers; life in a protected house for orphaned children; transfer to Bergen-Belsen on the Kasztner train; camp life;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Menachem Mendel Ganz, born in Ternovo, Czechoslovakia, 1916, regarding his experiences in Ternovo, labor battalions in Torokbalint, Taksony, Kosice and various places in Hungary

Testimony

Testimony of Menachem Mendel Ganz, born in Ternovo, Czechoslovakia, 1916, regarding his experiences in Ternovo, labor battalions in Torokbalint, Taksony, Kosice and various places in Hungary Life in Ternovo; hunger, 1933; yeshiva studies in Galanta; return to Ternovo. Hardships under Hungarian rule, 1940; rescued from deportation to Galicia, 1942; drafted to a Hungarian Army labor camp and deportation to Kosice; transfer to Szolnok via Sighet, and Debrecen one month later; labor; transfer to Taksony; labor laying railroad tracks to Torokbalint; Hungarian cruelty in the camp; relations between the Jews;...

File Number : 10021

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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