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Testimony of Abraham Ashkenazi, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1930 regarding his experiences in Pazardzhik

Manifestations of anti-semitism on the part of the teachers; moving to a Jewish school; Ben Gourion's visit to the city; recruiting his father for forced labour; deportation order to Pazardzhik; shelter in the local school; restrictions; loss of contact with his father; surviving on temporary jobs; going back to Sofia; joining the movement Poalei Zion Left; defense training; aliyah bet from Marseille on board the ship Pavio in 1948; participation in the Latrun battles and in the battles in Jerusalem

File Number : 13706

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zeev Ram (formerly Tibor Herman), born in Mukacevo, Czechoslovakia in 1930, ‎regarding his experiences in the Auschwitz, Fuerstenstein and Bergen Belsen camps, and the ‎death march

Testimony of Zeev Ram (formerly Tibor Herman), born in Mukacevo, Czechoslovakia in 1930, ‎regarding his experiences in the Auschwitz, Fuerstenstein and Bergen Belsen camps, and the ‎death march Childhood and early adolescence, up to the German entry into Hungary in March 1944; ‎deportation to Auschwitz in April 1944; transfer to Fuerstenstein ‎‏ ‏‎ in May 1944; death march in ‎February 1945; arrival in Bergen-Belsen in March-April 1945; Muselmann; death of his father and ‎brother; meeting with his mother and her disappearance in April 1945; liberation in April 1945; ‎recuperation in Sweden and preparation...

File Number : 13679

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Miriam (Klughaupt) Nir, born in Iasi, Romania, 1926, regarding her experiences in Iasi

Testimony

Testimony of Miriam (Klughaupt) Nir, born in Iasi, Romania, 1926, regarding her experiences in Iasi Childhood in Iasi including religious life and a Zionist atmosphere; attends a Hebrew kindergarten and a Jewish school; move to a Romanian private school, 1939; increasing displays of antisemitism; worsening attitude toward Jews; yellow badge. The Iasi pogrom; Red Army occupation of Iasi. Life after the war; meeting with Transnistria orphans; unsuccessful aliya attempt to Eretz Israel on the ship "Medinat Hajehudim", detention in Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel; enlists into the Palmach; [emigration from...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yehudit Edith (Linz) Yaron, born in Berlin, Germany, 1928, regarding her experiences in Berlin and Capot

Testimony

Testimony of Yehudit Edith (Linz) Yaron, born in Berlin, Germany, 1928, regarding her experiences in Berlin and Capot Her childhood in Berlin; placed in a children's home in Capot; life in Capot. Kristallnacht pogrom, 1938; detention of her father in Dachau; aliya to Eretz Israel, 31 December 1938.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Nisim Cohen, born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 1930, regarding his experiences in Plovdiv and in Israel

Testimony

Testimony of Nisim Cohen, born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 1930, regarding his experiences in Plovdiv and in Israel His family's life; visit in Germany in the context of [his father's] work, 1938 [?]. Taking control of the factory by the authorities; continuation of the factory's management by his father; work permit given to his father during the post-curfew hours [?]; life in Plovdiv including the decree regarding wearing a yellow badge; help by the community to find hiding places for refugees from Greece; concentration of the community in preparation for their deportation, March 1943; cancellation of the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Eliyahu Wulf, born in Oswiecim, Poland, 1926

Testimony

Testimony of Eliyahu Wulf, born in Oswiecim, Poland, 1926 From a religious family. German occupation; deportation to Tschechowitz and from there to Rzepiennik; detention in the local synagogue; in hiding while all the persons in the synagogue were taken out and murdered in a killing pit dug in advance; wanderings for approximately two years; transfer willingly to the Krakau Plaszow camp; typhus; transfer to Ostrowiec and from there to Birkenau; tattoo number B-4407; transfer to Swietochlowice; aid from the German supervisor; approach of the front and deportation to Mauthausen by train; selection and...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ahron Adolf Bitter, born in Biala Bielsko, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in Brody, Stryj, Siberia, Namangan and more

Testimony

Testimony of Ahron Adolf Bitter, born in Biala Bielsko, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in Brody, Stryj, Siberia, Namangan and more His childhood; good relations with the Poles. Pogrom; draft of his father to the Polish Army, summer 1939; transfer east to Brody and Stryj with his mother by train; deportation to Siberia; hard labor in the forests and factories; cold and hunger; arranging a strike and transfer to Ural; fasting on Yom Kippur; transfer to Uzbekistan; labor in an oil factory in Namangan; fostered by a Jewish family; end of the war. Return to Krakow, 1945; joins a Poalei Zion...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Tamar Berta (Blumer) Tsachor, born in Bucharest, Romania, 1929, regarding her experiences in Bucharest and her aliya to Eretz Israel, 1943

Testimony

Testimony of Tamar Berta (Blumer) Tsachor, born in Bucharest, Romania, 1929, regarding her experiences in Bucharest and her aliya to Eretz Israel, 1943 Liberal, traditional family; witness joins a Hashomer Hatzair "nest"; dismissal of her mother from her work, 1939; ban on attending and studying in a Romanian school, 1941; attends a Jewish school. Draft of her father to labor battalions; riots in the Jewish neighborhoods by the Iron Guard; Hashomer Hatzair movement is declared illegal, and they meet secretly in the home of children; detention of her brother; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1943.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Madlen (Alkalai) Cohen, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, 1928, regarding her experiences in Sofia and Vratsa

Testimony

Testimony of Madlen (Alkalai) Cohen, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, 1928, regarding her experiences in Sofia and Vratsa Deportation to Vratsa; yellow badge. Aliya to Eretz Israel with Youth Aliyah, 1946; absorption; her son was killed in action during the Yom Kippur War.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chava Edith (Klein) Gantz, born in Sevlus, Czechoslovakia, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Sevlus Ghetto, Auschwitz, Theresienstadt, Wilischtahl camp, Birkenau and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Chava Edith (Klein) Gantz, born in Sevlus, Czechoslovakia, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Sevlus Ghetto, Auschwitz, Theresienstadt, Wilischtahl camp, Birkenau and other places Life before the war; education in Chust; attends a Beit Yaakov school; her father's activities in the Mizrachi movement; Hashomer Hatzair membership. Annexation to Hungary, 1939; restrictions on the Jews and numerus clausus; draft of her father to a labor battalion; deportation of Jews to Kamenetz Podolski and Kolomea and their murder; German occupation, 1944; yellow badge; deportation to the Sevlus Ghetto;...

File Number : 13032

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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