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File Number : 1244

Type of Material : Booklet(s)

Language : Yiddish / Latin Characters

estimony of Beverli Mizrahi Shreier, born in 1941 in Radziwillow, Poland, regarding her experiences in hiding with a Catholic family

Testimony of Beverli Mizrahi Shreier, born in 1941 in Radziwillow, Poland, regarding her experiences in hiding with a Catholic family. The family; giving the girl baby to a Polish servant; murder of the servant and her husband by the Gestapo; moving the baby to another hiding place; the baby's return to the family hiding her; fleeing towards Berlin; in the Russian sector; escape to the American sector; joining a street gang; emigration to the United States; adjusting to a new life.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Markovitz and Bar Zahava Golda, born in Uzhorod, Czechoslovakia, in 1927 regarding the Moskovitz ghetto, Auschwitz camp and Bruntal labor camp

Testimony

Childhood before the war; good relations between the local population and the Jews in Uzhorod; invasion of the Hungarians in 1938; antisemitism; looting and burning of the family property by Hungarian soldiers; yellow badge; confiscation of property by the Germans; deportation to Moskovitz ghetto in 1943; harsh physical and emotional conditions; starvation; smuggling of food; deportation to Auschwitz Birkenau; selection; separation from the family; forced labor; crematorium; starvation; brutal attitude of the kapo; gypsy inmates; clearing the corpses; roll-calls; help by the Blockalteste to the women inmates of...

File Number : 13769

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Meir Max Sherman, born in Paris, France, 1935, regarding hiding in the village of Saint Julien du Saul

Testimony

Childhood in Paris before the war; family life; German occupation, May 1940; arrest of his father following denunciation and his deportation to Drancy, 1941; yellow badge decree, early 1942; manhunt for Jews, July 1942; escape with his mother and grandfather with the assistance of a [female] French worker employed in the family business; hiding in Saint Julien du Sault; denunciation, and capture of his mother and grandfather; being smuggled to a nearby forest with the help of the partisans; return to the village after about ten days; liberation in the summer of 1944; Life after the war; aliya to Eretz...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Shneider Yaakov Shmuel, born in Kosino, Czechoslovakia, 1932, regarding his experiences in the Berehovo ghetto and in the Auschwitz-Birkenau, Plaszow, Gross Rosen, Goerlitz and Zittau camps

Testimony

Schneider Shmuel Jacob, born in Kosino, Czechoslovakia, 1932, regarduing the Berehovo ghetto and deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Plaszow, Gross Rosen, Goerlitz and Zittau camps Family background; childhood in a religious family; his father is a hero of the World War I. Entry of the Hungarians; entry of the Germans, March 1944; deportation to the Berehovo ghetto; stay in a brick factory for several weeks; transfer to Auschwitz II-Birkenau; selection at the entrance to the camp; rescue by an anonymous inmate from the camp to the gas chambers and transfer to the camp; finding his father and relatives;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Elza Zipora (Kamil) Pakher, born in Vijnita, Romania in 1933, regarding her experiences as a child in Vijnita, in Mogilev Podolskiy and in Dzhurin camp

Testimony of Elza Zipora (Kamil) Pakher, born in Vijnita, Romania in 1933, regarding her experiences as a child in Vijnita, in Mogilev Podolskiy and in Dzhurin camp Life before the war; Deportation of her family to the Transnistria area in 1941; transfer to Mogilev Podolskiy; transfer to Dzhurin camp; separation from her parents along with her younger brother; Dzhurin camp life for four years; she takes care of her brother; Dzhurin camp life along with the other children; hunger; suffering from diseases; death of children in the camp; abuse of children by the Ukrainians; smuggle of food for partisans in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Abraham Ernst Ponger, born in Mikulas Litovsky Svaty, Czechoslovakia, in 1922, regarding his experiences in the Sered camp and in the battle of the partisans

Childhood before the war; Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria 1938; expulsion from school and carpentry studies; independence of Slovakia and anti-Jewish legislation 1939; deportation of Jews and escape to the mountains in March 1942; going back home and deportation to the Sered camp,in April 1945; work in carpentry; underground in the camp; Slovak uprising and escape ,in August 1944; joining partisans; actions against Germans; liberation by the red army,in April 1945; joining aliya training; illegal immigration to Eretz Israel on the Theodor Herzl ship,on 01 April 1947; exile to Cyprus; aliya back to...

File Number : 13772

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rozalia Shoshana Ronen Vazner, born in Gdynia, Poland in 1933, regarding her life in Przemysl Ghetto and in the home of a Polish family under a false identity

Testimony of Rozalia Shoshana Ronen Vazner, born in Gdynia, Poland in 1933, regarding her life in Przemysl Ghetto and in the home of a Polish family under a false identity German occupation in 1939; family’s expulsion to Przemyl; life under Soviet regime; German occupation and communist father’s escape to USSR in 1941; life under restrictions of German occupation; move to orphanage in the ghetto; escape with help from a Polish police officer to Christian acquaintances outside the ghetto in 1943; move to aunt’s home in Lwow; move, under a false Christian identity (as Rozalia Stanislawa Dozhinska) to a Polish...

File Number : 13708

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Ketubah (Jewish marriage certificate) of Israel Aichnold and Hedva Lachowitzki, from Poland, signed in Milan, Italy, 07 August 1946, and Eretz Israel identity card of Hedva Aichnold, issued in Haifa, 17 July 1947 Hedva Fridel Lachowitzki, born in Nieswiesz, Poland, 1919: Her parents were Moshe and Esther Lachowitzki; her brother was Yehuda and her sisters were Batia, Sara and Elisheva; her sisters and brother made aliya to Eretz Israel before the war; her stay on a Hashomer Hatzair aliya training "kibbutz". Inability to make aliya to Eretz Israel due to the German occupation; concentration of the Jews...

File Number : 728

Type of Material : Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, English

Testimony of Chaim Kohen, born in Thessaloniki, Greece in 1930, regarding his life in hiding among nuns and with a Greek Christian family in Athens, and his escape to Turkey

Testimony of Chaim Kohen, born in Thessaloniki, Greece in 1930, regarding his life in hiding among nuns and with a Greek Christian family in Athens, and his escape to Turkey Childhood and move to Athens; war with Italy in 1940; German occupation in 1941; escape with his family to the village of Plaka in 1941; hiding for about two months; family’s return to Athens in 1941; life under Italian regime; the great famine; move, with assistance from Italian governor (a friend of his father’s), into hiding among Italian nuns in the hospital complex in the Anaros region in 1942–1943; father’s move of the family to a...

File Number : 13767

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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