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Letter from the Vaad HaRabbanim in the Lodz Ghetto to Mordechaj Chaim Rumkowski (head of the Judenrat), regarding the paving of a new road through the local cemetery

Letter from the Vaad HaRabbanim in the Lodz Ghetto to Mordechaj Chaim Rumkowski (head of the Judenrat), regarding the paving of a new road through the local cemetery Letter from the Vaad HaRabbanim in the Lodz Ghetto (signed by the rabbis), with a negative reply to the application of Mordechaj Chaim Rumkowski (head of the Judenrat), regarding the paving of a road through the local cemetery, 04 May 1941.

File Number : 1163

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Shlomo Altman, born in Chrzanow, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in Sakrau, Brande, Markstaedt, Gross-Rosen and other places

Memoirs of Shlomo Altman, born in Chrzanow, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in Sakrau, Brande, Markstaedt, Gross-Rosen and other places Life in the Sakrau camp until November 1941; deportation to a labor camp in the Riga area; camp life including forced labor; transfer to the Brande camp; life in the Brande camp; transfer to Markstaedt; life in Markstaedt; transfer to Fuenfteichen; life in Fuenfteichen; transfer to Gross-Rosen; life in Gross-Rosen; transfer to Hersbruck; life in Hersbruck until April 1945; death march.

File Number : 8279

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zacharia Zuli Aharon, born in Bistrita, Romania, 1922, regarding his experiences in labor battalions and in hiding in a stone quarry in Hungary

Testimony

Testimony of Zacharia Zuli Aharon, born in Bistrita, Romania, 1922, regarding his experiences in labor battalions and in hiding in a stone quarry in Hungary From a Zionist, Orthodox family; life before the war. Annexation to Hungary, 1940; limitations on the Jews; drafted to labor battalions; labor paving roads and quarrying rocks; camp life; deportation of his family to the Bistrita Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; murder of his family in Auschwitz; escape from the labor battalions, 1944; in hiding in a stone quarry; taken captive by the Soviets. Return to Romania; aliya to Israel, 1961

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zvi Herman Grabinski, born in Krosniewice, Poland, 1918, regarding his experiences in Roksman, Wittenberge, Auschwitz, Mauthausen and Gusen

Testimony

Testimony of Zvi Herman Grabinski, born in Krosniewice, Poland, 1918, regarding his experiences in Roksman, Wittenberge, Auschwitz, Mauthausen and Gusen Zionist youth movement activities; displays of antisemitism before the war. Occupation of Poland; air-raids; pogroms against the Jews; executions by hanging; forced labor; "Aktions"; deportation to Roksman, November 1941; injury; treatment by a physician of Jewish origin; transfer to Wittenberge, February 1942; rebuilding the camp; Red Cross delegation; deportation to Auschwitz, June 1943; constructing the cellars in coal mines for potato storage and a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avraham Levi, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, 1920, regarding his experiences in Sofia and labor camps

Testimony

Testimony of Avraham Levi, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, 1920, regarding his experiences in Sofia and labor camps Outbreak of the war; restrictions on the Jews; curfew for 22 hours a day; draft to a labor camp; camp life including paving roads and living in tents; return to Sofia; deportation to a labor camp on the Yugoslavian border to labor paving roads; end of the war. Move to Romania; Hashomer Hatzair activities; unsuccessful aliya attempt to Eretz Israel; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Israel on the ship, "Hatikva", 1948.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Efraim Leizer, born in Iasi, Romania, 1920, regarding his experiences in Targu Jiu, Bucharest, Piatra Neamt, Braila and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Efraim Leizer, born in Iasi, Romania, 1920, regarding his experiences in Targu Jiu, Bucharest, Piatra Neamt, Braila and other places Life before the war; move to Husi with his family. Life under Romanian fascist rule for two years; persecution and restrictions; deportation of Jewish men to forced labor; life in Targu Jiu; labor building a railroad line to Bucharest; labor paving roads in Cubei and a railroad line in Chust, Bessarabia and Piatra Neamt; transfer to Braila, summer 1943; life in Braila including labor paving a special road to Germany via the forests in the Balabanesti Tutova...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Amatzia Marchel Libovitz Ron, born in Galati, Romania, 1924, regarding his experiences in Galati, as a forced laborer and in the Romanian Army in Cotu Lung

Testimony

Testimony of Amatzia Marchel Libovitz Ron, born in Galati, Romania, 1924, regarding his experiences in Galati, as a forced laborer and in the Romanian Army in Cotu Lung Life in Galati before the war; traditional family; attends a Romanian school; displays of antisemitism from 1933; meets members of the Iron Guard movement; meets refugees from Poland. Outbreak of the war; shelling of Galati, June 1941; deportation to forced labor; violence by Romanian gendarmes; yellow badge; deportation of the craftsmen to forced labor; labor as a chemist; receives food from the Jewish community; good work relations with...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Jakob Lasker, born in Brzeznica, Poland on 21/02/1921, regarding his experiences in Gutenbrunn, Auschwitz, Jaworzno and other camps

Testimony of Jakob Lasker, born in Brzeznica, Poland on 21/02/1921, regarding his experiences in Gutenbrunn, Auschwitz, Jaworzno and other camps Escape from Lodz to Brzeznica before the establishment of the Lodz Ghetto; life in Brzeznica for a year; overcrowding; work in the destruction of buildings, in exchange for pay; deportation by the S.A. and ethnic Germans [Volksdeutsche] to an assembly point in Pajeczno; deportation to Sieradz; selection, and return deportation of the weak people; deportation of the witness, his father and his brother to Kalfelde (apparently) in the Posen area to labor in the paving...

File Number : 2547

Language : Yiddish

Documentation by the SS and Police authorities in the Generalgouvernement concerning round-ups and the deployment of Jews for forced labor, and regarding deportations, the expulsion of the local population and German re-colonization, plans for extermination camps, and so forth, 1940-1943 Included in the file: 13/06/1940 Orders by the Higher SS and Police Leader in Krakow, addressed to the chief of the labor office in the Generalgouvernement, Max Frauendorfer, concerning the organization of the deployment of Jewish forced laborers in the Generalgouvernement, (pp. 3-4), 15/07/1940 Letter by the SS...

File Number : 79

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Laws and Decrees, Administrative Documentation, Reports, List of Workers, Maps, Correspondence, Statistical Data, Lists, Complaint, Testimony, Orders, Circular, Photograph, Map, Diagram

Language : Polish, German

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