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Testimony of Ze'ev Yitzhaki, born in Iasi, Romania, 1936, regarding his experiences in Iasi during the war

Testimony

Testimony of Ze'ev Yitzhaki, born in Iasi, Romania, 1936, regarding his experiences in Iasi during the war Early childhood. Increase in anti-Semitism, 1939; anti-Jewish orders and legislation; pogrom at police stations and trains, June 1941; the bombings.Liberation by the Red Army, summer of 1944; joining the Dror organization; moving to a children's home in Piatra Neat; boarding the illegal immigrant ship Pan York, December 1947; exile to Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel, March 1948; absorption.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Personal documentation of Ivan Lang, born in Caransebes, Romania, 14 July 1935, 1941-1947

Personal documentation of Ivan Lang, born in Caransebes, Romania, 14 July 1935, 1941-1947 The documents include: - Birth certificates of Ivan Lang and of his parents, Stefan Lang and Emma (Grosz) Lang, issued in Caransebes, 15 July 1941; - Document issued by the Recruitment Office in Lugoj, 22 February 1942, certifying that Stefan Lang worked in forced labor in Caransebes, 09-13 February 1942; - Document issued in Lugoj, certifying that Stefan Lang is of Jewish origin, 29 May 1942; - Travel permit to Timisoara granted to Emma Lang in Caransebes, 01 December 1942; - Certificate issued to Ivan...

File Number : 345

Type of Material : Personal Documents

Language : English, Romanian, German

Testimony of Ruth (Zant) Helfman, born in Moldovita, Romania in 1930, regarding her experiences in Gura Humorului, Mogilev Podolskiy and Promesanita

Testimony of Ruth (Zant) Helfman, born in Moldovita, Romania in 1930, regarding her experiences in Gura Humorului, Mogilev Podolskiy and Promesanita Life before the war; move to Gura Humorului, 1937; Deportation to the Transnistria area, autumn 1941; transfer to Mogilev Podolskiy on a march via Atachi; transfer on a march in the direction of Promesanita; shooting of the weak people; entrance into Promesanita; life in Promesanita in a pigsty; hunger; typhus disease; mass mortality; imposition of travel restrictions; liberation by the Red Army, 1944; Return to Romania; attempt to make illegal aliya to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Chaim Chacham, born in Iasi, Romania, 1936, regarding his experiences in hiding in Iasi and letters sent to his father, Avram Hahamu Chacham, head of the Jewish community in Iasi

Memoirs of Chaim Chacham, born in Iasi, Romania, 1936, regarding his experiences in hiding in Iasi and letters sent to his father, Avram Hahamu Chacham, head of the Jewish community in Iasi Life before the war; activities of his father, Avram Hahamu Chacham, as head of the Jewish community in Iasi, 1940-1944; his mother Esther (Shtruminger) Chacham. In hiding in a cellar underneath the synagogue; capture of his father by a German Army patrol (arrested with binoculars and a camera when Jews were required to turn in all the optical equipment they were holding), life in hiding during the pogrom in Iasi;...

File Number : 8526

Type of Material : Letter, Memoirs, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, Romanian

Memoirs of Melita Reis, born in Cernauti, Romania, regarding her experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto, Bucharest, Istanbul, her aliya to Eretz Israel, 1943 and more

Memoirs of Melita Reis, born in Cernauti, Romania, regarding her experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto, Bucharest, Istanbul, her aliya to Eretz Israel, 1943 and more Life in Cernauti during the Romanian occupation, 22 June 1941; murders and persecution of the Romanian Jews and their deportation to Transnistria; establishment of the Cernauti Ghetto; ghetto life; request made by Traian Popovici, the mayor, that Jewish professionally skilled workers remain in the city; removal of Popovici from office due to his attempts to help the Jews and the proliferation of deportation release permits he signed; termination of...

File Number : 8520

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Joint testimony of siblings, Menachem Mendel Donenfeld, born in Iordanesti, Romania in 1931, and Bracha Beti (Donenfeld) Klein, born in Iordanesti in 1932, regarding their experiences in Iordanesti, on marches in the Transnistria area and in the Crasna Ghetto Life before the war; Deportation to the Transnistria area, summer 1941; transfer on death marches to the Crasna Ghetto; Crasna Ghetto life; liberation; Aliya to Israel, 1948.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Calman Pollack, born in Vatra Dornei, Romania in 1921, regarding his experiences in the Mogilev Podolski, Bershad and Shargorod Ghettos and in Trikhaty camp

Testimony of Calman Pollack, born in Vatra Dornei, Romania in 1921, regarding his experiences in the Mogilev Podolski, Bershad and Shargorod Ghettos and in Trikhaty camp Life in Vatra Dornei as a child, with his family members; Deportation to the Transnistria area; deportation to the Mogilev Podolski, Bershad and Shargorod Ghettos; deportation to Trikhaty camp; Aliya to Israel, 1948.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Aharon Renert, born in Vijnita, Romania, 1926, regarding his experiences in Vijnita, Mogilev, Yaruga and Skazintsy

Memoirs of Aharon Renert, born in Vijnita, Romania, 1926, regarding his experiences in Vijnita, Mogilev, Yaruga and Skazintsy Childhood with his family in Vijnita; beginning of the persecutions against the Jews, 1938; financial difficulties due to fines and heavy taxes; Bar-Mitzvah celebration; law according to which each school must have at least 50% non-Jewish registration; Soviet occupation; persecution of Jews by the Communist regime; retreat of the Soviets; pogroms perpetrated by Romanians against the Jews; deportation to Transnistria; arrival in Mogilev; transfer to Yaruga; life in Yaruga, until...

File Number : 8489

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Ruth Costiner, born in Bukovina, Romania, 1907, regarding her experiences in Cernauti, Transnistria and Mogilev-Podolski camp

Memoirs of Ruth Costiner, born in Bukovina, Romania, 1907, regarding her experiences in Cernauti, Transnistria and Mogilev-Podolski camp Life in Cernauti until June 1942. Deportation to Transnistria; Mogilev-Podolski camp life; murder of many [inmates] in the camp.

File Number : 8362

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Romanian, German

Documentation regarding the activities of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the War Refugee Board (WRB), 1944

Documentation regarding the activities of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the War Refugee Board (WRB), 1944 Pages 22, 24 (?): Incomplete dispatch (No. 7454) from the US Legation, Bern, to the Secretary of State, Washington, regarding the proposed program of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) for the relief of Jewish refugees and other persecuted groups in enemy territory, 02 March 1944; Page 2: Enclosure No. 1 to dispatch No. 7454 from the US Legation, Bern, to the President of the ICRC, Geneva, regarding the provision of food and medicines for Jews and other...

File Number : 93

Type of Material : Note, Memorandum, Telegram, Letter(s), Official Documentation, Financial Accounts, Correspondence

Language : French, English

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