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Letter sent by Pesia Gittel Fischbein from Warsaw to Hersch Fischbein in the United States (date not indicated), with an explanation regarding a photograph of family members in Warsaw, including Pesia Gittel and Wolf Fischbein

File Number : 2170

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Melita (Katz) Eichenbaum, born in Sadagura, Romania, 1928, regarding her experiences in Bodovka and Verkhovka

Testimony

Testimony of Melita (Katz) Eichenbaum, born in Sadagura, Romania, 1928, regarding her experiences in Bodovka and Verkhovka From a middle-class family from Sadagura and Falticeni, family owns a photography store and camera factory. Soviet occupation, summer 1940; murder of the witness' father by the Romanians; burial of her father in a mass grave in the forest, summer 1941; deportation to Bodovka, October 1941; transfer from Bodovka to Verkhovka; life in Verkhovka with her mother including agricultural work; barter with the village Ukrainians; deaths of her relatives from typhus, winter 1941; liberation by...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Harry Fischer, born in Vienna, Austria, 1918, regarding his experiences in Vienna, in the Yugoslavian Army and in the partisans in Yugoslavia

Testimony

Testimony of Harry Fischer, born in Vienna, Austria, 1918, regarding his experiences in Vienna, in the Yugoslavian Army and in the partisans in Yugoslavia His childhood in Vienna including activities in a youth movement, participation in demonstrations against the regime and activity posting announcements; emigration to Yugoslavia due to his father's citizenship, 1938; work as a photographer; move of his mother and brother to his father in Yugoslavia. Draft into the Yugoslavian Army, 1938; taken captive by the Germans on the border of Albania; service as a medic in a hospital in Kosovo Prizren, 1940;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zisl (Meier) Moshe, born in Iasi, Romania, 1921, regarding her experiences in Iasi and as a forced laborer in a military hospital

Testimony

Testimony of Zisl (Meier) Moshe, born in Iasi, Romania, 1921, regarding her experiences in Iasi and as a forced laborer in a military hospital From a large family; orphaned of her father; life before the war. The day of the Iasi Pogrom, June 1941; ways to evade the Romanians; deportation to forced labor in a military hospital; labor in the hospital until the end of the war; liberation. Aliya to Israel, 1951.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shlomo Moshe, born in Iasi, Romania, 1921, regarding his experiences as a forced laborer in Iasi, Targu Ocna and Muchea

Testimony

Testimony of Shlomo Moshe, born in Iasi, Romania, 1921, regarding his experiences as a forced laborer in Iasi, Targu Ocna and Muchea Drafted to forced labor with the outbreak of the war; labor digging pits for mass graves in Iasi; labor as the cart driver for an SS officer and a Romanian officer; Iasi Pogrom, 29 June 1941; evades being murdered; drafted into forced labor in Muchea and Targu Ocna; the non-Jewish population.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sara (Gliksmann) Fajtlowicz, born in Lodz, Poland, 1915, regarding her experiences as a painter in the statistics department of the Lodz Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Sara (Gliksmann) Fajtlowicz, born in Lodz, Poland, 1915, regarding her experiences as a painter in the statistics department of the Lodz Ghetto Artistic activities as a painter before the war. German occupation; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto; ghetto life including work in the Judenrat statistics department; preparation of albums for propaganda purposes and postage stamps bearing the likeness of Mordechai Chaim Rumkowsky; underground painting of ghetto life and graphic sketches including real data; preparation of albums for Hans Bibov, the German Director of the Ghetto, and Krampf; rescue...

File Number : 3889

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Jakow Eljowicz, born in Wolkowysk, Poland, 1916, regarding his experiences in the Polish Army and in German captivity in Rastenburg, Biala Podlaska, Budzyn, Wieliczka and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Jakow Eljowicz, born in Wolkowysk, Poland, 1916, regarding his experiences in the Polish Army and in German captivity in Rastenburg, Biala Podlaska, Budzyn, Wieliczka and other places Draft into the Polish Army. Outbreak of the war, 1939; wounded; taken to German captivity; POW camp life in Rastenburg; POW camp life in Stalag I; POW camp life in Insterburg; camp life including labor as a painter for the Germans after the discovery of his talent; separation of the Jewish POWs from the remainder of the POWs; transfer to Hammerstein; transfer to Biala Podlaska; camp life including making contact...

File Number : 3598

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

An anonymous testimony regarding the murder of the Jews of Marijampole

An anonymous testimony regarding the murder of the Jews of Marijampole Transfer of the Jews of Marijampole to killing pits; abuse of Jews; murder of Jews by Lithuanians and Germans, 01 September 1941; includes a list of names of Lithuanian perpetrators; photograph of the murder by Germans; looting of Jewish owned property; Jews hanged themselves.

File Number : 128

Type of Material : Survey, Survey Report, Testimony

Language : Lithuanian, Yiddish

Documentation from the Archive of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum (Archiwum Panstwowego Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau), Poland, 1939-1945

Documentation from the Archive of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum (Archiwum Panstwowego Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau), Poland, 1939-1945 Card file of the inmates in the Mauthausen concentration camp The card file belongs to the decentralized collection of the Mauthausen card file, which is kept in several archives. Some of it is kept in the Yad Vashem Archive. In the card file is data such as first names, last names, birth dates, parents' names, place of birth and place of residence, religion, nationality, political affiliation, the category to which the inmate belonged, and stay/s in other...

Type of Material : Photograph, Official Documentation, Card File, List of Murdered Persons

Language : Polish, German

Testimony of a former German soldier about the origin of an iconic photography of Jews in Poznan

Testimony of an anonymous former German soldier about the origin of an iconic picture of Jews, taken during an "Aktion" in Poznan.

File Number : 1828

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : German

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