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Testimony of Aharon Feigenblum, born in 1919 in Włocławek, Poland, about his experiences as a member of the Hashomer Hatzair movement in Kalisz, in Warsaw, and in the movement underground in the Soviet Union

Receives a religious education; joins the Hashomer Hatzair movement; lives in a hakhshara (training center) in Kalisz in 1937; Kol Nidre eve in 1939; three Jews murdered; witness escapes to his parents in Warsaw in November 1939; escapes to Wilno and lives there until June 1940; escapes to Tashkent and Samarkand in 1941; membership in the Hashomer Hatzair underground in the Soviet Union in 1941–1944; involved in the affair surrounding Mordechai Rozman, a leader of the underground, who succumbed to NKVD interrogation and surrendered names of underground members; liberation and return to Poland in December 1945;...

File Number : 13553

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rachel (Kertovitz) Vigoda, born in Rozan, Poland, 1929

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Testimony of Rachel (Kertovitz) Vigoda, born in Rozan, Poland, 1929 Her parents' home. Concentration of the Polish Army in Rozan; German occupation, 1939; leaving her home; air-raids; escape to Ostrow; German occupation of Ostrow; travel restrictions; shearing of beards; bread rationing; opportunity to transfer to the Soviet Union; warm welcome in Bialystok, the Soviet Union; living in a synagogue; transfer to Pochowic, Belorussia; living quarters in a cinema; transfer to the Pochowic railroad station; attends a Soviet school; invasion of the German Army into the Soviet Union, June 1941; escape by train;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of David Kalinski, born in Piotrkow, Poland, 1920, regarding his experiences in the Piotrkow Ghetto, in Buchenwald, Czestochowa and Rehmsdorf camps and in other places

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Testimony of David Kalinski, born in Piotrkow, Poland, 1920, regarding his experiences in the Piotrkow Ghetto, in Buchenwald, Czestochowa and Rehmsdorf camps and in other places Life before the war; socialist, traditional family. Outbreak of the war, 1939; deportation to forced labor near the border of the Soviet Union; escape to the Piotrkow Ghetto; escape from the ghetto; life in a village in the area including work for a farmer; escape due to fear of being informed on; escape to a lumber factory; approach of the war front; deportation to Czestochowa; camp life; labor in a carpentry workshop; transfer...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of David Ben Basat, born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 1928, regarding his experiences in Sofia, Lom and Ihtiman

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Testimony of David Ben Basat, born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 1928, regarding his experiences in Sofia, Lom and Ihtiman Life in Sofia before the war; his father owns a sausage shop; activities in the Poalei Zion movement. Anti-Jewish restrictions including the closure of businesses; deportation of men to forced labor; yellow badge; deportation with the Jews to outlying towns; transfer to Lom; life in Lom in detention; labor in a mine; escape to his grandfather in Ihtiman, with the help of bribery; end of the war. Return to Sofia; aliya to Israel, 1948.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Kadish Sosnovski, born in Szczuczyn, Poland, 1933, regarding his experiences as a child in Szczuczyn, Bialystok, Minsk, Smolensk and other places

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Testimony of Kadish Sosnovski, born in Szczuczyn, Poland, 1933, regarding his experiences as a child in Szczuczyn, Bialystok, Minsk, Smolensk and other places Life before the war. German occupation; concentration of Jews including his father; deportation of his father; Soviet occupation; outbreak of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union, June 1941; escape to Bialystok with his mother; escape to Minsk; life in Minsk; escape to Smolensk; life in Smolensk including his mother's illness; hospitalization of his mother in a hospital; witness' life in an orphanage; life in a kolkhoz in the home of a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Haim Kimkhi, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, 1920, regarding his experiences in Sofia, Galicia, Provadiya and Smedovo

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Testimony of Haim Kimkhi, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, 1920, regarding his experiences in Sofia, Galicia, Provadiya and Smedovo From a traditional family. Drafted to forced labor near Sofia, 1940; return home; drafted to forced labor in Galicia, 1942; forced labor for several months; transfer of the family to Provadiya; drafted to forced labor in Smedovo, 1944; liberation by the Red Army, 1944. Return to Sofia, 1944; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1945.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Renia Rivka (Viser) Tikotzki, born in Lodz, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences as a child in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Aschersleben, a death march and Theresienstadt Life in Lodz before the war; education; her father's activities in the Poalei Zion Left; displays of antisemitism in the school. German occupation, September 1939; kidnapping of people to forced labor, including her mother; her father's service in the Polish Army; destruction of synagogues; yellow badge; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto; Lodz Ghetto life; labor in a tailoring workshop; eats horse meat;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shmuel Robachek Meiri, born in Kock, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, Kock, in hiding in villages and a forest and in a Red Army brigade

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Testimony of Shmuel Robachek Meiri, born in Kock, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, Kock, in hiding in villages and a forest and in a Red Army brigade Life before the war; difficulties in earning a livelihood; his father's move to Warsaw, 1930; family joins his father in Warsaw; Poalei Zion Left activities; sports activities; arrival of refugees from Germany, 1938; relations between Poles and Jews; displays of antisemitism. Outbreak of the war, 1939; draft of his brother into the Polish Army; his brother is taken into captivity; escape of his brother and his murder in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shimon Felix Ansbacher, born in Frankfurt, Germany, 1931, regarding his experiences in hiding in Brussels

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Testimony of Shimon Felix Ansbacher, born in Frankfurt, Germany, 1931, regarding his experiences in hiding in Brussels From a family that had lived in Germany for hundreds of years; escape of the family to Belgium, 1933; life in Brussels until 1940. German occupation, 1940; deportation of his father to Gurs; life in Brussels; attends school; preparing a hiding flat, 1942; blackmail attempt by the landlady; move into hiding, December 1942; life in hiding including lessons by his older brothers; their grandfather joins them in hiding; liberation, September 1944. Return home; attends school; Zionist...

File Number : 12884

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaim Orlick, born in Vilna, Poland, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Szarkowszczyzna Ghetto, the Glebokie Ghetto, with Poles and the partisans

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Testimony of Chaim Orlick, born in Vilna, Poland, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Szarkowszczyzna Ghetto, the Glebokie Ghetto, with Poles and the partisans Traditional family with many children; his father is a traveling salesman; learns in a "heder" and a Polish public school. Soviet occupation, late 1939; move to in hiding; deportation to the Szarkowszczyzna Ghetto; burning of the ghetto by the Germans and Lithuanians, June 1942; escape with his younger sister; meets a Polish couple called Ignatz Boko and his wife; life in the Glebokie Ghetto; meets his parents and five brothers; escape back to...

File Number : 12732

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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