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Testimony of Huta Ruthi Jervi Hagag, born in Zaouia, Libya, regarding her experiences in Zaouia

Testimony

Testimony of Huta Ruthi Jervi Hagag, born in Zaouia, Libya, regarding her experiences in Zaouia Childhood in Zaouia; her father is a tinsmith and sells haberdashery; religion and belief; father's visits to a synagogue; partnership relationships with local population. Her brothers' studies in a Jewish school; stay in Zaouia during the war. The end of the war; riots in the town, 1945; murder of her brother; injury of her sister; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1948. * Year of birth of the witness is unknown; a story about the murder of her brother and the injury of her sister can refer to the war period.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew, Arabic

Testimony of Alexander Erlichman, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1930, regarding his experiences in Warsaw, Staszow, in a forest and in Lodz

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Testimony of Alexander Erlichman, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1930, regarding his experiences in Warsaw, the Warsaw Ghetto, Staszow, in a forest and in Lodz Childhood in a wealthy, secular family; arrival of Austrian and German refugees. Occupation of Warsaw by the German Army, 1939; life under the German occupation including restrictions, decrees and prohibitions; closure of the ghetto; escape to Staszow; in hiding during the "Aktion", late 1942; escape to a forest, March 1943; murder of his parents and his sister; receiving aid from the local villagers; liberation by the Red Army, summer 1944. Move to a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Aron Cweczkenbaum, born in Tarnobrzeg, Poland, 1928, regarding his experiences in Lwow, a labor camp in Novosibirsk and in Kamin

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Testimony of Aron Cweczkenbaum, born in Tarnobrzeg, Poland, 1928, regarding his experiences in Lwow, a labor camp in Novosibirsk and in Kamin Childhood in a religious family. German occupation, 1939; evacuation to the city square and theft of valuables; deportation from the city and escape to the East until Lwow; deportation by the Red Army to Siberia; life in a labor camp in Novosibirsk; freezing cold; female cousins die of starvation; Bar Mitzva; transfer to the city of Kamin; improvement of living conditions; end of war, 1945. Move to Ulm, Germany, 1946; attends school; aliya to Israel, 21 August...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mendel Zhepka, born in Kosow Lacki, Poland, 1919, regarding his experiences in Kosow Lacki

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Testimony of Mendel Zhepka, born in Kosow Lacki, Poland, 1919, regarding his experiences in Kosow Lacki Life before the war; religious family; Hashomer Hatzair activities. Outbreak of the war, 01 September 1939; unsuccessful escape attempt to the East; help of the Jewish community to refugees from the Kalisz area; life in the Judenrat as the youth representative; work in the family bakery; "Aktion" and unsuccessful attempt to rescue the family on Yom Kippur, 1942; deportation of the family to Treblinka; approach of the front; escape from a firing squad, summer 1944; draft to the Polish Army(?); end of the...

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 Haim Beigelman, born in Czestochowa, Poland, 1914, regarding his experiences in the Czestochowa Ghetto

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Testimony of Haim Beigelman, born in Czestochowa, Poland, 1914, regarding his experiences in the Czestochowa Ghetto Religious-Zionist family; activities in the Hanoar Hatzioni movement. Outbreak of the war, 1939; robbery of valuables; forced labor including labor in the HASAG-Pelzery factory; deportation to the Czestochowa Ghetto, summer 1941; arrival of refugees from Lodz; Czestochowa Ghetto life including underground activities of the Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB); approach of the front; liberation by the Red Army, 16 January 1945. Kielce pogrom; joins the Bericha organization; aliya to Israel,...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Natan Nuta Mager, born in Chelm, Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences as a child in Chelm, Kuibyshev and Tashino

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Testimony of Natan Nuta Mager, born in Chelm, Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences as a child in Chelm, Kuibyshev and Tashino Life before the war; traditional family; attends a state school; attends a Tarbut school; displays of antisemitism, 1934-1935. Outbreak of the war, 1939; riots by Ukrainians; Soviet occupation; German occupation; murder of Jewish men; robbery of valuables; escape of his father to the Soviet Union; wears an armband; escape with his mother and baby brother with the help of a female smuggler sent by his father, 1941; life in the home of the female smuggler; illegally crosses the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Bronia (Starer) Frank, born in Ottynia, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in Ottynia, as a forced laborer for the Red Army and in the Chelyabinsk area

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Testimony of Bronia (Starer) Frank, born in Ottynia, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in Ottynia, as a forced laborer for the Red Army and in the Chelyabinsk area Life before the war; hasidic family. Soviet occupation, 1939; nationalization of the family's shop; receives a Communist education; death of her mother, 1940; arrival of refugees from Poland; outbreak of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union, 1941; murder of people in villages in the area; escape and joins convoys of refugees; cut off from her brother and brother-in-law during the escape; receives food, a place to sleep and...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Esther (Kornblum) Gros, born in Rzeszow, Poland, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Rzeszow Ghetto, Szebnie, Auschwitz and Vrchlabi

Testimony

Testimony of Esther (Kornblum) Gros, born in Rzeszow, Poland, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Rzeszow Ghetto, Szebnie, Auschwitz and Vrchlabi Ultra-Orthodox family; life before the war; financially secure family. Outbreak of the war, 1939; abuse of the Jewish population; decrees; expropriation of half of their apartment by Volksdeutsche; deportation to the Rzeszow Ghetto, winter 1941-1942; ghetto life including the deportation of her mother and younger sister; disappearance of her older sister; disease in the ghetto; death of her father on Lag B'Omer, 1942; in hiding to evade deportation;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaia (Met) Hoftman, born in Goraj, Poland, 1927, regarding her experiences in Goraj, a forest and hidden by farmers

Testimony

Testimony of Chaia (Met) Hoftman, born in Goraj, Poland, 1927, regarding her experiences in Goraj, a forest and hidden by farmers From a religious family; life before the war. Outbreak of the war, 1939; escape of witness' sister to the Soviet Union; detention in the homes; concentration of the Jews in a specific place; escape of her family to a forest; murder of her parents and brother; hides in the forest with two sisters; murder of her sisters; rescue by farmers; life with the farmers and attitude of the villagers; end of the war, 1944. Separation from her foster family; joins survivors in a house in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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