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

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.

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Documentation regarding Hans Paul Weiner, born in Trautenau, Czechoslovakia, 1919, regarding his aliya to Eretz Israel and service in PAL-Company 608

Documentation regarding Hans Paul Weiner, born in Trautenau, Czechoslovakia, 1919, regarding his aliya to Eretz Israel and service in PAL-Company 608 - Excerpts from the British Army historical documentation collection, regarding PAL-Company 608, dated, 31 March 1941-17 January 1944; - Photographs and newspaper clippings from "The Palestine Post", 20 May-09 June 1941; - Memoirs of Hans Paul Weiner; Childhood in Trautenau; Escape by his family from a pail [?] to a pogrom; [move?] to Prague, September 1938; attempts to receive an emigration visa in preparation for aliya; illegal aliya from...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 389

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Official Documentation, Survey Report, Telegram, Newspaper Clippings, Diary

results.listIds.lang : English, German

Testimony of Zelman Buchbinder, born in Ternovo, Czechoslovakia, in 1926 regarding the deportation to Auschwitz, Plaszow and regarding the labor camp Mauthausen

Childhood in Ternovo; community life in Ternovo; good relations between Jews and non-Jews in Ternovo; invasion of the Hungarians in 1939; recruiting the elder brothers to Hungarian labor camps; anti-Jewish legislation;riots; harming the rabbi of the community; German occupation; deportation of the family to Mateszalka ghetto, Hungary in March 1944; conditions in the ghetto; diseases; yellow badge; deportation of the family to Auschwitz Birkenau; "aktion" by Mengele; crematorium; starvation; death of family members; transfer to Plaszow camp,Poland about 2 weeks later; beating of inmates; murder of inmates by the...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 13776

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Testimony of Yaacov Shvartz, born in Siauliai, Lithuania, in 1929 regarding the Siauliai ghetto, the Stutthof and other camps

Childhood in Siauliai; entry of the Russians in 1940; arrival of Jewish refugees from Poland; German occupation in June 1941; pogrom by the Lithuanians; murder of the stratum of the Jewish intelligentsia including the father; deportation to the Siauliai ghetto; overcrowding; yellow badges; starvation; forced labor; smugglings of food;'aktion" of the elderly in 1942; 'aktion' of the children in November 1943; liquidation of the Siauliai ghetto in July 1944; deportation to Stutthof; physical and emotional abuse; meeting with Russian captives; starvation; fate of the mother who escaped from the killing pit near...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 13687

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Letter from Rabbi Gdalja Tojbman in Berezno to his daughter Pnina Rabinowitz in Eretz Israel; 22 May 1939

Letter from Rabbi Gdalja Tojbman in Berezno to his daughter Pnina Rabinowitz in Eretz Israel; 22 May 1939 Included in the file: - Typewritten transcription of the letter. Notes by Shoshana Bahat, the submitter of the material: Pnina (Tojbman) Rabinowitz, the daughter of Rabbi Gdalja Tojbman, was born in 1912. Her husband, Chaim Rabinowitz, made aliya to Eretz Israel in 1929. In 1933, he returned to Berezno and married Pnina. Pnina and Chaim made aliya to Eretz Israel in 1934. Rabbi Gdalja and his children were injured during the Ukrainian riots in Wolyn in 1939-1942. In late 1941, the Germans...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 2196

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Letter

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Testimony of Bela (Goldwater) Shonfeld, born in Leipzig, Germany in 1929, regarding her experiences in Leipzig, Amsterdam, and England

Testimony of Bela (Goldwater) Shonfeld, born in Leipzig, Germany in 1929, regarding her experiences in Leipzig, Amsterdam, and England Life with family in Leipzig; attending the Carlebach School; the festivals; the Nazi party’s rise to power; Jewish students from German schools joining the school; Kristallnacht; expulsion of grandfather and grandmother to the Polish border; the family’s transfer by rail, together with other Jews of Polish origin, to the Polish embassy in Leipzig; escape from the train; return to the family apartment two days later; finding the apartment destroyed; suffering abuse; move to...

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Testimony of Mia (Ordinon) Beili, born in Cernauti, Romania in 1938, regarding her experiences as a child in the Cernauti Ghetto and on the Aryan side

Testimony of Mia (Ordinon) Beili, born in Cernauti, Romania in 1938, regarding her experiences as a child in the Cernauti Ghetto and on the Aryan side Life before the war; assimilated, Zionist family; Deportation to the Cernauti Ghetto; Cernauti Ghetto life including overcrowding; smuggled from the ghetto with her parents and taken to the smuggler's home; life on the Aryan side; retreat by the Germans; liberation by the Red Army; Move to Brasov with help from the Jewish community; she attends a Jewish school; attempt to make illegal aliya to Eretz Israel on the "Pan York" ship; detention in Cyprus;...

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

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results.listIds.fileNumber : 3669

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Survey Report, Official Documentation, List of Residents, Curriculum Vitae (cv), Names, List of Collaborators

results.listIds.lang : Russian

Testimony of Sam Katz, born in Tels, Lithuania, regarding his experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto, in Slobodka, in the Slobodka Ghetto, in Augsburg and in Stutthof

Testimony of Sam Katz, born in Tels, Lithuania, regarding his experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto, in Slobodka, in the Slobodka Ghetto, in Augsburg and in Stutthof Death of his mother when he was 8 years old; studies in a "heder" in Tels; family life; treatment by the local population; sympathy for the Communist Party; escape of his brother Chaim to the Soviet Union; detention of his brother Chaim in a camp for several years; emigration of his sister to Rhodesia; move to Slobodka due to his marriage to Masha Mishkovski, 1935; birth of his son, Yakov, 1937; death of his father, February 1939; work as a...

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Interview(s)

results.listIds.lang : English

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