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Testimony of Rosa Varda Vachtel Graiover, born in 1924 in Schodnica, Poland, about the murder of the Jews of Borysław and the area of the Borysław ghetto

Childhood in Schodnica; antisemitism; German occupation ensues in September 1939; Russians enter approx. two weeks later; refugees arrive; Germans reoccupy the area in July 1941; pogrom by Ukrainians on July 22, 1941; common grave in Schodnica forest; dispossession; dismissal from jobs; evening curfew; shortage of food; abuse by Ukrainians; pogrom against the Jews of nearby Urycz; witness's mother murdered in grandfather's home in Urycz; common grave of the Jews of Urycz in grandfather's courtyard; witness moves to an aunt in Borysław; white armband; assistance from Poles; hiding with non-Jewish acquaintances...

File Number : 13439

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yehuda Albin, born in Tluste, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in Tluste and in the Tluste Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Yehuda Albin, born in Tluste, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in Tluste and in the Tluste Ghetto His childhood in a Zionist, Orthodox religious family including learning in a "heder" and attending a Hebrew school and a Polish school; activities in a Zionist youth movement; displays of antisemitism before the war. Outbreak of the war; attempts by Ukrainians and Poles to attack the Jews; closure of Jewish businesses; exile to Siberia of wealthy residents and members of the intelligentsia; meets refugees from Poland; help given to the refugees; German Army occupation [of Tluste], 1941;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shmuel Fabian, born in Strzegowo, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in Strzegowo, Plonsk, the Strzegowo Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buna-Monowitz and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Shmuel Fabian, born in Strzegowo, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in Strzegowo, Plonsk, the Strzegowo Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buna-Monowitz and other places German Army occupation of Strzegowo, 1939; escape to Plonsk with his family; life with his family in Plonsk, for two weeks; move back to Strzegowo; deportation [to the Strzegowo Ghetto], 1940; Strzegowo Ghetto life including "Aktions" and the hanging of Jews, 1942; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1942; camp life with two brothers, including forced labor; transfer to Buna-Monowitz, 1943; camp life including forced labor;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Eynat Aron Zelkind, born in 1934 in Wilno, Lithuania, about his experiences as a boy in the Wilno ghetto and the H.K.P. camp

Testimony

Testimony of Eynat Aron Zelkind, born in 1934 in Wilno, Lithuania, about his experiences as a boy in the Wilno ghetto and the H.K.P. camp Life in the Wilno ghetto from September 1941 to mid-September 1943; deportation to the H.K.P. camp; life in the camp from mid-September 1943 to July 5, 1944; liberation by Red Army forces; immigration to Israel in 1950.

File Number : 13378

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Lev Arie Litvak, born in Zhmerinka, Ukraine in 1939, regarding his experiences as a child in the Zhmerinka Ghetto

Testimony of Lev Arie Litvak, born in Zhmerinka, Ukraine in 1939, regarding his experiences as a child in the Zhmerinka Ghetto Life in Zhmerinka with his family; Deportation of his family to the Zhmerinka Ghetto, November 1941; his mother rescues a girl who is sick with typhus; his mother becomes sick with typhus disease; death of his mother (she was a mother of four children) at the age of 35; acts of cruelty by Jewish policemen; liberation from the ghetto, 27 March 1944.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

Testimony of Menucha Karmin, born in Iwie, Poland, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Iwie Ghetto, in hiding in Moryn, in a forest and in the Bielski brothers' camp in Naliboki

Testimony

Testimony of Menucha Karmin, born in Iwie, Poland, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Iwie Ghetto, in hiding in Moryn, in a forest and in the Bielski brothers' camp in Naliboki Family background; attendance at the Tarbut school. German occupation of Iwie, 1939; air-raids; demand to hand over valuables; yellow badge; restrictions in movement; selling objects for subsistence; arrival of refugees in Iwie; cessation of studies; deportation to the Iwie Ghetto; Judenrat in the ghetto; Jewish police, October 1941; the Great Slaughter - murder of 1,200 Jews, 12 May 1942; escape from the ghetto; in hiding in a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Aliza Liza (Beer) Tannenbaum, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1932, regarding her experiences as a child in the Shargorod Ghetto, Cernauti Ghetto and the Bucharest Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Aliza Liza (Beer) Tannenbaum, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1932, regarding her experiences as a child in the Shargorod Ghetto, Cernauti Ghetto and the Bucharest Ghetto Family background. Deportation to the Cernauti Ghetto; yellow badge, 1941; deportation to Mogilev by freight train, October 1941; from there to Shargorod by wagon; life in the Shargorod Ghetto with her family; selling of goods to support the family; typhus fever; food parcels from the family in Bucharest; organized life in the ghetto, December 1942; Dr. Meir Teich; return to Suceava, 1944. Life with her family; move to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

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