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Testimony of Miriam Marila Liber Prague née Kostin, born in 1921 in Warsaw, about her experiences in the Warsaw ghetto, in Hungary, with the partisans in Yugoslavia, and as a forced laborer in Germany

Life before the war; German occupation ensues; dispossession; deportation to the Warsaw ghetto; life in the ghetto; escaping to the "Aryan" side with help of forged papers; marrying; escaping to Lwów; escaping back to Warsaw; escaping to Hungary; receiving privileges from the Polish Consulate; escaping to Yugoslavia; joining the partisans in March 1944; sabotaging a railroad track; arrested by the Germans and taken to Germany; working in a factory that manufactures spare parts for tanks; posing as a Croat; receiving extra privileges; liberated by American forces; reaching Buchenwald; encountering Holocaust...

File Number : 13612

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Correspondence with Helena (Fridman) Pelerman, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1920, with her two sisters Lolu from the Soviet Union and Genie from Denmark, 1944 - 1955

Correspondence with Helena (Fridman) Pelerman, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1920, with her two sisters Lolu from the Soviet Union and Genie from Denmark, 1944 - 1955 Helena Fridman: daughter of Yoel and Kayla and sister to Esther who was born in 1914, Lolu was born in 1922, Genia (see the following) was born in 1924 and Eva; draft of Helena to the Polish Army, 1943; service in the Polish Army until 1947; life in Praha; life in Warsaw; aliya to Israel on 29 January 1949; marriage to Zvi Perlman who she met before the war; Zvi's service in the Anders Army including combat in Monte Cassino; Genia Fridman;...

File Number : 1800

Type of Material : Letter, Postcard, Personal Records

Language : Polish, Yiddish

Testimony of Yhudith Penzer Even, born in Opacionka, Poland, 1934, regarding her experiences in Lublica, Opacionka, Pakhtakor, an orphanage and with the “Teheran Children”

Testimony

Testimony of Yhudith Penzer Even, born in Opacionka, Poland, 1934, regarding her experiences in Lublica, Opacionka, Pakhtakor, an orphanage and with the “Teheran Children” Her grandfather and grandmother's home in Lublica. Outbreak of the war including air-raids, September 1939; escape of her family members from Opacionka; deportation on a freight train to Siberia; transfer on trucks until the Irkutsk forest; labor by the adults in exchange for food ration coupons; her father's illness; transfer by train to Uzbekistan; life in Pakhtakor including hunger and typhus disease; hospitalization in a hospital;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Eliezer Wolkenfeld, born in Kopki, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in Lobozew, Siberia, Uzbekistan, Teheran, Karachi, Port Said and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Eliezer Wolkenfeld, born in Kopki, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in Lobozew, Siberia, Uzbekistan, Teheran, Karachi, Port Said and other places His childhood until 1938; death of his father, early 1939; move to Lobozew, September 1939. Murder of his sister, grandfather and grandmother in Laski, 1940; deportation to Siberia; transfer to Uzbekistan, 1942; move to Teheran by train with help from a Soviet Army officer, late 1942; move with the Teheran Children to Karachi, Port Said and Eretz Israel, January-February 1943; enlists in the Jewish Brigade; combat in Italy, Germany and...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Helena (Shlachter) Vitkovsky, born in Plock, Poland, 1918, regarding her experiences in Plock, Swislocz, in forests, Uzbekistan and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Helena (Shlachter) Vitkovsky, born in Plock, Poland, 1918, regarding her experiences in Plock, Swislocz, in forests, Uzbekistan and other places German Army occupation of Plock, 1939; escape as a Communist to the Soviet Union, 1939; move back to Plock with the aim of moving her family, 1939; escape to Swislocz, Belorussia with her family, 1939; escape to Wolkowysk with her family; move with her Polish Catholic husband to a village in Belorussia, 1940; outbreak of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union; move to Poteryakha [?] in the forests of Siberia, 1940; life in the forests including...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yosef Eintov, born in Przemysl, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in hiding in the Przemysl Ghetto and Lwow

Testimony

Testimony of Yosef Eintov, born in Przemysl, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in hiding in the Przemysl Ghetto and Lwow Survival in the Przemysl Ghetto, July 1942-September 1943; deportation of his parents and their murder in Auschwitz, September 1943; deportation and murder of his brother, Yehuda, in Janowska; in hiding in the Przemysl Ghetto, September-October 1943; escape and in hiding in Lwow; liberation, June 1944. Aliya to Eretz Israel, December 1945.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Eugenia Jenya (Rabinovitz) Sartena, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1930, regarding her experiences in Warsaw, a children's home in Sarapul, in Siberia and Oro Ktura

Testimony

Testimony of Eugenia Jenya (Rabinovitz) Sartena, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1930, regarding her experiences in Warsaw, a children's home in Sarapul, in Siberia and Oro Ktura Childhood, emigration to France and return to Poland. German occupation, September 1939; Soviet occupation; transfer of her family to a house on the outskirts of the city and definition as an unwanted element; Operation Barbarossa; deportation of her family to Siberia; life in the Sarapul children's home in Ural; transfer to Karakulino; lice, hepatitis; hunger; labor in the fields; search for her parents; unification of the family; move...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Haim Zussman, born in Ostrog, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in the Saratov camp and the Komisin camp, in Stalingrad, military service in the Red Army, in Warsaw and more

Testimony

Testimony of Haim Zussman, born in Ostrog, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in the Saratov camp and the Komisin camp, in Stalingrad, military service in the Red Army, in Warsaw and more Life before the war; from a secular family; membership of his father in the Bund Party; Hashomer Hatzair activities; move to another place; attends the Tarbut agricultural school, 1936; return to Ostrog. Soviet occupation, 1939; deportations to Siberia; attends a teachers' seminary; escape to Kiev; deportation to the Saratov camp, 1941; transfer to the Komisin camp; escape to Stalingrad; life in Staligrad; draft...

File Number : 13091

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Baruch Goldfinger, born in Krynica, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in Siberia, Berezniki, Bukhara and Krasnovishersk

Testimony

Testimony of Baruch Goldfinger, born in Krynica, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in Siberia, Berezniki, Bukhara and Krasnovishersk Religious-Zionist family from a family of Bubover hasidim. Outbreak of the war, September 1939; move by train to Lwow; air-raids; his mother's injury; arrival to Sambor; help from the Jews; his mother's hospitalization; German occupation; Soviet occupation; death of his mother; move to Lwow; deportation by freight train to Berezniki, Ural; transfer to a camp for families in the forests of Siberia; move to Krasnovishersk; outbreak of the war between Germany and the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zeev Schuss, born in Krakow, Poland, 1937, regarding his experiences as a child in Lwow, with a group of orphans in the Anders Army in Teheran, aliya to Eretz Israel in 1943 and other

Testimony

Testimony of Zeev Schuss, born in Krakow, Poland, 1937, regarding his experiences as a child in Lwow, with a group of orphans in the Anders Army in Teheran, aliya to Eretz Israel in 1943 and other German occupation, September 1939; escape with the family to Lwow; life in Lwow; German occupation, June 1941; escape to Bukhara; life in Bukhara; move with his sister to a Polish orphanage; eats together with children scraps of food at the gate of the camp of the Anders Army; joins with the orphanage the Anders Army en route to Teheran, August 1942; life en route; move to Krasnovodsk; life in Krasnovodsk; travel...

File Number : 13125

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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