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Testimony of an anonymous Jewish woman from the village of Rakow, Poland regarding her experiences in the Rakow Ghetto, escapes to the Aryan side using a false identity, hiding in the forest and in a Polish village and work in Germany using a false identity Life in Rakow at the time of the occupation including anti-Jewish legislation; life in the ghetto; capture of the witness; prevention of her deportation to Skarzysko-Kamienna due to the giving a bribe; escape of the family from the ghetto; hiding of the parents by farmers they had known before the war; trips taken to Czestochowa by train by the witness,...

File Number : 297.1

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Paulina Keynan, nee Godin in Wilno, Poland in 1925, regarding her deportation to the Wilno ghetto and the Kaiserwald and Stutthof camps and the death march

Testimony

Testimony of Paulina Keynan ,nee Godin, born in Wilno,Poland,in 1925 Childhood within a well-to-do traditional family, good neighbourly relations with the Polish population, increasing displays of anti-Semitism, boycotting Jewish businesses; outbreak of the war; Russian occupation; exile of wealthy people to siberia; confiscation of part of the family house for the purpose of housing Soviets; father's imprisonment for half a year; life in hiding for about two weeks in fear of exile to Siberia; German occupation in 1941; expulsion from the family house; father's arrest and disappearance; restrictions and...

File Number : 13648

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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File Number : 13491

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Haviva Luba Barakh née Obis, born in 1932 in Jarczów-Kolonia Pierwsza, Poland, about her experiences as a girl in the Piaski ghetto and with a non-Jewish family in Gielczew

Offspring of a family of merchants in Jarczów-Kolonia Pierwsza; German occupation ensues in 1939; eviction from the village and loss of livelihood; sleeing in non-Jews' granaries; Jews of the area sent to the Piaski ghetto; digging a bunker in the field as oppression mounts; five family members find a hidout in a bunker and stay there in 1941–1942; searching for food at night; manhunt by collaborators; hearing rumors about liquidation of the ghettos; placed with a non-Jewish family in Gielczew in late 1942; brother murdered in the field; parents and sister captured and murdered in Majdanek; villagers hostile;...

File Number : 13511

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Aharon Klepfer, born in 1930 in Zarnowiec, Poland, about his escape to the forests and hiding with Poles in 1942–1945

Childhood in a well-to-do Hasidic family; attending a cheder and a Polish school; antisemitic manifestations before the war; war breaks out; Germans arrive; anti-Jewish strictures; studies halted; business shut down; eviction from houses; men inducted; Aktion; murder; dispossession; burial of gold in the family's courtyard and depositing of furs with Polish friends; denunciation of Jews; abuse by members of the Hitlerjugend; Judenräte appointed and subsequently murdered; rumors about an additional Aktion; family escapes to the forest; builds a bunker; bunker discovered a Pole who informs on them to the Germans;...

File Number : 13312

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Rachel (Lauden) Rolnitzki, born in Sosnowiec, Poland 1926, regarding her experiences in Sosnowiec and labor camps in Germany

Memoirs of Rachel (Lauden) Rolnitzki, born in Sosnowiec, Poland 1926, regarding her experiences in Sosnowiec and labor camps in Germany Her father joins the partisans, 1939; her father is turned over to the Germans by Poles; her father's murder; her mother is accused of espionage; deportation of her mother to prison; deportation of her mother to Auschwitz; selection of children in Sosnowiec, 1942; deportation of children over the age of 15 to labor camps; deportation of children under the age of 15 to Auschwitz; separation from her oldest sister; escape from the transport; joins her oldest sister; transfer...

File Number : 8228

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Tova Dari née Veinberg, born in 1923 in Warsaw, about her experiences in the Warsaw ghetto and the Majdanek, Skarzysko, and Częstochowa camps

Testimony

Testimony of Tova Dari née Veinberg, born in 1923 in Warsaw, about her experiences in the Warsaw ghetto and the Majdanek, Skarzysko, and Częstochowa camps Life before the war; daughter of an affluent religious family; attending Havatselet Hebrew-language school; antisemitic manifestations; war breaks out in September 1939; bombardments; dispossession; closure of the family curtain factory; depredations by Volksdeutsche (ethnic Germans); ghettoization in 1940; encountering refugees from Łódź; assistance in housing and money; family banished to the ghetto in 1941; father works in a sewing shop; working at a...

File Number : 13436

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Shmuel Haler, born in Bedzin, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Bedzin Ghetto, Koenigshuette, Gross-Rosen, Mauthausen and other places

Memoirs of Shmuel Haler, born in Bedzin, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Bedzin Ghetto, Koenigshuette, Gross-Rosen, Mauthausen and other places Life in the Bedzin Ghetto until 1942; life in Koenigshuette; life in Gross Sarne; life in Gross Masselwitz; life in Dyhernfurth; life in Gross-Rosen; death march to Mauthausen; life in Mauthausen, January-May 1945; liberation by the US Army, May 1945. Unsuccessful aliya attempt via Italy; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Israel, 1949.

File Number : 8201

Type of Material : Memoirs

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 Isser Shmukler, born in 1924 in Iwje, Poland, about his experiences in the Lida ghetto, with the Bielski partisans, and with the Red Army in Germany

Testimony

Testimony of Isser Shmukler, born in 1924 in Iwje, Poland, about his experiences in the Lida ghetto, with the Bielski partisans, and with the Red Army in Germany The German occupation begins in 1941; 200 leading members of the Jewish community murdered; establishment of the ghetto; rumors about murder of Jews in towns in the area; Judenrat is constituted; working in Lida in German arms warehouses; smuggling a rifle into the Lida ghetto; Aktion involving 1,000 Jews; observing the Aktion from the roof of his home; escaping to the partisans; joining the Bielski brothers' partisan group in 1942; receiving...

File Number : 13562

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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