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Testimony of Malka Bakon née Varshavski, born in 1934 in Drohiczyn, Poland, about her experiences as a girl in the Drohiczyn ghetto, in hiding with villagers in the vicinity, and immigration to Eretz Israel in 1944

Life in Drohiczyn; ghettoization; life in hiding with various villagers for a year and a half; liberation by Red Army forces; immigration to Eretz Israel in 1944; rehabilitation and adjustment to life in Eretz Israel.

File Number : 13555

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

Testimony of Lea Lola (Grinbaum) Israel, born in Sosnowiec, Poland, 1927, regarding her experiences in Sosnowiec and Gabersdorf

Testimony

Testimony of Lea Lola (Grinbaum) Israel, born in Sosnowiec, Poland, 1927, regarding her experiences in Sosnowiec and Gabersdorf Life in Sosnowiec. Deportation to Gabersdorf camp; camp life.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Tzvi Schoenfeld, born in Chust, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Chust Ghetto, Auschwitz, Plaszow, Gross, Posen and Zittau

Testimony

Testimony of Tzvi Schoenfeld, born in Chust, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Chust Ghetto, Auschwitz, Plaszow, Gross-Rosen and Zittau From an Orthodox family, attends a Czech elementary school and "heder"; his father makes aliya to Eretz Israel, 1934, and his return to Czechoslovakia. Annexation to Hungary, 1938; Aryanization of Jewish businesses; meeting with and assistance to Polish Jewish refugees; disbelief regarding information about fate of the Jews; draft of his father to labor battalions in Ukraine, 1942; receiving information of his death from typhus; deportation of Chust...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Menachem Beer, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Budapest Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Menachem Beer, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Budapest Ghetto Aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947.

File Number : 13377

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shoshana Zsuzsanna (Shomlo) Beer, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1927, regarding her experiences in hiding in Budapest during the war

Testimony

Testimony of Shoshana Zsuzsanna (Shomlo) Beer, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1927, regarding her experiences in hiding in Budapest during the war

File Number : 13324

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shulamit Folk, born in Presov, Czechoslovakia, 1928, regarding her experiences as a child in Presov and a camp in the Warsaw area

Testimony

Testimony of Shulamit Folk, born in Presov, Czechoslovakia, 1928, regarding her experiences as a child in Presov and a camp in the Warsaw area Life before the war; Orthodox family; attends a Jewish school; Bnei Akiva and Hashomer Hatzair activities; meets Jewish refugees from Poland; help to refugees. Information on the murder of Jews; closure of the store; Ukranian and Slovakian Hlinka Guard brutality; deportation to a camp in the Warsaw area; camp life; labor unloading coal; Wermacht control of the camp; cruelty of the Jewish Kapo from Poland; activities of the orchestra, Polish and Yiddish theatre;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ester Agnes (Fishel) Efrat, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1933, regarding her experiences as a child in a protected house and in the Budapest Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Ester Agnes (Fishel) Efrat, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1933, regarding her experiences as a child in a protected house and in the Budapest Ghetto Life before the war; from a well-to-do Orthodox family. German occupation, March 1944; yellow badge; confiscation of valuables; concentration of the Jews in Jewish homes; deportation of her father and her mother to a camp; transfer of her parents to the place; transfer of her parents to another camp; transfer together with her siblings to a protected house; receiving protective documents; receiving information regarding the location of her parents;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Pnina (Bezner) Sery, born in Radauti, Romania, 1930, regarding her experiences as a child in Radauti and Mogilev-Podolski

Testimony

Testimony of Pnina (Bezner) Sery, born in Radauti, Romania, 1930, regarding her experiences as a child in Radauti and Mogilev-Podolski Life before the war; religious family; pogrom against Jews; escape of the refugees from Poland to Radauti. Outbreak of the German-Soviet Union war, 1941; deportation on a train with the family to the Dniester river; transfer to Mogilev-Podolski; life in Mogilev-Podolski in an abandoned building; kidnapping from the street and transfer to a convoy; escape; death of her grandfather and grandmother from hunger; contact with child deportees; writes a diary with the children in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Dov Erno Frenkel, born in Nagykallo, Hungary, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Nagykallo Ghetto, Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Magdeburg camp and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Dov Erno Frenkel, born in Nagykallo, Hungary, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Nagykallo Ghetto, Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Magdeburg camp and other places Life before the war; ultra-Orthodox family. Outbreak of the war; meets Jewish refugees from Poland; support for the refugees; activities of his father for those without citizenship including prevention of their deportation; gathering of Jews, Pesach 1944; arrest of his father by gendarmes; deportation to the Nagykallo Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life; death of his parents and three siblings; transfer of his brother to Germany;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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