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Testimony of Chaim Meirovitz/Meierovich, born in 1928 in Lodz, about his experiences in the Lodz ghetto and in the Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, and Kaltwasser camps, etc.

Life before the war; antisemitism before the war; German occupation ensues in September 1939; anti-Jewish legislation; the yellow-star edict; abuse of bearded Jews; dispossession; deportation to the Lodz ghetto in February 1940; hunger; working in a metal factory; activity of the Judenrat; activity of the Jewish police; deportation to labor camps; evading the transports; the Sperre Aktion in September 1942; witness finds shelter with mother in a loft; hardships at "training centers"; faith during the Holocaust; ghetto liquidated in summer 1944; deportation to Auschwitz in late August 1944; sent to the...

File Number : 13618

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Chaim Menachem Teichtal, born in 1922 in Piestany, Czechoslovakia, about escaping to Belgium and thence to France; internment in various camps including Saint Cyprien, and escaping

Family life; community; studies; personality of the witness's father, Rabbi Yissachar Shlomo Teichtal; Slovakia given autonomy in October 1938; Hlinka's Slovak People's Party; anti-Jewish decrees and the yellow-star rule; escaping to Belgium via Vienna and Munich; a stay in Antwerp; Germans enter Belgium in May 1940; escaping to France aboard a refugee train; assistance from the Red Cross; reaching southern France; interned in various camps, including Saint Cyprien; religious life and starvation in the camp; escaping to Marseilles with two brothers after a stay in Toulouse; manhunt in the streets of Toulouse;...

File Number : 13333

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Meir Andrash Weiss, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1934, regarding the Budapest ghetto and hiding in the Jewish gymnasium under the auspices of a Hungarian officer

Testimony

Testimony of Meir Andrash Weiss, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1934, regarding the Budapest ghetto and hiding in the Jewish gymnasium under the auspices of a Hungarian officer Family background; his father owns a printing house; life before the war; studies in a Hungarian school; enlistment of his father to labor battalions, 1940; management of the family business by his mother. German occupation, 1944; duty to wear a yellow badge; dropping out of school; an attempt by his mother to flee to the province with the witness and his brother; ban on train travel; confiscation of printing machines in the family...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shlomo Zalman Galizer, born in Hotin, Romania, 1919, regarding his experiences in Hotin, Secureni, the Kopaygorod Ghetto, in forests, Sulita and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Shlomo Zalman Galizer, born in Hotin, Romania, 1919, regarding his experiences in Hotin, Secureni, the Kopaygorod Ghetto, in forests, Sulita and other places Soviet Army occupation of Hotin, 1940. Outbreak of the war; air-raids on Hotin; burning of their home; detention by the Romanians, 1941; deportation to Secureni with his family; Secureni Ghetto life for several months, 1941; crosses the Dniester River; transfer to Kopaygorod via Mogilev; Kopaygorod Ghetto life including forced labor, 1941; death of his father in the ghetto; "Aktions"; rescue from the "Aktions" by a Romanian officer;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shmuel Gulan Goldberg, born in Pruzana, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Pruzana Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ebensee, Mauthausen and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Shmuel Gulan Goldberg, born in Pruzana, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Pruzana Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ebensee, Mauthausen and other places Life before the war; member of the General Zionists party. Soviet occupation, September 1939; closure of the Jewish schools; German occupation, June 1941; confiscation of monies and valuables; burial of Torah scrolls in cemeteries; establishment of the Judenrat; deportation to the Pruzana Ghetto; ghetto life; deportation to the ghetto of Jews from Bialystok and the vicinity; underground activities; murder of Jews in killing pits;...

File Number : 13224

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Report written by Hans Koch, the representative of the Office for the Occupied Territories in the East, to the Heeresgruppe Sued (Army Groups South) regarding the political and cultural-religious situation in Ukraine, 1941 The political situation on the right bank of the Dnieper River: Quiet area: support by the population of the Wehrmacht force that captured the area, as liberators; establishment of a system of administration (Feldkommandaturen and Ortskommandaturen), and a parallel system of economic administration; arguments between the Wehrmacht and the population regarding the economic and personal...

File Number : 197

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : German

Testimony of Yaakov Hans Schlochoff Shiloach, born in Breslau, Germany, 1925, regarding his experiences in Breslau, Buchenwald and aliya to Eretz Israel in 1939

Testimony

Testimony of Yaakov Hans Schlochoff Shiloach, born in Breslau, Germany, 1925, regarding his experiences in Breslau, Buchenwald and aliya to Eretz Israel in 1939 Childhood and family background; his father's death, 1935; restrictions on the Jews; termination of his mother's work; eviction from their apartment; relocation to a run down section of the city; shortage of food items; attempts to emigrate; receives a certificate to make aliya to Eretz Israel; illness; delays his departure; certificate expires. Kristallnacht, November 1938; detention in Buchenwald for two weeks; obtains a certificate through...

File Number : 12576

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Uriel Levitan, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1940, regarding his experiences as a baby in the Kaunas Ghetto and hidden by a non-Jewish family

Testimony

Testimony of Uriel Levitan, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1940, regarding his experiences as a baby in the Kaunas Ghetto and hidden by a non-Jewish family Soviet occupation; exile of his grandparents to Siberia, 1940; German occupation, 1941; establishment of the Kaunas Ghetto; murder of his parents after they are informed on; life hidden by a non-Jewish family; liquidation of the ghettos and murder of most of the Kaunas Jews; liberation. Removal from his hiding place by a female relative; move to Poland under the auspices of Agudat Israel; aliya to Eretz Israel on the ship, “Kadima", 1947.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Announcement regarding an election meeting with participation by experts and representatives

File Number : 1522

Type of Material : Announcement

Language : Yiddish / Latin Characters

[Announcement] calling [on the public] to get ready for an election meeting where the topic of discussion will be the League for Labor in Eretz Israel, posted by the Workers' Committee

File Number : 1156

Type of Material : Announcement

Language : Yiddish

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