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Testimony of Mirka (Klaver) Zaklikovski, born in Lodz, Poland, 1927, regarding the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, and other camps, 1940-1945

Testimony

Childhood before the war; Outbreak of the war; arrival of refugees from Czechoslovakia and Germany; restrictions; deportation to the ghetto; curfew; forced labor; taking of her father to forced labor; "Aktions"; public hangings of Jews; escapes from the ghetto; cultural life in the ghetto; liquidation of the ghetto; transfer to labor camps in Germany; working in a weapons factory; reasonable treatment by the Germans; liberation by the British Army; Rebuilding life after the war; aliya to Israel, 1949.

File Number : 13855

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Personal documentation of Szeiman family members, including work permits, an application for unemployment benefits, a certificate confirming the employment of Mendel Szeiman as a policeman, and other documents, 1946-1949 - Identity cards of Majer Shejman, born in 1942, and Izchak Sheimann, born in 1943, issued in Wels DP camp, 30 October 1946; - Certificate confirming that Mendel Szeiman completed a Police training course in Ebelsberg DP camp, held, 07-12 March 1948; - Certificate confirming the employment of Mendel Scheinmann, born in Tomasow (apparently Tomaszow Lubelski), 25 December 1912, as a...

File Number : 754

Type of Material : Personal Documents

Language : English, German

Postcards and letters sent to Giza (Wachspress) and Jur Jucui Prowizor in Lwow and Yoshkar Ola by members of the Wachspress family in Tarnow, 1940-1941, correspondence between Giza and Jur during his military service as a Red Army soldier, 1944-1945 - Postcards and letters sent to Jur (Juciu) and Giza (Wachspress) Prowizor in Lwow and Yoshkar Ola by members of the Wachspress family in Tarnow, 1940-1941; the last postcard was sent by Dora Wachspress, 06 May 1941(all the letters and postcards have been translated into Hebrew); - Letter written by Giza Prowizor in the Soviet Union to her parents in Tarnow,...

File Number : 2246

Type of Material : Letter, Postcard, Poem/song, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, Polish, Russian, German

Postcard sent by Sara Karpen from Sweden to Zdunska Wola in order to locate surviving family members, 08 August 1945

Postcard sent by Sara Karpen from Sweden to Zdunska Wola in order to locate surviving family members, 08 August 1945 Notes from Leah (Karpen) Finklestein who submitted the material: Sara (Karpen) Speyer survived Auschwitz, and moved to Sweden after the liberation. Her sister Leah (Karpen) Finklestein, who submitted the material, found the postcard after she returned to Zdunska Wola from the Soviet Union at the end of the war.

File Number : 2243

Type of Material : Postcard

Language : Polish

Testimony of Tzafrir Shteir Sara, born in Bedzin, Poland, in 1930 regarding the Srodula ghetto and regarding the Peterswaldau camp

Childhood before the war; programming aliya to Israel; aliya of the two brothers ; confiscation of family businesses; outbreak of the war; burning the synagogue and houses of Jews; deportation to ghetto; forced labor; murder of the father; "aktions"; deportation of the mother and sister to Auschwitz Birkenau; deportation of the witness with her sister to Peterswaldau; help of the German female commander; liberation by the Russians; escape to the American side; rehabilitation of life after the war; aliya to Israel in 1946

File Number : 13661

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Personal documentation of the Morgenstzern family, including an authorization regarding the return of Dwojra Morgensztern to Poland, a questionnaire filled out by Dawid Morgensztern, the birth certificate of Brajndla Szyfra Morgensztern, and other documents - Document given to Dwojra Morgensztern in Dzhambul, authorizing her return to Poland, 14 April 1946; - Questionnaire filled out by Dawid Morgensztern, 03 December 1946, including details regarding his places of residence and work before his arrival to the areas added to Poland after the war (he resided in Russia beforehand and arrived to Poland,...

File Number : 749

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Genealogy

Language : Hebrew, Polish

Testimony of Nancy Vera Rachel Arbel, born in Baktaloranthaza, Hungary, in 1826 regarding deportation to the Auschwitz Birkenau , Plaszow and Reichenbach camps

Testimony

Childhood before the war; coexistence; outbreak of the war; restrictions on Jews; German occupation in March 1944; deportation to ghetto; mutual help; robbery of property; fictitious marriage for the purpose of rescue; deportation to Auschwitz Birkenau; transfer to Plaszow; transfer to a protected camp; improvement in food and living conditions; transfer back to Auschwitz Birkenau; transfer to Germany for agricultural works and for working in a factory manufacturing planes; liberation by the Russians; rehabilitation of life after the war; aliya to Israel in 1949

File Number : 13703

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shlomo Feldshtein, born in Przeworsk, Poland, in 1934, regarding his hiding with a Polish farmer in Grzeska between 1942-1944

Testimony

-Childhood before the war; relations with the local population; outbreak of the war; life until 1942; "Aktion"; escape of the family to the forest following a warning they got from a farmer; hiding with the farmer for 2 years 1942-1944; leaving the hiding place with the approach of the Russians; leaving Poland; reconstruction of life after the war; emigration to Israel; exile to Cyprus; Aliya back to Israel

File Number : 13758

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Personal documentation of Janek Eugen Jakubovic, born in Michalovce, Czechoslovakia, 1930, including an identification card, confirmation of liberation from Sachsenhausen camp, a temporary identification card, and other documents - Identification card as a Slovakian survivor, issued for Eugen Jakubovic in Neubrandenburg, including confirmation of his detention in Michalovce, 13 December 1944, and his stay in Sachsenhausen camp until the liberation; document dated, 01 June 1945; - Confirmation issued in Prague, that Eugen Jakubovic was liberated from Sachsenhausen camp; document dated, 07 June 1945; -...

File Number : 746

Type of Material : Curriculum Vitae (cv), Personal Documents

Language : Czech, English

Memoirs of Zoltán Moor written in Caux, Switzerland, January-May 1945 including a description of his experiences during the war in Budapest, on the Kasztner train and in Bergen-Belsen

Memoirs of Zoltán Moor written in Caux, Switzerland, January-May 1945 including a description of his experiences during the war in Budapest, on the Kasztner train and in Bergen-Belsen Also in the file: - Letter from Zoltán Moor to Jolán Földes, a Jewish writer, 11 June 1945 (the letter was apparently not sent); - Postcards written by Tamás Moor during the time he was a forced laborer in a draft center in Jászberény and in a labor camp (apparently the Bor camp) to his father Zoltán Moor in Budapest, June-August 1944; - Letter sent by Tamás Moor in Bucharest to his uncle István Back in Timisoara, 14...

File Number : 8632

Type of Material : Letter, Memoirs, Postcard, Telegram

Language : German, Hungarian

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