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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

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

Testimony of Yeshayahu Yehiel Harsit (Porcelana), born in Warsaw, Poland in 1934, regarding ‎his experiences escaping to the Soviet Union and deportation to Ural

Testimony of Yeshayahu Yehiel Harsit (Porcelana), born in Warsaw, Poland in 1934, regarding ‎his experiences escaping to the Soviet Union and deportation to Ural His family before the war; antisemitism; German occupation in September 1939; escape to the ‎Russian occupied zone; life in Baranowicze; deportation to Ural at the beginning of 1940; his ‎experiences in a Soviet work camp; his parents’ work; studies; religious life; release from the camp ‎in summer 1941; transfer to Kazakhstan; starvation; daily struggle to survive; antisemitism; ‎transfer to Turkestan in spring 1942; life in Turkestan;...

File Number : 13575

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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

Testimony of Esther Irena Gabrieli, nee Zielke, born in Berlin, Germany in 1921, regarding her experiences in Amsterdam and her hiding in Liege.

Testimony

Testimony of Esther Irena Gabrieli, nee Zielke,born in Berlin, Germany in 1921 Childhood in a well-to-do orthodox family; attending a school of the orthodox community; the family moves to Amsterdam in 1936; attending a Jewish school; German occupation of Holland in May 1940; decrees against Jews; street ban; possession of a radio is prohibited; detention of her father and brother in a prison in Scheveningen and their deportation to Auschwitz; suicide of her mother on the 9th of Av,in July 1942; her escape to Maastricht, to her sister in December 1942; smuggling the border into Belgium with the help of...

File Number : 13500

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe Feldman, born in 1932 in Rozan, Poland, about escaping to Russia and a labor camp in Siberia, 1940–1944

Childhood; antisemitism before the war; war breaks out in 1939; Germans arrive; Jewish townspeople evicted; physical abuse and murder of the town's ritual slaughterer; reaching Maków Mazowiecki; men inducted for forced labor and murdered; escaping from the city; hiding out during the day; walking at night toward the Soviet border; bribing the Polish border guards; reaching Białystok; lack of solidarity on the part of the Jewish townspeople; grandmother dies; unsuccessful attempts to trace father, who remained in Warsaw; refugees deported to Siberia: a month and a half of travel by rail; many die; cases of...

File Number : 13664

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

Testimony of Leon Goldstein, born in Przemysl, Poland, 1933, regarding his experiences in Przemysl, the Przemysl Ghetto, in hiding in Dubiecko, and in Krakow and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Leon Goldstein, born in Przemysl, Poland, 1933, regarding his experiences in Przemysl, the Przemysl Ghetto, in hiding in Dubiecko, and in Krakow and other places [Red Army occupation of] Przemysl; life under Soviet rule as of 1939; German Army occupation of Przemysl; deportation to the Przemysl Ghetto, 1941; Przemysl Ghetto life including forced labor by his parents, 1942; "Aktions", 1942; smuggled out of the ghetto along with his sister to a hiding place in the home of a Polish woman in exchange for money, 1942; escape of his parents from the ghetto; his parents are in hiding while hidden in...

File Number : 13161

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Avraham Andor Rotman, born in Balkany, Hungary, 1920, regarding his experiences in Balkany, a labor battalion in Hodmezovasarhely, Horgovan, Bor, Dachau and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Avraham Andor Rotman, born in Balkany, Hungary, 1920, regarding his experiences in Balkany, a labor battalion in Hodmezovasarhely, Horgovan, Bor, Dachau and other places Life in Balkany before the war; well-to-do religious family; education. Draft of his brother to a labor battalion, 1940; witness' draft to a labor battalion in Hodmezovasarhely, October 1941; transfer to Horgovan; life in a military camp; transfer to Bor, 1943; camp life including labor digging tunnels; labor exploding rocks; camp life in Bor; transfer to Flossenbuerg, December 1944; camp life including labor in quarries;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew, Hungarian

Testimony of Julius Drukman, born in Radauti, Romania, 1929, regarding his experiences as a child in Cernauti, the Yampol region, Obodovka, Balta and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Julius Drukman, born in Radauti, Romania, 1929, regarding his experiences as a child in Cernauti, the Yampol region, Obodovka, Balta and other places Life in Radauti before the war; life in Banila; move to Cernauti; life in Cernauti. Deportation to Yampol on a train; transfer to a kolkhoz in the Yampol region; life in the kolkhoz; escape and joins a group of Jews in Cernauti; escape to Storojinet; life in Storojinet; escape to Obodovka; life in Obodovka including meeting a Jewish partisan; receives money from his family in Romania; move to Balta with Jewish orphans; move back to Obodovka due...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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