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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 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

Testimony of Shmuel Hirsh, born in Iernut, Romania, in 1926 regarding his experiences in Detesan, in Ludus and in Turda

Testimony of Shmuel Hirsh, born in Iernut, Romania, in 1926 regarding his experiences in Detesan, in Ludus and in Turda Childhood in Detesani; son of a religious family that barely makes a living; life there as the only Jewish family; attending public school; good relations with the Romanians; deportation to Ludus at the end of 1941; transfer to Turda after 2 weeks; life there in an abandoned flour mill; transfer to forced labor in cleaning a military hospital; working there for about ayear and a half; liberation by the red army in 1944; life there after the liberation; military service in the lines of the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yaacov Shvartz, born in Siauliai, Lithuania, in 1929 regarding the Siauliai ghetto, the Stutthof and other camps

Testimony

Childhood in Siauliai; entry of the Russians in 1940; arrival of Jewish refugees from Poland; German occupation in June 1941; pogrom by the Lithuanians; murder of the stratum of the Jewish intelligentsia including the father; deportation to the Siauliai ghetto; overcrowding; yellow badges; starvation; forced labor; smugglings of food;'aktion" of the elderly in 1942; 'aktion' of the children in November 1943; liquidation of the Siauliai ghetto in July 1944; deportation to Stutthof; physical and emotional abuse; meeting with Russian captives; starvation; fate of the mother who escaped from the killing pit near...

File Number : 13687

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Liliana Kaliger Giske, born in Lodz, Poland, in 1928 regarding the Lodz ghetto, Auschwitz and other camps

Testimony

Childhood in Lodz; antisemitism; German occupation in September 1939; confiscation of property and businesses; acts of abuse on the steets, expulsion from apartment; curfew in the evenings; white band; deportation to the Lodz ghetto in February 1940; dysentery epidemic; starvation; death of the mother and niece; abuse; work at a knitting resort; arrival of refugees; the Judenradt; the Jewish police; doctors in the ghetto; improvement in September 1942; activity in the Communist underground; liquidation of the Lodz ghetto in the summer 1944; deportation to Auschwitz Birkenau; starvation; beatings; transfer to...

File Number : 13686

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 Sara Avni Veinshtein, born in 1926 in Białystok, Poland, about deportation to Kazakhstan in 1940, internment in camps in Siberia, and forced labor in Ukraine during the war

Childhood and family in Białystok and Orla; deportation to Kazakhstan in 1940; sent to labor camps in Siberia and then to forced labor in Ukraine; hunger; diseases including typhus; illegal immigration to Eretz Israel in 1946; deportation to Cyprus, immigration to Eretz Israel; adjustment to life in Eretz Israel.

File Number : 13581

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shmuel Gutner, born in 1931 in Kaunas, Lithuania, about his experiences in the Kaunas ghetto, Dachau, the Landsberg camp, and Auschwitz during the war

Life before the war; Soviet occupation ensues in 1940; property nationalized; German occupation ensues in June 1941; anti-Jewish legislation; the yellow star edict; witness deported to the Kaunas ghetto in August 1941; life in overcrowded conditions; Aktion in October 1941; activity of the Jewish police; mother smuggles food; studies in the ghetto; hides in a loft during the children's and elders' Aktion in March 1944; ghetto liquidated in summer 1944; women and young children deported to Stutthof; children and fathers separated in the Landsberg camp; witness remains with a group of 131 children who survived...

File Number : 13627

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Joint testimony of siblings, Menachem Mendel Donenfeld, born in Iordanesti, Romania in 1931, and Bracha Beti (Donenfeld) Klein, born in Iordanesti in 1932, regarding their experiences in Iordanesti, on marches in the Transnistria area and in the Crasna Ghetto Life before the war; Deportation to the Transnistria area, summer 1941; transfer on death marches to the Crasna Ghetto; Crasna Ghetto life; liberation; Aliya to Israel, 1948.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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