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Testimony of Avigdor Elboim, born in Krasnik, Poland, in 1930, regarding his experiences as a young boy in Krasnik, in the Budzyn, Radom Auschwitz and other camps

Testimony of Avigdor Elboim, born in Krasnik, Poland,in 1930, regarding his experiences as a young boy in Krasnik; in the Budzyn, Radom, Auschwitz camps and others, Life before the war; he came from a traditional family; his grandfather had connections with the Lublin"yeshiva"; German occupation in 1939; executions as the Germans started occupying Poland; building of the Budzyn camp; he works as an apprentice glazier; deportation with his family to Budzyn; life in the camp; "Aktionen" and murder of his parents; murder of his grandfather before his eyes; murder of his sisters and grandmother; rescue by German...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Aron Fushman, born in Khotin, Romania in 1924, regarding his experiences in the Kopaygorod Ghetto

Memoirs of Aron Fushman, born in Khotin, Romania in 1924, regarding his experiences in the Kopaygorod Ghetto Life in the Kopaygorod Ghetto in winter 1942; work supplying water to the police station in the ghetto; interruption of a policeman while transferring a water barrel, and delay in arriving at the police station; punishment of Jewish laborers due to the delay.

File Number : 2889

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Russian

Testimony of Jeanette (Wexler) Katz, born in Paris, France, 1939, regarding her experiences as a toddler being hidden in a convent near Limoges

Testimony

Testimony of Jeanette (Wexler) Katz, born in Paris, France, 1939, regarding her experiences as a toddler being hidden in a convent near Limoges Entrusted, at the age of 3, to a convent near Limoges in the Vichy area, by an emissary from the JDC, 1942; survival of her parents in forests in the Paris area; life in the convent in a group of eight Jewish girls; treatment by the nuns; punishments; denial of food; end of the war. Transfer to a foster family in the Limoges area for a year and a half; difficult reunion with her "stranger" parents, 1946; return to Paris; transfer to a boarding school due to the...

File Number : 13432

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaim Ludovich Steinberger, born in Satu Mare, Romania, 1923, regarding his experiences in Halmeu, the Noua Sulita Ghetto and labor camps

Testimony

Testimony of Chaim Ludovich Steinberger, born in Satu Mare, Romania, 1923, regarding his experiences in Halmeu, the Noua Sulita Ghetto and labor camps His childhood in Halmeu with his family. Deportation of the Jews from the villages to the Noua Sulita Ghetto; deportation of the Jews to Auschwitz; life in labor camps, 1944-1945. Aliya to Israel, 1951.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yoel Ben Zion Liber, born in Lodz, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz and other camps

Testimony

Testimony of Yoel Ben Zion Liber, born in Lodz, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz and other camps Lodz Ghetto life; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life; camp life in additional camps.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Judit Aharoni, born in Baia Mare, Romania, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Baia Mare Ghetto, Auschwitz, Stutthof, Gleiwitz and more

Testimony

Testimony of Judit Aharoni, born in Baia Mare, Romania, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Baia Mare Ghetto, Auschwitz, Stutthof, Gleiwitz and more From a Zionist family; her childhood; visit to Eretz Israel, 1935. Outbreak of the war; annexation to Hungary, 1940; limits on the Jews and persecution: numerus clausus, robbery of property, Aryanization of the family businesses, yellow badge, curfew; attends a Hebrew school in Cluj; dismissal of academic government workers; arrests; German occupation, March 1944; deportation to a ghetto in a brick factory for several weeks; attempts of two priests to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sara Novizki, born in Kozowa, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences on the farm of an SS man in Berlin

Testimony

Testimony of Sara Novizki, born in Kozowa, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences on the farm of an SS man in Berlin Her childhood in a family with hardships; being orphaned. Outbreak of the war; Soviet occupation, 1939; obtains food from the "sick people's kitchen"; German occupation, 1941; atmosphere of fear; sleeping in an attic; draft of girls [using false identities?] to forced labor in Germany; transfer to Berlin; various assignments on the farm and agricultural labor for a farmer who was an SS man; life on the farm including hunger, shortages, cold, brutal treatment and beatings; approach of the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Schmuel Eisenberg, born in Hotin, Romania, 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in Hotin, Kopaygorod and Bucharest and his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1944

Testimony

Testimony of Schmuel Eisenberg, born in Hotin, Romania, 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in Hotin, Kopaygorod and Bucharest and his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1944 Life before the war. Deportation to Transnistria on trains; transfer on marches; Kopaygorod Ghetto life; his illness with typhus and dysentery; life in an orphanage; transfer from Transnistria to Bucharest with other orphans; his aliya to Eretz Israel with the orphans, 1944.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Iva (Volovski) Gold, born in Chisinau, Romania, 1925, regarding her experiences in Chisinau, Transnistria and Balta

Testimony

Testimony of Iva (Volovski) Gold, born in Chisinau, Romania, 1925, regarding her experiences in Chisinau, Transnistria and Balta Life before the war. Deportation on a march to Transnistria; life in Transnistria; her mother's suicide; life in Balta in an orphanage. Aliya to Israel, 1963.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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