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Testimony of Mendel Mordkowicz, born in Blaszki, Poland, 1886, regarding his experiences in Poznan camp, the Wroclaw, Sieradz and Czestochowa prisons, Inowroclaw camp, Auschwitz and Mauthausen

Testimony of Mendel Mordkowicz, born in Blaszki, Poland, 1886, regarding his experiences in Poznan camp, the Wroclaw, Sieradz and Czestochowa prisons, Inowroclaw camp, Auschwitz and Mauthausen Life in Lubraniec before the war. German occupation; deportation of the men to Fort Radziwill in the Poznan camp several months later; camp life, including labor digging trenches in the forest, extracting gravel from the Warta River; murder of many inmates; severely injured by a Gestapo man; transfer to Kobyle Pole; labor in a glass factory, while using a false identity; receives help from laborers in the factory;...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 221

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Polish

Testimony of Matys Brunnengraber, born in Boryslaw, Poland, 1920, regarding his experiences in Krakow, Plaszow, Sachsenhausen, Oranienburg, Bergen-Belsen, Hamburg, and other places

Testimony of Matys Brunnengraber, born in Boryslaw, Poland, 1920, regarding his experiences in Krakow, Plaszow, Sachsenhausen, Oranienburg, Bergen-Belsen, Hamburg, and other places Escape from Krakow to Lwow, November 1939; escape to Boryslaw; receives news from his parents in Slomniki, one week before Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union; move to Lwow; capture, after being informed on; forced labor; escape to Szczerzec; work on an agricultural farm in the vicinity; move to Krakow in the truck of a German officer responsible for the farm, with the German officer's permission; meets his parents in Slomniki;...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 212

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Polish

Report prepared by British Army Intelligence, regarding the interrogation of an SS man who deserted, 1944

Report prepared by British Army Intelligence, regarding the interrogation of an SS man who deserted, 1944 The POW (his name was not submitted) deserted from an SS detachment and surrendered to the British Army near Trumelet; - Completion [of studies] in the SS-Junkerschule in Munich; character and aim of the school; swearing of allegiance to Hitler; combat training in the battalion's headquarters; political preparation; - SS [service]: moral outlook of the SS; advice to young draftees regarding morals; SS members may marry only after the SS Rasse und Siedlingshauptamt (SS Racial and Settlement Matters...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 232

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Investigation Report

results.listIds.lang : English

Testimony of Miklós Deutsch, born in Budapest, Hungary in 1924, regarding his experiences in a protected camp in Budapest and in Bergen Belsen camp

results.listIds.fileNumber : 547

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hungarian

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results.listIds.fileNumber : 3151

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Legal Documentation, Investigation Report, Record of Persecuted Persons, Testimony, Sentence

results.listIds.lang : German

Testimony of Avraham Shulmeister, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1920, regarding his experiences in the Soviet Union

Testimony of Avraham Shulmeister, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1920, regarding his experiences in the Soviet Union Life in Lukow, attends a yeshiva and learns metalworking. Outbreak of the war; escape to a village and return, several days later; city, which was built of wood, is set on fire in order to make people flee; escape to an attic; people are shot in the market; Soviet occupation; escape to Brest Litowsk and then to Bialystok; sleeps in a synagogue with other refugees; move to Vitebsk; labor in metalworking for the Red Army; return to Poland with his sister whom he met in Kiev; requests a travel permit...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 7360

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Testimony of Yisrael Shaked, born in Tiszacsecse, Hungary, 1942 regarding his experiences in the Debrecen Ghetto, and in the Mauthausen, Strasshof, Auschwitz, and Gunskirchen camps

Family background; religious family. His father's drafting to labor battalions and his death, 1943; German occupation, March 1944; deportation to a ghetto in a nearby village; transfer to the Debrecen Ghetto, spring-summer 1944; his older brother was taken for forced labor; the deportation transport to Auschwitz was redirected to Strasshof; death march and arrival in Mauthausen, winter 1945; reunion with his brother; transfer to Gunskirchen and reunion with his uncle; liberation, May 1945. Sailing to Eretz Israel and exile to Cyprus, 1946; arrival in Eretz Israel, 1947.

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

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results.listIds.fileNumber : 272

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hungarian

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