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Testimony of Shoshana (Shonfeld) Mitelman Caspi, born in Topolcany, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding her experiences in Topolcany, a labor camp and with the partisans in Banska Bystrica

Testimony of Shoshana (Shonfeld) Mitelman Caspi, born in Topolcany, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding her experiences in Topolcany, a labor camp and with the partisans in Banska Bystrica Religious family; Nazi rise to power, 1933; Aryanization; decrees; handing over of valuables to the government, 1941. Transports and deportation to a labor camp, 1942; selection, 1942; escape from the camp, 1944; joins a group of partisans in Banska Bystrica; receives a forged document; joins the Soviet forces, February 1945; liberation of Slovakia, 1945. Return to Topolcany, July 1945; receives help from the Red Cross;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Semyon Rozenfeld, born in Ternovka, Ukraine, 1922, regarding his experiences as a POW in Minsk, Wlodowa, in the underground in Sobibor, forests and with the Red Army

Testimony of Semyon Rozenfeld, born in Ternovka, Ukraine, 1922, regarding his experiences as a POW in Minsk, Wlodowa, in the underground in Sobibor, forests and with the Red Army Family with hardships; witness attends a Jewish school until 1936; construction of a synagogue and help to families with hardships by American Jews. Detention of Jews; draft into the Red Army and training in the armored corps in Kiev, 1940; wounded in battle with the German Army; taken captive, 22 July 1941; life as a POW including hunger and temporary blindness; transfer to a warehouse; receives help from a German officer;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

Memoirs written by Shalom Brier regarding the experiences of his father Avraham Yaakov Brier, leader of an uprising in Kostopol camp during the war

File Number : 7421

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Eta Etus (Markovitz) Mendzitzki, born in Iedul, Romania, 1924, regarding her experiences in Dragomiresti, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Budy, on a death march and Bergen-Belsen

Testimony of Eta Etus (Markovitz) Mendzitzki, born in Iedul, Romania, 1924, regarding her experiences in Dragomiresti, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Budy, on a death march and Bergen-Belsen From a well-to-do religious Zionist family; her parents own a supermarket; death of her father; Bnei Akiva activities; attends a Romanian school. Annexation to Hungary, August 1940; German occupation, March 1944; deportation to Dragomiresti, the day after Pesach (16 April) 1944; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, April 1944; camp life including the deaths of her mother and brother; typhus and transfer to the infirmary; rescue...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Regina (Schafran) Gruenwald, born in Petrovenec, Czechoslovakia, 1924, regarding her experiences in Hanusovce, Novaky and Slovakian forests

Testimony of Regina (Schafran) Gruenwald, born in Petrovenec, Czechoslovakia, 1924, regarding her experiences in Hanusovce, Novaky and Slovakian forests From a traditional family. Increase in antisemitism, 1939; expulsion from school; anti-Jewish legislation; life in the home of her married sister in Remeniny; Aryanization of the family business and its forced transfer to an non-Jewish trustee; in hiding from deportation, March 1942; civil marriage to her brother-in-law's brother, May 1942; deportation to a school in Hanusovce; religious wedding, July 1942; return home; her brother's escape from the army...

File Number : 12818

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Helena Korzeniewska, Righteous Among the Nations, born In Kalinow, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences in rescue activities in the Warsaw Ghetto, in the Armia Krajowa (AK) and in detention Life before the war; move to Warsaw. German occupation, September 1939; gives help as a Polish woman to a Jewish family; establishment of the Warsaw Ghetto; hides Jews in her apartment; joins the Armia Krajowa (AK); activities in the smuggle of Jews; receives help from a priest to obtain forged birth certificates; interrogation by the Polish police; release from detention after giving bribery; Warsaw...

File Number : 2518

Type of Material : Survey, Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Shlomo Katz, born in Dzwiniacz Gorny, 1922, regarding his experiences in Malynsk, the Berezne Ghetto, Kostopol camp and with the partisans in the area

Testimony of Shlomo Katz, born in Dzwiniacz Gorny, 1922, regarding his experiences in Malynsk, the Berezne Ghetto, Kostopol camp and with the partisans in the area Childhood in Dzwiniacz Gorny; move to Turka, 1933; work as a teacher of Jewish children in the villages in the area until 1937. German occupation, 1939; escape to Tarnawa Nizna; evacuation of residents of the area by the Red Army, March 1940; move to Malynsk; German occupation, June 1941; labor repairing railroad lines; confiscation of property; deportation to the Berezne Ghetto, summer 1942; deportation of the men to Kostopol labor camp;...

File Number : 12596

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chana Hedwiga (Vizel) Fridman Vizel, born in Kosice, 1933, regarding her experiences as a child hidden by a priest, hidden by the priest's daughter in Banska Bystrica, Nitra and other places German occupation; deportation of her father to Auschwitz; escape; hidden by a priest; hidden by the priest's daughter in Banska Bystrica; escape to Nitra; wanderings in the forest; meeting with family in hiding; move to an orphanage in Kosice during the Hungarian occupation; German occupation of Kosice; return to Czechoslovakia; meets with her mother; life with a Christian family of butchers in Poprad;...

File Number : 12469

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sara (Goldglas) Lerner, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto and Majdanek

Testimony of Sara (Goldglas) Lerner, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto and Majdanek Deportation to the Warsaw Ghetto; reduction in the ghetto's borders and transfer to the little ghetto; ghetto life; in hiding in a flat on Mila street; in hiding in an undertakers bunker; burning of the infrastructure during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; deportation to Majdanek; unsuccessful escape attempt from the deportation train; camp life including labor in the Scheisskommando until liberation.Move to Skarzysko Kamienna; move to Czestochowa; work for the Soviets; return to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of David Leon Monowicz, born in Szczekociny, Poland, 1918, regarding his experiences in the Srodula Ghetto, Auschwitz, Mauthausen and Ebensee

Testimony of David Leon Monowicz, born in Szczekociny, Poland, 1918, regarding his experiences in the Srodula Ghetto, Auschwitz, Mauthausen and Ebensee Move to Sosnowiec because of his father's work. German occupation; deportation to the Srodula Ghetto; ghetto life including labor in a factory sewing uniforms for the German Army; liquidation of the Srodula Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life including labor repairing and patching inmates' clothing; transfer to Mauthausen, 1945; transfer to Ebensee; camp life including labor with Soviet prisoners; uprising of the Soviet prisoners and killing of the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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