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File Number : 1222

Type of Material : Personal Documents

Language : English

Testimony of Janina Glücklich née Honigman, born in 1934 in Kraków, Poland, about her experiences as a girl in the Kraków ghetto and in hiding with a non-Jewish family in Smardzowica, 1941–1945

Information about parents' family; life in Kraków when war breaks out in 1939; father finds a hideout during a German manhunt; non-Jewish acquaintance helps to arrange temporary shelter; escapes back to the ghetto due to manhunts; placed with the Knapik family in Smardzowica; lives with the family 1941–1945; hides in a closet hours each day; escapes to the fields during manhunts; father's attempts to survive outside the ghetto fail; he is murdered in 1943; mother deported to the Płaszów and Skarzysko Kamienna camps; mother survives; witness reunites with mother after the war; studies and activity in an...

File Number : 13547

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation regarding Yeshayahu Drucker, who administered an orphanage in Zabrze and was active in the removal of Jewish children from non-Jewish families after the war

Documentation regarding Yeshayahu Drucker, who administered an orphanage in Zabrze and was active in the removal of Jewish children from non-Jewish families after the war - Article written by William Liebner about Yeshayahu Drucker, who was active on behalf of the rehabilitation of Jewish life in Poland after the war, who dealt with the removal of Jewish children from non-Jewish families, and who administered an orphanage in Zabrze; - Memoirs of Batia (Eisenstein) Akselrad, born in Krosno, Poland, 1932, and David Danielski Danieli, born in Pszczyna, Poland, 1921, who lost their parents during the war and...

File Number : 8309

Type of Material : Documentary, Article, Memoirs

Language : English

זיכונותיה של Marie Budnik ילדת אקטובר 1928 ב- Paris על קורותיה בתקופת השואה במיסתור אצל משפחת Herbaut ב- Dourdan

Memoirs of Marie Budnik, born in Paris, France, 1928, regarding her experiences hidden by the Herbaut family in Dourdan Deportation of her father to a labor camp in the Nievre department; escape of the eldest son from detention in Paris. The witness is the widow of Herbaut and was later recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations.

File Number : 8303

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : French

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File Number : 13417

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Dov Bruno Liberfroind, born in Bielsko, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Bielsko, Katowice, Nisko, the Rawa Ruska forests, Lwow and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Dov Bruno Liberfroind, born in Bielsko, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Bielsko, Katowice, Nisko, the Rawa Ruska forests, Lwow and other places His childhood in a traditional family; activities in the Akiva Zionist youth movement; displays of antisemitism before the war; death of his father, 1938. German Army occupation of Bielsko, 01 September 1939; escape; wanderings; return home, approximately three weeks later; deportation to Katowice; transfer to Nisko, October 1939; gunshots in the direction of the deported Jews; escape to the Rawa Ruska forests, under Soviet control; meets...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sosia (Fridman) Fuks, born in Nove Barovo, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding her experiences in Nove Barovo, the Mateszalka Ghetto, Auschwitz, Praust and Puck

Testimony

Testimony of Sosia (Fridman) Fuks, born in Nove Barovo, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding her experiences in Nove Barovo, the Mateszalka Ghetto, Auschwitz, Praust and Puck Her childhood in a religious family. Annexation of Nove Barovo to Hungary, 1939; displays of antisemitism; deportation of her brothers to labor; deportation of her parents to Galicia; looting of property; visits to her family in the prison in Budapest; German Army occupation of Nove Barovo, 1944; life under German occupation including the decree regarding wearing a yellow badge; deportation to the Mateszalka Ghetto; robbery of valuables;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Liza (Hershkovitz) Bar, born in Herta, Romania, 1930, regarding her experiences in Herta, Edineti, Mogilev, Romanca, Rabovez and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Liza (Hershkovitz) Bar, born in Herta, Romania, 1930, regarding her experiences in Herta, Edineti, Mogilev, Romanca, Rabovez and other places Her childhood in a religious-Zionist family; annexation of Herta to the Soviet Union, 1940. German Army occupation of Herta, 1941; concentration in the synagogue for three days; looting of her family's property; march of Herta's Jews throughout Bessarabia; death of the weak people en route; life in Edineti for six weeks; march until Atachi; transfer to Mogilev; transfer on foot to Romanca via Shargorod and Luchinets, including hunger, hardships...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avraham Stern, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1935, regarding his experiences in Budapest and the Budapest Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Avraham Stern, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1935, regarding his experiences in Budapest and the Budapest Ghetto His family's life and his education; his father's service in the Hungarian Army during Word War I. German Army occupation of Budapest, March 1944; life under German occupation including decree regarding wearing a yellow badge; rise to power of the Arrow Cross party; confiscation of property and valuables; deportation to the Budapest Ghetto; Budapest Ghetto life including religious life and mortality due to disease, cold and hunger; activities of the Judenrat in the Budapest Ghetto;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zvi Hershele Birenbaum, born in Proszowice, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in Bedzin, the Kamionka Ghetto, Birkenau, Theresienstadt, Nordhausen and on a death march

Testimony

Testimony of Zvi Hershele Birenbaum, born in Proszowice, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in Bedzin, the Kamionka Ghetto, Birkenau, Theresienstadt, Nordhausen and on a death march Childhood orphaned of his father; move to Bedzin with his mother and siblings. Outbreak of the war, 1939; escape to Lwow; life as a refugee; return to Bedzin; yellow badge; selection [during an Aktion] and rescue of his mother from deportation; deportation to the Kamionka Ghetto; ghetto life including work in a sewing workshop; deportation to Birkenau; camp life including labor in the craftsmen's block as a tailor and a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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