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Testimony of Shoshana Zuzi Zhuzha (Polak) Levinger, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1932 regarding her experiences in Budapest in a marked house, in the ghetto and in a children's home

Testimony

Childhood in a secular family; living in various towns due to her father's work; good relations with Christians; Move to Budapest, summer 1942 or 1943; drafting of her father into a labor battalion, probably early 1944; German occupation, March 1944; air-raids; move to a marked house; move to a protected house; eviction of all the residents by members of the Arrow Cross Party, her father arrived in an army uniform and took her out of the group; continued life in the ghetto with many children; staying in shelter most of the time; liberation by the Red Army, January 1945; Joining Youth Aliyah; aliya to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Yeshayahu Shaike Goldhersh, born in Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland in 1934, regarding his experiences as a child in the Piotrkow Trybunalski Ghetto, and in Bergen-Belsen and Ravensbrueck camps Piotrkow Trybunalski Ghetto life; deportation to Ravensbrueck camp; transfer to Bergen-Belsen camp; Bergen-Belsen camp life, without work [labor]; suffering from diseases and hunger; apathy; cruelties by the Ukrainian guards; piles of corpses; liberation by the British Army on 15 April 1945; transfer to Sweden with his mother for the purpose of his mother's convalescence; he studies for the first time in a...

File Number : 13662

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mirka (Klaver) Zaklikovski, born in Lodz, Poland, 1927, regarding the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, and other camps, 1940-1945

Testimony

Childhood before the war; Outbreak of the war; arrival of refugees from Czechoslovakia and Germany; restrictions; deportation to the ghetto; curfew; forced labor; taking of her father to forced labor; "Aktions"; public hangings of Jews; escapes from the ghetto; cultural life in the ghetto; liquidation of the ghetto; transfer to labor camps in Germany; working in a weapons factory; reasonable treatment by the Germans; liberation by the British Army; Rebuilding life after the war; aliya to Israel, 1949.

File Number : 13855

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Hela (Feltz) Reznik, born in Bedzin, Poland, 1925 regarding her experiences in the Parschnitz labor camp, Czechoslovakia

Testimony

Prewar childhood; antisemitism; plans for aliya to Eretz Israel; outbreak of the war; German occupation; burning of houses; deportation to the Parschnitz labor camp, Czechoslovakia; camp life, 1941-1945; hunger; longing; murder of her family; liberation by the Red Army; Rebuilding life after the war; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1948.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rivka van Coevorden née van Amstel, born in 1924 in Coevorden, Netherlands, about her experiences in Amsterdam and in hiding in the Netherlands during the war

Testimony

Life before the war; offspring of a family that had lived in the Netherlands since 1400; moving to Amsterdam in 1938; war breaks out in 1940; deportation to a labor camp; escape; assigned to farm labor; marries and gives birth to a daughter; hiding in various places; liberation; reunited with daughter; life after the war; immigration to Israel in 1951; adjustment to life in Israel.

File Number : 13536

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yisrael Shemonovitz, born 1922 in Sevlus, Czechoslovakia, about his life in Sevlus in the region of Carpathian Ruthenia and in the region of Galicia

Testimony of Yisrael Shemonovitz, born in Sevlus, Czechoslovakia in 1922, regarding his life in Sevlus in the region of Carpathian Ruthenia and in the region of Galicia Life before the war; his mother’s death; living with his uncle; re-annexation of the area to Hungary in 1940; the German occupation in March 1944; deportation to the camp; transfer to forced labor; transfer to the region of Galicia, due to work needs from the Carpathian Ruthenia region; liberation by the Red Army; aliya to Eretz Israel on the “Transylvania” of the Joint Distribution Committee and the Agudath Israel movement in 1945; raising...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Marta Reizner Fisher, born in 1925 in Vag Farkasd, Slovakia, regarding the Nove ‎Zamky Ghetto, and Auschwitz and Langenbielau concentration camps

Testimony

Testimony of Marta Reizner Fisher, born in 1925 in Vag Farkasd, Slovakia, regarding the Nove ‎Zamky Ghetto, and Auschwitz and Langenbielau concentration camps Life under the Hungarian regime in 1938; move to Budapest, Hungary in 1941; return to Vag ‎Farkasd in 1942; German occupation in 1944; transfer of Marta and her sisters to a farm for a few ‎weeks; deportation to Sala Ghetto in 1944; transfer to Nove Zamky Ghetto in 1944; deportation to ‎Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944 for two months; transfer to a labor camp in Langenbielau, Germany in ‎‎1944; forced labor at Langenbielau sewing uniforms and clothes for...

File Number : 13765

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ze'ev Yitzhaki, born in Iasi, Romania, 1936, regarding his experiences in Iasi during the war

Testimony

Testimony of Ze'ev Yitzhaki, born in Iasi, Romania, 1936, regarding his experiences in Iasi during the war Early childhood. Increase in anti-Semitism, 1939; anti-Jewish orders and legislation; pogrom at police stations and trains, June 1941; the bombings.Liberation by the Red Army, summer of 1944; joining the Dror organization; moving to a children's home in Piatra Neat; boarding the illegal immigrant ship Pan York, December 1947; exile to Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel, March 1948; absorption.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shnirer Tulo, born in 1927 in Krakow, Poland, regarding transfer to the Krakow ‎Ghetto in 1941 and deportation to labor camps

Testimony

Testimony of Shnirer Tulo, born in 1927 in Krakow, Poland, regarding transfer to the Krakow ‎Ghetto in 1941 and deportation to labor camps Childhood: traditional family, Jewish school, antisemitism before the war, death of his father in ‎‎1936; German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939; anti-Jewish decrees; wearing the yellow ‎badge; limitations on movement; confiscation of property, etc.; German officials taking over part ‎of the family’s apartment; transfer to the Krakow Ghetto in March 1941; the Judenrat and the ‎Jewish police; forced labor inside and outside the ghetto; Jewish underground; Nazi...

File Number : 13740

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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

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