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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

Testimony of Joseph Szames, born in Ludwipol, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Ludwipol Ghetto and in hiding in a forest

Testimony

Testimony of Joseph Szames, born in Ludwipol, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Ludwipol Ghetto and in hiding in a forest From a well-to-do family; attends a Tarbut school; Bnei Akiva and Bnei Yehuda activities. Outbreak of the war; occupation by the Red Army; limitations on Jewish property; German occupation, 1941; deportation to the Ludwipol Ghetto; Judenrat; preparation of a hiding place in a cellar; "Aktion"; liquidation of the ghetto; murder of his father and mother; escape to a forest and preparation of a bunker (for approximately 11 people) in the forest; obtaining food from villagers...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avidan Avi Adolf Waldman, born in Krakow, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in camps in Poland and Germany

Testimony

Testimony of Avidan Avi Adolf Waldman, born in Krakow, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in camps in Poland and Germany

File Number : 13435

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Chana Maria (Grinberg) Distel, born in Glowaczow, Poland, 1932, regarding her experiences as a child in Glowaczow, the Marjampol Miasto Ghetto, Kozienice Ghetto, using a false identity in villages and Trzebien Life before the war; religious family with hardships. Air-raids on Glowaczow; German occupation, September 1939; deportation to Kozienice, winter 1939-1940; escape to the Marjampol Miasto Ghetto; Marjampol Miasto Ghetto life in her aunt's home; death of the witness' parents and sister; deportation to the Kozienice Ghetto; Kozienice Ghetto life including sleeping outside; escape with...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shoshana Roza (Vester) Itzik, born in Bedzin, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in hiding in Bedzin and in Auschwitz

Testimony

Testimony of Shoshana Roza (Vester) Itzik, born in Bedzin, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in hiding in Bedzin and in Auschwitz Life before the war; witness' father owns a bakery; her mother is a dressmaker; commercial and social contacts with the Polish population. Outbreak of the war; in hiding in the cellar of the mother of a Polish female friend; attitude of the surrounding population; return to Bedzin; "Aktion"; murder of all the members of her family; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life including labor in the laundry and sewing workshop; liberation. Life in a DP camp in Germany; aliya to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Gizela (Poliszczak) Dines, born in Grzymalow, Poland, 1941, regarding her experiences as an baby in hiding

Testimony

Testimony of Gizela (Poliszczak) Dines, born in Grzymalow, Poland, 1941, regarding her experiences as an baby in hiding Well-to-do family. Outbreak of the war, 1939; labor of her father as a dentist in a German Army camp, 1941; shooting of her mother and brother; hidden by her grandfather in a flour mill that he owned; in hiding with a Polish farmer named Anna Ciesla, who was later recognised as a Righteous Among the Nations; additional people are hidden by Anna Ciesla; escape of her father from the camp; in hiding in different places and with the partisans; liberation, 1945. Her aunt finds her; life...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Bronislawa Grozglik (nee Garbarz), regarding her experience in the Warsaw Ghetto; hiding in the Lublin region, and participating in the Soviet partisan movement

Testimony of Bronislawa Grozglik (nee Garbarz), regarding her experience in the Warsaw Ghetto; hiding in the Lublin region, and participating in the Soviet partisan movement Collection of materials: 1. Autobiography, written in Dzierzoniow on November 23, 1946. Bronislawa Garbarz stayed in the Warsaw Ghetto until 1941, when she managed to escape to the Lublin region; after about 1.5 years of hiding she left family, and joined the partisan group organized in the forests; by 1943 she was in Kolpak's (Kovpak) formation; receiving help and ammunition from the USSR. On May 11, 1944 Bronislawa was sent to the...

File Number : 6653

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Official Documentation, Testimony

Language : Polish, English

Memoirs of Maria Sanocka, a Polish woman, born in Wojtowa, in the Gorlice District, Poland, 1923 regarding the fate of her Jewish neighbors

Memoirs of Maria Sanocka, a Polish woman, born in Wojtowa, in the Gorlice District, Poland, 1923 regarding the fate of her Jewish neighbors Good relations between the Poles and the Jews in Wojtawa before the war; participation of the Jews in every aspect of village life; memories of the writer of Jewish merchants from the village of Biecz; Outbreak of the war, September 1939; ties of friendship between the witness' family and the Geicailer and Fiber families; death of Chaim Geicailer during the course of his escape toward the East; the situation of the Jews under the German occupation; deportation of the...

File Number : 6643

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Polish

Letter by Wladyslaw Szlezak, born in Cieszanow, regarding the Jews of Cieszanow during the German occupation and their relations with the Poles, his family's help to Jews, and the fate of the Poles in Cieszanow; letter sent to Cyla Perlmutter on 02/02/2000 In Szlezak's letter to Cyla Perlmutter, he relates to several subjects: 1. Establishment of the Cieszanow Ghetto for local Jews who were residents of Cieszanow and for Jewish refugees who arrived to the town; violence by the Ukrainians toward Poles and Jews; help by his grandmother Anna, who gave food to Jews from the ghetto; help by his father to Jews...

File Number : 5867

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Polish

Memoirs of Renia Karmel Wolf Rychwach, from the war period

Memoirs of Renia Karmel Wolf Rychwach, from the war period Excerpts of memoirs, written as images seen from the angle of a semi-anesthetized state in a hospital; mentions her parents, her uncle who was a rabbi, names of people, Poles and Jews, excerpts of dialogues, and scenes of various events; memoirs of Majdanek camp: labor, using picric acid; stay in a barracks for people who are sick with typhus; death march in the direction of Czechoslovakia, without food, for two weeks; Places that are mentioned: Krakow, Lublin, Tarnow and Siedliska.

File Number : 536

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Polish

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