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Testimony of Yeshayahu Nahum Horovitz, born in 1920 in Lodz, about his experiences in the Lodz ghetto and the Hasag camp during the war

Testimony

Life before the war; refugees from Germany arrive in 1938; German occupation ensues in September 1939; anti-Jewish legislation; dispossession; abductions for forced labor; plunder of property; desecration of synagogues; ghettoization in April 1940; activity of hakhsharot (training centers) in Marysin; activity of the Bnei Akiva movement; hunger; working in the Judenrat kitchens; deportation to Hasag, in Częstochowa, in March 1944; life in the camp; working in an armaments factory; religious life and faith; liberation by Red Army forces in January 1945; life after the war; antisemitism; immigration to Israel in...

File Number : 13615

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

שוורץ עזריאלTestimony of Azriel Shvartz, born 1930 in Berehovo, Carpathia, Czechoslovakia, about the Berehovo ghetto and the camps of Auschwitz, Javisovice, and Buchenwald

Testimony

Testimony of Azriel Shvartz, born in Berehovo, Carpathia, Czechoslovakia in 1930, regarding life in the Berehovo Ghetto and Auschwitz, Javisovice, and Buchenwald camps Childhood; life under the Hungarian regime in 1938; increasing antisemitism and restrictions; the Hungarians’ takeover of his father’s businesses and nationalizing them in 1940; German occupation in 1944; confiscation of property and valuables in 1944; expulsion to the Berehovo Ghetto; life in the ghetto for several weeks; deportation to Auschwitz in 1944 and staying in the camp for several days; the deportation of the witness and his father...

File Number : 13685

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs and other documentation of the Oppenheimer family from Marktbreit, Germany, before, during and after the war, 1938-2001

Memoirs and other documentation of the Oppenheimer family from Marktbreit, Germany, before, during and after the war, 1938-2001 - Interview with Marcus Mordechai Oppenheimer, born in Marktbreit, Germany, 1919, held by Dr. Christiane Kolbet In Kfar Pines, Israel, 1977, regarding Oppenheimer's experiences during the Holocaust and his illegal aliya to Eretz Israel on the "Dora" ship, via Amsterdam and Antwerp; - Essay written by Christiane Kolbet, titled "Marktbreit, Himmel und Hoelle" ("Marktbreit, Heaven and Hell"), impressions by Issaschar and Ruth Oppenheimer from Kfar Pines, regarding Klara (Levi)...

File Number : 661

Type of Material : Speech, Survey Report, Personal Documents, Reports, Letter, Personal Records, Poems/songs, Memoirs, Lists

Diary kept by Pál Kis, the Jewish photographer, October- 05 December 1944, regarding his experiences and those of this family during the war

Diary kept by Pál Kis, the Jewish photographer, October- 05 December 1944, regarding his experiences and those of this family during the war Life in the forced labor battalion in Szentimre and the area, including forced labor from 20 October 1944; escape from the forced labor battalion in Budapest; life with his wife and two other siblings in the home of his younger brother, Sanyi; life of his older daughter in a Red Cross protective house; entrusting his younger daughter to a Christian educational institution. There is an introduction written by the author's daughter, Shoshana Mariana (Kis) Shofaroni,...

File Number : 8616

Type of Material : Diary

Language : Hungarian

Testimony of Ben Dor Blau Yohanan Yitzkhak Tibor, born in Makó, Hungary in 1935, regarding his experiences in Makó and Szeged Ghettos and in Theresienstadt and Strasshof camps

Testimony of Ben Dor Blau Yohanan Yitzkhak Tibor, born in Makó, Hungary in 1935, regarding his experiences in Makó and Szeged Ghettos and in Theresienstadt and Strasshof camps Childhood in a modern Orthodox family; father was vice president of the Mizrachi movement in Hungary after the war; studies in Neolog School and in heder at the same time; antisemitism; entry of Germans in March 1944; confiscation of radio receivers and valuables; yellow badge; closing of Makó Ghetto and family living in grandfather’s home inside the ghetto; expulsion via freight train to Újszeged; roundup of Jews on a soccer pitch;...

File Number : 13654

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letters received by Baruch Meiranc and his sister, Rachel Waldman, in Eretz Israel, regarding the experiences of their family in Wielun and in the Lodz Ghetto, 1941-1950

Letters received by Baruch Meiranc and his sister, Rachel Waldman, in Eretz Israel, regarding the experiences of their family in Wielun and in the Lodz Ghetto, 1941-1950 - Testimonial letter written by Asher Arbus (husband of Yocheved, sister of Baruch who perished in the Holocaust) in Lodz to his brother-in-law Baruch Meiranc in Eretz Israel with documentation of his experiences and those of his family during the Holocaust, 30 January 1946: Life in Wielun during the air-raids on Wielun; destruction of Wielun; escape together with his family to Lodz; life in the Lodz Ghetto; death of family members from...

File Number : 8580

Type of Material : Red Cross Letter, Letter of Testimony

Language : Hebrew, German, Yiddish

Testimony of Aharon Lipitz, born in Plonsk, Poland in 1926, regarding his experiences in the ‎ghetto, in Auschwitz and Buna and other camps

Testimony

Testimony of Aharon Lipitz, born in Plonsk, Poland in 1926, regarding his experiences in the ‎ghetto, in Auschwitz and Buna and other camps Family background; studying in a Polish school; life in Przyborowice; Polish refugees return from ‎Germany; outbreak of war; mistreatment of Jews in Plonsk; the Germans arrive and take over his ‎family’s farm and all of their possessions; burial of holy books; forced labor; deportation to the ‎Nowy Dwor Ghetto; transfer of his parents to the Plonsk Ghetto; trading in textiles with peasants; ‎Jewish possessions seized and looted; deportation to Auschwitz Birkenau;...

File Number : 13660

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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File Number : 13676

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Certificate confirming that Rabbi Eliezer son of Rabbi Uri de Feauille (?) was Chatan Torah on Simchat Torah in the Bergen-Belsen camp, 11 October 1944

File Number : 626

Type of Material : Certification

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yehudit Brok née Stern, born in 1925 in Galanta, Czechoslovakia, about her experiences in the ghettos of Galanta and Nove Zamky and in the Auschwitz and Hohenelbe camps until 1945

Hungary re-annexes the Galanta area and anti-Jewish violence in 1938; antisemitism escalates and authorities impose restrictions; German occupation ensues in 1944; father arrested and deported to a detention camp in Hungary in 1944; witness deported with mother and siblings to the Galanta ghetto for several days; deportation to a ghetto in a brickyard in Nove Zamky; deporation to Auschwitz in 1944; life in Auschwitz and receiving help from father; transferred to Hohenelbe; life in the camp; working at a factory that turns out aircraft parts; typhus; rescue by a non-Jewish Dutch nurse in 1945; liberation by Red...

File Number : 13525

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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