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Testimony of Shlomo Gales, born in Krakow, Poland, 1912, regarding his experiences in Krakow, Lwow, Murmansk, Omsk, the Polish Army and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Shlomo Gales, born in Krakow, Poland, 1912, regarding his experiences in Krakow, Lwow, Murmansk, Omsk, the Polish Army and other places Religious family; death of his mother, 1919; ran away from home, 1926; work in a printing press; move to Berlin, 1936; life in Berlin including studies printing; speech of Joseph Goebbels in a square; return home. German occupation, 1939; life in Krakow including draft to forced labor; flogging and loss of sight in one eye; escape to Lwow, 1939; life in Lvov including trade in second hand clothes; meets his grandfather; volunteers to labor in the Soviet...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Pnina Pepi (Salomon) Weisbert, born in Maritei, Romania, 1924, regarding her experiences in Cernauti, Mogilev-Podolski and Shargorod

Testimony

Testimony of Pnina Pepi (Salomon) Weisbert, born in Maritei, Romania, 1924, regarding her experiences in Cernauti, Mogilev-Podolski and Shargorod Life before the war; move to Cernauti; youth movement activities. German occupation; deportation to Mogilev-Podolski via Luchinets, 1942; camp life including the deaths of her parents; labor knitting; transfer to Shargorod; liberation. Return to Cernauti; aliya to Israel, 1948; marriage.

File Number : 12725

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Tova Adela (Hofman) Fisher, born in Miskolc, 1915, regarding her experiences in Ada, the Szeged Ghetto, Auschwitz and as a forced laborer in the Torun region

Testimony

Testimony of Tova Adela (Hofman) Fisher, born in Miskolc, 1915, regarding her experiences in Ada, the Szeged Ghetto, Auschwitz and as a forced laborer in the Torun region Childhood in an Orthodox family; move to Ada, 1921, education. Annexation of Hungary, 06 April 1941; release of the men in exchange for ransom money; members of the family are drafted to labor battalions; German occupation, 19 March 1944; yellow badge; detention in the synagogue; deportation to Szeged, April 1944; transfer to Baja; deportation to Auschwitz, May 1944; selection; transfer to Birkenau; second selection; transfer to the...

File Number : 12559

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shlomo Warnik, born in Ratne, Poland, 1918, regarding his experiences in Ratne, Luck, in German captivity and with the partisans in the Szack area

Testimony

Testimony of Shlomo Warnik, born in Ratne, Poland, 1918, regarding his experiences in Ratne, Luck, in German captivity and with the partisans in the Szack area Jewish life in Ratne; attends a Tarbut school; Hechalutz Hatzair, Bund, Beitar and other youth movements and organizations; joins Hashomer Hatzair; move to Luck at the age of 16; his help to earn the family's livelihood; atmosphere before the war. Draft into the Red Army and taken captive by the Germans; escape from captivity; deportation to forced labor; witness' escape to forests by his father's command, and his father gave him tefillin and a...

File Number : 12219

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation regarding finding a biblical holy book, Novozybkov, 1990

Documentation regarding finding a biblical holy book, Novozybkov, 1990 Finding a biblical holy book inside the walls of a house in Novozybkov, Bryansk area, Soviet Union; the book belonged to the local rabbi, Rabbi Karasik, who lived in the house and hid the book inside the walls before being executed together with his wife.

File Number : 238

Type of Material : Religious Literature and Prayers, Letter

Language : Hebrew

Documentation regarding Jacob Wolf, born in Schnaittach, Germany, and a resident of the United States, including his attempts to rescue his mother during World War II, and to preserve the remnants of the Jewish past in his hometown, 1918-1952 Page 1: Check for $925 signed by Jack Wolf, made out to University Travel, 03 November 1941; Page 2: Check for $150 signed by Jack Wolf, made out to University Travel, 10 November 1941; Page 3: Letter (undated) to Jacob Wolf in Roxbury from the American Red Cross office in Boston notifying him that they have received an inquiry from Dina Sara Wolf in Nuremburg,...

File Number : 357

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Letter, Personal Records, Inventory List, Record of Persecuted Persons, Survey Report, Red Cross Letter, Financial Accounts, Laws and Decrees, Record of Murdered Persons

Language : Czech, English, German

Letter of testimony of Leyb Fayngut, born in Yaltushkov, Ukraine, regarding his experiences in the Yaltushkov Ghetto and the murder of Jews

Letter of testimony of Leyb Fayngut, born in Yaltushkov, Ukraine, regarding his experiences in the Yaltushkov Ghetto and the murder of Jews Life before the war; his childhood. The German occupation, 12 July 1941; public burning of Torah scrolls in the stadium, 15 July 1941; establishment of the ghetto; ghetto life; murder of elderly Jews and children in an anti-tank ditch in the area, 20 August 1942; transfer of Jews for forced labor and their murder in the Litin forest; murder of the remaining ghetto Jews in the area, October 1942.

File Number : 3168

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony

Language : Russian

Material regarding the Jewish community in Danzig, Zionist activity, and the activities of Chaim Pazner in the community, 1933-1939, 1952

Material regarding the Jewish community in Danzig, Zionist activity, and the activities of Chaim Pazner in the community, 1933-1939, 1952 The file contains: Pages 1-2: Letter from the Eretz Israel Office in Danzig to the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, giving Chaim Pazner the power of attorney to handle the matters of aliya to Eretz Israel for the Jews of Danzig even while he is in Switzerland, (original and copy included), August 1939; Pages 3-8: Report on the situation of the Jews in Danzig after the outbreak of the war, including the names of Jews who fled from Danzig to Trieste and the writer...

File Number : 5

Type of Material : Memoirs, Newspaper, Official Documentation, Booklet(s), Announcement, Survey Report

Language : German, Yiddish

Testimony of Chaim Veingarten, born in Dolhoje, Czechoslovakia, 1916, regarding his experiences in the labor battalions and Mauthausen camp

Testimony

Testimony of Chaim Veingarten, born in Dolhoje, Czechoslovakia, 1916, regarding his experiences in the labor battalions and Mauthausen camp Life in Dolhoje; his family; learns in yeshivas; draft into the Czech Army, 1938. Annexation of the area to Hungary; draft to labor battalions and transfer of the battalion to various places, 1940; deportation of non-citizens to Galicia; labor on the railroad tracks at Berettyoujfalu; labor on railroad tracks in other places; labor in an engineering department in the Hungarian Army; abuse; labor in Budapest constructing a bridge on the Danube River; visit to his...

File Number : 6699

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Gerta (Frishler) Tzaifinger, born in Skoczow, Poland, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Laze Ghetto and Gabersdorf labor camp

Testimony

Testimony of Gerta (Frishler) Tzaifinger, born in Skoczow, Poland, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Laze Ghetto and Gabersdorf labor camp Traditional family; prominent community personalities, institutions and good relations with the Polish population before the war. Outbreak of the war and its first day; decrees, forced labor, burial of the synagogue's religious articles; deportation of the Jews to the Laze Ghetto and labor with local Jews, May 1940; deportation of the young people from the ghetto to Gabersdorf labor camp, February 1942; labor in a thread factory; good attitude toward the Jews;...

File Number : 6780

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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