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Testimony of Tova (Profesorski) Forst, born in Bedzin, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in Bedzin, Gleiwitz, Auschwitz, Peterswaldau and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Tova (Profesorski) Forst, born in Bedzin, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in Bedzin, Gleiwitz, Auschwitz, Peterswaldau and other places Religious family; joins the Hapoel organization; financial assistance to her parents. German occupation, September 1939; assumes an Aryan identity; help to her family in hiding; capture, January 1940; deportation to a camp in Czechoslovakia; camp life including laundry labor; help from Czechoslovakians; deportation to Gleiwitz, 1941; camp life including labor cleaning; deportation to Auschwitz, 1942; camp life including labor in agriculture;...

File Number : 12707

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaya (Iunger) Gutfrid, born in Vatra Dornei, Romania, 1930, regarding her experiences as a child in the Mogilev-Podolski Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Chaya (Iunger) Gutfrid, born in Vatra Dornei, Romania, 1930, regarding her experiences as a child in the Mogilev-Podolski Ghetto Life before the war. Outbreak of the war; deportation to the Mogilev-Podolski Ghetto, October 1941; ghetto life including the death of her parents and grandmother, April 1942; placed in an orphanage with her brother and sister, autumn 1942; life in the orphanage including the death of her brother; liberation. Return to Romania, autumn 1944; move among adopted families; move with Jewish orphans to Bucharest; illness of her sister and prevented from sailing on the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Survey of the condition of the Jews in Nazi-occupied countries, Eretz Israel and Arab countries, as reported in the Nazi and local press, December 1943

Survey of the condition of the Jews in Nazi-occupied countries, Eretz Israel and Arab countries, as reported in the Nazi and local press, December 1943 Poland: Thousands of Jews remain in hiding in the Warsaw Ghetto; German legislation regarding Polish citizens and German citizens; testimony regarding murder of Jews in Kiev; mass graves of Jews from Riga. Germany: Problems in providing food; air-raids on German cities; Goebbels' speech. Rome: Levying of payment of a forced contribution in gold on the Jews of Rome. Slovakia: Possibilities for implementation of insurance certificates by Jews. Hungary: List...

File Number : 37

Type of Material : Cd

Language : Hebrew

Survey of the condition of the Jews in Nazi-occupied countries, Eretz Israel and Arab countries, as reported in the Nazi and local press, November 1943

Survey of the condition of the Jews in Nazi-occupied countries, Eretz Israel and Arab countries, as reported in the Nazi and local press, November 1943 Poland: Report on uprisings in the Lodz and Bialystok Ghettos; closing of the exhibition: "The Jewish World Plague"; Himmler's visit to Poland. Generalgouvernement: Education and services to German, Polish and Ukrainian citizens, according to a speech made by Buehler, deputy governor general of the Generalgouvernement; Goebbels' speech; Germany: Information from witnesses regarding the condition of Hamburg after the air-raids; Slovakia: Law pertaining to the...

File Number : 35

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : Hebrew

Survey of the condition of the Jews in Nazi-occupied countries, Eretz Israel and Arab countries, as reported in the Nazi and world press, late October-early November 1943

Survey of the condition of the Jews in Nazi-occupied countries, Eretz Israel and Arab countries, as reported in the Nazi and world press, late October-early November 1943 Conjecture regarding liquidation of labor camps in the vicinity of Lublin and murder of 15,000 Jews; transfer of the last of the Jewish inmates to Krakow; survival of approximately 300,000 out of close to 4,000,000 Jews in Poland before the war; condition of the Polish workers in the Reich; food supply situation in Poland; escape of German citizens to the Reich. Vienna: The lives of approximately 2,000 Jews in Vienna, most of them using...

File Number : 34

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : Hebrew

Survey of the situation in Nazi-occupied countries, Eretz Israel and the neighboring countries as reported in the Nazi and local press, letters and by visitors with emphasis on the condition of the Jews, September 1943 Poland: Transfer of inmates from Auschwitz to camps in Germany and the bringing of new inmates; murder of Polish inmates by gas in Majdanek; central role of the Jews in the Polish economy; Caucasus Region: Mass murders of Jews according to an eye witness; Minsk: There were Jews and now they are not; Germany: The harsh situation of the Germans; rubble and the condition of the population in...

File Number : 18

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : Hebrew

Documentation regarding the repeal of anti-Jewish legislation, repatriation of refugees and deportees, the condition of Jewish organizations in Romania and more

Documentation regarding the repeal of anti-Jewish legislation, repatriation of refugees and deportees, the condition of Jewish organizations in Romania and more Letters from Jewish organizations to the ministers of the Romanian government regarding the repeal of antisemitic legislation, the legislation of democratic laws and arranging the repatriation of the deportees from Transnistria and extermination camps in Germany and Poland (copies) Also in the file: - Report by M. Leiwandman, a Uniunea Evreilor Romani (Union of Romanian Jews) representative regarding the effort to repatriate Romanian Jews from...

File Number : 44

Type of Material : Laws and Decrees, Official Documentation, Newspaper Clippings

Language : French, Romanian

Correspondence and proposed legislation of the Uniunea Evreilor Romani (UER - Union of Romanian Jews), May-June 1945

Correspondence and proposed legislation of the Uniunea Evreilor Romani (UER - Union of Romanian Jews), May-June 1945 - Proposed law to annul the anti-Jewish legislation, including voiding sales contracts from the period of the fascist regime; copies of correspondence with government offices regarding not drafting the survivors to the Romanian Army; creation of suitable conditions [in the army] for the Jewish conscripts and the return of refugees from the Soviet Union; - Internal report regarding revival of antisemitism in Iasi and Bucharest, May 1945 (pp. 232-233); - Report issued by the UER regarding...

File Number : 18

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : Romanian

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File Number : 1977

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Declaration, Personal Documents, Death Certificate, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, Czech, Hungarian

Documentation regarding the experiences of Rebeca (Zilbersteyn) Haham, born in Galati, 1910, during the war in Transnistria, and her return to Romania, 1945

-Documentation related to the work of Rivca Rebeca Haham as an accountant in Jugastru (Transnistria) from 1943; - Confirmation of the return of Raveica Haham from the Soviet Union to Romania, April 1945, and her registration as a resident of Bucharest; - Certificate of Rebecca Haham issued by the Asociatia fostilor deportatii in Transnistria (Association of Former Deportees in Transnistria) dated 1947, including a record of her deportation during the war to the Vapniarca camp. Also in the file: - Information from Rebeca Haham about the fate of her children who perished in Transnistria: Solomon, born...

File Number : 566

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Record of Murdered Persons, Biography

Language : Hebrew, Romanian

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