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Testimony of Zohar Shlomo zilgelshtein, born in Verecki Pss, Czechoslovakia, in 1923, regarding his hiding in the forests, his deportation to the Gusen and Mauthausen camps, Austria.

Testimony

Orthodox family related to "Sharf" from Sterlinsk (from the Greats of the hasidut); activity in the Beitar; transition to Hungarian rule in 1939; deportation order for the Jews without a Czech nationality towards the Polish border in 1939; housing the deportees in a house that was built on the border; smuggling of the deportees by the witness back to Czechoslovakia on hidden paths; hiding in the forests of Ukraine; capture by Germans; deportation to camps in Austria; forced labour in a quarry in the Gusen camp; he comes across his brother in Mauthausen; march to Gunskirchen; death of his brother; liberation in...

File Number : 13743

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zeev Semel On, born in Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland, in 1924, regarding labour camps, his deportation to Buchenwald and other camps

Testimony

-Parents'house; anti-semitism; air-raids; occupation by the German army on 04 September,1939; humiliations; forced labour; deportation to the Piotrkow Trybunalski ghetto; the father is a member of the Judenradt; contribution demand; confiscation of furs; walking on the pavement is forbidden; starvation; passing of valuables to local neighbours; reduction of the ghetto; issuance of working papers on 21 October 1942; his work as a porter in "Shneider shop" (tailor shop) for the needs of the German army and cargo transfer from place to place; assembling the children in the big synagogue and their murder;...

File Number : 13463

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Diary by Mordechai Motka Gorski Gor, born in Baranowicze, Poland, 1919, written, 01 December 1943-24 August 1945, and his memoirs regarding his experiences in a Soviet labor camp in the Kemerovo area and in Baydayevka Life in a Soviet labor camp in the Kemerovo area, including labor in a coal mine; description of the inmate population and the hierarchy among the inmates; clauses of crimes whose sentence was imprisonment in the camp; methods by which the food, that was sent to the inmates by their families, was stolen from them; inmates with "light" crimes were removed from the camp and sent to the front;...

File Number : 8589

Type of Material : Diary, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, Yiddish

Two letters to Ilya Ehrenburg by R. Meltser, regarding the life of the Jews in the Baranovichi and the Bialystok regions after the liberation

Two letters to Ilya Ehrenburg by R. Meltser, regarding the life of the Jews in the Baranovichi and the Bialystok regions after the liberation In his first letter, R. Meltser tells about the small number of Jews in the Baranovichi district who survived; these Jews are unable to get their property returned to them; the writer argues that these Jewish survivors need immediate medical and financial help from the Anti-Fascist Committee; he turns to Ilya Ehrenburg with a request to visit in the Bialystok and the Baranovichi regions; In his second letter, R. Meltser tells about the survival of Jews from the...

File Number : 136

Type of Material : Letter, Testimony

Language : Russian

Letters written to Ilya Ehrenburg by Yevsey Lantsman from the front, regarding the murder of Jews, Jewish resistance and rescue

Letters written to Ilya Ehrenburg by Yevsey Lantsman from the front, regarding the murder of Jews, Jewish resistance and rescue In his first letter, Yevsey Lantsman tells about the important role of Ehrenburg's articles among the fighters at the front; Yevsey Lantsman arrived to the city of Piryatin one day after its liberation, and he tells about Nazi war crimes in the city: Decrees imposed on the Jews from the first days of the German occupation; establishment of the ghetto; epidemics and starvation in the ghetto until Pesach (April) 1942; transfer to Pirogovskaya Levada of Jews who did not succeed in...

File Number : 122

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony, Letter

Language : Russian

Letter by Ye. Gekhman, regarding the extermination of the Jews of Riga during the German occupation

Letter by Ye. Gekhman, regarding the extermination of the Jews of Riga during the German occupation German Army occupation of Riga, 01/07/1941; abuse of Jews on the streets of Riga; assembly of Jews in the synagogues, prayers from the windows, and shooting; burning of synagogues with the Jews inside; resistance by Jews from the first days of the occupation: an activist named Abel shot two Germans; Elkitnek, the school principal, fell with a weapon in his hands; Mrs. Ganshteyn was murdered en route to the synagogue after she condemned the Germans; a student named Abram Epshteyn organized a group of young Jews...

File Number : 60

Type of Material : Names, Letter

Language : Russian

Testimony of Elisha Roshkin, born in 1936 in Zdzieciol, Poland, about his experiences as a boy in the Zdzieciol ghetto, in hiding in a bunker, and with the partisans in the forests until 1944

Life before the war; parents belong to the Hashomer Hatzair movement; German occupation ensues in June 1941; establishment of the ghetto; attempts to go into hiding with non-Jewish acquaintances; Aktion and murder of grandparents and sister in a killing trench; aunt escapes from the trench; building a bunker under the house for seventy people; father's relations with non-Jews and acquisition of weapons from them; father and uncles escape to the forests in March 1942; joining a Soviet partisan unit near the Niemen River; father murdered by a non-Jewsh villager; German manhunts in the forests; sustains a head...

File Number : 13521

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Gershon Gerard Avraham, born in 1928 in Strasbourg, France, about his hideouts and partisan activity

Family life; eviction from Strasbourg in 1939; family moves to Clermont Ferrand; father joins the Foreign Legion; the French surrender and the witness's father escapes and joins the resistance; family hides out in the mountains; deportation order given; escaping to the mountains; forging of family name to Ubery on documents; mother helps to provide forged papers; parents active in placing Jews in hiding; establishment of the Combat Juif partisan army; witness hides in a residential institution; Gestapo manhunts and escape; family participates in warfare operations; liberation in Lyon; father active in Aliya...

File Number : 13486

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Arie Leib Vered, born in Roman, Romania, 1921, regarding his experiences in Bucharest, in detention in Vacaresti; in detention in Zilava and in detention in Fetesti

Testimony

Testimony of Arie Leib Vered, born in Roman, Romania, 1921, regarding his experiences in Bucharest, in detention in Vacaresti; in detention in Zilava and in detention in Fetesti Family background; family makes aliya to Eretz Israel, 1923; return to Romania due to economic difficulties; move to Bucharest; displays of antisemitism; joining the Maccabi youth movement. Burning of the store and closing of the business, 1940; pogroms; rescue of his family; unsuccessful aliya attempt to Eretz Israel; return to Bucharest; detention by Romanian gendarmes; detention for 30 days for lack of possession of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Haim Michaeli, born in 1943 in Szczawnica, Poland, about his experiences as an infant Mischling ("mixed-breed") in hiding with his non-Jewish grandmother

Testimony

Testimony of Haim Michaeli, born in 1943 in Szczawnica, Poland, about his experiences as an infant Mischling ("mixed-breed") in hiding with his non-Jewish grandmother Offspring of a Jewish mother and a non-Jewish father; deportation of Jews from Szczawnica to Nowy Sacz; his mother, Bella Chjuwic, finds a hideout in the mountains; mother joins the partisans; Haim is placed with his non-Jewish grandmother; mother is executed; father collaborates with the Germans; grandmother dies and Haimi is placed in orphanages; Haim discovers his Jewishness at age 12; moves to Belgium and enrolls in a haredi...

File Number : 13421

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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