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Testimony of Shmuel Bar Ilan, born in Lodz, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, in hiding in Lodz, in Auschwitz, Jaworzno and using a false identity in Hirschberg

Testimony

Testimony of Shmuel Bar Ilan, born in Lodz, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, in hiding in Lodz, in Auschwitz, Jaworzno and using a false identity in Hirschberg Life before the war; well-to-do family; draft of his brother into the Polish Army. Outbreak of the war, September 1939; death of his brother; capture of his father and another brother on the street and their transfer to forced labor; closure of the family's leather trade store; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto; Lodz Ghetto life; witness sells cigarettes and collects scraps of food; his father's work in a senior position in...

File Number : 12979

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe Bienental, born in Lodz, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, as a forced laborer in Germany and a death march

Testimony

Testimony of Moshe Bienental, born in Lodz, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, as a forced laborer in Germany and a death march Life before the war; displays of antisemitism; help to Jewish refugees from Germany, 1938. Deportation to the Lodz Ghetto; escape from the ghetto with help from a smuggler; escape back to the Lodz Ghetto; Lodz Ghetto life including labor as an orderly; deportation to Auschwitz, September 1944; camp life including the murder of his sisters; disappearance of his parents; transfer to Germany; life in Germany including labor in an automobile...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Pnina Pola (Fuks) Bienental, born in Zdunska Wola, Poland, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Zdunska Wola Ghetto, Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Christianstadt and Kratzau

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Testimony of Pnina Pola (Fuks) Bienental, born in Zdunska Wola, Poland, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Zdunska Wola Ghetto, Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Christianstadt and Kratzau Life before the war; attends the Beit Yaakov school; activities in Zionist youth movements; meets Jewish refugees from Germany, 1938; help from the community to the refugees. Outbreak of the war; shelling of Zdunska Wola; escape to villages; escape back to Zdunska Wola; life in Zdunska Wola including decrees; deportation of Jews to forced labor; receives help from German neighbors; deportation to the Zdunska Wola Ghetto,...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Margalit Gretha (Nihom) Kenigsberger, born in Nijkerk, the Netherlands, 1925, regarding her experiences in Winterswijk, the Vught camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Reichenbach and other places

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Testimony of Margalit Gretha (Nihom) Kenigsberger, born in Nijkerk, the Netherlands, 1925, regarding her experiences in Winterswijk, the Vught camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Reichenbach and other places Life before the war; from a religious family; death of her father, 1938; move to Winterswijk with her mother and siblings. Outbreak of the war; deportation, April 1943; deportation to the Vught camp, 10 April 1943; camp life; instruction of children and caring for them; refusal to join her mother and two siblings on a transport to Sobibor; work in a Philips factory, late 1943; labor assembling light bulbs;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Kalman Henig Ben Amnon, born in Osiek, Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Staszow Ghetto, Aomler, Skarzysko-Kamienna, Buchenwald and other places

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Testimony of Kalman Henig Ben Amnon, born in Osiek, Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Staszow Ghetto, Aomler, Skarzysko-Kamienna, Buchenwald and other places Life in Staszow before the war; deportation to the Staszow Ghetto; ghetto life; deportation to the Aomler camp; camp life including labor; transfer to Skarzysko-Kamienna; camp life including labor in Werk A; labor of inmates with poisonous material in Werk C; transfer to Buchenwald, 1943; camp life; transfer to Theresienstadt, 1945; liberation by the Red Army. Move to Czestochowa; search for family in Czestochowa; move to Feldafing; move...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Renia Rivka (Viser) Tikotzki, born in Lodz, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences as a child in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Aschersleben, a death march and Theresienstadt Life in Lodz before the war; education; her father's activities in the Poalei Zion Left; displays of antisemitism in the school. German occupation, September 1939; kidnapping of people to forced labor, including her mother; her father's service in the Polish Army; destruction of synagogues; yellow badge; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto; Lodz Ghetto life; labor in a tailoring workshop; eats horse meat;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yehudit Ita Perel (Zev) Eliash, born in Targu Mures, Romania, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Targu Mures Ghetto, Auschwitz, Teplitz Schoenau and Theresienstadt

Testimony

Testimony of Yehudit Ita Perel (Zev) Eliash, born in Targu Mures, Romania, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Targu Mures Ghetto, Auschwitz, Teplitz Schoenau and Theresienstadt Life before the war; family with many children; her father was a Yiddish teacher in a Jewish school; aliya of siblings to Eretz Israel with the Hashomer Hatzair movement, 1938; witness attends a Jewish elementary school; attends a French high school. Outbreak of the war; re-annexation to Hungary; anti-Jewish restrictions; expulsion from the French high school; attends a Jewish school; transfer of men to forced labor, 1943;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ita (Rubinstein) Kaufman, born in Lodz, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Stutthof, Dresden, a death march and Theresienstadt

Testimony

Testimony of Ita (Rubinstein) Kaufman, born in Lodz, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Stutthof, Dresden, a death march and Theresienstadt Life before the war; traditional family; witness attends a Jewish school. Outbreak of the war, 1939; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto; Lodz Ghetto life including work in sewing workshops and rope factories; capture of her sister, 1942; liquidation of the Lodz Ghetto, summer 1944; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; camp life with her mother; transfer to Stutthof with women from the Lodz Ghetto; camp life with her mother...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yafa Georgina (Veis) Kraus, born in Ujpest, Hungary, 1934, regarding her experiences as a child in Szarvas, the Szolnok Ghetto, Strasshof, Bergen-Belsen and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Yafa Georgina (Veis) Kraus, born in Ujpest, Hungary, 1934, regarding her experiences as a child in Szarvas, the Szolnok Ghetto, Strasshof, Bergen-Belsen and other places Life before the war; well-to-do secular family; her parents are owners of bakery shops; move to Szarvas, 1938; witness attends school; displays of antisemitism; numerus clausus. Draft of her father to forced labor, 1943; workers leave the family business; deportation to the Szolnok Ghetto, 1944; deportation to Strasshof camp; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; camp life; transfer to Theresienstadt camp; liberation. Hospitalization...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Bela (Grushkevitz) Arkush, born in Lodz, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Muehlhausen and Bergen-Belsen

Testimony

Testimony of Bela (Grushkevitz) Arkush, born in Lodz, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Muehlhausen and Bergen-Belsen Life before the war; displays of antisemitism. German occupation; collapse of businesses; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto; ghetto life including work in a pharmacy; her father's death; "Aktion" and her sister and her mother are in hiding in the attic; hiding children and the elderly in the hospital; surrounding of the hospital by German soldiers; liquidation of the ghetto and deportation with her mother and sister, August 1944; rumors about a transfer to...

File Number : 12941

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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