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Memoirs of Margalit Mitzi (Cohen) Hagadi, born in Ionaseni, Romania, 1925, regarding her experiences in Botosani

Memoirs of Margalit Mitzi (Cohen) Hagadi, born in Ionaseni, Romania, 1925, regarding her experiences in Botosani Life before the war in the home of her parents, Toni and Moshe Cohen; increase in displays of antisemitism and fear. Iron Guard rise to power; persecution of the Jews; deportation of her family to Botosani; work for a shoemaker; escape of her employer in fear of the approaching Soviets and his leaving the keys to his property with the witness; running the business; robbery of the business by a group of Jewish students; end of the war. Move to Bucharest; work for the Jewish underground; time...

File Number : 8472

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Jacob Israel Katvan, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1923, regarding his experiences in Cernauti, the USSR and Tashkent

Testimony

Testimony of Jakob Israel Katvan, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1923, regarding his experiences in Cernauti, the USSR and Tashkent Childhood in an Orthodox family including attending a Jewish school; Maccabi sports activities; displays of antisemitism before the war; cases of provocation and opposition to giving aid to the refugees; prevention of making aliya [to Eretz Israel] by the Vizhnitzer Rebbe. Outbreak of the war; occupation [of Cernauti] by the Red Army; deportation of wealthy people to Siberia; transfer with friends to the Soviet Union and studies at a school for spies; transfer to Tashkent,...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sonia (Kuperman) Weissman, born in Iasi, Romania, 1926, regarding her experiences in Iasi

Testimony

Testimony of Sonia (Kuperman) Weissman, born in Iasi, Romania, 1926, regarding her experiences in Iasi Life before the war; displays of antisemitism. Outbreak of the war; earthquake, 1941; anti-Jewish restrictions; termination of the studies; witness attends a Jewish vocational school; draft of her father to forced labor; digging of graves for murdered Jews; detention of her father on charges of spying; end of the war. Meets Soviet soldiers; move to an aliya training "kibbutz" in Hungary, 1947; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1948.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Bella (Mowszowski) Melman, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1927, regarding her experiences in Bialystok, Slonim, Vilna, Kobe, Japan and Rhodesia

Testimony

Testimony of Bella (Mowszowski) Melman, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1927, regarding her experiences in Bialystok, Slonim, Vilna, Kobe, Japan and Rhodesia Life before the war; displays of antisemitism. Outbreak of the war, 1939; escape to Slonim; return to Bialystok; life under Soviet rule; arrival of Polish and Jewish refugees to Bialystok; escape to Vilna; attends a Jewish school; help from the community; receives a visa signed by Chiune Sempo Sugihara, who was later recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations; move to Kobe via Moscow on the trans-Siberian railroad; attitude of the Japanese. Move to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Sonia Suzanne (Leibel) Leroy Eshel, born in Tarnow, Poland, 1931, regarding her experiences in Tarnow, Brussels and in hiding

Testimony

Testimony of Sonia Suzanne (Leibel) Leroy Eshel, born in Tarnow, Poland, 1931, regarding her experiences in Tarnow, Brussels and in hiding Displays of antisemitism; non-Zionist family; emigration to Belgium, 1938; witness attends school in French. Attempt to escape to France; return to Belgium; German occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; ban on studies; yellow badge; curfew; deportation of her parents to Malines; "Aktion"; deportation of her parents, 1942; her two sisters are placed in an orphanage; move of her grandmother to an old age home, by the Queen Mother; deportation of her sisters and two aunts...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Dov Berl Ringel, born in Maramures, Romania, 1922, regarding his experiences in Petrosani and forced labor

Testimony

Testimony of Dov Berl Ringel, born in Maramures, Romania, 1922, regarding his experiences in Petrosani and forced labor Life before the war; witness goes out to work at the age of 12; move to Petrosani; attends a vocational school; harassment of Jews; physical injuries. Deportation of Jews, 1939; wealthy people redeem themselves with money; deportation to forced labor paving roads and building fortifications; help from a Romanian officer; draft of craftsmen to labor; escape and then detention. Meets an emissary of the Haganah organization for the smuggle of Jews with Aliya Bet; bribery of Romanians;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sidonia (Hersch) Ozerovitz, born in Dej, Romania, 1926, regarding her experiences in Dej, the Bungar River, Auschwitz, Vainode camp, Dundanga camp and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Sidonia (Hersch) Ozerovitz, born in Dej, Romania, 1926, regarding her experiences in Dej, the Bungar River, Auschwitz, Vainode camp, Dundanga camp and other places Life before the war; religious family; persecution of Jews. Annexation to Hungary, 1940; detention and torture of her grandfather due to his helping a refugee from Poland; eviction from homes and concentration of the Jews in the Bungar forest, May 1945; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life; selection; deportation with 5,000 inmates to Riga; life in Dundanga camp, Vainode camp and Kaiserwald camp including labor camouflaging...

File Number : 13129

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shoshana Roza (Zaidner) Talit, born in Botosani, Romania, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Mogilev-Podolski Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Shoshana Roza (Zaidner) Talit, born in Botosani, Romania, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Mogilev-Podolski Ghetto Relations with the Romanian population; obtains certificates to Eretz Israel. Outbreak of the war; deportation to Transnistria; crossing the Dniester River on rafts; drowning of Jews in the river; robbery of valuables; transfer to Mogilev-Podolski; ghetto life; escape attemps; return to Mogilev-Podolski; deaths of her parents; hiding in a barrel in a cellar and a weapons factory during a manhunt for Jews; placed in an orphanage; life in the orphanage; return to Romania;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avraham Ianko, born in Pascauti, Romania, 1925, regarding his experiences in Targu Frumos, Branovo and Kecskemet

Testimony

Testimony of Avraham Ianko, born in Pascauti, Romania, 1925, regarding his experiences in Targu Frumos, Branovo and Kecskemet Life before the war. Deportation to Targu Frumos; draft to forced labor laying train tracks, paving roads and building bridges; restrictions on Jews including confiscation of his father's workshop; confiscation of their home which was given to a Romanian soldier, 1941; deportation to Branovo, 1942; camp life including labor in a Skoda weapons factory; transfer to Kecskemet, 1944; camp life including labor in a metal factory; liberation by the Red Army. Return to Romania;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Paulina Pal Miller, born in Jidovita, Romania, 1925, regarding deportation to Auschwitz and a labor camp in Riga

Testimony

Testimony of Paulina Pal Miller, born in Jidovita, Romania, 1925, regarding deportation to Auschwitz and a labor camp in Riga Family background; relocation to Lusca after the death of her grandfather; life before the war; studies at the gymnasium.Anti-Semitism and unwillingness to take Jews to the gymnasium for the upper grades; anti-Semitism in the school on the part of the students; street anti-Semitism; smashing the windows of the witness' house by anti-Semites; the entry of the Hungarians into the city; deportation to the Bistrita ghetto; living conditions in the ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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