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Testimony of Yocheved Chava (Beitelman) Gil, born in Hotin, Romania, 1927, regarding her experiences during the deportation to Transnistria and in an orphanage in Bucharest

Testimony

Testimony of Yocheved Chava (Beitelman) Gil, born in Hotin, Romania, 1927, regarding her experiences during the deportation to Transnistria and in an orphanage in Bucharest Death of her father, 1933, and of her oldest brother, 1937. Deportation to Transnistria together with her younger sister, 1941; death of her mother, 1943; return to Romania, 1944; life in orphanages in Bucharest, June-December 1944. Unsuccessful aliya attempt to Eretz Israel on the ship, "Taurus", December, 1944; detention in Atlit; absorption in Kibbutz Shaar Haamakim.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Esther Meir née Mendelovitz, born in 1929 in Ruscova, Romania, about her experiences in Ruscova, the Valea Viseului ghetto, and Auschwitz

Testimony

Testimony of Esther Meir née Mendelovitz, born in 1929 in Ruscova, Romania, about her experiences in Ruscova, the Valea Viseului ghetto, and Auschwitz Life before the war; daughter of a traditional family; attending a Romanian school; German occupation; deportation to the Valea Viseului ghetto by Romanian gendarmes; deportation by train to Auschwitz; selection in the camp; father, mother, and four siblings are murdered; assigned to forced labor: digging pits for murdered persons' bodies; hunger; cold; lice; Germans attempt to set residential barracks ablaze; saved by Red Army forces; typhus and...

File Number : 13452

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yehoshua Ozi Grinberg, born in Iasi, Romania, 1937, regarding his experiences in Iasi

Testimony

Testimony of Yehoshua Ozi Grinberg, born in Iasi, Romania, 1937, regarding his experiences in Iasi Life in Iasi. Pogrom in Iasi, 29 June 1941.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sylvia (Blau) Wirzbaum, born in Borod, Romania, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Oradea Ghetto, Auschwitz, Oberhohenelbe, Pocking, Paris and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Sylvia (Blau) Wirzbaum, born in Borod, Romania, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Oradea Ghetto, Auschwitz, Oberhohenelbe, Pocking, Paris and other places Life under Hungarian occupation, including antisemitism and anti-Jewish policies; German Army occupation of Oradea Mare, 1944; Oradea Ghetto life for six weeks, 1944; deportation to Auschwitz, 1944; camp life including separation from her family; transfer to Oberhohenelbe deportation camp in Czechoslovakia, 1944; camp life including labor in a "Lorenz" factory producing cars for the Germans; liberation by the Red Army, 1945. ...

File Number : 13163

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Paula (Breitner) Shaari, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1921, regarding her experiences in Cernauti, Atachi and Mogilev

Testimony

Testimony of Paula (Breitner) Shaari, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1921, regarding her experiences in Cernauti, Atachi and Mogilev Childhood in a traditional home; attends Romanian elementary and high schools; displays of antisemitism before the war. Soviet occupation, 1940; economic changes in the lives of the Jews; deportations to Siberia; reoccupation by the Romanians, 1941; anti-Jewish legislation; yellow badge; confiscation of property, travel restrictions and more; deportation to the Cernauti Ghetto, 1941; deportation to Transnistria a short time later; journey to Atachi by train; transfer to Mogilev...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yechiel Kremer, born in Comanesti, Romania, 1924, regarding his experiences in Suceava, Izkani, Mogilev-Podolski, the Murafa Ghetto and more

Testimony

Testimony of Yechiel Kremer, born in Comanesti, Romania, 1924, regarding his experiences in Suceava, Izkani, Mogilev-Podolski, the Murafa Ghetto and more Life before the war; from a family of Vizhnitz hasidim. Restrictions on the Jews; transfer to Suceava; deportation by Romanian gendarmes to Izkani by freight train, 1941; halt of the train at the Atachi station; crossing the Dniester river; transfer to Mogilev-Podolski; payment of a bribe to a German officer and transfer to the Murafa Ghetto by truck; ghetto life; building of a bridge in Trikhaty by the Krupp Company; observance of the Jewish...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Alexander Yitzhak Rozental Zauber, born in Campulungul, Romania, 1933, regarding his experiences in Atachi, Mogilev-Podolski and Shargorod

Testimony

Testimony of Alexander Yitzhak Rozental Zauber, born in Campulungul, Romania, 1933, regarding his experiences in Atachi, Mogilev-Podolski and Shargorod Religious family; antisemitic terror, 1939; ban on use of the Yiddish language. Yellow badge; capture of witness' father and his beating by the gendarmes; deportation in a cattle car in the winter; death of his grandmother in the cattle car; transfer to Bessarabia; transfer to Atachi; transfer on boats to Mogilev-Podolski; his father carries a Torah scroll and sugar; march until Shargorod in the snow; death of his father from typhus disease; his mother's...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mali Malcia (Landa) Skurka, born in Cernauca, Romania, 1924, regarding her experiences in Rohozna, Atachi, Mogilev-Podolski, Olgopol and Bershad

Testimony

Testimony of Mali Malcia (Landa) Skurka, born in Cernauca, Romania, 1924, regarding her experiences in Rohozna, Atachi, Mogilev-Podolski, Olgopol and Bershad Life before the war; displays of antisemitism; move to Rohozna, 1937. Soviet occupation, 1940; confiscation of property; deportations to Siberia; Romanian-German occupation, 1941; pogrom against the Jews; deportation to Transnistria, 1941; transfer on foot to Atachi; crosses a river on rafts; transfer to Mogilev-Podolski; life in Mogilev-Podolski; transfer on foot by gendarmes and Romanians; death of her father from hunger; transfer to Olgopol;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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