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Shneider Yaakov Shmuel, born in Kosino, Czechoslovakia, 1932, regarding his experiences in the Berehovo ghetto and in the Auschwitz-Birkenau, Plaszow, Gross Rosen, Goerlitz and Zittau camps

Testimony

Schneider Shmuel Jacob, born in Kosino, Czechoslovakia, 1932, regarduing the Berehovo ghetto and deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Plaszow, Gross Rosen, Goerlitz and Zittau camps Family background; childhood in a religious family; his father is a hero of the World War I. Entry of the Hungarians; entry of the Germans, March 1944; deportation to the Berehovo ghetto; stay in a brick factory for several weeks; transfer to Auschwitz II-Birkenau; selection at the entrance to the camp; rescue by an anonymous inmate from the camp to the gas chambers and transfer to the camp; finding his father and relatives;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sukhar Stolerman, born in Lipcani, Bessarabia, Romania in 1930, regarding his experiences during the expulsion to Zhmerynka in Transnistria

Testimony of Sukhar Stolerman, born in Lipcani, Bessarabia, Romania in 1930, regarding his experiences during the expulsion to Zhmerynka in Transnistria Childhood before the war; antisemitism; Jewish refugees from Poland in 1939; Russian occupation in 1940; change in their lifestyle; Russo–German war in June 1941; entry of Romanians and Germans; expulsion to Briceni; march to Atachi; continuation of march via Mogilev to Zhmerynka; life in the ghetto; the Jewish Committee; various types of labor; murder and abuse; partisans; liberation by Red Army in March 1944; return to Lipcani; rebuilding life after the...

File Number : 13697

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Moshe Zeev Gelbert, born in Ilisesti, Romania, 1937, regarding his experiences in Transnistria, Ataki, Mogilev and Katsmazov

Memoirs of Moshe Zeev Gelbert, born in Ilisesti, Romania, 1937, regarding his experiences in Transnistria, Ataki, Mogilev and Katsmazov Anti-Jewish legislation, 1941; deportation to Transnistria; order to remove jewelry and hand it over to Romanian soldiers in Burdujeni; arrival in Ataki; assembly of Jews in the synagogue; finding a sign on the wall written in blood, reading, "Jews were murdered in this place. You Jews passing by here, please say Kaddish"; murder of Jews by the Romanian gendarmerie; destruction of the certificates [of the murdered?] so that they could not be identified; arrival in Mogilev on...

File Number : 8497

Type of Material : Memoirs, List of Deportees, Red Cross Letter

Language : Hebrew, Romanian

Memoirs of Bracha Bronislava (Belcher) Sheinholtz, born in Sekureni, Romania, 1928, regarding her experiences in Sekureni, Transnistria and Mogilev

Memoirs of Bracha Bronislava (Belcher) Sheinholtz, born in Sekureni, Romania, 1928, regarding her experiences in Sekureni, Transnistria and Mogilev Life before the war. The Romanian fascist regime; pogrom against the Jewish population of Sekureni, 1941; deportation to Briczen; transfer to Transnistria; transfer to Mogilev; living quarters in the local hospital following the paralysis of her father's legs; abuse of members of the family by a Romanian soldier; deportation of her mother and her four year old sister Tova to the Pechera camp; their escape from the camp; transfer of Tova to an orphanage and her...

File Number : 8459

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Pepi (Laufer) Kahlenberg, born in Storojinet, Romania, regarding the deportation of her family to Transnistria

File Number : 8238

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : German

Testimony of Malka Kleiman, born in Khmelnik, Ukraine, 1927, regarding her experiences in Shargorod during the war

Testimony

Testimony of Malka Kleiman, born in Khmelnik, Ukraine, 1927, regarding her experiences in Shargorod during the war Family background; moving to Shargorod at the age of two; pre-war anti-Semitism on the part of the local population; life before the war. The outbreak of war; entry of German soldiers into the town; the departure of German soldiers and the entry of Romanian soldiers into the town; property robbery; arrival of Jewish deportees from Romania; father's help to the Jews who came and rescued them; deportation to forced labor, 1942; working in a tobacco factory.Liberation; life after the war;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shoshana Solomon, born in Lupeni, Romania, 1934, regarding her experiences in Lupeni, Nalat and Paclisa

Testimony

Testimony of Shoshana Solomon, born in Lupeni, Romania, 1934, regarding her experiences in Lupeni, Nalat and Paclisa Her childhood in Lupeni. Deportation of her father to a labor camp along with the rest of the men, Sukkot [October], 1940; deportation of the Jews in the area to Nalat, Sukkot [October], 1940; camp life including life on a local estate; overcrowding and the smuggling of food; Romanian soldiers guard them; labor by the women in a factory; attitude of the Romanian population; transfer to Paclisa, January 1941; labor by the women in fields; transfer to other places until the liberation, autumn...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Dan Thomas Spira, born in Nitra, Czechoslovakia, 1932, regarding his experiences in Novaky, Nitra and Banska Bystrica

Testimony

Testimony of Dan Thomas Spira, born in Nitra, Czechoslovakia, 1932, regarding his experiences in Novaky, Nitra and Banska Bystrica His childhood in Novaky in a well-to-do, traditional family. Expulsion from the public school in Novaky in the context of the anti-Jewish restrictions, 1940; dismissal of his father by the fascist party from his position as a physician in Novaky; his family's move to Nitra; life in Nitra among the Orthodox religious community including the witness attending a Jewish school; deportation of his family to Novaky N-204 camp [?], 1942; camp life including his father's labor as the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Michael Liberman, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1931, regarding his experiences in Cernauti, Transnistria, the Tsybulevka Ghetto and in Balti and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Michael Liberman, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1931, regarding his experiences in Cernauti, Transnistria, the Tsybulevka Ghetto and in Balti and other places His childhood in a religious home, including attending a "heder". Red Army occupation of Cernauti, 1940; Romanian Army occupation of Cernauti, June 1941; life under Romanian occupation including the imposition of anti-Jewish decrees including wearing a yellow badge, restrictions on travel and the confiscation of property; deportation to the Cernauti Ghetto, 1941; deportation to Transnistria, several weeks later; travel by train until...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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