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Testimony of Avraham Ritter, born in Tarnaveni, Romania, 1923, regarding his experiences as a forced laborer in Blaj, Adamus, Chirileni and other places, and his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1944

Testimony of Avraham Ritter, born in Tarnaveni, Romania, 1923, regarding his experiences as a forced laborer in Blaj, Adamus, Chirileni and other places, and his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1944 Life before the war; work as a textile merchant; activities in the Dror-Habonim movement; meets with emissaries from Eretz Israel. Outbreak of the war; nationalization of Jewish businesses; transfer with men to forced labor; transfer to Blaj with Jews; concentration in Blaj in a lumber storehouse; collection of money to pay for ransom; release with deportees from Tarnaveni; escape back to Tarnaveni; receives permission...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Franszisk Doytch, born in Lupeni, Romania, 1926, regarding his experiences in Lupeni and Paglisa

Testimony of Franszisk Doytch, born in Lupeni, Romania, 1926, regarding his experiences in Lupeni and Paglisa Life before the war; riots against the Jews by Catholics; relations with the Romanian population. Registration of the family's store and home on the name of a Romanian neighbor; move to Paglisa; life in Paglisa including the deportation of youths to forced labor in Deva; liberation, 23 August 1944. Return to Lupeni; aliya to Israel, January 1949.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

List of workers of the committees for the nationalization of Jewish property in Cernauti, December 1943

File Number : 70

Type of Material : List of Names

Language : Romanian

Testimony of Roland Kimelman, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1927, regarding his experiences in Bacau

Testimony of Roland Kimelman, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1927, regarding his experiences in Bacau From a well-to-do family; attends a local Romanian school; activities in "Motherland Guard", a patriotic youth organization. Outbreak of the war, June 1940; Soviet occupation; nationalization of all businesses; deportation of the rich to Siberia; meets the retreating Polish Army; escape from Cernauti; handing over the family's apartment, and all it contains, to an NKVD officer; life in Bacau under the fascist rule of the Iron Guard; violent displays of antisemitism; attends a Jewish high school; Hashomer...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Dvora (Fridfertig) Vinkler, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1931, regarding her experiences in an orphanage in Debrecen and a Spanish protected house in Budapest

Testimony of Dvora (Fridfertig) Vinkler, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1931, regarding her experiences in an orphanage in Debrecen and a Spanish protected house in Budapest Religious, Zionist family with hardships; witness attends a Jewish school; her father is a rabbi in the Neolog community; death of her father, 1939. German occupation, 1944; confiscation of their home; synagogue is turned into a stable; wanderings between various apartments; deportation of her mother on a death march to Austria; witness and her sister are placed in an orphanage in Debrecen; transfer to a Spanish protected house in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Survey of the condition of the Jews in Nazi-occupied countries, Eretz Israel and neighboring countries, as reported in the Nazi and local press, letters and by witnesses, October 1943

Survey of the condition of the Jews in Nazi-occupied countries, Eretz Israel and neighboring countries, as reported in the Nazi and local press and according to witnesses and letters, October 1943 Poland: Report on the treatment of the Jews in Tarnopol by the Germans according to a French POW; hard labor and deportation in cattle cars; the "The Jewish World Plague" exhibition in Krakow; celebration of the 4th anniversary of the Generalgouvernement; Goebbels' speeches in the newspapers; Slovakia: Fate of the assimilated Jews; labor camps; identifying assimilated Jews; Slovakian Jewish refugees in...

File Number : 22