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Testimony of Yosef Lichtenfeld, born in Bedzin, Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences in Sosnowiec, Blechhammer, Grossmasselwitz, Bunzlau and on a death march to Bergen-Belsen

Testimony

Testimony of Yosef Lichtenfeld, born in Bedzin, Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences in Sosnowiec, Blechhammer, Grossmasselwitz, Bunzlau and on a death march to Bergen-Belsen Life before the war; traditional family; his father is a house painter; learns in a "heder" and a public school. German occupation; burning of the synagogue; decrees and a yellow badge; confiscation of valuables; men are drafted to forced labor; capture by a German policeman; deportation of Bedzin Jews to extermination in Auschwitz; murder of Poles by Germans; deportation to a transit camp at Sosnowiec; camp life; transfer to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

O.70 - Josef Rosensaft Bergen-Belsen POW Camp Archive

O.70 - Josef Rosensaft Bergen-Berlsen DP Camp Archives Bergen-Belsen was liberated by the British Army, 15 April 1945. There were approximately 58,000 survivors at the time of the liberation, of whom approximately 28,000 died from disease and starvation during the first weeks after the liberation. A Displaced Persons (DP) camp was established in Bergen-Belsen and the survivors immediately began to organize themselves. They set up the Central Jewish Committee (CJC) for the camp, headed by Josef Rosensaft. The CJC and its various departments took responsibility for the physical and spiritual needs of the...

Type of Material : Letter, Survey Report, Official Documentation, Diary, Card File, Film, Protocol, Photograph, Newspaper

Language : French, English, German, Yiddish

Correspondence between Josef Rosensaft, the chairman of the Central Jewish Committee (CJC), and R. B. Solomon, the advisor for Jewish affairs in the British Occupied Zone, 1947-1948

Correspondence between Josef Rosensaft, the chairman of the Central Jewish Committee (CJC), and R. B. Solomon, the advisor for Jewish affairs in the British Occupied Zone, 1947-1948 Josef Rosensaft is the chairman of the Central Jewish Committee (CJC) in the British Occupied Zone.

File Number : 9

Type of Material : Letter

Language : English

Testimony of Menachem Goldberg, born in Zawiercie, Poland, 1911, regarding his experiences in the Zawiercie Ghetto, Goleszow, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Menachem Goldberg, born in Zawiercie, Poland, 1911, regarding his experiences in the Zawiercie Ghetto, Goleszow, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen and other places Family owns a factory for the marketing of beer. German occupation; German control of the factory through a German trustee; Aryanization of the factory and the family property; deportation to the Zawiercie Ghetto; ghetto life; deportation of the head of the Judenrat to Auschwitz for anti-German activities; labor in a German Air Force warehouse; rescue of Jews and help to Jews by the German warehouse manager Willi Garbrecht; liquidation of...

File Number : 3184

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew