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Testimony of Noah Galkoff, born in Lodz, Poland, 1925, regarding the Lodz ghetto and the liquidation of the ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Noah Galkoff, born in Lodz, Poland, 1925, regarding the Lodz ghetto and the liquidation of the ghetto Family background; his father is a butcher; good relations with the Polish and German neighbors; studies in a Jewish school. The outbreak of war; deportation to the ghetto; life in the ghetto; food stamps; cleaning work; the Great Children's Aktion "Shifra", 1942; Rumkowski's speech; a four-year stay in the ghetto; towards the last year, the witness' work in cleaning the houses of deported Jews, belonging to the "Yakuba" commando of the liquidation of the ghetto, named after Jakuba Street in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yisrael Salek Delayahu Dłuzniewski, born in 1926 in Łódź, about his experiences in the Łódź ghetto and in the Auschwitz, Gusen-Men, Birkenau, and Mauthausen camps

Life as a boy in Lodz; family background; attends a cheder and a Polish school; belongs to the Zionist youth movement; war erupts in 1939; shops vandalized; shortage of bread; witness escapes with mother to Tomaszow Mazowiecki; escapes back to Lodz; life in the ghetto; the Sperre Aktion; parting with mother and sister, who are deported to Chełmno; labor in a leather workshop; Jews from Germany arrive; the Yom Kippur fast in the ghetto in 1944; deportation by train to Auschwitz-Birkenau; the chair of the Judenrat, Chaim Rumkowski; witnessing the murder of the commander of the Jewish police (Hosenblat); life in...

File Number : 13620

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Mala Maroko Freund regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, on a death march, in Mauthausen, Bergen-Belsen and more

Memoirs of Mala Maroko Freund regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, on a death march, in Mauthausen, Bergen-Belsen and more Transfer of Mala Maroko Freund and her family from Lodz to within the Lodz Ghetto limits, November 1939; life in the Lodz Ghetto until 28 August 1944; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; transfer to the Langenbielau camp, September 1944; transfer to the Breslau-Hundsfeld camp, late September; death march to Gross-Rosen, December 1944; transfer to Mauthausen, January 1945; transfer to Bergen-Belsen, March 1945; liberation by the British Army, 15 April...

File Number : 8538

Type of Material : Excerpt(s), Interview(s)

Language : Swedish

Letter from the Vaad HaRabbanim in the Lodz Ghetto to Mordechaj Chaim Rumkowski (head of the Judenrat), regarding the paving of a new road through the local cemetery

Letter from the Vaad HaRabbanim in the Lodz Ghetto to Mordechaj Chaim Rumkowski (head of the Judenrat), regarding the paving of a new road through the local cemetery Letter from the Vaad HaRabbanim in the Lodz Ghetto (signed by the rabbis), with a negative reply to the application of Mordechaj Chaim Rumkowski (head of the Judenrat), regarding the paving of a road through the local cemetery, 04 May 1941.

File Number : 1163

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avraham Gavner, born in 1921 in Lodz, about his experiences in the Lodz ghetto and in the Auschwitz and Ebensee camps during the war

Life before the war; life as a Gerrer Hasid and an ordained rabbi; war breaks out; family-owned enterprises are confiscated; sidelocks forcibly shorn; cleaning streets; deportation to the Lodz ghetto; father dies of exhaustion; mother and five siblings deported in Aktionen; working at a shop for disassembly of deported Jews' shoes; ghetto liquidated in August 1944; witness depoted to Auschwitz; selection in the camp and assignment to labor in November 1944; digging ditches for telephone lines; life in the Ebensee camp in January 1945; digging below ground; liberation by American forces; life in the Zeilsheim...

File Number : 13605

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zipora Kohn, born in Lodz, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in Lodz, the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Stutthof, Groden and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Zipora Kohn, born in Lodz, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in Lodz, the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Stutthof, Groden and other places Her childhood in an Orthodox, religious family including attending a Hebrew school and Zionist activities. Outbreak of the war, 1939; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto; Lodz Ghetto life including labor in workshops; distribution of food; "Aktion" against children; arrival of Jewish refugees from Germany; lack of knowledge regarding [the fate of] the Jews in camps; liquidation of the ghetto, summer 1944; deportation to Auschwitz with her sister; camp life...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Matriculation certificates issued in the Lodz Ghetto, 26 September 1941

Matriculation certificates issued in the Lodz Ghetto, 26 September 1941 Found in the estate of Efraim Weichselfisch, formerly the Deputy Chairman of Yad Vashem

File Number : 1119

Type of Material : Personal Records, List of Pupils

Language : Hebrew, Polish, German

Testimony of Yaakov Menachem Goldberg, born in Lodz, Poland, 1909, regarding his experiences in Lodz, the Lodz Ghetto and Auschwitz

Testimony

Testimony of Yaakov Menachem Goldberg, born in Lodz, Poland, 1909, regarding his experiences in Lodz, the Lodz Ghetto and Auschwitz His childhood; death of his mother, 1935. German Army occupation of Lodz; capture of young people for forced labor; labor in a group of tailors sewing uniforms for Wehrmacht men, after Pesach; Lodz Ghetto life including hunger and labor in a bakery; receives payment from the Germans using valueless money; leaving of dead people at home in order to receive their food; transfer of charcoals to a sick mother; evacuation of the ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; several people...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Gershon Shapiro, born in Lodz, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in Lodz, the Lodz Ghetto, HASAG Czestochowa and in Germany

Testimony

Testimony of Gershon Shapiro, born in Lodz, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in Lodz, the Lodz Ghetto, HASAG Czestochowa and in Germany His childhood in a traditional, Zionist family. German Army occupation of Lodz, September 1939; escape to Warsaw; return to Lodz; life in Lodz including decrees and restrictions; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto, 1940; Lodz Ghetto life including activities by Rumkowski, the head of the Judenrat; "Sperre", curfew "Aktion", 1942; labor in the hospital; deportation to HASAG Czestochowa camp, January 1944; camp life including labor in a weapons factory; liberation by the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Diary of the roots trip and memoirs of Shlomo Brichkovski, born in Lodz, Poland, regarding his experiences as a child in the Lodz Ghetto, and in Auschwitz and Sachsenhausen camps

Diary of the roots trip and memoirs of Shlomo Brichkovski, born in Lodz, Poland, regarding his experiences as a child in the Lodz Ghetto, and in Auschwitz and Sachsenhausen camps Residence by the witness' family in the Lodz Ghetto until its liquidation in 1944; deportation to Auschwitz camp with his family members on 20/08/1944; transfer of his mother and aunt to the crematorium; transfer of Shlomo and his father to the Gypsies camp and from there to Block 13, where a school for builders was held; he was there for three months; transfer afterwards to Sachsenhausen camp, where he labored in an aircraft...

File Number : 7834

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

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