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Testimony of Marila Birman, born in Drohobycz, Poland, 1930

Testimony

Testimony of Marila Birman, born in Drohobycz, Poland, 1930 Childhood in a traditional, established family; good relations with the Christian [neighbors]. Outbreak of the war; Soviet occupation, 1939; outbreak of the war [between the Soviet Union and Germany]; German occupation, 1941; the pogrom in Drohobycz; contact with SS man Felix Landau; family home within the ghetto limits; ghetto life without hunger; illegal deportation to the Boryslaw camp, late 1942; camp life, until spring 1944; escape to another bunker after the discovery of the first ones; discovery of the third bunker by the German soldiers;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Arie Leon Muhlrad, born in Drohobycz, Poland, 1920, regarding his experiences in the Drohobycz Ghetto, Plaszow, Mauthausen and Gusen

Testimony

Testimony of Arie Leon Muhlrad, born in Drohobycz, Poland, 1920, regarding his experiences in the Drohobycz Ghetto, Plaszow, Mauthausen and Gusen Life before the war; Hanoar Hatzioni membership. Outbreak of the war; kidnapping and murder of Jews, July 1941; establishment of the Drohobycz Ghetto; ghetto life; Judenrat activities; agricultural labor on a farm; "Aktions" and finding a hiding place in a slaughter house; work for the German Army in the local crude oil industry; liquidation of the ghetto, June 1943; deportation to Plaszow; camp life; activities of Amon Goeth, the camp commandant; activities of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Jozef Weisman, born in Boryslaw, Poland, 1912, regarding his experiences in Drohobycz

Testimony

Testimony of Jozef Weisman, born in Boryslaw, Poland, 1912, regarding his experiences in Drohobycz Life in Drohobycz including the names of Judenrat members; murder of Jewish members of the intelligentsia; names of physicians murdered; hiding of Jews by a German; end of the war. Locating war criminals in Austria; aliya to Israel, 1949.

File Number : 2744

Type of Material : Testimony, Letter

Language : Polish, German

Testimony of Hersz Bettman, born in Drohobycz, Poland, 1896, regarding his experiences in the Drohobycz Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Hersz Bettman, born in Drohobycz, Poland, 1896, regarding his experiences in the Drohobycz Ghetto Life before the war. German occupation; riots; deportation to the Drohobycz Ghetto; ghetto life including hiding with help from a Ukrainian; liberation. Life after the war including bringing Nazi criminals to trial in Stuttgart.

File Number : 2187

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Emil Urman, born in Tlumacz, Poland, 1899, regarding his experiences in Truskawiec, the Drohobycz Ghetto, the Drohobycz camp, and Stanislawow

Testimony of Emil Urman, born in Tlumacz, Poland, 1899, regarding his experiences in Truskawiec, the Drohobycz Ghetto, the Drohobycz camp, and Stanislawow Life before the war. Soviet occupation; outbreak of war between Germany and the Soviet Union; persecution of the Jews and murder of Jews near Truskawiec; escape to Drohobycz; life in Drohobycz including riots against Jews by the Ukrainians; deportations; life in the Drohobycz Ghetto; Judenrat activities; "Aktion", 12 October 1941; memoirs of the writer Bruno Schulz; information on Landau, a member of the Gestapo; fate of the Judenrat members; informing...

File Number : 3141

Type of Material : Diary, Personal Records

Language : Polish

Testimony of Harry Zeimer, born in Vienna, Austria, 1921, regarding his experiences in Drohobycz, Germany and Switzerland

Testimony

Testimony of Harry Zeimer, born in Vienna, Austria, 1921, regarding his experiences in Drohobycz, Germany and Switzerland Life in Drohobycz; help to Jews from the Jewish economic advisor of a Gestapo member and of a German man; volunteers for work in Germany using a false identity; life in Germany; escape to Switzerland; life in Switzerland including receiving information about the murder of Bruno Schultz, the writer and painter, in Drohobycz.

File Number : 2718

Type of Material : Letter, Testimony

Language : Hebrew, Polish, French