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Letters and postcards sent to Dina Bibring, born in Stanislawow, Poland, 1910, in Eretz Israel by her family members in Stanislawow, 1934-1941, and letters sent by Dina from Mikuliczyn to her future husband Adolf Jankolovits in Eretz Israel, 1938, and including Dina's personal documents and her memoirs regarding her experiences and the experiences of her family members Letters and postcards: - Letters and postcards sent to Dina Bibring in Eretz Israel by her father Mordekhai Markus Bibring and her mother Mina, her sister Gincia, and her brother Salo in Stanislawow regarding their life in Stanislawow,...

File Number : 1917

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Postcard, Notebook, Letter, Documentary, Travel Ticket, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, Polish, German, Yiddish, Hungarian

Testimony of Claire (Varshavski) Levy, born in Strasbourg, France, 1928, regarding her experiences in Strasbourg, Vichy and Perigueux

Testimony

Testimony of Claire (Varshavski) Levy, born in Strasbourg, France, 1928, regarding her experiences in Strasbourg, Vichy and Perigueux Her childhood in Strasbourg; attitude of French children toward the children of emigrants; attends a French school; [arrival of] refugee children from Germany. Move to Vichy; life in Vichy including attending a French school and activities in the French Scouts; receives a deportation order; escape to Perigueux; her father's work in Bergerac in a factory for the German war effort.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sima Skurkowitz, born in Vilna, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto and camps in Estonia

Testimony

Testimony of Sima Skurkowitz, born in Vilna, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto and camps in Estonia From a secular family; her childhood; attends a Jewish school; Scouts activities; life in Vilna until 1939. During the war; life in the Vilna Ghetto including youth movements; life in camps in Estonia; liberation. Aliya to Eretz Israel; life in Israel.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaim Gyorgy Gartner, born in Tard, Hungary, 1925, regarding his experiences in labor battalions in Budapest

Testimony

Testimony of Chaim Gyorgy Gartner, born in Tard, Hungary, 1925, regarding his experiences in labor battalions in Budapest Witness attends a Jewish school; activities in the Hungarian Scouts movement; move to Budapest. Draft to a labor camp; labor as a porter and digging, 1943; deportation to Germany on foot; approach of the Red Army; shelling by the Allied forces; arrival to Budapest; rescue by a hospital director; receives a place to live and food in exchange for gathering wounded people and corpses; liberation by the Red Army. Activities in the Dror-Habonim movement; meets Jewish Brigade soldiers;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yaakov Jasha Brenshtein, born in Rowne, Poland, 1936, regarding his experiences in Dnepropetnousl and Zatonskoye

Testimony

Testimony of Yaakov Jasha Bernstein, born in Rowne, Poland, 1936, regarding his experiences in Dnepropetnousl and Zatonskoye Zionist secular family; his father is a technical advisor to factories and the principal of an ORT school in Brzesc Nad Bugiem; his father was a member of Hehalutz Hatzair movement; move of the family to Ozierany. Escape with his mother and brothers in the direction of Kiev, 1940; capture of his father and his murder in Ozierany; life with his mother and brothers in Dnepropetnousl; death of his brother from illness; life in Zatonskoye until 1946; end of the war. Move with his...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yehuda Erenstein, born in Lyon, France, 1934, regarding his experiences in Nice, a monastery in Lyon and an orphanage in Sion

Testimony

Testimony of Yehuda Erenstein, born in Lyon, France, 1934, regarding his experiences in Nice, a monastery in Lyon and an orphanage in Sion His parents were originally from Berlin but live in Lyon. Outbreak of the war; deportation of Jews with foreign citizenship; deportation of French Jews; escape to Nice; witness is in hiding in a monastery in Lyon with help from the female high school principal; illegally crossing the border with his brother to Switzerland with help from the OSE; life in a guesthouse near Geneva; move to Sion; life in an orphanage run by Protestant nuns and a Jewish director; end of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Dwora (Mandelbaum) Kfir, born in Krakow, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Tarnow Ghetto, the Krakow Ghetto, Plaszow, Auschwitz and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Dwora (Mandelbaum) Kfir, born in Krakow, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Tarnow Ghetto, the Krakow Ghetto, Plaszow, Auschwitz and other places Traditional, Zionist family; witness attends a Hebrew school. German occupation, September 1939; move of the family to Tarnow; work in a brush factory; deportation to the Tarnow Ghetto, summer 1942; labor in a hospital; transfer to the Krakow Ghetto, September 1943; deportation to Plaszow; camp life including labor knitting, until September 1944; transfer to Auschwitz, October 1944; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; camp life including labor taking...

File Number : 12458

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Judith (Feist) Hemmendinger, born in Bad Homburg, Germany, 1923, regarding her experiences in Roanne, OSE activities, Voiron using a false identity and Morgins

Testimony

Testimony of Judith (Feist) Hemmendinger, born in Bad Homburg, Germany, 1923, regarding her experiences in Roanne, OSE activities, Voiron using a false identity and Morgins Life in democratic Germany; move to France, 1928; life in Paris before the war; attends a Jewish school; help given to Jewish refugees from Germany, 1934. Outbreak of the war, 1939; escape to Roanne; life in Roanne including studies; activities in the Jewish Scouts; joins the OSE organization, 1940-1942; work at the UJIF in Voiron using a false identity, 1943; escape to Morgins; life in Morgins; end of the war. Return to France;...

File Number : 12337

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Menachem Szpigelman, born in Strzemieszyce, Poland, 1934, regarding his experiences in the Sosnowiec Ghetto, the Srodula Ghetto, Zabkowice, being hidden by non-Jews and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Menachem Szpigelman, born in Strzemieszyce, Poland, 1934, regarding his experiences in the Sosnowiec Ghetto, the Srodula Ghetto, Zabkowice, being hidden by non-Jews and other places Life before the war; move to Sosnowiec, learns in a "heder". German occupation; anti-Jewish decrees; life in the cellar of the Hebrew high school building; turning in valuables; life in the Sosnowiec Ghetto including Jewish police activities; in hiding in a bunker; transfer to the Srodula Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; smuggled into the Zabkowice labor camp; camp life; his uncle's service in the Jewish police;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Elhanan Ziv Vili Weisz, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child using a false identity in the Budapest Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Elhanan Ziv Vili Weisz, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child using a false identity in the Budapest Ghetto From a traditional family; attends a Hungarian school. Outbreak of the war, 1939; draft of his father to a labor battalion; German occupation, 1944; life in the Budapest Ghetto using a false identity including living in a children's center and labor as a messenger; liberation by the Red Army. Activities in the Zionist youth movement; aliya to Israel, 1949; enlists in the IDF; marriage and starts a family.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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