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Testimony of Hela (Feltz) Reznik, born in Bedzin, Poland, 1925 regarding her experiences in the Parschnitz labor camp, Czechoslovakia

Prewar childhood; antisemitism; plans for aliya to Eretz Israel; outbreak of the war; German occupation; burning of houses; deportation to the Parschnitz labor camp, Czechoslovakia; camp life, 1941-1945; hunger; longing; murder of her family; liberation by the Red Army; Rebuilding life after the war; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1948.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Postcard sent by Sara Karpen from Sweden to Zdunska Wola in order to locate surviving family members, 08 August 1945

Postcard sent by Sara Karpen from Sweden to Zdunska Wola in order to locate surviving family members, 08 August 1945 Notes from Leah (Karpen) Finklestein who submitted the material: Sara (Karpen) Speyer survived Auschwitz, and moved to Sweden after the liberation. Her sister Leah (Karpen) Finklestein, who submitted the material, found the postcard after she returned to Zdunska Wola from the Soviet Union at the end of the war.

File Number : 2243

Type of Material : Postcard

Language : Polish

Memoirs of Eli Lutek Lewin, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1934, regarding his experiences while escaping from the Warsaw Ghetto, in Chmielnik and in hiding using a false identity in a village near Rawa Mazowiecka Family history; immigration of his mother Justina's parents to Eretz Israel with their son, Moniek, who was liable for arrest as a Communist, 1932. Outbreak of the war and occupation of Warsaw; escape from the ghetto with his mother, autumn, 1941; move to Chmielnik; life in a rented apartment in Chmielnik; postcard sent by his mother to her sister Bruchtsia in Paris, March 1942; correspondence with his...

File Number : 8647

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Letter sent by Sara Zubrickas in the Pithiviers camp to her sister Dora (Zubrickas) Tannenbaum in Paris, 22 October 1941, and documentation regarding their brother Maurice Zubrickas who was in the Stalag II A POW camp during the war Documentation regarding Maurice Zubrickas (original): - Reply letter from the Central Agency for Prisoners of War in Geneva to Ms. Wieviorka in Paris according to which Maurice Zubrickas was in the Stalag II A POW camp in Germany, September 1940; - Participation card in the population census issued to Maurice Zubrickas, 06 May 1945; - Booklet granting benefits in receiving...

File Number : 2238

Type of Material : Genealogy, Letter, Personal Documents, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, French, Yiddish

Testimony of Zelman Buchbinder, born in Ternovo, Czechoslovakia, in 1926 regarding the deportation to Auschwitz, Plaszow and regarding the labor camp Mauthausen

Childhood in Ternovo; community life in Ternovo; good relations between Jews and non-Jews in Ternovo; invasion of the Hungarians in 1939; recruiting the elder brothers to Hungarian labor camps; anti-Jewish legislation;riots; harming the rabbi of the community; German occupation; deportation of the family to Mateszalka ghetto, Hungary in March 1944; conditions in the ghetto; diseases; yellow badge; deportation of the family to Auschwitz Birkenau; "aktion" by Mengele; crematorium; starvation; death of family members; transfer to Plaszow camp,Poland about 2 weeks later; beating of inmates; murder of inmates by the...

File Number : 13776

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Markovitz and Bar Zahava Golda, born in Uzhorod, Czechoslovakia, in 1927 regarding the Moskovitz ghetto, Auschwitz camp and Bruntal labor camp

Childhood before the war; good relations between the local population and the Jews in Uzhorod; invasion of the Hungarians in 1938; antisemitism; looting and burning of the family property by Hungarian soldiers; yellow badge; confiscation of property by the Germans; deportation to Moskovitz ghetto in 1943; harsh physical and emotional conditions; starvation; smuggling of food; deportation to Auschwitz Birkenau; selection; separation from the family; forced labor; crematorium; starvation; brutal attitude of the kapo; gypsy inmates; clearing the corpses; roll-calls; help by the Blockalteste to the women inmates of...

File Number : 13769

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Two letters sent by Hermann Stern in Moissac to the Jewish Committee in London and to his uncle and brother in England, June 1945, including information regarding the deaths of his parents and sister who had been with him in the Stutthof camp after their expulsion from Germany - Letter written by Hermann Stern, born 14 February 1927, during his stay in Moissac, France, to the Jewish Committee in London, 22 June 1945, with a request to search for his brother Heinz Stern, born 17 August 1924, who had emigrated to England before the outbreak of the war; Hermann writes that for four years he was in a...

File Number : 2219

Type of Material : Letter

Language : English

Documentation regarding Abraham and Esther (Gottlieb-Potaschnik) Adlerstein and members of their families, including letters, postcards, telegrams and more, 1931-1946

Documentation regarding Abraham and Esther (Gottlieb-Potaschnik) Adlerstein and members of their families, including letters, postcards, telegrams and more, 1931-1946 Letters, postcards and telegrams: - Scrap of an envelope (with the stamp "Der Fuhrer in Vienna") sent to Abraham Adlerstein in Eretz Israel by Ester Gottlieb-Potaschnik in Vienna, 17 March 1938; - Letter sent to Ester Gottlieb-Potaschnik by Menachem Bader, a member of the Jewish underground, 14 July 1938; the letter concerns the transfer of possessions belonging to the Jews of Vienna into the right hands so that the Jews could take them...

File Number : 2212

Type of Material : Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Personal Documents, Official Documentation, Red Cross Letter, Letter, Postcard

Language : Hebrew, Polish, English, German, Yiddish

Memoirs of Dvora Tolpin, born in Chisinau, Romania, 1931, regarding her experiences in children's homes in Orlovskaya and Kondryuchenskaya, and in Uzbekistan

Memoirs of Dvora Tolpin, born in Chisinau, Romania, 1931, regarding her experiences in children's homes in Orlovskaya and Kondryuchenskaya, and in Uzbekistan Outbreak of the war; escape of her family from Chisinau to Nikolayev; air-raids over Nikolayev; transfer to Orlovskaya by herself after the family is scattered; transfer to a children's home; life in the children's home until 1942; life in the home of the chairman of the Grekhov kolkhoz for a few months; transfer to a children's home in Kondryuchenskaya; life in the children's home (confirmation from the Tamara Petrichenko Children's Home). Locating...

File Number : 8635

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Russian

Memoirs of Rachel Iskoviez, born in Brussels, Belgium, 1931, regarding her experiences in southern France, Rivesaltes, in an OSE children's home and in a monastery using a false identity

Memoirs of Rachel Iskoviez, born in Brussels, Belgium, 1931, regarding her experiences in southern France, Rivesaltes, in an OSE children's home and in a monastery using a false identity The German occupation; escape of the family to southern France; life in the home of local non-Jews; German occupation; deportation of Jews to the Rivesaltes camp; unsuccessful attempt to escape from the camp by her father; his transfer to the Gurs camp; entrusting of Rachel to the Œuvre de Secours aux Enfants (OSE-Organization to Save the Children) organization and her transfer to a children's home with her brother, Danny;...

File Number : 8633

Type of Material : Personal Records, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, French

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