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Testimony of Reuven Frid Porat, born in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, 1933, regarding his experiences on the island of Korcula, Vela Luka, Pozino, the Bari region and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Reuven Frid Porat, born in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, 1933, regarding his experiences on the island of Korcula, Vela Luka, Pozino, the Bari region and other places Life before the war; attends a Jewish kindergarten and a Jewish school. German occupation, 10 April 1941; decrees including yellow badge; deportation to the southern part of the city; escape to the Italian occupied area with forged Aryan documents and help from a smuggler; reports regularly to the police; his mother transfers the family to the Italian occupied area; transfer to the island of Korcula; life in Vela Luka, December 1941;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe Shapira, born in Zborow, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in Sosedovo, Vladivostok and in the Polish Army in Breslau and in Dresden

Testimony

Testimony of Moshe Shapira, born in Zborow, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in Sosedovo, Vladivostok and in the Polish Army in Breslau and in Dresden Life before the war; attends a high school in Lwow; studies carpentry in Zborow; move to Tarnopol. German occupation, June 1941; escape to Sosedovo; escape to Vladivostok; drafted into the Polish Army, May 1944; military service including combat in Breslau and Dresden; end of the war. Joins Gordonia; wanderings in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Austria and Italy; aliya attempt on the ship, "Haim Arlozorov"; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel,...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mordechai Ribak, born in Chodel, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in Poniatowa, Chodel and Tomaszow and in Majdanek, Stuttgart, Auschwitz, Wierzbnik and other camps

Testimony

Testimony of Mordechai Ribak, born in Chodel, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in Poniatowa, Chodel and Tomaszow and in Majdanek, Stuttgart, Auschwitz, Wierzbnik and other camps His childhood in a traditional, financially secure family; antisemitism. Outbreak of the war; deportation to Poniatowa and Tomaszow; escape to a forest during a mass murder; grabs a German weapon; handed over by Poles; deportation to Zamosc; transfer to Majdanek, 1944; labor clearing rubble; transfer to Wierzbnik; transfer to Auschwitz; transfer to Stuttgart; labor in an airfield; help with food from local residents;...

File Number : 9951

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mala Katz, born in Klimontow, Poland, 1927, regarding her experiences in Klimontow, Skarzysko Kamienna, Leipzig and a death march

Testimony

Testimony of Mala Katz, born in Klimontow, Poland, 1927, regarding her experiences in Klimontow, Skarzysko Kamienna, Leipzig and a death march Traditional home; her family earns a livelihood from small trade; attends a Jewish school and a Polish school; contacts with the Polish population; Klimontow's population had a Jewish majority and included Poles and ethnic Germans, Volksdeutsche. German occupation, September 1939; forced contributions; arrival to her family's home of relatives from the large cities; hunger; harassment of Jews by Poles and Volksdeutsche; help from the Polish landlady; execution of...

File Number : 9596

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Benjamin Bzhezhinski, born in Kalisz, Poland, 1935, regarding his experiences as a child in the Rzeszow Ghetto and Huta Komorowska, Mielec, Flossenburg and other camps

Testimony

Testimony of Benjamin Bzhezhinski, born in Kalisz, Poland, 1935, regarding his experiences as a child in the Rzeszow Ghetto and Huta Komorowska, Mielec, Flossenburg and other camps German occupation; antisemitism by the Poles toward the Jews; persecution of Jews; escape to Rzeszow; restrictions on the Jews; deportation to the Rzeszow Ghetto; ghetto life including labor peeling potatoes and on a farm; deportation to Huta Komorowska; camp life including forced labor uprooting trees; deportation to Mielec; camp life; deportation to Flossenburg; camp life including forced labor in an aircraft factory; death...

File Number : 9364

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yitzhak Bareket, born in Bacau, Romania, 1923, regarding his experiences in Romania as a Zionist activist and forced laborer

Testimony

Testimony of Yitzhak Bareket, born in Bacau, Romania, 1923, regarding his experiences in Romania as a Zionist activist and forced laborer His childhood in a traditional family; community life; antisemitism; activities in the Hashomer Hatzair movement; witness moves to Ramnicu Sarat. Persecution by the Iron Guard for his Zionist activities; escape to Bucharest; joins aliya training; pogrom, January 1941; detention and then his release several days later, August 1942; deportation of his parents to Roman; forced labor assignments; liberation by the Red Army, September 1944. Zionist activities in Ploesti,...

File Number : 8837

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letters from Akiva Skiedel, a soldier in the US Army serving in Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium, 1944-1945

Letters from Akiva Skiedel, a soldier in the US Army serving in Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium, 1944-1945 - Travel to Buchenwald in search of relatives from Grodno; testimonies of survivors originally from Grodno; reminiscences of the US Army landng in Bretagne; meeting Jewish survivors in Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands; care provided Jewish children by the JDC and UNRRA; memorial ceremony held in a Berlin synagogue for those who perished; policy of non-fraternization between American soldiers and the German population; displays of antisemitism among Red Army soldiers; establishment of DP camps...

File Number : 139

Type of Material : Letter

Language : English