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Testimony of Yaakov Amit Altman, born in Noua Sulita, Romania, 1935 regarding the deportation of his family to Transnistria

Family background; drafting of his father into the Red army; His family's escape to Ukraine following the Red Army; capture of his family by the Germans along with additional escapees; deportation of his family to Chernovitse; his family's livelihood from knitting; obtaining food with great difficulty; living in a basement; living conditions; liberation by the Red Army; Week-long return by foot to Noua Sulita; living conditions in Noua Sulita; reunion with his father; move to Transylvania and Bukovina, Romania; illegal immigration to Eretz Israel on the ship "Knesset Israel"; arrest by the British and...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Correspondence between Pinkus Teitelbaum in Eretz Israel and his daughter Sara Rotenberg, during her stay in Belgium, the Netherlands and the United States, 1938-1942, and personal documents of Elazar Henoch Rotenberg and Sara (Teitelbaum) Rotenberg - Postcard sent by Pinkus Teitelbaum in Eretz Israel to his daughter Sara (Teitelbaum) Rotenberg in Antwerp, 25 November 1938; - Postcard sent by Pinkus Teitelbaum to his daughter Sara Rotenberg in Rotterdam, 28 November 1938; - Letter sent by Sara Rotenberg to her parents in Eretz Israel, 29 October 1938; - Letters sent by Sara (Teitelbaum) Rotenberg...

File Number : 2161

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Letter, Postcard

Language : French, German, Yiddish

Testimony of Mordechai Winkler, born in Hochwolkersdorf, Austria, 1926, regarding his experiences in Neustadt, Vienna and Bratislava

Testimony of Mordechai Winkler, born in Hochwolkersdorf, Austria, 1926, regarding his experiences in Neustadt, Vienna and Bratislava Childhood in Hochwolkersdorf; religious holidays in Vr Neustadt; village life. Anschluss; looting of property; taking control of the family store by the SS; transfer to Neustadt; residence at his uncle's home; concentration of the Jews in the synagogue; abuse by the SS and transfer of the Jews to Vienna; Bar Mitzva celebration; Blau-Weiss membership; transfer to Bratislava on a visa. Transit camp in Bratislava; assistance from the Jewish community; illegal aliya attempt...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Barouch Hayoun, born in Tobruk, Libya, 1928, regarding his experiences in Tobruk, Derna, Tripoli, Zuara and other places

Testimony of Barouch Hayoun, born in Tobruk, Libya, 1928, regarding his experiences in Tobruk, Derna, Tripoli, Zuara and other places Life before the war; witness attends the Italian school. Escape to Derna; escape to Tripoli; publication of anti-Jewish legislation by the Italian authorities; German occupation; imposition of anti-Jewish decrees; escape to Zuara; marking of Jewish homes in yellow paint; meets Jewish Brigade soldiers; escape to Benghazi; life in Benghazi; receives help from the rabbi of the Jewish community; changing of his name to Yehuda Cohen; move to Tunis; life in Tunis. Activities...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sara (Rapaport) Deri, born in Oszmiana, Poland, 1933, regarding her experiences as a child in the Oszmiana and Vilna Ghettos and in Stutthof and Estonia camps

Testimony of Sara (Rapaport) Deri, born in Oszmiana, Poland, 1933, regarding her experiences as a child in the Oszmiana and Vilna Ghettos and in Stutthof and Estonia camps Testimony regarding the family; her father is head of Beitar in Oszmiana; German occupation, June 1941; murder of her father together with approximately 800 men in a killing pit; people shutting themselves in their homes out of fear of being captured for labor; [deportation] order to move into the Oszmiana Ghetto; labor of her mother outside the ghetto in paving; the Tarbut school for children in the ghetto; "Aktions" and murder of the...

File Number : 13320

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Michael Mike Stolowitzky, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1936, regarding his experiences as a child in Warsaw, in Vilna and in hiding in a forest, and regarding Gertruda Babilinjia, later recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations Life before the war; from a family of merchants; business dealings of the family in railroad tracks; information regarding the caregiver who rescued him; vague memories of his mother; German occupation; escape to Vilna together with Gertruda Babilinjia, his Polish nanny; information regarding Gertruda, his caregiver; death of his mother; oath given by the caregiver to...

File Number : 13268

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Olaf Juval Strassmann, born in Rositz, Germany, 1932, regarding his experiences in a children's home in Berlin and in Theresienstadt

Testimony of Olaf Juval Strassmann, born in Rositz, Germany, 1932, regarding his experiences in a children's home in Berlin and in Theresienstadt His mother is a convert to Judaism. Expulsion from the German school due to being Jewish; attends a Jewish school in Leipzig; yellow badge; his mother's work in a casting factory; detention of his mother due to her friendship with a French POW; placed in a children's home in Berlin along with other children with the help of a former teacher (who had joined the Gestapo); labor in a shoemaking workshop; deportation to Theresienstadt; life in the children's home in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Arthur Birman, born in Boryslaw, Poland, 1928, regarding his experiences in Boryslaw, Plaszow, Mauthausen, Melk and other places

Testimony of Arthur Birman, born in Boryslaw, Poland, 1928, regarding his experiences in Boryslaw, Plaszow, Mauthausen, Melk and other places Life before the war. Soviet occupation; life in Boryslaw including confiscation of property; German occupation, 1941; anti-Jewish legislation including yellow badge; murder of the witness' father and grandfather by Ukrainians; deportation to Plaszow; camp life; deportation to Mauthausen with his mother; transfer to Melk; camp life; transfer to Linz by ship; transfer to Ebensee on foot; camp life including labor in a Siemens factory; meeting with Jewish Brigade...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe Kalman, born in Vijnita, Romania, 1923, regarding his experiences in Cernauti, Atachi, Mogilev-Podolskiy, Balki and villages

Testimony of Moshe Kalman, born in Vijnita, Romania, 1923, regarding his experiences in Cernauti, Atachi, Mogilev-Podolskiy, Balki and villages Large religious family; attends a "heder", a Romanian public school and a yeshiva; life before the war. Soviet occupation, 1940; escape to Cernauti; life in Cernauti including labor as a weaver; re-annexation to Romania, 1941; restrictions on Jews including the yellow badge; deportation to Transnistria; deportation of the family to Atachi; joins the family; transfer by rafts to Mogilev-Podolskiy; transfer on foot to Balki; camp life including escape to Ukrainian...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

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