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Testimony of Samson Sachta Schaechter, born in Campulungul Moldovenesc, Romania, 1912, regarding his experiences in Soviet forced labor camps, as a Czechoslovakian soldier in Buzuluk, Novokhopersk, Sokolovo, Kiev, Belaya Tserkov and Dukla Life as a Jewish foreign student in Brno, 1939; expulsion to Romania; deportation to labor in Soviet factories and coal mines, 1940-1941; enlistment of Jews in the Czechoslovakian battalion at Buzuluk, 1942; nationality problems; Communist influences; service in a reserve regiment; combat in Sokolovo, 1943; attitude of Ukrainian volunteers towards the Jews; the role of the...

File Number : 71

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew, German

Testimony of Teodor Fis, born in Vrutky, Czechoslovakia, 1912, regarding his experiences in the Soviet Union, labor in Donbas, as a Czechoslovakian Army soldier in Buzulak and Sadagura, and in combat in Sokolovo and Dukla Membership of Jews in the Czechoslovakian Communist Party since 1930; arrival of refugee groups in Katowice and Krakow, 1939; refusal of Jewish Communist refugees to join the Czechoslovakian military group in Bronowice, 1939; situation of the refugees in the territories occupied by the Soviet Union; assistance from the Communist International organization, 1940; enlistment of...

File Number : 22

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings

Language : Czech, German

Testimony of Hirsh Hecht, born in Cieszyn, 1915, regarding his experiences in the Polish Army, as a POW in Germany, the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Braunschweig and Wattenstedt camps

Testimony

Testimony of Hirsh Hecht, born in Cieszyn, 1915, regarding his experiences in the Polish Army, as a POW in Germany, the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Braunschweig and Wattenstedt camps Serves in the Polish Army at the outbreak of the Polish-German war; wounded during air-raids on the Warsaw front; hospitalization in Warsaw; falls captive to Germans and transfer to a POW camp in Pruszkow and then to a POW camp in Krotoszym; transfer of Polish POWs to Stalag 6-C POW camp; transfer to POW camp in Lublin; release from captivity and return to Lodz; labor on behalf of the Judenrat as a supervisor over several ghetto...

File Number : 6746

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Vilem Hostovsky regarding his experiences in Auschwitz and Blechhammer camp, Krakow, Krattowitz and more

Memoirs of Vilem Hostovsky regarding his experiences in Auschwitz, the Blechhammer camp, Krakow, Krattowitz and more Transfer from Auschwitz to the Blechhammer camp, approach of the Allied forces to the camp; transfer by forced march towards the Gross-Rosen camp; air-raids en route and escape, February 1944; escape to Gleiwitz with friends; escape to Kattowitz with friends; escape to Krakow with friends; escape to the Slovakia border; life in Czechoslovakia; meeting with Red Army soldiers and with the local population; Helinka Guard collaborators disguised as partisans; activities of Rudolf Slansky, one of...

File Number : 3432

Type of Material : Memoirs, Personal Documents

Language : German