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File Number : 13366

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Testimony

File Number : 13775

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yehoshua Flusberg, born in 1926 in Dobrzyn Nad Drweca, Poland, about his experiences in the Mława ghetto; the Auschwitz, Stutthof, and Gottsdorf camps; etc.

Life before the war in parents' home; antisemitism; boycott of Jews in 1938; escaping from family home in September 1939; life in the Skepe camp; returning to home; synagogue encircled by Germans on Rosh Hashana; men rounded up in the market; deported to Prussia; deported Jews murdered and buried in a common grave; deportation order from town in November 1939; living with the family in Mława; selling cigarettes; ghetto sealed in 1942; assigned to forced labor; synagogue in Mława set ablaze; mother deported in the elders' transport; labor terminated and back to the ghetto on August 10, 1942; deportation to...

File Number : 13516

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Aleksander Ranoschy regarding the experiences of Hans Brandwein and Julek Brand in the Warsaw Ghetto and Hrubieszow

Memoirs of Aleksander Ranoschy regarding the experiences of Hans Brandwein and Julek Brand in the Warsaw Ghetto and Hrubieszow Ranoschy's period of service as the principal of the largest Jewish school in Australia [?]. The periods of service of his friends, Hans Brandwein and Julek Brand, as Beitar leaders in Poland; direct involvement in his friends' activities; living conditions in the Warsaw Ghetto; carrying out the "Hrubieszow Project" by Brandwein and Brand including acquisition of a work permit and transfer of youth from the Warsaw Ghetto to farms in Hrubieszow; entry of Brandwein and Brand into...

File Number : 8200

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English

Testimony of Sini Cohen, born in 1925 in Amsterdam, about her work at a children's home and the rescue of children in Amsterdam in 1942–1943

Testimony

Oppression of Dutch Jews from 1940 on; concentrating the Jewish population of Amsterdam in a theatre building without basic provisions; separating children from parents; establishing a children's home; witness placed in charge of the children's safety; deportation of Jews to Westerbork; children smuggled out and placed with Dutch families with the help of the Dutch resistance; bribing the Germans with alcohol; persuading parents to place their children in the children's home to save their lives; working with the manager of the children's home, Henriëtte Pimentel; saving the children until 1943; meeting her...

File Number : 13340

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Shulamit Grinberg, born in 1930 in Darabani, Romania, about her experiences in Darabani, Targu Jui, Dorohoi, the Mogilev Podolski ghetto, and elsewhere

Testimony

Testimony of Shulamit Grinberg, born in 1930 in Darabani, Romania, about her experiences in Darabani, Targu Jui, Dorohoi, the Mogilev Podolski ghetto, and elsewhere Life before the war; Soviet occupation ensues in 1940; Romanian-German occupation ensues in 1941; deportation to Targu Jui; transfer to Dorohoi; transfer to Transnistria; transfer by death march to Azarinet; deportation to the Mogilev Podolski ghetto; life in the ghetto; immigration to Israel in 1951.

File Number : 13430

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ruth Heilman, born in Sosnowiec, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences in Katowice, the Sosnowiec Ghetto, Srodula, in hiding and in other places

Testimony

Testimony of Ruth Heilman, born in Sosnowiec, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences in Katowice, the Sosnowiec Ghetto, Srodula, in hiding and in other places Her childhood; move to Katowice, 1929; life in Katowice including attending a school; attends a Polish high school; musical education and activities in Hanoar Hatzioni; displays of antisemitism before the war; help to Jewish refugees before the war; move back to Sosnowiec, 1939. Outbreak of the war; escape in a convoy to Katowice; burning of synagogues; move back to Sosnowiec; life in the Jewish area in Sosnowiec including acts of abuse on Jews and...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zvi Mariansky, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1940, regarding his experiences in escaping from the Vilna Ghetto and joining a group of partisans in Grodno

Testimony

Testimony of Zvi Mariansky, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1940, regarding his experiences in escaping from the Vilna Ghetto and joining a group of partisans in Grodno His father is a physician, his mother is a musician; being smuggled across the border to Lithuania, 1940; deportation to the Vilna Ghetto; labor of his father as a physician in the ghetto; birth of his sister, 1940; liquidation of the ghetto, summer 1943; transfer of the family to a hiding place with the help of non-Jews; the family joining Russian partisans in the Grodno area; leaving his baby sister in a convent in Vilna; responsibility of his...

File Number : 13349

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Izak Kopilowitz, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1929

Testimony

Testimony of Izak Kopilowitz, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1929 Childhood in a well-to do Zionist family. Entry of the Soviet Army, summer 1940; German occupation, June 1941; looting by Lithuanians; yellow badge; deportation to the Kaunas Ghetto, August 1941; work guarding the gardens; smuggling of newspapers into the ghetto and distributing them; attends school; poliomyelitis, 1942; work in a workshop; secret classes; setting up a printing press in the ghetto; turning the ghetto into a concentration camp and deportation of people, fall 1943; forced to watch a public hanging, 1943; "Aktion" against...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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