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

Testimony

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

Testimony of Mordechay (Paul Georg) Fleischer, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1926 regarding his escape to Budapest, deportation to detention camps, escape from a death march and residing in the Glass House

Testimony

Childhood before the war; Fascist Slovakia, 1938; antisemitic events; Attempts to move to Budapest, Hungary, winter 1942-1943; getting arrested by Hungarian soldiers while escaping; sent back to Slovakia; escape to Hungary with the aid of a smuggler; arrival in Budapest; capture and arrest; decrees and restrictions; transferred to a prison by two Hungarian soldiers; deportation to a brick factory; escape to a marked house; capture and deportation for labor building fortifications and digging anti-tank trenches near Solnok, late October 1944; march towards Austria; escape to the Red Cross house in Budapest...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shoshana (Britman) Averbukh, born in Grodzisk Mazowiecki, Poland, 1931, regarding her deportation to the Warsaw Ghetto, escape from the ghetto, 1942, and hiding in the village of Osowiec

Testimony

Childhood in Grodzisk Mazowiecki; German occupation, September 1939; abductions for forced labor; confiscation of property; desecration of the synagogue; deportation to the Warsaw Ghetto; yellow badge; deaths of her parents from starvation; smuggling food; the Jewish police; escape from the Warsaw Ghetto, 1942; wanderings in the surrounding villages; hiding in Osowiec; life in the village; Liberation by the Soviets; life after the war; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1946.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yaacov Shvartz, born in Siauliai, Lithuania, in 1929 regarding the Siauliai ghetto, the Stutthof and other camps

Testimony

Childhood in Siauliai; entry of the Russians in 1940; arrival of Jewish refugees from Poland; German occupation in June 1941; pogrom by the Lithuanians; murder of the stratum of the Jewish intelligentsia including the father; deportation to the Siauliai ghetto; overcrowding; yellow badges; starvation; forced labor; smugglings of food;'aktion" of the elderly in 1942; 'aktion' of the children in November 1943; liquidation of the Siauliai ghetto in July 1944; deportation to Stutthof; physical and emotional abuse; meeting with Russian captives; starvation; fate of the mother who escaped from the killing pit near...

File Number : 13687

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Elza Zipora (Kamil) Pakher, born in Vijnita, Romania in 1933, regarding her experiences as a child in Vijnita, in Mogilev Podolskiy and in Dzhurin camp

Testimony of Elza Zipora (Kamil) Pakher, born in Vijnita, Romania in 1933, regarding her experiences as a child in Vijnita, in Mogilev Podolskiy and in Dzhurin camp Life before the war; Deportation of her family to the Transnistria area in 1941; transfer to Mogilev Podolskiy; transfer to Dzhurin camp; separation from her parents along with her younger brother; Dzhurin camp life for four years; she takes care of her brother; Dzhurin camp life along with the other children; hunger; suffering from diseases; death of children in the camp; abuse of children by the Ukrainians; smuggle of food for partisans in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rozalia Shoshana Ronen Vazner, born in Gdynia, Poland in 1933, regarding her life in Przemysl Ghetto and in the home of a Polish family under a false identity

Testimony of Rozalia Shoshana Ronen Vazner, born in Gdynia, Poland in 1933, regarding her life in Przemysl Ghetto and in the home of a Polish family under a false identity German occupation in 1939; family’s expulsion to Przemyl; life under Soviet regime; German occupation and communist father’s escape to USSR in 1941; life under restrictions of German occupation; move to orphanage in the ghetto; escape with help from a Polish police officer to Christian acquaintances outside the ghetto in 1943; move to aunt’s home in Lwow; move, under a false Christian identity (as Rozalia Stanislawa Dozhinska) to a Polish...

File Number : 13708

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Joseph Yativ, born in Nabuel, Tunisia, 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in Nabeul

Memoirs of Joseph Yativ, born in Nabuel, Tunisia, 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in Nabeul Life in Nabuel under the Vichy regime; expulsion of Jews from the schools; imposition of restrictions on the Jews including the yellow badge; breaking into the apartments of Jews and robbing the apartments; murder of Jews who attempted to defend their property; activities of Mordechai Karilla, the head of the Nabuel Jewish community; general meeting of members of the local Jewish community; Mordechai Karilla's request not to take any initiatives; arranging for a trained defense unit made up of community...

File Number : 8585

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sukhar Stolerman, born in Lipcani, Bessarabia, Romania in 1930, regarding his experiences during the expulsion to Zhmerynka in Transnistria

Testimony of Sukhar Stolerman, born in Lipcani, Bessarabia, Romania in 1930, regarding his experiences during the expulsion to Zhmerynka in Transnistria Childhood before the war; antisemitism; Jewish refugees from Poland in 1939; Russian occupation in 1940; change in their lifestyle; Russo–German war in June 1941; entry of Romanians and Germans; expulsion to Briceni; march to Atachi; continuation of march via Mogilev to Zhmerynka; life in the ghetto; the Jewish Committee; various types of labor; murder and abuse; partisans; liberation by Red Army in March 1944; return to Lipcani; rebuilding life after the...

File Number : 13697

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoires of Ire Ora (Minc) Orenbach, born in Lodz, Poland, 1929, regarding her experiences during the war and after her liberation from Bergen-Belsen, and poems she wrote in Germany and Eretz Israel

Memoirs of Ire Ora (Minc) Orenbach, born in Lodz, Poland, 1929, regarding her experiences during the war and after her liberation from Bergen-Belsen, and poems she wrote in Germany and Eretz Israel The memoirs were written down in a notebook given to her by her liberators, US Army soldiers; they include poems written by Ire Minc (in Polish and in Yiddish) both in Frankfurt en route to Eretz Israel and after her aliya to Eretz Israel, 14 October-03 November 1947. Poems such as "Litzmanstad ghetto" (Lodz Ghetto) or "Polska bez Zydow" (Poland Without Jews) were written about the events of the Holocaust. -...

File Number : 8564

Type of Material : Certification, Poems/songs, Memoirs

Language : Polish, Yiddish

Testimony of Tzipora Sharf Klein, born in Stryi, Poland in 1936, regarding her experiences during ‎the liquidation of the Stryi ghetto and hiding in a bunker in 1943-1944‎

Testimony of Tzipora Sharf Klein, born in Stryi, Poland in 1936, regarding her experiences during ‎the liquidation of the Stryi ghetto and hiding in a bunker in 1943-1944‎ Her father was a timber merchant who was exiled to Siberia in 1940; the German conquest in ‎‎1941; looting of their house by Ukrainians; order to relinquish possessions; prohibition to leave the ‎house; sale of gold; expulsion to the ghetto; impersonating a Polish girl and escaping through the ‎ghetto fence; looking for food outside the ghetto at the age of five; murder of her grandmother ‎during the Great Aktion; hiding in a wine cellar;...

File Number : 13700

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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