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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 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

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

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, Memoirs, Poems/songs

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

Testimony of Eva Rocek, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding her experiences in Prague, Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, the Kurzbach camp and other places

Testimony of Eva Rocek, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding her experiences in Prague, Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, the Kurzbach camp and other places Life before the war; her parents are Viktor Porges, born in Horazdovice and Anna (Bondy), born in Horovice. German occupation; ban on owning animals by Jews; payment of a bribe to a veterinarian for certifying the euthanization of her dog; termination of studies by Jewish students, including high school studies; yellow badge; deportations to Lodz and Theresienstadt, 1941; deportation to Theresienstadt with her family, July 1942; life in camp in...

File Number : 8521

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English

Testimony of Esther Ettel Blomberg née Movshovitz, born in 1931 in Lida, Poland, about her experiences as a girl in the Lida ghetto and in hiding in a nearby village

Childhood in Lida; Soviet occupation ensues in 1939; German occupation ensues in June 1941; concealilng belongings with non-Jewish acquaintances; depotation to the ghetto; refugees arrive; activity of the Judenrat; hiding in a cellar during the first Aktion; smuggling food with help from non-Jewish acquaintances; placing baby sister with non-Jewish Poles; an Aktion in May 1942; going into hiding in a nearby village; attending church; overhearing antisemetic remarks; liberation by Red Army forces in summer 1944; immigration to Eretz Israel in 1945; adjustment to life in Eretz Israel.

File Number : 13501

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Michal Mishe Rauch née Löwenherz, born in 1926 in Przemyśl, Poland, about her experiences in the Przemyśl ghetto and in hiding on the "Aryan" side in a Ukrainian's home until liberation in 1944

German occupation of Przemyśl in 1939; riots; Soviet occupation ensues in 1939; German occupation ensues in 1941; restrictions on Jews and upturn in antisemitism; deportation to the Przemyśl ghetto with parents; family members receive labor permits; father works in a factory outside the ghetto and witness works with mother on a farm outside the ghetto in 1942; finding a hideout during the second Aktion; witness and parents arrested due to denunciation and taken to a lockup in Przemyśl; they escapes from the lockup and return to the ghetto (part of which has become a labor camp) in 1943; witness and parents...

File Number : 13595

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shmuel Gutner, born in 1931 in Kaunas, Lithuania, about his experiences in the Kaunas ghetto, Dachau, the Landsberg camp, and Auschwitz during the war

Life before the war; Soviet occupation ensues in 1940; property nationalized; German occupation ensues in June 1941; anti-Jewish legislation; the yellow star edict; witness deported to the Kaunas ghetto in August 1941; life in overcrowded conditions; Aktion in October 1941; activity of the Jewish police; mother smuggles food; studies in the ghetto; hides in a loft during the children's and elders' Aktion in March 1944; ghetto liquidated in summer 1944; women and young children deported to Stutthof; children and fathers separated in the Landsberg camp; witness remains with a group of 131 children who survived...

File Number : 13627

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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