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Memoirs of Dov Shtatfeld Nir, born in Tarnogrod, Poland, regarding his experiences as a child in the Przemyslany Ghetto, the Kurowice camp, the Jaktorow camp and in the forests

Memoirs of Dov Shtatfeld Nir, born in Tarnogrod, Poland, regarding his experiences as a child in the Przemyslany Ghetto, the Kurowice camp, the Jaktorow camp and in the forests Life in Vinniki under the Soviet regime; German occupation; life in the Przemyslany Ghetto; deportation to the Kurowice camp and the Jaktorow camp; escape from murder together with his father; life in the forests in Poland.

File Number : 8331

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Efraim Rom, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1926, regarding his experiences in Kaunas, the Kaunas Ghetto, Vilna, the Landsberg DP camp and Israel

Memoirs of Efraim Rom, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1926, regarding his experiences in Kaunas, the Kaunas Ghetto, Vilna, the Landsberg DP camp and Israel Life before the war. Occupation of Kaunas by the Germans, June 1941; establishment of the ghetto, August 1941; ghetto life until July 1944; escape from a group transferred to Germany, July 1944; transfer to Vilna; life in Vilna using a false identity;. Move to the Landsberg camp; DP camp life including studies; aliya to Israel (no year given); enlistment in the Israeli Navy; discharge from the IDF; studies in the Electricity Faculty at the Technion in...

File Number : 8226

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Dov Bene Weiss, born in Bekescsaba, Hungary, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Bekescsaba Ghetto, Budapest, Auschwitz and Muehldorf

Testimony

Testimony of Dov Bene Weiss, born in Bekescsaba, Hungary, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Bekescsaba Ghetto, Budapest, Auschwitz and Muehldorf Life in Bekescsaba. Deportation to the Bekescsaba Ghetto; transfer to Budapest; life in Budapest; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life; transfer to Muehldorf; camp life.

File Number : 13370

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Eliyahu Wulf, born in Oswiecim, Poland, 1926

Testimony

Testimony of Eliyahu Wulf, born in Oswiecim, Poland, 1926 From a religious family. German occupation; deportation to Tschechowitz and from there to Rzepiennik; detention in the local synagogue; in hiding while all the persons in the synagogue were taken out and murdered in a killing pit dug in advance; wanderings for approximately two years; transfer willingly to the Krakau Plaszow camp; typhus; transfer to Ostrowiec and from there to Birkenau; tattoo number B-4407; transfer to Swietochlowice; aid from the German supervisor; approach of the front and deportation to Mauthausen by train; selection and...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Akiba Salek Wasserszprung, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, in a farm and in hiding in a village in the Zakrzowek area, in Budzyn, Mielec, Litomerice and more

Testimony

Testimony of Akiba Salek Wasserszprung, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, a farm and in hiding in a village in the Zakrzowek area, in Budzyn, Mielec, Litomerice and more Childhood in Warsaw, displays of antisemitism before the war. Outbreak of war, September 1939; German occupation; confiscation of property; yellow badge; deportation to the Warsaw Ghetto; ghetto life including disease; hunger; smuggling of food by the witness' mother; kidnappings for forced labor; labor in a train station; transfer to labor on a farm in Zakrzowek; in hiding in a nearby village a...

File Number : 13279

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Benjamin Shejman, born in Wilno, Poland, 1937, regarding his experiences as a child in the Vilna Ghetto, in various hiding places; in the Slonim area using a false identity and among the partisans Testimony of the Buzgan family, Benjamin's mother's family; murder of his grandparents in Ponary, 1941; observing the murder while perched on a treetop; paying a bribe in order to extract his aunt from jail; deportation to the Vilna Ghetto; birth of his sister, 1941; his mother and baby sister being smuggled outside of the ghetto; escape from the ghetto; murder of the guards, a German and an Ukrainian,...

File Number : 13259

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

Testimony of Harel Saliman Shlomo, born in Vilna, Poland, 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in the Vilna Ghetto, in camps in Estonia, Stutthof and Dormagen

Testimony

Testimony of Harel Saliman Shlomo, born in Vilna, Poland, 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in the Vilna Ghetto, in camps in Estonia, Stutthof and Dormagen Life before the war; from a well-to-do family; the Ribbentrop-Molotov Agreement; appointment of his Communist brother as mayor of the city; voluntary assistance to refugees from Poland by his mother; German occupation, 1941; escape of his brother to the Soviet Union; his brother's death in an air-raid on a train; deportation to the Vilna Ghetto with his family; ghetto life; murder of his brother and younger sister in Ponary; his brother's Beitar...

File Number : 13282

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

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

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