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Testimony of Joseph Lavi, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1919, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, Majdanek and Budzyn camps and using a false identity in Warsaw

Testimony of Joseph Lavi, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1919, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, Majdanek and the Budzyn camp and using a false identity in Warsaw Life in Warsaw during the war; establishment of the Warsaw Ghetto; selections; deportations of Jews to various camps; confiscation of Jewish property before boarding the trains; shooting into the train cars as a means of instilling fear; experiences of Jews who had converted [to Christianity] (they did not receive preferential treatment); labor in a garage; Judenrat activities on behalf of the Jews; children's homes and youth group...

File Number : 8515

Type of Material : Testimony, Interview(s)

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Peter Adorian, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1911, regarding his experiences in Novaky camp including his activities in the underground, escape from camp and participation with the partisans in the Slovak National Uprising

File Number : 8292

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Isser Shmukler, born in 1924 in Iwje, Poland, about his experiences in the Lida ghetto, with the Bielski partisans, and with the Red Army in Germany

Testimony

Testimony of Isser Shmukler, born in 1924 in Iwje, Poland, about his experiences in the Lida ghetto, with the Bielski partisans, and with the Red Army in Germany The German occupation begins in 1941; 200 leading members of the Jewish community murdered; establishment of the ghetto; rumors about murder of Jews in towns in the area; Judenrat is constituted; working in Lida in German arms warehouses; smuggling a rifle into the Lida ghetto; Aktion involving 1,000 Jews; observing the Aktion from the roof of his home; escaping to the partisans; joining the Bielski brothers' partisan group in 1942; receiving...

File Number : 13562

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Simcha Itzkovitz, born in Mir, Poland, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Mir Ghetto, in hiding in the forest and as a partisan

Memoirs of Simcha Itzkovitz, born in Mir, Poland, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Mir Ghetto, in hiding in the forest and as a partisan Life in the Mir Ghetto; deportation and murder of his mother in an "Aktion", 09 November 1941; escape with his three siblings with help from Oswald Rufeisen, a member of the ghetto underground, August 1942; life in hiding in the forest; joins the Lidski partisan battalion, May 1943; transfer to the Bielski partisan battalion; work in an explosives workshop; use of German bombs and shells; return to Mir, 1944; transfer by the Red Army to study vehicle mechanics in...

File Number : 8045

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Aneta Eva (Tshuva) Ben Uzilio, born in Larissa, Greece, 1931, regarding her experiences in Larissa and in hiding in villages

Testimony

Testimony of Aneta Eva (Tshuva) Ben Uzilio, born in Larissa, Greece, 1931, regarding her experiences in Larissa and in hiding in villages Well-to-do, traditional family; activities in the Scouts movement; attends a Jewish school. Outbreak of the war; Italian occupation; help by the Italian Army to the Jewish population; exposure to a deportation of Jews to the East on a train; her father's activities as a weapons supplier to the underground; capture of her father and his detention; in hiding in villages with the encouragement of the clergy; end of the war. Move to Thessaloniki; aliya to Israel, 1951.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Lili (Pukler) Edelist, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1918, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, the Soviet Union and with the partisans in Poland

Testimony

Testimony of Lili (Pukler) Edelist, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1918, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, the Soviet Union and with the partisans in Poland Life before the war. Outbreak of the war; life in the Warsaw Ghetto; escape to the Soviet Union; deportation to a labor camp; escape to a forest and meets partisans; activities in a ghetto underground; rescuing babies; activities with the JDC; capture by the Gestapo after being informed on; life in detention; torture; escape to a forest with the help of a Jewish driver; life in the forest and surgery on her hand by a partisan doctor;...

File Number : 12864

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

Memoirs of Mary (Wrzos) Seidenwurm, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1918, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, the Radom Ghetto, Majdanek, the Ostrowiec camp and other places

Memoirs of Mary (Wrzos) Seidenwurm, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1918, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, the Radom Ghetto, Majdanek, the Ostrowiec camp and other places Life in the Warsaw Ghetto; murder of her father Abraham Wrzos, her step-mother and her step-sister (Thea?) in Treblinka; loss of her brothers Max and Joachim, and her husband Michael Seidenwurm; life in the Radom Ghetto; life in Majdanek; life in the Ostrowiec camp; acquaintance with Nuchim Ancer, later her husband; life in Auschwitz; life in Bergen-Belsen. Transfer to Sweden; life in Sweden in rehabilitation institutions; reunion...

File Number : 1665

Type of Material : Testimony, Reports, Poems/songs, Memoirs

Language : German

Testimony of Rifka Wolfenhaut, born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1921, regarding her experiences in Belgrade, work using a false identity for farmers and contact with the partisans

Testimony

Testimony of Rifka Wolfenhaut, born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1921, regarding her experiences in Belgrade, work using a false identity for farmers and contact with the partisans Wealthy assimilated family in Belgrade; education; attends a shorthand course; work in shorthand in parliament. Air-raids; German occupation; burning of documents; work in the ministry of education; dismissal due to her Jewish identity; contact with the partisans; escape of her father into hiding; yellow badge; assumes a false identity; work for farmers; smuggles weapons to the partisans; liberation. Aliya to Israel, 1950.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : German

Testimony of Nathan Berger, born in Salomas, Romania, 1921, regarding his experiences in forced labor in Lawoczne, Voloc, Mauthausen, Gunskirchen and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Nathan Berger, born in Salomas, Romania, 1921, regarding his experiences in forced labor in Lawoczne, Voloc, Mauthausen, Gunskirchen and other places Move to Budapest; life before the war. Drafted into forced labor, October 1942; forced labor in Bretcu; smuggles weaons and equipment over the Polish-Hungarian border, Pesach 1943; transfer to Lawoczne; transfer to Voloc; transfer to Chust; release from forced labor with the change of government in Hungary; escape to the mountains; move to Chap; move to Budapest, November 1943; meets his mother and brother; return to forced labor; deportation to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Gita (Iosipovich) Sudenska, born in Vilna, Poland, 1898, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Gita (Iosipovich) Sudenska, born in Vilna, Poland, 1898, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto Life before the war; marriage, 1915; births of her children. Life in the Vilna Ghetto including an "Aktion" and the murder of her husband, 13 July 1941; work in the home of an SS officer outside the ghetto; stealing and smuggling of weapons into the ghetto.

File Number : 8037

Type of Material : Poem/song, Testimony

Language : Yiddish

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