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Testimony of Avraham Alberto Chana Chanan, born in Thessaloniki, Greece, 1928, regarding his experiences as a child in the Thessaloniki Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Warsaw and Allach

Testimony

Testimony of Avraham Alberto Chana Chanan, born in Thessaloniki, Greece, 1928, regarding his experiences as a child in the Thessaloniki Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Warsaw and Allach Life before the war. German occupation, 06 April 1941; anti-Jewish restrictions; deportation to the Thessaloniki Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, 20 March 1943; camp life including separation from his family; murder of his family; labor in a leather factory; receives punishments; evades selection; informed on by a Greek inmate regarding the smuggle of food, and the witness' rescue; help to the Sonderkommando inmates;...

File Number : 13036

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Gitel (Vinkler) Stern, born in Marghita, Romania, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Oradea Ghetto, Auschwitz, Fallersleben and Salzwedel

Testimony

Testimony of Gitel (Vinkler) Stern, born in Marghita, Romania, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Oradea Ghetto, Auschwitz, Fallersleben and Salzwedel Life before the war; Jewish community; hosting yeshiva students for meals; learns in a Beit Yaakov school. Life under Romanian rule and the Iron Guard; annexation to Hungary, August 1940; anti-Jewish decrees and restrictions; drafting of men to forced labor; German occupation, March 1944; yellow badge; relations with non-Jewish neighbors; deportation to the Oradea Ghetto by Hungarian gendarmes; ghetto life including confiscation of valuables;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Bezalel Mordovitz, born in Kolo, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Steineck, the Lodz Ghetto, Birkenau, Buchberg and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Bezalel Mordovitz, born in Kolo, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Steineck, the Lodz Ghetto, Birkenau, Buchberg and other places Life before the war. German occupation, 1940; decrees; deportation to Steineck; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto, 1943; detention in prison; transfer to Birkenau, 1943; transfer to Gruenberg; camp life and his role as the block elder; escape from Birkenau with his friend, 1944; death march to Gross-Rosen; transfer to Flossenbuerg; transfer to Dachau; transfer to Buchberg; life in a vacant military camp; liberation by the US Army, 01 May 1945. Move to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Menachem Kolton, born in Lodz, Poland, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Mauthausen, Gusen I and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Menachem Kolton, born in Lodz, Poland, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Mauthausen, Gusen I and other places Life before the war. German occupation; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto, 1940; labor in a workshop and cleaning the sewers; his brother's activities in the Gordonia movement; deportation with his family to Auschwitz, 1944; murder of his mother and younger brother; disappearance of his father and older brother; transfer to Mauthausen; transfer on foot to Gusen I; camp life including labor digging tunnels for the German Messerschmidt factory; injured by a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Eliezer Laszlo Rath, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1931, regarding his experiences as a child in Budapest, a ghetto, Auschwitz, Mauthausen, Melk and Gunskirchen camps and a death march

Testimony

Testimony of Eliezer Laszlo Rath, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1931, regarding his experiences as a child in Budapest, a ghetto, Auschwitz, Mauthausen, Melk and Gunskirchen camps and a death march Life in a religious family; family earns their livelihood from textiles and shoes. German occupation and decrees, March 1944; detentions and the expulsion of Jews from schools; terror and the concentration of Jews in marked houses; deportation to the Budakalasz Ghetto and life in a brick factory; deportation to Auschwitz; survival of three selections; death march to Czechoslovakia and then to Mauthausen camp by...

File Number : 12132

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Trial against employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin, 1964-1965: Testimonies by perpetrators and Jewish survivors regarding the Lodz Ghetto and the deportation from Berlin to Lodz, 1945 - 1968 Note: This file includes not only material of the proceedings against former employees of the Gestapoleitstelle, but also memoirs of a Jewish survivor from Berlin and material of other proceedings against Nazi Criminals in the years since 1956. The recording of these material here was in order to substantiate the evidences against former employees of the Gestapoleitstelle. The file includes...

File Number : 41

Type of Material : Reports, Testimony, Diaries and Memoirs, Letter, List of Names

Language : German

Pre-trial hearings of former employees of the Berlin Gestapo for deportation of Berlin Jews to extermination camps: Statements by former employees of the of the RSHA "Jewish Department" (Judenreferat) and of Gestapo offices in Berlin, Cologne and Duesseldorf, especially regarding the extent of knowledge of Gestapo employees regarding the fate of the deported Jews; testimonies by Berlin Jewish survivors, 1967-1968

Pre-trial hearings of former employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin for murder (deportation of Jews to extermination camps): Examination of former employees of the of the RSHA "Jewish Department" (Judenreferat) - RSHA IV B 4 and of Gestapo offices in Berlin, Cologne and Duesseldorf, especially regarding the extent of knowledge of Gestapoleitstelle former employees of the Gestapoleitstelle regarding the fate of the deported Berlin Jews; testimonies by Berlin Jewish survivors, 1967 - 1968 Pre-trial hearings of former employees of the Berlin Gestapo for deportation of Berlin Jews to...

File Number : 40

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : German

Testimony of Fredy Seiden, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1936, regarding his experiences in Atachi and Mogilev-Podolski

Testimony

Testimony of Fredy Seiden, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1936, regarding his experiences in Atachi and Mogilev-Podolski Life before the war. Deportation to a ghetto; transfer to Atachi; deportation to Mogilev-Podolski; life with a Jewish family; relations with the Ukrainian farmers; labor in the villages; murder of his father; help from Romanian Jewry; return of orphans to Romania; Romanian and German retreat. Return home; his mother works as a security guard; move to Oradea with his mother; life as refugees living in a synagogue; studies; community life in Oradea; aliya to Israel, 1961.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Trial against employees of the Berlin Gestapo, 1964-1965: Testimonies by perpetrators and Jewish survivors regarding the Lodz Gestapo, the Chelmno death camp and the deportation from Berlin; Legal proceedings against Max Bernhard Grautstück and Walter Stock from the Berlin Gestapo, for the arrest of Elisabeth and Gerd-Wilhelm Vogel in 1942 and their deportation to Auschwitz, 1946-1967

Trial against employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin, 1964-1965: Testimonies by perpetrators and Jewish survivors regarding the Lodz Gestapostelle, the Chelmno death camp and the deportation from Berlin; Criminal proceedings against Max Bernhard Grautstück and Walter Stock from the Berlin Gestapo, accused by Erich Vogel of being responsible for the arrest of the mixed family Vogel from Berlin in 1942 and the deportation of Elisabeth and Gerd-Wilhelm Vogel to Auschwitz, 1946 - 1967 Trial against employees of the Berlin Gestapo, 1964-1965: Testimonies by perpetrators and Jewish survivors...

File Number : 45

Type of Material : Letter, Testimony, Document(s)

Language : German

Testimony of Yeuda Shternfeld, born in Lodz, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto and in the Auschwitz, Kaufering and Dachau camps

Testimony

Testimony of Yeuda Shternfeld, born in Lodz, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto and in the Auschwitz, Kaufering and Dachau camps His father's livelihood; his father's death; his brothers' absence; holidays in the home; school studies; neighborly relations; sealing off the ghetto; ghetto life; work in a leather factory; arrested by the Jewish police; confiscation of valuables; deportation by trains to Auschwitz; encounter with Mengele; Block No. 10; life in Birkenau; deportation to Kaufering; roll call; reaction to absorption of beatings; displays of mutual aid; deportation to Dachau; forced...

File Number : 11718

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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