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Testimony of Yeshayahu Yehiel Harsit (Porcelana), born in Warsaw, Poland in 1934, regarding ‎his experiences escaping to the Soviet Union and deportation to Ural

Testimony of Yeshayahu Yehiel Harsit (Porcelana), born in Warsaw, Poland in 1934, regarding ‎his experiences escaping to the Soviet Union and deportation to Ural His family before the war; antisemitism; German occupation in September 1939; escape to the ‎Russian occupied zone; life in Baranowicze; deportation to Ural at the beginning of 1940; his ‎experiences in a Soviet work camp; his parents’ work; studies; religious life; release from the camp ‎in summer 1941; transfer to Kazakhstan; starvation; daily struggle to survive; antisemitism; ‎transfer to Turkestan in spring 1942; life in Turkestan;...

File Number : 13575

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Map of the wanderings of the siblings Emil and Ilana Landau from Warsaw to Eretz Israel, 1939-1943, a diagram of Asino camp where the siblings were interned, 1941, and memoirs of Alina Ilana Landau Karniel regarding the experiences of her family during the war - Diagram of Asino camp near Novosibirsk where the siblings Emil and Ilana Landau were interned, sketched by Emil Landau, 1941; - Map of the wanderings of the siblings, Emil and Ilana Landau from Warsaw to Eretz Israel, 1939-1943, drawn by Emil Landau, with a dedication to Ilana Landau, 07 September 1943; - Memoirs of Alina Ilana Landau...

File Number : 381

Type of Material : Diagram, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, Polish

Testimony of Moshe Munya Schmukler Ravid, born in Danzig, Germany in 1933, regarding his experiences as a child in Cieszanow, in Lwow, in a labor camp in Cinglok, in Kok Yangak and other places

Testimony of Moshe Munya Schmukler Ravid, born in Danzig, Germany in 1933, regarding his experiences as a child in Cieszanow, in Lwow, in a labor camp in Cinglok, in Kok Yangak and other places Life in Danzig during the Nazi Party's rise to power in 1933; persecution of the Jews; antisemitism; publication of Nazi propaganda; unsuccessful attempts by his family to obtain certificates for aliya; Kristallnacht, November 1938; his family's escape to Cieszanow; German occupation, September 1939; pogrom on Rosh Hashana (September); Soviet occupation; escape to Lwow; refusal to receive Soviet citizenship, and...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe Feldman, born in 1932 in Rozan, Poland, about escaping to Russia and a labor camp in Siberia, 1940–1944

Childhood; antisemitism before the war; war breaks out in 1939; Germans arrive; Jewish townspeople evicted; physical abuse and murder of the town's ritual slaughterer; reaching Maków Mazowiecki; men inducted for forced labor and murdered; escaping from the city; hiding out during the day; walking at night toward the Soviet border; bribing the Polish border guards; reaching Białystok; lack of solidarity on the part of the Jewish townspeople; grandmother dies; unsuccessful attempts to trace father, who remained in Warsaw; refugees deported to Siberia: a month and a half of travel by rail; many die; cases of...

File Number : 13664

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Joseph Schlesinger, born in Rozan, Poland, 1935, regarding the murder of Rozan Jews and escape to the USSR

Testimony

Testimony of Joseph Schlesinger, born in Rozan, Poland, 1935, regarding the murder of Rozan Jews and escape to the USSR Family background, Orthodox family. The outbreak of war; entry of German soldiers into the town, September 1939; deportation from homes; the concentration of Jews in the synagogue courtyard; setting the synagogue on fire; shooting at fugitives; hiding the witness and his family in the forest; transfer to the Makow Mazowiecki ghetto; assistance of a German officer in escaping from the ghetto; escape towards the Russian border; crossing the Bug River in a boat; arrival in the city of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rivka Patznik Burstein, born in Warszawa, Poland, 1933, regarding her escape to the USSR and exile to Siberia

Testimony

Testimony of Rivka Patznik Burstein, born in Warszawa, Poland, 1933, regarding her escape to the USSR and exile to Siberia Family background. The outbreak of war; bombings on the city, fire; escape to her grandmother's house; shearing of Jewish elders; back to Warszawa; establishment of the Warszawa ghetto; whistleblowing; sleeve strap; her parents' escape from the ghetto; escape with her mother through sewers with the help of a Pole for a fee; travel by train to Lodz; arrival in Bialystok and Brisk; finding shelter in the rabbi's home; meeting with parents, 1942; transfer by train by the Red Army to the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rosa (Shekhtman) Zelichowski, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1929, regarding her experiences in Cernauti, Atachi, Mogilev, Yaruga, Skazintsy and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Rosa (Shekhtman) Zelichowski, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1929, regarding her experiences in Cernauti, Atachi, Mogilev, Yaruga, Skazintsy and other places Her childhood with her parents. Red Army occupation of Cernauti, 1940; witness attends a Jewish school; German Army occupation of Cernauti, June 1941; establishment of the Cernauti Ghetto; her father's labor as a barber in service of the Gestapo; life under German occupation including restrictions on travel and the termination of studies; her family receives a warning concerning a Gestapo raid; deportation in the direction of the east toward...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sara Fridman Barnea, born in Tomaszow Lubelski, Poland, 1930, regarding her experiences in Tomaszow Lubelski, Rawa Ruska, Siberia, Arkhangelsk and Akmolinsk

Testimony

Testimony of Sara Fridman Barnea, born in Tomaszow Lubelski, Poland, 1930, regarding her experiences in Tomaszow Lubelski, Rawa Ruska, Siberia, Arkhangelsk and Akmolinsk Her childhood in Tomaszow Lubelski and in Lublin; displays of antisemitism before the war. Outbreak of the war, September 1939; German Army occupation of Tomaszow Lubelski, including air-raids and the burning of the Jewish quarter; escape to a non-Jewish acquaintance; move back home; life under German occupation including the confiscation of her family's store and their home; acts of abuse against men with beards, and the kidnapping of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yhudith Penzer Even, born in Opacionka, Poland, 1934, regarding her experiences in Lublica, Opacionka, Pakhtakor, an orphanage and with the “Teheran Children”

Testimony

Testimony of Yhudith Penzer Even, born in Opacionka, Poland, 1934, regarding her experiences in Lublica, Opacionka, Pakhtakor, an orphanage and with the “Teheran Children” Her grandfather and grandmother's home in Lublica. Outbreak of the war including air-raids, September 1939; escape of her family members from Opacionka; deportation on a freight train to Siberia; transfer on trucks until the Irkutsk forest; labor by the adults in exchange for food ration coupons; her father's illness; transfer by train to Uzbekistan; life in Pakhtakor including hunger and typhus disease; hospitalization in a hospital;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shneur Wallach, born in Bilgoraj, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in Bilgoraj, Wlodzimierz, Siberia, Kazakhstan and Germany

Testimony

Testimony of Shneur Wallach, born in Bilgoraj, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in Bilgoraj, Wlodzimierz, Siberia, Kazakhstan and Germany Outbreak of the war; Red Army occupation of Bilgoraj for approximately two weeks; encouragement to escape to the Soviet Union; move to Wlodzimierz; detention of the refugees; deportation to Siberia; labor logging trees near the Ob River; labor in asbestos factories in Asbest; German invasion of the Soviet Union; wanderings in Kazakhstan; labor in a kolkhoz. Return to Poland, 1946; move to Germany; aliya attempt to Eretz Israel with Aliya Bet; detention in Cyprus;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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