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Testimony of Yakob Hecht, born in Krylow, Poland, 1930, regarding his experiences in Wlodzimierz, Asino, Bukhara, Poland and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Yakob Hecht, born in Krylow, Poland, 1930, regarding his experiences in Wlodzimierz, Asino, Bukhara, Poland and other places His childhood in a religious-Zionist family; learns in a "heder" and attends a Tarbut school. Outbreak of the war, 1939; decision by his family to escape; move to Wlodzimierz; life in Wlodzimierz; deportation by the Soviets, May 1940; wanderings by train for approximately two months; arrival to Asino camp; camp life for several months; receives permission to move to the Ural area; wanderings in Central Asia; move to a kolkhoz in Uzbekistan; life in the kolkhoz including...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Kalman Stromer, born in Lwow, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Lwow, Vilna, Kaunas, Israel and in Jordanian captivity

Testimony

Testimony of Kalman Stromer, born in Lwow, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Lwow, Vilna, Kaunas, Israel and in Jordanian captivity His childhood in a religious, Zionist family; life including activities in Bnei Akiva and attending Jewish schools, until 1939. Outbreak of the war, 1939; occupation of Lwow by the Soviet Army; move to Vilna with a small group; detention on the border of Lithuania; interrogation by the Soviets; arrival to a Hashomer Hadati "kibbutz" in Vilna, with support from the JDC, 01 January 1940; occupation of Vilna by the Soviet Army; labor logging trees; receives a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

List of accused people from the Bialystok region, 03/1940

File Number : 3096

Type of Material : List of Accused

Language : Russian

Testimony of Sara Sonia (Rota) Katz, born in Jaroslaw, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences in Jaroslaw, Przemysl and Cheremshanka

Testimony

Testimony of Sara Sonia (Rota) Katz, born in Jaroslaw, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences in Jaroslaw, Przemysl and Cheremshanka Life before the war. German occupation, September 1939; draft of Jewish men to forced labor; injury to her father; escape of the family to Przemysl; deportation to Cheremshanka, 1940; camp life; release of Jews from Poland including her family from Siberia. Move of the family to Jambol; return of the family to Poland, autumn 1945; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mordechai Motek Bursztein, born in Wloclawek, Poland, 1920, regarding his experiences in Wloclawek, Bialystok, Brest Litowsk and Oktyabr

Testimony

Testimony of Mordechai Motek Bursztein, born in Wloclawek, Poland, 1920, regarding his experiences in Wloclawek, Bialystok, Brest Litowsk and Oktyabr Life before the war; Beitar activities. Outbreak of the war, September 1939; air-raid and burning of the family's home; German occupation; restrictions on the Jews including the yellow badge; draft of men to forced labor; ban to congregate in public places; murder of youths in a synagogue; escape to Bialystok; escape to Brest Litowsk; life in Brest Litowsk and capture by the Soviet police; deportation to Oktyabr; life in Oktyabr including forced labor;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation regarding investigations of Jews, held in the Ortskommandatur Grodno (Grodno local headquarters), 1941

Documentation regarding investigations of Jews, held in the Ortskommandatur Grodno (Grodno local headquarters), 1941 Included in the documentation are protocols of the investigation in German, signed by the person who was investigated with an identical text in Russian, orders regarding punishment, and confirmations of release; - Investigation held against Luba Ginsburg, who was accused of smoking in the Ortskomandatur courtyard, causing the explosion of a container of disinfection gas in the courtyard; she was sentenced to seven days in prison; - Investigation of Jews regarding their actions during the...

File Number : 3149

Type of Material : Legal Documentation, Names, Lists

Language : Russian, German

Personal documentation regarding Police officers Volf Sapozhnikov and Tzal Shteyn, 1940-1941

File Number : 556

Type of Material : Names, Official Documentation, Personal Documents

Language : Russian

Testimony of Mina Horowitz, born in Molodia, Romania, 1908, regarding her experiences in Molodia, Krasnodar and in the Soviet Union using a false identity

Testimony

Testimony of Mina Horowitz, born in Molodia, Romania, 1908, regarding her experiences in Molodia, Krasnodar and in the Soviet Union using a false identity Life in Cernauti. Escape to the Soviet Union, June 1941; witness' husband is drafted into Red Army labor battalions; her husband's death under unknown circumstances; German occupation; life in Krasnodar using the false identity of Maria Tanase; finds work in an experimental research institute; Gestapo investigation on suspicion of being of Jewish origin; help from a Russian woman named Sofia Krasnova; liberation. Arrest and interrogation by the...

File Number : 3682

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : German

List of those who perished and the survivors of the Khavkin and Shufrin families from Osipovichi, Belarus, and more

Also in the file: - Personal details of Boris Zeldin, born in Belarus, 1903, arrested and executed in Moscow, 1937, during the political purges of 1935-1938.

File Number : 2353

Type of Material : List of Murdered Jews, List of Jewish Survivors

Language : Russian

Memoirs of Yeva (Khava) Veksler, born in Kiev, 1936, regarding her family’s experiences before, during, and after the war, and more

Arrest of her father in 1937, and his execution in 1938; exile of her mother and two children from Kiev to Belaya Tserkov, 1938; return to Kiev, 1939; outbreak of the war and evacuation to Parapino until 1945; move to Georgia, where her grandfather lived; life there. Parents of Yeva (Khava) Veksler: Her father Nukhim Veksler, and her mother Fanya (Feyga) Belenkaya, born in Tarashcha, 1904. Also in the file: - Document prepared by Sofiya Trubova about the fate of her relatives who perished in the Holocaust: her father Leyb Belenkiy, her sister Yeva Sheyndelman, her brother-in-law Lev Sheyndelman, and their...

File Number : 12254

Type of Material : Record of Murdered Persons, Certification, Memoirs

Language : Russian

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