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Memoirs of Eli Lutek Lewin, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1934, regarding his experiences while escaping from the Warsaw Ghetto, in Chmielnik and in hiding using a false identity in a village near Rawa Mazowiecka Family history; immigration of his mother Justina's parents to Eretz Israel with their son, Moniek, who was liable for arrest as a Communist, 1932. Outbreak of the war and occupation of Warsaw; escape from the ghetto with his mother, autumn, 1941; move to Chmielnik; life in a rented apartment in Chmielnik; postcard sent by his mother to her sister Bruchtsia in Paris, March 1942; correspondence with his...

File Number : 8647

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

estimony of Beverli Mizrahi Shreier, born in 1941 in Radziwillow, Poland, regarding her experiences in hiding with a Catholic family

Testimony of Beverli Mizrahi Shreier, born in 1941 in Radziwillow, Poland, regarding her experiences in hiding with a Catholic family. The family; giving the girl baby to a Polish servant; murder of the servant and her husband by the Gestapo; moving the baby to another hiding place; the baby's return to the family hiding her; fleeing towards Berlin; in the Russian sector; escape to the American sector; joining a street gang; emigration to the United States; adjusting to a new life.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Tzafrir Shteir Sara, born in Bedzin, Poland, in 1930 regarding the Srodula ghetto and regarding the Peterswaldau camp

Childhood before the war; programming aliya to Israel; aliya of the two brothers ; confiscation of family businesses; outbreak of the war; burning the synagogue and houses of Jews; deportation to ghetto; forced labor; murder of the father; "aktions"; deportation of the mother and sister to Auschwitz Birkenau; deportation of the witness with her sister to Peterswaldau; help of the German female commander; liberation by the Russians; escape to the American side; rehabilitation of life after the war; aliya to Israel in 1946

File Number : 13661

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yisrael Veisvaser, born in 1922 in Krasnystaw, Poland, about the German occupation in September 1939 and his escape to the Soviet Union

Testimony

Testimony of Yisrael Veisvaser, born in 1922 in Krasnystaw, Poland, about the German occupation in September 1939 and his escape to the Soviet Union Childhood in a traditional home; attends a cheder and a Polish elementary school; active in the Betar movement; German occupation ensues; Soviet invasion ensues in 1939; witness escapes to Brest and thence to Minsk; back to Brest; on to Ludman; arrested due to Zionist activity; deported to a labor camp in Rom, Soviet Union; transferred to a camp for craftspersons; released in June 1943; reaches Zhitomir and Chełm; discharged from the Polish Army in 1946; moves...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Carmela (Waldman) Krishaber, born in 1939, in Subotica, Yugoslavia - regarding her experiences in the Subotica Ghetto, and living under a false identity in a monastery and in Budapest

Testimony of Carmela (Waldman) Krishaber, born in 1939, in Subotica, Yugoslavia - regarding her experiences in the Subotica Ghetto, and living under a false identity in a monastery and in Budapest Life under Hungarian rule in 1941; German occupation in 1944; deportation to the Subotica Ghetto in 1944; life in the open ghetto and the mayor's warning about transport from the ghetto; escape with her mother to a Hungarian friend; hiding, and move into hiding at the home of a friend, Dr. Ivo Scherzer; joined there by her grandmother; she is moved by the ophthalmologist to a monastery in Subotica under a false...

File Number : 13690

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Eva Rocek, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding her experiences in Prague, Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, the Kurzbach camp and other places

Testimony of Eva Rocek, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding her experiences in Prague, Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, the Kurzbach camp and other places Life before the war; her parents are Viktor Porges, born in Horazdovice and Anna (Bondy), born in Horovice. German occupation; ban on owning animals by Jews; payment of a bribe to a veterinarian for certifying the euthanization of her dog; termination of studies by Jewish students, including high school studies; yellow badge; deportations to Lodz and Theresienstadt, 1941; deportation to Theresienstadt with her family, July 1942; life in camp in...

File Number : 8521

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English

Testimony of Mikhael Fridman, born in Vaslui, Romania, in 1924, regarding his experiences in Vaslui and in the Doaga camp.

Testimony of Mikhael Fridman,born in Vaslui, Romania in 1924,regarding his experiences in Vaslui and in the Doaga camp He was born into a traditional family in Vaslui; attending a Romanian elementary school; he helps supporting the family; anti-Semitism before the war; imposing restrictions on the Jews; transfer to forced labour; escape; arrest and enduring the punishment of 25 lashes; forced labour in the extraction of sugar beets from farmers in the area; deportation to Doaga; life in the camp; working in digging tranches against tanks; liberation by the red army in 1944; smuggling the borders to Austria and...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Paulina Keynan, nee Godin in Wilno, Poland in 1925, regarding her deportation to the Wilno ghetto and the Kaiserwald and Stutthof camps and the death march

Testimony

Testimony of Paulina Keynan ,nee Godin, born in Wilno,Poland,in 1925 Childhood within a well-to-do traditional family, good neighbourly relations with the Polish population, increasing displays of anti-Semitism, boycotting Jewish businesses; outbreak of the war; Russian occupation; exile of wealthy people to siberia; confiscation of part of the family house for the purpose of housing Soviets; father's imprisonment for half a year; life in hiding for about two weeks in fear of exile to Siberia; German occupation in 1941; expulsion from the family house; father's arrest and disappearance; restrictions and...

File Number : 13648

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Brenda (Schor) Pluczenik Buchweitz, born in Krakow, Poland, 1916, regarding her experiences in Lublin, the Bochnia Ghetto, and using a false identity in Warsaw, Budapest and other places; a list of family members who perished Childhood in Krakow; Jewish community life; the Alteshul Synagogue in Krakow. The German occupation; life in Lublin under the Nazi occupation; preferential status of her parents as Turkish citizens; obtaining a Turkish passport; abuse of the Jews by German soldiers; deportation of the Jews from Lublin, 1940; deportation to the Bochnia Ghetto with her husband and...

File Number : 8467

Type of Material : Memoirs, Postcard, Personal Documents, List of Murdered Jews

Language : Hebrew, Polish, English, German

Letter written by Meshulam and Etel Herstik, together with their two daughters, Alice and Rachel, from Máramarossziget, 17 April 1944, just before they went into the Máramarossziget Ghetto, to their son and brother, Otto Herstik, serving in a Hungarian Army labor battalion Notes from Otto Herstik, the submitter: The Herstik family hid the letter with their housemaid who returned it to them at the end of the war; Alice Aliza (Herstik) Zusman was born in Máramarossziget in 1925; Otto Herstik was born in Máramarossziget in 1921; Rachel Herstik was born in 1923; they were born in Transylvania under Romanian...

File Number : 1807

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Hungarian

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