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Testimony of Yisrael Leizerovitz, born in Poddebice, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Braunschweig and Ludwigslust

Testimony

Testimony of Yisrael Leizerovitz, born in Poddebice, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Braunschweig and Ludwigslust Life before the war; membership in the Hanoar Hatzioni movement; move to Lodz, 1935. Outbreak of the war; establishment of the Lodz Ghetto in the Baluty quarter; Lodz Ghetto life including work as a cook; "Sperre", curfew "Aktion"; deportation of children and adults to Chelmno; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; transfer to Braunschweig; camp life including labor in a Man factory; humane attitude of the German labor foreman; transfer by train to a Hermann...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Renia Rivka (Viser) Tikotzki, born in Lodz, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences as a child in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Aschersleben, a death march and Theresienstadt Life in Lodz before the war; education; her father's activities in the Poalei Zion Left; displays of antisemitism in the school. German occupation, September 1939; kidnapping of people to forced labor, including her mother; her father's service in the Polish Army; destruction of synagogues; yellow badge; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto; Lodz Ghetto life; labor in a tailoring workshop; eats horse meat;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ita (Rubinstein) Kaufman, born in Lodz, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Stutthof, Dresden, a death march and Theresienstadt

Testimony

Testimony of Ita (Rubinstein) Kaufman, born in Lodz, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Stutthof, Dresden, a death march and Theresienstadt Life before the war; traditional family; witness attends a Jewish school. Outbreak of the war, 1939; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto; Lodz Ghetto life including work in sewing workshops and rope factories; capture of her sister, 1942; liquidation of the Lodz Ghetto, summer 1944; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; camp life with her mother; transfer to Stutthof with women from the Lodz Ghetto; camp life with her mother...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Collection of Erich August Paul Puttkammer, regarding Sperrstempels (exemptions) for Jews in the Netherlands, 1942-1953

Collection of Erich August Paul Puttkammer, regarding Sperrstempels (exemptions) for Jews in the Netherlands, 1942-1953 Erich August Paul Puttkammer was born in Poland in 1891; he received Dutch citizenship in 1939 and worked as a lawyer in a bank in Amsterdam during the war; using his contacts with the Devisenschutzkommando, along with the use of gold, diamonds, paintings and jewelry, he obtained deportation exemptions for Jews, of whom most were already in Westerbork camp as inmates; Puttkammer was arrested after the war, but was released due to lack of evidence; Included in the collection: Documents...

Type of Material : Appeal to the Authorities, Note, Document

Language : Dutch, German

Testimony of Esther (Krzepicka) Poler, born in Lodz, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bergen-Belsen and Aschersleben

Testimony

Testimony of Esther (Krzepicka) Poler, born in Lodz, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bergen-Belsen and Aschersleben From a religious family; attends a Jewish school. Outbreak of the war, 1939; life in the Lodz Ghetto; labor in a straw workshop and a rug workshop; escape with her mother and sister during the “Sperre”, curfew "Aktion"; liquidation of the Lodz Ghetto, summer 1944; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; camp life until January 1945; transfer to Aschersleben by train; camp life including labor in an aircraft factory;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rena Rivka (Radziner) Viner, born in Lodz, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Stutthof, Litomerice and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Rena Rivka (Radziner) Viner, born in Lodz, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Stutthof, Litomerice and other places From a traditional family; life before the war. Outbreak of the war; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto, March 1940; ghetto life including labor as a clerk in a children's home; rescue from the "Sperre", curfew in which her sister perished; Judenrat; social life including wedding of a female friend in the ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau with 500 people, 19 August 1944; selection; transfer to Stutthof; death of her mother;...

File Number : 12833

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Masha (Papirnik) Chernowich, born in Baranowicze, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Mrozy Ghetto, Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Bomlitz and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Masha (Papirnik) Chernowich, born in Baranowicze, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Mrozy Ghetto, Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Bomlitz and other places Childhood in Pabianice; increasing displays of antisemitism after 1935. Outbreak of the war, September 1939; escape of her father in the direction of the Soviet Union with a group of men; German occupation; murder of Jews; identification of Jews in the bread lines by Poles; deportation to Mrozy; life in Mrozy from winter 1940; her father joins the family; return to the Pabianice Ghetto; ghetto life including labor sewing uniforms for...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

The file includes part of the Joodse Raad (Jewish Council) Friesland archives, 1941-1942; Correspondence between the Friesland district Joodse Raad, the Amsterdam Joodse Raad and various local Jews in the Friesland district Correspondence between the Friesland district Joodse Raad, the Amsterdam Joodse Raad and local Jews in the Friesland district regarding various issues such as hospitalization, deportment of Jews to Westerbork, disconnecting of the telephone lines of Jews, various permits, property management, insurance policies, loans from the Lippman Rosenthal bank, registration of automobiles,...

File Number : 36

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : Dutch, German

Letters, memorandums and instructions to the Joodse Raad (Jewish Council) in the Friesland district regarding the supply of food and equipment to Jews in camps in Holland, deportation of Jews to Germany, disease prevention and other, 1942-1943 Many letters dealing with the purchase and sale of food coupons by the Joodse Raad due to rationing: Instructions of the Leeuwarden Joodse Raad regarding the restrictions on the sending of packages to Jews who are in Westerbork, among the reasons is the checking the Lippman Rosenthal bank does when packages arrive to Westerbork and the confiscation of large amounts of...

File Number : 13

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : Dutch

Correspondence on the exemptions from deportations for Jews and lists of names of Jews from communities in the Friesland district, 1942-1943

Correspondence on the exemptions from deportations for Jews and lists of names of Jews from communities in the Friesland district, 1942-1943 The file also includes: List of names of people considered "essential" in the Jewish community in Heerenveen; one name: Abraham Tof) (p. 27) (no date); List of names of people considered "essential: in the Jewish community in Franeker; one name: Leijdesdorff Bernard (no date) (p. 28); Lists of names of clerks in the Jewish communities in Gorredijk and Drachten (pp. 31,37, 171, 172), 18 September 1942 and 24 September 1942; Lists of names of Jews in Harlingen,...

File Number : 10

Type of Material : Official Documentation, List of Names

Language : Dutch, German

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