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Testimony of Moshe Monik Yakubovitz, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, Majdanek, Budzyn, Mielec and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Moshe Monik Yakubovitz, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, Majdanek, Budzyn, Mielec and other places Life before the war; witness learns in a "heder" and attends the Tarbut school. German occupation, 1939; anti-Jewish restrictions including wearing an armband; shearing of [beards of] elderly Jews; deportation to the Warsaw Ghetto; Warsaw Ghetto life including the death of Jews from hunger and their burial in a mass grave; his Bar Mitzvah in the ghetto; activities of the Jewish police; activities of workshops; Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB);...

File Number : 12893

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yehudit Ida (Shtibel) Fridler, born in Karlsruhe, Germany, 1919, regarding her experiences in Karlsruhe

Testimony

Testimony of Yehudit Ida (Shtibel) Fridler, born in Karlsruhe, Germany, 1919, regarding her experiences in Karlsruhe Life before the Nazi rise to power; visit to her father's family in Warsaw; return to Karlsruhe; high school studies; youth movement activities; rise of the Nazi Party to power, 1933; anti-Jewish restrictions; Boycott Day and closing of her father's shop. Separation from her parents; legal aliya to Eretz Israel with a certificate; meeting with Henrietta Szold; correspondence with her parents; deportation of her father to Zbaszyn; deportation of her mother and siblings to Warsaw;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaim Baruch Shurek, born in Puchov, Czechoslovakia, 1935, regarding his experiences as a child in Lazec, Budapest, Debrecen and labor camps in Austria

Testimony

Testimony of Chaim Baruch Shurek, born in Puchov, Czechoslovakia, 1935, regarding his experiences as a child in Lazec, Budapest, Debrecen and labor camps in Austria Life before the war; attends a Slovakian kindergarten. German occupation, 1938; life under fascist rule; anti-Jewish legislation; confiscation of valuables; restrictions on the Jews; establishment of a Jewish school; draft of males aged 18-28 to forced labor; deportation of females 18-28 to camps; meets refugees from Poland; move to Lazec to his brother who has been classified as an essential worker, 1942; deportation of the Jews to Zilina on...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yehuda Fisher, born in Baba, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Bungard Ghetto; Auschwitz, Bunzlau, Nordhausen and other camps

Testimony

Testimony of Yehuda Fisher, born in Baba, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Bungard Ghetto; Auschwitz, Bunzlau, Nordhausen and other camps Life before the war; his father is a merchant. Hungarian rule, 1940; German occupation; deportation to the ghetto in the Bungard forest, near Des; help and food from the rural population; deportation to Auschwitz and loss of his family; transfer to Bunzlau, near Breslau; camp life including labor constructing and loading dummy planes; liquidation of the camp; death march to Goerlitz via Nordhausen, June 1944-February 1945; transfer to Hamburg; transfer to...

File Number : 12296

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Announcement regarding the times for the distribution of kosher meat for the Sukkot holiday, posted by the Jewish community in the Regensburg DP camp

File Number : 1222

Type of Material : Announcement

Language : Yiddish

Announcement regarding the sale of tickets for Sukkot services with the Cantor Yosha Vieder, and listing of names for Yizkor, posted by the synagogue in the Bamidbar Hall [in the Foehrenwald camp]

File Number : 1214

Type of Material : Announcement

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Zipora Feiga (Fishman) Brisker, born in Zarojani, Romania, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Secureni Ghetto and Balki

Testimony

Testimony of Zipora Feiga (Fishman) Brisker, born in Zarojani, Romania, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Secureni Ghetto and Balki Life before the war; displays of antisemitism. Her eldest brother is drafted into the army; life in the Secureni Ghetto, 1941; deportation to Balki, 1941; life in Balki, including rescue with help from a local policeman; liberation, 1944. Return to Zarojani, 1944; search for relatives; life in Hechalutz aliya training in Iasi; aliya attempt on the ship, "Pan-York", 1947; detention in Cyprus; life in a detention camp on Cyprus; aliya to Israel, 1949.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation regarding the Jews of Fuerth, the Jewish orphanage run by Isaak Hallemann, and Hallemann family correspondence, 1894-1995

Documentation regarding the Jews of Fuerth, the Jewish orphanage run by Isaak Hallemann, and Hallemann family correspondence, 1894-1995 Volume No 1 (338.1): - Fuerth Municipal/City Council files regarding the Jewish orphanage in Fuerth, which later came under the responsibility of the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland (Reich Association of German Jews); File 1247: - Protocol of the administrative board elections, 26 October 1894; - Contract between the orphanage and Rabbi Dr. Deutsch in Burgpreppach as director of the institution, 11 November 1894; - Regulations for the orphanage in...

File Number : 338

Type of Material : List of Murdered Persons, Letter, Memoirs, Newspaper Clippings, Record of Murdered Persons, Official Documentation, Record of Persecuted Persons, Photograph, Protocol, Maps

Language : Hebrew, English, German

Testimony of Moshe Pshigorski, born in Wloclawek, 1932, regarding his experiences in the Piotrkow Ghetto, the Warta factory in Czestochowa and Buchenwald

Testimony

Testimony of Moshe Pshigorski, born in Wloclawek, 1932, regarding his experiences in the Piotrkow Ghetto, the Warta factory in Czestochowa and Buchenwald Religious family; witness’ father owns a knitting factory before the war. Move of his family from Wloclawek to Piotrkow, with the outbreak of the war; labor in a glass factory with his father in a ghetto; living conditions, labor in a factory in the Piotrkow Ghetto; his mother and other family members are taken to Treblinka from the ghetto Sukkot in the Piotrkow Ghetto; transfer of the entire camp to Czestochowa, 1944; labor in the Warta factory...

File Number : 7233

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Josef Zalman Kleinman, born in Szollos, Czechoslovakia, 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in Auschwitz and Kaufering

Testimony

Testimony of Josef Zalman Kleinman, born in Szollos, Czechoslovakia, 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in Auschwitz and Kaufering Life before the war. German occupation; deportation to Auschwitz, 1944; camp life including scarlet fever; transfer to Kaufering, October 1944; liberation by the US Army, April 1945. Unsuccessful attempt at illegal immigration to Eretz Israel; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel, March 1947.

File Number : 2634

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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