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Testimony of Chaim Grisario, born in Darabani, Romania, 1936, regarding the deportation to Transnistria

Testimony

Testimony of Chaim Grisario, born in Darabani, Romania, 1936, regarding the deportation to Transnistria Family background; his father is a tailor, his mother is a seamstress and housewife; studies in a "room". The outbreak of the war; restrictions on Jews; deportation, June 1941; walking and getting to the village; food shortages; deportation by cattle train; reaching and crossing the Dniester River; arrival in Atachi; continue driving; arrival in Mogilev Podolskiy; transfer to Ozarnitsa; stay at the place for a few months; living conditions; deportation to the Mogilev ghetto; stay in a children's home;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Irka Rivka Golan née Gantovnik, born in 1941 in Święciany, Poland, about her experiences as an infant in the Opsa, Postawy, and Święciany ghettos and with a Russian family in 1942–1944

Soviet occupation ensues in 1939; German occupation follows; witness born in Święciany in September 1941; life in hiding in forests at one month of age; internment in the Opsa, Postawy, and Święciany ghettos; hearing rumors about liquidation of shtetlakh in Lithuania and Belorussia; escaping from Aktionen; adoption by a Russian family in October 1942; parents survive in the ghettos in 1943; liquidation of the Święciany ghetto and murder of the Jews in Ponary; parents hide until the liberation in July 1944; family reunited; they move to Poland and Germany; mother teaches in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons...

File Number : 13591

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Eva Goldberg née Avraham, born in 1929 in Cristur, Romania, about her experiences in the Auschwitz-Birkenau, Horneburg, Porta Westfalica, and Fallersleben camps, etc.

Antisemitism in Romaniain 1938; escapes from riots by members of the Legionnaire movement; Hungary re-annexes the area in 1940; father inducted into the labor brigades; German occupation ensues in 1944; concealing valuables; Jews rounded up in the Dej forest; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; selections; taken to a crematorium; hides in a hearse-cart and in a latrine; slips into a group selected for labor; transferred to Horneburg; life in the camp; manufacturing ship and aircraft parts; factory manager helps women prisoners; local German women help with food; cruelties by SS men; transferred to the Porta...

File Number : 13609

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Two letters to Ilya Ehrenburg by R. Meltser, regarding the life of the Jews in the Baranovichi and the Bialystok regions after the liberation

Two letters to Ilya Ehrenburg by R. Meltser, regarding the life of the Jews in the Baranovichi and the Bialystok regions after the liberation In his first letter, R. Meltser tells about the small number of Jews in the Baranovichi district who survived; these Jews are unable to get their property returned to them; the writer argues that these Jewish survivors need immediate medical and financial help from the Anti-Fascist Committee; he turns to Ilya Ehrenburg with a request to visit in the Bialystok and the Baranovichi regions; In his second letter, R. Meltser tells about the survival of Jews from the...

File Number : 136

Type of Material : Testimony, Letter

Language : Russian

Testimony of Janina Glücklich née Honigman, born in 1934 in Kraków, Poland, about her experiences as a girl in the Kraków ghetto and in hiding with a non-Jewish family in Smardzowica, 1941–1945

Information about parents' family; life in Kraków when war breaks out in 1939; father finds a hideout during a German manhunt; non-Jewish acquaintance helps to arrange temporary shelter; escapes back to the ghetto due to manhunts; placed with the Knapik family in Smardzowica; lives with the family 1941–1945; hides in a closet hours each day; escapes to the fields during manhunts; father's attempts to survive outside the ghetto fail; he is murdered in 1943; mother deported to the Płaszów and Skarzysko Kamienna camps; mother survives; witness reunites with mother after the war; studies and activity in an...

File Number : 13547

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Haddad Gaku, born in Sousse, Tunisia, 1933, regarding his experiences during the war

Testimony

Testimony of Haddad Gaku, born in Sousse, Tunisia, 1933, regarding his experiences during the war Family background; life before the war; studies in a French school. The outbreak of war; entry of German soldiers into the city; stigma; the bombings; taking his father to forced labor in Tunis; deportation of Jews from the city; his mother is pregnant, many difficulties, mother trying to ask S.S. people for permission to stay in town; the refusal of the Germans and the expulsion of the mother from the headquarters; transfer to Moknine; transfer to Sokrine; transfer to Mahdia; back to Sokrine. Liberation and...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Livia Lili Strul née Veis, born in 1928 in Secueni, Romania, about her experiences in Secueni, Oradea Mare, and the Auschwitz and Hochweiler camps

Testimony

Testimony of Livia Lili Strul née Veis, born in 1928 in Secueni, Romania, about her experiences in Secueni, Oradea Mare, and the Auschwitz and Hochweiler camps Life before the war; daughter of an Orthodox family; father inducted into the Romanian Army in 1938; Hungary re-annexes the area in 1940; father is sent to Ukraine for forced labor in 1942; notice about father's disappearance is received; restrictions imposed on Jews and family business shut down in 1943; German occupation ensues in 1944; belongings conceled in the soil before deportation; Jews rounded up and valuables confiscated; deportation to...

File Number : 13450

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Josef Kreisberger, born in Bucharest, Romania, 1935, regarding the deportation of his family to Transnistria

Testimony

Testimony of Josef Kreisberger, born in Bucharest, Romania, 1935, regarding the deportation of his family to Transnistria Childhood in a family with financial means; his father's business in trading in porcelain and special glassware. The outbreak of World War II; obtaining documents and entry permits for immigration to Argentina; accepting a job to manage the company in Argentina; mother's opposition to emigrating to Argentina; smuggling across the border into Serbia following the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact; joining his mother family from Odessa; lack of work; living conditions; inability to leave the Soviet...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yisrael Zoldan Ben Meir Lax, born in 1920 in Selce (Siltse), Podkarpatska Rus, Czechoslovakia, about service in the Hungarian Armlabor brigades, 1939–1943, and deportation to Auschwitz in 1944

Testimony about an Orthodox family: transition to Hungarian rule in 1938; service in the labor brigades in October 1939–December 1943; infrastructure work in Ukrainian territory; non Jews' testimonies about murder of Jews in Kolomyja; murder of witness's family in Kamieniece Podolski; back to Siltse in December 1943; German occupation ensues in March 1944; building fences in the Chust ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz in June 1944; clearing rubble in the Warsaw ghetto; forced to march to Kraków, with mass mortality; transfer to Dachau; construction of the Kaufering camp; epidemic typhus; burying the dead in...

File Number : 13678

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mordechai Nadir, born in Campulungul, Romania, 1932, regarding the deportation of his family to Transnistria

Testimony

Testimony of Mordechai Nadir, born in Campulungul, Romania, 1932, regarding the deportation of his family to Transnistria Childhood in a religious family; his family's livelihood in a store selling household goods and clothing; good neighborly relations with the local population; studies at a Romanian school; visits to the synagogue. The outbreak of war; deportation of the Jewish population to Atachi; continued deportation to Mogilev Podolskiy; accommodation in the streets; boarding trucks; transfer to Murafa; subsistence of his family from the sale of clothing and belongings; life in Murafa; sewing and...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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