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Testimony of Hela (Feltz) Reznik, born in Bedzin, Poland, 1925 regarding her experiences in the Parschnitz labor camp, Czechoslovakia

Testimony

Prewar childhood; antisemitism; plans for aliya to Eretz Israel; outbreak of the war; German occupation; burning of houses; deportation to the Parschnitz labor camp, Czechoslovakia; camp life, 1941-1945; hunger; longing; murder of her family; liberation by the Red Army; Rebuilding life after the war; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1948.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Tzuri (Alfonso) Redzhiniano, born in Tripoli, Libya in 1938, regarding his ‎experiences of deportation to Bergen-Belsen camp

Testimony of Tzuri (Alfonso) Redzhiniano, born in Tripoli, Libya in 1938, regarding his ‎experiences of deportation to Bergen-Belsen camp His family before the war; deportation of the family to Italy in January 1942; life in the Civitella del ‎Tronto citadel; restrictions on movement; help from the Italian population; help from the Red ‎Cross; deportation to Bergen-Belsen in September 1943; life in the camp; roll calls; abuse; ‎starvation; packages from the Red Cross; Yom Kippur; liberation by the British in April 1945; return ‎to Tripoli; life after the war; aliya to Israel in 1950; absorption.‎

File Number : 13586

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

estimony of Natan Kolker, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia in 1930, regarding the ‎Kindertransport to England in 1939‎

Testimony of Natan Kolker, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia in 1930, regarding the ‎Kindertransport to England in 1939‎ Member of an orthodox, Zionist family; lack of citizenship and deportation to Hungary in 1938; ‎arrest of his uncle in Dachau; return to Slovakia; Kindertransport with his brother to England in ‎‎1939; living in an orthodox hostel in Cambridgeshire 1939–1945; keeping in touch with his parents ‎by letter until 1942; aliya to Israel in 1950; absorption.‎

File Number : 13739

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sara Aharoni née Iudovitz, born in 1928 in Chust, Czechoslovakia, about her experiences in the Chust ghetto, Auschwitz, and Theresienstadt during the war

Life before the war; offspring of a religious family; Shabbat and festivals; attends a Jewish school; Jewish community life; activity of synagogues and Zionist youth movements; witness joins the Bnei Akiva movement; Hungary re-annexes the area in 1939; men inducted into the labor service; witness deported to the Chust ghetto; life in the ghetto; cultural and religious life; Hungarian gendarmes guard the ghetto; confiscation of valuables; witness wears the yellow star; deported to Auschwitz; selection in the camp and separation of family members; sister sent to Bergen-Belsen and dies from typhus there; roll...

File Number : 13610

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

The testimony of Liza Lotte Lily (Weiner) Bruml, born in 1923 in Trutnov, , Czechoslovakia - regarding her childhood in Trutnov and in the Theresienstadt Ghetto.

The testimony of Liza Lotte Lily (Weiner) Bruml, born in 1923 in Trutnov, Czechoslovakia. Childhood in Trutnov; escaping with family members before the annexation of the Sudetenland by Germany in 1938; moved to the area of the border with the Czechoslovakia; life on a relative's farm for a few weeks; move to Prague; the German occupation; her brother's illegal immigration to Eretz Israel in 1939; life under the Nazi regime; restrictions imposed on the Jews; deportation of the parents and the grandmother to the Theresienstadt Ghetto in 1942; death of her grandmother; life in the ghetto; parents’ labor in a...

File Number : 13502

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

To be translated

File Number : 13399

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shimon Wisbacher, born in 1927 in Aachen, Germany, regarding his experiences in Aachen and his aliya to Israel in 1939

Testimony of Shimon Wisbacher, born in 1927 in Aachen, Germany, regarding his experiences in Aachen and his aliya to Israel in 1939. Son of a religious Zionist family; the immigration of the brothers to Israel in 1934 and 1936; expelled from home in 1933; studies in a Jewish school; physical harassment by the Hitler Youth (Hitlerjugend - the Hitler Youth); imposition of various restrictions; the events of "Kristallnacht" in 1938, including the burning of the Great Synagogue; deportation of Jews to camps; furniture and people thrown from the apartments; joining the Youth Aliyah organization and aliya to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yehoshua Flusberg, born in 1926 in Dobrzyn Nad Drweca, Poland, about his experiences in the Mława ghetto; the Auschwitz, Stutthof, and Gottsdorf camps; etc.

Life before the war in parents' home; antisemitism; boycott of Jews in 1938; escaping from family home in September 1939; life in the Skepe camp; returning to home; synagogue encircled by Germans on Rosh Hashana; men rounded up in the market; deported to Prussia; deported Jews murdered and buried in a common grave; deportation order from town in November 1939; living with the family in Mława; selling cigarettes; ghetto sealed in 1942; assigned to forced labor; synagogue in Mława set ablaze; mother deported in the elders' transport; labor terminated and back to the ghetto on August 10, 1942; deportation to...

File Number : 13516

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Dov Bandel, born in 1919 in Delmenhorst, Germany, about his experiences in hakhsharot in Gut Wingel and Britain and in a camp on the Isle of Man

Life under Nazi rule from 1933 on; antisemitism escalates and high-school studies are terminated; active in the Young Maccabi youth movement; sets out to a hakhshara (Zionist training activity) in Gut Winkel, in the vicinity of Berlin, in 1937; mother and brother are driven across the Polish border in 1938 as Jews who hold Polish nationality; Kristallnacht in 1938; escaping to London and joining a Bahad (Religious Pioneers Alliance) hakhshara in a Salvation Army camp in 1939; deported by the authorities to the Isle of Man due to citizenship in an enemy country; three months of internment in the camp in 1940;...

File Number : 13582

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

To be translated

File Number : 13484

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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