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Testimony of Zohar Shlomo zilgelshtein, born in Verecki Pss, Czechoslovakia, in 1923, regarding his hiding in the forests, his deportation to the Gusen and Mauthausen camps, Austria.

Orthodox family related to "Sharf" from Sterlinsk (from the Greats of the hasidut); activity in the Beitar; transition to Hungarian rule in 1939; deportation order for the Jews without a Czech nationality towards the Polish border in 1939; housing the deportees in a house that was built on the border; smuggling of the deportees by the witness back to Czechoslovakia on hidden paths; hiding in the forests of Ukraine; capture by Germans; deportation to camps in Austria; forced labour in a quarry in the Gusen camp; he comes across his brother in Mauthausen; march to Gunskirchen; death of his brother; liberation in...

File Number : 13743

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Elza Lenger (Sokolovski), born in Vienna, Austria in 1932, regarding her life in the camps

Testimony of Elza Lenger (Sokolovski), born in Vienna, Austria in 1932, regarding her life in the camps Move to Baden-Baden, Germany in 1935; grandmother’s murder; expulsion from the home with her parents and grandfather; Theresienstadt and Bergen-Belsen camps (witness believes that these were the camps in which she was held); move to Uruguay in 1945; father’s departure; grandfather’s and mother’s suicides; disconnection from Jewish environment; aliya to Israel in 1970.

File Number : 13462

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ruth Pardess née Schwarz, born in 1940 in Ostrowiec, Poland, about her experiences as a girl in the Sambor ghetto and in hiding with the family of the German officer Alojzy Plewa in Kliny

Information about the Schwarz and Krongold families; witness's birth in Ostrowiec in February 1940; living with her mother in the Sambor ghetto and smuggled out of the ghetto by the German officer Alojzy Plewa in September 1942; witness placed under a false identity with the officer's family in Kliny, near Kepno; mother hides in bunker until the liberation; father survives; witness reunited with parents and moves to Warsaw in 1945; aunt murdered in Ostrowiec after the liberation; immigration to Eretz Israel with mother in 1946; father remains in Poland; recognition of Alojzy Plewa as Righteous among the Nations...

File Number : 13628

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yisrael Fiser, born in 1929 in Borsa, Romania, about his experiences in Borsa, the Viseul de Sus ghetto, and camps in Poland and Germany during the war

Life before the war; offspring of an Orthodox religious family; antisemitic harassment in school; Hungary re-annexes the area in 1939; father inducted into the labor brigades in 1941; economic hardship; ban on kosher slaughter; Passover in April 1944; Jews rounded up in a synagogue; deportation to the Viseul de Sus ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; family lost in a selection in the camp; transferred to Fürstengrube; coal mining at the camp; death march; transported in open freight cars and mortality among prisoners; taken to Dora Mittelbau and Bergen-Belsen; liberation; Hapoel Hamizrachi movement activity in...

File Number : 13640

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe Arno Porat Frish, born in Hajdunanas, Hungary in 1931 regarding his deportation to camps in Austria.

Testimony of Moshe Porat Frish, born in Hajdunanas, Hungary in 1931 He was born in an orthodox family; his father's recruitment in a labor battalion in 1943; imposing restrictions on the family business; disbelief in the rumors about the murder of Jews; concentration of the Jews of Hajdunanas in the brick factory in Debrecen for deportation in April 1944; bar mitzvah in the ghetto; deportation by convoy to Austria; death of people in the wagons; life in the camp in Vienna; working in construction; hospitalization of his brother and sister ; death march; the soldiers'abuse of the marchers; life in the...

File Number : 13744

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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 Miriam Tratner née Stern, born in 1927 in Cluj, Romania, about her experiences in Cluj, Budapest, and Romania, and her immigration to Eretz Israel in August 1944

Offspring of a Zionist family in Clug; grandfather, a rabbi, visits Eretz Israel; father dies; witness joins the Habonim movement; older brother immigrates to Eretz Israel in 1938; Hungary re-annexes the area in 1940; witness attends a Hebrew gymnasium; German occupation in 1944; brother inducted into labor service; ideas about escaping to Romania; obtains false papers with help from the movement; escapes to Budapest; information about the Cluj ghetto; receives an offer to board the "Kasztner train"; decides to escape to Romania; aided by the Zionist pioneering underground; sinking of the MV Mefküre;...

File Number : 13548

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Haviva Luba Barakh née Obis, born in 1932 in Jarczów-Kolonia Pierwsza, Poland, about her experiences as a girl in the Piaski ghetto and with a non-Jewish family in Gielczew

Offspring of a family of merchants in Jarczów-Kolonia Pierwsza; German occupation ensues in 1939; eviction from the village and loss of livelihood; sleeing in non-Jews' granaries; Jews of the area sent to the Piaski ghetto; digging a bunker in the field as oppression mounts; five family members find a hidout in a bunker and stay there in 1941–1942; searching for food at night; manhunt by collaborators; hearing rumors about liquidation of the ghettos; placed with a non-Jewish family in Gielczew in late 1942; brother murdered in the field; parents and sister captured and murdered in Majdanek; villagers hostile;...

File Number : 13511

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ruth Palgi née Shpitz, born in 1927 in Nadost, Czechoslovakia, about her experiences in Kosice Mesto and the Auschwitz and Peterswaldau camps

Offspring of an affluent family in Nadost; impoverishment and relocation to Kosice Mesto in 1938; area reannexed by Hungary; father helps refugees to slip out of Germany; German occupation in 1944; dispossession; eviction from the faily home; Jews rounded up in a brickyard; deportation to Auschwitz in May 1944; parents and five siblings murdered; witness and sister transferred to Peterswaldau in June 1944; life in the camp; manucturing aircraft spare parts; typhus and hospitalization; liberation by Red Army forces in May 1945; back to Hungary; joining the Hashomer Hatzair movement in Slovakia; immigration to...

File Number : 13508

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Gila Gerti Abraham née Lichtenstein, born in 1939 in Saarlouis, Germany about her experiences in Saarlouis, Strasbourg, the free zone of France, and the Argentan region in 1943–1944

Germany annexes Saarlouis after a plebiscite in 1935; witness escapes to France due to antisemitism in 1935; life in Strasbourg; city evacuated when war breaks out; witness escapes to Celles sur Plaine; German occupation; escape to Riberac in June 1940; Germany occupies the free zone of France in 1942; a priest helps the witness find shelter in a convent; life in hiding in the convent in Argentan, 1943–1944; liberation; difficulty in returning to Judaism; back to Strasbourg; Zionist activity in the Dror movement; immigration to Israel in 1949; adjustment to life in Israel.

File Number : 13518

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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