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Testimony of Feliks Rosethal, regarding his Sonderkommando experience in the Auschwitz concentration camp

Testimony of Feliks Rosethal, regarding his work in the Sonderkommando in the Auschwitz death camp from November 1943, in Mauthausen and Gusen II camps until the liberation on May 5, 1945 Feliks Rosenthal was deported from Sosnowiec to the Auschwitz concentration camp in November 1943, where he was taken to work in the Sonderkommando unit in the disposal of gas chamber victims in the crematoria of Birkenau. Sonderkommando prisoners were separated from other camp inmates, living in a secluded barracks with a courtyard surrounded by a wall, first in Birkenau sector BIb, snd later in sector BIId. The...

File Number : 1867

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Tzilie Neihoiz, born in Lodz, Poland in 1923, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, Komarow and Romanowka

Testimony of Tzilie Neihoiz, born in Lodz, Poland in 1923, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, Komarow and Romanowka Life in the Warsaw Ghetto; in the town of Komarow; establishment of a ghetto in Komarow in 1942; liquidation of the ghetto in autumn 1943; help from a Polish family in the village; the treatment of the Jews by the villagers; the need to leave the village; the life of Jews in the forest near the village; living as Poles in the village of Romanowka near Krasnobrod; liberation.

File Number : 170

Language : Yiddish

Memoirs of Pinchas (Paul) Rapoport, born in Warsaw in 1919, regarding his family's experiences in Belgium, the Netherlands, France and the Wesermünde camp, and more

Memoirs of Pinchas (Paul) Rapoport, born in Warsaw in 1919, regarding his family's experiences in Belgium, the Netherlands, France and the Wesermünde camp, and more - Memoirs of Pinchas (Paul) Rapoport, born in Warsaw on 6 December 1919, regarding his family's experiences during the Holocaust. Written in 1986-1987: The move of his parents to Anderlecht in the early 1920s; his siblings: Henri (his twin brother), Fanny, Shlomo Salomon and Helene; his father's occupation: manufacturing leather bags for women; bankruptcy following the Great Depression in the 1930s and move to La Louvière; move to Forest, a...

File Number : 11468

Type of Material : Memoirs, Death Certificate

Language : Hebrew, French

Letters from Yerachmiel Milek Amely during his service in the Jewish Brigade to his brother, 1943–1949; correspondence between Yerachmiel and Noemi Amely née Kahane; and postcard, 1956, about Yerachmiel's death - letters from Yerachmiel Milek Amely during his service in the Jewish Brigade, in Antwerp and elsewhere, to his brother Mordechai in Haifa, 1943–1946; - correspondence between Yerachmiel Milek Amely during his service in the Jewish Brigade, in Belgium, Hanover, and Israel, with Noemi Amely née Kahane, Israel, 1946–1949; - postcard from Yeroham, in Afula, to Mordechai, in Israel, November 15, 1956,...

File Number : 4538

Type of Material : Envelope, Telegram, Postcard, Letter

Language : Hebrew, Polish, English

Memoirs of Samuel Apfel, regarding his experiences in Raniżów, in Germany, in France, during forced labor in a camp for foreigners in Saillat in 1942, his release from the camp, his stay in Monastier until the liberation, and a certificate of release from Saillat camp and documentation related to Samuel Apfel Memoirs (scan): - Memoirs, "Les mémoires de ma vie", by Samuel Apfel, born in Raniżów, Poland on 17/06/1902, regarding his experiences during the Holocaust, written in Netanya, Israel on 01/08/1979: His parents were Joseph Chaim and Sara Apfel; his brothers and sisters were Rina, Abraham, Isaac,...

File Number : 9948

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Official Documentation, Memoirs

Language : French, German