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Testimony of Tzafrir Shteir Sara, born in Bedzin, Poland, in 1930 regarding the Srodula ghetto and regarding the Peterswaldau camp

Childhood before the war; programming aliya to Israel; aliya of the two brothers ; confiscation of family businesses; outbreak of the war; burning the synagogue and houses of Jews; deportation to ghetto; forced labor; murder of the father; "aktions"; deportation of the mother and sister to Auschwitz Birkenau; deportation of the witness with her sister to Peterswaldau; help of the German female commander; liberation by the Russians; escape to the American side; rehabilitation of life after the war; aliya to Israel in 1946

File Number : 13661

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Miriam Marila Liber Prague née Kostin, born in 1921 in Warsaw, about her experiences in the Warsaw ghetto, in Hungary, with the partisans in Yugoslavia, and as a forced laborer in Germany

Life before the war; German occupation ensues; dispossession; deportation to the Warsaw ghetto; life in the ghetto; escaping to the "Aryan" side with help of forged papers; marrying; escaping to Lwów; escaping back to Warsaw; escaping to Hungary; receiving privileges from the Polish Consulate; escaping to Yugoslavia; joining the partisans in March 1944; sabotaging a railroad track; arrested by the Germans and taken to Germany; working in a factory that manufactures spare parts for tanks; posing as a Croat; receiving extra privileges; liberated by American forces; reaching Buchenwald; encountering Holocaust...

File Number : 13612

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Collection of letters from M. Berman to Ilya Ehrenburg, to the editor of the "Kommunist" newspaper, and to the secretary of the Veterans Committee in the Soviet Union, regarding national policy and the attitude toward the problem of the Jews in the Soviet Union, in comparison with Poland Collection of letters from M. Berman to Ilya Ehrenburg, to Fyodor Konstantinov - the chief editor of the "Kommunist" newspaper, and to Aleksey Maresyev - the secretary of the Veterans Committee in the Soviet Union, regarding national policy and the attitude toward the problem of the Jews in the Soviet Union, in comparison...

File Number : 13

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Russian

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File Number : 13770

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Paulina Keynan, nee Godin in Wilno, Poland in 1925, regarding her deportation to the Wilno ghetto and the Kaiserwald and Stutthof camps and the death march

Testimony

Testimony of Paulina Keynan ,nee Godin, born in Wilno,Poland,in 1925 Childhood within a well-to-do traditional family, good neighbourly relations with the Polish population, increasing displays of anti-Semitism, boycotting Jewish businesses; outbreak of the war; Russian occupation; exile of wealthy people to siberia; confiscation of part of the family house for the purpose of housing Soviets; father's imprisonment for half a year; life in hiding for about two weeks in fear of exile to Siberia; German occupation in 1941; expulsion from the family house; father's arrest and disappearance; restrictions and...

File Number : 13648

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Alexander Erlichman, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1930, regarding his experiences in Warsaw, Staszow, in a forest and in Lodz

Testimony

Testimony of Alexander Erlichman, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1930, regarding his experiences in Warsaw, the Warsaw Ghetto, Staszow, in a forest and in Lodz Childhood in a wealthy, secular family; arrival of Austrian and German refugees. Occupation of Warsaw by the German Army, 1939; life under the German occupation including restrictions, decrees and prohibitions; closure of the ghetto; escape to Staszow; in hiding during the "Aktion", late 1942; escape to a forest, March 1943; murder of his parents and his sister; receiving aid from the local villagers; liberation by the Red Army, summer 1944. Move to a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zvi Hershele Birenbaum, born in Proszowice, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in Bedzin, the Kamionka Ghetto, Birkenau, Theresienstadt, Nordhausen and on a death march

Testimony

Testimony of Zvi Hershele Birenbaum, born in Proszowice, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in Bedzin, the Kamionka Ghetto, Birkenau, Theresienstadt, Nordhausen and on a death march Childhood orphaned of his father; move to Bedzin with his mother and siblings. Outbreak of the war, 1939; escape to Lwow; life as a refugee; return to Bedzin; yellow badge; selection [during an Aktion] and rescue of his mother from deportation; deportation to the Kamionka Ghetto; ghetto life including work in a sewing workshop; deportation to Birkenau; camp life including labor in the craftsmen's block as a tailor and a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Jehuda Bronstein, born in Ostrog, Poland, 1919, regarding his experiences in Lwow, in the Red Army in Odessa, Tersapol, Tomsk and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Jehuda Bronstein, born in Ostrog, Poland, 1919, regarding his experiences in Lwow, in the Red Army in Odessa, Tersapol, Tomsk and other places Life before the war; well-to-do religious-Zionist family; visit by Jabotinsky in Ostrog, 1935; membership in the Beitar movement; life in Warsaw including studies for approximately one year; return to Ostrog. Soviet occupation, 1939; escape to Lwow; life in Lwow; draft into the Red Army; transfer to Odessa in the context of artillery battalion no. 320, 1939; life in the Red Army on the Teraspol front; participates in battles; wounded and hospitalized...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shulamit Folk, born in Presov, Czechoslovakia, 1928, regarding her experiences as a child in Presov and a camp in the Warsaw area

Testimony

Testimony of Shulamit Folk, born in Presov, Czechoslovakia, 1928, regarding her experiences as a child in Presov and a camp in the Warsaw area Life before the war; Orthodox family; attends a Jewish school; Bnei Akiva and Hashomer Hatzair activities; meets Jewish refugees from Poland; help to refugees. Information on the murder of Jews; closure of the store; Ukranian and Slovakian Hlinka Guard brutality; deportation to a camp in the Warsaw area; camp life; labor unloading coal; Wermacht control of the camp; cruelty of the Jewish Kapo from Poland; activities of the orchestra, Polish and Yiddish theatre;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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