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Testimony of Yeshayahu Shaike Goldhersh, born in Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland in 1934, regarding his experiences as a child in the Piotrkow Trybunalski Ghetto, and in Bergen-Belsen and Ravensbrueck camps Piotrkow Trybunalski Ghetto life; deportation to Ravensbrueck camp; transfer to Bergen-Belsen camp; Bergen-Belsen camp life, without work [labor]; suffering from diseases and hunger; apathy; cruelties by the Ukrainian guards; piles of corpses; liberation by the British Army on 15 April 1945; transfer to Sweden with his mother for the purpose of his mother's convalescence; he studies for the first time in a...

File Number : 13662

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Bina (Iankovitz) Iakab, born in Stefanesti, Romania, 1934 regarding the deportation of the Jews of Stefanesti and wanderings in Romania

Testimony

Childhood in Stefanesti; Deportation from Stefanesti, 1941; looting of property by the local population; move to Sulita; deportation of the Jews of Sulita; transfer to Harlau; yellow badge; restriction of movement; antisemitism; hunger; liberation by the Red Army, 1944; Life after the war; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947; exiled to Cyprus; return aliya to Eretz Israel, 1948.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yeshayahu Nahum Horovitz, born in 1920 in Lodz, about his experiences in the Lodz ghetto and the Hasag camp during the war

Testimony

Life before the war; refugees from Germany arrive in 1938; German occupation ensues in September 1939; anti-Jewish legislation; dispossession; abductions for forced labor; plunder of property; desecration of synagogues; ghettoization in April 1940; activity of hakhsharot (training centers) in Marysin; activity of the Bnei Akiva movement; hunger; working in the Judenrat kitchens; deportation to Hasag, in Częstochowa, in March 1944; life in the camp; working in an armaments factory; religious life and faith; liberation by Red Army forces in January 1945; life after the war; antisemitism; immigration to Israel in...

File Number : 13615

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Nancy Vera Rachel Arbel, born in Baktaloranthaza, Hungary, in 1826 regarding deportation to the Auschwitz Birkenau , Plaszow and Reichenbach camps

Testimony

Childhood before the war; coexistence; outbreak of the war; restrictions on Jews; German occupation in March 1944; deportation to ghetto; mutual help; robbery of property; fictitious marriage for the purpose of rescue; deportation to Auschwitz Birkenau; transfer to Plaszow; transfer to a protected camp; improvement in food and living conditions; transfer back to Auschwitz Birkenau; transfer to Germany for agricultural works and for working in a factory manufacturing planes; liberation by the Russians; rehabilitation of life after the war; aliya to Israel in 1949

File Number : 13703

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Sheindi (Ehrenwald) Miller, born in Galanta, Slovakia, 31 December 1930, regarding her experiences in the Galanta Ghetto, Érsekújvár Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Peterswaldau labor camp Testimony of Sheindi Miller, as it appears in the "Neveh Shmuel" Yeshiva journal, 5758 (1998); - Persecution of the Jews in Galanta, 1942; deportation of women and men to forced labor; transfer to the Galanta Ghetto, April 1944; theft of Jewish property; transfer to the Érsekújvár Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau by train, including a description of the travel in freight cars for three days; selection...

File Number : 8600

Type of Material : Testimony, Excerpt(s)

Language : Hebrew, Hungarian

Memoirs of Joseph Yativ, born in Nabuel, Tunisia, 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in Nabeul

Memoirs of Joseph Yativ, born in Nabuel, Tunisia, 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in Nabeul Life in Nabuel under the Vichy regime; expulsion of Jews from the schools; imposition of restrictions on the Jews including the yellow badge; breaking into the apartments of Jews and robbing the apartments; murder of Jews who attempted to defend their property; activities of Mordechai Karilla, the head of the Nabuel Jewish community; general meeting of members of the local Jewish community; Mordechai Karilla's request not to take any initiatives; arranging for a trained defense unit made up of community...

File Number : 8585

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Meir Friedman, born in 1925 in Halmaj, Hungary, about his experiences in Halmaj and Budapest

Testimony

Testimony of Meir Friedman, born in 1925 in Halmaj, Hungary, about his experiences in Halmaj and Budapest Offspring of an Orthodox religious family in Halmaj; German occupation of Hungary begins in 1944; Jews of the area rounded up in a brick factory in Kosiĉe; witness is transferred with his family to Budapest by a brother; entering a marked house in April 1944; escaping to the "Glass House" in October 1944; Arrow Cross operatives assault the house; saved by a German officer from murder on the Danube on December 31, 1944; liberation by Red Army forces on January 18, 11945; half a year in Vienna;...

File Number : 13472

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaia Shvartzman Kaplan, born in Alytus, Lithuania in 1926, regarding her ‎experiences in the Slobodka Ghetto, Stutthof camp, and the death march

Testimony of Chaia Shvartzman Kaplan, born in Alytus, Lithuania in 1926, regarding her ‎experiences in the Slobodka Ghetto, Stutthof camp, and the death march Family move to Kazlu Rhuda in 1930; her childhood in a Zionist traditional home; studies at a ‎Lithuanian school; antisemitism; joining Hashomer Hatzair; entry of the Russians in 1939; ‎nationalization of her father’s bakery; death of her mother from illness; German occupation in ‎June 1941; wearing the yellow badge; escape with her family to Kaunas; arrest by the Lithuanians ‎and deportation to the Seventh Fort; release of the women and children and...

File Number : 13652

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Hela (Jacobi) Kozlowski [born, 1920], regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto and in Auschwitz, Freiberg and Mauthausen camps

Memoirs of Hela (Jacobi) Kozlowski [born, 1920], regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto and in Auschwitz, Freiberg and Mauthausen camps German occupation of Lodz; escape of her siblings to another city; mass murders and theft by the Germans; eviction of her family from their home; murder of a boy who was 7 or 8 years old, right in front of her eyes; deportation of her sister to Auschwitz, late 1942 or early 1943; hunger; help from an anonymous German who brought her food; her father receives beatings; announcement regarding the sending of the ghetto residents to forced labor; deportation to Auschwitz...

File Number : 8543

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Natan Motovitz, born in Chust, Czechoslovakia in 1924, regarding his experiences in Chust and in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald and Flossenbuerg camps

Testimony of Natan Motovitz, born in Chust, Czechoslovakia in 1924, regarding his experiences in Chust and in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald and Flossenbuerg camps Life in the Carpathian Ruthenia area as a young child; move to Chust; he studies in a Czech school and in parallel in a heder; membership in the Hungarian Scouts movement; Deportation of his father to service in the labor battalions in 1939; deportation of his family to Ukraine, summer 1941; theft of valuables; they cross the Dniester River; return to Chust; his father returns; German occupation, March 1944; wearing a yellow badge; Chust...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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