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Testimony of Zelman Buchbinder, born in Ternovo, Czechoslovakia, in 1926 regarding the deportation to Auschwitz, Plaszow and regarding the labor camp Mauthausen

Testimony

Childhood in Ternovo; community life in Ternovo; good relations between Jews and non-Jews in Ternovo; invasion of the Hungarians in 1939; recruiting the elder brothers to Hungarian labor camps; anti-Jewish legislation;riots; harming the rabbi of the community; German occupation; deportation of the family to Mateszalka ghetto, Hungary in March 1944; conditions in the ghetto; diseases; yellow badge; deportation of the family to Auschwitz Birkenau; "aktion" by Mengele; crematorium; starvation; death of family members; transfer to Plaszow camp,Poland about 2 weeks later; beating of inmates; murder of inmates by the...

File Number : 13776

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letters sent by Ignacy (Ignas) Jonisz from the front to his family in Kazakhstan, 1944-1945, and the last of the letters, 27 February 1945

Letters sent by Ignacy (Ignas) Jonisz from the front to his family in Kazakhstan, 1944-1945, and the last of the letters, 27 February 1945 Also in the file: - Letter sent by Noach Cukierman from Uruguay to Sophia (Jonisz) Aptekar in Israel, 01 December1973; - Newspaper clippings from "Di Presse", a Yiddish newspaper printed in Uruguay regarding Mr. Hirsch Baer Jonisz, the grandfather of Sophia Aptekar, 05 August 1975. Notes from Sophia (Jonisz) Aptekar who submitted the material: Sophia (Jonisz) Aptekar was born in 1915. Her parents were Pavel Jonisz, born in Warsaw, and Cherna (Cohen) Jonisz,...

File Number : 2235

Type of Material : Letter, Newspaper Clippings

Language : Polish, Yiddish

Testimony of Yaacov Shvartz, born in Siauliai, Lithuania, in 1929 regarding the Siauliai ghetto, the Stutthof and other camps

Testimony

Childhood in Siauliai; entry of the Russians in 1940; arrival of Jewish refugees from Poland; German occupation in June 1941; pogrom by the Lithuanians; murder of the stratum of the Jewish intelligentsia including the father; deportation to the Siauliai ghetto; overcrowding; yellow badges; starvation; forced labor; smugglings of food;'aktion" of the elderly in 1942; 'aktion' of the children in November 1943; liquidation of the Siauliai ghetto in July 1944; deportation to Stutthof; physical and emotional abuse; meeting with Russian captives; starvation; fate of the mother who escaped from the killing pit near...

File Number : 13687

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Elza Zipora (Kamil) Pakher, born in Vijnita, Romania in 1933, regarding her experiences as a child in Vijnita, in Mogilev Podolskiy and in Dzhurin camp

Testimony of Elza Zipora (Kamil) Pakher, born in Vijnita, Romania in 1933, regarding her experiences as a child in Vijnita, in Mogilev Podolskiy and in Dzhurin camp Life before the war; Deportation of her family to the Transnistria area in 1941; transfer to Mogilev Podolskiy; transfer to Dzhurin camp; separation from her parents along with her younger brother; Dzhurin camp life for four years; she takes care of her brother; Dzhurin camp life along with the other children; hunger; suffering from diseases; death of children in the camp; abuse of children by the Ukrainians; smuggle of food for partisans in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Gover Branddshtein Agnes, born in Bustina, Czech Republic, in 1929 regarding Mateszalka ghetto, regarding deportation to Auschwitz Birkenau , Birnbaumel and others

Testimony

Parents'house; Hungarian occupation in 1939; deportation of the Jews without citizenship; getting Hungarian citizenship; studies in Mukacevo; expulsion from school in 1943; presence of people from the Arrow Cross Party in the village; curfew; yellow badge; searches at home; preparation for deportation; deportation of the father to a labor camp in 1941; moving to a small house; hiding the jewelry in the courtyard; concentration of the Jewish population in the synagogue; deportation to the Mateszalka ghetto; food parcels from the grandfather in Budapest; deportation to Auschwitz Birkenau in freight trains;...

File Number : 13705

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Leb Margalit, born in Galgau, Romania, in 1928 regarding the Dej ghetto, Auschwitz Birkenau and other camps

Childhood in Galgau and in Deja; invasion of the Hungarians in 1940; anti-Jewish legislation; recruiting for labor battalions; deterioration of the economic situation; German occupation in March 1944; yellow badge; confiscation of property; deportation to the Dej ghetto; life under the sky; starvation; deportation to Auschwitz Birkenau in June 1944; camp admission process; life in the camp; starvation and thirst; transfer to Bremen about 2 months later; working in clearing the ruins; getting help from German citizens; mutual help; transfer to Bergen Belsen; typhus epidemic; piles of corpses; liberation by the...

File Number : 13712

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Lazar Livshitz, born in Gomel, Belorussia, 1919, regarding his experiences as a Red Army soldier in Bialystok, using a false identity in the Baranovichi camp, the Biala Podlaska camp, the Deblin camp and more Part I (written 06 December 1945 as a letter to his beloved telling of his experiences): Outbreak of the war; being taken captive; transfer to the Baranovichi camp; camp life using a false identity (Nikolay Kulinenko); transfer to the Biala Podlaska camp; camp life in open cages without shelter from the rain and snow; abuse by the so-called camp police which was made up of inmates; transfer...

File Number : 8620

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Russian

Testimony of Fuks Semion, born in Krasnoye, the Soviet Union in 1936, regarding his experiences in the ghetto in Transnistria

Testimony of Fuks Semion, born in Krasnoye, the Soviet Union in 1936, regarding his experiences in the ghetto in Transnistria Life before the war; German occupation, July 1941; Romanian occupation in August 1941; establishment of the Krasne Ghetto in Transnistria in autumn 1941; the obligation to wear a yellow badge, imposition of contributions; cold; typhus epidemic; death of his mother; agricultural labor; deportation of his father to Vinnitsa; liberation in March 1944; rehabilitation of life after the war; aliya to Israel on 28 November 1991.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

Memoirs of Anita (Derman) Mark, born in Chernowitz, Romania, 1923, regarding her experiences in Bratslav, the Tulchin Ghetto, the Mogilev Ghetto and Tiraspol, 1942-1944

Memoirs of Anita (Derman) Mark, born in Chernowitz, Romania, 1923, regarding her experiences in Bratslav, the Tulchin Ghetto, the Mogilev Ghetto and Tiraspol, 1942-1944 - Birth certificate of Josif Mark, born in Sibiu, Romania, 1925; father's name: Avram Mark; - Experiences of Josif Mark in Temesvár, Craiova and Bucharest and his aliya to Eretz Israel on the ship "Maritsa" via Constanta and Istanbul, 1935-1945; - Experiences of Leon Leizer Derman, born in Stanislawow, Poland, 1877; - Letter from Leon Derman to Anita as part of the biography about him, 26 January 1955. Testimony of Anita (Derman)...

File Number : 8591

Type of Material : Memoirs, Testimony, Document

Language : Hebrew, German

Memoirs of Emanuel Krauthamer Kruvi, born, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Bobrka Ghetto and in Romanow, forests and Swirz

Memoirs of Emanuel Krauthamer Kruvi, born, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Bobrka Ghetto and in Romanow, forests and Swirz Experiences of the Krauthamer family from the start of their wanderings from Krautheim, Germany until their settlement in Bobrka; German Army occupation [of Bobrka], 1941; establishment of the Bobrka Ghetto; Bobrka Ghetto life, including forced labor digging trenches and clearing snow; life in stables in groups of 50 young women and 50 young men; forced labor in sugar beet fields [on an agricultural farm in Romanow?] until October 1942; first "Aktion" in Bobrka; deportation of...

File Number : 8583

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

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