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Testimony of Zvi Hafetz, born in Iwje, Poland, in 1933 regarding his experiences as a child in Iwje and in Kazakhstan

Testimony of Zvi Hefetz, born in Iwje, Poland, in 1933 regarding his experiences in Iwje and in Kazakhstan life at home in Iwje; outbreak of the war; escape to Kazakhstan; life in a village there; end of the war; return to Poland; moving to Berlin, to the area under the control of the American army; joining the "Irgun"; life with a forged identity with a certificate for Moshe Lefkowicz; aliya to Israel on board the "Altalena" ship in the Port De Boud port; shelling of the "Altalena" in June 1948; life in Israel

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Postcards and letters sent to Cywia Laufer and to Josef and Enia Clodarz by their family members and friends in Jadow, Bobruysk and various places in Poland and Belorussia, 1939-1941, including letters received by Cywia Laufer after the war - Postcards sent to Tzivia Laufer in Bialystok by relatives in Bobruysk, Krasnaya Sloboda and Beshenkovichi, 1939; - Postcards and letters sent by Majer Laufer from Jadow to his daughters Cywia and Enia during their stay in Veselov Navolok (the Osta area), the Soviet Union, 1940-1941; - Postcards sent by Mordekhai Trop in Grodno to Cywia, Enia and Josef Clodarz (the...

File Number : 2066

Type of Material : Certification, Letter, Postcard, Poem/song

Language : Polish, Russian, Yiddish

Testimony of Israel Lolka Blumental born in Vilna [Wilno], Poland in 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in the Vilna Ghetto and while in hiding

Testimony of Israel Lolka Blumental born in Vilna [Wilno], Poland in 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in the Vilna Ghetto and while in hiding Life before the war; traditional, well-to-do, Revisionist family; Soviet occupation; nationalization of his father's factory; pogrom by the Lithuanian Police in summer 1940; German occupation, June 1941; deportation to the Vilna Ghetto; his parents receive work cards; Vilna Ghetto life; his father receives information from a German officer at his place of labor regarding approaching "Aktions"'; his family members escape to hiding places in the homes of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ruth (Orenstein) Weiss, born in Zamosc, Poland, 1936, regarding her experiences in Mari Assr and Yoshkar Ola

Testimony

Testimony of Ruth (Orenstein) Weiss, born in Zamosc, Poland, 1936, regarding her experiences in Mari ASSR and Yoshkar Ola German occupation; escape of her family to Lwow, 1939; exile of the family by the Soviet Army to a transfer point near Kazan; transfer to a town in Mari ASSR, 10 kilometers away [from Kazan]; life in Kazan; labor of her parents in forestry; transfer to Yoshkar Ola, June 1941; her father is drafted into the Red Army; her father is drafted into the Polish Army [in the Soviet Union], 1942; notification regarding death of his father; end of war. Move of witness and her mother to Krakow,...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Bracha Bronia (Kleinman) Freiberg Bendori, born in Siedliszcze, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in Siedliszcze, in hiding and in Lublin

Testimony

Testimony of Bracha Bronia (Kleinman) Freiberg Bendori, born in Siedliszcze, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in Siedliszcze, in hiding and in Lublin Her childhood including attending a Polish school and learning in a "heder"; orphaned at the age of 4; attitude of the Polish population until the outbreak of the war. Red Army occupation of Siedliszcze; German Army occupation of Siedliszcze; life under German occupation including the imposition of anti-Jewish restrictions, acts of abuse, curfew, informing on and the murder of Jews; escape of her older brothers to the Soviet Union; activities of the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

List of Jews from Hungary who perished after the liberation of Mauthausen and Gunskirchen camps and were buried in the Wels camp cemetery, 05-07/1945

List of Jews from Hungary who perished after the liberation of Mauthausen and Gunskirchen camps and were buried in the Wels camp cemetery, 05-07/1945 The Jews' death was due to weakness and disease during the first weeks following the liberation; reburial was done in orderly cemeteries in Wels and Hoersing, with registration of their names and the number of the grave; most of the people buried here were originally from Hungary. Detailed lists appear in various websites, and include an additional 500 Jews who were buried in the area; following are links to the...

File Number : 1187

Type of Material : List of Murdered Jews

Language : German

Testimony of Esther Rivka (Willig) Wagner, born in Buczacz, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in Buczacz, Warsaw, in hiding while using a false identity, in the United States and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Esther Rivka (Willig) Wagner, born in Buczacz, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in Buczacz, Warsaw, in hiding while using a false identity, in the United States and other places Daughter of the rabbi of Buczacz, Rabbi Shraga Feivel Willig. Soviet occupation of Buczacz, September 1939; German occupation of Buczacz, June 1941; "Aktion"; deportation to Belzec on a train with her mother; escape from the train; move to Warsaw; life in hiding while using the Aryan documents of Teresa Wilanska; transfer with her sister-in-law to service in the German Air Force; work in the kitchen of a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Miriam Folk, born in Lublin, Poland, 1934, regarding her experiences as a child in Lublin, Minsk, a camp in Siberia and Bazar

Testimony

Testimony of Miriam Folk, born in Lublin, Poland, 1934, regarding her experiences as a child in Lublin, Minsk, a camp in Siberia and Bazar Life before the war; well-to-do traditional family. Outbreak of the war; rumors of what is happening to the Jews in areas under German occupation; escape to the Soviet Union; crosses the Bug river; escape to Minsk; deportation to Siberia; camp life; labor logging trees; suicide of inmates; transfer to Uzbekistan; life in Uzbekistan; food shortage. Reunion with her father; move to a Polish orphanage in Bazar; orphanage life; knits clothing and sells them in exchange...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Collection of the Ministerie van Sociale Zaken - Ministry of Welfare in the Netherlands, regarding concentration camps and prisons, dated, 1945-1947

Collection of the Ministerie van Sociale Zaken - Ministry of Welfare in the Netherlands, regarding concentration camps and prisons, dated, 1945-1947 Included in the collection: Documents, testimonies, reports, research, questionnaires, official documentation of the Ministerie van Sociale Zaken and others, regarding the camps.

Type of Material : Questionnaire, Study, Reports, Official Documentation, Testimony

Language : French, English, Dutch, German

Directions for completing a form in order to receive new identity cards from UNRRA at the Landsberg DP camp

File Number : 369

Type of Material : Form, Announcement

Language : Yiddish / Latin Characters

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