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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Aron Bitter, born in Popelniki, Poland in 1918, regarding his experiences in the Popelniki and Snyatin Ghettos, in Sambor, Rajtarowice, Biskowice and more

Memoirs of Aron Bitter, born in Popelniki, Poland in 1918, regarding his experiences in the Popelniki and Snyatin Ghettos, in Sambor, Rajtarowice, Biskowice and more Life before the war; German occupation in June 1941; transfer to forced labor; establishment of a ghetto; transfer of Jews unfit for work to Yanovskiy and their murder, including Abram's parents and siblings; deportation to the Snyatin Ghetto in September 1942; transfer to Auschwitz; escape from the train; escaping to different places and work in the Tarnopol district; hiding his Jewish origin; forging a Ukrainian birth certificate with the help...

File Number : 3612

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Ukrainian

Memoirs of Galina (Rayfler) Obligorskaya, born in Velikiy Kochurov, Romania in 1923, regarding her experiences in Chernovtsy and Yedintsy, in Kopay camp, in the Kopaygorod Ghetto and more

Memoirs of Galina (Rayfler) Obligorskaya, born in Velikiy Kochurov, Romania in 1923, regarding her experiences in Chernovtsy and Yedintsy, in Kopay camp, in the Kopaygorod Ghetto and more Studies in Chernovtsy; outbreak of war on 22 June 1941; murder of Jewish neighbors by German soldiers; her rescue by her friend Marchel Bzovy (son of a priest); transfer to Molodia; transfer to Yedintsy; transfer to Ataki; transfer to Mogilev Podolskiy; the murder of her mother Ita Rayfler on the way; transfer to Kopay camp; murder of her father Yefim Rayfler in winter 1942; deportation to Kopaygorod in 1944; liberation by...

File Number : 4568

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Russian

Memoirs of Gizya Rayfler, born in Velikiy Kochurov, Romania in 1928, regarding her experiences in Yedintsy and Ataki, in Kopay camp, in the Kopaygorod Ghetto and more

Memoirs of Gizya Rayfler, born in Velikiy Kochurov, Romania in 1928, regarding her experiences in Yedintsy and Ataki, in Kopay camp, in the Kopaygorod Ghetto and more Outbreak of war; murder of Jews by Romanian policemen; beatings and torture; life in Molodia; humiliation and torture; transfer to Yedintsy; transfer to Ataki; the murder of her mother Ita Rayfler; transfer to Mogilev Podolskiy; transfer to Kopay camp in September 1941; murder of her father Yefim Rayfler in winter 1942; deportation to the Kopaygorod Ghetto in 1944; liberation by the Red Army in March 1944; return to Velikiy Kochurov; enlistment...

File Number : 4567

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Russian

Memoirs of Rivka (Zlotnik) Lustigman, regarding her experiences in Kozin, in the Kozin Ghetto and while wandering among villages in the surrounding area

Persecutions and murders of the Jews of Kozin by Germans and Ukrainians; forced labor; stay in the Kozin Ghetto; "Aktions" in the ghetto; murder of the witness's mother; escape by the witness with her father and other family members from the ghetto; searches for a hiding place; wanderings between villages; news regarding the fate of her family members, who were hiding in the villages in the surrounding area (all of them were murdered); separation of the witness from her father; news regarding the murder of her father; hiding with local residents until the liberation in 1944; return to Kozin; taking her niece...

File Number : 128

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Izydor Ferber, regarding his experiences in Lwow Ghetto, Janowska camp and in hiding

Testimony of Izydor Ferber, regarding his experiences in Lwow ghetto, Janowska camp and escape to Bucharest 0n July 30, 1943 German occupation, June 1941; restrictions on the Jews; pogroms against the Jews perpetrated by Germans and Ukrainians; Another pogrom known as "Petliura Days"; establishment of the Lwow Ghetto; ghetto life including "Aktions"; November, 1941 German concentration camp Janowska was established; deportation to Janowska; The first deportation to the Belzec extermination camp in March 1941. Following these initial deportations, death by disease and shootings, Jews were forced to work....

File Number : 251

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

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File Number : 1745

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Memoirs of Albin Ostrowski, formerly Hersz Chaim Watcblum, regarding the fate of the Jews of Zofiówka

- experiences of Zofiówka Jews during the war, written by Albin Ostrowski in 1944-1945: Description of Zofiówka (Sofievka, Trokhimbrod) – a Jewish village; arrival of the witness to Zofiówka at the end of 1939 as a refugee from Poland, and his work at a Jewish school in the village; life in Zofiówka under Soviet rule; outbreak of war on 22 June 1941; retreat of the Red Army through Zofiówka; persecution of Jews by Ukrainian nationalists; occupation by the Germans; robbery of Jewish property; forced labor; description of Dr. Klinger - a Jew who presented himself as a German, provided Zofiówka Jews with work...

File Number : 12267

Type of Material : Memoirs, Personal Documents

Language : English

Memoirs written by Label Buchtrager, born in Hrubieszow, Poland in 1916, immediately after the liberation, including documentation of his experiences wandering between the ghettos in western Ukraine, in the Zdolbunow Ghetto and among the partisans

Outbreak of war in 1939; move from Hrubieszow to Western Ukraine; move to the Soviet hinterland and working in a textile factory; return to western Ukraine and work for a Czech farmer; outbreak of war between Germany and the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941 and unsuccessful attempt to escape; establishment of ghettos; help of his Czech employer in obtaining documents to allow the witness freedom of movement; the witness's wandering between ghettos in the Ostrog area, and supplying food to the Jews of the area; evading Ukrainian policemen and a Jewish policeman who tried to arrest him; request to the chairman of the...

File Number : 12386

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Yiddish

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