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Testimony of Tzipora Sharf Klein, born in Stryi, Poland in 1936, regarding her experiences during ‎the liquidation of the Stryi ghetto and hiding in a bunker in 1943-1944‎

Testimony of Tzipora Sharf Klein, born in Stryi, Poland in 1936, regarding her experiences during ‎the liquidation of the Stryi ghetto and hiding in a bunker in 1943-1944‎ Her father was a timber merchant who was exiled to Siberia in 1940; the German conquest in ‎‎1941; looting of their house by Ukrainians; order to relinquish possessions; prohibition to leave the ‎house; sale of gold; expulsion to the ghetto; impersonating a Polish girl and escaping through the ‎ghetto fence; looking for food outside the ghetto at the age of five; murder of her grandmother ‎during the Great Aktion; hiding in a wine cellar;...

File Number : 13700

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Nachum Landman Ben-Artzi, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1931, regarding his experiences in Cernauti, Teplik, Bershad, Iasi, Roman and other places

Memoirs of Nachum Landman Ben-Artzi, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1931, regarding his experiences in Cernauti, Teplik, Bershad, Iasi, Roman and other places Deportation of the family to the Cernauti Ghetto at the outbreak of the war; deportation of the family to Transnistria; transfer to the Teplik camp with his parents; camp life including forced labor; decision of the Germans to murder the children and inmates unfit for work; in hiding with additional children during the "Aktion"; escape with his mother; transfer to a nearby village; he and his mother are turned in to the police by a Ukrainian farmer;...

File Number : 8264

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Tatyana Ivnitskiy Levin regarding the murder of Jews in the Litin Ghetto, 1942, and her rescue with help from her mother before her mother was murdered

File Number : 8217

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Russian

Testimony of Rina Chaika (Grinshpan) Neeman, born in Dubno, Poland, 1938, regarding her experiences as a child in the Dubno Ghetto and being hidden by Christians

Testimony

Testimony of Rina Chaika (Grinshpan) Neeman, born in Dubno, Poland, 1938, regarding her experiences as a child in the Dubno Ghetto and being hidden by Christians Raised in a secular Zionist family. Deportation to the ghetto, 1941; additional Jews entering the living quarters; hunger; yellow badge; entrustment of her baby sister to a Christian family; escape with her father's brother and his family; chase and shots by Ukrainian policemen; suicide by drowning of four of her uncle's family members; mother's drowning in the river; crossing the river by swimming on her father's back; refusal of a non-Jewish...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Zipora (Spodek) Rom, born in Brody, Poland, 1929, regarding her experiences in the Brody Ghetto, being hidden by an Ukrainian, in a forest and in labor battalions in Poland and Germany using a false identity Childhood in a wealthy and intellectual household; displays of antisemitism before the war. Soviet occupation; restrictions; deportation to Siberia; German occupation, June 1941; mass murder of the Jewish leadership in the forest; establishment of a Judenrat; preparation of a hiding place; first "Aktion" with cooperation of the Ukrainian Police; deportation of the Jews of Brody and the...

File Number : 13241

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Trial by the district courts in Klagenfurt, Vienna, Salzburg and Linz against members of the HSSPF Lublin, Volume 49; Trial against Dr. Ludwig Hahn, held in the Hamburg Regional Court: Testimonies by perpetrators (including soldiers from Police Battalion 61) and survivors regarding the Warsaw Ghetto, August 1960 - July 1961

Documentation from trials conducted in Landesgericht Klagenfurt (the Klagenfurt District Court), Landesgericht Wien (the Vienna District Court), Landesgericht Salzburg (the Salzburg District Court) and Landesgericht Linz (the Linz District Court) against members of the HSSPF (Höhere SS- und Polizeiführer-Higher SS and Police Leader) Lublin: Documentation of the trial, Volume 49; Documentation of the trial against Dr. Ludwig Hahn, held in the Hamburg Regional Court: Testimonies by perpetrators (including soldiers from Police Battalion 61) and survivors regarding the Warsaw Ghetto, August 1960 - July...

File Number : 49

Type of Material : Testimony, Names of Perpetrators, Official Documentation, Record of Persecuted Persons, Investigation Report, Letter(s), Legal Documentation, Record of Survivors

Language : German

Testimony of Sioma Gendelman, born in Rokitno, Poland, 1927, regarding his experiences in Rokitno and with the partisans in a forest

Testimony

Testimony of Sioma Gendelman, born in Rokitno, Poland, 1927, regarding his experiences in Rokitno and with the partisans in a forest Life before the war; well-to-do Zionist traditional family; attends a Tarbut school; ban of speaking Yiddish; membership in Beitar. Soviet occupation, 1939; deportation with the family to forced labor; concentration of the Jews in the market square guarded by the Ukranian police; escape with the father and siblings to a forest; life in the forest including joining the Soviet and Jewish partisans; testimony of the sabotage of 22 German trains by Zvi Elshinsky; return to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Raya (Brenholtz) Haim, born in Chisinau, Romania, 1930, regarding her experiences as a child in the Cernauti Ghetto, the Bershad Ghetto, Dombas, Iasi and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Raya (Brenholtz) Haim, born in Chisinau, Romania, 1930, regarding her experiences as a child in the Cernauti Ghetto, the Bershad Ghetto, Dombas, Iasi and other places Life before the war; from a well-to-do family; relations with Jewish and non-Jewish neighbors; family visit in Cernauti. Outbreak of the war; severance of contact with home; deportation to the Cernauti Ghetto; deportation to Transnistria by train; transfer on foot without a destination; sleeping outside; transfer to Bershad; life in the synagogue in Bershad; help from local Jews; life in the Bershad Ghetto; relations with...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Shifra (Barula) Strausberg Chosid, born in Romny, Ukraine, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Romny Ghetto, in hiding with an assumed identity in Konotop and life as a non-Jewish forced laborer in the Cologne area Life before the war. Ban on religious observance; German occupation, 1941; restrictions on the Jews; arm-band; yellow badge; deportation of men to forced labor; hanging of Jews; deportation to a ghetto; ghetto life; Ukrainian police activities; Jews are informed on; cooperation with the Ukrainians; murder of Jews including her mother and brother; mass burial of Jews including...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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