Testimony of Ziskind Shmuelevitz, born in Czestochowa, Poland, 1918, regarding his experiences in Czestochowa, in hiding, the underground, Fuerstenfeldbruck and other places
Membership in the Hashomer Hatzair movement.
German Army occupation of Czestochowa; life under German occupation including a shortage of food and labor in a Vulcan factory casting iron; casting of weapons in the underground; "Aktions"; in hiding in a bunker with his mother; betrayal of his mother by a Jewish informer; membership in an anti-Nazi organization including [the implementation of] acts of sabotage; deportation of his family,...
Testimony of Judah Abitbol, born in Safi, Morocco, 1932, regarding his experiences in Safi and Israel
Life of his family members; observance of religious life; activities in the Charles Netter movement; attends an Alliance school.
Life under Vichy rule, 1940; attitude of the Moslem population; invasion of the Allied forces to North Africa; life after the invasion, 1942; studies in an ORT school; activities in the Magen David movement; Zionist education; aliya to Israel from Marseille, 1949; life in Israel.
Notebook belonging to Pesia Gotman, born in Sofjowa, 10 January 1920, who left her family 10 November 1938 as part of a group of young people under the auspices of the Joint Distribution Committee in Warsaw, and went to London and the United States; school certificate from 1929
Testimony of Avraham Veis, born in Bekescsaba, Hungary, 1922, regarding his experiences in Bekescsaba, Budapest, the Papa Ghetto, a labor battalion in Csepel and other places
Life in Bekescsaba before the war; ultra-Orthodox family; witness learns in a yeshiva until its closure; return to his family's home, 1937.
Escape to Budapest, 1940; life in Budapest including studies; escape to Papa using a false Jewish identity, 1943; German occupation, 1944; deportation to the Papa Ghetto; escape to Budapest using a false non-Jewish identity; transfer to a labor battalion, May 1944; transfer to Csepel, life in...
Testimony of Lion Gershon, born in Berkovitsa, Bulgaria, 1924, regarding his experiences in Berkovitsa, as a forced laborer in Lovech and the Pleven area, and with the partisans
Life in Berkovitsa before the war; family with hardships; his father is sick; witness attends a state elementary school.
Outbreak of the war; transfer to forced labor in Lovech; life in the Pleven area including labor clearing rubble and paving roads; joins the partisans; activities with the partisans, 1944; Soviet occupation.
Meets emissaries from Eretz Israel; joins youth movements; move to Bucharest; move to Austria; move to...
Testimony of Aharon Hochstein, born in Cieszyn, Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences in Krakow, Niemirow and Novosibirsk
From a hasidic religious family; the Cieszyn community.
Outbreak of the war, 1939; his family escapes to Krakow; transfer to Niemirow; life under Soviet rule; deportation to a detention camp in Novosibirsk, 1940; his parents' labor in the forest; keeping kosher.
Return to Krakow, 1946; move to a children's home in Aix-les-Bains with help from the JDC; aliya to Israel, 1999.
Testimony of Ida (Reish) Shkoler, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1919, regarding her experiences in Marculesti and Bershad
Life before the war; witness' father is a salaried carpenter, her mother has a poultry store; attends an ORT school.
German occupation, 1941; deportation to Marculesti by train, December 1941; transfer to Bershad; life in Bershad including deaths of her parents and brother from typhus; liberation by the Red Army, 1945.
Move to Bacau; Mizrachi aliya training; aliya attempt to Eretz Israel on the ship, "Pan York", 1947; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Israel, 1948; marriage, 1948.
Testimony of Reuven Reuben Naier Naor, born in Niemce, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Wolbrom Ghetto, Rozwadow, Stalowa Wola, Plaszow and other places
From a religious Zionist family; childhood in Wolbrom; learns in a "heder", a Polish school, and an ORT school in Piotrkow; Beitar activities.
Outbreak of the war, 1939; unsuccessful attempt to escape to the East; death of the witness' sick father; deportation to the Wolbrom Ghetto; ghetto life including labor in the mail; receives a pass to go out of the ghetto and establishment of contacts with Poles; help to Jews in sending mail and...
Testimony of Yaakov Jasha Bernstein, born in Rowne, Poland, 1936, regarding his experiences in Dnepropetnousl and Zatonskoye
Zionist secular family; his father is a technical advisor to factories and the principal of an ORT school in Brzesc Nad Bugiem; his father was a member of Hehalutz Hatzair movement; move of the family to Ozierany.
Escape with his mother and brothers in the direction of Kiev, 1940; capture of his father and his murder in Ozierany; life with his mother and brothers in Dnepropetnousl; death of his brother from illness; life in Zatonskoye until 1946; end of the war.
Move with his...
Testimony of Yaakov Bielostotzki, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in Bialystok, Tashkent, a Soviet punishment camp and the Polish Army
From a modern traditional family.
Outbreak of the war, 1939; German occupation; Soviet occupation; life under Communist rule; his father's labor building bunkers; learns the weaving trade; German occupation, 22 June 1941; shelling and air-raids; escape with his teacher and other students in the direction of the Soviet Union; air-raids en route; dispersion of the children in the class; joins another group of refugees; stay in Jewish homes; joins a...