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Personal documents of Henia Wachsman, dated, 1917-1939

Personal documents of Henia Wachsman, dated, 1917-1939 - Postcards and letters written in Yiddish, sent to Henka Wachsman in Eretz Israel by her parents in Krakow, 1936-1939; - Letters written in Polish, sent by Ceska Dranger in Krakow to her sister Henia Wachsman in Eretz Israel, 1937-1939; one letter is dated, 15 April 1937, and the remainder of the letters are dated, 1939; - Postcard sent by Bobek Dranger in Andrychow to his aunt Henka Wachsman in Eretz Israel, 08 January 1939; - Letter sent by her sister Ceska and her nephew Baruch Dranger to Henia Wachsman in Eretz Israel, undated; - Letter...

File Number : 2160

Type of Material : Memoir Book, Obituary, Personal Documents, Postcard, Letter

Language : Hebrew, Polish, Yiddish

Testimony of Ann Wigoda née Mendelsohn, born in 1932 in Berlin, about her experiences as a girl in Berlin, her escape to Brussels, and her survival in orphanages and convents in Belgium under a false identity

Childhood in Berlin as the Nazis rise to power; escapes with parents to Brussels in 1938 (illegally); life under German occupation in 1940; father arrested and deported to a camp in 1941; mother falls ill and is taken to the Jewish Weisenbeek hospital near Brussels in 1941; witness placed in a residence at a teachers' college in Laeken in 1942 under a false identity; transferred to a convent in Chimay, spends several months there and is evicted in 1942; placed in the Pensiona des Soeurs de St. Vincent de Paul convent in Obourg, Mons Département; lives in the convcent under a false identity until liberation;...

File Number : 13517

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Juszko Josef Herz, born in 1927 in Zavazna Poruba, Czechoslovakia, about his experiences in Zavazna Poruba, Mikulas, hiding in Roksbany, etc.

Testimony of Juszko Josef Herz, born in 1927 in Zavazna Poruba, Czechoslovakia, about his experiences in Zavazna Poruba, Mikulas, hiding in Roksbany, etc. Life in Zavazna Poruba as offspring of a lone Jewish family; deportation to Mikulas in 1941; typhus and hospitalization in April 1942; spared with parents from transport to camps; life in hiding in Roksbany from August 1942 to March 1944; taken to Lamsdorf; taken to Lichtenfeld; liberation in April 1945; immigration to Eretz Israel in 1947.

File Number : 13566

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Gershon Shapiro, born in Lodz, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in Lodz, the Lodz Ghetto, HASAG Czestochowa and in Germany

Testimony of Gershon Shapiro, born in Lodz, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in Lodz, the Lodz Ghetto, HASAG Czestochowa and in Germany His childhood in a traditional, Zionist family. German Army occupation of Lodz, September 1939; escape to Warsaw; return to Lodz; life in Lodz including decrees and restrictions; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto, 1940; Lodz Ghetto life including activities by Rumkowski, the head of the Judenrat; "Sperre", curfew "Aktion", 1942; labor in the hospital; deportation to HASAG Czestochowa camp, January 1944; camp life including labor in a weapons factory; liberation by the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Melinarski Judith born in Bedzin Poland 1928.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ella Weiss, born in Sighet, Romania, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Sighet Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, on a death march and in Bergen-Belsen

Testimony of Ella Weiss, born in Sighet, Romania, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Sighet Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, on a death march and in Bergen-Belsen Childhood in a religious family. Hungarian occupation, 1940; refugees from Poland and Czechoslovakia; deterioration of the economic and security situation; deportation to the Sighet Ghetto, Pesach (08 April), 1944; mutual help; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Shavuot (28 May), 1944; selections; help from the female physician and the Blockalteste; religious holidays in the camp; death march to Bergen-Belsen, January 1945; hunger; total...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Eva Cederbaum, born in Radom, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Pionki camp and additional camps

Testimony of Eva Cederbaum, born in Radom, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Pionki camp and additional camps Aliya to Israel, 1984.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Rita (Baran) Goland, born in Vienna, Austria, 1921, regarding her experiences in Vienna and aliya to Eretz Israel

Testimony of Rita (Baran) Goland, born in Vienna, Austria, 1921, regarding her experiences in Vienna and aliya to Eretz Israel Life before the war. Anschluss; aliya to Eretz Israel in the context of WIZO (Womens International Zionist Organization). Receives knowledge regarding the murder of her parents in a gas van; visits in Vienna.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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