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Testimony of Shoshana Zuzi Zhuzha (Polak) Levinger, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1932 regarding her experiences in Budapest in a marked house, in the ghetto and in a children's home

Testimony

Childhood in a secular family; living in various towns due to her father's work; good relations with Christians; Move to Budapest, summer 1942 or 1943; drafting of her father into a labor battalion, probably early 1944; German occupation, March 1944; air-raids; move to a marked house; move to a protected house; eviction of all the residents by members of the Arrow Cross Party, her father arrived in an army uniform and took her out of the group; continued life in the ghetto with many children; staying in shelter most of the time; liberation by the Red Army, January 1945; Joining Youth Aliyah; aliya to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Yisrael Klein, born in Radomysl, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in Radomysl, in hiding in the forest and being hidden by farmers, in Paleniec, in a commune of Jews hiding in the forests, as Red Army soldier and more Life before the war including the ultra-Orthodox way of life of his family. German occupation, 08 September 1939; hiding with his father in the attic during the concentration of the Jewish men in the municipal market; confinement of the Jews in the church without food or water for several days; murder of many Jews by shooting; transfer of the wounded to German military...

File Number : 8636

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Yshai Tartakovski, born in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, regarding his experiences as a Red Army soldier in Dnepropetrovsk, the Mogilev area, in hiding in Igren, in captivity in Traidersdorf and more Life in Dnepropetrovsk including being drafted into the Red Army, 1940; transfer to Moscow, October 1940; transfer to a military village in the Kalinin area; transfer to Vyshny Volochyok; transfer to Pukhovichi; outbreak of the war between the Soviet Union and Germany and transfer with the headquarters staff to a forest; transfer in the direction of the front on foot; execution of a captured German...

File Number : 8565

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Russian

Memoirs of Bela Arshavski, born in Gadyach, Ukraine, 1921, regarding her experiences in Gadyach, as a Red Army soldier in Alekseyevka, a captive of the German Army and using a false identity in the villages of Ukraine Life in Gadyach at the outbreak of the war; drafted to the Red Army as a medical nurse; retreat after the Red Army [?]; correspondence with her family which had been evacuated to Uzbekistan; transfer to Alekseyevka with her battalion; air-raids; encounter with the German Army; killing of all the soldiers in the battalion except her and another physician; hiding of their personal documents and...

File Number : 8550

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Russian

Letter written by Yakov Zirnovski, born in Vilkomir, Lithuania, 1907, in Vilna, to his sister Batsheva in Eretz Israel, 25 January 1945, regarding his experiences in the Vilna Ghetto and his escape from the ghetto, in summer 1943 Work at the University in Vilna; German occupation of Vilna; dismissal of Jews from their jobs; legislation of anti-Jewish laws; murder of Jews in Ponary under the guise of forced labor; rescue from deportation on account of his not being at home; in hiding in a friend's cellar; return to his home, early September 1941; deportation to the small ghetto, where there were 8,000 Jews...

File Number : 8532

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony

Language : Russian

Memoirs of Zhenya Chernyavskaya, born in Rogozno, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences in detention, in the Demidowka Ghetto, in hiding, her wanderings using a false identity, underground activism and more Family history; parental home in Rogozno; the Soviet occupation; move to Dubno; high school studies; work as a teacher in a village in the Kozin area; pedagogical studies at Rowne. Outbreak of the war and retreat of the Soviet forces; the German occupation; establishment of Ukrainian auxiliary forces; detention, 26 July 1941; abuse by Ukrainians; release to house arrest and second detention after two...

File Number : 8531

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Russian

Memoirs of Dvora (Lichter) Levinson, born in Tarnopol, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Tarnopol Ghetto, using a false identity in villages and in a prison

Memoirs of Dvora (Lichter) Levinson, born in Tarnopol, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Tarnopol Ghetto, using a false identity in villages and in prison Life before the war; attendance at a Polish school; afternoon classes at the Hebrew school. Soviet occupation; closing of the Hebrew school; German occupation; draft of Jews to the Judenrat and murder of the draftees including her father; deportation to the Tarnopol Ghetto; ghetto life in hiding in a bunker; leaving the bunker with forged documents in the name of Stanislawa Dobryk; discovery of the bunker by the Germans and murder of those...

File Number : 8510

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, Polish, German

Letters sent to Pesa (Shnitman) Bruk, including notification that her brother Aizik Shnitman died in battle at the front and regarding the experiences of Pesa's sister Riva Shnitman while in the partisans, and personal documentation regarding service by her husband David Bruk as a Red Army soldier and by Matvey Antonovskiy as a partisan; documents dated, 1943-1970 - Letter sent to Pesa (Shnitman) Bruk by Aleksandr Yeryomin, a friend of her sister Riva, 10/01/1944; the letter tells about the fate of Riva Shnitman, born in 1924, during the war: Murder of the Jews in Rodnya by the Germans, 03/1944; escape of...

File Number : 1906

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony, Postcard, Personal Records

Language : Russian

Memoirs of the twins Alla (Gaber) Bruk and Kira (Gaber) Rashba, born in Leningrad, Soviet Union, 1935, regarding their experiences in Leningrad, Dzhankoy and using a false identity in Akkerman

Memoirs of the twins Alla (Gaber) Bruk and Kira (Gaber) Rashba, born in Leningrad, Soviet Union, 1935, regarding their experiences in Leningrad, Dzhankoy and using a false identity in Akkerman Growing up in the parents' home; Outbreak of the war; digging defense trenches; evacuation from Leningrad, 28 June 1941; arrival at Malaya Vishera; air-raids; murder of children; escape to Armavir; in hiding in a cellar; wanderings at the front; arrival to Dzhankoy; morbidity; rescue of one of the sisters by a surgeon in a German hospital in Dzhankoy; arrival in Akkerman; life using a false identity with the family...

File Number : 8496

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Russian

Memoirs of Alek Elias Kleiner, born in Krakow, Poland, 1930, regarding his experiences in the Plaszow camp, Skawina and a labor camp near Landsberg

Memoirs of Alek Elias Kleiner, born in Krakow, Poland, 1930, regarding his experiences in the Plaszow camp, Skawina and a labor camp near Landsberg Outbreak of the war; transfer to Skawina, deportation to the Plaszow camp; forced labor in Skawina; "Aktion" in Skawina; separation from his mother, sister and brother(s); typhus; hospitalization in the clinic in Plaszow; liquidation of the camp, 1943; selection; death march; transfer to a labor camp near Landsberg; camp life including forced labor at an airport; transfer on foot to the railroad station for Kaufering; escape; wanderings; finding a hiding place in...

File Number : 8486

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English

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