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Testimony of Ariela Fulman Harkavi, born in Lodz, Poland, in 1924, regarding her experiences in the ‎Lodz and Warsaw Ghettos, her escape and living under a false identity

Testimony of Ariela Fulman Harkavi, born in Lodz, Poland, in 1924, regarding her experiences in the ‎Lodz and Warsaw Ghettos, her escape and living under a false identity Her childhood in a well-to-do secular family; attendance at a Polish school; antisemitism; ‎occupation by the Germans; her expulsion from secondary school due to “Numerus Clausus” ‎‎(Jewish quotas); torching of the synagogue; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto at the beginning of ‎‎1940; transfer to Warsaw; transfer to the Warsaw Ghetto; studies at the Florence Nightingale ‎School of Nursing in the ghetto; death of her father; life in the...

File Number : 13653

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Miriam Marila Liber Prague née Kostin, born in 1921 in Warsaw, about her experiences in the Warsaw ghetto, in Hungary, with the partisans in Yugoslavia, and as a forced laborer in Germany

Life before the war; German occupation ensues; dispossession; deportation to the Warsaw ghetto; life in the ghetto; escaping to the "Aryan" side with help of forged papers; marrying; escaping to Lwów; escaping back to Warsaw; escaping to Hungary; receiving privileges from the Polish Consulate; escaping to Yugoslavia; joining the partisans in March 1944; sabotaging a railroad track; arrested by the Germans and taken to Germany; working in a factory that manufactures spare parts for tanks; posing as a Croat; receiving extra privileges; liberated by American forces; reaching Buchenwald; encountering Holocaust...

File Number : 13612

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Joseph Lavi, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1919, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, Majdanek and Budzyn camps and using a false identity in Warsaw

Testimony of Joseph Lavi, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1919, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, Majdanek and the Budzyn camp and using a false identity in Warsaw Life in Warsaw during the war; establishment of the Warsaw Ghetto; selections; deportations of Jews to various camps; confiscation of Jewish property before boarding the trains; shooting into the train cars as a means of instilling fear; experiences of Jews who had converted [to Christianity] (they did not receive preferential treatment); labor in a garage; Judenrat activities on behalf of the Jews; children's homes and youth group...

File Number : 8515

Type of Material : Testimony, Interview(s)

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yisrael Shpira, born in Radomsko, Poland in 1936, regarding his experiences as a young boy in Radomsko, his hiding in the home of a Polish family in Warsaw and in Radom

Testimony of Yisrael Shpira, born in Radomsko, Poland in 1936, regarding his experiences as a young boy in Radomsko, his hiding with a Polish family in Warsaw and in Radom Life before the war; he was born into a well -to-do secular family; outbreak of the war in 1939; obtaining forged papers; escape with his family to Warsaw; arrest by the Germans and transfer to the "Pawiak" prison under a fake non-Jewish identity; release after a short while; escape and hiding in the home of a respected Polish family; life in the family until the " Polish uprising" in August 1944; bombings; deportation with all the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letter written by M. Mirskiy, regarding marking the 20th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising also in the Soviet Union; proposal to organize a committee in large cities in the Soviet Union to mark the anniversary of the uprising, and to translate art works and films on the subject into Russian; his claim that most Soviet Union citizens are not familiar with the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Letter written by M. Mirskiy regarding the need to mark the 20th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising also in the Soviet Union, his proposal to organize a special committee in the large cities in the Soviet Union to...

File Number : 81

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Russian

Letter from Moisey Berman expressing a desire to translate Berngard Mark's book on the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising from Yiddish to Russian, and recommending material published in the Soviet Union about the uprising

File Number : 17

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Russian

Letter written by Tevye Avraam from Tallin requesting the translation into Russian of Bernard Mark's book about the Warsaw Ghetto, which was published by "Der Emes" in Yiddish in 1947; Ehrenburg's reply that he does not work at the publishing company and therefore he cannot help

File Number : 10

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Russian

Testimony of David Zilbert, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, in hiding on the Aryan side and during the Warsaw Polish Uprising

Testimony

Testimony of David Zilbert, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, in hiding on the Aryan side and during the Warsaw Polish Uprising Leaving the Warsaw Ghetto, late 1940; selling newspapers; selling cigarettes in the Three Crosses Square; in hiding in various places in Warsaw using a false identity, 1941-1944; murder of his family in Treblinka, 1942; taking part in the Warsaw Polish Uprising, August 1944. Living in a Coordination organization kibbutz, 1946; unsuccessful aliya attempt to Eretz Israel, 1947; detention in Cyprus; fighting with the Palmach, 1947-1948;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Meir Haim Reizmovich Shlomovitz, born in Chust, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Chust Ghetto, as a forced laborer in Auschwitz, Warszawa and Dachau camps, and in other places Life in Chust during the annexation to Hungary, 1939; life under Hungarian rule; German occupation, 1944; deportation to forced labor under the supervision of Hungarians; Chust Ghetto life in an open ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz camp, 1944; transfer to Warszawa camp with two of his brothers, 1944; camp life including labor clearing rubble from the ghetto; transfer to Dachau camp; transfer to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avraham Warshawsky, born in Lodz, Poland, 1933, regarding his experiences in Lodz, Warsaw and on the Aryan side while using a false identity

Testimony

Testimony of Avraham Warshawsky, born in Lodz, Poland, 1933, regarding his experiences in Lodz, Warsaw and on the Aryan side while using a false identity His childhood in a well-to-do, secular family including his family's attachment to Jewish tradition and Zionism; attends a Jewish kindergarten. Outbreak of the war, 1939; deportation [of Jews] to forced labor; move to Warsaw, December 1939; deportation to the Warsaw Ghetto, January 1940; move to his aunt's apartment in coordination with the Judenrat; Warsaw Ghetto life including overcrowding; move to the Aryan side using a false identity, in exchange for...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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