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Testimony of Itzhak Izi Gruengras, born in Hannover, Germany, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Bedzin Ghetto and labor camps

Testimony

Testimony of Itzhak Izi Gruengras, born in Hannover, Germany, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Bedzin Ghetto and labor camps His immediate family; his parents' livelihood; home life; central synagogue; Shabbat and religious holidays; displays of antisemitism; his father's plan to make aliya which was not implemented; move of the family Bedzin; attends school; learns Jewish studies in his grandfather's home; Bedzin Jewish community; membership in a youth movement. Outbreak of the war; attempt to escape to the East; burning of the city's main synagogue; help to Jews by a priest; help from a non-Jewish...

File Number : 11962

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Eva Traurig, born in Miskolc, 1925, regarding her experiences in Banska Bistrica, and in hiding places in the Czechoslovakian hills

Testimony

Testimony of Eva Traurig, born in Miskolc, 1925, regarding her experiences in Banska Bistrica, and in hiding places in the Czechoslovakian hills Childhood in her relatives' home in Banska Bistrica; deportation of the women to forced labor camps, 1942; being saved by a neighbor who deleted her name from the list of those to be deported; life until 1944; her family's escape to the hills with the outbreak of the Slovak National Uprising, 1944; life in hiding in Kaliste, Rudovo, and other places over the course of several months..

File Number : 10068

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documents related to investigations of Nazi war criminals, including Adolf Eichmann, Dr. Joseph Mengele, Frank Walus and Ivan Damianiuk, and the trials held against them, 1942-1992 Documents [issued] under the authorization of Israel Police investigator Menachem Russek; article by Eberhard Huebner in "Der Spiegel", published, 1983, titled, "The Eichmann Protocol"; article published in the "Yediot Aharonot" newspaper, "Avner Loess interrogates Eichmann - Eight months in one room with Eichmann", by Gideon Hasid; memorandum [?] regarding the book by Zvi Aharoni, "The Hunter", regarding the question of who...

File Number : 584

Type of Material : Survey Report, Sentence, Letter, Research Article

Language : Hebrew, English, Portuguese, German