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Testimony of Shalom Jakubovitz, born in Sighetul Marmatiei, Romania, 1926, regarding his experiences in Sighetul Marmatiei, Auschwitz-Birkenau; Buna-Monowitz and Buchenwald

Testimony of Shalom Jakubowitz, born in Sighetul Marmatiei, Romania, 1926, regarding his experiences in Sighetul Marmatiei, Auschwitz-Birkenau; Buna-Monowitz and Buchenwald Life before the war in Sighetul Marmatiei; Outbreak of the war, 1939; increasing displays of antisemitism; draft of Jews to labor battalions; deportation to Auschwitz, 1944; forced labor; transfer to Buna-Monowitz; forced death march of the inmates, 18 January 1945; travel on a train for eight days including mortality and eating snow; arrival in Buchenwald; life in the children's block in Buchenwald; liberation; Aliya to Eretz...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letters written by family members and friends in Sziget and other places in Romania, Germany, Sweden, Belgium and France to Samuel Jakobovits in Eretz Israel and documentation regarding Samuel Jakobovits, 1943-2010 - Letter sent to Samuel Jakobovits in Eretz Israel from Paris by friends who had been with him in Buchenwald, among them Elie Lazar Wiesel, 07 October 1945; - Letters written by the sisters, Hedi, Feigi and Linci [Jakobovits] in Sziget, Bamberg and Marktredwitz to their brother Samuel Jakobovits in Eretz Israel, 1946-1947; - Short letter from Bea [Wiesel], sister of Elie Lazar Wiesel in...

File Number : 2221

Type of Material : Letter, Personal Documents, Newspaper Clippings

Language : Hebrew, English, Yiddish, Hungarian

Testimony of Chaya Bloch, born in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, 1924, regarding her experiences using a false identity in Montceau-les-Mines and Villefranche

Testimony

Testimony of Chaya Bloch, born in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, 1924, regarding her experiences using a false identity in Montceau-les-Mines and Villefranche From a religious Zionist family; emigration to France when the witness is two months old; life in Metz; trip to Montceau-les-Mines for summer vacation, 1939. German occupation and remaining in Montceau-les-Mines as a refugee from Lorraine; work in a stocking factory; move to Villefranche sur Saone; hunger; false identity of Sandra Helen; work in a wire factory; trade with the villagers; activities as a Scout leader; end of the war. Move to Lyons; work...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Menachem Cohen Shtol, born in Sighet, Romania, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Sighet Ghetto, Auschwitz and camps in the Silesia area

Testimony

Testimony of Menachem Cohen Shtol, born in Sighet, Romania, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Sighet Ghetto, Auschwitz and camps in the Silesia area Life before the war; Orthodox family; attends school and a "heder". Annexation to Hungary, 1940; restrictions on the Jews; Jews prepare for aliya to Eretz Israel, 1942; deportation of Jews without Hungarian or Ukranian citizenship to Ukraine; receives knowledge on the murder of Jews due to lack of food; termination of his education, 1942; Jewish police activities; soup kitchen; death of his mother from surgery in Budapest, 1943; deportation of the Jews...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Gita Tova (Aufleger) Bar Tov, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1936, regarding her experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto, Piatra de Cariera, Ladyzhin, Trostyanets, Mogilev-Podolski and Botosani

Testimony

Testimony of Gita Tova (Aufleger) Bar Tov, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1936, regarding her experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto, Piatra de Cariera, Ladyzhin, Trostyanets, Mogilev-Podolski and Botosani Traditional family. Soviet occupation, 1940; German occupation, 1941; deportation to the Cernauti Ghetto; transfer to Piatra de Cariera; camp life including typhus and detention of her father; release of her father; transfer to Ladyzhin; transfer back to Piatra de Cariera; transfer to Trostyanets; transfer to Romania with the help of JDC; transfer to Mogilev-Podolski; transfer to Botosani; life in Botosani and...

File Number : 12867

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Joseph Vizel, born in Polien Glod, Romania, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Dragomiresti Ghetto, Dora, Ellrich, Henkel and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Joseph Vizel, born in Polien Glod, Romania, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Dragomiresti Ghetto, Dora, Ellrich, Henkel and other places From a farmer family that owns land and traded in cattle. Hungarian occupation, 1938; termination of studies; return home; displays of antisemitism; deportation to the Dragomiresti Ghetto, 1944; ghetto life; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life including rescue from death; transfer to Dora; camp life; transfer to Ellrich; camp life including labor laying railroad tracks; transfer to Henkel; camp life including labor digging tunnels; death march to...

File Number : 12470

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Eliezer Laslo Zelfroind, born in Nagyhalasz, Hungary, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Nagyhalasz Ghetto, Buna-Monowitz, Buchenwald, Dachau and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Eliezer Laslo Zelfroind, born in Nagyhalasz, Hungary, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Nagyhalasz Ghetto, Buna-Monowitz, Buchenwald, Dachau and other places Life before the war; attends a Hebrew school; learns in various yeshivas in Hungary and Czechoslovakia. German occupation, March 1944; deportation to the Nagyhalasz Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; transfer to Buna-Monowitz; camp life including labor in a labor unit for fine mechanics; relations with the Jewish Kapo; contact with British POWs; encounter with antisemitic Polish prisoners; death march; transfer to various camps in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avraham Frank, born in Flacht, Germany, 1923, regarding his experiences in Stuttgart until 1937

Testimony

Testimony of Avraham Frank, born in Flacht, Germany, 1923, regarding his experiences in Stuttgart until 1937 Life before the Nazi rise to power in Germany; move to Stuttgart; displays of antisemitism in school; economic boycott on the Jews; change in the attitude toward the Jews during the Olympic Games; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1937; absorption.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of John Chilag, born in Gyor, Hungary, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Gyor Ghetto, Auschwitz, Birkenau, Bochum and Buchenwald

Testimony

Testimony of John Chilag, born in Gyor, Hungary, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Gyor Ghetto, Auschwitz, Birkenau, Bochum and Buchenwald Life before the war; his father associates with left wing groups. German occupation, 19 March 1944; expulsion from school; yellow badge; deportation to the Gyor Ghetto; ghetto life including his role as the community's representative to the German authorities; transfer to the regional ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; transfer to Birkenau with his father and uncle; camp life; murder of family members; transfer to Bochum with his father, August 1944; camp life...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Bentzion Arieli, born in Sighet, Romania, 1928, regarding his experiences in Sighet, the Sighet Ghetto and Auschwitz, Jawischowitz and Buchenwald camps

Testimony

Testimony of Bentzion Arieli, born in Sighet, Romania, 1928, regarding his experiences in Sighet, the Sighet Ghetto and Auschwitz, Jawischowitz and Buchenwald camps His childhood; membership in Bnei Akiva. German occupation; deportation to the Sighet Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; cruel attitude of the Sonderkommando; selection; transfer to Jawischowitz on foot; labor in a coal mine; death march to Buchenwald; the guards flee from Buchenwald; liberation by the US Army. Move to France for rehabilitation and convalescence with help from the OSE; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1945.

File Number : 8934

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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