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Testimony of Regina Tova Kaim Davidovitz, born in 1929 in Chust, Czechoslovakia, about her deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau

Testimony

Testimony of Regina Tova Kaim Davidovitz, born in 1929 in Chust, Czechoslovakia, about her deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau Daily life in Chust; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; witness and her two sisters survive; forced labor in a belt factory; death marches to Ravensbrück and thence to a labor camp in Neustadt Glewe; hospitalized in Prague; illegal immigration to Eretz Israel in 1947 aboard the Exodus; deportation; re-immigration to Israel in 1949.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Poems by Mary Goldberg regarding camp life for the female inmates of the Plauen labor camp, written May 1945

File Number : 240

Type of Material : Poems/songs

Language : Polish

Memoirs of Haya (Lipman) Rubinovitz, born in Linchits, Poland in 1924, regarding her experiences in the Ozorkow Ghetto, the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen camps, and in Salzwedel labor camp, including the experiences of the remainder of her family members, a genealogy, and photocopies of inmate cards from Auschwitz and Dachau camps The Lipman family resided in Ozorkow during 1934-1942; during a selection in April 1942, everyone marked with the letter B was deported to Chelmno camp to be murdered, including Haya's mother and other family members; transfer of the remainder of the family members to...

File Number : 7759

Type of Material : Maps, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Miriam (Sztajnhorn) Bronsztajn, born in Lodz, Poland, 1933, regarding her experiences as a child in Rozprza, the Piotrkow Ghetto, Ravensbrueck and Bergen-Belsen

Testimony

Testimony of Miriam (Sztajnhorn) Bronsztajn, born in Lodz, Poland, 1933, regarding her experiences as a child in Rozprza, the Piotrkow Ghetto, Ravensbrueck and Bergen-Belsen Life before the war; well-to-do, Zionist family; move to Piotrkow; life in Piotrkow. German occupation, 1939; confiscation of valuables; leaves her family's home because the home is on streets where Jews are banned to live; transfer to Rozprza because of the Germans' need for her father; receives knowledge regarding the deportation of the Jews of Piotrkow; 1942; concentration of the Jews in a square; escape with her mother and brother...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Two letters written by Lidia Berger from Auschwitz to Karoline Spiewak, 03/12/1944 and 17/12/1944

File Number : 1319

Type of Material : Letter

Language : German

Testimony of Yitzhak Gdalevski, born in Ostrog, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Ostrog, Stalingrad, in detention and as a Red Army soldier in Berlin

Testimony

Testimony of Yitzhak Gdalevski, born in Ostrog, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Ostrog, Stalingrad, in detention and as a Red Army soldier in Berlin From a family of limited means; attends a Polish school; displays of antisemitism; Beitar and Gordonia activities; enlists in the Irgun. German occupation; aliya training; arrest by the Soviet authorities; escape to the Soviet Union, 1941; transfer to Stalingrad; camp life including labor digging pits and in refineries; attempt to enlist in Anders Army; detention; drafted into the Red Army; combat in Berlin and liberation of a women's camp in the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of survivor Ruth Stein-Issen, who was deported from Westerbork camp on the transport on 23/02/1943

Testimony of survivor Ruth Stein-Issen, who was deported from Westerbork camp on the transport on 23/02/1943 Course of the events from her arrival to Westerbork camp, en route during her deportation to the East, and until her evacuation from Ravensbrueck camp in a Swedish Red Cross ambulance, and her return to the Netherlands via Denmark; the testimony was collected by the RIOD in 1947; Included in the file: List of names of additional survivors, who were also deported on this transport.

File Number : להזמנת התיק ראו קוד מיקרופילם

Type of Material : Testimony, List of Names

Language : Dutch

Notebook of poems by Ilse (Wetterheim) Kahane regarding life in the camps, 1944-1945, and a poem she wrote after her liberation from Bergen-Belsen, 12 August 1945

Notebook of poems by Ilse (Wetterheim) Kahane regarding life in the camps, 1944-1945, and a poem she wrote after her liberation from Bergen-Belsen, 12 August 1945 In her poems, the author describes life in the various camps in which she lived: labor in the officers' kitchen, crowded barracks, transfer from camp to camp; mortality in the camp, experiences unique to women; food in the camps and more.

File Number : 105

Type of Material : Poem/song

Language : German

Memoirs of Kh. Lebedeva, born in Daugavpils, Latvia on 01/12/1915, regarding her experiences in the Daugavpils Ghetto and in Ereda, Stutthof and Schivelbein camps

Memoirs of Kh. Lebedeva, born in Daugavpils, Latvia on 01/12/1915, regarding her experiences in the Daugavpils Ghetto and in Ereda, Stutthof and Schivelbein camps Life in Daugavpils before the war; she studies in the Jewish high school, and teaches in a Jewish school in the city; outbreak of World War II; air-raids on Daugavpils, and her mother is injured; establishment of the Daugavpils Ghetto, under the administration of Voldemar Zaube; Daugavpils Ghetto life; abuse by the Germans and the guards in the ghetto; "Aktion" on 27/07/1941 and the murder of elderly people; murder of children; disease; manhunt for...

File Number : 5979

Type of Material : Memoirs, Record of Murdered Persons

Language : Russian

Testimony of Joanna Ringel, born in Krakow, Poland, 1927, regarding her experiences in a sub-camp of Bergen-Belsen, November-December 1944

Testimony of Joanna Ringel, born in Krakow, Poland, 1927, regarding her experiences in a sub-camp of Bergen-Belsen, November-December 1944 Deportation from Birkenau in a transport of women, 11 November 1944; travel by train for three full days; entry into the camp: lack of organization, and they sleep in tents, and lack of order in the distribution of food; rest, without any labor; lack of food; occasional departure of transports to various places of labor in Germany, according to the requests of the employers; transfer to a barracks, and an improvement in the housing conditions; transfer in a transport to...

File Number : 88

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

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