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Testimony of Amiel Szymon (Simon), given in the Bialystok district court, 12 October 1945, and testimony of a US Army soldier regarding alleged war crimes by the German forces in Lodz, and other testimonies regarding the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the German occupation of Konin, Poland - Testimony of Amiel Szymon (Simon), the son of Jozef and Sara Szymon, a merchant residing at 31 Sosnowa Street in Bialystok; testimony regarding his experiences as a resident in the Bialystok Ghetto; in October 1942, during a raid by the Jewish police, he is arrested along with another 20 Jews and transferred to Nowosiolki;...

File Number : 94

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish, English, German

Testimony of Yitzkhak Libovitz, born in Nitra, Czechoslovakia in 1937, regarding the persecution of his family and his experiences in Slovakia

Testimony of Yitzkhak Libovitz, born in Nitra, Czechoslovakia in 1937, regarding the persecution of his family and his experiences in Slovakia Son of an Orthodox Jewish family; father a carpenter; partition of Czechoslovakia; the Slovakian fascist regime; father receives an order to report to the Nováky camp in 1941; father’s labor in carpentry during the renovation of the camp; deportation of mother and five children to Nováky in 1942; life in the camp; study and work; weekly transports to the extermination camps; father removed by the German commanding officer from the list of those to be transported;...

File Number : 14288

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Esther Golob, born in Iasi, Romania in 1938, regarding the persecution of her family and her experiences in Romania

Testimony of Esther Golob, born in Iasi, Romania in 1938, regarding the persecution of her family and her experiences in Romania Daughter of a traditional family; father a tailor; the German occupation in 1941; men ordered to report to the police station; transfer to the “death train”; father murdered in a pogrom; murder of her two cousins in the courtyard of the police station; escape with her mother and siblings from the home to various hiding places; hunger; hiding the eldest brother to keep him from being captured and taken for forced labor; liberation in 1944; aliya of the older siblings to Eretz Israel...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Bracha Bronya (Oster) Rosner, born in Jaworzno, Poland in 1926, regarding her experiences in Jaworzno, and deportation to Sosnowiec, Annaberg and Gross Masselwitz camps and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Bracha Bronya (Oster) Rosner, born in Jaworzno, Poland in 1926, regarding her experiences in Jaworzno, and deportation to Sosnowiec, Annaberg and Gross Masselwitz camps and other places Her childhood in Jaworzno; German occupation, September 1939; anti-Jewish legislation; halting of studies; yellow badge; young people receive an order to present themselves [to the authorities] for forced labor; finding a hiding place with a non-Jewish neighbor woman; transfer of her mother to forced labor; deportation to Sosnowiec camp; release of her mother; deportation to Annaberg camp; labor in the kitchen;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew