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Testimony of Mirka (Klaver) Zaklikovski, born in Lodz, Poland, 1927, regarding the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, and other camps, 1940-1945

Childhood before the war; Outbreak of the war; arrival of refugees from Czechoslovakia and Germany; restrictions; deportation to the ghetto; curfew; forced labor; taking of her father to forced labor; "Aktions"; public hangings of Jews; escapes from the ghetto; cultural life in the ghetto; liquidation of the ghetto; transfer to labor camps in Germany; working in a weapons factory; reasonable treatment by the Germans; liberation by the British Army; Rebuilding life after the war; aliya to Israel, 1949.

File Number : 13855

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe (Dezho) David, born in Gurghiu, Romania, 1927 regarding his experiences in Kaufering and additional camps

Childhood; family background; the murder of his father by Romanians, 1934; attends a Romanian school and moves to learn in a workshop in Cluj; Annexation of the area to Hungary; German invasion, 1944; yellow badge; concentration of the Jews in a brick factory; deportation to Auschwitz camp; transfer to Kaufering camp; positive treatment by the German labor manager; labor in an underground factory for airplane production; transfer to Dachau; death march towards Bad-Toelz; liberation; Return to Gurghiu and Cluj; aliya training in Timisoara; illegal immigration to Eretz Israel and exile to Cyprus; digging...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Esther Mirovski Asael, born in Bedzin, Poland in 1928, regarding her experiences ‎in the Bendin Ghetto and in various camps, including Dulak, Peterswaldau, Klettendorf, and ‎Gogolin

Testimony of Esther Mirovski Asael, born in Bedzin, Poland in 1928, regarding her experiences ‎in the Bendin Ghetto and in various camps, including Dulak, Peterswaldau, Klettendorf, and ‎Gogolin Occupation and life under German rule in 1939; deportation to the Bendin Ghetto in 1941; labor in ‎a sewing workshop making uniforms for the German army; sleeping at night with her mother in the ‎factory where her father worked, outside the ghetto, out of fear of the selections; deportation to ‎a transit camp in Sosnowiec in 1943; transfer to the concentration camp in Annaberg, Germany in ‎‎1943; deportation to the...

File Number : 13668

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

The testimony of Liza Lotte Lily (Weiner) Bruml, born in 1923 in Trutnov, , Czechoslovakia - regarding her childhood in Trutnov and in the Theresienstadt Ghetto.

The testimony of Liza Lotte Lily (Weiner) Bruml, born in 1923 in Trutnov, Czechoslovakia. Childhood in Trutnov; escaping with family members before the annexation of the Sudetenland by Germany in 1938; moved to the area of the border with the Czechoslovakia; life on a relative's farm for a few weeks; move to Prague; the German occupation; her brother's illegal immigration to Eretz Israel in 1939; life under the Nazi regime; restrictions imposed on the Jews; deportation of the parents and the grandmother to the Theresienstadt Ghetto in 1942; death of her grandmother; life in the ghetto; parents’ labor in a...

File Number : 13502

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yehuda Albin, born in Tluste, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in Tluste and in the Tluste Ghetto

Testimony of Yehuda Albin, born in Tluste, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in Tluste and in the Tluste Ghetto His childhood in a Zionist, Orthodox religious family including learning in a "heder" and attending a Hebrew school and a Polish school; activities in a Zionist youth movement; displays of antisemitism before the war. Outbreak of the war; attempts by Ukrainians and Poles to attack the Jews; closure of Jewish businesses; exile to Siberia of wealthy residents and members of the intelligentsia; meets refugees from Poland; help given to the refugees; German Army occupation [of Tluste], 1941;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shmuel Fabian, born in Strzegowo, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in Strzegowo, Plonsk, the Strzegowo Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buna-Monowitz and other places

Testimony of Shmuel Fabian, born in Strzegowo, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in Strzegowo, Plonsk, the Strzegowo Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buna-Monowitz and other places German Army occupation of Strzegowo, 1939; escape to Plonsk with his family; life with his family in Plonsk, for two weeks; move back to Strzegowo; deportation [to the Strzegowo Ghetto], 1940; Strzegowo Ghetto life including "Aktions" and the hanging of Jews, 1942; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1942; camp life with two brothers, including forced labor; transfer to Buna-Monowitz, 1943; camp life including forced labor;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yefim Trostianetzki, born in Bershad, Soviet Union, 1933, regarding his experiences in the Bershad Ghetto

Testimony of Yefim Trostianetzki, born in Bershad, Soviet Union, 1933, regarding his experiences in the Bershad Ghetto Childhood; from an assimilated, wealthy family. Hungarian occupation, 1941; sending the men to repair a bridge; Romanian occupation; establishment of the Bershad Ghetto, August 1941; yellow badge; curfew; labor in workshops; frequent manhunts; hunger and disease; typhus; transporting inmates to Nikolaev and Pechora, 1943; execution of a group of inmates for their contact with partisans, late 1943; death of his father; liberation, 14 March 1944. Life after the war; aliya to Israel, 22...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

Testimony of Chava (Osterweil) Zchut, born in Krakow, Poland in 1938, regarding her experiences as a child in the Tarnow Ghetto, in Slovakia, in Budapest and while using a false identity in Vac

Testimony of Chava (Osterweil) Zchut, born in Krakow, Poland in 1938, regarding her experiences as a child in the Tarnow Ghetto, in Slovakia, in Budapest and while using a false identity in Vac Draft of her father, who is a physician, into the Polish Army in the Lwow area, 1938; German occupation, 1939; deportation to the Tarnow Ghetto with her mother, 1941; "Aktions", and they hide inside the ghetto; labor by her mother for the German industry; deportation of her father to Janowska camp, 1941; escape with her mother and other family members to Slovakia (the witness does not remember where); escape by her...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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