-Childhood in Sasovo and Trebusany in Carpathian Ruthenia; his family is from a hasidic background( Hasidut Dolina); attendance at the "heder" in Berehovo in 1934; Hungarian control in 1938; his family moves to Moravska Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, in 1938; attendance at a yeshiva in Solotvina, Carpathian Ruthenia(Hungary) in 1937; he goes back to his family in Moravska Ostrava in 1938; he joins the Bnei Akiva movement and moves to Prague, Czechoslovakia; agricultural training on a farm in Louny and in Stribrna Skalice; he goes back to Prague and moves to a farm in Hostoun Kladno; he is arrested by the gestapo in...
Testimony of Eliahu Ervin Reisman, born in Tiszakarad, Hungary, 1928, regarding his experiences in Tiszakarad, the Papa Ghetto, Auschwitz, Mildorf, Feldafing DP camp and other places
His childhood in Tiszakarad; learns in a yeshiva in Ujhely.
German occupation of Tiszakarad, 1944; deportation to the Papa Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz, 1944; transfer to Mildorf camp; camp life; air-raids on the railroad tracks by the US Army and the British Army; liberation by the US Army, 1945.
Move to Feldafing DP camp; camp life including mortality due to typhus; move to Foehrenwald DP camp; emigration to the...
Testimony of Yehoshua Hotner, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1910, regarding his aliya to Eretz Israel in 1934 and the experiences of Avraham Levin, his brother-in-law, in the Warsaw Ghetto including the writing of a diary for the Oneg Shabbat Archives and his murder in Treblinka camp
Life before the war; attends a Jewish high school and his teacher is Arie Levin; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1934; activities of Avraham Levin in the Oneg Shabbat Archives in the Warsaw Ghetto; discovery of Levin's diary in the Archives after the war; testimony of the murder of Avraham Levin in Treblinka; publication of the diary, 1969. ...
Testimony of Eliezer Liebstein, born in Nagyivan, Hungary, 1919, regarding his experiences as a forced laborer near the Dniester River, in Soviet captivity and in Siberia
Life in a small village; move to a city near Debrecen; attends a Jewish school and a Hungarian high school; learns in a "heder" and a yeshiva.
Draft to forced labor, July 1940; labor digging a channel and building a bridge (which was exploded by the partisans) on the Dniester River; lack of sanitary conditions; taken to Soviet captivity, 1942; exiled to Siberia; labor logging trees; use of inmates to discover mines; mass mortality;...
Testimony of Gershon Plata, born in Lututow, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Ukrainian villages and combat as a Polish soldier serving in the Wanda Wasilewska unit
From a family of Gur hasidim with hardships; learns in a "heder" and a yeshiva.
Outbreak of the war, 1939; escape to the east; drafted to forced labor for the Soviets; release at Brzesc Nad Bugiem, 1941; German occupation; wanderings and hiding in various places; life in Ukrainian villages using a false identity; joins the Wanda Wasilewska unit of Polish soldiers; combat in various places including Berlin; end of the war.
Escape...
Testimony of Joseph Kornreich, born in Tylicz, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in Staszkowka, Bobowa, Plaszow, Bierzanow and Buchenwald
Life before the war; the Jewish community; studies in Krynica; learns in a yeshiva in Nowy Sacz.
Outbreak of the war, September 1939; abuse of Jews; deportation of the family, 1940; transfer to Staszkowka; life in Staszkowka; transfer to Bobowa, 1942; transfer to Plaszow; transfer to Bierzanow; transfer to Buchenwald; transfer to Skarzysko Kamienna; transfer back to Buchenwald; liberation, April 1945.
Life on Kibbutz Buchenwald; aliya to Eretz Israel onboard...
Testimony of Pinchas Spilman, born in Ludwigshafen, Germany, 1922, regarding his experiences in Frankfurt, Beuthen and the Kindertransport to Great Britain
Life before the Nazi rise to power; Nazi rise to power; learns in a yeshiva in Frankfurt; emigration of his father to the United States, early 1938; deportation to Beuthen, October 1938; Kristallnacht; move to relatives; move to Great Britian in the Kindertransport, January 1939.
Move to his father in the United States; life in New York; activities in Bnei Akiva youth movement; aliya training; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947.