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Testimony of Rub Israel, born in Sasovo, Carpathian Ruthenia, Czechoslovakia, in 1923 regarding his arrest in Prague and Dresden and regarding Theresienstadt , Dachau and other camps

-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...

File Number : 13688

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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

Testimony

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...

File Number : 13132

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

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. ...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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

Testimony

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;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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

Testimony

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...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Joseph Kornreich, born in Tylicz, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in Staszkowka, Bobowa, Plaszow, Bierzanow and Buchenwald

Testimony

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...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Circular, Statistical Data, Official Documentation, Survey Report, Protocol, Financial Accounts

Language : English

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Type of Material : Official Documentation, Survey Report, Statistical Data

Language : English

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Type of Material : Survey Report, Official Documentation, Statistical Data, Brochure

Language : English

Testimony of Pinchas Spilman, born in Ludwigshafen, Germany, 1922, regarding his experiences in Frankfurt, Beuthen and the Kindertransport to Great Britain

Testimony

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.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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