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Documentation of Yaakov Erner, born in Sosnowicz, Poland, 1917, and his wife Rachel, including the fate of the family, 1943-2005

Documentation of Yaakov Erner, born in Sosnowicz, Poland, 1917, and his wife Rachel, including the fate of the family, 1943-2005 - Letter sent by Yaakov and Rachel Erner from Kibbutz Nir David to Yad Vashem, 20 February 2005, regarding their activities in Bericha in Szczecin; - Article written by Yaakov Erner regarding the significance of Yom Kippur after the loss of his family in the Holocaust, 26 September 2001; - Article titled, "My Brave Sister" written by Yaakov Erner regarding his sister Hanka's act of bravery during the liquidation of the Sosnowicz Ghetto, 10 August 1943; - Excerpts from...

File Number : 1237

Type of Material : Memoirs, Article, Personal Documents, Letter

Testimony of Yisrael Salek Delayahu Dłuzniewski, born in 1926 in Łódź, about his experiences in the Łódź ghetto and in the Auschwitz, Gusen-Men, Birkenau, and Mauthausen camps

Life as a boy in Lodz; family background; attends a cheder and a Polish school; belongs to the Zionist youth movement; war erupts in 1939; shops vandalized; shortage of bread; witness escapes with mother to Tomaszow Mazowiecki; escapes back to Lodz; life in the ghetto; the Sperre Aktion; parting with mother and sister, who are deported to Chełmno; labor in a leather workshop; Jews from Germany arrive; the Yom Kippur fast in the ghetto in 1944; deportation by train to Auschwitz-Birkenau; the chair of the Judenrat, Chaim Rumkowski; witnessing the murder of the commander of the Jewish police (Hosenblat); life in...

File Number : 13620

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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File Number : 13649

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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File Number : 13770

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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File Number : 13587

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Yisrael Goldhar, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1919, regarding his experiences and those of his family in Warsaw before the war and letters he received in Arkhangelsk, Soviet Union, from his father and his sister Guta in Warsaw, 11 October 1940-10 March 1941 Part 1 - Family history: Diagram of the family home and of the surrounding area, on 33 Mila St., Warsaw; attitude of the neighbors; Yom Kippur and Pesach; Moshe Goldhar, the father who perished and his family; the family of his mother, Chana Hilsberg, who perished; the sisters, Guta, born in 1899, who perished in the Warsaw Ghetto; Sala, born in...

File Number : 8485

Type of Material : Letter, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, Polish

Memoirs of Leah (Szklasz) Goltzman, born in Chelm, Poland, 1936, regarding her experiences during wanderings in the Ukraine and Stalinsk

Memoirs of Leah (Szklasz) Goltzman, born in Chelm, Poland, 1936, regarding her experiences during wanderings in the Ukraine and Stalinsk Family life in Chelm. German occupation; escape of her family from Chelm, 1939; death of her grandfather, David Szklasz, apparently from starvation, in Ukraine; arrival in Stalinsk; arrest of her father by the NKVD and his deportation to a camp; life in Stalinsk with her mother until 1945. Return to Poland with her mother after the war; arrival in Szczecin; move to a DP camp in Austria under the protection of the US military government; DP camp life in the Linz area...

File Number : 8405

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English

To be translated

Testimony

File Number : 13448

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Hella Chaya Lehrer née Engel, born in 1927 in Lodz, about her experiences in the Lodz ghetto and in the Auschwitz, Christianstadt, and Kratzau camps

Testimony

Testimony of Hella Chaya Lehrer née Engel, born in 1927 in Lodz, about her experiences in the Lodz ghetto and in the Auschwitz, Christianstadt, and Kratzau camps Childhood in Lodz; German occupation ensues in September 1939; people abused in the street; worship in hiding; ghettoization in February 1940; life in the ghetto; working in a workshop; hunger; high mortality; activity of the Judenrat and the Jewish police; difficulties in keeping kosher; the "Sperre" deportation (as the Jews called it) in September 1942; liquidation of the Lodz ghetto in summer 1944; deportation to Auschwitz; selections; several...

File Number : 13447

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Herman Leber, born in 1925 in Podkamien, Poland, about his experiences in the Pokdamien ghetto and camp, a bunker in the forest, and in the ranks of the Red Army

Life before the war; offspring of a traditional Zionist merchant family; attends a Polish-Russian school, a Jewish school, and a cheder; active in the Bnei Akiva movement; receiving refugees from Poland after war breaks out; Soviet occupation ensues in June 1939; refugees deported to Russia; German occupation ensues in 1941; Germans collaborate with Volksdeutsche (ethnic Germans); Jews deported to a ghetto out of town; men taken away for forced labor; 1,500 Jews ronded up in a synagogue that is blown up; men taken away for labor at a quarry near Sasów; prisoners abused by Lithuanian and Ukrainian guards; ghetto...

File Number : 13499

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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