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Testimony of Abraham Ashkenazi, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1930 regarding his experiences in Pazardzhik

Manifestations of anti-semitism on the part of the teachers; moving to a Jewish school; Ben Gourion's visit to the city; recruiting his father for forced labour; deportation order to Pazardzhik; shelter in the local school; restrictions; loss of contact with his father; surviving on temporary jobs; going back to Sofia; joining the movement Poalei Zion Left; defense training; aliyah bet from Marseille on board the ship Pavio in 1948; participation in the Latrun battles and in the battles in Jerusalem

File Number : 13706

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

"Last Will and Testament of a 14-Year Old Boy": written by Berl Shuster

"Last Will and Testament of a 14-Year Old Boy": written by Berl Shuster Hiding by the boy in a village (?); the boy's request of the soldiers that they fight on all the fronts and kill Germans in order for justice to prevail.

File Number : 146

Type of Material : Poem/song

Language : Yiddish

"Last Will and Testament of a 14-Year Old Boy": Poem/Song written by Berl Szuster about life in Poland under the German occupation and a request for revenge

"Last Will and Testament of a 14-Year Old Boy": Poem/Song written by Berl Szuster about life in Poland under the German occupation and a request for revenge Being hidden by a farmer in a village near Bialystok; life in Poland under the German occupation; murder of children and adults; request for vengeance on the criminals; request that justice triumph.

File Number : 124

Type of Material : Poem/song

Language : Yiddish

Reports of the German Ministry of Labor in the Warsaw Ghetto from the years 1941-1942

Reports by the Department of Labor to Dr. Auerswald, the commissar of Warsaw ghetto, on the labor force of the Jewish population in the Warsaw ghetto. Problems of male and female unemployed; Polish workers in place of Jewish workers in Jewish residential areas; list of various workshops in which Jewish professionals are employed in Warsaw ghetto; list of names of 16-17 year olds to be sent to labor camps from the Warsaw ghetto.

File Number : 198

Type of Material : List of Names, Survey Report

Language : German

Testimony of Benjamin Anolik, born in Vilna, Poland, regarding his experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Vaivara, Klooga, Lagedi and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Benjamin Anolik, born in Vilna, Poland, regarding his experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Vaivara, Klooga, Lagedi and other places Deportation to Vaivara with his brother; camp life including labor laying railroad tracks in a forest; help from an Estonian family; transfer to Kivioli on foot with the approach of the front; labor in a kiosk in Germany; meets Herman Kruk in Lagedi; the hiding of Kruk's diary; evacuation of the camp and murder of some of the inmates in a forest; transfer of the remaining inmates to the prison in Tallinn; transfer to Klooga; Polish inmates and Gypsies in labor camps in...

File Number : 3084

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

עדות של ופריק אלכסנדר, יליד 1923 Odessa ברית המועצות, על לחימה בשורות הצבא האדום כקצין ומפקד פלוגה בשנים 1942-1945

Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

עדות של קורץ גלינה לבית פלדמן, ילידת 1924 Luginy ברית המועצות, על מסתור ונדודים ביערות הסביבה ועל גיוס ושירות בצבא האדום בשנים 1941-1945

Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

Testimony of Avraham Kushnir, born in Teplik, the Soviet Union in 1923, regarding his experiences in combat against the German Army at the front during his service in the Red Army

Testimony

Testimony of Avraham Kushnir, born in Teplik, the Soviet Union in 1923, regarding his experiences in combat against the German Army at the front during his service in the Red Army His childhood in Teplik, in a traditional Jewish family that spoke Yiddish; religious life; studies in a Jewish school; closure of Jewish schools in 1938; studies in a Ukrainian school; outbreak of the war in 1941; entry of the German Army into Teplik; deportation of his family to the Teplik Ghetto; evacuation of the witness to the Voroshilovgrad region with his classmates; hardships en route; air-raids on trains; draft of the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

Testimony of Pinkhas Kon Kohen, born in Kisrozvagy, Hungary, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Satoraljaujhely Ghetto, the Auschwitz, Warsaw, and Muehldorf camps, and more

Testimony

Testimony of Pinkhas Kon Kohen, born in Kisrozvagy, Hungary, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Satoraljaujhely Ghetto, the Auschwitz, Warsaw, and Muehldorf camps, and more From an observant family in Kisrozvagy; life at home and life of the Jewish community; learning in a heder and in a [Hungarian] school; family livelihood from the family store; anti-Jewish legislation, 1938; antisemitic events; deportation of his father to labor battalions; his father's arrival on home visits from time to time; helping his mother in the store in ordering merchandise; trips to suppliers to bring merchandise to the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Zvi Herman Laufmann, born in Bilgoray, Poland in 1895, regarding his family's experiences in Wolmirstedt during 1924-1931, as written by his grandson Eran Laufmann

Memoirs of Zvi Herman Laufmann, born in Bilgoray, Poland in 1895, regarding his family's experiences in Wolmirstedt during 1924-1931, as written by his grandson Eran Laufmann - Appeal to a lawyer by Eran Laufmann regarding the fate of family property in Germany, submitted on 22/11/1992, in Hebrew, in which he tells about his family's experiences in Wolmirstedt during 1924-1931: Emigration of Zvi Herman Laufmann from Poland to Germany with his wife in 1922; stay in Stendal; receipt of a permanent residence permit in Wolmirstedt; move to Wolmirstedt in 1924; establishment of a large shoe store in the town;...

File Number : 9592

Type of Material : Memoirs, Personal Documents, Identity Card

Language : Hebrew, Polish, French, German

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