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Testimony of Lea (Bzhostek) Itzkovitz, born in Wyszkow, Poland, 1934, regarding her experiences in Magnitogorsk, Tulchin, an International kolkhoz, an orphanage and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Lea (Bzhostek) Itzkovitz, born in Wyszkow, Poland, 1934, regarding her experiences in Magnitogorsk, Tulchin, an International kolkhoz, an orphanage and other places Traditional family; her father is a shoemaker; her mother is a housewife; middle-class family. German occupation, 1939; murder of her father; life with her mother's sister in Pultusk; labor of her mother in agriculture; move to another town; deportation on foot to Bialystok; deportation to the Ural mountains in the Soviet Union; life in Magnitogorsk; transfer to Tulchin with the help of a Jewish man called Dimshitz; life in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Elza (Gotlib) Rosenblum, born in Dihtinet, Romania, 1930, regarding her experiences as a child in Secureni Sat, the Vinozh Ghetto; Mogilev, an orphanage in Buhusi and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Elza (Gotlib) Rosenblum, born in Dihtinet, Romania, 1930, regarding her experiences as a child in Secureni Sat, the Vinozh Ghetto; Mogilev, an orphanage in Buhusi and other places Life before the war. German occupation, 1941; deportation to Secureni Sat; transfer to the Vinozh Ghetto; transfer to Mogilev; her sister's death; life in a Buhusi orphanage; help from the local Jewish community; Soviet occupation, 1944; deportation to Dombas; escape to Cernauti. Move to Bucharest; life in an Agudat Israel institution with help from the JDC; aliya to Israel, 1949; absorption.

File Number : 12300

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avraham Fein, born in Kaunas, 1931, regarding his experiences as a child in the Kaunas Ghetto, Palemonas and Landsberg forced labor camps and a death march

Testimony

Testimony of Avraham Fein, born in Kaunas, 1931, regarding his experiences as a child in the Kaunas Ghetto, Palemonas and Landsberg forced labor camps and a death march Childhood and education in the Jewish elementary school in Kaunas. Outbreak of the war, 1939; life under Soviet rule; activities in the Pioneer movement; German occupation, 1941; murder of his father; move of the family to the ghetto; living conditions; selection, 1941; looting; his mother's and sister's forced labor at the airfield; preserves an observant way of life in the ghetto; deportation with his mother and sister to the Palemonas...

File Number : 11624

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sima (Buller) Petruschka, born in Radauti , 1926, regarding her experiences in Radauti and Shumilov

Testimony

Testimony of Sima (Buller) Petruschka, born in Radauti, 1926, regarding her experiences in Radauti and Shumilov Childhood until the outbreak of war; the deportation to Cluj with the entry of the Germans; return to Radauti; living in the family apartment with her parents and five children for a year; assembling all Jews in the railroad station; marched for a month until they reached Shumilov and housed in stables; death of her parents and three brothers from typhus; the remaining brother's legs were frozen; leaving for farm work with local farmers and knitting winter sweaters as a livelihood; entry of the...

File Number : 11609

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Official documentation regarding cooperation by various Jewish organizations concerning rescue attempts, in particular in Hungary, 1944

Official documentation regarding cooperation by various Jewish organizations concerning rescue attempts, in particular in Hungary, 1944 Page 4: Letter from Chaim Pazner, Geneva, to Zionist organization member Kubo, [most probably A. L. Kubowitzki], partly in code, 07 January 1944, regarding: - Veteran certificates for Isaac-Leon Elbaum and his family; - A veterans list, containing 69 families or individuals, sent by the Jewish Agency, Jerusalem, transmitted by the Foreign Office, London, via the Protecting Power, Bern, to the responsible authorities in Germany; - Registration for the exchange; -...

File Number : 131

Type of Material : Reports, Correspondence, Testimony, Letter(s), Official Documentation, Telegram, Copy

Language : Hebrew, Polish, French, English, German, Yiddish

Memoirs of Yehudit Ferencne Lövy regarding her experiences in Hungary and Vienna

Memoirs of Yehudit Ference Lövy regarding her experiences in Hungary and Vienna Deportation [from Oroshaza], Hungary, to Vienna; life in Vienna including forced labor in the Gusselbauer and Gaspar Construction Company for ten months; liberation. Return to Hungary.

File Number : 4715

Type of Material : Diaries and Memoirs

Language : Hungarian

Memoirs of Rolf Loehr, born in Hamburg, Germany, 1923, regarding his experiences in Germany and various concentration camps, especially Auschwitz, 1933-1945

Memoirs of Rolf Loehr, born in Hamburg, Germany, 1923, regarding his experiences in Germany and various concentration camps, especially Auschwitz, 1933-1945 Pages 3 - 10: Letters from Karl Loehr, Berlin, to the leader of the department for prisoners of war and the authorities concerned in the Belsen process relating to the inquiry regarding the whereabouts of his son, Rolf Loehr, 15/11/1945 - 12/03/1946 (in German, English and Russian) Pages 11 - 20: Parental home and childhood in Hamburg an Berlin before 1933; Rolf Loehr's mother, Marie, maiden name Glueck, born as a Jew; his father, Karl, was a...

File Number : 4318

Type of Material : Letter(s), Testimony, Death Certificate, Correspondence

Language : English, Russian, German

To be translated

File Number : 1941

Type of Material : Diary

Language : Hungarian

Letter of testimony written by Sigi Ziering to his father regarding his experiences in the Riga Ghetto, the Kaiserwald camp, during the transfer to Liepaja (Latvia), Hamburg and Kiel (Germany) and his emigration to Sweden, 1941-1945 - Deportation from Kassel, Germany, to Riga, Latvia, 09-12 December 1941; forced march to the Riga Ghetto; selection for transfer to the Salaspils camp; murder of 29,000 Latvian Jews, 07-09 December 1941; - Arrival of a total of 11,000 Jews from Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia; selections and transfer of the strongest men to Salaspils; - Selection of approximately...

File Number : 225

Type of Material : Letter, Memoirs

Language : German

Testimony of Shoshana (Zwibel) Ben Yohanan, born in Storojineti, 1930 regarding her experiences wandering in Transnistria, being orphaned and her aliya to Eretz Israel with Youth Aliya

Testimony

Testimony of Shoshana (Zwibel) Ben Yohanan, born in Storojineti, 1930 regarding her experiences wandering in Transnistria, being orphaned and her aliya to Eretz Israel with Youth Aliya Religious, middle-class family in Romania; deportation of the family to Marculesti, 1941; being marched across the Dniester River to the Bersad camp; death of her parents from typhus; transfer to a family until the end of winter; in a local orphanage until 1944; in a hospital in Iasi recuperating; transfer to an orphanage in Bucharest; organizing aliya to Eretz Israel with Youth Aliya; reaching Eretz Israel with her brother,...

File Number : 10524

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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