Testimony of Noah Galkoff, born in Lodz, Poland, 1925, regarding the Lodz ghetto and the liquidation of the ghetto
Family background; his father is a butcher; good relations with the Polish and German neighbors; studies in a Jewish school.
The outbreak of war; deportation to the ghetto; life in the ghetto; food stamps; cleaning work; the Great Children's Aktion "Shifra", 1942; Rumkowski's speech; a four-year stay in the ghetto; towards the last year, the witness' work in cleaning the houses of deported Jews, belonging to the "Yakuba" commando of the liquidation of the ghetto, named after Jakuba Street in...
Article regarding the experiences of Ester Zamri, born in Poland during the war, and the Roots trip she had with her family
Article regarding the experiences of Ester Zamri during the war, including life in hiding with her mother and her two siblings in Mieleszki; murder of her mother and one of her siblings by Poles; rescue of Ester and her brother Aryeh by Poles; aliya of Ester and her brother to Eretz Israel within the framework of legal aliya of orphans; holding of a Roots trip to Poland with her children and grandchildren; meeting the daughter of the Poles who saved her.
Memoirs of Emanuel Krauthamer Kruvi, born, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Bobrka Ghetto and in Romanow, forests and Swirz
Experiences of the Krauthamer family from the start of their wanderings from Krautheim, Germany until their settlement in Bobrka; German Army occupation [of Bobrka], 1941; establishment of the Bobrka Ghetto; Bobrka Ghetto life, including forced labor digging trenches and clearing snow; life in stables in groups of 50 young women and 50 young men; forced labor in sugar beet fields [on an agricultural farm in Romanow?] until October 1942; first "Aktion" in Bobrka; deportation of...
Roots research written by Moran Levi, 05 August 2000, regarding her grandmother Rivka (Rosenblum) Levi, born in Zawiercie, Poland, 1926
The experiences of Grandmother Rivka Levi during the war:
Life before the war in Zawiercie.
Outbreak of the war; escape to Neuberun; life in Neuberun; escape with the housemaid to a hiding place in her grandfather's factory which had been closed by the Germans; escape with the housemaid to a different hiding place in a cowshed; transfer to the Great Synagogue; deportation to the Gabersdorf camp; life in a camp with women only; labor in a thread factory, and sewing...
Testimony of Yocheved Yehudit Hamburger Boxbaum, born in Brzesko, Poland, 1928, regarding the Bochnia ghetto and deportation to the Auschwitz II - Birkenau camp
Family background, religious family; studies in a Polish school; life before the war.
The outbreak of the war; dropping out of school; great fear of the Germans; deportation to the ghetto; aktions; deportation of the first intelligence personnel; whistleblowing by Jewish policemen on Jews; rumors of camps; construction of bunkers; hiding in hideout during an aktion; exposing the witness' family during the aktion and killing them; the escape of the...
Legal testimonies of Israel Izaak, born in Tarnow, Poland, 1905, regarding war crimes and including mass murders carried out by the Nazis in Tarnow during the war
Life in Tarnow during the Nazi occupation; work as the owner of a drushka (horse-drawn carriage) including taking Gestapo personnel; description of the Gestapo personnel whom he chauffeured; description of Grunow, a Gestapo activist including a description of his crimes including murder; crimes of the various Gestapo people including mentioning them by name with a full description (Rommelman, Kastura, Hufer, Schachner and others); murder of two...
File Number : 8566
Type of Material : Investigation Report, Article(s), List(s), Text(s)
Offspring of a traditional family in Glebokie; Soviet occupation ensues in 1939; German occupation ensues in June 1941; hears rumors about murder in nearby forests; searching for food in villages at night; establishment of the ghetto; establishment of a Judenrat; hunger; volunteering for nighttime work in return for food; brother dies in the first Aktion; building hideouts; ghetto liquidated in August 1942; witness escapes during the Aktion; lives in hiding with villagers; handed over to Russian partisans; integration into a partisan unit; activity in 1942–1944; a decade of service in the Red Army; receiving...
Booklet containing research on the family history (roots) of Adela (Esther Ita) (Gerstman) Frenkel and Chaim Frenkel written by their daughter, Chana (Frenkel) Shtauber, 1990
Included in the booklet::
- Description of the experiences of Adela and Chaim Frenkel and their family until their aliya to Israel;
- Certified testimonial declaration by Adela Frenkel in Pardes Chana, 23 October 1989, regarding her rescue during the war by a Polish woman, Wiktoria Szymanska, later recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem and invited by Adela Frenkel to visit Israel, (in Hebrew, with instructions...
File Number : 8537
Type of Material : Booklet(s), Personal Documents, Memoirs, Photograph, Declaration, Testimony
Testimony of Shaul Ziman, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, the Plonsk Ghetto, Auschwitz, Mauthausen and the Ebensee camp
German occupation of Poland; air-raids; occupation of Warsaw; displays of antisemitism [and anti-Jewish regulations] by the Germans; establishment of the ghetto; administration by the Judenrat; smuggling of food into the ghetto by the children; Jewish policemen; leave-taking from his parents and escape from the ghetto; wanderings from village to village using a false identity (Stanislaw Vishnewski); work for a Polish farmer; arrival at the...
Transcript of an interview conducted by Yehuda Bauer with Moshe Trosman, Yissachar Trosman, Chaim Bar-Or and others regarding their experiences in the Rokitno Ghetto, in hiding in the forests and nearby villages after their escape from the ghetto and their joining the partisans
Jewish life in Glinna and the nearby villages prior to the war;
Administration of the Judenrat in the Rokitno Ghetto and the extent of its cooperation with the Germans; the role of Sokolovsky, the head of the gendarmie in Rokitno, in the rescue of Jews; escape from the Rokitno Ghetto and hiding in the forest; attitude of the rural...