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Testimony of Moshe Zagorski, born in 1927 in Wadowice, Poland, about being sent to the Groeditz, Faulbrück, and Gunzlau camps for forced labor, death march, and additional camps

Offspring of a well-to-do family; war breaks out in September 1939; escaping to relatives in Kraków; back to Wadowice; forced labor in Wadowice; deportation to Annaberg in autumn 1940 for forced labor; finds an uncle in the camp; transfer to Groeditz and life at a flour mill; cultural life in the camp; construction work in Faulbrück and separation from uncle; transferred to the Bunzlu camp apparently in summer 1942; Bunzlau becomes a concentration camp and assignment to young peole's block in May 1944; death march to Dora Mittelbau in February 1945 and several days in the camp; taken to Ellrich satellite camp;...

File Number : 13440

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Yitzchak Shmartz Yeshayahu, born in Limanowa, Poland, 1923, regarding his escape to Lwow, deportation to a camp with other Polish refugees to a camp near Ufa, and recruitment to the Polish battalion during the war Childhood in a Hasidic family in reasonable financial condition; his family's livelihood from a lumberyard; family life; studies in a Polish school; studies in the "Room" in parallel with studies in school; Jewish holidays and Sabbaths. The outbreak of war, 1939; escape of the witness to Lwow; refusal to obtain Soviet citizenship; deportation of Polish refugees to a camp near Ufa;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

עדות של וייזבורד פבל, יליד Trostyanets ברית המועצות 1937, על קורות משפחתו ב-Pechera ובמסתור אצל מכרים אוקראיניים ב-Obodovka בשנים 1941-1944

Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

Testimony of Chaim Moshkovitz, born in Borsa, Romania, 1939, regarding his experiences in Borsa, the Viseu Ghetto, Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Rehmsdorf and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Chaim Moshkovitz, born in Borsa, Romania, 1939, regarding his experiences in Borsa, the Viseu Ghetto, Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Rehmsdorf and other places Hungarian Army occupation [of Borsa]; life under Hungarian occupation, 1940; lack of possibility to actualize the use of certificates to Eretz Israel; death of his father, 1940; German Army occupation [of Borsa]; deportation to the Viseu Ghetto, 1944; deportation to Auschwitz, 1944; transfer to Buchenwald with his brother, 1944; transfer to Rehmsdorf camp; camp life including labor in a factory for the production of synthetic fuel [BRABAG -...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Izak Kopilowitz, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1929

Testimony

Testimony of Izak Kopilowitz, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1929 Childhood in a well-to do Zionist family. Entry of the Soviet Army, summer 1940; German occupation, June 1941; looting by Lithuanians; yellow badge; deportation to the Kaunas Ghetto, August 1941; work guarding the gardens; smuggling of newspapers into the ghetto and distributing them; attends school; poliomyelitis, 1942; work in a workshop; secret classes; setting up a printing press in the ghetto; turning the ghetto into a concentration camp and deportation of people, fall 1943; forced to watch a public hanging, 1943; "Aktion" against...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew