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Personal diary of an unnamed resident of Dombrowa, Poland, regarding his experiences in the Dombrowa Ghetto and in Tarnow

Personal diary of an unnamed resident of Dombrowa, Poland, regarding his experiences in the Dombrowa Ghetto and in Tarnow Life in Dombrowa during the German occupation in 1939; harm done to Jews and their property; establishment of a Judenrat and Jewish police force; imposition of restrictions on Jews in 1940; communal and cultural life of local Jews; outbreak of typhus epidemic in winter 1940-1941; transfer of Jews to Postkow camp in summer 1941; mass murder of Jews on 27 April 1942; names of several of the people who were murdered; first “Aktion” of local Jewish residents; names of the people who were...

File Number : 8663

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Arye Simcha Perl, born in Petrova, Romania, 1919 regarding being drafted into a Hungarian Army forced labor battalion

Testimony

From a Hasidic family; observing Shabbat and holidays; keeping customs; attends a local school and a heder; the Jewish community; Hamizrachi and Agudat Israel movements; Entry of the Hungarians, late August 1940; anti-Jewish decrees; drafting of men, including the witness into Hungarian Army forced labor battalions; forced labor at the airfield, Hungary; wearing a yellow armband; labor camp life; typhus; liberation, late 1944; Return home; news of the murder of his family in Auschwitz; attempt to locate relatives in Sighet; membership in Agudat Israel; rebuilding life after the war; marriage in Petrova,...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Miriam Klopper Fogel, born in Zagreb, Croatia in 1937, regarding her experiences in Budapest, in Austria, in labor camps, and on the death march

Testimony

Testimony of Miriam Klopper Fogel, born in Zagreb, Croatia in 1937, regarding her experiences in Budapest, in Austria, in labor camps, and on the death march Her nuclear family; parents’ occupations; way of life; Sabbaths and holidays; establishment of Croatian state in April 1941; the Ustaše organization; escape with mother to Budapest under false identity; conditions in Budapest; move to Sombor and living in uncle’s home; kindergarten; Passover in uncle’s home; expulsion to brick factory and from there to Baja Ghetto by Hungarian gendarmes; father’s draft to labor brigades of the Hungarian army; murder of...

File Number : 13691

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaim Stern, born in Dornesti, Romania in 1934, regarding his experiences in Transnistria, Bershad Ghetto, and the children’s home in Apeldoorn, The Netherlands.

Testimony of Chaim Stern, born in Dornesti, Romania in 1934, regarding his experiences in Transnistria, Bershad Ghetto, and the children’s home in Apeldoorn, The Netherlands. His nuclear family; revolt of members of Iron Guard in January 1941; transfer to Radauti; antisemitic acts; religious life; expulsion by train to Transnistria; transit point in Atachi; confiscation of valuables by Romanian gendarmes; river crossing by raft; drownings; march to Bershad; typhus; types of labor performed by his mother; deaths of many people from cold, hunger, and disease; activity of the partisans; entry of the Russians in...

File Number : 13672

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Aharon Lipitz, born in Plonsk, Poland in 1926, regarding his experiences in the ‎ghetto, in Auschwitz and Buna and other camps

Testimony

Testimony of Aharon Lipitz, born in Plonsk, Poland in 1926, regarding his experiences in the ‎ghetto, in Auschwitz and Buna and other camps Family background; studying in a Polish school; life in Przyborowice; Polish refugees return from ‎Germany; outbreak of war; mistreatment of Jews in Plonsk; the Germans arrive and take over his ‎family’s farm and all of their possessions; burial of holy books; forced labor; deportation to the ‎Nowy Dwor Ghetto; transfer of his parents to the Plonsk Ghetto; trading in textiles with peasants; ‎Jewish possessions seized and looted; deportation to Auschwitz Birkenau;...

File Number : 13660

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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File Number : 13676

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Shimon Gutman, born in Irena Deblin, Poland, regarding his experiences in Bergen-Belsen

Memoirs of Shimon Gutman, born in Irena Deblin, Poland, regarding his experiences in Bergen-Belsen Life in Bergen-Belsen, 14 June 1945; transfer to the sick barrack after contracting typhus, February 1945; being unconscious for eight days; observing the Pesach holiday (March 1945) including baking matza and saying kiddush over the matza; transfer of his brother Yaakov to the sick barrack; announcement by the block leader of the transfer of all the inmates except for those in the sick barrack; order to evacuate the camp; remaining with his sick brother and additional patients with typhus; caring for the sick;...

File Number : 8506

Type of Material : Memoirs, Personal Documents, Poems/songs

Language : Hebrew, Polish

Testimony of Sara Aharoni née Iudovitz, born in 1928 in Chust, Czechoslovakia, about her experiences in the Chust ghetto, Auschwitz, and Theresienstadt during the war

Life before the war; offspring of a religious family; Shabbat and festivals; attends a Jewish school; Jewish community life; activity of synagogues and Zionist youth movements; witness joins the Bnei Akiva movement; Hungary re-annexes the area in 1939; men inducted into the labor service; witness deported to the Chust ghetto; life in the ghetto; cultural and religious life; Hungarian gendarmes guard the ghetto; confiscation of valuables; witness wears the yellow star; deported to Auschwitz; selection in the camp and separation of family members; sister sent to Bergen-Belsen and dies from typhus there; roll...

File Number : 13610

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 : Memoirs, Letter

Language : Hebrew, Polish

Postcards with Rosh Hashana greetings written by Majer Klajnman in Sandomierz to his son Nachman Kleinman in the United States and to the Fortgang family in Tarnobrzeg, Poland, dated, September (year unclear) Comments by the submitters of the material (Nechemia Chemia and Vivian Kleinman): The Fortgang family from Tarnobrzeg is part of the family of Esther (Shlissel) Kleinman, the wife of Yaakov Leib Kleinman (the son of Majer Klajnman); Nechemia Kleinman (the grandson of Majer Klajnman) was born in Sandomierz, Poland, 01/02/1932 (the date is not exact; Nechemia received the supposed date of birth upon...

File Number : 1857

Type of Material : Postcard

Language : Hebrew, Yiddish

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