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Testimony of Hela (Feltz) Reznik, born in Bedzin, Poland, 1925 regarding her experiences in the Parschnitz labor camp, Czechoslovakia

Testimony

Prewar childhood; antisemitism; plans for aliya to Eretz Israel; outbreak of the war; German occupation; burning of houses; deportation to the Parschnitz labor camp, Czechoslovakia; camp life, 1941-1945; hunger; longing; murder of her family; liberation by the Red Army; Rebuilding life after the war; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1948.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yeshayahu Nahum Horovitz, born in 1920 in Lodz, about his experiences in the Lodz ghetto and the Hasag camp during the war

Testimony

Life before the war; refugees from Germany arrive in 1938; German occupation ensues in September 1939; anti-Jewish legislation; dispossession; abductions for forced labor; plunder of property; desecration of synagogues; ghettoization in April 1940; activity of hakhsharot (training centers) in Marysin; activity of the Bnei Akiva movement; hunger; working in the Judenrat kitchens; deportation to Hasag, in Częstochowa, in March 1944; life in the camp; working in an armaments factory; religious life and faith; liberation by Red Army forces in January 1945; life after the war; antisemitism; immigration to Israel in...

File Number : 13615

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rivka (Ovich) Shapira, born in Sacel, Romania, 1929 regarding her deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau and other camps

Testimony

From an Orthodox family; Hungarian rule, 1940; Deportation from her home to the Dragomiresti Ghetto; burying valuables in the yard; death of her father in the ghetto; deportation on a transport to Auschwitz-Birkenau; separation from her family; quarrying and paving work; insistence on observing religious commandments; selection for work and transfer to Ravensbrueck, October 1944; transfer to the Malchow camp for weapons production; approach of the Red Army and death march; liberation; Move to the Bergen-Belsen DP camp; legal aliya under the auspices of Agudat Israel, 1947.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation regarding the fate of Jacqui Israel Offen, born in Antwerp, 1939, and members of his family during the Holocaust and following it, 1941-1981

Documentation regarding the fate of Jacqui Israel Offen, born in Antwerp, 1939, and members of his family during the Holocaust and following it, 1941-1981 Memoirs of Jacqui: Deportation of the family from Antwerp to Limburg, 1941; detention of his father, Moshe, born in Tarnow, 1893, and of his elder sister, Maly Malka, born in Berlin, 1924; deportation of his father and sister to Dossin camp in Malines and from there to Auschwitz, where they perished; escape of his mother Mina and the four remaining children to Namur; in hiding of the family in the St. Jean de Dieu monastery with the help of Abbe Andre; in...

File Number : 152

Type of Material : Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, Dutch, German

Photographs and drawings of synagogues and property belonging to Jewish communities in various cities in Bavaria

Photographs and drawings of synagogues and property belonging to Jewish communities in various cities in Bavaria The material was collected for the book "Der 10 November 1938" (The 10th of November, 1938) by Shimon Brueckheimer. Also in file: - Two wimpels (decorated strips of cloth for wrapping the Sefer Torah, which it was customary for parents to prepare and dedicate to the synagogue upon the birth of a son); one is from the 1800's and one is from the early 1900's.

File Number : 7

Photographs and drawings of synagogues, religious articles and Jewish cemeteries in various cities in Bavaria

Photographs and drawings of synagogues, religious articles and Jewish cemeteries in various cities in Bavaria The material was collected for the book "Der 10 November 1938" (The 10th of November, 1938) by Shimon Brueckheimer.

File Number : 8

Photographs and drawings of property belonging to the Jewish communities in Germany

Photographs and drawings of property belonging to the Jewish communities in Germany The material relates to the following cities: Luebeck, Leipzig, Berlin, Ludwigshafen, Hechingen, Krefeld, Gailingen, Munich, Hamburg, Cologne, Bielefeld, Alsbach, Darmstadt, Limburg, Frankfurt, Michelstadt, Zoppot, Aachen, Worms, Eberswalde, Ladenburg, Mannheim, Danzig, Baden-Baden, Kiel, Neustadt/Saale, Koenigsberg, Offenbach, Essen, Rhina, Heidelberg, Laudenbach and Kuelsheim.

File Number : 9

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 Arie (Label Leon) Sade (Bittersfeld), born in Krakow, Poland in 1928, regarding his ‎experiences in Plaszow and Brunnlitz camps

Testimony of Arie (Label Leon) Sade (Bittersfeld), born in Krakow, Poland in 1928, regarding his ‎experiences in Plaszow and Brunnlitz camps His childhood; his father’s work in Germany; deportation of his father to Dachau, his murder and ‎sending his ashes to the family n Krakow; outbreak of war in 1939; wearing a yellow badge; ‎expulsion to the ghetto; hospitalization and death of his mother; transfer to an orphanage; escape ‎from the orphanage; deportation to Plaszow; murder of Jews by Nazi Commandant Amon Göth; ‎Oskar Schindler; destruction of Plaszow; transfer to Brunnlitz via Gross Rosen; life in...

File Number : 13671

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yisrael Fiser, born in 1929 in Borsa, Romania, about his experiences in Borsa, the Viseul de Sus ghetto, and camps in Poland and Germany during the war

Life before the war; offspring of an Orthodox religious family; antisemitic harassment in school; Hungary re-annexes the area in 1939; father inducted into the labor brigades in 1941; economic hardship; ban on kosher slaughter; Passover in April 1944; Jews rounded up in a synagogue; deportation to the Viseul de Sus ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; family lost in a selection in the camp; transferred to Fürstengrube; coal mining at the camp; death march; transported in open freight cars and mortality among prisoners; taken to Dora Mittelbau and Bergen-Belsen; liberation; Hapoel Hamizrachi movement activity in...

File Number : 13640

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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