Testimony of Shulamit (Frederika) Goldlevitz Karmi, born in Gdynia, Poland in 1937, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto and in a Polish home under a false identity
The German occupation; move to Warsaw; transfer to the ghetto; acquisition of false identity papers and move to Zabieniec; her father’s injury and hospitalization; her mother’s disappearance; moving in with the Braniecka family; move to the cellar in her uncle’s building in Warsaw; placement in the care of a Polish woman, Mrs. Domenska, via the Polish Central Welfare Council (RGO); the Polish uprising; escape with Mrs. Domenska;...
Testimony of Ariela Fulman Harkavi, born in Lodz, Poland, in 1924, regarding her experiences in the Lodz and Warsaw Ghettos, her escape and living under a false identity
Her childhood in a well-to-do secular family; attendance at a Polish school; antisemitism; occupation by the Germans; her expulsion from secondary school due to “Numerus Clausus” (Jewish quotas); torching of the synagogue; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto at the beginning of 1940; transfer to Warsaw; transfer to the Warsaw Ghetto; studies at the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing in the ghetto; death of her father; life in the...
Testimony of Joseph Lavi, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1919, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, Majdanek and the Budzyn camp and using a false identity in Warsaw
Life in Warsaw during the war; establishment of the Warsaw Ghetto; selections; deportations of Jews to various camps; confiscation of Jewish property before boarding the trains; shooting into the train cars as a means of instilling fear; experiences of Jews who had converted [to Christianity] (they did not receive preferential treatment); labor in a garage; Judenrat activities on behalf of the Jews; children's homes and youth group...
Testimony of Alfred Maze, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1938, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, in hiding outside the ghetto and in hiding in a village in the area
Life in Warsaw, including the establishment of the Warsaw Ghetto; smuggled out of the Warsaw Ghetto by a Polish woman of German origin who had been his nanny when he was a baby; life in the home of a Pole while using a false identity; change of his name to Fredek Mrozowski; receives knowledge regarding the murder of his parents; move to another Polish family; abandoned on the street and rescue by a Pole; life in hiding while hidden by his...
Memoirs of Mátyás Schik, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz, 1944-1945
Deportation to Auschwitz with her husband and three children (one son who was 5 years old, and twins, a son and a daughter who were one year old); camp life; selection by Dr. Josef Mengele; transfer to the medical experiments block with her children; life in the medical experiments block as the mother of twins; death of the twins; protects her son; Sonderkommando uprising and the results; cruelty by the Germans before the liberation; liberation by the Red Army, 27 January 1945; receives help from a Red Army soldier; death of her son,...
Letters and postcards received by Luba Czarny from Ravensburg from her sister Bella Silbermintz and other family members in Warsaw, 1941-1942, and letters sent by Blanka Gutowska to Czarny in Germany and Canada, 1945-1948, regarding Gutowska's experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto on the Aryan side until 24 July 1942
Included in the file:
- Translation of the letters and postcards to English;
- Announcements published in the "Nowy Kurjer Warszawsk" newspaper, 03 August 1940.
Testimony of Rut (Globinski) Marks, born in Kalisz, Poland, 1931 regarding her experiences during the German occupation of Kalisz, deportation to Sandomierz, in the Sandomierz Ghetto, escape to Warsaw and life using a false identity in Warsaw
German occupation of Kalisz, and deportation of her family to Sandomierz, 1939; life in the Sandomierz Ghetto; her mother's work as a teacher in the ghetto; escape with her [female] cousin to the Aryan side of Warsaw, 1942; life with the Korstrzewe family using the false identy of a Polish Christian in Piastów, a suburb of Warsaw; arrest and execution of her cousin,...
Testimony of David Zilbert, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, in hiding on the Aryan side and during the Warsaw Polish Uprising
Leaving the Warsaw Ghetto, late 1940; selling newspapers; selling cigarettes in the Three Crosses Square; in hiding in various places in Warsaw using a false identity, 1941-1944; murder of his family in Treblinka, 1942; taking part in the Warsaw Polish Uprising, August 1944.
Living in a Coordination organization kibbutz, 1946; unsuccessful aliya attempt to Eretz Israel, 1947; detention in Cyprus; fighting with the Palmach, 1947-1948;...
Testimony of Zahava Eugenia (Mas) Tzelner, born in Lwow, Poland, 1919, regarding her experiences in Lwow, Janowska, Warsaw and Krakow
Her childhood in an assimilated family; attends a Polish elementary school and a vocational school; displays of antisemitism before the war.
Outbreak of the war, 1939; Red Army occupation of Lwow; life under Soviet occupation including work, food and culture; work as a teacher in a vocational school; German Army occupation of Lwow, 1941; life under German occupation including acts of physical and verbal abuse; robbery of Jewish property, forced labor and the imposition of...
