Testimony of Chaim Zinger, born in Dzialoszyce, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in Dzialoszyce and in Plaszow, Dresden and Theresienstadt camps
German occupation; deportation to various forced labor assignments; deportation to Plaszow, 1942; labor laying railroad tracks; labor in Oskar Schindler's factory, late 1943-early 1944; evacuation to a camp near Dresden; labor in a factory producing tank parts; transfer to Theresienstadt, 1945; liberation by the Red Army.
Aliya attempt; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947.
Testimony of Zelig Frenkel, born in Działoszyce, Poland, 1927, regarding his experiences in Działoszyce, Miechow, Prokocim and in hiding in the area
Large family; attends school and a "heder".
German occupation; yellow badge; labor sewing uniforms for the German Army; deportation to Miechow; transfer to Prokocim; life in Prokocim and labor laying railroad tracks; in hiding with the help of a Pole; murder of his father; liberation.
Pogrom; aliya attempt; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Israel, 1948.
Life in Działoszyce; from an orthodox family that owned a clothing store; antisemitism before the war; German occupation, 1939;
Construction of a bunker under the family home; wearing of the yellow badge; single men taken for forced labor, his brother taken for forced labor in Koszyce; marriage to Mania Moor, 1940, in order to avoid forced labor and his stay in the nearby small town of Skalbmierz; birth of Saul, 1941; concentration of Jews in the city square, 1942; selection and murder of Jews in the area of the cemetery; transfer with his wife, son and the rest of the Jews who survived the Aktion to the...
Testimony of Sally (Nisenbaum) Bass, born in Działoszyce in 1937, regarding her experiences in hiding in Krakow during the Holocaust, and her experiences after the Holocaust
Transfer (of Salka Nisenbaum) to hiding with a non-Jew, Adela Nemeth, in Krakow after the outbreak of the war; life under the name Mariska Nemeth; the fate of family members in Działoszyce (perished); survival of three aunts of the witness - sisters of her father Zelik Nisenbaum (his sisters Rosa and Regina, who survived in hiding in Stradów thanks to members of the Pachocinski family, and his sister Sofia survived Auschwitz camp);...
File Number : 11545
Type of Material : Biography, Testimony, Genealogy
Summary of the testimony of Roman Irachmil Rosenbaum, born in Chorzów, Poland in 1927, regarding his experiences in Działoszyce, in Płaszów, Skarżysko Kamienna and Częstochowa camps, and in other places
His childhood in Chorzów; displays of antisemitism; life in Działoszyce with some of his family members in late summer 1939; outbreak of the war; reuniting of his family members in Działoszyce until late 1939; transfer of Jews to forced labor; imposition of anti-Jewish decrees; deportation to Miechów with the Jews, including his parents and other family members in summer 1942; selection; separation from his...
Memoirs of Yekutiel Kasil Narzis Narkis, born in Działoszyce, Poland, 1921, regarding the experiences of the members of his family in Sosnowiec, the Neudorf camp, labor camps in Germany and on a death march
Life in Sosnowiec; ownership of a metal-working shop; membership in Hashomer Hadati;
Occupation of Poland by the German Army, 1939; anti-Jewish legislation; Yellow Badge; Aryanization of the metal-working shop; deportation to the Neudorf camp with his brother; camp life, including forced labor in a metal-working shop and at welding; transfer to the Klein Mangelsdorf camp; camp life, including forced...
Student project based on the memoirs of Tova Zaks née Yurista, about her history in Działoszyce, the Kraków ghetto, the camps in Płaszów, Skarżysko-Kamienna, and Leipzig, death marches, liberation, and immigration to Eretz Israel
Memoirs of Tova Zaks née Yurista (b. 1926 in Działoszyce as Toshka Yona) about her family's history in the Holocaust, from a seminar project by Refael Grassiany, Tel Aviv University, October 1986
A religious family that had five children; the children's father was a fur trader; life in Działoszyce before the war; the Germans enter Działoszyce in 1939; anti-Jewish legislation;...