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Testimony of Chaim Zinger, born in Dzialoszyce, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in Dzialoszyce and in Plaszow, Dresden and Theresienstadt camps

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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.

File Number : 8986

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zelig Frenkel, born in Działoszyce, Poland, 1927, regarding his experiences in Działoszyce, Miechow, Prokocim and in hiding in the area

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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.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Arthur Tenenbaum born in 1918 Działoszyce regarding his experiences in the Miechów ghetto, the Płaszów and Mauthausen camps and camps in Germany

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...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

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

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

Language : English

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...

File Number : 10138

Language : English

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...

File Number : 9759

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

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;...

File Number : 349

Type of Material : Project, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, English

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File Number : 2155

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Szczubiał Franciszek & Maria (Leszczyńska)

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SZCZUBIAŁ, Franciszek SZCZUBIAŁ, Maria LESZCZYŃSKI, Mieczysław During the war, Franciszek and Maria Szczubiał as well as their two children and their cousin, Mieczysław Leszczyński, lived in the village of Dębowiec, near Działoszyce in the Kielce district. The Szczubiałs ran a grocery store prior to the war. They kept their store stocked with items purchased from Jewish wholsale firms. In the autumn of 1942, a Jewish family from Działoszyce found shelter in the Szczubiałs' home. Included in the family were Chaim Smolarczyk, his wife Roza (née Gerszonowicz), and their three...

Nationality : Poland

Religion : Catholic

Fate : Survived

Włodarczyk Marian & Zofia

Righteous

File 4652 WŁODARCZYK, MARIAN WŁODARCZYK, ZOFIA Marian and Zofia Włodarczyk lived prior to the war and during the occupation in Kraków. Marian worked as a messenger in a Kraków firm owned by Fleischer, which employed many Jews before the war. One of them was Moshe (Mosze) Bejski. In 1942, Mosze escaped from a labor camp in Płaszów (near Kraków) and tried to get to Działoszyce, where his parents’ home stood. He miraculously did not lose his life in the next Aktion, and, along with his friend Salek Kacengold, he arrived in Kraków. He knew only one...

Nationality : Poland

Religion : Roman Catholic

Fate : Survived

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