Testimony of Juszko Josef Herz, born in 1927 in Zavazna Poruba, Czechoslovakia, about his experiences in Zavazna Poruba, Mikulas, hiding in Roksbany, etc.
Life in Zavazna Poruba as offspring of a lone Jewish family; deportation to Mikulas in 1941; typhus and hospitalization in April 1942; spared with parents from transport to camps; life in hiding in Roksbany from August 1942 to March 1944; taken to Lamsdorf; taken to Lichtenfeld; liberation in April 1945; immigration to Eretz Israel in 1947.
Testimony of Tzvi Blekhman, born in Grodno, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Grodno Ghetto, Buna Lamsdorf and Bruenlitz camps
Family life till the outbreak of the war; Soviet occupation, September 1939 - June 1941; avoiding exile to Siberia; beginning of the German occupation, June 1941; initial anti-Jewish decrees; life in Ghetto 2; means of obtaining food; deportation from the ghetto, November 1942; selection in Auschwitz; receiving a tattoo number; living conditions and labor in Buna-Monowitz together with his father and three brothers; labor digging peat and unloading cement; loss of his father...
Testimony of Renata (Preczep) Lubinska, born in Lwow, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Stryj Ghetto, in hiding in Warsaw, detention in Pawiak, Gesiowka and Lamsdorf
Life in the Stryj Ghetto; escape to Warsaw; life in Warsaw including rescue by a Polish woman; life in Pawiak prison; life in the Gesiowka camp; outbreak of the Warsaw Polish Uprising; release by the Polish underground, 1944; deportation to Lamsdorf; life in Lamsdorf including forced labor; liberation.
Testimony of Artur Loewenstein, born in Nowy Targ, Poland, 1897, regarding his experiences in the Polish Army in Lawica, in German captivity in Murnau, Prenzlau, Lamsdorf and other places
Draft into the Polish Army as an officer, late August 1939; service in the Polish Army in the Polskiej Brygadzie Kawalerii unit in Lawica.
Taken to German captivity in the Puszcza Kampinowska vicinity 18 days after the Polish retreat, September 1939; transfer to Lamsdorf, Silesia along with other POWs; transfer to Prenzlau; transfer to Kreuzburg, January 1940; transfer to Murnau; camp life including the attitude toward...
Postcard written by Gabriel Levkovitz in Stalag VIII B Lamsdorf in Germany in 1944 to Rivka Levkovitz in Tel Aviv, and the experiences of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Hager
Postcard related to Gabriel Levkovitz (the maternal grandfather of Rachela Hager-Heller, the submitter of the material) (scan):
- Postcard written by Gabriel Levkovitz in Stalag VIII B (or Stalag 344) near Lamsdorf, Germany, to his daughter Rivka Levkovitz in Tel Aviv, 12/06/1944;
Documentation related to Rabbi Menachem Mendel Hager (the paternal grandfather of Rachela Hager-Heller) (scan):
- Excerpt from the "Encyclopedia of...
File Number : 3185
Type of Material : Postcard, Newspaper Clippings, Memoirs, Article
Permit issued in the Lamsdorf POW camp for British soldier Albert Fano, 13 May 1942, and military service booklet received by him upon mobilization, 9 December 1940
- Permit issued in the Lamsdorf POW camp for the transfer of British Jewish soldier Albert Fano to the camp hospital, 13 May 1942;
- Notification sent on behalf of the British Army regarding Albert Fano being taken captive, 16 August 1941;
- Military service booklet belonging to Albert Bohor Fano, born in Burgas, Bulgaria, 23 March 1908, mobilized in Sarafand, 9 December 1940; booklet contains soldier’s personal information, including...
File Number : 634
Type of Material : Personal Records, Official Documentation, Notepad
Testimony of Zerach Maliniak, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1914, regarding his experiences during his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1935, and his experiences in the British Army in Libya, Greece, a POW camp in Lamsdorf and other places
Life before the war; religious family with hardships; witness learns in a "heder" and attends a Polish elementary school; displays of antisemitism; activities in the Mizrachi Hatzair movement; decision to make aliya to Eretz Israel in a group, 1934; move to Italy by riding bicycles; life en route; life in Italy; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1935; life in Eretz Israel; return to Poland with his...
Testimony of Yaakov Shibek, born in Czeladz, Poland, 1914, regarding his experiences as a British Army soldier at Tobrouk, in German captivity in Greece, Lamsdorf, Jaworzno, Boyten and other places
Life before the war; joins Beitar when he is 16 years old; drafted into the Polish Army when he is 21 years old; participates in the invasion of Czechoslovakia; discharge from the army, January 1939; drafted a second time, April 1939; discharge from the army, August 1939; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1939; training in Beer Tuvia for one year.
Drafted into the British Army, October 1940; transfer to Tobrouk, Libya;...