Testimony of Mordechai Michall Glasman, born in Lodz, Poland, 1937, regarding his experiences as a child in the Lodz Ghetto, in hiding and in a camp in Lodz
Life before the war.
Lodz Ghetto life including his parents' work in a food store; forgery of his age due to an "Aktion" against the children; screaming by the mothers during the deportation of the children; work as a messenger for the Judenrat; finds a hiding place in a bunker; life in the bunker; liquidation of the Lodz ghetto; keeping of Jews in a camp after the evacuation of the ghetto; escape to a camp; escape back to the bunker; liberation by...
Testimony of Hanna (Poznanska) Linde, born in Lodz, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto
Zionist, assimilated family; about her grandfather, Shmuel Poznanski.
Deportation to the Lodz Ghetto with her parents and her relatives from Germany, 1940; ghetto life in the Lodz Ghetto; attends school; cultural life; theater productions; the Judenrat newspaper; Jewish courts of law; fear of "Aktions"; escape from the "Sperre Aktion", December 1942; forced labor sewing in a bra factory; relations among the ghetto inmates; activities of her father who manages the agriculture division in the Marysin...
Testimony of Richard Oestermann born in Copenhagen, Denmark, 1926, regarding his experiences in Copenhagen, Sweden and the Danish Army
Family life before the war; Danish attitude toward the Jews.
German occupation of Denmark and the ramifications on the family's life; no change in the Danish attitude toward the Jews after the German occupation; activities as a youth in the distribution of an anti-occupation underground newspaper; contacts with Danish citizens, 1942-1943; escape of his mother and sisters from Copenhagen and their life in hiding; contact with Danish "rescuers-smugglers"; rescue of his...
Testimony of Haim Mile Pinkas, born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1919, regarding his experiences in Yugoslavia, Albania, Italy and emigration to Venezuela, 1943
Sephardi Ladino-speaking family; his childhood in Belgrade.
Outbreak of the war, April 1941; persecutions; forced labor; yellow badge; decision to escape; obtains Volksdeutsche identity documents; move to Hercegovina, under Italian rule; meets a group of Jewish refugees, including his future wife; travel by ship to Albania with approximately 200 refugees; arrival to Kavalla camp; camp life; internal organizing and social life; transfer to Ferramonti...
Testimony of Bernard Mayer, born in Drohobycz, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Drohobycz Ghetto and in hiding in a bunker until the liberation
His childhood during Soviet rule; labor in a brush factory, starting December 1941; the ghetto, sleeps in the factory's cellar, visits the ghetto without an armband; in hiding with his mother in a factory during two "Aktions"; establishment of a bunker for 15 people outside the ghetto in exchange for payment; an additional 30 people join the bunker; supply of food and water to the bunker by a non-Jew who lives above them; life in the bunker; listens to a radio...
Testimony of Issack Leo Kram, born in Riga, 1921, regarding his experiences in the Riga Ghetto, camps in Latvia and Germany, and his activities in the Jewish underground
His childhood in Riga; attends a Hebrew high school; education in the Beitar youth movement; acquaintanceship with Herbert Cukurs.
Soviet occupation; deterioration in the attitude toward the Jews; German occupation; burning of Jews and synagogues in Riga by Latvian militias; detention of his father, 1941; death of his father in prison; deportation of Jews to the Riga Ghetto; harsh conditions; "Aktions"; murder of Jews; murder of his...
Testimony of Zophia Shulman, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1930, regarding her experiences in Grodzisk, the Warsaw Ghetto, Kock and in hiding using a false identity
Her childhood in Grodzisk; her family's life; her father was a shoemaker and owned a shoe store.
Outbreak of the war, 1939; move to Warsaw; return to Grodzisk; detention of her father, who was a member of the municipal council, and his deportation to a concentration camp and then his return; ghetto life until 1942; survival by selling boots to Germans; move to Kock; her capture along with 800 Jews; execution of the group; her survival; escape from a...
Testimony of Majer Osi Stern, born in Svalava, Czechoslovakia, 1929, regarding his experiences in Svalava, Mukacevo, the Mukacevo Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Neudachs and other places
His childhood in Svalava; plan for emigration to Chile, 1938.
Outbreak of the war; move to Mukacevo following the outbreak of the war; attends the Hebrew high school in Mukacevo; life under Hungarian rule, 1939-1944; deportation to the Mukacevo Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1944; transfer to Neudachs camp; separation from his father; camp life including labor; death march to Blechhammer; escape from the camp; in...
Testimony of Norman Cohen, born in Coventry, England, 1923, regarding his experiences as a British Army soldier
His childhood in a traditional family in Coventry.
Blitz attack on Coventry, 14 November 1940; burning of his family's business; draft into the British Army, late 1942; service in England as a radio operator; participation in the invasion of Normandy; arrival to Lueneburg via France and Belgium; receives a message in Hamburg regarding the German surrender and cease-fire, 05 May 1945.
Travel to Bergen-Belsen; not permitted to enter Bergen-Belsen due to the typhus epidemic; sees Himmler in an...
Testimony of Menashe Milan Goldberger, born in Vukovar, Yugoslavia in 1928, regarding his family's move to Copenhagen in 1934, German occupation in 1940, escape and life in hiding in a village, escape to Goteborg, emigration to the United States in 1946, and aliya to Israel in 1987
His childhood in Vukovar, Yugoslavia and in Slovakia; his family's emigration to Copenhagen, Denmark in 1934 due to his father's work as a cantor; German occupation in 1940; his father's detention by the Germans; his father's release; escape and life in hiding in a village while hidden by two priests; escape to Goteborg, Sweden...