O.39 - Collection of memoirs written by survivors as part of a competition held by Yad Vashem, 1957

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3731372
• English, Hebrew
• Handwritten, original 2 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Memoirs of Karola Keila (Koifman) Ginzburg, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1902, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto and on the Aryan side in Warsaw, using a false identity in the Pawiak prison, in Pruszkow and Dresden Life before the war; residence and studies in the Pedagogic Institute; studies Law; marriage to Leon Ginzburg; move to Lodz; life in Lodz; birth of two children. Outbreak of the war; escape to Warsaw together with her family; life in the Warsaw Ghetto; work in the Tebbens Schultz shop (workshop); liquidation of the workshop, 1943; escape to the Aryan side with the help of...

• טעג פון שרעק, דערינערונגען פון דער מלחמה 1940-1945

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3731373
• English, Hebrew
• Original 113 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Memoirs of Yaakov Zvi Lemel, regarding his experiences during wanderings in Belgium during the war and his life in hiding until the liberation

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3731374
• English, Hebrew
• Original 189 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Memoirs of Yaakov Rich, regarding his experiences in Rozentow, Poland before and during the war, in Kolomei, Poland during the Soviet occupation, his draft into the Red Army, 1942 and his life in Ural, the Soviet Union, until 1946

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3731375
• English, Hebrew
• Handwritten, original 11 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Testimony of Tania Sterntal, born in Warsaw, Poland, regarding her experiences in Warsaw, in the Kailis Ghetto, in Kaiserwald and Dundaga camps and more Life in Warsaw during the German occupation; escape to Belorussia; escape to Vilna, 1940; life in Vilna in an aliya training kibbutz; German occupation, 1941; life in the Vilna Ghetto; life in hiding; escape to Kailis; life in the Kailis Ghetto; liquidation of the ghetto and deportation together with the other Jews to Kaiserwald camp, 26 May 1944; camp life including standing naked at roll calls in front of SS officers; body searches in the...

• A zsidó üldözésről

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3731376
• English, Hebrew
• Original 11 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Memoirs of a Yugoslavian woman, Maria Apari, born in Bogojevo, Yugoslavia, 1933, regarding her experiences as a child in Bogojevo and the experiences of the Jews in Bogojevo and Novi Sad Life in Bogojevo during the German occupation; concentration of the Jews; injury to a young girl named Lia Baumgarten; also attends school with Veis Kornél [apparently Jewish]; deportation of the Jews; division of the property of the Jewish deportees and the singing of derogatory songs regarding Jews by the local population; description, according to stories told by her aunt, of Jews being drowned under the...

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3731378
• English, Hebrew
• 1941-1955
• Typewritten
• Updated 6 years ago

Diary written by Djura Rajs, born in Petrovgrad, Yugoslavia, 1930, in Petrovgrad camp, and memoirs written by his brother, Jovan Rajs, born in Petrovgrad, Yugoslavia, 1933, regarding his experiences in Petrovgrad camp, in hiding in Belgrade, in Austria and in Bergen-Belsen 1. Part of a diary written by Djura Rajs in Petrovgrad camp, 1941; 2. Diary written by Jovan Rajs in Bergen-Belsen, 1944-1945; 3. Memoirs written by Jovan Rajs regarding his experiences in Petrovgrad camp, in hiding in Belgrade, in Austria and in Bergen-Belsen.

• To co minelo, a jednak wciaz w tobie zyje

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3731379
• English, Hebrew
• Handwritten, original 39 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Memoirs of Irena Libman, born in Lodz, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto and of her friend, Zina Halpern Life in Lodz during the outbreak of the war; German occupation; sewing of yellow badges for marking the Jews; restrictions on the Jews; eviction from the family home by the German Army; establishment of the Lodz Ghetto; ghetto life in a room with seven people; sealing of the ghetto; deterioration in the supply of food distributed by ration coupons only; mass mortality due to dysentery, 1940; deportation of Jews receiving welfare to an unknown destination, 1941; d...

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3731380
• English, Hebrew
• Original 34 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Memoirs of Zipora Rapaport, born in Bessarabia, Romania, 1904, regarding her experiences in Kieszinow, Bessarabia and in camps in Transnistria during the war Life in Kieszinow under Soviet rule; Kieszinow Ghetto life; attitude of the Romanian police; mass murder of Jews; deportation to camps in Transnistria; executions of Jews.

• Kako je tri hiljade jugoslovenskih jevreja izbjeglo pokolju (Historijat logora na Rabu)

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3731381
• English, Hebrew
• Original
• Updated 6 years ago

Testimony of Jakov Altaras, born in Split, Yugoslavia, 1918, regarding the experiences of the Jews in Yugoslavia and in Rab camp Outbreak of the war; escape and smuggling of Jews to Italy; decision by the authorities of the deportation of Jews to Germany and Poland; change in the decision and deportation to Italy instead; deportation of Jews in the Italian occupied areas to Rab camp, July 1943; surrender of Italy; liberation of the majority of the Jews in the camp by Yugoslavian partisans; deportation of the remaining Jews in the camp to Auschwitz by the Germans.

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3731382
• English, Hebrew
• Handwritten, original 187 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Memoirs of Harri Berlin, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1913, regarding his experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, in Stutthof, Dautmergen and Kivioli camps and more "Chapters of Memoirs": "Parting" (pages 10-28): Life in the Vilna Ghetto; separation between men and women during the ghetto liquidation "Aktion", 1943; being separated from his wife; concentration together with the other Jewish males on the street under guard; public hanging of two men and one woman before being deported to the camps; "Stutthof" (pages 29-43): Deportation to Stutthof; camp life; beatings and abuse on arrival at the camp; t...

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3731383
• English, Hebrew
• Original 32 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Memoirs of Rozsi Berkovitz, born in the Carpathian Ruthenia area, Czechoslovakia, regarding her experiences in Hungary, Auschwitz and Germany

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3731384
• English, Hebrew
• Original 19 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Sections of book by Yosef Zeltzer, "Die welt fun umkum un oiyfleben" ("The world of death and resurrection"), with descriptions of his experiences as a partisan and while in hiding

• Moji dozivljaji kad je mrak pretio da pomori svet i covecanstvo bude unisteno

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3731385
• English, Hebrew
• 1955-1956
• Typewritten
• Updated 6 years ago

Memoirs of Avram Avramovic, born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1895, regarding his experiences in Belgrade, Skoplje, Bitolj and Albania Life in Belgrade during the German occupation; restrictions on Jews; escape to Macedonia together with his family; finding hiding places en route; life in Skoplje; detention and deportation to Bitolj; life in Bitolj; being hidden by a local family during the deportation of Macedonian Jews to the camps; being rescued by the Italian consul; deportation to Albania; life in Albania.

• Moje wspomnienia z obozow

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3731387
• English, Hebrew
• Handwritten, original 28 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Memoirs of Tzvia (Woller) Elbaum, born in Tarnow, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Krakow Ghetto and in Plaszow camp, Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz-Birkenau and more Life before the war; move to Krakow, 1937; life in Krakow; attends the Hebrew high school. Life in the Krakow Ghetto; liquidation of the ghetto, 1943; deportation to Plaszow camp together with her father, 13 March 1943; escape of her mother together with her sister to the Aryan side; life of her mother and her sister on the Aryan side of Krakow until the end of the war; life in Plaszow camp; standing for hours at ro...

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3731388
• English, Hebrew
• Original
• Updated 6 years ago

Memoirs of Sara Shimonovitz, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto during the Holocaust

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3731390
• English, Hebrew
• Original 9 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Memoirs of Isy Lachman, born in Poland, 1924, regarding his escape from Belgium to Switzerland via France with help from the underground, 1943 Receives help from a Zionist underground group that dealt with the smuggle of young people from Belgium to Switzerland; escape from Belgium to Switzerland via France, 1943; activities of Beti Jakobovitz, who arrived from Switzerland to Belgium and dealt with the smuggling of young Jews, 1943.

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3731391
• English, Hebrew
• 1955-1956
• Paper Typewritten 68 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Memoirs of Magda Grin, born in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, 1910, regarding her experiences in hiding in Zagreb, in an area under Yugoslavian partisan control, in Trieste and Switzerland Life in Zagreb during the war; detentions by the police; life in hiding in various places and escape from place to place; surrender of Italy and escape to a free zone in Yugoslavia; life in an area under partisan control; German occupation of the area and then transfer back to the partisans; escape from place to place; escape to Trieste; escape to Switzerland.

• Block Zweiundzwanzig - Ebenseei történet 1944-1945 -ből

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3731392
• English, Hebrew
• Original 8 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Memoirs of an unknown Hungarian Jew regarding the experiences of the inmates of Barracks No. 22 in the Ebensee (Austria) camp, 1944-1945 Life in Ebensee Barracks No. 22; cruelty of Fritz, the Blockältester from Berlin; friendship with a Hungarian Jew named George who was transferred to Ebensee from the Mauthausen camp.

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3731396
• English, Hebrew
• Original 6 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Memoirs of Avraham Feldheim, regarding his deportation to a labor camp in Poland

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3731398
• English, Hebrew
• 1955
• Original 11 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Memoirs of Helén Keller József, born in Győr, Hungary, 1928, regarding her experiences in Berlin, Ravensbrueck, Auschwitz and Reinickendorf From an assimilated family; family life in Győr before the war. Non-acceptance in the high school due to the numerus clausus, 1939; continuation of her studies in a monastery school until autumn, 1943; strengthening of her Jewish consciousness; draft of her father to the Hungarian Army labor battalions in Komárom, 1940; release of her father due to deterioration of his health, 1941; closing of the family store and deportation to the Győr Ghetto, 1944; f...