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Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Hatzerim
 
 Personal documentation (from the personal files of kibbutz members):
 
 1. Yechezkel Roth (Of Blessed Memory): 
 a. Eulogy regarding Yechezkel Roth; 
 b. Transcription of a talk given by Yechezkel Roth to the ...

Leon Weliczker Wells was born in Stojanow near Lvov, Poland on March 10, 1925. At the outbreak of the Soviet-German War, Wells was in Lvov. In July 1941, the Ukrainian police who were working with the SS arrested Wells and his father. The police officers took Wells to the police station; they were severely beaten, and taken to Pelczynska Street, where other Jews were assembled. Wells and the other ...

The Holocaust was a forbidden topic under Communist Party rule, leaving no official records. Nikopol’s population shifted dramatically: from 26,000 in 1914 (including 3,000 Jews and two synagogues) to 70,000 by 1941 due to refugees and industrial expansion. Post-WWII, it fell back to 26,000, dominated by newcomers indifferent to the Holocaust and Holodomor, focused on economic opportunities rather ...

Miksa Rottenberg (Max, 1902-?) was born in Dés, Austria-Hungary (now Dej, Romania) to Albert Dov (1868-1943) and Anna Rozia Dina Rosmann (Rozman, 1879-1944) Rottenberg. Anna was born to Efraim and Sara Rosmann in Falstin, Austria-Hungary (now Falsztyn, Poland.) Anna had six siblings: Shlomo, Bernhard Jakob Dov, Khain Mordekhai Markus, Hermin Khava, Rosa Rakhel, and Braindel Blanka. Albert was born ...

Ancsel Feuerwerker (later Arthur Feuer) was born on November 4, 1922, in Craciunesti, Romania, to a Jewish couple, Lazar (Zvi) Eliezer and Regina (Rywka) Chaya Perl Feuerwerker. Zvi was born on August 24, 1893, in Tiszakarácsonyfalva (later Craciunesti), and had 1 sister. He worked as a timber cutter, floating the large logs down river in Romania to Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Rywka was born in 1897, ...

Claude Lanzmann was born in Paris to a Jewish family that immigrated to France from Eastern Europe. He attended the Lycée Blaise-Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand. His family went into hiding during World War II. He joined the French resistance at the age of 18 and fought in the Auvergne. Lanzmann opposed the French war in Algeria and signed a 1960 antiwar petition. From 1952 to 1959 he lived with Simone ...

Ladder used by Michael Goldmann (later Goldmann-Gilead), Chanan Ansbacher, and Eli Heilman to hide in Konrad and Regina Zimoń’s hayloft in January 1945, in Rybnik, Poland. The men had escaped from a forced march after Auschwitz concentration camp was evacuated. They hid for a week, during which time the Zimoń’s oldest daughter, Stefania, regularly brought them food. In summer 1939, fearing a German ...

Hyman Lader was born Chaim Lajdor in Łódź, Poland on July 24, 1906, to Herschel and Mary (née Fuks) Lajdor. He was the eldest child and older brother to Fay (Fayga, b. June 19, 1908), and Irving (Itche, b. June 17, 1910). Hyman attended the local Cheder and trained in the violin, with the encouragement of his father Herschel, who made his living as a musician. During World War I, the family moved temporarily ...

Mickey alias Michla Gliksberg was born on 1 January 1925, in Warsaw, Poland, as the daughter of Meyer Gliksberg (born on 3 December 1892 in Siedlce, Poland) and Sura Blumenkranz (born on 1 December 1892 in Kodnie, Poland). Mickey’s parents Meyer and Sura were both Polish nationals and had celebrated their marriage in Warsaw in 1919. Mickey had an older sister named Miriam alias Malka who had been born ...

The archive records from the Terezín ghetto (24 November 1941 – 8 May 1945, and from the period after the liberation) are preserved only in fragments. Only a portion of the documents in the collection are connected with the official activities of the Terezín Council of Elders and with the various departments and sections of its self-government. The first group of documents comprise a relatively diverse ...