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Testimony of Meir Nikolai Miklosh Lebovits, born in Somloszollos, Hungary, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Somloszollos Ghetto, Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Dora and Bergen-Belsen

Testimony of Meir Nikolai Miklosh Lebovits, born in Somloszollos, Hungary, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Somloszollos Ghetto, Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Dora and Bergen-Belsen From a traditional family; learns in a "heder" and an Hungarian school; learns to become a tailor. Increase in antisemitism including draft of his brother to a labor battalion and confiscation of property; German occupation, March 1944; decrees including the yellow badge and deportation to the Somloszollos Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; transfer to Buchenwald; transfer to Dora; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; camp life inlcuding the death of his sister from typhus; liberation by the British Army. Hospitalization and convalescence; marriage and starts a family, 1946; aliya to Israel, 1972.
item Id
28566
First Name
Meir
Miklosh
Nikolai
Last Name
Lebovits
Lebovitz
Date of Birth
06/03/1926
Place of Birth
Somloszollos, Hungary
Type of material
Testimony
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
Date of Creation - earliest
01/01/2002
Date of Creation - latest
01/01/2002
Name of Submitter
LEBOVITS MEIR NIKOLAI MIKLOSH
Original
YES
Interview Location
ISRAEL
Connected to Item
O.3 - Testimonies gathered by Yad Vashem
Form of Testimony
Video