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Testimony of Zipora Levinger, born in Erdevik, Yugoslavia, 1924, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau and as a forced laborer in Wuestegiersdorf

Testimony of Zipora Levinger, born in Erdevik, Yugoslavia, 1924, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau and as a forced laborer in Wuestegiersdorf Traditional family, including her grandparents; education in a monastery school and the Beitar movement; community life. Relations between Jews and Christians before the war and with the outbreak of the war; life during the Hungarian occupation, 1942-1944; concentration of the Jews in a camp next to Baja; deportation to Auschwitz; en route to the camp; camp registration process in Auschwitz and selection; separation from her mother and her two younger sisters; life in Auschwitz; fruitless labor, fear, humiliation and hunger; transfer to Birkenau; transfer to Wuestegiersdorf labor camp and labor in a weapons factory; camp life; attitude of her sisters and the attitude of one of the German laborers; atmosphere in camp before the liberation; liberation by the Red Army, 09 May 1945. En route and a long way to Yugoslavia; marriage and aliya to Eretz Israel; absorption in Israel and starts a family.
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3562864
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Tzipora
Zipora
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Levinger
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1924
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Erdevik, Yugoslavia
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Testimony
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8632
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Hebrew
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O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
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30/01/1995
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30/01/1995
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לוינגר ציפורה
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YES
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24
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O.3 - Testimonies gathered by Yad Vashem
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Audio
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Moshal Repository, Yad Vashem Archival Collection