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Testimony of Yaakov Kfir, born in Ilok, Yugoslavia, 1934, regarding his experiences in Hungary including in hiding places

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Testimony of Yaakov Kfir, born in Ilok, Yugoslavia, 1934, regarding his experiences in Hungary including in hiding places Childhood and family background in Ilok. Entry of the Germans; burning of religious books in the yard of his house; escape of the witness and his brother to relatives in Zenta and Debrecen; hiding for a year in a cellar in Debrecen; imprisonment in Budapest; deportation to a detention camp in Kistarcza and then to the Budapest Ghetto; life in a protected house; lice; executions near the Danube River; liberation. Return to Debrecen; aliya to Eretz Israel via Cyprus, 1947; absorption difficulties.
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3564717
details.fullDetails.firstName
Yaakov
details.fullDetails.lastName
Kfir
details.fullDetails.dob
1934
details.fullDetails.pob
Ilok, Yugoslavia
details.fullDetails.materialType
Testimony
details.fullDetails.fileNumber
10206
details.fullDetails.language
Hebrew
details.fullDetails.recordGroup
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
details.fullDetails.earliestDate
30/03/1997
details.fullDetails.latestDate
06/04/1997
details.fullDetails.submitter
כפיר יעקב
details.fullDetails.original
YES
details.fullDetails.numOfPages
36
details.fullDetails.interviewLocation
ISRAEL
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O.3 - Testimonies gathered by Yad Vashem
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Video
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Moshal Repository, Yad Vashem Archival Collection