Testimony of Yakov Moskowitz, born in Danilovo, Czechoslovakia, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Sekernice Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald and Dora
Testimony of Yakov Moskowitz, born in Danilovo, Czechoslovakia, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Sekernice Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald and Dora
Testimony of Yakov Moskowitz, born in Danilovo, Czechoslovakia, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Sekernice Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald and Dora
Religious family; his father is the manager of a lumber transportation business and owns a farm; attends a Czechoslovakian school and a "heder".
Annexation to Hungary; relations with the local Ukrainians; German occupation, 1944; deportation of the Jews to the Sekernice Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; transfer to Buchenwald; transfer to Dora; camp life including labor building barracks, tunnels etc.; death march to Schwerin; the Germans flee; liberation by the Red Army.
Organizing a group to Krivichi; move to Budapest, October 1945; meets an emmissary from Eretz Israel; life in DP camps; aliya attempt onboard the "Braha Fuld" from Italy; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947; absorption and rehabilitation.
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item Id
3741496
First Name
Yaakov
Yakov
Last Name
Moshkovitz
Moskowitz
Date of Birth
1929
Place of Birth
Danilovo, Czechoslovakia
Type of material
Testimony
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives