Online Store Contact us About us
Yad Vashem logo

Testimony of Shalom Pasternak, born in Seliste De Sus, Romania, 1918, regarding his experiences in Kassa, the Dragomiresti Ghetto, Auschwitz, Buchenwald and other places

Testimony of Shalom Pasternak, born in Seliste De Sus, Romania, 1918, regarding his experiences in Kassa, the Dragomiresti Ghetto, Auschwitz, Buchenwald and other places Religious family with many children; his father is a landowner and owns a flour mill; learns in a "heder" and a yeshiva. Annexation to Hungary, 1940; deportation to forced labor, 1941; transfer to Kassa; life in Kassau; return home; German occupation; decrees including forced to hand over money and gold to the authorities; concentration of the Jews in the synagogue; deportation to the Dragomiresti Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; transfer to Buchenwald; camp life; transfer to Dora; transfer to Erlich; camp life including forced labor in construction and paving roads; injury; transfer to labor as a tailor and furrier; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; liberation by the British Army. Recuperation; starts a family; finds work with the help of the JDC; aliya with two daughters to Israel, 1951.
item Id
3741557
First Name
Shalom
Last Name
Pasternak
Date of Birth
1918
Place of Birth
Seliste de Sus, Romania
Type of material
Testimony
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
Date of Creation - earliest
15/05/1998
Date of Creation - latest
15/05/1998
Name of Submitter
PASTERNAK SHALOM
Original
YES
Interview Location
ISRAEL
Location of Originals
Yad Vashem Archives
Connected to Item
O.3 - Testimonies gathered by Yad Vashem
Form of Testimony
Audio
Dedication
Moshal Repository, Yad Vashem Archival Collection