Testimony of Avraham Wertheimer, born in Medias, 1911, regarding his experiences in the Gross Wardein Ghetto, in hiding, and escape from a train to Slovakia
His father's army service in World War I; his father builds a synagogue; learns in various yeshivas; prepares gravestones; the attitude of the neighbors; Hungarians break into the rabbi's home; concentration of draftees at Tusnad; forced labor dismantling train cars; absence from roll call; beatings; forced labor, digging; life in the Gross Wardein Ghetto; hiding in a bunker; discovery of the bunker; being registered as a construction worker; liquidation of the ghetto; beatings; confiscation of valuables; deportation on trains towards Auschwitz; storage of Jewish ritual objects; escape from the train; in hiding in a forest; disguises himself as deaf and dumb; studying a page of Talmud in the forest; finds a placard calling on people not to hide Jews; a non-Jewish woman tries to help him; a letter from a Jew in Presov asking for help; tefillin; Shabbat prayers; travel to Pressburg; meets with Rabbi Weissmandel; Jewish atmosphere; entry into Sered; search for Jews; crosses the border into Hungary; detention by gendarmes; prison; concentration of the Jews in the street; wounded by gunfire; hospitalization.
Return home; marriage; aliya to Israel, 1950; brings a stone from a destroyed Hungarian synagogue to a synagogue in Bnei Brak, Israel; starts a family.
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3747600
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Avraham
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Vertheimer
Wertheimer
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07/02/1911
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Medias, Romania
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Testimony
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11175
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Hebrew
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O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives