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Shmuel Hugo Korn Koren

Testimony
Testimony of Shmuel Koren, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1928, regarding his experiences in a marked house, the Columbus compound and the Budapest Ghetto From a hasidic family; learns in a heder and a Talmud Torah of Belz hasidim. German occupation, March 1944; termination of studies; his father's deportation to a forced labor camp; transfer to a marked house, summer 1944; life in a marked house; transfer to the protected Columbus compound; deportation to the Budapest Ghetto, November 1944; ghetto life; liberation by the Red Army, January 1945. Return home; return to studies and a yeshiva; aliya to Israel, 1957.
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4688363
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Hugo
Shmuel
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Koren
Korn
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1928
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Budapest, Hungary
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Testimony
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Hebrew
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O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
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23/10/03
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23/10/03
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KOREN SHMUEL
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YES
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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