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Testimony of Eszter (Gros) Shvitzman Yaron, born in Budapest, Hungary 1910, regarding her experiences in the Budapest Ghetto, Bergen-Belsen, Seeshaupt and Salzwedel

Testimony
Testimony of Eszter (Gros) Shvitzman Yaron, born in Budapest, Hungary 1910, regarding her experiences in the Budapest Ghetto, Bergen-Belsen, Seeshaupt and Salzwedel Family with many children; attends elementary and high school; learns sewing; marriage; birth of her daughter, 1940; draft of her husband to forced labor in Musz and Munkaszolgalat; establishment of the ghetto; the family's home becomes a marked house; decrees; yellow badge; attempt to obtain protective documents for her husband; caught by the SS; deportation to a brick factory; transfer on foot to Bergen-Belsen; transfer to Seeshaupt camp; transfer to Landsberg camp; transfer to Kaufering camp; transfer to Salzwedel; camp life and labor in a Siemens ammunitions factory; sabotage while at labor and caught by the Kapo; air-raids; liberation by the US Army, April 1945. Return home, February 1946; death of her husband; locates her daughter and father in Budapest; work in a JDC sewing shop; aliya to Israel, 1957.
item Id
4689829
First Name
Esther
Eszter
Last Name
Shvitzman
Yaron
Maiden Name
Gros
Date of Birth
10/12/1910
Place of Birth
Budapest, Hungary
Type of material
Testimony
Language
Hungarian
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
Date of Creation - earliest
12/11/03
Date of Creation - latest
12/11/03
Name of Submitter
YARON ESZTER
Original
YES
Interview Location
ISRAEL
Connected to Item
O.3 - Testimonies gathered by Yad Vashem
Form of Testimony
Video
Dedication
Moshal Repository, Yad Vashem Archival Collection