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Testimony of Yolana Yelinek, born in Sobotiste, Czechoslovakia, 1924, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz, Ravensbrueck and Malchow camps

Testimony
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Testimony of Yolana Yelinek, born in Sobotiste, Czechoslovakia, 1924, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz, Ravensbrueck and Malchow camps Life before the war in Trnava; the Jewish community; attends school; displays of antisemitism; joins Maccabi youth movement. Deportation of Jews without citizenship; interrogation of her father; decrees against the Jews; yellow badge; deportation with a group of women to Auschwitz via Bratislava; camp life and reunion with her brother; transfer to Birkenau; camp life and office labor; death march and transfer by train to Ravensbrueck; transfer to Malchow; camp life and labor in an ammunitions factory; liberation. Return home via Berlin; reunion with her brother; activities in the Zionist Youth movement; marriage, 1947; move to Czechoslovakia; starts a family; aliya to Israel, 1964.
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4690164
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Iolana
Yolana
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Ielinek
Yelinek
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Pesler
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29/06/1924
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Sobotiste, Czechoslovakia
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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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10/11/03
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10/11/03
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YELINEK YOLANA
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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