Testimony of Yolana Yelinek, born in Sobotiste, Czechoslovakia, 1924, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz, Ravensbrueck and Malchow camps
Testimony of Yolana Yelinek, born in Sobotiste, Czechoslovakia, 1924, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz, Ravensbrueck and Malchow camps
Testimony
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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Hebrew
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O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives