Testimony of Shmuel Kalosh Karmeli, born in Mukacevo, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Mukacevo Ghetto
From an Orthodox family; life before the war; attends the synagogue of the Munkacs Rebbe; displays of antisemitism.
Outbreak of the war; re-annexation to Hungary; anti-Jewish legislation; ghetto life; his father is in hiding outside of Mukacevo, 1944; contact with his father; liberation by the Red Army.
Return to the family home which had been taken over by local residents; drafted into the Red Army; desertion and return to Mukacevo; illegally crosses the border into Hungary; aliya training life in Debrecen; aliya to Israel, 1948, enlists in the IDF.
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4691906
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Shmuel
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Kalosh
Karmeli
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21/08/1926
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Mukacevo, Czechoslovakia
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Testimony
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Hebrew
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O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives