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Shoshana Shoshany

Testimony
Testimony of Shoshana (Lustig) Shoshani, born in Subotica, Yugoslavia, 1930, regarding her experiences in the Subotica Ghetto, an Austrian village, Mauthausen and Gunskirchen Tradtitional family; life until 1941. Death of her mother in a pogrom in Novi Sad; expulsion from school; learns to mend socks; German occupation, 1944; deportation to the Subotica Ghetto; transfer to a flour mill; transfer to an Austrian village with relatives; life in the village and labor logging trees; befriends Hungarian soldiers; Austrian offer to hide in the mountains; deportation to Mauthausen and murder of her grandmother; death march to Gunskirchen; camp life; liberation by the US Army. Return to Subotica; life in Subotica until 1948; aliya with her mother to Israel.
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5091027
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Shoshana
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Shoshani
Shoshany
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Lustig
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1930
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Subotica, Yugoslavia
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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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18/05/04
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18/05/04
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SHOSHANI SHOSHANA
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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