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Testimony of Rachel Ruzhena (Yakubovitz) Braun, born in Sobrance, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding her experiences in Uzhorod, Auschwitz, Frankfurt Oder and Ravensbrueck
Testimony
Testimony of Rachel Ruzhena (Yakubovitz) Braun, born in Sobrance, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding her experiences in Uzhorod, Auschwitz, Frankfurt Oder and Ravensbrueck
Religious family; education.
Re-annexation to Hungary; German occupation; deportation to Uzhorod, April 1944; transfer to Auschwitz; transfer to near Frankfurt Oder, late 1944; camp life including labor paving roads in a forest and logging trees; death march to Ravensbrueck, winter 1945; escape; liberation by the Red Army, May 1945.
Return to Czechoslovakia, May 1945; marriage; starts a family; aliya to Israel via Italy, April 1949.
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item Id
5654218
First Name
Rachel
Rozina
Ruzhena
Last Name
Braun
Maiden Name
Yakubovitz
Date of Birth
24/02/1927
Place of Birth
Sobrance, Czechoslovakia
Type of material
Testimony
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
Date of Creation - earliest
11/01/06
Date of Creation - latest
11/01/06
Name of Submitter
בראון יעקובוביץ רחל
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