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Testimony of Eliezer Liebstein, born in Nagyivan, Hungary, 1919, regarding his experiences as a forced laborer near the Dniester River, in Soviet captivity and in Siberia

Testimony
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Testimony of Eliezer Liebstein, born in Nagyivan, Hungary, 1919, regarding his experiences as a forced laborer near the Dniester River, in Soviet captivity and in Siberia Life in a small village; move to a city near Debrecen; attends a Jewish school and a Hungarian high school; learns in a "heder" and a yeshiva. Draft to forced labor, July 1940; labor digging a channel and building a bridge (which was exploded by the partisans) on the Dniester River; lack of sanitary conditions; taken to Soviet captivity, 1942; exiled to Siberia; labor logging trees; use of inmates to discover mines; mass mortality; release from Siberia, 1948. Return to Hungary; help from the JDC organization; aliya to Israel, 1948.
item Id
6579109
First Name
Eliezer
Last Name
Libshtein
Liebstein
Date of Birth
18/02/1919
Place of Birth
Nagyivan, Hungary
Type of material
Testimony
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
Date of Creation - earliest
24/06/07
Date of Creation - latest
24/06/07
Name of Submitter
ליבשטיין אליעזר
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