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Testimony of Yehudit Irena (Rimstein) Klein, born in Dunajska Streda, Czechoslovakia, 1929, regarding her experiences in hiding in Gyor, Trnava, Bratislava, the Sered Ghetto, Auschwitz and other places

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Testimony of Yehudit Irena (Rimstein) Klein, born in Dunajska Streda, Czechoslovakia, 1929, regarding her experiences in hiding in Gyor, Trnava, Bratislava, the Sered Ghetto, Auschwitz and other places Religious family; witness attends a Beit Yaakov school. Life during Hungarian rule; German occupation, 1944; escape; in hiding in Gyor; in hiding with relatives in Trnava and Budapest, and in a village; detention in Bratislava; deportation to the Sered Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; transfer to Freiberg; camp life including labor in an ammunitions factory; transfer to Mauthausen; liberation by the US Army, 1945. Hospitalization; fate of her parents; aliya to Eretz Israel via Marseilles on the "Biriah" ship with help from UNRRA, 1945.
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6598424
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Irena
Yehudit
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Klein
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Rimshtein
Rimstein
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02/02/1929
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Dunajska Streda, Czechoslovakia
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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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08/07/07
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08/07/07
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Klein Irena
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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