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Testimony of Agnes Holtz, born in Mukacevo, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding her experiences with an assumed identity, in hiding in Mukacevo, Gelsenkirchen, Soemmerda, Ravensbrueck and other places

Testimony
Testimony of Agnes Holtz, born in Mukacevo, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding her experiences with an assumed identity, in hiding in Mukacevo, Gelsenkirchen, Soemmerda, Ravensbrueck and other places Life before the war; attends a Tarbut school. Annexation to Hungary; receives forged documents from a friend of her father; hidden by farmers; deportation to a factory; robbery of the suitcase by a Hungarian soldier; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; camp life; transfer to Gelsenkirchen; life in Gelsenkirchen; labor for the TODT organization; typhus and hospitalization; transfer to Soemmerda; transfer in a death march to Sudentenland; camp life in Ravensbrueck with women; transfer to Soemmerda; liberation. Immigration to New York.
item Id
6644552
First Name
Agnes
Last Name
Holtz
Date of Birth
1926
Place of Birth
Mukacevo, Czechoslovakia
Type of material
Testimony
Language
English
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
Date of Creation - earliest
20/05/07
Date of Creation - latest
20/05/07
Name of Submitter
Holz Berger Agnes
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