Testimony of Zeev Yehuda Weichselbaum Dovdevany, born in Dej, Romania, 1923, regarding his experiences in Baia Mare, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Warsaw, Kutno, Dachau and Muehldorf
Testimony of Zeev Yehuda Weichselbaum Dovdevany, born in Dej, Romania, 1923, regarding his experiences in Baia Mare, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Warsaw, Kutno, Dachau and Muehldorf
Testimony
Testimony of Zeev Yehuda Weichselbaum Dovdevany, born in Dej, Romania, 1923, regarding his experiences in Baia Mare, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Warsaw, Kutno, Dachau and Muehldorf
Life in Dej before the war.
Annexation to Hungary, forced labor in Baia Mare, early 1944; deportation to the Baia Mare Ghetto for two weeks, March 1944; deportation by train to Auschwitz-Birkenau, June 1944; transfer to Warsaw; labor dismantling houses in the Warsaw Ghetto and sending the parts to Germany, July 1944; transfer in the direction of Germany as far as Kutno on foot, August 1944; transfer to Dachau by train; transfer to Muehldorf, August 1944; camp life including labor building subterranean bunkers in a forest; illness and hospitalization in a military clinic, November 1944; liberation by the US Army, May 1945.
Return to Dej; receives information regarding the fate of his family; aliya to Eretz Israel, August 1946.
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item Id
6992041
First Name
Yehuda
Zeev
Last Name
Dovdevany
Duvdevani
Veikselbaum
Weichselbaum
Date of Birth
30/08/1923
Place of Birth
Dej, Romania
Type of material
Testimony
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives