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Testimony of Natan Ernest Grosman, born in Novosad, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding his experiences in Novosad, the Ujpest Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and on a death march to Dachau via Gross-Rosen

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Testimony of Natan Ernest Grosman, born in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia, 1927, regarding his experiences in Novi Sad, the Ujpest Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and on a death march to Dachau via Gross-Rosen His childhood in Novi Sad. Re-annexation to Hungary, 1938; confiscation of the family's business license; draft of the men to the labor battalions; move to Ujpest, 1941; activities in the Dror Habonim movement; care by the community for refugees from Poland and Slovakia; mutual help; German occupation, March 1944; deportation to the Ujpest Ghetto and concentration of the Jews in the brick factory, approximately three weeks later; behavior of the Hungarian gendarmes; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, four days later; robbery of belongings; hunger; transfer with the rest of the craftsmen to labor in Auschwitz; camp life and improvement in living conditions; shines shoes for a sister in Birkenau; details about the black market; Sonderkommando uprising, October 1944; public hanging of the young women who smuggled explosive material; injury during labor and receives treatment in a hospital; departs on a death march, 17 January 1945; murder of the weak people en route; mutual help; arrival to Dachau via Gross-Rosen; typhus disease; evacuation from the camp on trains; liberation by the US Army, May 1945. Life after the war; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1946.
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7006313
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Ernest
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Natan
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Grosman
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1927
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Novosad, 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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19/02/08
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19/02/08
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Grosman Natan Ernest
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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