Testimony of Rifka Roza Rozi (Volberg) Swarz, born in Tokaj, Hungary, 1924, regarding her experiences in Budapest, Dachau, Bergen-Belsen, Bernsdorf, Braunschweig and other places
Testimony of Rifka Roza Rozi (Volberg) Swarz, born in Tokaj, Hungary, 1924, regarding her experiences in Budapest, Dachau, Bergen-Belsen, Bernsdorf, Braunschweig and other places
Testimony
Testimony of Rifka Roza Rozi (Volberg) Swarz, born in Tokaj, Hungary, 1924, regarding her experiences in Budapest, Dachau, Bergen-Belsen, Bernsdorf, Braunschweig and other places
From an Orthodox family; move to Budapest; Beitar and Bnei Akiva membership; displays of antisemitism.
Drafting of her father to forced labor, 1941; German occupation, March 1944; yellow badge; move to a marked house; Hungarian identity card; hides in a cellar, October 1944; sealing of Jewish houses; concentration of the Jews in the synagogue; transfer across the Austrian border on foot; transfer to Dachau on freight trains; transfer to Bergen-Belsen, December 1944; camp life including roll calls; transfer to Bernsdorf; camp life including labor in a parts factory; sabotage attempts; transfer to Braunschweig; camp life including labor clearing away snow from the streets and rubble from air-raids; transfer to Bergen-Belsen, March 1945; transfer to a forest by train; end of the war.
Move to Sweden by ferry; hospitalization; return home; reunion with her mother, July 1946; displays of antisemitism; aliya to Israel, 1949.
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Rifka
Rivka
Roza
Rozi
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Shvartz
Swarz
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Volberg
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04/03/1924
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Tokaj, Hungary
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Testimony
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Hebrew
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O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives