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Testimony of Zeev Andor Guttman, born in Sarretudvari, Hungary, 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in a protected house in Budapest, in Bergen-Belsen, Sachsenhausen and Buchenwald camps and more

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Testimony of Zeev Andor Guttman, born in Sarretudvari, Hungary, 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in a protected house in Budapest, in Bergen-Belsen, Sachsenhausen and Buchenwald camps and more Life before the war; from a secular family; move to Budapest; life in Budapest; attends Jewish elementary and high schools; Deportation of his father to labor camps, 1940; transfer to marked houses; receiving information regarding the experiences of Polish Jews; German occupation, March 1944; purchasing a protective certificate of the Swiss Embassy; evacuation together with all the Jews from the protected houses; deportation on freight cars; lack of information regarding the direction of the travel and its purpose; deportation to Bergen-Belsen; transfer to Sachsenhausen camp; camp life; meeting SS men; approach of the Red Army; transfer on a death march to Oranienburg camp; transfer in freight cars to Ohrdruf camp; camp life; contracting typhus; dissection of corpses; evacuation of the camp; transfer to Buchenwald; camp life in the medical experiments blocks; liberation by the US Army; Receiving medical treatment and rehabilitation; return to Hungary; life there; joining the Hanoar Hatzioni movement; illegal aliya to Eretz Israel, 1946; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947.
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7351464
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Zeev
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Andor
Gotman
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05/11/1930
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Sarretudvari, Hungary
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Testimony
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13219
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Hebrew
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O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
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31/08/08
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31/08/08
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Guttman Zeev
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YES
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35
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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