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Testimony of Miriam (Farkash) Leibovitz, born in Nove Zamky, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding her experiences in Nove Zamky, in hiding, using a false identity, in Teplice and other places

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Testimony of Miriam (Farkash) Leibovitz, born in Nove Zamky, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding her experiences in Nove Zamky, in hiding, using a false identity, in Teplice and other places Life under Hungarian rule, 1938; draft of her brothers to the Hungarian Army, to forced labor; help by her family in the smuggle of children from Slovakia to Budapest, 1942; her father is informed on; her father's detention in house arrest; in hiding while hidden by a Slovakian Christian family in Urmin, Slovakia, in exchange for payment, 1944; life while using a false identity as Maria Yablonka; move from the Slovakian family; wanderings between the partisans [units] in the mountains; life in various hiding places while using a false identity, 1944; liberation by the Red Army in Teplice, in the Trencin region, 1945. Move to Bratislava, 1945; joins a "kibbutz" of Hashomer Hatzair; move with the Bericha organization to the Ein Gev ["kibbutz"] camp in Belgium, 1945; illegal aliya attempt to Eretz Israel, from France, on the "Theodor Herzl" ship, 1947; detention and deportation by the British to the winter camp in Cyprus, 1947; aliya to Israel, 1949; life in Israel.
item Id
7926841
First Name
Miriam
Last Name
Leibovitz
Libovitz
Maiden Name
Farkash
Date of Birth
01/09/1927
Place of Birth
Nove Zamky, Czechoslovakia
Type of material
Testimony
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
Date of Creation - earliest
02/06/09
Date of Creation - latest
02/06/09
Name of Submitter
Leibovitz Miriam
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