Testimony of Alon Abi Schwartz, born in Turka, Poland, 1934, regarding his experiences in Turka, a forest, Berkesz, Budapest, Arad and other places
Testimony of Alon Abi Schwartz, born in Turka, Poland, 1934, regarding his experiences in Turka, a forest, Berkesz, Budapest, Arad and other places
Testimony
Testimony of Alon Abi Schwartz, born in Turka, Poland, 1934, regarding his experiences in Turka, a forest, Berkesz, Budapest, Arad and other places
His childhood until September 1939.
Life under Soviet rule including hunger, 1939-1940; German Army officers in their home, 1941; escape to a forest near Turka; rescue by Jewish Hungarian forced laborers in Monktabor [?] camp near Sanka, 1942; deportation from the synagogue; rescue in Berkesz; fostered by a family in Budapest, 1943-1944; illegally crosses the border to Arad, June 1944; aliya to Eretz Israel with Aliya Bet from the port of Constanta, August 1944; deportation from the "Mefkure" ship, which sank; considered dead until 1946; move [and aliya] to Eretz Israel, August 1944.
Life in Israel.
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8055480
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Abi
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Alon
Schwartz
Shvartz
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06/03/1934
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Turka, Poland
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Hebrew
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O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives