Joint testimony of Sara (Weissmann) Milgram, born in Kosice, Czechoslovakia in 1939, regarding her experiences as a toddler in a children's home and in a Christian's home while using a Christian identity, and testimony of her mother Alice (Shlezinger) Rotman, born in Kosice in 1920, regarding her experiences in Budapest while using a false identity, and in Lippstadt and other places
Joint testimony of Sara (Weissmann) Milgram, born in Kosice, Czechoslovakia in 1939, regarding her experiences as a toddler in a children's home and in a Christian's home while using a Christian identity, and testimony of her mother Alice (Shlezinger) Rotman, born in Kosice in 1920, regarding her experiences in Budapest while using a false identity, and in Lippstadt and other places
Testimony
Joint testimony of Sara (Weissmann) Milgram, born in Kosice, Czechoslovakia in 1939, regarding her experiences as a toddler in a children's home and in a Christian's home while using a Christian identity, and testimony of her mother Alice (Shlezinger) Rotman, born in Kosice in 1920, regarding her experiences in Budapest while using a false identity, and in Lippstadt and other places
Testimony of Sara (Weissmann) Milgram:
Early childhood in Kosice; escape with her parents to Budapest, 1944; life in Budapest as Christians; capture of her parents after being informed on; transfer by her step-grandmother to a Red Cross children's home; rumor about an approaching deportation, and her transfer by her mother's sister to the family of the brother of a Christian friend; life there as a Christian child until the liberation;
Reunion with her mother who returned; hardships earning a livelihood after the war; wanderings among relatives; move with her mother to Liberec and then to Prague; aliya to Israel, 1949.
Testimony of Alice (Shlezinger) Rotman:
Life as a child in a religious family; her parents are originally from Hungary; attendance at a Jewish school and a state high school; marriage, 1938;
Life in Kosice after the Hungarian annexation; travel to Budapest to give birth in late 1939; return to Kosice; revocation of their business license by the Hungarians; life in Kosice, until 1944; German occupation, March 1944; escape with her husband and her daughter to Budapest, using forged documents; life in Budapest using a Christian identity; detention after being informed on and deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; brief stay in Auschwitz-Birkenau camp; transfer to Bergen-Belsen camp and from there to Lippstadt camp; labor as a clerk in an aircraft parts factory; death march in spring 1945; escape; liberation by the US Army;
Return to Kosice; hardships earning a livelihood; move of her child from one relative to the other; move to Liberec and from there to Prague; aliya to Israel, 1949.
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item Id
9024122
First Name
Sara
Alice
Last Name
Milgram
Rotman
Maiden Name
Visman
Weissmann
Shlezinger
Date of Birth
06/07/1939
03/01/1920
Place of Birth
Myslava, Czechoslovakia
Myslava, Czechoslovakia
Type of material
Testimony
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives