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Testimony of Rakhel (Veig) Davidovitz, born in Nagovo, Czechoslovakia in 1929, regarding her life in Nagovo, in Mateszalka Ghetto, and in Auschwitz, Fallersleben, and other camps

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Testimony of Rakhel (Veig) Davidovitz, born in Nagovo, Czechoslovakia in 1929, regarding her life in Nagovo, in Mateszalka Ghetto, and in Auschwitz, Fallersleben, and other camps Childhood in Nagovo; antisemitism before the war; locale re-annexed to Hungary in 1940; revocation of family’s business license; mutual help; German occupation in March 1944; wearing of yellow badge; expulsion to Mateszalka Ghetto; life in the ghetto for several weeks; deportation to Auschwitz; family murdered in the camp; suffering abuse; roll calls; suffering from hunger; meeting with her two aunts; transfer to Fallersleben; life in the camp; transfer to forced labor; labor in a weapons factory; death march to Salzwedel; liberation by American army in late April 1945; return via Budapest and Prague to Nagovo in 1945; life after the war; aliya to Israel in 1973; absorption.
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9798457
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Rakhel
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Davidovitz
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Veig
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05/02/1929
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Nagovo, Czechoslovakia
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Testimony
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Hebrew
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O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
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28/02/2012
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28/02/2012
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דוידובוביץ וייג רחל
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YES
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ISRAEL
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Video
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Moshal Repository, Yad Vashem Archival Collection