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Shneider Yaakov Shmuel, born in Kosino, Czechoslovakia, 1932, regarding his experiences in the Berehovo ghetto and in the Auschwitz-Birkenau, Plaszow, Gross Rosen, Goerlitz and Zittau camps

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Schneider Shmuel Jacob, born in Kosino, Czechoslovakia, 1932, regarduing the Berehovo ghetto and deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Plaszow, Gross Rosen, Goerlitz and Zittau camps Family background; childhood in a religious family; his father is a hero of the World War I. Entry of the Hungarians; entry of the Germans, March 1944; deportation to the Berehovo ghetto; stay in a brick factory for several weeks; transfer to Auschwitz II-Birkenau; selection at the entrance to the camp; rescue by an anonymous inmate from the camp to the gas chambers and transfer to the camp; finding his father and relatives; transfer to Plaszow; transfer after a few months to Gross Rosen and a few days later to Goerlitz to work in a weapons factory; transfer to Zittau. Liberation by the Soviets; death of his father after several weeks; meeting with his two sisters; joining the children's home in Dezsk; move to Germany; aliya to Eretz Israel; exile to Cyprus; aliya repeated to Israel, 1948; life in Israel until 1961 and immigration to the United States.
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9865004
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Shmuel
Yaakov
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Shneider
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08/03/1932
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Kosino, 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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06/05/2012
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06/05/2012
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שניידר יעקב שמואל
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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