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Testimony of Eduard Fosner, born 1927 in Bucharest, Romania, about expulsion to the Oradea ghetto, deportation to Auschwitz and other camps, death march, and escape

Testimony of Eduard Fosner, born in Bucharest, Romania, in 1927 , regarding expulsion to the Oradea ghetto, deportation to Auschwitz and other camps, death march, and escape Childhood before the war; transfer to Oradea in 1938; entry of the Hungarians in 1940; expulsion from school; anti-Jewish legislation ; service in the Levente Association; German occupation in 1944; order to wear yellow badge, and other orders; expulsion to the ghetto in May 1944; deportation to Birkenau; hunger; roll-calls and selections; transfer to Buchenwald for a brief time and from there to Magdeburg; labor in rebuilding and clearing ruins; transfer to Berga-Elster for labor digging tunnels; advance of the front and setting out on march toward Czechia; escape from march and hiding in the home of a Czech family; liberation by the Russians in May 1945; return to Oradea; joining “aliya training” of Hashomer Hatzair; aliya to Israel in 1970.
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9994463
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Eduard
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Fosner
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1927
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Bucuresti, Romania
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Testimony
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13773
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Hebrew
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O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
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18/06/2012
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18/06/2012
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פוסנר אדוארד
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YES
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55
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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