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Testimony of Prushka Ruth Hermann Pest, born in 1931 in Györ, Hungary, about the Györ ghetto and Mengele's twins block in Auschwitz

Childhood in an Orthodox home; Germans enter Hungary in March 1944; Jews of Györ rounded up in a synagogue; compulsory wearing of the yellow star; humiliating measures; dispossession; ghettoization; eviction from the ghetto to a collection camp; abuse of the community leaders; deportation to Auschwitz; selection and transfer to Mengele's twins block in Birkenau; murder of the family in Auschwitz; description of the examinations that the twins endured; transfer to C-Lager before autumn; spared from a death march on January 18, 1945; Red Army forces arrive and witness is placed in a convent in Katowice; discharge...

File Number : 13403

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avraham Levi, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, 1920, regarding his experiences in Sofia and labor camps

Testimony

Testimony of Avraham Levi, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, 1920, regarding his experiences in Sofia and labor camps Outbreak of the war; restrictions on the Jews; curfew for 22 hours a day; draft to a labor camp; camp life including paving roads and living in tents; return to Sofia; deportation to a labor camp on the Yugoslavian border to labor paving roads; end of the war. Move to Romania; Hashomer Hatzair activities; unsuccessful aliya attempt to Eretz Israel; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Israel on the ship, "Hatikva", 1948.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avraham Stern, born in Halmeu, Romania, 1925, regarding his experiences in Halmeu, Budapest, as a forced laborer and in Gunskirchen

Testimony

Testimony of Avraham Stern, born in Halmeu, Romania, 1925, regarding his experiences in Halmeu, Budapest, as a forced laborer and in Gunskirchen Life before the war; from a religious, Orthodox family; his parents own a factory; learns in a "heder" and a local Romanian school; learns in a yeshiva. Outbreak of the war, 1939; meets refugees from Poland; re-annexation to Hungary, 1940; deportation of Jews to camps; family runs the family factory until 1941; Aryanization of the factory; sale of their animals; escape to Budapest with friends, 1941; life in Budapest including work as a delivery boy and in a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shoshana (Rozengarten) Bodenstein, born in Wola Zarczycka, Poland, 1932, regarding her experiences as a child in Lowisko, Sokolow , in hiding and using a false identity

Testimony

Testimony of Shoshana (Rozengarten) Bodenstein, born in Wola Zarczycka, Poland, 1932, regarding her experiences as a child in Lowisko, Sokolow , in hiding and using a false identity Life before the war; her parents own farming land; move to Lowisko. Outbreak of the war, 1939; restrictions on the Jews including ban to attend school; attends a "heder" with boys; deportation to the Sokolow Ghetto, 1940; ghetto life; escape of the men to the Soviet Union and their escape to return to the ghetto; yellow badge; death of her grandparents; her sister is entrusted with Poles; her brother is entrusted to Poles in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Hinda Ahuva (Cohen) Davidovich, born in Szarvas Bekes, Hungary, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Szarvas Ghetto, Szolnok and Guntersdorf

Testimony

Testimony of Hinda Ahuva (Cohen) Davidovich, born in Szarvas Bekes, Hungary, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Szarvas Ghetto, Szolnok and Guntersdorf From a financially secure religious family; witness' father is a wheat merchant; attends a local elementary school in Szarvas and a high school in Budapest; learns to make hats. German occupation, 1944; return to Szarvas; deportation to the Szarvas Ghetto; deportation to a transit camp in a sugar factory in Szolnik; camp life; air-raids; transfer to Guntersdorf by freight train, 1944; camp life including agricultural labor; labor in a textile factory...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Gdaliyahu Doich, born in Lechinta, Hungary, 1928, regarding his experiences in Lechinta, the Bistrita Ghetto, Auschwitz, Kaufering and Dachau

Testimony

Testimony of Gdaliyahu Doich, born in Lechinta, Hungary, 1928, regarding his experiences in Lechinta, the Bistrita Ghetto, Auschwitz, Kaufering and Dachau Childhood and family background; learns in a "heder" and a public school. German occupation, 1944; deportation to the Bistrita Ghetto, 1944; deportation to Auschwitz by train; transfer to Kaufering camp II; labor flattening sand bags and clearing away rubble; transfer to Kaufering camp IV; camp life; transfer to Dachau; liberation by the US Army, late April 1945. Convalescence in hospital; unsuccessful attempt to make illegal aliya to Eretz...

File Number : 12589

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mauricius Moshe Lib, born in Baia Mare, Romania, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Baia Mare Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Warsaw, Dachau and Allach

Testimony

Testimony of Mauricius Moshe Lib, born in Baia Mare, Romania, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Baia Mare Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Warsaw, Dachau and Allach Life before the war; witness's father is a tailor and his mother is a housewife; his mother's death, 1936. Annexation to Hungary, 1940; deportation to the Baia Mare Ghetto; life in a brick factory; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; camp life; transfer to Warsaw camp; camp life; death march to Dachau; death of his father; Yom Kippur, 1944; death march to Allach; camp life; death of his brother from typhus; liberation by the US Army, May 1945....

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Juda Josef Czeisler, born in Onod, Hungary, 1925, regarding his experiences in a Hungarian labor battalion in Mosonmagyarovar, Mauthausen and Gunskirchen

Testimony

Testimony of Juda Josef Czeisler, born in Onod, Hungary, 1925, regarding his experiences in a Hungarian labor battalion in Mosonmagyarovar, Mauthausen and Gunskirchen Life before the war; family move to Hosszupalyi; life in Hosszupalyi. German occupation, 1944; draft to a labor battalion; labor clearing away rubble; transfer to Mosonmagyarovar; deportation to Mauthausen, 1945; transfer to Gunskirchen; camp life; liberation by the US Army. Medical treatment at Wiener Neustadt; return to Hosszupalyi; joins Hanoar Hatzioni; aliya attempt via Italy; deportation to Cyprus; aliya to Israel, 1949.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Fela (Krakowska) Shapira, born in Czestochowa, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Czestochowa Ghetto and as a forced laborer in a weapons factory

Testimony

Testimony of Fela (Krakowska) Shapira, born in Czestochowa, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Czestochowa Ghetto and as a forced laborer in a weapons factory Her childhood in various places: Radomsko, Czestochowa and Zdunska-Wola; antisemitism before the war. Deportation of here family to the Czestochowa Ghetto, 1941; "Aktions"; in hiding in a bunker; capture of the family during searches after an "Aktion", 1942; transfer without her family members to forced labor in odd jobs in the small Czestochowa Ghetto; forced labor in a weapons factory; rescue from selections; liberation,...

File Number : 11945

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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