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Testimony of Yaakov Amit Altman, born in Noua Sulita, Romania, 1935 regarding the deportation of his family to Transnistria

Testimony

Family background; drafting of his father into the Red army; His family's escape to Ukraine following the Red Army; capture of his family by the Germans along with additional escapees; deportation of his family to Chernovitse; his family's livelihood from knitting; obtaining food with great difficulty; living in a basement; living conditions; liberation by the Red Army; Week-long return by foot to Noua Sulita; living conditions in Noua Sulita; reunion with his father; move to Transylvania and Bukovina, Romania; illegal immigration to Eretz Israel on the ship "Knesset Israel"; arrest by the British and...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shlomo Feldshtein, born in Przeworsk, Poland, in 1934, regarding his hiding with a Polish farmer in Grzeska between 1942-1944

Testimony

-Childhood before the war; relations with the local population; outbreak of the war; life until 1942; "Aktion"; escape of the family to the forest following a warning they got from a farmer; hiding with the farmer for 2 years 1942-1944; leaving the hiding place with the approach of the Russians; leaving Poland; reconstruction of life after the war; emigration to Israel; exile to Cyprus; Aliya back to Israel

File Number : 13758

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Arie Svimer, born in Kelca, Czechoslovakia, in 1924, regarding his experiences hiding in Kelca and in the ranks of an underground organization in Budapest

Testimony of Arie Svimer,born in Kelca, Czechoslovakia,in 1924,regarding his experiences in hiding in Kelca and in the ranks of an underground group in Budapest Life in Kelca during re-annexation of the place to Hungary; finding a hiding place in a cowshed with a non-Jewish family; separation from the parents; escape to Budapest; working there as a fur tailor; activity as a messenger in the ranks of an underground group whose activity was forging documents; forging documents; emigration to Israel on board the ship "Knesset Israel" in 1947; detention in Cyprus; Aliya to Israel; absorption and rehabilitation;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaim Hauszman Nave, born in Budapest, Hungary in 1933, regarding his experiences as a child in hiding in Budapest

Testimony of Chaim Hauszman Nave, born in Budapest, Hungary in 1933, regarding his experiences as a child in hiding in Budapest Life in Budapest in the home of an assimilated family; German occupation, 1944; deportation from their home; separation from his mother; life in hiding in Budapest until the liberation in 1945; He joins a group of children who were gathered by the JDC organization and by members of the Gordonia movement; they set sail for Eretz Israel on the "Knesset Yisrael" ship; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel in 1947; service in the Israel Air Force, IAF; receipt of the Mofet...

File Number : 13579

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaia Edith Shapira née Goldshtein, born in 1932 in Izsak, Hungary about her experiences as a girl in Izsak, the Budapest ghetto, and in hiding in Pestszenterzsebet

Life before the war; offspring of an Orthodox religious family; father assigned to fortification work; father returns several months later in 1941; father falsely accused of communist tendencies; father arrested and released; father inducted into labor brigades; witness escapes to Budapest; German occupation ensues in March 1944; wearing the yellow star; escapes to marked houses in the Jewish quarter; evicted from marked houses; taken with brother to a house under Swedish protection; sent to Budapest ghetto in November 1944; joins mother; obtains false papers and escapes from the ghetto; encounters Father Re...

File Number : 13590

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaim Moshkovitz, born in Borsa, Romania, 1939, regarding his experiences in Borsa, the Viseu Ghetto, Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Rehmsdorf and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Chaim Moshkovitz, born in Borsa, Romania, 1939, regarding his experiences in Borsa, the Viseu Ghetto, Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Rehmsdorf and other places Hungarian Army occupation [of Borsa]; life under Hungarian occupation, 1940; lack of possibility to actualize the use of certificates to Eretz Israel; death of his father, 1940; German Army occupation [of Borsa]; deportation to the Viseu Ghetto, 1944; deportation to Auschwitz, 1944; transfer to Buchenwald with his brother, 1944; transfer to Rehmsdorf camp; camp life including labor in a factory for the production of synthetic fuel [BRABAG -...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yehuda Tehel, born in Mezolak, Hungary, 1925, regarding his experiences in a labor battalion in Urkut and on a death march

Testimony

Testimony of Yehuda Tehel, born in Mezolak, Hungary, 1925, regarding his experiences in a labor battalion in Urkut and on a death march Childhood on a small farm in the only Jewish family in the village; attends an elementary school run by the Szekesfehervar Jews and a government high school until 1941. Drafted into labor battalions; life in Urkut, June 1944-May 1945; labor in manganese mines; death march; escape from the death march to the city of Szekesfehervar, May 1945; receives information regarding the fate of his family. Displays of antisemitism after the war; joins Gordonia; unsuccessful aliya...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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