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Testimony of Chaim Dan Shimshovitz, born in Botiza, Romania, 1916, regarding his experiences in the Oradea Ghetto, Hungarian labor camps, Mauthausen and more

Testimony

Testimony of Chaim Dan Shimshovitz, born in Botiza, Romania, 1916, regarding his experiences in the Oradea Ghetto, Hungarian labor camps, Mauthausen and more Childhood in Botiza; connection to Vizhnitz hasidism; from an ultra-Orthodox home; learns in a yeshiva in the Carpathian area; family moves to Oradea, 1929; drafted into the Romanian Army, 1936. Hungarian occupation, 1940; exemption from being drafted into Hungarian Army labor battalions; German occupation, 1944; deportation to the Oradea Ghetto, 1944; deportation to a Hungarian Army labor camp in Stanislawow, Poland; transfer to a labor camp near...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zvi Itzkovitz, born in Benedikovce, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Mukacevo Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Mauthausen, Ebensee and Gunskirchen

Testimony

Testimony of Zvi Itzkovitz, born in Benedikovce, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Mukacevo Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Mauthausen, Ebensee and Gunskirchen From an ultra-Orthodox family; learns in a "heder" and attends school. Life under Hungarian rule from 1939; activities of the community rabbi of Mukacevo; deportation to labor camps near Mukacevo; camp life including labor as a messenger; German occupation, 1944; deportation to the Mukacevo Ghetto; reaction of the neighbors; theft of property; his mother's illness; deportation to Auschwitz; murder of his parents and siblings;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rivka Frenkel, born 1937 in Jaroslaw, regarding her experiences in the Zhmerinka Ghetto and DP camps

Testimony

Testimony of Rivka Frenkel, born 1937 in Jaroslaw, regarding her experiences in the Zhmerinka Ghetto and DP camps Childhood in the Zhmerinka Ghetto, ; family life in the ghetto; hunger; liberation by the Red Army in 1945; moving to Stettin, 1946; aid from the Jewish committee; joining the Gordonia Kibbutz; transfer to the Rosenheim DP camp in Germany with help from the JDC until 1948; being moved by the JDC to Milan and from there to Fermo; details about the camp; aliya with her family to Israel onboard the "Adriatic", 1949; rehabilitation.

File Number : 10522

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shimon Kohen Kahan, born in Vișeul de Sus, Romania, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Oradea Mare Ghetto, and the Auschwitz, Birkenau, Mauthausen, and Gunskirchen camps

Testimony

Testimony of Shimon Kohen Kahan, born in Vișeul de Sus, Romania, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Oradea Mare Ghetto, and the Auschwitz, Birkenau, Mauthausen, and Gunskirchen camps His mother was from a Vizhnitz hasidic family; childhood in Oradea Mare; learns in a heder, a Neolog school, and a public elementary school; attendance at synagogue services; his father's death; membership in the Beitar youth movement. Annexation of Oradea Mare to Hungary, 1939; cessation of his studies; imposition of limitations on the Jews; deportation to the ghetto; ghetto life in extreme crowding; deportation to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Collection of drafts, notes and other papers related to the Jewish community of Kulmbach, 1511-1953

Drafts of articles and notes containing bibliographical and archival references related to the Jewish community of Kulmbach, Kulmbach county, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany, 1511-1953 Handwritten list containing seven names of former Kulmbach Jewish residents who were deported to Izbica on 25/04/1942.

File Number : 146

Type of Material : Names of Evacuees, Excerpt(s), Statistics, List of Jewish Community Members, Note, List of Persecuted Persons

Language : Hebrew, German