Yad Vashem Collections - Documents

63 Results

Testimony of Dov Ber Izidor Weiss Levanoni, born in Kerecky, Czechoslovakia, 1921, regarding his experiences in Kerecky, Orsowa and Komarom

Testimony

Testimony of Dov Ber Izidor Weiss Levanoni, born in Kerecky, Czechoslovakia, 1921, regarding his experiences in Kerecky, Orsowa and Komarom Life with his family [in Kerecky?]; Jewish community life [in Kerecky]; move to Orsowa; life in Orsowa including attending school and learning in a "heder". Hungarian Army occupation [of Orsowa], 1939; draft to the labor battalions before Yom Kippur; transfer to Komarom; camp life including the decree regarding wearing a yellow badge, and forced labor; transfer of the inmates on foot under the supervision of Hungarian Gendarmerie men; escape with a friend; deportation...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Benjamin Dror Friedman Yano, born in Satu Mare, Romania, 1927, regarding his experiences in Budapest with the outbreak of war, escape to Romania and aliya to Eretz Israel in 1944

Testimony

Testimony of Benjamin Dror Friedman Yano, born in Satu Mare, Romania, 1927, regarding his experiences in Budapest with the outbreak of war, escape to Romania and aliya to Eretz Israel in 1944 Family background; Satmar community; his father runs an alcohol factory; father service during World War I at the front; life before the war; studies in general schools. Shift to Hungarian rule, 1941; Antisemitic remarks; worsening treatment of Jews; limiting the number of Jewish students in schools; prohibition of business by Jews; move to Budapest, 1941; receiving a notice from his parents in Romania that they are...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Meir Andrash Weiss, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1934, regarding the Budapest ghetto and hiding in the Jewish gymnasium under the auspices of a Hungarian officer

Testimony

Testimony of Meir Andrash Weiss, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1934, regarding the Budapest ghetto and hiding in the Jewish gymnasium under the auspices of a Hungarian officer Family background; his father owns a printing house; life before the war; studies in a Hungarian school; enlistment of his father to labor battalions, 1940; management of the family business by his mother. German occupation, 1944; duty to wear a yellow badge; dropping out of school; an attempt by his mother to flee to the province with the witness and his brother; ban on train travel; confiscation of printing machines in the family...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Pinchas Peter Grosman, born in Hejocsaba, Hungary, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Budapest Ghetto, Miskolc camp, a labor battalion and Komarom camp

Testimony

Testimony of Pinchas Peter Grosman, born in Hejocsaba, Hungary, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Budapest Ghetto, Miskolc camp, a labor battalion and Komarom camp Life before the war; education in Miskolc; education in Budapest. Restrictions on the Jews and numerus clausus; deportation of his father to a labor battalion; Hungarian gendermes activities; German occupation, March 1944; deportation to the Budapest Ghetto; deportation to Miskolc camp; deportation of the family to Auschwitz; death of her mother in camp; transfer to a labor battalion in Komarom; camp life; life with Wermacht soldiers;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Michael Nikolai Rosenberg, born in Cosniciul de Sus, Romania, 1923, regarding his experiences in Cosniciul de Sus, in a labor battalion in Ukraine and on the border of Austria

Testimony

Testimony of Michael Nikolai Rosenberg, born in Cosniciul de Sus, Romania, 1923, regarding his experiences in Cosniciul de Sus, in a labor battalion in Ukraine and on the border of Austria Life before the war; traditional, Zionist family; studies. Re-annexation to Hungary, 1940; imposition of restrictions on the Jews; murder of Jews by Hungarians; deportation to a labor battalion; German occupation, March 1944; deportation of his family to Auschwitz-Birkenau; murder of his family in the camp; witness wears a yellow armband; deportation to Ukraine with a labor battalion; life in Ukraine including forced...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Hadasa Hinda (Tzudzinovski) Gerstner, born in Sosnowiec, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in Langenbielau camp, a ghetto and additional camps

Testimony

Testimony of Hadasa Hinda (Tzudzinovski) Gerstner, born in Sosnowiec, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in Langenbielau camp, a ghetto and additional camps The immediate family; her parents livelihood; life at home including Shabbat, religious holidays and Pesach; education; Jewish schools and synagogues in the community; youth movements and activities in Hanoar Hatzioni. German occupation, September 1939; escape of the family to Drohobycz; return home; hunger; decrees; draft of her father to forced labor; death of her father from a disease; desecration of the Great Synagogue and burning of the...

File Number : 13322

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

To be translated

Testimony

העדה- בת למשפחה מסורתית; ילדות מאושרת; החמרה במצב יהודי הונגריה ורדיפתם החל מ-1939; אנטישמיות; חובה על נשיאת טלאי צהוב; מעבר המשפחה ל-Berettyo Ujfalu; גטואיזציה ב-Beretyo Ujfalu, גירוש לגטו Oradea Mare; עבודות כפייה באיסוף בגדים ותכשיטים מבתי היהודים שגורשו מהגטו; גירוש ברכבות בקיץ 1944 למחנה Auschwitz; סלקציה; שהות במחנה במשך כ-6 שבועות; גירוש ל-Langenbielau; עבודות כפייה בבית חרושת לייצור חומרי גלם לסיבים; שחרור בידי הצבא האדום ב-8 במאי 1945; שיבה להונגריה; עלייה לישראל ב-1956.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

Personal report by Dr. Israel Taubes: Jewish Survivors Report-Documents of Nazi Guilt, No 2: "The Persecution of Jews in Holland 1940-1944 Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen"

Personal report by Dr. Israel Taubes: Jewish Survivors Report-Documents of Nazi Guilt, No 2: "The Persecution of Jews in Holland 1940-1944 Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen" 1940 - Initial reactions to the German occupation: flight or suicide; the measures of Seyss-Inquart; help and sympathy from the non-Jewish Dutch; Christian protests; economic measures against the Jews; Nazi corruption; Jewish institutions; 1941 - Legal emigration; illegal emigration; Jewish underground; Amsterdam Ghetto; resistance in the Amsterdam Ghetto; deportation to Mauthausen; Jewish collaboration; cultural life; work of the...

File Number : 117

Type of Material : Survey Report, Official Documentation

Language : English

To be translated

File Number : 1528

Type of Material : Memoirs, Newspaper Clippings

Language : Hungarian

Letter from Jenő Löbl in Nagykanizsa to his son, April 1944, the memories of Vera (Kelemen) Szigeti and Dov Szigeti, (born Alfred Károly Schwarz), born in Budapest and Tiszacsege, and more

Additional letters: - Letter from István Piata Löbl in Israel to Gyula Kelemen in which he asks for the hand of her daughter Vera, 1948; - Letter from H. Schwarcz in London to Dov Alfred Szigeti in Nicosia, Cyprus, 1949; - Letter from Baruch Schwarz, a member of the Socialist Workers Organization in Budapest, to members of the movement, undated; - Information from the memories of Vera (Kelemen) Szigeti, born in Budapest, 1924, a declaration form for a compensation claim from Haifa, 1970, and Vera's memoirs written by her daughter: Parents: Julius and Julianna (Levy) Kelemen; life and study in schools,...

File Number : 5795

Type of Material : Declaration, Birth Certificate, Personal Documents, Membership Cards, Marriage Certificate, Genealogy, Form, Letter, Memoirs, Biography

Language : Hebrew, English, Romanian, Russian, German, Hungarian

Items per page:

1 – 10 of 63

Identification Details

Archival Information