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Postcards and letters sent by Markovits Győző Vilmos, a forced laborer, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1868, to his wife, Markovits (Szász) Borbála and to his daughter, Markovits Zsuzsanna, in Budapest, 16 June-03 November 1944 Birth of the daughter, Zsuzsanna, 1928; transfer to forced labor in labor battalion no. 101/355 in Szony and Komarom; murder of Markovits Győző Vilmos in Bergen-Belsen, 15 December 1944; Included in the file: - Protective papers for the wife, Győzőné, and the daughter, Zsuzsanna, issued by the Swiss Embassy in Budapest, 25 October 1944; - Certificate of Hungarian citizenship issued...

File Number : 1777

Type of Material : Postcard, Document, Letter, Declaration

Language : English, Hungarian

Testimony of Ada Odette (Friedman) Peli, born in Metz, France, 1938, regarding her experiences in Metz and in Zurich

Testimony

Testimony of Ada Odette (Friedman) Peli, born in Metz, France, 1938, regarding her experiences in Metz and in Zurich Her childhood with her family. Escape to Poitiers; escape to Lyon; or [?] deportation of her family to camps due to her father's Hungarian citizenship; escape on foot to Zurich; detention of her father; refugee camp life in Zurich. Move back to Metz; aliya to Israel, 1956.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shoshana (Rozenberg) Porges, born in Oradea, Romania, 1938, regarding her experiences as a child hidden by Germans in Oradea

Testimony

Testimony of Shoshana (Rozenberg) Porges, born in Oradea, Romania, 1938, regarding her experiences as a child hidden by Germans in Oradea Vague memories of daily life in Oradea;deportation of her father to labor camp; life being hidden by the Albert family who were German; yellow badge; liberation by the Red Army. Reunion with father who returned from the Hungarian labor battalions; their imprisonment in Budapest due to lack of Hungarian citizenship; release and return to Oradea; Dror activities; displays of antisemitism after the war; transfer to a Jewish school; aliya to Israel in 1963; return visit to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zoltan Jesajahu Birnbaum, born in Putnok, Hungary, 1919, regarding his experiences in Putnok, in a labor battalion in Ukraine and as a POW in the Soviet Union

Testimony

Testimony of Zoltan Jesajahu Birnbaum, born in Putnok, Hungary, 1919, regarding his experiences in Putnok, in a labor battalion in Ukraine and as a POW in the Soviet Union Deportation of Jews without Hungarian citizenship, 1941; transfer to a labor battalion; transfer to Ukraine; taken captive by the Red Army; life as a POW.

File Number : 1036

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : German, Hungarian

Diary of Miklós Kellner, born in 1925 in Riečka, written during his vocational studies in Rimaszombat in 1941–1942

Diary of Miklós Kellner, born in 1925 in Riečka, written during his vocational studies in Rimaszombat in 1941–1942 - History of the Kellner family in Sajórerecske (Riečka): the authorities claim that the Kellners are not Hungarian citizens; family deported for this reason to a camp in Körösmező in August 1941; presentation of documents, inquiries, and return of the family to Riečka; Miklós inlists in youth military units in Rimaszombat; - translation of an excerpt of the diary from Hungarian to Czech by Miklős Kellner in November 1981. Also in the file: Article from the Kistext factory newspaper,...

File Number : 11673

Type of Material : Diary, Article, Newspaper Clippings

Language : Hungarian

Correspondence through the Red Cross organization of Zoltan Iczkovits in Eretz Israel with his parents in Bekescsaba from 1941, letters he received in 1946, his personal documentation from before his aliya to Eretz Israel, and aliya permits for the Iczkovits family from 1944 Letters: - letter from the Red Cross organization sent by Zoltan Iczkovits in Jerusalem to his father Jeno Iczkovits in Bekescsaba on 16 June 1941 and his parents' reply on the back of the letter sent on 15 September 1941; - letters sent from the United States and the British Army to Zoltan (Zoli) Iczkovits in Mandatory Palestine in...

File Number : 5082

Type of Material : Letter, Official Documentation, Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, English, Hungarian

Testimony from reparation files and memoirs of Holocaust survivors from Hungary regarding their experiences during the Holocaust, diary of Lili Halász from 1941-1942, documents of Ferenc Halász and his second wife Margit (Reichmann) and more Note: Numbers relate to the section: 1/a; 1/b; 1/j; 1/k; 1/l; 1/m; 2/b; 3/a; 3/d; 3/e; 4; 5; 6/c; 6/h; 12; 16; 1.) Reparations file of Holocaust survivor Halász Margaretha (Halász Ferencné) (nee Reichmann Margit): Born January 15, 1919 in Belényes, Hungary; a.) Statement by Kepes Istvánné (Nobel Erzsébet) and Erdei Gyuláné (Kallos Erzsébet) regarding Halász Ferencné...

File Number : 10504

Type of Material : סיפור חיים, Committee Request, תעודת בית הספר, Curriculum Vitae (cv), Marriage Certificate, תעודת שחרור ממחנה, Certification, מכתב רשמי, Record of Murdered Persons, החלטת ועדה, School Project, Diary, Death Certificate, Memoirs, Declaration, List of Jewish Survivors, Letter of Testimony, Red Cross Letter, Questionnaire, Orders, Document, מסמך מרבנות, Form, Its Card File, Poem/song, Record of Survivors, Birth Certificate, Certificate of Nationality, Passport, Postcard, רשימת בני המשפחה, Application

Language : Hebrew, English, German, Hungarian

Letter from Miksa (Mordechai) Krammer to his daughter, Mrs. Dvora (Olga) Lipschitz Mayerné in the Nagysurány ghetto on May 14, 1944, with a description of life in the ghetto

Letter from Miksa (Mordechai) Krammer to his daughter, Mrs. Dvora (Olga) Lipschitz Mayerné in the Nagysurány ghetto on May 14, 1944, with a description of life in the ghetto 1) Letter from Mordechai Krammer to his daughter, Dvora Olga Lipschitz in the Nagysurány ghetto, May 14, 1944, with translation from Hungarian into Hebrew: Deported from Kolta to the ghetto in Nagysurány, Hungary; temporary subsistence on food that they had brought with them to the ghetto; living at 36 Ország Mihály Street, Géza Dukesz’s house; grandmother lives at no. 30 on the same street; living in the ghetto are people from Csur,...

File Number : 4693

Type of Material : Marriage Certificate, Letter, Certificate of Nationality, תעודת חסות, כתובה, מסמך מרבנות

Language : Slovak, Hebrew, German, Aramaic, Hungarian

Research study about the Jews of Csorna, Hungary, in 1938–1944 by Károly Kovács, 2006

Research study about the Jews of Csorna, Hungary, in 1938–1944 by Károly Kovács, 2006 - census of Hungarian Jewry, carried out by the Central Council of the Jews of Hungary at the behest of the German authorities; - German occupation of Hungary commences on March 19, 1944; - life from the onset of the occupation to the beginning of the deportations on May 15, 1944; - deportation of the Jews of Csorna to the Sopron and Sárvár ghettos on June 20–21, 1944; - racial laws in Hungary from 1938 onward (the first in 1938, the second in 1939, and the third in 1941); - from 1939 to 1944, some 6,000 Jews emigrated...

File Number : 490

Type of Material : Research Paper

Language : Hebrew, German, Hungarian

Memoirs of Greta (Schwartz) Reisman, born in Vienna, Austria, 1927, regarding her experiences in Vienna, Budapest and the United States

Memoirs of Greta (Schwartz) Reisman, born in Vienna, Austria, 1927, regarding her experiences in Vienna, Budapest and the United States Childhood in Vienna; occupation of Vienna by the German Army, March 1938; preparations by her parents to leave Austria; transfer to the United States with her brother and sister; life with her grandmother in Yugoslavia; directive to deport foreign citizens from Czechoslovakia to Germany; escape to Budapest; her parents' move to the United States; staying [with her siblings] in various countries; arrival in the United States with her siblings after 18 months; life in the...

File Number : 9745

Type of Material : Telegram, Certification, Letter, Curriculum Vitae (cv), Memoirs, Newspaper Clippings, Declaration, Personal Documents

Language : Italian, English, German, Hungarian

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