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Testimony of Josef Heiman, born in Szolnok, Hungary, 1922, regarding enlistment in labor troops in the Hungarian army, 1942-1945

Testimony

Testimony of Josef Heiman, born in Szolnok, Hungary, 1922, regarding enlistment in labor battalions in the Hungarian army, 1942-1945 Childhood in a religious family lacking economic means; studies in a Jewish school and then in a general school. Anti-Jewish legislation; restrictions on the employment of Jews in public office; limitation on the number of students in universities (Numerus clausus); conscription into the Hungarian army for labor battalions, 1942; anti-Semitic incidents in the labor battalions; heavy penalties; transfer of the battalion to Austria, 1944; fortification works near...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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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

Memoirs of an anonymous witness regarding his experiences and those of the Jews of Nagyvárad after the annexation of the Nagyvárad area to Hungary, 1940-1945

Memoirs of an anonymous witness regarding his experiences and those of the Jews of Nagyvárad after the annexation of the Nagyvárad area to Hungary, 1940-1945 - Annexation of Nagyvárad to Hungary, 1940; antisemitic articles published in the newspapers; deportation of a group of Jews to Kamenets Podolsk, 1941; drafting of Jewish men to Hungarian Army labor battalions; occupation of Hungary by Germany, March 1944; anti-Jewish legislation; deportation of the Jews of Nagyvárad and its surrounding area to the Nagyvárad Ghetto, May 1944; confiscation of valuable articles; deportation of Jews from the Nagyvárad...

File Number : 3647

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hungarian

Diary and memoirs of Maria Flor (maiden name: Kohn) regarding her experiences in Budapest in 1944-1945, and testimonies of her daughters Vera Benedek and Agnes Mishan regarding their childhood during the Holocaust Final thesis for her master's degree at the Levinsky College of Education, submitted by Sima Kotev in 2016. The appendices include a translation of the diary of Maria (Kohn) Konrad-Flor (Konrad - a pen-name under which she published poems before the war) and interviews with her daughters Vera and Agnes: - diary kept by Maria (Kohn) Flor in Budapest in March-December 1944 and her memoirs written...

File Number : 11207

Type of Material : Interview(s), Thesis, Maps, Diary, Genealogy

Language : Hebrew, English

Memoirs of Shimon Hershkovitz, born in Vulchovce in 1914, regarding his experiences in labor battalions in the Hungarian army in 1941-1945, and his life in Uzhorod until his aliya to Israel in 1972

Memoirs of Shimon Hershkovitz, born in Vulchovce in 1914, regarding his experiences in labor battalions in the Hungarian army in 1941-1945, and his life in Uzhorod until his aliya to Israel in 1972 - "Lema’an tesapru ledor hacharon” (For you to relate to the last generation): the memoirs of Shimon Yehiel Michael Hershkovitz, born in Vulchovce in 1914, regarding his experiences in labor battalions in the Hungarian army in Hungary, Ukraine and Poland in 1941-1945, and regarding his life in Uzhorod until his aliya to Israel in 1972. The memoirs were written as an addition to the testimony collected from the...

File Number : 11155

Type of Material : Memoirs, תמליל, Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, Yiddish

Memoirs of Elisheva Libovich, (maiden name: Zonenfeld), born in Újpest in 1929, regarding her experiences during the Holocaust, and the memoirs of Avraham Libovich, born in 1921, regarding his experiences in 1944-1945, from his book about the Jewish orphanage in Budapest - "To my children and grandchildren": Elisheva Libovich’s memoirs of her experiences in the Holocaust: persecution of Hungarian Jews in the early 1940s; German invasion of Hungary on 19 March 1944; deportation of her father to labor camps (he perished); life in the Újpest Ghetto; deportation with family members to Auschwitz; selection in...

File Number : 11092

Type of Material : Survey, Article, Genealogy, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

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