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Memoirs of László Jacob Somogyi, born in Hungary, 1908, and Judith Somogyi, born in Hungary, 1918, regarding their experiences in Budapest, Bergen-Belsen and Switzerland

Memoirs of László Jacob Somogyi, born in Hungary, 1908, and Judith Somogyi, born in Hungary, 1918, regarding their experiences in Budapest, Bergen-Belsen and Switzerland Occupation of Budapest by the German Army; life in Budapest; transfer to Bergen-Belsen on the Kasztner train, July 1944; life in Bergen-Belsen, July-December 1944; transfer to Switzerland; liberation.

File Number : 8222

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English

Testimony of Elizabeth (Fishelovich) Greenfeld, born in Bekescsaba, Hungary, 1923, regarding her experiences in Bekescsaba, the Kevermes Ghetto, Auschwitz, in Germany and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Elizabeth (Fishelovich) Greenfeld, born in Bekescsaba, Hungary, 1923, regarding her experiences in Bekescsaba, the Kevermes Ghetto, Auschwitz, in Germany and other places Her childhood among her family, including attending a Jewish school. Imposition of anti-Jewish restrictions; outbreak of the war, 1939; receives knowledge concerning the fate of the Jews in Poland; refusal by her father to hide his two daughters; hiding of property in a bunker; deportation to the Kevermes Ghetto; Kevermes Ghetto life including fear and overcrowding; transfer to a tobacco factory, Pesach (April), 1944;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Dvora (Keizler) Vilner, born in Rakamaz, Hungary, 1926, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz, Kaufering and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Dvora (Keizler) Vilner, born in Rakamaz, Hungary, 1926, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz, Kaufering and other places Life before the war; difficulties to earn a livelihood; travel to Uruguay; return to Rakamaz; displays of antisemitism on the street and in school; Zionist activities; activities by emissaries from Eretz Israel. Deportation to a ghetto (Nyiregyhaza?); deportation to Auschwitz; transfer to Kaufering; liberation by the US Army, 1945. Hospitalization in a sanitarium; reunion with her brother in Budapest; aliya to Israel, 1949.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Hava Eva (Rutkai) Ungar, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1931, regarding her experiences as a child in Szeged, Strasshof and the Floridsdorf Wien camp

Testimony

Testimony of Hava Eva (Rutkai) Ungar, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1931, regarding her experiences as a child in Szeged, Strasshof and the Floridsdorf Wien camp Life before the war; life in Szeged in an orphanage; attends a government school; ostracism by the Jewish children. Concentration of the Jewish children in a roof tile factory, March 1944; deportation to Vienna by train; life in Vienna; help from the Jewish community and the Joint Distribution Committee; deportation to Strasshof; camp life; guarding of the camp by Ukrainian guards and German guards; transfer by truck to Vienna; transfer to a paint...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Pnina Iren (Frish) Rubinstein, born in Hajdunanas, Hungary, 1929, regarding her experiences in the Hajdunanas Ghetto, Debrecen, Strasshof and Wien

Testimony

Testimony of Pnina Iren (Frish) Rubinstein, born in Hajdunanas, Hungary, 1929, regarding her experiences in the Hajdunanas Ghetto, Debrecen, Strasshof and Wien Life before the war; attends the Jewish school and learns at home; numerus clausus. Outbreak of the war; draft of her father to forced labor logging trees, 1940; restrictions on Jews including selling merchandise; German occupation, Pesach 1944; deportation of the Jewish men including her father to a labor camp; yellow badge; deportation to the Hajdunanas Ghetto; ghetto life including first aid courses; concentration of the Jews in the railroad...

File Number : 12767

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yaakov Markovitz Miron, born in Kiskunmajsa, Hungary, 1922, regarding his experiences in Budapest and as a forced laborer

Testimony

Testimony of Yaakov Markovitz Miron, born in Kiskunmajsa, Hungary, 1922, regarding his experiences in Budapest and as a forced laborer Life before the war; attends "heder" and a Hungarian school; Hashomer Hatzair activities. Outbreak of war; escape to Budapest; meets Jewish refugees from Poland and Czechoslovakia; information on the murder of Jews; studies to become an electrician; help for refugees including preparing forged documents and smuggling across the border; deportation to a Hungarian Army labor camp, 1943; camp life including labor digging and preparing forged documents; information on the fate...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Leah Agnes Gramse, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1928, regarding deportation to Auschwitz, Krakau Plaszow, Kaufering and Bergen-Belsen camps

Testimony

Testimony of Leah Agnes Gramse, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1928, regarding deportation to Auschwitz, Krakau Plaszow, Kaufering and Bergen-Belsen camps Family background, religious family; residence in the village; her father's work at the village flour mill; anti-Semitism before the war; good relations with local neighbors. A change in attitude after Hitler came to power; studies in a Jewish school; anti-Jewish legislation since 1943; property robbery; prohibition and Restrictions; enlistment of her brother and uncle to labor troops; the death of her uncle in the labor troops; entry of German soldiers into...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Eva Wiesner, born in Hiderbesernei, Hungary, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Hiderbesernei Ghetto, Debrecen, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ravensbrueck and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Eva Wiesner, born in Hiderbesernei, Hungary, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Hiderbesernei Ghetto, Debrecen, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ravensbrueck and other places Life before the war; education; objection of the school principal to displays of antisemitism. German occupation; deportation to the Hiderbesernei Ghetto with her family; ghetto life including transfer to Debrecen; life in a brick factory in Debrecen including her grandfather's death; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; camp life including lighting candles made from margarine; transfer to Ravensbrueck; camp life including labor in...

File Number : 5704

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Shalom Klein, born in Nagy Szolos, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Budapest Ghetto, Liebe-Rose, Schwartzheide and Sachsenhausen labor camps

Testimony

Testimony of Shalom Klein, born in Nagy Szolos, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Budapest Ghetto, Liebe-Rose, Schwartzheide and Sachsenhausen labor camps Very poor family with seven people; father is a clerk; attends a "heder" and a Hungarian school until age 14 and then goes to work; studies in Jewish teachers college in Budapest while working and membership in Hashomer Hatzair; disputes between religious Jews and Zionists. Mutual help with Hungarian Jews at onset of decrees; deportation of people who warned about extermination; detention at the entry of the Germans, 1944; return home and...

File Number : 10826

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Draft memoirs of George A. Floris, born in Subotica in 1917, about his experiences in the Hungarian Army labor battalions and forced labor in Austria and Germany, 1943–1945

Draft memoirs of George A. Floris, born in Subotica in 1917, about his experiences in the Hungarian Army labor battalions and forced labor in Austria and Germany, 1943–1945 Witness is the offspring of a Jewish father who out-converted and of a non-Jewish mother; childhood in Subotica and Budapest; Catholic upbringing; attends a Christian school in Budapest; anti-Jewish decrees from 1938 on; witness inducted into Hungarian Army labor battalions in 1943; Germany occupies Hungary in March 1944; witness sent to forced labor near Vienna in late 1944; escapes from forced labor and attempts to reach the Swiss...

File Number : 12544

Type of Material : Memoirs, Letter, Draft

Language : English

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