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Testimony of Shoshana Zhuzhana Deizi Hendel (Unger) Klein, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1928 regarding the experiences of her family in Budapest during the period of German occupation

Testimony

Childhood in a well-to-do Orthodox family; her father is a Zionist and holds a central role in the Hamizrachi movement in Budapest; her parents' visit to Mandatory Palestine; additional visit to Mandatory Palestine in order to arrange aliya, 1939; return to Hungary; Outbreak of the war; German occupation, 10 March 1944; air-raids on Budapest; work as a clerk in the Judenrat; the family's move to the Glass House; distribution of protective passports from the Swiss Embassy to Jews outside the Glass House by her father; end of the war; Aliya to Israel with the last group of the Hamizrachi movement,1949;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Rózsa Veronika (Klein) Farkash, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1937, regarding her experiences, 1944-1945

Memoirs of Rózsa Veronika (Klein) Farkash, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1937, regarding her experiences, 1944-1945 Deportation of her father Jenő Klein to Auschwitz, April 1944; transfer of her family to a protected house of the Swedish Embassy in Budapest; deportation to the Budapest Ghetto; life in the ghetto, including starvation, lice and murder; liberation by the Red Army. Life under the Communist regime in Budapest; aliya to Israel, 1955; marriage to Menáchem Farkash, 1959; life in Jerusalem. The Klein family: Death of her father in Auschwitz at age 42 (date of death is unknown; likely he was...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Eva (Reichmann) Shakhar, born in 1935 in Budapest, about life in hiding during the war

Testimony

Testimony of Eva (Reichmann) Shakhar, born in 1935 in Budapest, about life in hiding during the war Life until the German occupation of Budapest in 1944; deportation to a marked house, then to a house under Swiss protection; witness escapes and hides in various places; liberated by Red Army forces in 1945; life after the war; help from the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee; immigration to Eretz Israel via a displaced persons camp in Germany; exiled to Cyprus; interned in Cyprus; re-immigration to Eretz Israel in 1947; received at Kibbutz Magen.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yisrael Imre Farkas, born in Arduzel, Romania, 1928, regarding his experiences in Budapest, the Budapest Ghetto, on a death march and in other places

Testimony

Testimony of Yisrael Imre Farkas, born in Arduzel, Romania, 1928, regarding his experiences in Budapest, the Budapest Ghetto, on a death march and in other places His childhood; his family's move to Budapest. Deportation of his father and brother to a labor camp, March 1944; deportation of the Jews to the Budapest Ghetto and to protected houses of foreign embassies; draft of young people and adults above the age of 55 to labor digging defense trenches; escape; move back to the Budapest Ghetto; transfer of his relatives from Cluj on the Kasztner train; life during the day in an industrial area outside the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rachel (Fenyes) Talmon, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1930, regarding her experiences as a child in a marked house and a protected house in Budapest

Testimony

Testimony of Rachel (Fenyes) Talmon, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1930, regarding her experiences as a child in a marked house and a protected house in Budapest Life before the war; attends a state school. Deportation of her father to forced labor; receives information about the death of her father in Ukraine, 1943; German occupation, 1944; transfer of her step-father to forced labor; restrictions on the Jews and yellow badge; transfer to a marked house; air-raids; escape to a protected house under Swiss protection; Arrow Cross members break-in to protected houses; rumors of the murder of Jews in the Danube...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Aharon Rudolf Visman Veis, born in Vinogradov, Czechoslovakia, 1928, regarding his experiences in hiding in Ilnice and using a false identity in Budapest

Testimony

Testimony of Aharon Rudolf Visman Veis, born in Vinogradov, Czechoslovakia, 1928, regarding his experiences in hiding in Ilnice and using a false identity in Budapest Childhood in Vinogradov and Ilnice; his father's death, 1937; learns to be a tailor until 1944. German occupation; escape from deportation, April 1944; life in hiding; escape to Arded; joins a Soviet workers' camp; escape to Budapest; life in Budapest using a false identity; supply of forged documents to escaping Jews; move to a protected house under the protection of Raoul Wallenberg; fostered by a Jewish Red Army officer; drafted into...

File Number : 12658

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zvi Zoltan Shefer, born in Miskolc, Hungary, 1931, regarding his experiences in a protected house in Budapest

Testimony

Testimony of Zvi Zoltan Shper, born in Miskolc, Hungary, 1931, regarding his experiences in a protected house in Budapest From a traditional family; life in Budapest. German occupation, 1944; decrees including closure of schools and establishment of the ghetto; life in a protected house; liberation by the Red Army, January 1945. Enlists in Gachal as part of the Haganah; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1948.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Nikolas Cohen, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1932, regarding his experiences in the Budapest Ghetto, a children’s home under the protection of Raoul Wallenberg and in eastern Hungary

Testimony

Testimony of Nikolas Cohen, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1932, regarding his experiences in the Budapest Ghetto, a children’s home under the protection of Raoul Wallenberg and in eastern Hungary From a financially secure Neolog family; family owns a tailoring shop. Outbreak of the war; draft of his father into the army; German occupation, March 1944; life under fascist rule; marking of Jewish houses; confiscation of possessions; deportation to the Budapest Ghetto; ghetto life in a protected house including labor in a block factory; joins a youth movement; life in a children's home; joins a children's home...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Miriam Maria-Ana (Hegedus) Benedek, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1929, regarding her experiences in Budapest

Testimony

Testimony of Miriam Maria-Ana (Hegedus) Benedek, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1929, regarding her experiences in Budapest Assimilated family; her father is a manager in a yeast and liquor factory. Outbreak of the war, 1939; restrictions on the Jews; dismissal of her father from work; eviction from their home, June 1944; transfer to a marked house; life in the marked house; draft of her father to forced labor; receives a Swedish protection certificate, October 1944; escape with the help of her father to a shelter under the protection of Sweden; life during the air-raids; transfer on foot to the Danube River;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yitzhak Printz, born in Szerencs, Hungary, 1931, regarding his experiences in Satoraljaujhely, the Budapest Ghetto and in hiding in a monastery in the Budapest area

Testimony

Testimony of Yitzhak Printz, born in Szerencs, Hungary, 1931, regarding his experiences in Satoraljaujhely, the Budapest Ghetto and in hiding in a monastery in the Budapest area Childhood in a religious Satoraljaujhely family; increase in antisemitism. Move to Budapest, 1941; attends a Jewish high school; his father is drafted to forced labor and dies from typhus, 1943; German occupation, March 1944; deportation to the Budapest Ghetto, July 1944; in hiding in a Carmelite monastery in the Budapest area, November 1944; return to Budapest after about one month; liberation by the Red Army. Return home,...

File Number : 12533

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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