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Testimony of Shoshana Zuzi Zhuzha (Polak) Levinger, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1932 regarding her experiences in Budapest in a marked house, in the ghetto and in a children's home

Testimony

Childhood in a secular family; living in various towns due to her father's work; good relations with Christians; Move to Budapest, summer 1942 or 1943; drafting of her father into a labor battalion, probably early 1944; German occupation, March 1944; air-raids; move to a marked house; move to a protected house; eviction of all the residents by members of the Arrow Cross Party, her father arrived in an army uniform and took her out of the group; continued life in the ghetto with many children; staying in shelter most of the time; liberation by the Red Army, January 1945; Joining Youth Aliyah; aliya to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mordekhai Miklosh Shtraser born in Budapest, Hungary, 1931, regarding life in Budapest during the war in a protected house and using a false Christian identity

Testimony

Childhood in an indigent ultra-Orthodox family; life in a Jewish environment; studies in a Jewish school; drafting of his father and two brothers to a labor battalion; German occupation, March 1944; continued living in a marked house; bringing additional people into the house; air-raids; transfer to a protected house by a cousin, a refugee from Slovakia; with the assistance of the cousin, transfer with his family to the hiding place of a Jew who was deported, October 1944; living under a false Christian identity; bringing food from a pantry in a bombed house; living in a shelter from late 1944 until...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Hava Weiner Wolf, born in Bruxelles, Belgium, 1936, regarding her life during the war in Slavonski Brod in various hiding places and in a Jewish orphanage sponsored by the Red Cross

Testimony

Testimony of Hava Weiner Wolf, born in Bruxelles, Belgium, 1936, regarding her life during the war in Slavonski Brod in various hiding places and in a Jewish orphanage sponsored by the Red Cross Family background; move to Slavonski Brod, 1941. The outbreak of the war; the bombings; order to move to houses marked with a Star of David; move to her aunt's house rescued by the owner of the factory where her father works; giving work to Jewish men and the women and children hiding in an apartment in a factory; rescuing 17 Jews by the owner of a factory called Palesz Antal; issuing an order to arrive at a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Meir Friedman, born in 1925 in Halmaj, Hungary, about his experiences in Halmaj and Budapest

Testimony

Testimony of Meir Friedman, born in 1925 in Halmaj, Hungary, about his experiences in Halmaj and Budapest Offspring of an Orthodox religious family in Halmaj; German occupation of Hungary begins in 1944; Jews of the area rounded up in a brick factory in Kosiĉe; witness is transferred with his family to Budapest by a brother; entering a marked house in April 1944; escaping to the "Glass House" in October 1944; Arrow Cross operatives assault the house; saved by a German officer from murder on the Danube on December 31, 1944; liberation by Red Army forces on January 18, 11945; half a year in Vienna;...

File Number : 13472

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Zsuzsanna Feld, born in 1918, regarding her experiences in a marked house in Budapest, in Obuda, in Koghaza and in Mauthausen

Memoirs of Zsuzsanna Feld, born in 1918, regarding her experiences in a marked house in Budapest, in Obuda, in Kophaza and in Mauthausen Life in Budapest including deportation to a marked house, summer 1944; deportation to a brick factory in Obuda; life there; cruelty of Hungarian soldiers; transfer to Kophaza by forced march; life in Kophaza including labor for local villagers; deportation towards Mauthausen by forced march; women attacked with iron rods and hammers by SS guards; murder of some of the women; transfer to Mauthausen; camp life including murder of the sick women; the German Army flees;...

File Number : 8503

Type of Material : Names, Personal Documents, Memoirs, Testimony

Language : Hebrew, Hungarian

Testimony of Chaia Edith Shapira née Goldshtein, born in 1932 in Izsak, Hungary about her experiences as a girl in Izsak, the Budapest ghetto, and in hiding in Pestszenterzsebet

Life before the war; offspring of an Orthodox religious family; father assigned to fortification work; father returns several months later in 1941; father falsely accused of communist tendencies; father arrested and released; father inducted into labor brigades; witness escapes to Budapest; German occupation ensues in March 1944; wearing the yellow star; escapes to marked houses in the Jewish quarter; evicted from marked houses; taken with brother to a house under Swedish protection; sent to Budapest ghetto in November 1944; joins mother; obtains false papers and escapes from the ghetto; encounters Father Re...

File Number : 13590

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yoel Erno Gruner, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1935, regarding his experiences in Budapest, in a protected house and in a children's home

Testimony

Testimony of Yoel Erno Gruner, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1935, regarding his experiences in Budapest, in a protected house and in a children's home Draft of his father to labor battalions; eviction from their home following the occupation; deportation of his mother to Austria; transfer to a Swiss protected house with his brother and baby sister; fascists take control of the children's home; in hiding in a barrel; move to a children's home under the protection of the Red Cross; liberation by the Red Army. Rehabilitation with help from the JDC; disappearance of his baby sister; report regarding the death...

File Number : 13427

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Eva Renee Rivka (Weisz) Klang, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1932, regarding her experiences in Budapest, a marked house, Bratislava and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Eva Renee Rivka (Weisz) Klang, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1932, regarding her experiences in Budapest, a marked house, Bratislava and other places Her childhood in Budapest including antisemitism and her attending a Jewish high school. German Army occupation of Budapest, March 1944; life under German occupation including the imposition of anti-Jewish decrees; move to a marked house on Népszínház utca Street no. 49; murder of Jews in the marked house, August 1944; move to another marked house on Miksa utca Street [?] until October 1944; receives Swiss Schutzpass, protective passports; move to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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