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Testimony of Shlomo Sigmund Weiss, born in Dunajska Streda, Czechoslovakia, 1919, regarding his experiences in Komarom, Banhida, Kisber, the Dunajska Streda Ghetto, Auschwitz and more

Testimony

Testimony of Shlomo Sigmund Weiss, born in Dunajska Streda, Czechoslovakia, 1919, regarding his experiences in Komarom, Banhida, Kisber, the Dunajska Streda Ghetto, Auschwitz and more Home life; annexation to Hungary, 1938 [name of town changed to its Hungarian name, Dunaszerdahely]; displays of antisemitism; cancellation of family business license; house searches; economic difficulties. German occupation, 1939; locking up Jews in a cellar, beatings and interrogations about valuables; hiding of the family valuables; draft and deportation to a labor camp in Komarom, 1942; escape during : Hanukkah...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shlomo Benvenisti, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, 1921, regarding his experiences in Sofia, Gradeshnitsa, Marikostino, Shumen and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Shlomo Benvenisti, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, 1921, regarding his experiences in Sofia, Gradeshnitsa, Marikostino, Shumen and other places Life in Sofia before the war. Yellow badge, 1941; transfer to forced labor for the Bulgarian Army, summer 1942; camp life in Gradeshnitsa; labor preparing a surface for railroad tracks; release and return to his family's home; transfer to Marikostino; camp life; desertion and escape to Shumen; escape to Ruse; life in Ruse; put on trial in a military court for desertion; transfer to a military prison, 20 May 1944; liberation by the Red Army, September...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Emerich Imre Gáspár, born in Szeged, Hungary, 1926, regarding his experiences in a labor battalion in Szeged, Veszprem, Szombathely and Schachendorf

Testimony

Testimony of Emerich Imre Gáspár, born in Szeged, Hungary, 1926, regarding his experiences in a labor battalion in Szeged, Veszprem, Szombathely and Schachendorf Life before the war; death of his father and mother. Life until 1944; German occupation, March 1944; drafted to a labor battalion on his 18 birthday, 06 June 1944; life in a labor battalion camp; labor moving wheelbarrows of sand to protect the ammunition storerooms; evacuation of the camp, 15 October 1944; transfer in a death march; escape and wanderings in a forest; escape from the forest and capture by Hungarian gendarmes; transfer to a prison...

File Number : 12969

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yeshayahu Jenoe Eckstein, born in Elek, Hungary, 1926, regarding his experiences in forced labor in Puspokladany, Mosonmagyarovar, Sopron, Statzendorf, a death march and Gunskirchen

Testimony

Testimony of Yeshayahu Jenoe Eckstein, born in Elek, Hungary, 1926, regarding his experiences in forced labor in Puspokladany, Mosonmagyarovar, Sopron, Statzendorf, a death march and Gunskirchen Life before the war; move to Oroshaza, 1940; increase in antisemitism. German occupation, March 1944; decrees including the yellow badge and deportation to the Oroshaza Ghetto, May 1944; draft to forced labor; transfer to Puspokladany; life in Puspokladany including labor digging and filling engines with coal; transfer to Mosonmagyarovar; escape, October 1944; detention in Backa; escape; return to the forced labor...

File Number : 12900

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Bozhena Erzsebet (Herman Fridman) Cohen, born in Uzhorod, Czechoslovakia, 1913, regarding her experiences in Katowice, Lwow, Luck and serving in Svoboda's Czech Brigade in the Soviet Union From a financially secure traditional family; attends a Jewish school and a Czech High school; studies law at the university in Prague; marriage; illegally crosses the border with help from a Polish officer, 1939; moves to Katowice with her husband. Outbreak of the war; wanderings to Luck on foot; Soviet occupation; labor with her husband as Communist foreign language teachers in the nearby village;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Meir Geltner, born in Iasi, Romania, 1900, regarding his experiences in Iasi and Nemirov

Testimony

Testimony of Meir Geltner, born in Iasi, Romania, 1900, regarding his experiences in Iasi and Nemirov Deportation to Transnistria by Colonel Mainescu, 1942; transfer of the deportees to German command; deportation to Nemirow; camp life including "Aktions"; escape with his wife; detention; stood trial in a Romanian Army court; death sentence; liberation.

File Number : 1737

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : German

Documentation of the Romanian government in the Bukovina region regarding the deportation of residents to Ukraine, 02-03/1942

Documentation of the Romanian government in the Bukovina region regarding the deportation of residents to Ukraine, 02-03/1942 - Correspondence between the Police command and the Gendarmerie in Cernauti and the governor of the Bukovina region, regarding the deportation to Ukraine of residents who were convicted in Military Courts, and the German authorities refused to authorize their entry into Ukraine; - List of the residents who were deported.

File Number : 94

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : Romanian

Letter by the Cernauti Police to the Romanian government in the Bukovina region, regarding 27 Jews who were handed over to the German authorities, 27/03/1943

Letter by the Cernauti Police to the Romanian government in the Bukovina region, regarding 27 Jews who were handed over to the German authorities, 27/03/1943 Letter by the Cernauti Police to the Romanian government in the Bukovina region, regarding 27 Jews who were handed over to the German authorities, 27/03/1943; among these Jews were 11 Jews who had previously been hospitalized in a hospital and, according to the instructions of the Military Court of Law, they were to be deported following the court's decision.

File Number : 57

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : Romanian

Report by the Cernauti Police regarding various incidents, 24/10/1942

Report by the Cernauti Police regarding various incidents, 24/10/1942 - Report by the Cernauti Police regarding various incidents, 24/10/1942 1. Hospitalization of an electricity technician in the central hospital following a work accident; 2. The loss of two hands by Police officer Teodor Ionica while ascending a railroad train; 3. Suicide attempt by Marin Tanase during detention by the Police; 4. Execution of Jews, Drach Bercu and Clement Rosenblat, in the Jewish cemetery, following their conviction in a Military Court in Cernauti for carrying weapons without a license and for theft; 5....

File Number : 56

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : Romanian

Official documentation regarding regulations and decrees issued by the Oberpraesidenten-Zivilverwaltung fuer den Bezirk Bialystok (High President of the Civil Administration of the Bialystok district) and the Gouverneur des Distrikt Galizien (Governor of the Galicia district), 1942 - Complete editions of the "Amtsblatt des Oberpraesidenten-Zivilverwaltung fuer den Bezirk Bialystok", official documentation regarding regulations, decrees and administrative orders (in German, Polish and Ukrainian) published by the civil administration of the Bialystok area, for the year 1942; The regulations concern matters...

File Number : 9

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Laws and Decrees

Language : Polish, German, Ukrainian

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