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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avraham Meir Cohen, born in Olaszliszka, Hungary, 1929, regarding his experiences in Cigand, the Satoraljaujhely Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Dachau, Kaufbeuern and on a death march

Testimony

Testimony of Avraham Meir Cohen, born in Olaszliszka, Hungary, 1929, regarding his experiences in Cigand, the Satoraljaujhely Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Dachau, Kaufbeuern and on a death march His childhood in Cigand in an ultra-Orthodox family; witness learns in a "heder"; attends a public school; life until 1944. Draft of his father to labor battalions; German Army occupation [of Cigand], March 1944; deportation to the Satoraljaujhely Ghetto, after Pesach [April 1944]; transfer with a group of young people, under police escort, to search for food in empty apartments; Satoraljaujhely Ghetto life, for...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of David Ben Basat, born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 1928, regarding his experiences in Sofia, Lom and Ihtiman

Testimony

Testimony of David Ben Basat, born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 1928, regarding his experiences in Sofia, Lom and Ihtiman Life in Sofia before the war; his father owns a sausage shop; activities in the Poalei Zion movement. Anti-Jewish restrictions including the closure of businesses; deportation of men to forced labor; yellow badge; deportation with the Jews to outlying towns; transfer to Lom; life in Lom in detention; labor in a mine; escape to his grandfather in Ihtiman, with the help of bribery; end of the war. Return to Sofia; aliya to Israel, 1948.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Gizela (Vozner) Fleishman, born in Dunajska Streda, Czechoslovakia, 1923, regarding her experiences in Dunajska Streda, Gross-Rosen, Plaszow, Auschwitz-Birkenau and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Gizela (Vozner) Fleishman, born in Dunajska Streda, Czechoslovakia, 1923, regarding her experiences in Dunajska Streda, Gross-Rosen, Plaszow, Auschwitz-Birkenau and other places Life before the war; religious family. Deportation by train to Auschwitz-Birkenau; camp life including separation from her mother; murder of her mother; transfer with her two sisters to Block 10; transfer to Plaszow; camp life; transfer to Auschwith-Birkenau; transfer to Gross-Rosen; transfer to Schaffendorf; camp life; transfer in a daily march to labor; transfer in a death march and typhus, January 1945; transfer to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Joseph Klein, born in Lekyr, Czechoslovakia, 1929, regarding his experiences as a child in Lekyr, the Leva Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Allach and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Joseph Klein, born in Lekyr, Czechoslovakia, 1929, regarding his experiences as a child in Lekyr, the Leva Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Allach and other places Life in Lekyr before the war; from a well-to-do, religious family; his father is one of the leaders of the Jewish community; attends an elementary and a Jewish high school. German occupation, March 1944; preparations for escape; family remains in Lekyr due to his father's decision; deportation to the Leva Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; camp life; transfer to Allach with his father; transfer to Muehldorf as part of a group;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Abraham Cwieli, born in Uzhorod, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Uzhorod Ghetto, Mauthausen and march to Gunskirchen

Testimony

Testimony of Abraham Cwieli, born in Uzhorod, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Uzhorod Ghetto, Mauthausen and march to Gunskirchen Immediate family; his father's livelihood; good relations with neighbors; the Jewish community; "heder" and school; membership in Bnei Akiva. Deportation of the Jews from the villages; Jews under Hungarian rule; confrontation with Christians; rumors of what is happening in Poland; entry of the Germans; establishment of the Judenrat; confiscation of radios; hiding in a vineyard; concentration of Jews in a brick factory; deportation of his parents to Auschwitz; forced...

File Number : 11813

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ada Goldblum, born in Lwow, 1929, regarding her experiences in the Lwow Ghetto, using a false identity in Lwow and labor in agriculture as a Polish woman in Germany

Testimony

Testimony of Ada Goldblum, born in Lwow, 1929, regarding her experiences in the Lwow Ghetto, using a false identity in Lwow and labor in agriculture as a Polish woman in Germany Childhood in Lwow; move to her well-to-do grandfather's house in Stanislawow; attends a Polish school.Soviet occupation, 1939; deportation of her mother to labor and nationalization of property; German occupation; hidden by Christian women during a riot in the city; deportation to the ghetto; ghetto life; in hiding during "Aktions"; life using a false identity in Krakow with her mother; escape following being informed on;...

File Number : 12273

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Jakob Jancsi Hermann, born in Ghimeş Făget, Romania, 1928, regarding his experiences in Năsăud, the Bistriţa Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Mauthausen and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Jakob Jancsi Hermann, born in Ghimeş Făget, Romania, 1928, regarding his experiences in Năsăud, the Bistriţa Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Mauthausen and other places Family with many children; move between villages. Deportation of the family to Năsăud, 1940; life in Năsăud, 1941-1944; German occupation; decrees; deportation to the Bistriţa Ghetto, April 1944; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life; transfer to Mauthausen; transfer to Gusen I; camp life including labor in the quarry and kitchen; transfer to Gunskirchen, March 1945; camp life including disease; the Germans flee, May 1945;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mordechai Marton Strulowicz, born in Mukačevo, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Mukačevo Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Warsaw, Dachau and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Mordechai Marton Strulowicz, born in Mukačevo, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Mukačevo Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Warsaw, Dachau and other places Learns in a yeshiva in Mukačevo. Annexation to Hungary; German occupation; deportation to the Mukačevo Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; transfer to camp in the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto; camp life including labor unloading bricks; transfer to Dachau; camp life including labor strengthening concrete fortifications; death march to Kaufering; liberation. Hospitalization; return to Mukacevo; aliya to Eretz Israel...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zwi Herman Klein Zeira, born in Tisza Szirna, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Selish and Cerny Adov Ghettos, Auschwitz, Kaufering, and Dachau camps

Testimony

Testimony of Zwi Herman Klein Zeira, born in Tisza Szirna, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Selish and Cerny Adov Ghettos, Auschwitz, Kaufering, and Dachau camps Family with hardships, from Tisza Szirna; religious way of life; education at a government school and in a "heder"; learns in a yeshiva in Nagyszollos. Germans occupation and deportation of his family to the Selish Ghetto, 1944; transfer of the family to the Cerny Adov Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz, and separation from his mother and younger siblings; after selection, transfer to perform forced labor with his father and older brother...

File Number : 11501

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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