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Shneider Yaakov Shmuel, born in Kosino, Czechoslovakia, 1932, regarding his experiences in the Berehovo ghetto and in the Auschwitz-Birkenau, Plaszow, Gross Rosen, Goerlitz and Zittau camps

Testimony

Schneider Shmuel Jacob, born in Kosino, Czechoslovakia, 1932, regarduing the Berehovo ghetto and deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Plaszow, Gross Rosen, Goerlitz and Zittau camps Family background; childhood in a religious family; his father is a hero of the World War I. Entry of the Hungarians; entry of the Germans, March 1944; deportation to the Berehovo ghetto; stay in a brick factory for several weeks; transfer to Auschwitz II-Birkenau; selection at the entrance to the camp; rescue by an anonymous inmate from the camp to the gas chambers and transfer to the camp; finding his father and relatives;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Renée Kenoshi née Gold, born in 1930 in Odorheiu, Romania, about her experiences in the Targu Mures ghetto and the Auschwitz and Ober-Hohenelbe camps

Life before the war; offspring of a religious family; Hungary re-annexes the area in 1940; promulgation of anti-Jewish laws; men inducted into labor brigades; antisemitic acts; German occupation ensues in March 1944; witness's mother accused of communist activity and imprisoned; wearing the yellow star; banishment to the Targu Mures ghetto on May 3, 19144; mutual assistance; plunder of valuables; deportation to Auschwitz on May 27, 1944; selections in the camp; diseases, roll calls, transferred to Ober-Hohenelbe; life in the camp; living conditions improve; working at welding aircraft parts; liberation by Red...

File Number : 13642

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

The testimony of Chaim Berchiyahu Barcher, born in 1933 in Kolomyja, Poland

The testimony of Chaim Berchiyahu Bercher, born in 1933 in Kolomyja, Poland. Childhood in a Hasidic family; Soviet occupation in 1939; German occupation in 1941; riots in the first days of the occupation; decrees; Aktions; establishment of a ghetto in 1942; Aktions; frequent selections; suicide of the head of the Judenrat; escape to Tluste during Hanukkah 1942; transfer to an agricultural farm in Holowczynce; Aktionin June 1943; transfer to Tluste for warehouse labor; attack by Bandra people on Purim 1944; liberation by the Red Army in March 1944; return to Krakow; manifestations of anti-Semitism; smuggled...

File Number : 13389

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Layzer Fuks, born in Sandrovo, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding his experiences in Sandrovo, in hiding, in the Sekernice Ghetto, the Chust Ghetto, Auschwitz and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Layzer Fuks, born in Sandrovo, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding his experiences in Sandrovo, in hiding, in the Sekernice Ghetto, the Chust Ghetto, Auschwitz and other places His childhood with his family in a village. Life under Hungarian rule, 1939; new anti-Jewish decrees on all the Jews; increase in antisemitism; German Army occupation of Sandrovo before Pesach (April), 1944; in hiding while hidden by neighbors during the deportation to the Sekernice Ghetto, in hiding in a forest; in hiding while hidden by his neighbors; transfer to the Sekernice Ghetto; escape to a forest during the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Jehuda Greenwald, born in Bystre, Slovakia, 1932, regarding his experiences in Bystre, Giraltovce, the Novaky camp, Banska Bystrica and more

Testimony

Testimony of Jehuda Greenwald, born in Bystre, Slovakia, 1932, regarding his experiences in Bystre, Giraltovce, the Novaky camp, Banska Bystrica and more Childhood in Bystre. Deportation of all the Jews of Bystre to Auschwitz, 1942; his family remains in Bystre due to his father's definition as an essential worker; in hiding in forests with his family, 1942; rescue from deportation on a transport to Auschwitz with help from a priest; deportation of his family to the prison in Giraltovce after hiding in the village, 1943; rescue from deportation to an extermination camp due to the wounding of his mother;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony by Alice Alma (Brandman) Sanie, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1941, regarding her experiences as an infant during the deportation to Transnistria and in Mogilev

Testimony

Testimony by Alice Alma (Brandman) Sanie, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1941, regarding her experiences as an infant during the deportation to Transnistria and in Mogilev From a well-to-do, intellectual and traditional family; deportation to Transnistria a few months after her birth; life in Mogilev; mutual aid within the family; mother ill with typhus; the cold; return to Romania, 1944; mother's death; studies and residence with her aunt in Bucharest; aliya to Israel, 1964.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Josef Benedek, born in Olbo, Hungary, 1922, regarding his experiences in labor battalions in Carpathian Ruthenia, and in Mauthausen, Gunskirchen and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Josef Benedek, born in Olbo, Hungary, 1922, regarding his experiences in labor battalions in Carpathian Ruthenia, and in Mauthausen, Gunskirchen and other places Religious family; move to Budapest, 1928. Publication of anti-Jewish restrictions and orders, 1939; expulsion from the framework of higher education; draft to labor battalions, 1943; forced labor in Carpathian Ruthenia; return to Hungary, spring 1944; labor digging and building bunkers; escape home; return; march in the direction of Austria; Allied air-raids; transfer to labor in the context of the Todt organization; labor digging...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shoshana Suzana (Salhob) Lavi, born in Benghazi, Libya, 1937, regarding her experiences as a young child in Zuetina, Reggio Emilia, Castelnuovo don Bosco and Bergen-Belsen

Testimony

Testimony of Shoshana Suzana (Salhob) Lavi, born in Benghazi, Libya, 1937, regarding her experiences as a young child in Zuetina, Reggio Emilia, Castelnuovo don Bosco and Bergen-Belsen Her family has British citizenship. Deportation of her father to Zuetina, 1942; murder of her uncle while he is learning Torah; deportation of British citizens; her family is informed on; deportation of her family to Zuetina; hiding gold inside the hems of their coats; wanderings; death of her baby brother en route; life in a women's camp in Zuetina; transfer to Italy; life in a Jewish owned villa in Reggio Emilia;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Malka Chaya (Tubman) Frid, born in Ruscova, Romania, 1912, regarding her experiences in Viseu, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bergen-Belsen, Rochlitz, Graslitz and a death march

Testimony

Testimony of Malka Chaya (Tubman) Frid, born in Ruscova, Romania, 1912, regarding her experiences in Viseu, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bergen-Belsen, Rochlitz, Graslitz and a death march Religious family with many children; relations with the local population. Re-annexation to Hungary, 1940; decrees including draft of the men to forced labor; marriage; German occupation, 1944; deportation to Viseu; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; camp life including labor plaiting ropes from hair; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; transfer to Rochlitz; camp life including labor in an ammunitions factory; transfer to Graslitz; camp...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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