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Memoirs of Andorné Hirschl, formeraly Erzsébet Guth, born in Gyömrő, Hungary, 1910, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz with her daughter who perished in the camp

Memoirs of Andorné Hirschl, formeraly Erzsébet Guth, born in Gyömrő, Hungary, 1910, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz with her daughter who perished in the camp Marriage to Árpád Katz, 1930; birth of her daughter Zsuzsanna. Daft of her husband to a labor battalion in 1944; death of her husband; deportation with her daughter to Auschwitz, 1944; death of her daughter. Remarriage after the war to Andor Hirschl whose first wife and children perished in Auschwitz in 1944. The file also includes documents from Tápiószecső in 1977 on the death of relatives of the witness in Auschwitz and Pages of...

File Number : 8307

Type of Material : Record of Murdered Persons, Memoirs

Language : Hungarian

Pages of Testimony in memory of the Michlewicz family members from Antwerp who perished in Auschwitz, 1942

Pages of Testimony in memory of the Michlewicz family members from Antwerp who perished in Auschwitz, 1942 Included in the file: - Additional documentation.

File Number : 253

Type of Material : Page of Testimony, Record of Murdered Persons, Newspaper Clippings

Language : French, Dutch

Pages of Testimony, including names of Jews from Simferopol, murdered in 12/1941, submitted by Lev Kaya

File Number : 87

Type of Material : Page of Testimony

Language : Russian

Testimony of Tuwya (Koifman) Ben Yehuda, born in Briceni, 1925, regarding his experiences as a deportee to Transnistria, and in the Ustea and Bershad Ghettos

Testimony

Testimony of Tuwya (Koifman) Ben Yehuda, born in Briceni, 1925, regarding his experiences as a deportee to Transnistria, and in the Ustea and Bershad Ghettos A religious, well-to-do family; his father is a footwear merchant; the entry of the Russians, July 1940; occupation by the Germans and the return of Romanian rule, July 1941; deportation of the Jews of Briceni; traveling by foot in the direction of the Dniester River, and crossing it; wanderings via Mogilev, Kukavka, Kozlov, Yampol and Vrtujeni; overcrowding; traveling by foot to Ustea; residing in Ustia; difficult conditions; the mother transfers the...

File Number : 11740

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Izhak (Kabilio) Leshem, born in Zagreb, 1942, regarding his experience of being given up for adoption at the age of six months old when his mother was deported to the Jasenovac camp

Testimony

Testimony of Izhak (Kabilio) Leshem, born in Zagreb, 1942, regarding his experience of being given up for adoption at the age of six months old when his mother was deported to the Jasenovac camp As told to him by his adoptive mother Yospa Montilio Deportation at the age of six months with his mother to Jasenovac concentration camp; as told to him by his adoptive mother, he was handed over the fence to Yospa Montilio; officially adopted by Yospa Montilio; aliya to Israel together with Yospa Montilio and her children; move to a kibbutz due to difficult economic conditions; feeling like a stranger on the...

File Number : 11522

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mordechai Martin Spiegel, born in Brezovec, Czechoslovakia, 1921, regarding his experiences in Biel, Uzhorod and in the Czech Army

Testimony

Testimony of Mordechai Martin Spiegel, born in Brezovec, Czechoslovakia, 1921, regarding his experiences in Biel, Uzhorod and in the Czech Army His childhood in Biel in a family of hasidim; move to Uzhorod to learn in a yeshiva at the age of 15; [revocation of] their business licenses, 1938; witness leaves the yeshiva in order to help his family earn a livelihood; work in wood-carving and the lumber trade. Draft to a battalion of Hungarian soldiers in the Hungarian Army, November 1942; life in the battalion including labor digging guard posts and labor laying railroad tracks near the Polish border; escape...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Malka Malvina (Leizerovici) Leibovici, born in Iasi, Romania, regarding her experiences in Iasi

Testimony

Testimony of Malka Malvina (Leizerovici) Leibovici, born in Iasi, Romania, regarding her experiences in Iasi Religious family; death of her brother in a pogrom, 1941; detention by the police during a pogrom. Aliya to Israel, 1950; absorption.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Romanian

Testimony of Kalman Schmulewicz, born in Anvers, 1935, regarding his experiences in Gurs and while in hiding in a Christian home for children

Testimony

Testimony of Kalman Schmulewicz, born in Anvers, 1935, regarding his experiences in Gurs and while in hiding in a Christian home for children Escape from Belgium to France, 1940; deportation to the Gurs camp; life in the camp; his father's work on behalf of the Chevra Kadisha (burial society), and the life of the children in the camp; the transfer of a group of children to children's houses outside the camp; in hiding in a non-Jewish children's home in Sevres, next to Paris; life in the children's home; the liberation of Paris and its surroundings. Life with a French woman; his discovery by his...

File Number : 10654

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : French

An article by Katherine Mader about her search for information regarding the fate of her aunt Lea Marfeld from Tarnov, who perished in the Holocaust

An article by Katherine Mader about her search for information regarding the fate of her aunt Lea Marfeld from Tarnov, who perished in the Holocaust - An article by Katherine Mader entitled "Finding Lea", which was published in the "Los Angeles Times Magazine" in 2001. The article describes the author's attempts to find information regarding the fate of her aunt Lea Marfeld and her three children; finding witness sheets submitted for them to Yad Vashem at the initiative of her family friend Lucia Melloch and talking with Lucia, a Holocaust survivor from Tarnow. Comments by the submitter of the material:...

File Number : 581

Type of Material : Article

Language : English

Two letters and two postcards from the front, written by Leyba Dukhovny, born in Kiev, 1916, to the members of his family who had been evacuated to Tashkent in 1941

Two letters and two postcards from the front, written by Leyba Dukhovny, born in Kiev, 1916, to the members of his family who had been evacuated to Tashkent in 1941 - Letter dated 27 August 1941 (scan); - Letter dated 07 September 1941 (scan); - Postcard sent to Tashkent; - Postcard sent to Tashkent, 14 September 1941; - Military service booklet belonging to Leyba Dukhovny, the son of Srul, issued in Kiev, 30 November 1940.

File Number : 3671

Type of Material : Notepad, Letter, Postcard

Language : Russian

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