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Testimony of Miriam Fast, born in Krakow, Poland, 1911, regarding her experiences in Plaszow, Auschwitz and Neustadt-Glewe camps

Testimony

Testimony of Miriam Fast, born in Krakow, Poland, 1911, regarding her experiences in Plaszow, Auschwitz and Neustadt-Glewe camps Draft of her husband into the Polish Army, where he was sent to the German-Polish front, September 1939; return or her husband with an amputated arm; deportation to Plaszow camp; forced labor; execution of inmates in the camp; struggle to survive; camp life, deterioration of conditions, hunger and exhaustion; labor in a workshop producing electricity; selections and transports to Auschwitz; humiliating attitude toward the inmates; punishment; deportation to Auschwitz, 14 January...

File Number : 6605

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Khava (Shvartz) Katz, born in Lucenec, 1928, regarding her experiences in Lucenenc, Birkenau and Plaszow camps

Testimony

Testimony of Khava (Shvartz) Katz, born in Lucenec, 1928, regarding her experiences in Lucenenc, Birkenau and Plaszow camps The family; annexation of the Hungary, 1938. Deportation of her grandmother from Topolcany to Auschwitz, 1942; Entry of the Germans, 19 March 1944; capture of her father and his deportation to Kistarcsa, 06 April 1944; yellow badge; concentration of the Jews of Lucenec and the surroundings, after Pesach 1944; details concerning the interrogation and torture of the well-to-do; deportation to a brick factory and attitude of the non-Jews; concentration on a farm; transport to Auschwitz,...

File Number : 6373

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaskiel Fischman, born in Tarnow, Poland, 1921, regarding his family's experiences in Tarnow and his experiences in Pustkow camp, Auschwitz and other places

Testimony of Chaskiel Fischman, born in Tarnow, Poland, 1921, regarding his family's experiences in Tarnow and his experiences in Pustkow camp, Auschwitz and other places Outbreak of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union; detention of his parents and sister; their release from detention two days later, following the amputation [cutting off] of his father's leg; deportation of his family during the first "Aktion"; escape of the witness after the arrival of Polish policemen who came to search for him; taking of his uncle and his aunt as hostages, with the promise that the witness will voluntarily...

File Number : 370

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Excerpts from a diary written by Imre Szabo, a Protestant minister, regarding his assistance to Jews in Budapest

Excerpts from a diary written by Imre Szabo, a Protestant minister, regarding his assistance to Jews in Budapest Assistance to Jews in Budapest by colleagues, including names of the Jews, Autumn 1944; support given by his colleagues to children's homes in which Jewish childrenwere hidden; implications of anti-semitism in Hungary; names of those who collaborated with the Germans.

File Number : 4947

Type of Material : Diary

Language : Hungarian

Memoirs of Sara Sarolta Wolf Drori regarding her experiences in Ungvar, Auschwitz and other places

Memoirs of Sara Sarolta Wolf Drori regarding her experiences in Ungvar, Auschwitz and other places Childhood in Ungvar. Deportation to the ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life; transfer to a labor camp [no mention of the name]; liberation by the Red Army. Return [to Ungvar]; aliya to Eretz Israel. Also in the file: - Copy of a school certificate; - Letter written by Binyamin Netanyahu.

File Number : 4941

Type of Material : Letter, Memoirs, Document

Language : Hungarian

Testimony of Ester (Goldstein) Klein, born in Kis-Palad, 1927, regarding her experiences in Budapest, the Satmar Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Vrchlabi camps

Testimony

Testimony of Ester (Goldstein) Klein, born in Kis-Palad, 1927, regarding her experiences in Budapest, the Satmar Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Vrchlabi camps Traditional parents own a small store and leased agricultural land in a small village; good relations with neighbors; external high school studies due to numerus clausus; life in Budapest and work in relatives' store. Deportation with family to the Satmar Ghetto before Shavuot, 1944; ghetto life; deportation to camp C-24 in Auschwitz-Birkenau; talk about cooking and food; stay in camp for three months under protection of a young girl older than the...

File Number : 10825

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rosa (Szlezynger) Weit, born in Dabrowa Tarnowska, Poland, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Tarnow Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Chrastava

Testimony

Testimony of Rosa (Szlezynger) Weit, born in Dabrowa Tarnowska, Poland, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Tarnow Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Chrastava Life before the war. German occupation, 1939; deportation to the Tarnow ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; transfer to Chrastava; liberation.

File Number : 2176

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Rivka Weise, born in Novi Sad, 1924, regarding her experiences in Novi Sad, as a forced laborer in Auschwitz and camps in Germany

Testimony

Testimony of Rivka Weise, born in Novi Sad, 1924, regarding her experiences in Novi Sad, as a forced laborer in Auschwitz and camps in Germany Family and Jewish community in Novi Sad; Beitar member; extends help to Jewish refugees from Austria, 1939-1940. Outbreak of war, 1941; life under Hungarian rule; gathering of Jews for mass murder, January 1942; her father's deportation to a labor camp; witness is arrested after being informed on for selling food ration coupons; interrogation; release; German occupaton into Backa Topola; deportation, 25 April 1944; separation from family; enters Auschwitz;...

File Number : 6569

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Transcript of testimony of Helga (Levy) Silbermann about her experiences in Berlin as a forced laborer at a Siemens plant in the vicinity during the Holocaust

Transcript of testimony of Helga (Levy) Silbermann about her experiences in Berlin as a forced laborer at a Siemens plant in the vicinity during the Holocaust Childhood in Charlottenburg—anti-Jewish measures from 1933 on; witness switches to a Jewish school in 1935; witness's daughter immigrates to Eretz Israel in 1936; witness participates in activities of Zionist organizations; vocational studies from 1938 on; family hides on Kristallnacht; family business and property confiscated; father falls ill; seeks ways to leave, unavailingly; witness participates in a hakhshara (Zionist training facility); returns...

File Number : 12549

Type of Material : תמליל

Language : Hebrew

Transcript of Andrew Burian's testimony regarding his experiences in the Mateszalka Ghetto and Auschwitz, Gleiwitz and Mauthausen camps in 1944-1945

Transcript of Andrew Burian's testimony regarding his experiences in the Mateszalka Ghetto and Auschwitz, Gleiwitz and Mauthausen camps in 1944-1945 - transcript of the testimony of Andrew Burian, formerly Ondrej Brandstein, born in Bustino in 1930, regarding his experiences before and during the Holocaust. The transcript includes additions and comments by Andrew Burian: Childhood in Bustino; deportation of the family to the Mateszalka Ghetto in April 1944; deportation to Auschwitz; selection; sending of some of his family members, including his mother, for extermination; transfer with his brother and...

File Number : 11231

Type of Material : תמליל

Language : English

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