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Testimony

Testimony of Rachel Edita (Libovitz) Osherov, born in Mukacevo, Czechoslovakia, 1934, regarding her experiences as a child while in hiding in Zilina and using a false identity in Turciansky Svaty Martin Life in Zilina before the war; traditional family. Deportation of her father, March 1942; escape during the night with her mother to a non-Jewish woman friend, March 1944; life in hiding in her relatives' home in the center of the city; life in hiding with nine people in a closed room on the upper floor; her relatives' life on the lower floor while using forged documents; arrival of gendarmes to the home;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zoltan Zeev Eizenberger, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1918, regarding his experiences in Patronka camp and his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1939

Testimony

Testimony of Zoltan Zeev Eizenberger, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1918, regarding his experiences in Patronka camp and his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1939 Life in an Orthodox, religious family; activities in Zionist youth movements. Deportation with non-citizens to a forested area, November 1938; transfer with the deportees to Patronka camp, with help from the community committee; stay in camp until December 1938; brutal attitude of the gendarmes; robbery of property and valuables; obtaining of permits by the community committee for aliya to Eretz Israel; receives four permits; halt of their travel by...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Miriam Mariana (Raab) Lukacs, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1932

Testimony

Testimony of Miriam Mariana (Raab) Lukacs, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1932 Childhood in a secular family. Expulsion from the Slovak school, 1938; draft of her father to a forced labor camp in Svaty Jur, 1942; family joins the father; relationship with the daughter of a Slovak officer; escape from the camp with help from the officer; journey to the Hungarian border; crossing the border illegally to the Hungarian side with help from a smuggler; being caught by Hungarian soldiers; murder of the smuggler and beating of her father as a punishment; deportation back to Slovakia and return to the Svaty...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Simcha Ernest Schonfeld, born in Topolcany, Czechoslovakia, 1931, regarding his experiences as a child in Topolcany, Novaky, Banska Bystrica and a forest

Testimony

Testimony of Simcha Ernest Schonfeld, born in Topolcany, Czechoslovakia, 1931, regarding his experiences as a child in Topolcany, Novaky, Banska Bystrica and a forest Life before the war. Outbreak of the war; confiscation of property and valuables; humiliation of Jews; deportation of Jews to Poland, 1942; receives information regarding the establishment of labor camps in Slovakia; deportation to Novaky with his family; camp life; establishment of workshops in the camp; establishment of a kosher kitchen; prayers on Yom Kippur; deportation of Jews to Poland; underground activities; arrival of Slovakian...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shoshana (Henigsberg) Tzachor, born in Nitra, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding her experiences in Nitra and aliya to Eretz Israel, 1941

Testimony

Testimony of Shoshana (Henigsberg) Tzachor, born in Nitra, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding her experiences in Nitra and aliya to Eretz Israel, 1941 Life before the war; Bnei Akiva activities; displays of antisemitism. Outbreak of the war; family move to the Hungarian border area; move back to Nitra; anti-Jewish legislation including confiscation of possessions; aliya training; obtains a visa permitting aliya to Eretz Israel, 1941. Aliya with Youth Aliyah to Eretz Israel via Hungary, Turkey and Syria, May 1941; life in Eretz Israel; knowledge concerning the circumstances of his parents deaths in...

File Number : 12772

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Joseph Zoltan Tandlich, born in Spisske Tomasovce, Czechoslovakia, 1930, regarding his experiences in detention in Kezmarok, Auschwitz, Ravensbrueck and Sachsenhausen

Testimony

Testimony of Joseph Zoltan Tandlich, born in Spisske Tomasovce, Czechoslovakia, 1930, regarding his experiences in detention in Kezmarok, Auschwitz, Ravensbrueck and Sachsenhausen Life before the war; Jewish community; his parents' deaths; illness and hospitalization. Yellow badge; deportation of the Jews to camps; escape of Jews to Hungary; outbreak of the Slovak National Uprising, August 1944; detention in Kezmarok; life under arrest; rescue of Jews from deportation by a German sergeant; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life; transfer to Ravensbrueck; camp life including finding valuables in shoes; lice...

File Number : 12753

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yehuda Arie Najovits, born in Baja, Hungary, regarding his experiences in Czechoslovakia and Budapest

Testimony

Testimony of Yehuda Arie Najovits, born in Baja, Hungary, regarding his experiences in Czechoslovakia and Budapest His father is a cantor and kosher ritual slaughterer; life in Sahy before the war; service in the Czechoslovakian Army for three years; pressure by the Hlinka Guards and transfer to Bratislava, 1938; cancelation of his license to practice law, 1939; work for the JDC in Sered; rumors concerning preparations for the deportation of the Jews; escape to Budapest with his wife via Nitra and Urable; life using a false Christian identity using the name Janos Hourat; attempts to bring his parents to...

File Number : 6129

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Postcard written by Grete Weinberger from Birkenau to Eduard Steiner in the Novaky labor camp and other wartime documentation related to the Weinberger family from Bratislava and to Eduard Steiner

Postcard written by Grete Weinberger from Birkenau to Eduard Steiner in the Novaky labor camp and other wartime documentation related to the Weinberger family from Bratislava and to Eduard Steiner Letters: – Undated and postmarked postcard written by Grete Weinberger in the Birkenau camp (near Neu Berun) to Eduard Steiner who was in the Novaky labor camp; – Letter to Grete written by her parents and sister Lici on 17 June 1943 (location unspecified). Documentation: – ID card of Lina Weinbergerova, born 1890. The card was issued by the Jewish Center (Ustredňa židov) in Bratislava on 17 May...

File Number : 5880

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Letter, Postcard, Newspaper Clippings

Language : Slovak, German

Testimony of Nechama (Kulka) Schönwald, born in 1937 in Kosice, Czechoslovakia, about her experiences as a girl in Topolcany, in the Novaky camp, and in hiding in the mountains

Testimony of Nechama (Kulka) Schönwald, born in 1937 in Kosice, Czechoslovakia, about her experiences as a girl in Topolcany, in the Novaky camp, and in hiding in the mountains Offspring of an Orthodox religious family in Kosice; moves to Topolcany in 1938; father sent to a labor camp in 1941; construction of Novaky camp; authorities mistreat mother; father works as a cook; family deported to the camp; mother runs a sewing shop in the camp; Jewish community deported to extermination camps; maintaining Jewish dietary laws and religious life; Slovak Uprising breaks out in August 1944; witness escapes to the...

Language : Hebrew

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