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Testimony of the Jewish physician Dr. Schoengut regarding the Pustkow camp, transfer via Auschwitz to the Gliwice I camp and the death march

Testimony of the Jewish physician Dr. Schoengut regarding the Pustkow camp, transfer via Auschwitz to the Gliwice I camp and the death march - History of the Polish camp Pustkow, transferred to the Historical Commission by Dr. Schoengut; - Evacuation of the two camps in Pustkow, 16 November 1942; murder of 35 people who were unable to walk and left behind; arrival of 1,080 Poles from the Lublin area; shooting to death of eight Poles with the Jews; burning of the bodies of the Jews and the Poles on top of the hill known as Hujowa Gorka; - Harsh treatment of the Poles in the camp; rampant dysentery due...

File Number : 352

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Elza Weinheber, born in Krakow, Poland, 1915, regarding her experiences in Vienna, Riga and in Kaiserwald, Ponevezh, Siauliai, Stutthof, Baumgarten, Leibitsch and Cieszyny camps

Testimony of Elza Weinheber, born in Krakow, Poland, 1915, regarding her experiences in Vienna, Riga and in Kaiserwald, Ponevezh, Siauliai, Stutthof, Baumgarten, Leibitsch and Cieszyny camps Life in Vienna before the war, including work in a hat factory owned by her father; move of her parents to Paris, 1939. Forced labor in factories in Vienna until 1941; deportation to Riga in a transport in a passenger train, with food, late 1941; selection by the SS commander at the Riga railroad station; deportation with a group of 140 women to the Riga Ghetto; labor assignments in Riga, for two months; arrival of...

File Number : 18

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Marian Modzowiecki, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1900, regarding the fate of inmates in the Flossenburg camp and the Sachsen camp

Testimony of Marian Modzowiecki, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1900, regarding the fate of inmates in the Flossenburg camp and the Sachsen camp Deportation of 1,000 Jews from Hungary to the Flossenburg camp for forced labor for the Hungarian Army, November 1944; deaths of 2,000 Jews from the 3,000 Jews drafted for forced labor from starvation, morbidity and murder; abusive acts against the inmates; transfer of 50 professionally skilled inmates to jobs in various factories; murder of inmates by Phenol injection; murder of inmates including burning them alive and freezing them to death; liberation in Sachsen,...

File Number : 176

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Sara Kirzner, born in Smorgon, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in camps and in Bialystok

Testimony of Sara Kirzner, born in Smorgon, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in camps and in Bialystok Life in a(n unnamed) camp including forced labor and morbidity; hospitalization; execution of the sick by injection of poison by order of the SS, 19 January 1945; rescue of the sick by a Jewish female physician from Hungary by dilution of the poison injection with water; liberation. Move to Bialystok.

File Number : 171

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Tova Braun, born in Mateszalka, 1929, regarding her experiences in the Mateszalka Ghetto, Auschwitz, Stutthof and Gotowa camps

Testimony

Testimony of Tova Braun, born in Mateszalka, 1929, regarding her experiences in the Mateszalka Ghetto, Auschwitz, Stutthof and Gotowa camps Arrest of her father by the Hungarians and his draft to the labor battalions; her family's house is located inside the area of the Mateszalka Ghetto; life in the Mateszalka Ghetto; treatment of refugees from Sighet; deportation to Auschwitz; inmate in Auschwitz for seven weeks; transfer to Stutthof with her sister and aunt, late July 1944; stay for several weeks in a tent outside the camp; camp registration process; transfer to a nearby village and labor digging...

File Number : 7374

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of László Klein, born in Hajdúböszörmény, Hungary, 1915, regarding his experiences in a labor battalion in Kassa and in Nagycenk, Mauthausen and Günskirchen camps

Testimony of László Klein, born in Hajdúböszörmény, Hungary, 1915, regarding his experiences in a labor battalion in Kassa and in Nagycenk, Mauthausen and Günskirchen camps Deportation to forced labor in Labor Battalion No. 108/301 in Kassa, 08 June 1944; labor there in fortifications and receiving fair treatment; deportation to Nagycenk camp on foot, 04 November 1944; life on the road; hunger and food rationing; receiving food from locals; being forced to run; fair treatment by the supervisors; being handed over there to German soldiers, SA soldiers; their supervision of the forced laborers; labor in...

File Number : 2727

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

Testimony of Imre Lőwi, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1913, regarding his experiences in a labor battalion in Margitta, in a prison in Nagyvárad and in Auschwitz-Birkenau and Gross-Rosen camps and more Deportation to forced labor in a labor battalion [there is no mention of locations except for one place]; arrival in Budapest, May 1944; life there and marriage; transfer to Margitta by train; being attached to a labor battalion there; being taken off the train on the way to Nagyvárad by gendarmes and detention; deportation to a prison in the Nagyvárad Ghetto; being subjected to a body search and transfer to the...

File Number : 2657

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

עדותם של Grosz Ernő יליד 1928 ו- Grosz Jenő יליד 1927 Nyírbogát הונגריה על קורותיהם בגטו Beregszász, במחנות Auschwitz-Birkenau ו- Oberwüstegiersdorf ו- Flossenbürg

Joint testimony of Erno Grosz, born in Nyírbogárd in 1928, and Jeno Grosz, born in Nyírbogárd in 1927, regarding their experiences in Auschwitz, Oberwustegiersdorf and Flossenbürg camps, and in other places Beregszasz Ghetto life; deportation to Auschwitz camp, May 1944; Oberwuestegiersdorf camp life; transfer to Flossenbürg camp, January 1945; life in Offenburg; transfer on a death march; liberation by the French Army, April 1945.

File Number : 577

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

Testimony of Marianna and Stanislaw Marcyniuk, siblings, regarding their experience in Krychow forced labor camp

Testimony of Marianna and Stanislaw Marcyniuk, siblings, regarding the Krychow forced labor camp and the treatment of the Jewish prisoners The group of people from the village of Ochoza, including Stanislaw Marcyniuk, were deported to a labor camp in Krychow, near the Hansk estate, for not fulfilling the quotas (25 kg of potatoes) imposed by the German authorities. Camp life description; very hard living conditions and exhausting work; work in the Hansk estate; terrible hunger; lice; painful injections by the Czech doctor. There were about 1,000 Jews, mainly educated, from the Czech Republic, Vienna and...

File Number : 11295

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

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File Number : 458

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

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