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Memoirs of Kornélia Weichler, born in Komárno, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Komárno Ghetto and in Auschwitz, Plaszow camp, Birkenau, Gebhardsdorf camp and others

Memoirs of Kornélia Weichler, born in Komárno, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Komárno Ghetto and in Auschwitz, Plaszow camp, Birkenau, Gebhardsdorf camp and others Life before the war, 1938; anti-Jewish legislation; closing of stores belonging to Jews. Transfer of her father and brother to forced labor; German occupation, 1944; work in a local school; transfer together with her family to the Komárno Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; camp life; selection; transfer to Plaszow camp; camp life including labor in a quarry; transfer back to Auschwitz; camp life; ill with...

File Number : 8536

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hungarian

Research study about the Jews of Csorna, Hungary, in 1938–1944 by Károly Kovács, 2006

Research study about the Jews of Csorna, Hungary, in 1938–1944 by Károly Kovács, 2006 - census of Hungarian Jewry, carried out by the Central Council of the Jews of Hungary at the behest of the German authorities; - German occupation of Hungary commences on March 19, 1944; - life from the onset of the occupation to the beginning of the deportations on May 15, 1944; - deportation of the Jews of Csorna to the Sopron and Sárvár ghettos on June 20–21, 1944; - racial laws in Hungary from 1938 onward (the first in 1938, the second in 1939, and the third in 1941); - from 1939 to 1944, some 6,000 Jews emigrated...

File Number : 490

Type of Material : Research Paper

Language : Hebrew, German, Hungarian