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Memoirs of Josef Hersch Schwartz regarding his experiences and those of his family in Szamosújvár, Enyed, Balázsfalva, and Sepsiszentgyörgy before and during the Holocaust period

Memoirs of Josef Hersch Schwartz regarding his experiences and those of his family in Szamosújvár, Enyed, Balázsfalva, and Sepsiszentgyörgy before and during the Holocaust period Section 1- Original title: Epilógusok a hitközségnél [Epilogues of the Religious Community]: József Schwarcz was a cantor and a teacher at the Jewish school in Sfântu Gheorghe/Sepsiszentgyörgy in Transylvania. He wrote his memoirs for his children - about the members of the Jewish community and the time when the Jewish community administration asked him to retire after 18 years of work, 25 August 1922-25 August 1940. The...

File Number : 11028

Type of Material : Protocol, Letter, Memoirs, דרשה, הספד

Language : English, Romanian, German, Yiddish, Hungarian

Memoirs of Margit Andrasne (Rosenfeld) Barczy, born in Hungary, regarding her experiences in the Budapest Ghetto

Memoirs of Margit Andrasne (Rosenfeld) Barczy, born in Hungary, regarding her experiences in the Budapest Ghetto Life in Budapest before the war. Murder of her father in Dorosics while serving in the forced labor battalions, 1940; her mother supports the family; German occupation, March 1944; order for her mother to report to the Hungarian authorities for work, October 1944; deportation of her mother to Ravensbrueck; left alone at the age of 10 with her younger brother; life in the streets under bombardment; life in the cellars; escape with her brother from execution on the banks of the Danube river;...

File Number : 5623

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hungarian

Testimony of Shaul Tobovitz, born in Bixad, Romania, 1922, regarding his experiences in labor battalions

Testimony

Testimony of Shaul Tobovitz, born in Bixad, Romania, 1922, regarding his experiences in labor battalions Family; learns in yeshivas; increase in antisemitism under the influence of Romanian fascists, 1934-1935. Jews' excitement with the Hungarian occupation, 1940; a visit by Zeev Jabotinsky; drafted to labor battalions, 1943; German occupation and decrees, March 1944; escape, August 1944; taken captive by the Soviets; labor rebuilding war ruins; meets senior Jewish officers in the Red Army. Wanderings during travel back to Hungary, 1946-1948; travel with Bericha; aliya to Eretz Israel.

File Number : 6626

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Shimon Hershkovitz, born in Vulchovce in 1914, regarding his experiences in labor battalions in the Hungarian army in 1941-1945, and his life in Uzhorod until his aliya to Israel in 1972

Memoirs of Shimon Hershkovitz, born in Vulchovce in 1914, regarding his experiences in labor battalions in the Hungarian army in 1941-1945, and his life in Uzhorod until his aliya to Israel in 1972 - "Lema’an tesapru ledor hacharon” (For you to relate to the last generation): the memoirs of Shimon Yehiel Michael Hershkovitz, born in Vulchovce in 1914, regarding his experiences in labor battalions in the Hungarian army in Hungary, Ukraine and Poland in 1941-1945, and regarding his life in Uzhorod until his aliya to Israel in 1972. The memoirs were written as an addition to the testimony collected from the...

File Number : 11155

Type of Material : Memoirs, תמליל, Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, Yiddish

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Hedvig Hayaleh Deutsh, born in Eger in 1918, regarding her experiences in the Eger Ghetto and in Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Braunschweig, Bendorf and other camps during 1944-1945

Memoirs of Hedvig Hayaleh Deutsh, born in Eger in 1918, regarding her experiences in the Eger Ghetto and in Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Braunschweig, Bendorf and other camps during 1944-1945 Life in Eger in an ultra-Orthodox family; numerus clausus legislation; German occupation of Hungary, 19/03/1944; establishment of the Eger Ghetto; Eger Ghetto life; shortage of food; religious life in the Eger Ghetto; her work in sewing; deportation of the Jews of the Eger Ghetto, including the witness and her family members; they are marched to a factory and to blocks, and then to Auschwitz; selection by Dr. Mengele;...

File Number : 9593

Type of Material : Memoirs, Identity Card, Article, Newspaper Clippings

Language : Hebrew, Hungarian

Transcript of the testimony of Menachem Mendel Emil Berkovitz, born in Vizsoly, Hungary, 1926, regarding his family's experiences in Vizsoly and his experiences in Auschwitz, Mauthausen and Ebensee camps His family's life in Vizsoly, before the war; attitude of the local population; attitude of his relatives; his grandfather Kalonimos Yehuda Berkovitz; Outbreak of the war; detention of his brother Reuven Henrish, following criticism of the Hungarian Army and the German Army; deportation to a detention camp in Kistarcsa; draft of his brothers Shimon, Yona Zvi, Chaim and Reuven to forced labor for the...

File Number : 8711

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew