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Memoirs of Yitzkhak Braun, born in Sopron, Hungary, 1922, regarding his experiences in labor battalions and the underground in Budapest, in Romania and his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1944

Memoirs of Yitzkhak Braun, born in Sopron, Hungary, 1922, regarding his experiences in labor battalions and the underground in Budapest, in Romania and his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1944 Memoirs of Yitzkhak Braun (his literary name is Bar Am), divided into two parts: Part 1 - a short autobiography of Yitzkhak Braun: Deportation to a labor battalion, Hungary, 1943; escape before being transferred to the eastern front; German occupation, March 1944; activities in the Zionist Youth underground; smuggling friends to Budapest; forging documents; deportation of his mother and his sister from the Sopron Ghetto to...

File Number : 20

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hungarian

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Articles by David Gur, regarding non-Jewish Hungarian underground organizations and their relations with the Zionist underground youth organizations in Hungary in 1944

File Number : 433

Type of Material : Article

Language : Hebrew, Hungarian

Testimony of Hava Eva Doman Krein, born in 1926 in Budapest, about persecution of her family and her experiences in Hungary

Testimony of Hava Eva Doman Krein, born in 1926 in Budapest, about persecution of her family and her experiences in Hungary Life in Budapeset before the war; life in the Budapest ghetto; persecution of Hungarian Jews; forced labor by all men aged 16–50 from 1940 onward; deportation to camps; IZL Jewish underground activity in preparing and distributing bogus documents; hiding; immigration to Eretz Israel in 1946; recovery and adjustment to life in Eretz Israel.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Hella (Feuerlicht) Gertner, born in Krosno, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in Krosno, the Jaslo Ghetto, the Szebnie camp, Slovakia and Budapest during the Holocaust period, and in Vienna after 1947 Interview conducted in Vienna, 11 December 1997: Family life of the witness in Krosno with her parents, Meilach and Hanna (Irom) Feuerlicht, and her sisters, Feige and Manja; displays of antisemitism; memories of the beating of her father by Polish pilots in the mid-1930s; Outbreak of the war, September 1939; escape of her father and his brothers to areas controlled by the Soviet Union;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English, German

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Testimony

Testimony of Yehoshua Noivirt, born in Velky Meder, Czechoslovakia, 1924, regarding his experiences in work camps and his liberation by the Jewish underground Childhood in an Orthodox home of scant means; move to Nove Zamky, 1924; his father’s death; leaving school to help support the family, 1934; starting to learn in the Galanta Yeshiva; annexation to Hungary, November 1938; closing of the yeshiva due to the annexation and transfer to the Gyor Yeshiva; move to Budapest. German occupation, March 1944; conscription into labor battalions in Jaszbereny; transfer to work in aircraft hangars in Pomaz; attempt...

File Number : 14111

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Hana Atzmon, born in Velky Meder, regarding her experiences in Hungary and Czechoslovakia before the war, her activities in a youth movement and in a Jewish underground during the war, and her aliya to Eretz Israel in 1944 Her family's life in Velky Meder; move to Nove Zamky; life in Nove Zamky; she joins the Maccabi Hatzair movement; increase in antisemitism following the Hungarian occupation; activities in a Zionist youth movement; Zionist aliya training in a village and in Budapest; ban against the existence of Zionist movements in Hungary; marriage to Izkhak Atzmon and life in Budapest; help...

File Number : 11181

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Ruth (Leibovitz-Glick) Ben Moshe, born in Chust in 1930, regarding her experiences in the Chust Ghetto, Auschwitz, and a labor camp during 1944-1945 and her aliya to Eretz Israel, 1946-1947 Her family's life in Chust; persecution of Jews; economic hardships; young Jews, including her relatives, are sent to Budapest in 1943; German occupation of Hungary, 19/03/1944; deportation of the Jews of Chust to the Chust Ghetto, including the witness' family; transfer of the ghetto's inmates on a march to a camp in a brick factory on 25/05/1944, and from there to Auschwitz camp; separation of the men,...

File Number : 9542

Type of Material : Questionnaire, Article, Genealogy, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, Hungarian

An interview with Menakhem Mendel Vayngarten, born in Munkacs in 1928, regarding his experiences in the underground in Hungary and Romania

An interview with Menakhem Mendel Vayngarten, born in Munkacs in 1928, regarding his experiences in the underground in Hungary and Romania Tape 1: Meeting with three Warsaw Ghetto refugees in Budapest; issuing forged certificates for the refugees; contacting a guide in Romania; capture by Romanian border guard soldiers; torture and interrogations; pause in recording; music and songs; interview continues from 00:58:22: deportation to Hungarian territory; arrest by Hungarian soldiers; transfer to Kisvelence; handed over to investigators in civilian clothes; torture and interrogations; the situation of...

File Number : 11938

Type of Material : Interview(s), Music, Memoirs, Poems/songs

Language : Hebrew

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