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Testimony of Mordechay (Paul Georg) Fleischer, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1926 regarding his escape to Budapest, deportation to detention camps, escape from a death march and residing in the Glass House

Testimony

Childhood before the war; Fascist Slovakia, 1938; antisemitic events; Attempts to move to Budapest, Hungary, winter 1942-1943; getting arrested by Hungarian soldiers while escaping; sent back to Slovakia; escape to Hungary with the aid of a smuggler; arrival in Budapest; capture and arrest; decrees and restrictions; transferred to a prison by two Hungarian soldiers; deportation to a brick factory; escape to a marked house; capture and deportation for labor building fortifications and digging anti-tank trenches near Solnok, late October 1944; march towards Austria; escape to the Red Cross house in Budapest...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yechiel Hahn, born in 1932 in Budapest, about his experiences as a boy in protected houses of the Swedish and Spanish embassies in Budapest during the German occupation

Life before the war in parents' home; grandfather, Gerson Hahn, establishes a Sephardi Orthodox synagogue in Budapest; antisemitism in school; father inducted into the Hungarian labor service in 1940; German occupation ensues in March 1944; secretly listening to BBC radio broadcasts; wearing the yellow star; shop nationalized; studies halted; movement restrictions imposed; ban on employing a non-Jewish domestic; concealing valuables; moving to a marked house; moving to a house protected by the Swedish Embassy in July 1944; a rescue and relief organization helps with food; bombardments; moving into a cellar; a...

File Number : 13604

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Edit Esther (Kohen) Hakarmi, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1922, regarding her experiences in Vienna, Budapest and Bucharest

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Testimony of Edit Esther (Kohen) Hakarmi, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1922, regarding her experiences in Vienna, Budapest and Bucharest Her family's life; move to Vienna, 1924; her father's return to Hungary, 1938; demand by their non-Jewish neighbors that they [her family] leave their apartment; receives a Hungarian passport; acts of harassment against Jews; Kristallnacht; return to Hungary, 1938; joins the Bnei Akiva movement; arrival of refugees from Vienna and Poland; receives help from the concierge of their building; ban on participation in activities of the youth movements. German Army occupation of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zuzi Zeira, born in Timisoara, Romania, 1925, regarding her experiences in Ujpest, in hiding in Budapest, on a death march and in Milan

Testimony

Testimony of Zuzi Zeira, born in Timisoara, Romania, 1925, regarding her experiences in Ujpest, in hiding in Budapest, on a death march and in Milan Move to Ujpest, Hungary, 1925; antisemitism, 1939; dismissal of her father [from his work]. Draft of her father to forced labor; German Army occupation of Ujpest, 1944; concentration of the Ujpest Jews in marked houses; life under German occupation including decree regarding wearing a yellow badge, and labor in a military factory; concentration before deportation; in hiding in a factory with help from Communists; fascist rise to power, October 1944; in hiding...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Eliezer Ludwig Levin, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1934, regarding his experiences in Warsaw, the Warsaw Ghetto, Chmielnik Ghetto, using a false identity in Wies Scieki, Kielce and other places German Army occupation of Warsaw, 1939; Warsaw Ghetto life, 1940; escape to the Chmielnik Ghetto with his mother, 1941; Chmielnik Ghetto life; life in Wies Scieki while using a false identity as the illegitimate son of his nursemaid Kazia Zajac; life as a Christian Polish child in Wies Scieki; liberation by the Red Army, 1945. Move to his family in Kielce by relatives who survived; Kielce pogrom, 1946; move...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Menachem Mendel Sabo, born in Sat Sugatag, Romania, 1926, regarding his experiences in Sat Sugatag, the Berbesti Ghetto, Sighet Ghetto, Auschwitz, Kittlitztreben and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Menachem Mendel Sabo, born in Sat Sugatag, Romania, 1926, regarding his experiences in Sat Sugatag, the Berbesti Ghetto, Sighet Ghetto, Auschwitz, Kittlitztreben and other places His family's life, including his parents' work; Jewish community life; witness attends a Christian school and learns in a "heder". Hungarian Army occupation of Sat Sugatag, September 1940; draft of men to forced labor; German Army occupation of Sat Sugatag, March 1944; life under German occupation including the decree to wear a yellow badge; deportation to the Berbesti Ghetto; Berbesti Ghetto life; transfer to the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Pinchas Peter Grosman, born in Hejocsaba, Hungary, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Budapest Ghetto, Miskolc camp, a labor battalion and Komarom camp

Testimony

Testimony of Pinchas Peter Grosman, born in Hejocsaba, Hungary, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Budapest Ghetto, Miskolc camp, a labor battalion and Komarom camp Life before the war; education in Miskolc; education in Budapest. Restrictions on the Jews and numerus clausus; deportation of his father to a labor battalion; Hungarian gendermes activities; German occupation, March 1944; deportation to the Budapest Ghetto; deportation to Miskolc camp; deportation of the family to Auschwitz; death of her mother in camp; transfer to a labor battalion in Komarom; camp life; life with Wermacht soldiers;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Itka Yenti (Moshkovitz) Davidovich, born in Bedevla, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding her experiences in Ukraine, Mukacevo, in detention in Budapest, and in Bukovcova and Auschwitz

Testimony

Testimony of Itka Yenti (Moshkovitz) Davidovich, born in Bedevla, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding her experiences in Ukraine, Mukacevo, in detention in Budapest, and in Bukovcova and Auschwitz Religious family; relations with the local population. Re-annexation to Hungary, 1939; deportation to Ukraine with her family; escape back to Carpathian Ruthenia with help from Jews; life in Mukacevo; detention after being informed on; transfer to a prison in Budapest; release with help from an acquaintance; move to Bukovcova; German occupation, 1944; deportation to a brick factory with the town's Jews; deportation...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Eljakim Warszawski, born in Myszkow Nowy, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Bedzin, the Lindenhain camp, the Annaberg camp, the Floessingen camp and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Eljakim Warszawski, born in Myszkow Nowy, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Bedzin, the Lindenhain camp, the Annaberg camp, the Floessingen camp and other places Life before the war; from an ultra-Orthodox family; Hashomer Hatzair membership; move to Bedzin; life in Bedzin. Outbreak of the war, 01 September 1939; unsuccessful attempt to escape; mass murder on the first night of Slichot (penitential prayers) (07 September 1939); escape to the family home; meeting his father without a beard and without his traditional clothing; deportation of Jews; receipt of encouraging letters;...

File Number : 13068

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Nora (Tzilag) Iafe, born in Subotica, Yugoslavia, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Subotica Ghetto, Auschwitz and additional camps

Testimony

Testimony of Nora (Tzilag) Iafe, born in Subotica, Yugoslavia, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Subotica Ghetto, Auschwitz and additional camps

File Number : 13374

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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