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Testimony of Nancy Vera Rachel Arbel, born in Baktaloranthaza, Hungary, in 1826 regarding deportation to the Auschwitz Birkenau , Plaszow and Reichenbach camps

Testimony

Childhood before the war; coexistence; outbreak of the war; restrictions on Jews; German occupation in March 1944; deportation to ghetto; mutual help; robbery of property; fictitious marriage for the purpose of rescue; deportation to Auschwitz Birkenau; transfer to Plaszow; transfer to a protected camp; improvement in food and living conditions; transfer back to Auschwitz Birkenau; transfer to Germany for agricultural works and for working in a factory manufacturing planes; liberation by the Russians; rehabilitation of life after the war; aliya to Israel in 1949

File Number : 13703

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Tova (Gittel) Osher Vizel, born in Viseul de Sus, Romania, regarding her experiences during deportation to Auschwitz and other camps

Testimony of Tova (Gittel) Osher Vizel, born in Viseul de Sus, Romania, regarding her experiences during deportation to Auschwitz and other camps Her father’s death; leaving school to help support the family; Hungarian regime from 1939; rising antisemitism; German occupation in 1944; expulsion to the ghetto; mother’s illness; transport to Auschwitz; leaving her sick mother behind in the railway car; forcible separation from her younger brother; selection for labor in Gelsenkirchen in building refineries that were bombed; deaths of women prisoners in bombing of the camp; transfer to Sömmerda Weisensee and...

File Number : 13576

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Carmela (Waldman) Krishaber, born in 1939, in Subotica, Yugoslavia - regarding her experiences in the Subotica Ghetto, and living under a false identity in a monastery and in Budapest

Testimony of Carmela (Waldman) Krishaber, born in 1939, in Subotica, Yugoslavia - regarding her experiences in the Subotica Ghetto, and living under a false identity in a monastery and in Budapest Life under Hungarian rule in 1941; German occupation in 1944; deportation to the Subotica Ghetto in 1944; life in the open ghetto and the mayor's warning about transport from the ghetto; escape with her mother to a Hungarian friend; hiding, and move into hiding at the home of a friend, Dr. Ivo Scherzer; joined there by her grandmother; she is moved by the ophthalmologist to a monastery in Subotica under a false...

File Number : 13690

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Irit Irena Nitzan née Tug, born in 1939 in Kraków, about her experiences under a false identity with Polish families in villages near Kraków and in Kraków

German occupation; witness and parents escape from Kraków in 1939; deportation, apparently to Treblinka, in 1942; witness and parents leap from train and hide in the forest (so she is told); father captured and sent to a concentration and extermination camp; placed in hideouts with non-Jewish Polish families in the countryside and in Kraków (approx. ten places during the war) under the false identity of a Polish girl; placed by her mother with various families until the war in Kraków ends in 1944; father returns from the camps in 1945; life in Kraków after the war; attends a Tarbut school; joins the Hashomer...

File Number : 13503

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Fela Lewkowicz née Pozmanter, born in 1930 in Skepe, Poland, about her experiences as a girl in Skepe, in Gostynin, in hiding with a non-Jew in the countryside, and in Germany during the war

Life before the war; offspring of a Mirrer Hasidic family; attends a Polish high school; religious life; antisemitism in school; aunt who holds Polish citizenship deported from Hamburg; aunt reaches the family home; war erupts; Jews deported to Warsaw; witness escapes with family to Gostynin; life there in the home of a family member; manhunt for Jewish males; works in nearby villages and smuggles food home for the family; escapes wth mother and sister to nearby villages; peasants treat them positively; lives with a peasant named Pawlowski; Pawlowski helps to smuggle witness's mother to Rosenberg; growing sugar...

File Number : 13524

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Dov Ber Izidor Weiss Levanoni, born in Kerecky, Czechoslovakia, 1921, regarding his experiences in Kerecky, Orsowa and Komarom

Testimony

Testimony of Dov Ber Izidor Weiss Levanoni, born in Kerecky, Czechoslovakia, 1921, regarding his experiences in Kerecky, Orsowa and Komarom Life with his family [in Kerecky?]; Jewish community life [in Kerecky]; move to Orsowa; life in Orsowa including attending school and learning in a "heder". Hungarian Army occupation [of Orsowa], 1939; draft to the labor battalions before Yom Kippur; transfer to Komarom; camp life including the decree regarding wearing a yellow badge, and forced labor; transfer of the inmates on foot under the supervision of Hungarian Gendarmerie men; escape with a friend; deportation...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Asher Keller, born in 1927 in Miskolc, Hungary, about his experiences on a march toward Austria and in a protected house and in hiding in Budapest

Testimony

Testimony of Asher Keller, born in 1927 in Miskolc, Hungary, about his experiences on a march toward Austria and in a protected house and in hiding in Budapest Life before the war, moving with the family to Budapest in 1937; antisemitism in school; refugees from Yugoslavia and Austria reached his location; expelled from academic high school and transferred to a vocational school in 1943; German occupation ensues in March 44; the yellow star edict; the house is marked with a star; curfew in some daytime hours is announced; taking off the yellow star while venturing outside in search of food; Arrow Cross...

File Number : 13444

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Joint testimony of Sara (Weissmann) Milgram, born in Kosice, Czechoslovakia in 1939, regarding her experiences as a toddler in a children's home and in a Christian's home while using a Christian identity, and testimony of her mother Alice (Shlezinger) Rotman, born in Kosice in 1920, regarding her experiences in Budapest while using a false identity, and in Lippstadt and other places Testimony of Sara (Weissmann) Milgram: Early childhood in Kosice; escape with her parents to Budapest, 1944; life in Budapest as Christians; capture of her parents after being informed on; transfer by her step-grandmother to a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Batya Hefetz née Fiser Szabo, born in 1923 in Viseul de Sus, Romania, about her experiences in the Viseul de Sus ghetto and in the Stutthof, Auschwitz, and Bromberg camps

Testimony

Testimony of Batya Hefetz née Fiser Szabo, born in 1923 in Viseul de Sus, Romania, about her experiences in the Viseul de Sus ghetto and in the Stutthof, Auschwitz, and Bromberg camps Hungary re-annexes Viseul de Sus; life under Hungarian rule in 1940; German occupation ensues in 1944; ghettoization; life in the ghetto in 1944; deportation with family to Auschwitz; transfer to Stutthof in autumn 1944; transfer to Bromberg; life in the camp; working in an armaments plant in 1944; death march; liberated by Red Army forces in January 1945; life in a Polish village nearby; convalescence; return to Viseul de Sus...

File Number : 13549

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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