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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 Abraham Ernst Ponger, born in Mikulas Litovsky Svaty, Czechoslovakia, in 1922, regarding his experiences in the Sered camp and in the battle of the partisans

Childhood before the war; Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria 1938; expulsion from school and carpentry studies; independence of Slovakia and anti-Jewish legislation 1939; deportation of Jews and escape to the mountains in March 1942; going back home and deportation to the Sered camp,in April 1945; work in carpentry; underground in the camp; Slovak uprising and escape ,in August 1944; joining partisans; actions against Germans; liberation by the red army,in April 1945; joining aliya training; illegal immigration to Eretz Israel on the Theodor Herzl ship,on 01 April 1947; exile to Cyprus; aliya back to...

File Number : 13772

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Malka Stern née Grinberger, born in 1926 in Ganice, Czechoslovakia, about her experiences in Ganice, the Mateszalka ghetto, and the Birkenau and Lübberstedt camps during the war

Life before the war; offspring of a religious family; good relations with the non-Jewish population; Hungary re-annexes the area in 1939; family business license evoked; father deported to a labor camp in 1941; neighbors who lack Hungarian citizenship deported; refugees from Poland arrive; German occupation ensues in March 1944; witness deported to the Mateszalka ghetto; robbed of jewelry; deported to Auschwitz on Shavuot 1944; escapes from a group being transferred in the camp to a crematorium; sent to Lübberstedt in summer 1944; life in the camp; manufacturing bombs; the front closes in and the camp is...

File Number : 13558

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Layzer Fuks, born in Sandrovo, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding his experiences in Sandrovo, in hiding, in the Sekernice Ghetto, the Chust Ghetto, Auschwitz and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Layzer Fuks, born in Sandrovo, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding his experiences in Sandrovo, in hiding, in the Sekernice Ghetto, the Chust Ghetto, Auschwitz and other places His childhood with his family in a village. Life under Hungarian rule, 1939; new anti-Jewish decrees on all the Jews; increase in antisemitism; German Army occupation of Sandrovo before Pesach (April), 1944; in hiding while hidden by neighbors during the deportation to the Sekernice Ghetto, in hiding in a forest; in hiding while hidden by his neighbors; transfer to the Sekernice Ghetto; escape to a forest during the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rafi Karol Vinman, born in Aust, Czechoslovakia in 1933, regarding his experiences as a boy in Aust, Skalice, and in farmers’ huts in the mountains

Testimony of Rafi Karol Vinman, born in Aust, Czechoslovakia in 1933, regarding his experiences as a boy in Aust, Skalice, and in farmers’ huts in the mountains Life before the war; child of a mixed marriage; move to Slovakia in 1938; antisemitic incidents; “aktions”; expulsion of relatives to Lublin and their subsequent murder; escape to Skalice; receiving a warning from a member of the underground regarding an “aktion”; escape to the mountains; life in farmers’ huts; liberation by the Red Army; end of the war; return to Slovakia; life after the war; aliya to Israel as part of Youth Aliya in 1949;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avraham Eder, borh in 1936 in Szekesfehervar, Hungary, about the Budapest ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Avraham Eder, borh in 1936 in Szekesfehervar, Hungary, about the Budapest ghetto Childhood in a wealthy assimilated family; parents separate; stepmother; moves to Budapest in 1939; lives with maternal grandfather until 1942; moves to Budapest; attends school; father sent to a labor camp; witness moves to a "marked house"; mother and father deported to Bergen-Belsen and die; witness placed in an orphanage; hides with stepmother; German occupation ensues in 1944; sent to the ghetto; joins a Jewish family; placed in a Red Cross children's institution; bombardments; hunger; cold; Soviets close in;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mikhael Farkash, born in 1931 in Cernauti, Romania, about his deportation to Transnistria and Mogilev

Testimony

Testimony of Mikhael Farkash, born in 1931 in Cernauti, Romania, about his deportation to Transnistria and Mogilev Moving to Banila pe Ceremus; life before the war; Jewish refugees from Poland arrive in 1939; Soviets enter in 1940; Communist ideology; German-Romanian occupation ensues in June 1941; three days of riots; expulsion to Cernauti; ghettoization; anti-Jewish laws; deportation to Transnistria in October 1941; sent as far as Mogilev; living conditions; scrounging for food; illnesses; sundry jobs; partisan activity and Germans' response; liberation by Soviet forces in March 1944; back to Cernauti;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Diary kept by Eugen Jenő Kolb, born in Sopron, Hungary, 1898, regarding his experiences on the Kasztner train and in Bergen-Belsen, 30 June-10 December 1944

Diary kept by Eugen Jenő Kolb, born in Sopron, Hungary, 1898, regarding his experiences on the Kasztner train and in Bergen-Belsen, 30 June-10 December 1944 Travel on the Kasztner train from Budapest to Bergen-Belsen including the attitude of the passengers; classification of the 1,684 passengers according to various statistics; chart composed of two columns under the heading: Budapest and Erdély, including various statistics, among them the number of pioneers, cionista tisztviselő (Zionist clerks), non-Zionists, Orthodox, rural residents and families with children under the age of six; mention of the...

File Number : 8722

Type of Material : Diary

Language : Hebrew, Hungarian

Testimony of Zahava (Shiler) Etzion, born in 1938 in Botosani, Romania, about her experiences as a girl in hiding in Botosani

Testimony

Testimony of Zahava (Shiler) Etzion, born in 1938 in Botosani, Romania, about her experiences as a girl in hiding in Botosani Life before the war; offspring of an affluent religious family; Jews placed under restrictions; food shortages; father assigned to forced labor; Jews deported to Transnistria; witness released before boarding train; witness helped by family's maid with food and later with shelter in her home; livse with the maid for approx. a year; back to the family home on the eve of Passover; endures bombardments and brother's death; mother hospitalized; liberation by Red Army forces; immigration...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avraham Meier, born in Ruse, Bulgaria, 1926, regarding the deportation to Targovishte

Testimony

Testimony of Avraham Meier, born in Ruse, Bulgaria, 1926, regarding the deportation to Targovishte Move to Varna and childhood before the war; Arrival of deportees and refugees from Bulgaria and other countries, 1939; anti-Jewish legislation, 1941; deportation to Targovishte, June 1943; travel restrictions; Branik, the fascist youth movement; hanging of underground members; liberation by the Red Army, 09 September 1944; Return to Varna; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1946; absorption.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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