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Testimony of Moshe (Dezho) David, born in Gurghiu, Romania, 1927 regarding his experiences in Kaufering and additional camps

Testimony

Childhood; family background; the murder of his father by Romanians, 1934; attends a Romanian school and moves to learn in a workshop in Cluj; Annexation of the area to Hungary; German invasion, 1944; yellow badge; concentration of the Jews in a brick factory; deportation to Auschwitz camp; transfer to Kaufering camp; positive treatment by the German labor manager; labor in an underground factory for airplane production; transfer to Dachau; death march towards Bad-Toelz; liberation; Return to Gurghiu and Cluj; aliya training in Timisoara; illegal immigration to Eretz Israel and exile to Cyprus; digging...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe Rutshtein, born in Brzezina, Poland, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Sachsenhausen

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Testimony of Moshe Rutshtein, born in Brzezina, Poland, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Sachsenhausen Life before the war in Lodz; attends a Polish elementary school; attends a Jewish school; displays of antisemitism; warnings from their Volksdeutsche neighbors; offers of help. German occupation; decrees; detention of his parents; release of his parents with the help of a Volksdeutsche neighbor, a member of the SS; ban on walking on pavements; yellow badge; ban on going to the cinema; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto; establishment of the Jewish police under...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shiye Zelig Litvak, born in Radom, Poland, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Radom Ghetto, Treblinka, Auschwitz, Oranienburg, Sachsenhausen and other camps

Testimony

Testimony of Shiye Zelig Litvak, born in Radom, Poland, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Radom Ghetto, Treblinka, Auschwitz, Oranienburg, Sachsenhausen and other camps Life before the war; relations with the non-Jewish populartion; learns in a "heder"; Beitar activities. German occupation, 1939; deportation to the Radom Ghetto, 1942; ghetto life including learning German and labor as a courier and translator; deportation to Treblinka; camp life including living in stables and labor as a courier and translator; transfer to Auschwitz; transfer to Oranienburg; transfer to Sachsenhausen; transfer to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rachel Roza (Iunger) Simon, born in Grosi, Romania, 1924, regarding her experiences in Dej, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Altenburg

Testimony

Testimony of Rachel Roza (Iunger) Simon, born in Grosi, Romania, 1924, regarding her experiences in Dej, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Altenburg Life before the war; attends a Romanian school. Re-annexation to Hungary, 1940; restrictions on the Jews; deportation of her father to a labor camp and his release; deportation to Dej; life in Dej; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; camp life including the deaths of her parents and sisters; labor moving stones; transfer to Altenburg; camp life including labor in an aircraft factory; receives help from a German foreman; liberation by the US Army, 1945. Convalescence...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chana Helen (Shechter) Karpati, born in Oradea, Romania, 1931, regarding her experiences in the Reghin Ghetto, Auschwitz, Krakow, Plaszow, Rochlitz and Calw

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Testimony of Chana Helen (Shechter) Karpati, born in Oradea, Romania, 1931, regarding her experiences in the Reghin Ghetto, Auschwitz, Krakow, Plaszow, Rochlitz and Calw Life before the war; move to Reghin; attends a Jewish school; relations with the local population. German occupation; deportation of her father to Buchenwald; death of her father; deportation to the Reghin Ghetto, 1944; deportation to Auschwitz; transfer to Krakow; transfer to Plaszow; camp life including labor in a vegetable garden; transfer back to Auschwitz; transfer to Rochlitz; camp life including labor in an aircraft factory;...

File Number : 12773

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Israel Sruli Berkovitz, born in Svalava, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding his experiences in Auschwitz, Mauthausen and a death march

Testimony

Testimony of Israel Sruli Berkovitz, born in Svalava, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding his experiences in Auschwitz, Mauthausen and a death march Life before the war; family owns a leather shop; attends a Czech school and a Jewish school; Beitar, Hashomer Hatzair and Hapoel Hamizrachi activities; aliya training. Outbreak of the war, 1939; re-annexation to Hungary; decrees including the closing of shops and expulsion from school; his father's death, 1943; deportation to Auschwitz, 1944; camp life including the murder of his mother and siblings; transfer to Mauthausen; camp life including labor digging...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yehudit Eudice Ilonka (Rozental) Poplinger, born in Targul Lapusului, Romania, 1927, regarding her experiences in Borpatak, Auschwitz and Liebau

Testimony

Testimony of Yehudit Eudice Ilonka (Rozental) Poplinger, born in Targul Lapusului, Romania, 1927, regarding her experiences in Borpatak, Auschwitz and Liebau Religious family; death of her father; relations with the non-Jewish population. Outbreak of the war, 1939; annexation to Hungary; attempt to make aliya to Eretz Israel; German occupation; decrees including termination of studies and the yellow badge; witness learns sewing; transfer to Borpatak; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life including labor sorting inmates' clothing and belongings; murder of her mother and brother; transfer to Liebau; camp...

File Number : 12849

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Fiszel Swerdszarf regarding his experiences in the Kraśnik Ghetto, the Mauthausen, Leitmeritz, Flossenbürg, Wieliczka, Mielec, Budzyń and Gusen camps, and in DP camps in Austria and Italy Residence in Kraśnik; Deportation to the local ghetto in the city; news of the large "Aktions" in the Lublin Ghetto, 1942; "Aktion" in the Kraśnik Ghetto after the Passover holiday, 1942; transfer to the Budzyń camp, 1942, and forced labor in the Heinkel aircraft factory; about Hantke and Feix, the commanders of the Budzyń camp; typhus; arrival in the camp of Jews from Warsaw; life in the camp; transfer to the...

File Number : 5046

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Spanish, English

File Number : 2073

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Spanish

Testimony of Karel Abeles, born in Teplice-Sanove, Czechoslovakia, 1926, submitted in the context of the Dokumentacni Akce (Documentation Project) in Prague, 16/08/1945

Testimony of Karel Abeles, born in Teplice-Sanove, Czechoslovakia, 1926, submitted in the context of the Dokumentacni Akce (Documentation Project) in Prague, 16/08/1945 Move of the family of Karel Abeles from Teplice-Sanov to Prague in October 1938 after the annexation of the Sudeten area to Germany; life in Prague until October 1941; Deportation to the Lodz Ghetto with his parents and his older brother on the third transport, 26 October 1941; Lodz Ghetto life, including their relations with Jews from Poland; death of his father due to infection, 05 March 1942; deportation of 25,000 Jews from the Lodz...

File Number : 219

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Czech

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