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Memoirs of Beniamin Bornshtein, regarding his experiences and the life of the Jews of Slovakia during the Holocaust

- declaration of administrative autonomy of Slovakia in 1938; youth movements; counsellor in Hashomer Hatzair, Agon Roth; anti-Jewish legislation; condition of the Jews in Slovakia during the war; joining the Hashomer Hatzair partisans; move to Bratislava; life among the partisans during the Slovak National Uprising in August-October 1944 in the Banska-Bystrica area; detention by the Red Army and release; Included in the file: biographical information about four Jewish partisans.

File Number : 1202

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Tzvi Bak, born in Chtelnica, Czechoslovakia, in 1924, regarding his escape from deportation, his life under false identity and his joining the partisans.

Testimony of Tzvi Bak, born in Chtelnica, Czechoslovakia,in 1924, regarding his escape from deportation, his life under false identity and his joining the partisans. Life in traditional family of average financial situation; division of the state and Slovakia becoming sponsoring country,1939; escaping to border with hope to cross it; capture; he's returned to border; crossing border; re-capture and taken back home; getting working permit; trial against the family for keeping business; bribing the judge and acquitment; also bribing in order to avoid parents'deportation,Spring 1942; escape from" Aktion" to a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Erika (Kochnova) Katz, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1937, regarding her experiences in Bratislava, Novaky, Zvolen, Banska Bystrica and in hiding

Testimony

Testimony of Erika (Kochnova) Katz, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1937, regarding her experiences in Bratislava, Novaky, Zvolen, Banska Bystrica and in hiding Her parents' home; her father's work as an engineer, chemist and manager of a factory owned by the family; Imposition of limitations, including prohibition on buying in shops; termination of the nanny's work; Yellow Badge; wearing of a small Yellow Badge by her parents due to their being essential to the state; wearing a regular Yellow Badge from 1942; enforcement of the limitations; confiscation of their apartment except for one room; entrance...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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