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Testimony of Yehuda Avrahami, born in Michalovce, Czechoslovakia, 1928, regarding his experiences in Michalovce, Novaky and in hiding in the Nitra area

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Testimony of Yehuda Avrahami, born in Michalovce, Czechoslovakia, 1928, regarding his experiences in Michalovce, Novaky and in hiding in the Nitra area Transfer of his Communist father to Prague; his father's life in Prague, 1938-1941; deportation of his father to Buchenwald, 1942; murder of his father in the camp; deportation of witness and his sibling[s] to a labor camp in Novaky, June 1943; camp life until September 1944; in hiding in the villages near Nitra until liberation; liberation, May 1945; death of his mother on a death march from Auschwitz, April 1945. Aliya to Eretz Israel, June 1946; death...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation from the trials of Aleksandr Yeftodiy, Petr Kotlyarov and Yefteniy Kurka charged with collaboration with the German-Romanian occupation authority, the murder of Jews and robbery of Jewish possessions in Skulyany, Stynka and next to Skulyany, June-July 1941 Investigation file of the NKGB counter-espionage department, the Ministry of State Security in Moldavia, conducted in Beltsy, June 1944-May 1945: - Arrest warrants against Aleksandr Yeftodiy, Petr Kotlyarov and Yefteniy Kurka, issued in Beltsy, 18-19 July 1944; -Decisions on filing indictments against Aleksandr Yeftodiy, Petr Kotlyarov...

File Number : 6

Type of Material : Investigation Reports, Protocol, Legal Documentation, List of Eyewitnesses, List of Witnesses, Detention Order, List of Collaborators, Record of Murdered Persons, List of Murdered Jews, Indictment, Sentence, Document

Language : Romanian, Russian

Memoirs of Chana (Goldfinger) Windstrauch, born in Jordanow, Poland, 1918, regarding her experiences in the Krakow Ghetto and in hiding; memoirs written, 1939-1945

Memoirs of Chana (Goldfinger) Windstrauch, born in Jordanow, Poland, 1918, regarding her experiences in the Krakow Ghetto and in hiding; memoirs written, 1939-1945 Her memoirs are copied from scraps of paper on which she wrote her diary while in forests during the war; marriage to Yitzchak Windstrauch, 15 September 1940; escape from the [Krakow] Ghetto with her family, 26 August 1941; in hiding with her family in the home or Polish acquaintances who lived in the vicinity, for several days; in hiding in forests; wanderings; in hiding in an attic in the home of Polish farmers; in hiding in pits; in hiding in...

File Number : 7327

Type of Material : Memoirs, Diary

Language : Polish

Group testimony of Rózsi Lazarovics, Sári Lazarovics, Helén Spitzer and Sári Fuchs, all born in Czechoslovakia, regarding their experiences in the Mátészalka Ghetto and in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Gelsenkirchen and Essen camps and more Deportation to the Mátészalka Ghetto, after Pesach (April) 1944; being subjected to searches and robbery of possessions; ghetto life for four weeks; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; life on the road together with 70-80 people in a train car; not receiving bread or water; escape of a man in Kassa; being handed over to the Germans; life on the road for three days; arrival in the...

File Number : 2793

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

Testimony of Harry Nemesitz, born in Vienna, Austria, 1921, regarding his experiences in labor battalions in Galánta and Kassa and in Donnerskirchen and Mauthausen camps and more

Testimony of Harry Nemesitz, born in Vienna, Austria, 1921, regarding his experiences in labor battalions in Galánta and Kassa and in Donnerskirchen and Mauthausen camps and more Life in Galánta including being assigned to Labor Battalion (zászlóalj) No. 9 and Battalion No. 11; transfer to forced labor in the labor battalions, October 1942; labor in various locations in constructing fortifications and traps for tanks; transfer to the Carpathian Ruthenia area, November 1943; transfer to Stanislów; transfer to Csobád; cruelty of the battalion commander, Milhály Kovács, including torturing the laborers;...

File Number : 2679

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

Testimony of Dezső Berger Baranyi, born in Budapest, Hungary in 1913, regarding his experiences in service in a labor battalion in Donnerskirchen, Mauthausen and Gunskirchen camps

Testimony of Dezső Berger Baranyi, born in Budapest, Hungary in 1913, regarding his experiences in service in a labor battalion in Donnerskirchen, Mauthausen and Gunskirchen camps Deportation to forced labor in a labor battalion in Esztergom on 27/07/1942; life in Esztergom including labor in the construction of a shooting range; transfer to Poland on 12/05/1944; retreat to Csobád; labor in Csobád digging a pit; life in Csobád until November 1944; put onto freight cars and transfer to Kassa on 01/12/1944; life in Kassa including residence in a brick factory for three days; handed over to gendarmes; theft of...

File Number : 2484

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

Testimony of Laszlo Jonas, regarding his experiences in labor battalions in Aszod and Esztergom, in Mauthausen and Gunskirchen camps, and in other places

Testimony of Laszlo Jonas, regarding his experiences in labor battalions in Aszod and Esztergom, in Mauthausen and Gunskirchen camps, and in other places Deportation to the labor battalions in Aszod and Esztergom, December 1942; life in the Galicia area; transfer to Hungary; transfer to Donnerskirchen, December 1944; life in Donnerskirchen, including rescue by an officer named Reiner; transfer to Mauthausen camp on a march; transfer to Gunskirchen camp; liberation by the US Army.

File Number : 605

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

Testimony of Imre Róna, born in Budapest, Hungary in 1904, regarding his experiences in a prison in Budapest, in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Wüstegiersdorf and Kalisch camps, and in other places

Testimony of Imre Róna, born in Budapest, Hungary in 1904, regarding his experiences in a prison in Budapest, in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Wüstegiersdorf and Kalisch camps, and in other places Detention, 19 March 1944; life in a prison on Monsonyi Street in Budapest; transfer to a detention camp in Kistarcsa; life in the detention camp in Kistarcsa, in building "F"; non-receipt of food, for three days; receipt of food and parcels with help from the Országos Magyar Zsidó Segítő Akció - OMZSA organization; guarded by policemen; receives permission to wander around the building without an escort; transfer to the...

File Number : 2989

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

Diary and memoirs of Maria Flor (maiden name: Kohn) regarding her experiences in Budapest in 1944-1945, and testimonies of her daughters Vera Benedek and Agnes Mishan regarding their childhood during the Holocaust Final thesis for her master's degree at the Levinsky College of Education, submitted by Sima Kotev in 2016. The appendices include a translation of the diary of Maria (Kohn) Konrad-Flor (Konrad - a pen-name under which she published poems before the war) and interviews with her daughters Vera and Agnes: - diary kept by Maria (Kohn) Flor in Budapest in March-December 1944 and her memoirs written...

File Number : 11207

Type of Material : Interview(s), Thesis, Maps, Diary, Genealogy

Language : Hebrew, English

Diary kept by Kalman Linkimer, born in 1913, while in hiding in Liepāja in 1944-1945, and his memoirs regarding the experiences of the Jews of Liepāja in 1942-1941

Diary kept by Kalman Linkimer, born in 1913, while in hiding in Liepāja in 1944-1945, and his memoirs regarding the experiences of the Jews of Liepāja in 1942-1941 Photocopied pages (the pages are not in order) including: - diary kept by Kalman Linkimer while in hiding in Liepāja in Roberts Seduls’s cellar, from 28 April 1944 to 20 February 1945. The diary also includes poems by Kalman Linkimer (including poems he wrote in a labor camp in Paplaka in March-November 1943), and the escape experiences of his friends in the hiding place. Also attached are some press clippings in German from May 1944; - excerpts...

File Number : 11218

Type of Material : Memoirs, Poems/songs, Newspaper Clippings, Diary

Language : German, Yiddish, Latvian

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