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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 Yisrael Zoldan Ben Meir Lax, born in 1920 in Selce (Siltse), Podkarpatska Rus, Czechoslovakia, about service in the Hungarian Armlabor brigades, 1939–1943, and deportation to Auschwitz in 1944

Testimony about an Orthodox family: transition to Hungarian rule in 1938; service in the labor brigades in October 1939–December 1943; infrastructure work in Ukrainian territory; non Jews' testimonies about murder of Jews in Kolomyja; murder of witness's family in Kamieniece Podolski; back to Siltse in December 1943; German occupation ensues in March 1944; building fences in the Chust ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz in June 1944; clearing rubble in the Warsaw ghetto; forced to march to Kraków, with mass mortality; transfer to Dachau; construction of the Kaufering camp; epidemic typhus; burying the dead in...

File Number : 13678

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letter from Commandante Giacomo Andreoni to Col. Charles Poletti requesting cars and trucks, 27 July 1944

File Number : 65

Type of Material : Letter

Language : English

To be translated

File Number : 3378

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

To be translated

File Number : 113

Type of Material : Survey Report, Documentary, List of Murdered Jews, Article, Survey, Newspaper Clippings

Language : Russian

Memoirs of Shmuel Pikarevitz, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1919, regarding his experiences in Tykocin, Bialystok, Magnitogorsk, Stutthof camp and in other places

Memoirs of Shmuel Pikarevitz, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1919, regarding his experiences in Tykocin, Bialystok, Magnitogorsk, Stutthof camp and in other places His father's parents were from Tykocin; his mother's parents were from Sniadowo; move from Bialystok to Tykocin; attends a school and a heder; work with his father; studies [in Bialystok]; resides with his uncle in Bialystok; receives aliya certificates that were sent from Eretz Israel by his uncle Refael, 1928; his father's refusal to make aliya to Eretz Israel due to Shmuel's brother's service in the Polish Army; displays of antisemitism in Poland,...

File Number : 8781

Type of Material : Memoirs, Documentary

Language : Hebrew