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Testimony of David Shvartz, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Monor Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Dachau, Muehldorf camp and other places

Testimony

Testimony of David Shvartz, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Monor Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Dachau, Muehldorf camp and other places Life before the war. Draft of his father to a labor battalion in the Hunagrian Army; transfer of his father to Ukraine and his death; draft of his brother to a labor battalion; German occupation; numerus clausus and the yellow badge; deportation to the Monor Ghetto; ghetto life; confiscation of valuables by Hungarian gendarmes; deportation via train to Auschwitz; transfer in a march on the railway tracks to Auschwitz-Birkenau; camp life...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Hana (Austern) Svirsky, born in Lodz, Poland, 1933, regarding her experiences as a child in Lodz, the Debica Ghetto, in hiding in Lodz and on the streets of the city and in Piotrkow Trybunalski Her immediate family; her father's livelihood; home life; her mother's activities as a Communist. An uncle moves to the Soviet Union; her father is drafted into the Polish Army; fur coats and valuables are handed in; yellow badge; displays of antisemitism against her father; concentration of Jews, including her father and mother, in a factory; her parents' escape and arrival in Debica; entry into the...

File Number : 12265

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

List of Romanian Jews and their families deported to Transnistria, Romania, 1943 - 1944

- Lists of Romanian Jews prepared by the Public order and Secret police to be treated by the (release) Commission : --- Who were deported to Balti county, Transnistria; --- Of those who were deported for communism; --- Of those who requested repatriation to the USSR; - Document centralizing the reports of the Transnistrian gendarmerie on the repatriation of Jewish children orphaned by both parents (by region indicating number of orphans); - Lists of Jews from Bukovina and Bessarabia : --- Rădăuți region deported to Transnistria; --- Lăpușna region deported to Transnistria; --- Ismail region deported...

File Number : 249

Type of Material : List of Jewish Children, Reports, List of Orphan Children, List of Jews, List of Deportees, Deportation List, List of Communists, List of Ghetto/camp Inmates From Romania

Language : Romanian

Testimony of Sámuel Katz, born in Munkács, Czechoslovakia in 1922, regarding his experiences in the Munkács Ghetto and in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Jaworzno and Gleiwitz camps

Testimony of Sámuel Katz, born in Munkács, Czechoslovakia in 1922, regarding his experiences in the Munkács Ghetto and in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Jaworzno and Gleiwitz camps His detention as a Communist on 05/04/1944; transfer to the secret police [?]; deportation to the prison in the Munkács Ghetto, three days later; Munkács Ghetto life, in the prison; inmates receive abuse and torture, including the removal of inmates from the prison by SS soldiers, and the inmates are forced to beat each other for two hours (the event was called "sports" by the SS soldiers); return of the inmates to the prison, and their...

File Number : 2389

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

Testimony of Mendel Jutkovics, born in Herincse, Hungary, 1916, regarding his experiences in the Iza Ghetto and in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Goleszów, Sachsenhausen and Bergen-Belsen camps

Testimony of Mendel Jutkovics, born in Herincse, Hungary, 1916, regarding his experiences in the Iza Ghetto and in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Goleszów, Sachsenhausen and Bergen-Belsen camps Life [in a labor battalion] on the Eastern front, 1941; life in the Iza Ghetto; escape before the deportation to a forest together with five other Jews, May 1944; meeting other escapees from the ghetto; life in hiding in the forest for several weeks; obtaining false papers; escape to Huszt; capture there together with another man on account of being informed on; detention; transfer, in handcuffs, together with 50 other people,...

File Number : 2367

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

Testimony of Moshe Kanabel, born in Krasnobrod, Poland, 1923, regarding joining a partisan company and fighting in the Red Army during the war

Testimony

Testimony of Moshe Kanabel, born in Krasnobrod, Poland, 1923, regarding joining a partisan company and fighting in the Red Army during the war Childhood in Krasnobrod; life in the town before the war.The German occupation and the systematic extermination of the Jews beginning in 1940; murder of father and brother by Polish policemen; massacre of family members along with other Jews in the town bakery; escape to the forests and work for peasants in the villages of Pankow and another village for a year and a half; joining Russian partisans and fighting in the ranks of the partisans for a year and a half;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation of the Estonian Security Police, 1941 - 1944

Type of Material : List of Persecuted Persons, Police File, Correspondence

Language : Estonian, German

To be translated

File Number : 3106

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

Text of an interview with Mordechai Zandberg regarding his experiences in Kutno, in detention in Bialystok and Orsha, in Soviet labor camps, working in Uzbekistan and Kirgizstan, liberation and aliya to Israel Text of an interview with Mordechai Zandberg from Kutno regarding his experiences during the Holocaust; the testimony was given to Amit Dover in 1985 as part of a research paper on the Holocaust in Grade 9: From an observant family of merchants; youth movements and Jewish Parties in Kutno; religious life in Kutno; entry of the German Army into Kutno, 15 September 1939; move of Mordechai to Warsaw, and...

File Number : 9561

Type of Material : Interview(s)

Language : Hebrew