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Testimony of Erna Vera (Siha) Veinshtein, born in Subotica, Yugoslavia, 1929, regarding her experiences in Novi Sad, while using a false identity, in Budapest and Israel

Testimony

Testimony of Erna Vera (Siha) Veinshtein, born in Subotica, Yugoslavia, 1929, regarding her experiences in Novi Sad, while using a false identity, in Budapest and Israel Life in Novi Sad under Hungarian rule, 1941; registered as a Catholic by her Catholic father who converted to Christianity before the war; attends a school administered by Catholic nuns, 1941; murder of Jews in Novi Sad by Hungarian soldiers during the large Razzia (round-up); life with her parents while using a false identity as a Catholic, with the help of forged documents; deportation of her mother's family to the Subotica Ghetto, 1943;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Georgette Dandi (Braun) Goldstein, born in Domoszlo, Hungary, 1925

Testimony

Testimony of Georgette Dandi (Braun) Goldstein, born in Domoszlo, Hungary, 1925 Childhood in the Domoszlo village; high school studies and living together with her sister at her aunt's house in Eger, 1938; life under anti-Jewish laws and increasing displays of antisemitism. German occupation, 1944; eviction and life with her sister in the Eger Ghetto; meeting with her parents and her other sister in the transit camp in the area, 1944; deportation to Auschwitz, 1944; deportation to a labor camp and labor in a weapons production factory in Allendorf, Germany, 1944; death march towards Kassel, Germany, 1945;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chava Eva (Sabadosh) Klugman, born in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia, 1937, regarding her experiences as a child using a false identity, in a protected house and in the Budapest Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Hava Eva (Sabadosh) Klugman, born in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia, 1937, regarding her experiences as a child using a false identity, in a protected house and in the Budapest Ghetto Childhood in a secular, Neolog home; her father owns a workshop for antique furniture; attends a Montessori kindergarten. Travel to Budapest by her father for business, 1944, and drafted to forced labor; being smuggled with her mother to Budapest; meeting her father; receipt of an identity card from a Christian woman; visiting a church; wanderings among different houses in Budapest; her mother's capture and deportation to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Maria (Steiner) Cohen, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1934, regarding her experiences in Budapest, in a protected house and on a death march

Testimony

Testimony of Maria (Steiner) Cohen, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1934, regarding her experiences in Budapest, in a protected house and on a death march From a traditional Neolog Zionist family; education in a Hebrew school; Hanoar Hatzioni activities. Outbreak of the war; drafting of her father and brother to forced labor; deportation of her father to Auschwitz and his murder; her brother's escape from labor camps and from detention by the Gestapo; German occupation, March 1944; restrictions on Jews; murder of Jews; brutal treatment by the Hungarian gendarmes; attitude of the Hungarian population; Allied...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe Kandel, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in the Budapest Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Moshe Kandel, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in the Budapest Ghetto Life before the war; from a Neolog family; attends Jewish schools; numerus clausus; Deportation of his father to a labor battalion; disappearance of his father; meets refugees from Poland; German occupation, March 1944; imposition of restrictions on Jews including the yellow badge; confiscation of Jewish homes; concentration of Jews in marked houses (with a Star of David); rise to power of the Arrow Cross; murder of Jews in the Danube River; deportation of Jews including his mother to...

File Number : 13234

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Edith (Veis) Rothschild, born in Balassagyarmat, Hungary, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Balassagyarmat Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Oberhohenelbe

Testimony

Testimony of Edith (Veis) Rothschild, born in Balassagyarmat, Hungary, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Balassagyarmat Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Oberhohenelbe Life before the war; the Jewish community. Discriminatory laws, 1938; effect of the laws on the Jews; drafting of her father and brother to forced labor at service jobs; arrival of refugees in the town; German occupation, March 1944; her mother's hospitalization in a hospital in Budapest; deportation to the Balassagyarmat Ghetto, 1944; ghetto life; guarding of the ghetto by Hungarian gendarmes; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau by train;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Lily (Fleishman) Kremer, born in Pribeta, Czechoslovakia, 1929, regarding her experiences in the Komarno Ghetto, Plaszow, Auschwitz, Muehldorf, Augsburg and in hiding

Testimony

Testimony of Lily (Fleishman) Kremer, born in Pribeta, Czechoslovakia, 1929, regarding her experiences in the Komarno Ghetto, Plaszow, Auschwitz, Muehldorf, Augsburg and in hiding From a Neolog family. Outbreak of the war; work for a farmer in order to avoid deportation; informed on; deportation to the Komarno Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; robbery of valuables on the train; transfer to Plaszow; transfer to Auschwitz; camp life including suffering from hunger and cold; transfer to Muehldorf; clearing away rubble from air-raids; transfer to Augsburg; camp life including labor in a Messerschmitt aircraft...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Yitzhak Yulius Cohen, born in Aranos Na Zitnom Ostrove, Czechoslovakia, 1922, regarding his experiences in a labor battalion in Komarno and on the Austro-Hungarian border and in Mauthausen Life before the war; education; move to Komarno; life in Komarno including Maccabi Hatzair and Beitar activities. Ban on youth movement activities; deportation to a labor battalion; life in the labor battalion including training and forced labor; flooding of the camp and damage to property; meets Jews on a march from Budapest to Austria; explosion in a railroad station and labor evacuating the injured;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Menachem Kestenbaum, born in Puspokladany, Hungary, 1933, regarding his experiences as a child in the Puspokladany Ghetto, Debrecen, Strasshof, Kienberg and other places

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Testimony of Menachem Kestenbaum, born in Puspokladany, Hungary, 1933, regarding his experiences as a child in the Puspokladany Ghetto, Debrecen, Strasshof, Kienberg and other places Life before the war; hasidic family; displays of antisemitism, 1943. German occupation, March 1944; termination of studies; yellow badge; confiscation of valuables; deportation of people lacking Hungarian citizenship; deportation to the Puspokladany Ghetto, May 1944; Puspokladany Ghetto life including observance of the Shavuot holiday; transfer to Debrecen; life in Debrecen including his mother having a miscarriage;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Katalin (Shomogi) Reisfeld, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1925, regarding her experiences in Budapest, Austria, Ravensbrueck and Penig

Testimony

Testimony of Katalin (Shomogi) Reisfeld, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1925, regarding her experiences in Budapest, Austria, Ravensbrueck and Penig From a well-to-do Neolog family; attends a Jewish school. German occupation, 19 March 1944; closure of the family store; labor in a Hungarian factory producing work clothes for the German Army; transfer to a marked house; deportation of the witness' father to a labor camp; her father's escape and return home; deportation to Austria on foot; transfer back to Budapest, November 1944; attempt to convert with help from a Catholic priest; deportation to Ravensbrueck...

File Number : 12923

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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