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Documentation regarding the activities of Ladislav László Sedivy, a Calvinist priest from Nyitra, on his baptizing 720 Jews from Nyitra and the surrounding areas, 1939-1943

Documentation regarding the activities of Ladislav László Sedivy, a Calvinist priest from Nyitra, on his baptizing 720 Jews from Nyitra and the surrounding areas, 1939-1943 - Letters from the Slovak Interior Ministry and the Ustredna Statnej Bezpečnosti (USB - Central State Security) in Slovakia regarding the activities against the State of Ladislav László Sedivy, the Calvinist priest from Nyitra, in baptizing Jews from Nyitra and the surrounding areas, 1939-1943); - Detention in a prison in Ilava, 1942, - Pleas by his wife to release him and the priest's commitment not to commit any more acts against...

File Number : 136

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Investigation Reports, Official Documentation, Documentary, Telegram, List of Persecuted Persons, Letter

Language : Slovak, English, Hungarian

Memoirs of Yehuda Shlomi, born in Kosice Mesto, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Kosice Ghetto, Auschwitz, Wolfsberg, on a death march and Ebensee

Memoirs of Yehuda Shlomi, born in Kosice Mesto, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Kosice Ghetto, Auschwitz, Wolfsberg, on a death march and Ebensee Life in the Kosice Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; stay in Auschwitz for a few days; transfer to Wolfsberg; life in Wolfsberg including labor in a quarry, cold and floggings; 20 day death march to Czechoslovakia; transfer to Ebensee; life in Ebensee including forced labor and hunger; liberation by the US Army.

File Number : 8250

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Report on Auschwitz, 1944, and personal documentation of Benzion Kalb, 1943-1968

Report on Auschwitz, 1944, and personal documentation of Benzion Kalb, 1943-1968 - Number of inmates in the transports according to country of origin; list of Jews from Slovakia who were interned in Auschwitz, early April 1944; report written by two Slovak Jews who escaped from Auschwitz, 1944; - Letters received by Benzion Kalb in Kezmarok during the war from persons actively working with Kalb in rescuing the Jews of Poland; - Letter sent by Rabbi Weissmandl to Benzion Kalb with a request to hide the children who were rescued in homes of non-Jews; non-compliance of the request by Benzion Kalb; -...

File Number : 130

Type of Material : List of Camp Inmates, Article, Letter, List of Jewish Survivors, Documentary, Survey Report

Language : Hebrew, Polish, German, Yiddish

Testimony of Tova Edit (Manheimer) Glazer, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1929, regarding her experiences while using a false identity and in Auschwitz and Jelenia Gora camps

Testimony

Testimony of Tova Edit (Manheimer) Glazer, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1929, regarding her experiences while using a false identity and in Auschwitz and Jelenia Gora camps Religious family with six children; her father was a travel agent; antisemitic riots before the war. Move with her family to Nitra, 1941; receives Aryan documents; work as a nanny while her family was in hiding; rescue from the deportation of the Nitra Jews due to the intervention of the Hlinka Guard organization, 1942; work while using a false identity in order to earn a livelihood for her parents, until 1944; escape from a...

File Number : 8376

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zvi Robert Bornstein, born in Presov, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding his experiences in hiding while using a false identity and his participation in the Slovak National Uprising

Testimony

Testimony of Zvi Robert Bornstein, born in Presov, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding his experiences in hiding while using a false identity and his participation in the Slovak National Uprising His father was an iron merchant; witness attends the Evangelical high school until the 1939-1940 school year; vocational studies after the expulsion of the Jews from schools; transfer of property to Christians. Leaking of plans regarding the Jews by the local commander in exchange for a bribe; purchase of a Slovakian passport for his sister and her move to Budapest; membership in the Hashomer Hatzair movement; life...

File Number : 8419

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avraham Bergmann, born in Komarno, Czechoslovakia, 1912, regarding his experiences in Komarno and as a forced laborer on the Soviet front

Testimony

Testimony of Avraham Bergmann, born in Komarno, Czechoslovakia, 1912, regarding his experiences in Komarno and as a forced laborer on the Soviet front Life before the war. Resistance against the fascist riots, 1939; anti-Jewish decrees, 1938-1940; forced labor on the Soviet front, 1942-1943; escape to Romania by ship, 1943.

File Number : 8038

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

Protocol of the Deutsche Partei (German Party), regarding relations between the Hungarians, Germans and Slovakians, 1939

File Number : 34

Type of Material : Protocol

Language : German

Testimony of Emanuel Vaks, born in Kosice, Slovakia, 1909, regarding his experiences in the labor battalions in Putnok, Ukraine, Novgorod-Severskiy, Linz and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Emanuel Vaks, born in Kosice, Slovakia, 1909, regarding his experiences in the labor battalions in Putnok, Ukraine, Novgorod-Severskiy, Linz and other places Life before the war; Jewish and Zionist activities; move to Rimavska-Sobota, 1931. Re-annexation to Hungary, 1938; denied a livelihood and receives a deportation notice because of the family's Polish origin; efforts to evade deportation, 1940; drafted to labor battalions in Putnok, May 1942; transfer to the Ukraine; life in the Ukraine including forced labor for the TODT organization; transfer of the labor battalion to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Lea Grinvald, born in Vranov Nad Toplou, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding her experiences in Michalovce and while in hiding

Testimony

Testimony of Lea Grinvald, born in Vranov Nad Toplou, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding her experiences in Michalovce and while in hiding Her childhood. Revocation of Jews' rights and confiscation of Jewish property in Slovakia, 1938; escape to relatives in Michalovce following the start of deportations of Slovakian youth to extermination, March 1942; unsuccessful attempts to cross the border into Hungary; life in the open in Michalovce until spring 1944; transfer to Levoca with the approach of the Soviet front; finds shelter with a Christian family in Odorica, with the resumption of the transports; German...

File Number : 7195

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Julius Heler, born in Ersekujvar, Hungary, 1908, regarding his experiences in prison due to his help to Yugoslavian partisans

Testimony

Testimony of Julius Heler, born in Ersekujvar, Hungary, 1908, regarding his experiences in prison due to his help to Yugoslavian partisans Life before the war; medical university studies in Bratislava and internship in Zilina; antisemitism in Slovakia, 1928-1929; move to Austria, 1937. Return to Hungary following the "belonging law" and anti-Jewish legislation; draft to a labor battalion; life in the labor battalion including forced labor dragging stones, 1940; contact with the Yugoslavian partisans; transfer of equipment and medicine to the partisans for two years; arrested for his help to the partisans;...

File Number : 7070

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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