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Testimony of Shoshana Zuzi Zhuzha (Polak) Levinger, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1932 regarding her experiences in Budapest in a marked house, in the ghetto and in a children's home

Testimony

Childhood in a secular family; living in various towns due to her father's work; good relations with Christians; Move to Budapest, summer 1942 or 1943; drafting of her father into a labor battalion, probably early 1944; German occupation, March 1944; air-raids; move to a marked house; move to a protected house; eviction of all the residents by members of the Arrow Cross Party, her father arrived in an army uniform and took her out of the group; continued life in the ghetto with many children; staying in shelter most of the time; liberation by the Red Army, January 1945; Joining Youth Aliyah; aliya to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shlomo Tibor Rosenthal, born in Miskolc, Hungary, 1928 regarding his experiences in the ghetto and the labor battalion in Hungary

Testimony

From an Orthodox family; learns in a heder and a Jewish school; prohibition on ritual slaughter; closing of the family butcher shop; German occupation, March 1944; His house within the ghetto area; drafting of his father and brother to a labor battalion; transfer to a brick factory; entlists into the labor battalions on the advice of a Hungarian officer; liberation by the Red Army; Return home; reunion with his two sisters; activity in the Bnei Akiva movement; move with a group of children to a children's home in Budapest; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1948.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Eduard Fosner, born 1927 in Bucharest, Romania, about expulsion to the Oradea ghetto, deportation to Auschwitz and other camps, death march, and escape

Testimony

Testimony of Eduard Fosner, born in Bucharest, Romania, in 1927 , regarding expulsion to the Oradea ghetto, deportation to Auschwitz and other camps, death march, and escape Childhood before the war; transfer to Oradea in 1938; entry of the Hungarians in 1940; expulsion from school; anti-Jewish legislation ; service in the Levente Association; German occupation in 1944; order to wear yellow badge, and other orders; expulsion to the ghetto in May 1944; deportation to Birkenau; hunger; roll-calls and selections; transfer to Buchenwald for a brief time and from there to Magdeburg; labor in rebuilding and...

File Number : 13773

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Miriam Roth née Kaf, born in 1930 in Vinkovci, Yugoslavia, about her experiences in the Baja ghetto and with her twin sister in the "Mengele's twins" barracks in Auschwitz

Life with an identical twin sister; childhood in Vojvodina; Hungary re-annexes the area in 1941; father inducted into labor brigades; connection with father lost; livelihood hardships and placement with mother's family in the countryside; German occupation ensues in 1944; Jewish community rounded up, deported to the Baja ghetto, and placed in a brickyard; deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau on May 28, 1944; twins separated in a selection; witness placed in the "Mengele's twins" barracks; undergoes frequent blood tests; receives help at the hospital; evacuation order issued in January 1945; finding a hiding place in...

File Number : 13585

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mordechay (Paul Georg) Fleischer, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1926 regarding his escape to Budapest, deportation to detention camps, escape from a death march and residing in the Glass House

Testimony

Childhood before the war; Fascist Slovakia, 1938; antisemitic events; Attempts to move to Budapest, Hungary, winter 1942-1943; getting arrested by Hungarian soldiers while escaping; sent back to Slovakia; escape to Hungary with the aid of a smuggler; arrival in Budapest; capture and arrest; decrees and restrictions; transferred to a prison by two Hungarian soldiers; deportation to a brick factory; escape to a marked house; capture and deportation for labor building fortifications and digging anti-tank trenches near Solnok, late October 1944; march towards Austria; escape to the Red Cross house in Budapest...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Judit (Kraus) Lahav, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1930 regarding the move of her family to Komarom, deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, additional camps and death march

Testimony

Childhood before the war; annexation of Slovakia by Nazi Germany, 1938; move of her family to Komarom, Hungary; Drafting of her father to labor battalions; increase in antisemitism; German invasion, 19 March 1944; anti-Jewish legislation; deportation for a short time to a citadel in the city that became a ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; selection and transfer to Plaszow; labor paving roads; return to Auschwitz for a short time and from there to Rochlitz for labor in a factory producing airplane parts; transfer to Calw to an airplane factory; death march to Buching; liberation, late April...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Postcard sent to Mórné [Ilona] Weisz in Budapest by her two sons, György Weisz and Tibor Weisz, who were living an International Red Cross children's home in Budapest, 21 December 1944

Postcard sent to Mórné [Ilona] Weisz in Budapest by her two sons, György Weisz and Tibor Weisz, who were living an International Red Cross children's home in Budapest, 21 December 1944 Notes from Aharon Weisz, who submitted the material: Mór and Ilona Weisz lived in Budapest together with their sons Aharon, born in 1926, who submitted the material, and Avri, born in 1930. Mór Weisz was born in Ürmény, Czechoslovakia in 1895, and moved to Budapest in the 1920s; he received a draft notice to report for service in a labor battalion in Jászberény in 1943. He was transferred to a number of labor camps and...

File Number : 2202

Type of Material : Postcard

Language : Hungarian

Postcards sent by Béla Weisz to his wife Béláné (Rosa) Weisz in Budapest during his service in Hungarian army labor battalions in Kosd and Vácz, May 1944

Postcards sent by Béla Weisz to his wife Béláné (Rosa) Weisz in Budapest during his service in Hungarian army labor battalions in Kosd and Vácz, May 1944 Notes from Agnes Weisz, who submitted the material: Béla Weisz was born in Körmend, Hungary in 1903. When he was 20 years old, he was accepted for work in a bank in Budapest, and there he met his future wife, Rosa. Their daughter Agnes, who submitted the material, was born in 1931, and their son in 1938. During the war, Béla was deported for forced labor. In September 1944, he was transferred to Bor, Yugoslavia where he worked in a coal mine. En...

File Number : 2200

Type of Material : Postcard

Language : Hungarian

Testimony of Edita Alon Carl Shultz, born in Kosice, Czechoslovakia, in 1920 regarding the Kosice ghetto and her rescue in Budapest.

-About the family; transition to Hungarian ruling in 1939; she married a Jewish doctor, a refugee from Czechoslovakia in 1940; recruitment with protection to a unit of Hungarian doctors in 1941; confiscation of the shop owned by the family; expropriation of a room for the benefit of a Hungarian officer; German occupation in 1944; his mother was arrested for interrogation; confiscation of jewelry; deportation to the ghetto ; she got permission to reunite with her husband; rescue; moving to Budapest; birth of a son, starvation; double suicide attempt and rescue; hiding in the Jewish hospital; murder by people...

File Number : 13695

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Regev Yisrael Gerber, born in Mukacevo, Czechoslovakia, in 1927, regarding the Garan camp, Slovakia.

Testimony

Childhood in Mukacevo; Hebrew school founded and managed by his father; life under Hungarian ruling in 1938; they received a deportation order according to which the whole family was to leave Hungary within 30 days because they didn't have a Hungarian nationality; at the same time his father got a recruitment order for the labor service within the Hungarian army in 1940;his father's service in the labour service during 9 months; return of his father and deportation of the family to the Garan detention camp, Slovakia in 1941; ( because they didn't have a Hungarian nationality); stay in the camp for a few months;...

File Number : 13774

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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