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Testimony of Meir Andrash Weiss, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1934, regarding the Budapest ghetto and hiding in the Jewish gymnasium under the auspices of a Hungarian officer

Testimony

Testimony of Meir Andrash Weiss, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1934, regarding the Budapest ghetto and hiding in the Jewish gymnasium under the auspices of a Hungarian officer Family background; his father owns a printing house; life before the war; studies in a Hungarian school; enlistment of his father to labor battalions, 1940; management of the family business by his mother. German occupation, 1944; duty to wear a yellow badge; dropping out of school; an attempt by his mother to flee to the province with the witness and his brother; ban on train travel; confiscation of printing machines in the family...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Nisim Cohen, born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 1930, regarding his experiences in Plovdiv and in Israel

Testimony

Testimony of Nisim Cohen, born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 1930, regarding his experiences in Plovdiv and in Israel His family's life; visit in Germany in the context of [his father's] work, 1938 [?]. Taking control of the factory by the authorities; continuation of the factory's management by his father; work permit given to his father during the post-curfew hours [?]; life in Plovdiv including the decree regarding wearing a yellow badge; help by the community to find hiding places for refugees from Greece; concentration of the community in preparation for their deportation, March 1943; cancellation of the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ernestina Suza (Poper) Sovak, born in Plzen, Czechoslovakia, 1935, regarding life in the Theresienstadt camp, 1942-1945

Testimony

Testimony of Ernestina Suza (Poper) Sovak, born in Plzen, Czechoslovakia, 1935, regarding life in the Theresienstadt camp, 1942-1945

File Number : 13323

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Itzhak Zolinger, born in Suceava, Romania, 1936, regarding his experiences as a child in Suceava, Atachi, Mogilev-Podolski and Murafa and more

Testimony

Testimony of Itzhak Zolinger, born in Suceava, Romania, 1936, regarding his experiences as a child in Suceava, Atachi, Mogilev-Podolski and Murafa and more Life before the war in Itzkany; Receiving an order to leave the house, 1940; march of the Swabs (German-Hungarians) in the direction of Germany; escape to Suceava; life in Suceava; transfer of the father to forced labor, 1941; reading a proclamation to report to the railroad station; deportation on a train to Atachi; life in Mogilev-Podolski including entry to destroyed homes; life in Murafa including stationing himself in an Ukrainian house; typhus;...

File Number : 13191

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Aharon Freinkel regarding his experiences in Druskininkai, the Grodno Ghetto, as a partisan in Marcikance and as a Red Army soldier

Testimony of Aharon Freinkel regarding his experiences in Druskininkai, the Grodno Ghetto, as a partisan in Marcinkance and as a Red Army soldier Liquidation of the Druskininkai community, August 1942; deportation of the Druskininkai Jews to the Kielbasin camp; escape from Druskininkai to the Grodno Ghetto; transfer from Grodno to the forest; organizing a partisan unit in the Marcinkance area; acts of revenge by the partisan unit; liberation by the Red Army, 12 July 1944. Combat as a Red Army soldier.

File Number : 111

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Various documents from Minsk Mazowiecki, Poland, from 1919-1945

Various documents from Minsk Mazowiecki, Poland, from 1919-1945 - Instruction of the German authorities from October 24, 1940 regarding the establishment of the ghetto in Minsk Mazowiecki; - A message from December 12, 1941 prohibiting Jews from leaving the ghetto in Minsk Mazowiecki; - A review by the mayor of Minsk Mazowiecki from July 25, 1945 on the crimes committed by the Germans against the Poles and the Jews during the occupation; - Documents of the Jews of Minsk Mazowiecki from the years 1919-1925.

File Number : 713

Type of Material : Testimony, Letter, Poster, Order

Language : Polish, German

Testimony of Alfred Goldstein, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1937, regarding deportation to Romania in 1941 due to statelessness

Testimony

Testimony of Alfred Goldstein, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1937, regarding deportation to Romania in 1941 due to statelessness Alfred Goldstein's parents were Romanian citizens; move of the family to Budapest in the 1930s; deportation order to Romania, 1941; marking of his passport with a sign that the bearer is Jewish; opposition of the Romanians to accepting them; waiting in the border area for several months; transfer to Caracal under limiting conditions; remaining in Romania after the liberation; denial of requests to be allowed to make aliya; aliya to Israel, 1970; absorption.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew