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Testimony of Moshe Arno Porat Frish, born in Hajdunanas, Hungary in 1931 regarding his deportation to camps in Austria.

Testimony of Moshe Porat Frish, born in Hajdunanas, Hungary in 1931 He was born in an orthodox family; his father's recruitment in a labor battalion in 1943; imposing restrictions on the family business; disbelief in the rumors about the murder of Jews; concentration of the Jews of Hajdunanas in the brick factory in Debrecen for deportation in April 1944; bar mitzvah in the ghetto; deportation by convoy to Austria; death of people in the wagons; life in the camp in Vienna; working in construction; hospitalization of his brother and sister ; death march; the soldiers'abuse of the marchers; life in the...

File Number : 13744

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ida Aptelon née Zal, born in 1924 in Kelem, Lithuania, about her experiences in the Siauliai ghetto, the Stutthof camp, and other camps during the war

Testimony

Moves to Siauliai in 1929; receives antisemitic remarks; joins the Netsah (Zionist Pioneer Youth) movement; Soviet occupation; movement shut dow by Soviet authorities in 1940; German occupation ensues in 1941; deported to the ghetto in September 1941; life in the ghetto; assigned to forced labor; arrested by the Gestapo for smuggling food; brother murdered in a children's Aktion; ghetto liquidated in July 1944; family deported to Stutthof; digging antitank ditches in Elbing; camp evacuated in January 1945; liberation by Red Army forces in Kolkau; mother dies upon liberation; immigration to Israel in 1948;...

File Number : 13639

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avigdor Elboim, born in Krasnik, Poland, in 1930, regarding his experiences as a young boy in Krasnik, in the Budzyn, Radom Auschwitz and other camps

Testimony of Avigdor Elboim, born in Krasnik, Poland,in 1930, regarding his experiences as a young boy in Krasnik; in the Budzyn, Radom, Auschwitz camps and others, Life before the war; he came from a traditional family; his grandfather had connections with the Lublin"yeshiva"; German occupation in 1939; executions as the Germans started occupying Poland; building of the Budzyn camp; he works as an apprentice glazier; deportation with his family to Budzyn; life in the camp; "Aktionen" and murder of his parents; murder of his grandfather before his eyes; murder of his sisters and grandmother; rescue by German...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chana Shlomo Hazan, born in 1937 in La Soukra, Tunisia, about the war years in Tunisia

Testimony

Testimony of Chana Shlomo Hazan, born in 1937 in La Soukra, Tunisia, about the war years in Tunisia Family life in La Soukra; father's connections with the French forces in Tunis; good relations with the population; German forces arrive; Allied bombardments; the French advise the witness's father to go into hiding; family moves to a farm out of town; father poses as a retired French officer; hosting German officers at home; father does haulage tasks for the Free French forces in 1942–1945; family hides at home; listening to Voice of the Free French broadcasts; Germans search for British soldiers; British...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Victor Arish Yehuda, born in Tunis, Tunisia, 1929, regarding his experiences during the war in Hammam Lif

Testimony of Victor Arish Yehuda, born in Tunis, Tunisia, 1929, regarding his experiences during the war in Hammam Lif Family background, traditional home; move to Hammam Lif. German occupation, November 1942; confiscation of radio; property robbery; taking his father to forced labor; hosting families who fled Tunis. Liberation, May 1943; enlistment into the French army, February 1945; release from the French Army, 1948; aliya to Israel, 1949; absorption and rehabilitation.

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Joseph Schlesinger, born in Rozan, Poland, 1935, regarding the murder of Rozan Jews and escape to the USSR

Testimony

Testimony of Joseph Schlesinger, born in Rozan, Poland, 1935, regarding the murder of Rozan Jews and escape to the USSR Family background, Orthodox family. The outbreak of war; entry of German soldiers into the town, September 1939; deportation from homes; the concentration of Jews in the synagogue courtyard; setting the synagogue on fire; shooting at fugitives; hiding the witness and his family in the forest; transfer to the Makow Mazowiecki ghetto; assistance of a German officer in escaping from the ghetto; escape towards the Russian border; crossing the Bug River in a boat; arrival in the city of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Nakhum Buki Landman ben-Artzi, born in 1931 in Roman, Romania, about his deportation to Transnistria and rescue of orphans from Transnistria

Life in Czernowitz in 1941; deportation lists; deportation to Transnistria; forced march to the Teplik camp; crossing the River Bug; mother makes an unsuccessful escape attempt; Aktion against children and the elderly in the camp; surviving by hiding; liquidation of the camp; survival with help from a Wehrmacht soldier; interned in the Bershad ghetto; parents murdered in Krasno Polska; the orphans return to Iasi in 1943; witness attempts to trace relatives; studies in Bucharest; illegal immigration to Eretz Israel aboard the Medinat Hayehudim; deportation to Cyprus; back to Eretz Israel; rehabilitation and...

File Number : 13409

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shmuel Sami Troper, born in Strasbourg, France, 1931, regarding his experiences in Strasbourg and Le Chatre

Testimony

Testimony of Shmuel Sami Troper, born in Strasbourg, France, 1931, regarding his experiences in Strasbourg and Le Chatre His parents were originally from Poland; receipt of French citizenship; life in Strasbourg. Transfer of the residents of the Alsace region to Vichy; German Army occupation of France, 1940; decision [by his family] to move to Le Chatre;; life in a house owned by the Church in La Chatre including the confiscation of transportation vehicles by the Germans; "Aktions"; receipt of advance knowledge regarding the "Aktions"; in hiding in a local clubhouse during an "Aktion"; rescue;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Malka Montzi (Verber) Frierich, born in Kosice Mesto, Czechoslovakia, 1922, regarding her experiences in Kosice Mesto, Auschwitz and Peterswaldau

Testimony

Testimony of Malka Montzi (Verber) Frierich, born in Kosice Mesto, Czechoslovakia, 1922, regarding her experiences in Kosice Mesto, Auschwitz and Peterswaldau Her childhood in a religious family. Hungarian Army invasion of Kosice Mesto, 1939; German Army occupation of Kosice Mesto, 1944; concentration [of Jews] in the synagogue; concentration [of Jews] in a brick factory; labor in a kitchen in the ghetto; collection of money and jewelry [by the Germans]; deportation [of Jews] to Auschwitz; camp life including selections; transfer to Peterswaldau camp; camp life including labor producing weapons and...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Justus Michael Dolgoruki Schacht, born in Berlin, Germany, 1919, regarding his experiences in Berlin, Breslau, in service in the German Army and in Munich and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Justus Michael Dolgoruki Schacht, born in Berlin, Germany, 1919, regarding his experiences in Berlin, Breslau, in service in the German Army and in Munich and other places His childhood in Berlin with a Jewish mother and Catholic father; his parents divorce; move with his mother and younger brother to his mother's parents in Breslau; life with his grandfather and grandmother until 1937; Nazi rise to power, 1933; acts of harassment in the school; move to his father in Berlin; help by his father to obtain documents and a place of livelihood with an anti-Nazi, religious farmer; life with the farmer...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

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