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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

Memoirs of Gavriel Goldstein Avni, born in Oradea, Romania, 1923, regarding his experiences during the war, including a summary of his experiences before the war

Memoirs of Gavriel Goldstein Avni, born in Oradea, Romania, 1923, regarding his experiences during the war, including a summary of his experiences before the war Life in Bihor; death of his father, 1933; move to Oradea; learns Torah; attends an elementary school including studies in a Jewish high school in the afternoon; learns knitting in order to help earn the family's livelihood. German Army occupation of Hungary, 1944; life under German occupation including the imposition of decrees, obligation to wear a yellow badge, ban on entry into [public] places, and taxes; [deportation to the] ghetto; ghetto...

File Number : 8554

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

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File Number : 13649

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Joseph Hofman, born in Hajduszoboszlo, Hungary, 1924, regarding his experiences in Budapest and labor battalions in Nagykata, on a death march, Gunskirchen and more

Testimony

Testimony of Joseph Hofman, born in Hajduszoboszlo, Hungary, 1924, regarding his experiences in Budapest, labor battalions in Nagykata, on a death march, Gunskirchen and more From a religious family; early childhood; death of his father from an illness, 1932; move to live with his grandparents in Hajduhadhaz; learns in a yeshiva in Volove; move to Budapest, after aproximately a year, 1938; life in Budapest, until 1944. German occupation, March 1944; concentration in the Budapest Ghetto; ghetto life for approximately one month; drafted to a labor battalion in the Nagykata area; labor logging trees and...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Cvi Elimelech Feintuch born in Huedin, Romania, 1918, regarding his experiences in Huedin, in a labor battalion in Ukraine, Budapest, Wiener Neustadt and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Cvi Elimelech Feintuch born in Huedin, Romania, 1918, regarding his experiences in Huedin, in a labor battalion in Ukraine, Budapest, Wiener Neustadt and other places Life before the war; from a religious family; student riots, 1927; preparations for aliya to Eretz Israel, 1938; drafted into the Romanian Army, 1939. Re-annexation of Romania to Hungary, 1940; restrictions on the Jews; transfer to a labor battalion, 1942; transfer from place to place in Romania with the labor battalion; forced labor; transfer to Hungary; transfer to Ukraine; forced labor; transfer to prison, December 1943;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Lili (Gros) Kovach Kutas Foldenyi, born in Debrecen, Hungary, 1913, regarding her experiences in Budapest, Kophaza and Lichtenwoerth

Testimony

Testimony of Lili (Gros) Kovach Kutas Foldenyi, born in Debrecen, Hungary, 1913, regarding her experiences in Budapest, Kophaza and Lichtenwoerth Life in Debrecen; her father's death; move to Budapest; marriage, 1938; work in a factory. German occupation, March 1944; anti-Jewish legislation including yellow badge; deportation to a brick factory; transfer on foot in the direction of Kophaza; transfer to Lichtenwoerth; life in an empty factory including illnesses and hunger; air-raids; liberation by the Red Army. Return home; rehabilitation of her life under a Communist regime; aliya to Israel, 1956.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

Testimony of David Gyorgy Veis Doron, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1931, regarding his experiences as a child in the Budapest Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of David Gyorgy Veis Doron, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1931, regarding his experiences as a child in the Budapest Ghetto Life before the war; religious family; displays of antisemitism. German occupation, March 1944; escape to his aunt's home; deportation to the Budapest Ghetto by members of the Arrow Cross movement; Budapest Ghetto life including the deportation of his mother on a death march to Austria; air-raids on Budapest by the Allied forces; labor clearing rubble; liberation by the Red Army, January 1945. Return to his aunt's apartment; reunion with his mother, 1946; move to Vienna...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Agnes (Hadinger) Radian, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1925, regarding her experiences in Budapest and Borgond

Testimony

Testimony of Agnes (Hadinger) Radian, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1925, regarding her experiences in Budapest and Borgond Life before the war; traditional family; move to Brazil, 1930; return to Hungary, 1937; life in Hungary including the revocation of her father's business license, 1941; displays of antisemitism; arrival of refugees from Austria, 1942. German occupation, 19 March 1944; anti-Jewish restrictions including the yellow badge; deportation to the Budapest Ghetto, 10 May 1944; life in Budapest including labor in a weaving factory; robbery of valuables; receives knowledge regarding the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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