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Testimony of Simcah Edit (Fisher) Avrahami, born in Farkasd, Hungary, 1929, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau and in a labor camp near Reichenbach

Testimony

Testimony of Simcah Edit (Fisher) Avrahami, born in Farkasd, Hungary, 1929, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau and in a labor camp near Reichenbach Childhood in the town of Overcane. Deportation of the family to Auschwitz-Birkenau, April 1944; her father's labor in the camp; three sisters and her mother are rescued from extermination; deportation to a labor camp near Reichenbach; liberation, May 1945. Aliya to Eretz Israel, 1946; enlisting in the Palmach, 1948.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Julious Iancu, born in Bacau, Romania, 1920, regarding his experiences as a forced laborer in labor battalions

Testimony

Testimony of Julious Iancu, born in Bacau, Romania, 1920, regarding his experiences as a forced laborer in labor battalions Life in a religious family of craftsmen. Outbreak of the war; anti-Jewish restrictions; draft to labor battalions, 1941; labor clearing rubble; labor laying railroad tracks; publication of knowledge in daily newspapers and BBC broadcasts regarding the extermination of Jews in extermination camps; liberation by the Red Army, August 1944; eviction from their home; move to Bucharest. Life after the war; aliya to Israel, 1964.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

To be translated

File Number : 10273

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English