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Memoirs of Margaret (Shtein) Laks, regarding her experiences in Transylvania, Auschwitz and Plaszow

Memoirs of Margaret (Shtein) Laks, regarding her experiences in Transylvania, Auschwitz and Plaszow Jewish community life [in the Transylvania area] before the war; Annexation of [the] Transylvania [area] by the Hungarians; Jewish life in Transylvania including dismissal from work places; draft of her brother to forced labor; receiving information regarding the fate of the Jews of Germany and the Jews of Poland; theft of Jewish property; deportation of Jews to ghettos; ghetto life including the attitude of the Jews and the Hungarian gendarmerie; search by gendarmes with help from midwives for property...

File Number : 4154

Language : Hungarian

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File Number : 3693

Type of Material : Survey

Language : Polish

Testimony of Moniek Kaufman from Belchato regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto and Auschwitz-Birkenau on the first day of his arrival in the camp

Testimony of Moniek Kaufman from Belchato regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto and Auschwitz-Birkenau on the first day of his arrival in the camp The testimony was recorded as a diary after the liberation, in an attempt to recreate the atmosphere that prevailed at the time the events took place: life in the Lodz Ghetto from August 1942 to 28 August 1944; details of living conditions; terrible crowding in living spaces, organization for joint cooking and “inventing recipes” by people living in the same apartment, to make the most of the meager food allowance; using every available plot of land to grow...

File Number : 1311

Type of Material : Testimony, Memoirs

Language : Polish

Testimony of David Proektor, born in Zlatopol, Ukraine in the Soviet Union in 1922, regarding his experiences in Novo Mirogrod, in the Red Army in Leningrad and in Vladivostok

Testimony

Testimony of David Proektor, born in Zlatopol, Ukraine in the Soviet Union in 1922, regarding his experiences in Novo Mirogrod, in the Red Army in Leningrad and in Vladivostok His early childhood in Korobchino and childhood in Novo Mirogrod, in a secular family; hunger in Ukraine during the 1930s; studies in a state school in the city; his mother and sister remain in Ukraine; studies in an officer's academy in Leningrad in 1939; start of the war; draft into the Red Army; guarding the property of museums, and transfer to the rear by ship; arrival to Vladivostok; draft of his father into the Red Army; end of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian