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Testimony of Edith Tamar (Klein) Kodesh, born in Zurich, Switzerland, 1930, regarding her experiences in Mulhouse, Lyon and Switzerland

Testimony

Testimony of Edith Tamar (Klein) Kodesh, born in Zurich, Switzerland, 1930, regarding her experiences in Mulhouse, Lyon and Switzerland Life before the war; life in Mulhouse; draft of her father, who was of Czech origin, to a Czech brigade of the French Army, 1939. German occupation; escape to Lyon on foot, with her family; life in Lyon; receives help from the JDC to find housing; registration with the Red Cross in order to search for her father; attends a French school; release of her father from a POW camp with help from the Red Cross organization; obtains forged documents; illegally crosses the border...

File Number : 12992

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe Marton Fridman, born in Alsoregmec, Hungary, 1928, regarding his experiences in Mikohaza, Ujhely, Auschwitz-Birkenau; Rehmsdorf and Buchenwald

Testimony

Testimony of Moshe Marton Fridman, born in Alsoregmec, Hungary, 1928, regarding his experiences in Mikohaza, Ujhely, Auschwitz-Birkenau; Rehmsdorf and Buchenwald Life in Mikohaza. Outbreak of the war; increase in antisemitism including discrimination in school and damage to his father's livelihood; German occupation, March 1944; deportation to Ujhely; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; transfer to Buchenwald; transfer to Rehmsdorf; camp life including labor in a fuel refinery and his father's illness with typhus, winter 1944; transfer back to Buchenwald, January 1945; camp life as a political prisoner;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Leon Yehuda Klapholtz, born in Tesin, Czechoslovakia, 1922, regarding his experiences in Plaszow, Czestochowa, Buchenwald, Dachau and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Leon Yehuda Klapholtz, born in Tesin, Czechoslovakia, 1922, regarding his experiences in Plaszow, Czestochowa, Buchenwald, Dachau and other places Life before the war. German occupation, September 1939; escape to Brzesko with his grandfather; escape to Tarnow; escape to family in Krakow; attempt to escape to the Soviet Union with his father and brother via Lezajsk; capture by the Gestapo and arrest; work clearing out apartments of Jews; escape to Lwow; return to Poland, 1940; escape to Wisnicz; deportation to Plaszow with his brother, April, 1941; camp life including labor laying railroad...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Group testimony of 10 Hungarian women regarding their experiences in Munkacs, a brick factory, the Munkacs Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Hertine (Czechoslovakia) camp and Theresienstadt, recorded by the Degob Commission Group testimony by S. Welber, born in 1921, A. Welber, born in 1925, B. Welber, born in 1928, A. Tambor, born in 1927, S. Wettenstein, born in 1911, J. Gross, born in 1922, S. Klein, born in 1909, R. Fixler, born in 1922, L. Hoffmann, born in 1922 and D. Rottmann, born in 1917: Deportation from Munkacs and the surrounding villages to a brick factory at Munkacs; reasonable living quarters;...

File Number : 1

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Jenő Schwartz, born in Kistoronya, Czechoslovakia in 1928, regarding his experiences in the Sátoraljaújhely Ghetto and in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Warszawa, Dachau and Allach camps

Testimony of Jenő Schwartz, born in Kistoronya, Czechoslovakia in 1928, regarding his experiences in the Sátoraljaújhely Ghetto and in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Warszawa, Dachau and Allach camps Deportation of six out of the eight Jewish families from Kistoronya to Poland in 1941; transfer to the Sátoraljaújhely Ghetto in early April 1944; conduct of searches in homes before their deportation to the ghetto; 12,000 inmates are in the Sátoraljaújhely Ghetto; Sátoraljaújhely Ghetto life, including a soup kitchen; Jewish policemen are the supervisors inside the ghetto; conduct of searches for money and jewelry;...

File Number : 655

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

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File Number : 3095

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

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File Number : 2081

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

Testimony of Karla (Frenkel) Raveh, born in Lemgo, Germany, 1927, regarding her experiences in Lemgo, Cologne, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen and the Salzwedel camp

Testimony

Testimony of Karla (Frenkel) Raveh, born in Lemgo, Germany, 1927, regarding her experiences in Lemgo, Cologne, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen and the Salzwedel camp From a well-to-do, traditional family of businessmen; fur trade; wounding of her father while fighting in World War I; the only Jewish family in Lemgo; attitude of the local population; abuse and detention of some of the members of her family on Kristallnacht, November 1938; move to Cologne; attendance at a Jewish school; deportation of members of her family to Warsaw; deaths of members of her family from starvation; deportation of members of her...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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File Number : 1230

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

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