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Testimony of Miriam Maria-Ana (Hegedus) Benedek, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1929, regarding her experiences in Budapest

Testimony

Testimony of Miriam Maria-Ana (Hegedus) Benedek, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1929, regarding her experiences in Budapest Assimilated family; her father is a manager in a yeast and liquor factory. Outbreak of the war, 1939; restrictions on the Jews; dismissal of her father from work; eviction from their home, June 1944; transfer to a marked house; life in the marked house; draft of her father to forced labor; receives a Swedish protection certificate, October 1944; escape with the help of her father to a shelter under the protection of Sweden; life during the air-raids; transfer on foot to the Danube River;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Correspondence and reports of the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington, the US State Department and US diplomatic legations in Europe regarding relief for Jews, also following liberation, primarily in Hungary, and rescue attempts, 1944 Included in the file: Volume 1 (pages 1-105): Pages 1-2: Letter from the US consul in Istanbul to the US State Department in Washington, notifying of the illegal entry into Hungary of thousands of Jews from the neighboring countries, 23 December 1943; Pages 3-7: Letter from the US consul in Istanbul to the US State Department including the testimony of a Polish...

File Number : 112

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Telegram, Survey Report, Statistical Data

Language : English

Telegrams and correspondence of the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington and various US Embassies regarding matters related to Sweden, 1944

Telegrams and correspondence of the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington and various US Embassies regarding matters related to Sweden, 1944 Page 1: Telegram from the War Refugee Board (WRB) to Johnson and Olsen in Sweden, transmitted via the US Embassy in Stockholm, with a request to intensify diplomatic activity on behalf of Hungary following reports that mass exterminations had begun there, 23 May 1944; Pages 2-3: Telegram from the WRB to the US Embassy in Ankara regarding assistance from the Swedish Government in attempting to convince the Germans to permit the transfer of refugees from Constanza to...

File Number : 110

Type of Material : Telegram, Official Documentation

Language : English

Testimony of Aladar Somlo, born in Szeged, Hungary, 1890, regarding his experiences in Budapest and the Pest Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Aladar Somlo, born in Szeged, Hungary, 1890, regarding his experiences in Budapest and the Pest Ghetto Community life in Sannicolau Mare and the community in Timisoara between World War I and World War II. Deportation to Hungary, 1941; volunteers for public labor; contacts with the Swiss consul, Carl Lutz (later recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations); contacts with the embassy man, Raoul Wallenberg (later recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations); German occupation; anti-Jewish decrees in Budapest; rescue from the deportation of Pest Jews, 30 November 1944; return to the Pest Ghetto;...

File Number : 3431

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : German

Testimony of Laszlo Antal, born in Nyiregyhaza, Hungary, 1913, regarding his experiences in the underground and rescue activities in Budapest

Testimony

Testimony of Laszlo Antal, born in Nyiregyhaza, Hungary, 1913, regarding his experiences in the underground and rescue activities in Budapest Work as a lawyer in Budapest before the war. Establishment and administration of a Jewish children's institution; activities of his father-in-law Miklos Kertesz, a member of the Hungarian parliament, with Raoul Wallenberg to give Swedish protective passports to Jews; objection by Danielson, the Swedish ambassador; Kertesz convinces Danielson to agree; establishment of a children's institution, October 1944; institution activities under International Red Cross...

File Number : 3367

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Alexander Stern, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1901, regarding his experiences in labor battalions at the front in the Soviet Union and the Swedish Embassy in Budapest

Testimony

Testimony of Alexander Stern, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1901, regarding his experiences in labor battalions at the front in the Soviet Union and the Swedish Embassy in Budapest Witness's father is the head of the Orthodox Jewish community in Budapest; university studies; expulsion from the university due to the numerus clausus; work on the stock market; move to Berlin; life in Berlin; return to Budapest, 1940. Drafted to a labor battalion; transfer to the front in the Soviet Union, 1941; release; transfer back to Budapest; life in Budapest and rescue within the Swedish Embassy; establishes personal...

File Number : 3852

Type of Material : Testimony, Official Documentation

Language : German

Testimony of Cwi Goldfarb, born in Biala Podlaska, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences with the underground in Slovakia

Testimony

Testimony of Cwi Goldfarb, born in Biala Podlaska, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences with the underground in Slovakia Life in Slovakia with members of Hanoar Hazioni from Warsaw; life in the Jewish underground including detention of underground members and escape to bunkers; combat; help from the Red Cross; contact with the Rescue Committee in Istanbul and Switzerland. Aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947.

File Number : 3384

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Aladár Róth, born in Munkács, Hungary, 1891, regarding his experiences in a marked house in Budapest, with a labor battalion in Tápioszele, in a protected house in Budapest, in Bruck an der Leitha camp and more Dismissal from work following legislation of the racial laws, 1939; deportation to forced labor in Tápioszele, 1940; labor for the military supply corps (ÉLO); labor in hauling heavy bags and more; German occupation of Hungary; yellow badge; transfer to a house marked with a yellow star, in Budapest; capture by members of the Arrow Cross organization; transfer to forced labor in a labor...

File Number : 1865

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

Letter written by Arpad Balassa in Budapest to his brother Andor in Eretz Israel in 1946, with his memoirs regarding his and his family’s experiences in Budapest

Letter written by Arpad Balassa in Budapest to his brother Andor in Eretz Israel in 1946, with his memoirs regarding his and his family’s experiences in Budapest The rise of anti-Semitism in Hungary from the late 1930s; imposition of bans and restrictions on Hungarian Jews; dismissal of Jews from various jobs; growing incitement against Jews; indifference or enthusiasm regarding the persecution of Jews on the part of the majority of the Hungarian population; imposition of restrictions on movement of Jews with the German occupation of Hungary in March 1944; capture of Jews in the streets and their...

File Number : 11505

Type of Material : Letter, Memoirs

Language : Hungarian

Memoirs of Georg Popper, born in 1937 in Budapest, about his family's wartime experiences in Budapest

Memoirs of Georg Popper, born in 1937 in Budapest, about his family's wartime experiences in Budapest - Memoirs of Georg Popper, born in 1937 in Budapest, about his family's wartime experiences in the Holocaust, written by Georg in Vienna in 2015: Maternal grandmother converts to Protestantism in 1939 to prevent grandfather from being dismissed from his post as head of civil engineering and consultant to court in Transylvania, then part of Hungary; Georg and his family live in Budapest; anti-Jewish legislation in Hungary; Georg's father and other relativecs are conscripted into the Hungarian Army labor...

File Number : 11402

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : German

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