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Testimony of Shlomo Tibor Rosenthal, born in Miskolc, Hungary, 1928 regarding his experiences in the ghetto and the labor battalion in Hungary

Testimony

From an Orthodox family; learns in a heder and a Jewish school; prohibition on ritual slaughter; closing of the family butcher shop; German occupation, March 1944; His house within the ghetto area; drafting of his father and brother to a labor battalion; transfer to a brick factory; entlists into the labor battalions on the advice of a Hungarian officer; liberation by the Red Army; Return home; reunion with his two sisters; activity in the Bnei Akiva movement; move with a group of children to a children's home in Budapest; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1948.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Announcements and regulations on subjects regarding the Jews issued by the General Governor of the Generalgouvernement, 1939-1942

Announcements and regulations on subjects regarding the Jews issued by the General Governor of the Generalgouvernement, 1939-1942 - Announcement issued by the General Governor of the occupied sections of Poland in the Warsaw Region on the subject of Jewish businesses in the Warsaw Region, 17 November 1939; - Regulations regarding the obligation to work, limitations on the movement of Poles and Jews and the prohibition on ritual slaughter issued by the General Governor, 26 October 1939; - Regulations and directives related to the Jews in the Warsaw and Lublin Regions, dated 18 October 1942.

File Number : 121

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Official Documentation, Placards, Announcement

Language : Polish, German

Testimony of Esther Shpitzer née Gross, born in 1929 in Nyiregyhaza, Hungary, about her experiences aboard the "Kaszner train" and in Bergen-Belsen

Testimony

Testimony of Esther Shpitzer née Gross, born in 1929 in Nyiregyhaza, Hungary, about her experiences aboard the "Kaszner train" and in Bergen-Belsen Family background; father is a butcher; witness attends a Jewish elementary school and a Hungarian high school; description of festivals; numerus clausus as witness continues her high-school studies; ritual slaughter prohibited; witness joins the Hashomer Hatzair movement in March 1944; Germans enter; witness receives false documents with help from Hashomer Hatzair; escapes to Budapest before deportation; life in Budapest; parents arrested and deported to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew