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List of inmates in Westerbork camp who received kosher food, 09-11/1942

File Number : JM/12177

Type of Material : List of Camp Inmates

Language : Dutch

Testimony of Yocheved Shvartz, born in Satu Mare, Romania, 1928, regarding her experiences as a child in the Satu Mare Ghetto, Auschwitz, Dachau, Geislingen and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Yocheved Shvartz, born in Satu Mare, Romania, 1928, regarding her experiences as a child in the Satu Mare Ghetto, Auschwitz, Dachau, Geislingen and other places Life before the war; family is Satmar hassidim; attends a Romanian school. Annexation to Hungary, 1940; her father's service in the Hungarian Army; German occupation, 1944; yellow badge; deportation to the Satu Mare Ghetto on the first day of Pesach; deportation on the first transport to Auschwitz; camp life including murder of the family; remains with her sister; deportation to Birkenau; camp life; observes kashrut; selection and...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Joint testimony of sisters, Yolanda (Nusen) Klein, born in Satu Mare, 1926, and Malka (Nusen) Davidovitz Iwanir, born in Petroseni, 1935, regarding their experiences in Galati camp and Hateg

Testimony

Joint testimony of sisters, Yolanda (Nusen) Klein, born in Satu Mare, 1926, and Malka (Nusen) Davidovitz Iwanir, born in Petroseni, 1935, regarding their experiences in Galati camp and Hateg Sisters' youth in Petroseni; religious-Orthodox way of life; activities in Bnei Akiva youth movement. Deportation to Galati, 1940; deportation to Hateg; forced labor in agriculture; living conditions; keeping kosher; liberation by the Red Army, 1944. Return to Petroseni; life under Communist rule; aliya of Malka to Israel, 1950; aliya of Yolanda to Israel, 1959; absorption difficulties.

File Number : 11678

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Jakob Teodor Singer, born in Bratislava, 1922, regarding his experiences in Bratislava, and while in hiding in Nitra

Testimony

Testimony of Jakob Teodor Singer, born in Bratislava, 1922, regarding his experiences in Bratislava, and while in hiding in Nitra Life before the war; his father owns a candy business; learns in the "Yesodai Torah" Talmud Torah and in the Bratislava yeshiva; Bratislava is turned "Judenrein," 1940; escape from Nova Ves Nad Vahom to Nitra, 1941 (before Pesach), and studies with Rabbi Unger, the Head of the yeshiva; a personal meeting with Rabbi Weissmandel; hiding in a bunker, 1943; deportation of local Jews by Slovaks and Germans; hiding in ritual purification house in a cemetery; hiding with the Schlesinger...

File Number : 11505

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chana (Vizel) Broier, born in Viseul de Sus, 1930, regarding her experiences in the Viseul de Sus Ghetto, Auschwitz, Ravensbrueck and Bendorf camps

Testimony

Testimony of Chana (Vizel) Broier, born in Viseul de Sus, 1930, regarding her experiences in the Viseul de Sus Ghetto, Auschwitz, Ravensbrueck and Bendorf camps Ultra-Orthodox Jewish community; livelihood from trade; good relations with the local non-Jewish population; hasidic family; her parents' community and synagogue activities. Hungarian occupation, 1940; deterioration of the situation for the Jews; loss of livelihood; her father secretly does Jewish ritual slaughter for kosher meat; deportation of the Jews to the Viseul de Sus Ghetto, April-May 1944; deportation to Auschwitz; loss of her family;...

File Number : 11176

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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

Memoirs of Yaakov Herzfeld, born in Vac, Hungary, 1914, regarding his experiences in Vac and Transylvania

Memoirs of Yaakov Herzfeld, born in Vac, Hungary, 1914, regarding his experiences in Vac and Transylvania Efforts to acquire a certificate for legal aliya to Eretz Israel due to his desire to make aliya; drafted to forced labor in Transylvania for a few months; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1940.

File Number : 4040

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hungarian

The fate of the Jewish community in Hajdubogos, Hungary, including lists of names and photographs

The fate of the Jewish community in Hajdubogos, Hungary, including lists of names and photographs Names and photographs of members of the Hajdubogos Jewish community along with a description of the person beside each name including information regarding the person's family, profession, what happened to the person during the war and his/her fate; Description of Jewish community life in Hajdubogos from before the war until the deportation in 1944 including the attitude of the neighboring Christian community (Reformers and Baptists); the number of victims from the Hajdubogos community including their fate...

File Number : 2875

Type of Material : Names, Photograph

Language : Hungarian

Testimony of Lea Iren (Jakob) Weisz, born in Livada Noua, 1917, regarding her experiences in the Satmar Ghetto and in Auschwitz, Wakdberg, Gelsenkirchen, Bergen-Belsen camps

Testimony

Testimony of Lea Iren (Jakob) Weisz, born in Livada Noua, 1917, regarding her experiences in the Satmar Ghetto and in Auschwitz, Wakdberg, Gelsenkirchen, Bergen-Belsen camps Poor family from a village near Satmar; the father was a sexton in the synagogue and the mother a cook; school and "heder"; work farming and logging. Annexation of the area to Hungary, 1940; antisemitism; care for the sick, 1940-41; preparations for deportation; restrictions on Jews; deportation to the Satmar Ghetto, spring 1944; life in the ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz and life in the camp; transport to Gelsenkirchen, Germany and...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

Testimony of Joseph Eintzier Eden, born in Kosino, Czechoslovakia, 1920, regarding his experiences in a labor battalion in Budapest, the Hungarian Army in Szentkiralyszabadja, Tasnad and other places

Testimony of Joseph Eintzier Eden, born in Kosino, Czechoslovakia, 1920, regarding his experiences in a labor battalion in Budapest, the Hungarian Army in Szentkiralyszabadja, Tasnad and other places Life before the war. Outbreak of the war, 1939; re-annexation to Hungary; draft to a labor battalion in Budapest, 1941; life in Budapest including labor building railroad tracks; draft into the Hungarian Army, summer 1942; transfer to Szentkiralyszabadja; transfer to Kassa, October 1942; transfer to Tasnad; transfer to Budapest; transfer back to Tasnad; transfer to Kaszony; transfer to Gyergyoditro; transfer...

File Number : 800

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Yiddish, Hungarian

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