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Testimony of Bilha Marta (Bonhadi) Poriyes, born in Senec, Czechoslovakia, 1930, regarding her experiences in ghettos in Hungary and as a forced laborer in camps

Testimony

Testimony of Bilha Marta (Bonhadi) Poriyes, born in Senec, Czechoslovakia, 1930, regarding her experiences in ghettos in Hungary and as a forced laborer in camps Life before the war. Arrival of refugees to their home; her parents relinquish their exit visa; transfer of the men to forced labor in Slovakia; witness attends the community school; humiliation in the synagogue by the local population on Shavuot; draft of her father to a Hungarian labor battalion; German occupation; Germans break into their home and her grandfather's home; threat by the priest to the community's rabbi; deportation on foot to the...

File Number : 11647

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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File Number : 4778

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : French

Memoirs of Zalman Etelson, regarding his experiences in the Riga Ghetto, in Stutthof, Magdeburg and Kaiserwald camps, and in other places

Memoirs of Zalman Etelson, regarding his experiences in the Riga Ghetto, in Stutthof, Magdeburg and Kaiserwald camps, and in other places Life in Riga before the war; German occupation; Riga Ghetto life; transfer to forced labor in the ghetto, the port and in the "AEG" company factory; "Aktions"; escape with help from a Latvian non-Jew, during the transfer to a murder site; life in Jelgava, including labor in a factory; Kaiserwald camp life, including labor related to vehicles; transfer to Stutthof camp; Stutthof camp life; transfer to forced labor in a forest; receives help from Dr. Mintz; transfer to...

File Number : 82

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Latvian

Testimony of Raja Duschanska against a commander in the "A. E. G. Werke" factory in Kaiserwald camp, who was known by the nickname "Iks"

File Number : 645

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : German

Testimony of Ellinor (Kempner) Fiebelman, born in Breslau, Germany, 1925, regarding her experiences in Germany, the Riga Ghetto, camps in Latvia and Germany and a death march

Testimony

Testimony of Ellinor (Kempner) Fiebelman, born in Breslau, Germany, 1925, regarding her experiences in Germany, the Riga Ghetto, camps in Latvia and Germany and a death march Her family; community life; displays of antisemitism; membership in Habonim and Maccabi movements; revocation of her father's license as a lawyer; death of her father; move to Berlin, 1939; studies to be a kindergarten teacher. Draft to forced labor in a Zeiss Ikon factory, 1940; deportation of her mother and brother to Riga, November, 1941; deportation to Riga, approximately two months later; selection; murder of elderly people in...

File Number : 10279

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Magda Morvai, born in Hodejov, (Slovakia) Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding her experiences in Rimavska, Rimavska Sobota, Hodejov Sec, the Salgotarjan Ghetto and Auschwitz and Parschnitz camps Her childhood in Hodejov; relations with the local population; attends a high school in Rimavska Sobota. Annexation to Hungary; draft of her father to a labor battalion; confiscation of Jewish property; German occupation, 19 March 1944; deportation to the Rimavska Sec Ghetto; deportation of women, children and elderly people to Salgotarjan; deportation to Auschwitz, late May 1944; selection; transfer to...

File Number : 9937

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Raya Erlich, born in Vilna, Lithuania, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Kaiserwald, Stutthof and Loewenberg camps

Testimony

Testimony of Raya Erlich, born in Vilna, Lithuania, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Kaiserwald, Stutthof and Loewenberg camps Religious family; her father owned a meat store; her mother owned a home decoration store; witness attends a Jewish school in Yiddish; life before the war. German occupation; deportation to the Vilna Ghetto; deportation of her father to Ponary, November 1941; murder of her mother and two sisters in an "Aktion", 1943; transfer to Kaiserwald in Latvia; camp life including forced labor in an AEG factory; transfer to Stutthof; camp life including labor digging...

File Number : 9332

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sara Veitz, born in Vilna, Poland, 1929, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Kaiserwald Ghetto, Stutthof and Toron camps, and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Sara Veitz, born in Vilna, Poland, 1929, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Kaiserwald Ghetto, Stutthof and Toron camps, and other places Life before the war. Soviet occupation, 1941; attends a Soviet school; move to Podbrodz; German occupation; deportation to the Vilna Ghetto, late 1941; ghetto life including attending a school organized by the underground; membership in a Jungs Club, youth club; deportation to Kaiserwald; camp life including labor in an AEG factory; evacuation of the camp by sea to Stutthof, September 1943; camp life; transfer to Torun; transfer to Fordon;...

File Number : 9218

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Miriam (Frishman) Grol, born in Gyor, Hungary, 1924, regarding her experiences in Gyor, the Gyor Ghetto and Trutnov, Auschwitz and Parschnitz camps

Testimony

Testimony of Miriam (Frishman) Grol, born in Gyor, Hungary, 1924, regarding her experiences in Gyor, the Gyor Ghetto and Trutnov, Auschwitz and Parschnitz camps Life before the war. German occupation, March 1944; deportation to the Gyor Ghetto; abuse of women and young women during a search for valuable objects; deportation to a brick factory, June 1944; deportation to Auschwitz; transfer to Trutnov, transfer to Parschnitz; labor in an A.E.G. factory; liberation by the Red Army, 09 May 1945. Aliya to Israel, 1948.

File Number : 8855

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ita Bal, born in Riga, Latvia, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Dvinsk Ghetto, Riga, Kaiserwald, Stutthof and various places

Testimony

Testimony of Ita Bal, born in Riga, Latvia, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Dvinsk Ghetto, Riga, Kaiserwald, Stutthof and various places Life in Riga; move to Dvinsk, 1932; death of her father, 1936; her mother's work in education. Soviet occupation; German occupation, 1941; deportation to the Dvinsk Ghetto; transfer to a nearby fortified city; life in the nearby fortified city and labor in a laundry outside the ghetto; "Aktion", August 1941; escape from an "Aktion", September 1941; transfer to live in the German headquarters after another "Aktion"; transfer to the officers quarters in a fortress,...

File Number : 8050

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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