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Testimony of Josef Heiman, born in Szolnok, Hungary, 1922, regarding enlistment in labor troops in the Hungarian army, 1942-1945

Testimony

Testimony of Josef Heiman, born in Szolnok, Hungary, 1922, regarding enlistment in labor battalions in the Hungarian army, 1942-1945 Childhood in a religious family lacking economic means; studies in a Jewish school and then in a general school. Anti-Jewish legislation; restrictions on the employment of Jews in public office; limitation on the number of students in universities (Numerus clausus); conscription into the Hungarian army for labor battalions, 1942; anti-Semitic incidents in the labor battalions; heavy penalties; transfer of the battalion to Austria, 1944; fortification works near...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Kalman Meyer Schweiger, born in Szeged, Hungary, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Szeged Ghetto and deportation to Auschwitz

Testimony of Kalman Meyer Schweiger, born in Szeged, Hungary, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Szeged Ghetto and deportation to Auschwitz Life in Szeged during the war; imposition of restrictions on the Jews; deportation of Jews to labor battalions; yellow badge as a way of separating Jewish and non-Jewish workers; transfer with the Jews to the Szeged Ghetto under the supervision of the Hungarian police, March 1944; ghetto life; guarding of the ghetto by Hungarian gendarmes under the command of Imri Pinta; Hungarian gendarmes' weapons and uniforms; transfer with the Jews to a brick factory;...

File Number : 8518

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Fani Sholomon, born in Munkacs, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Munkacs Ghetto and in Auschwitz, Hochweiler and Bergen-Belsen

Memoirs of Fani Sholomon, born in Munkacs, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Munkacs Ghetto and in Auschwitz, Hochweiler and Bergen-Belsen Life in Munkacs during the re-annexation to Hungary, 1938; deportation of people with Czechoslovakian citizenship; imposition of evening curfew on the Jews; prohibition on Jews managing businesses, from 1940; continuing running her father's business by means of bribery; deportation to the Munkacs Ghetto, April 1944; transfer together with the Jews to a brick factory, 17 May 1944; deportation by train to Auschwitz; life on the train; hearing the...

File Number : 8500

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Chaim Ganizi, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1934, regarding his experiences in Budapest

Memoirs of Chaim Ganizi, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1934, regarding his experiences in Budapest - Life with his family in Budapest until 1944; - Life in the Budapest Ghetto; - Liberation by the Red Army; - Aliyah to Eretz Israel, August 1947.

File Number : 8272

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Mordechai Neumann, born in Vac, Hungary, 1930, regarding his experiences while using a false identity in a protected house in Budapest

Memoirs of Mordechai Neumann, born in Vac, Hungary, 1930, regarding his experiences while using a false identity in a protected house in Budapest Life in Budapest in his parents' home, until 1944. Life while using a false identity in the home of a non-Jewish family; life in a protected house under the protection of the Swiss Embassy. The file includes: - His parents' marriage certificate; - Article about his sister Esther, published in the "HaKibbutz" journal, 28 April 2005.

File Number : 8246

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Newspaper Clippings, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Meir Andrash Weiss, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1934, regarding the Budapest ghetto and hiding in the Jewish gymnasium under the auspices of a Hungarian officer

Testimony

Testimony of Meir Andrash Weiss, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1934, regarding the Budapest ghetto and hiding in the Jewish gymnasium under the auspices of a Hungarian officer Family background; his father owns a printing house; life before the war; studies in a Hungarian school; enlistment of his father to labor battalions, 1940; management of the family business by his mother. German occupation, 1944; duty to wear a yellow badge; dropping out of school; an attempt by his mother to flee to the province with the witness and his brother; ban on train travel; confiscation of printing machines in the family...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation of the Hungarian Ministry of Agriculture from 1938-1944, regarding the confiscation of Jewish owned land in various villages and towns in Hungary

Documentation of the Hungarian Ministry of Agriculture from 1939-1944, regarding the confiscation of Jewish owned land in various villages and towns in Hungary The files in this collection were created in the Hungarian Ministry of Agriculture from 1938-1944. The original documents are now located in the Magyar Országos Levéltár (Hungarian National Archives) where they were copied for Yad Vashem. The Ministry of Agriculture files are arranged according to the towns in Hungary and include the official documents which were accumulated as a result of the promulgation of the laws against the Jews from...

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : Hungarian

Memoirs of Sara (Wolf) Drori, born in Ungvár, regarding her experiences and those of her family, 1938-1945

Memoirs of Sara (Wolf) Drori, born in Ungvár, regarding her experiences and those of her family, 1938-1945 The life of the Wolf family in Ungvár. Return of her brother Poldi from medical studies in Prague following the annexation of Ungvár to Hungary, 1938; arrest of her brother Sanyi in Slovakia during an attempt to cross the border into Hungary; 1942; Sanyi's deportation from Slovakia, apparently to Lublin, following which his fate is unknown; participation of Sara in lectures on Zionism; German occupation of Hungary, March 1944; deportation of Sara and her family to the Ungvár Ghetto; deportation to...

File Number : 6097

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hungarian

Memory book from the Boys' Orphanage that was maintained by the Jewish community in Budapest, 1938-1946, as it was written and collected by Avraham (Ferenc) Lebovits, 1999

Memory book from the Boys' Orphanage that was maintained by the Jewish community in Budapest, 1938-1946, as it was written and collected by Avraham (Ferenc) Lebovits, 1999 - Establishment of the Budapest Jewish Community Boys' Orphanage during the 19th century; increase in the number of children in the orphanage after the annexation of the Felvidék areas, Karpathos Taurus, and Transylvania to Hungary, 1938-1940; division of the children into three groups, by age; establishing a daily routine: studies, physical activities, games, and reading stories; - Drafting of some of the teachers into Hungarian Army...

File Number : 5861

Type of Material : Memoirs, Photograph

Language : Hebrew, English, German, Hungarian

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