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Testimony of Arie Likht, born in Hajduszoboszlo, Hungary, 1924 regarding his experiences in Hungary during the war period

Testimony

His parents' home; antisemitism; move to Budapest, 1942; German occupation, March 1944; obligation to report for labor clearing rubble; restrictions on movement; yellow badge; drafting order; transfer to Szolnok; labor in a military factory, July 1944; sorting of skilled workers; drafting into the Hungarian Army and deployment to the front; approach of the Soviet front; retreat; Horthy's declaration, 1944; expulsion from the Hungarian Army; concentration of the Jewish soldiers and transfer to the Austrian border; transfer into the hands of the German Army, Sopron; labor building fortifications along the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Edith Stern, from Vienna, regarding her experiences at the Vienna University Eye Hospital

Testimony of Edith Stern, from Vienna, regarding her experiences at the Vienna University Eye Hospital - Humiliating attitude toward the witness, including an antisemitic tone, by Professor Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth and others.

File Number : 252

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : English

Testimony of Mordechay (Paul Georg) Fleischer, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1926 regarding his escape to Budapest, deportation to detention camps, escape from a death march and residing in the Glass House

Testimony

Childhood before the war; Fascist Slovakia, 1938; antisemitic events; Attempts to move to Budapest, Hungary, winter 1942-1943; getting arrested by Hungarian soldiers while escaping; sent back to Slovakia; escape to Hungary with the aid of a smuggler; arrival in Budapest; capture and arrest; decrees and restrictions; transferred to a prison by two Hungarian soldiers; deportation to a brick factory; escape to a marked house; capture and deportation for labor building fortifications and digging anti-tank trenches near Solnok, late October 1944; march towards Austria; escape to the Red Cross house in Budapest...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Arie Svimer, born in Kelca, Czechoslovakia, in 1924, regarding his experiences hiding in Kelca and in the ranks of an underground organization in Budapest

Testimony of Arie Svimer,born in Kelca, Czechoslovakia,in 1924,regarding his experiences in hiding in Kelca and in the ranks of an underground group in Budapest Life in Kelca during re-annexation of the place to Hungary; finding a hiding place in a cowshed with a non-Jewish family; separation from the parents; escape to Budapest; working there as a fur tailor; activity as a messenger in the ranks of an underground group whose activity was forging documents; forging documents; emigration to Israel on board the ship "Knesset Israel" in 1947; detention in Cyprus; Aliya to Israel; absorption and rehabilitation;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation containing the memoirs of Jerzy Georges Tran, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1922, who emigrated to Belgium together with his family, 1927, and a survey report and articles written by Tran regarding the Holocaust and antisemitism, 1941-1998 - Memoirs of Jerzy Georges Tran: Sharp criticism of the Association des Juifs de Belgique (AJB - Jewish Belgian Association); the demeaning treatment Tran received from Fanny Albert, the secretary, and later the wife of Freddy Blum, one of the heads of the AJB; the Tran family being hidden by Jeanne Ruppol (later recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations) in...

File Number : 153

Type of Material : Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Memoirs

Language : French

Testimony of Yehuda Haleman, born in Cluj, Romania in 1928, regarding his experiences in the ‎Cluj Ghetto and deportation to Auschwitz and Kaufering

Testimony of Yehuda Haleman, born in Cluj, Romania in 1928, regarding his experiences in the ‎Cluj Ghetto and deportation to Auschwitz and Kaufering His parents’ house; cessation of studies following the closure of the yeshivas in 1942; food ‎rationing; entry of the Germans in March 1944; Slovakian refugees; the yellow badge; restrictions ‎on movement; prohibition on traveling on public transportation; deportation to the ghetto on 3 ‎May 1944; Kastner’s speech in the ghetto to encourage people to go out to work; deportation to ‎Auschwitz on the last transport; selection; quarters in the gypsy camp; personal...

File Number : 13673

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaia Shvartzman Kaplan, born in Alytus, Lithuania in 1926, regarding her ‎experiences in the Slobodka Ghetto, Stutthof camp, and the death march

Testimony of Chaia Shvartzman Kaplan, born in Alytus, Lithuania in 1926, regarding her ‎experiences in the Slobodka Ghetto, Stutthof camp, and the death march Family move to Kazlu Rhuda in 1930; her childhood in a Zionist traditional home; studies at a ‎Lithuanian school; antisemitism; joining Hashomer Hatzair; entry of the Russians in 1939; ‎nationalization of her father’s bakery; death of her mother from illness; German occupation in ‎June 1941; wearing the yellow badge; escape with her family to Kaunas; arrest by the Lithuanians ‎and deportation to the Seventh Fort; release of the women and children and...

File Number : 13652

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ruth Pardess née Schwarz, born in 1940 in Ostrowiec, Poland, about her experiences as a girl in the Sambor ghetto and in hiding with the family of the German officer Alojzy Plewa in Kliny

Information about the Schwarz and Krongold families; witness's birth in Ostrowiec in February 1940; living with her mother in the Sambor ghetto and smuggled out of the ghetto by the German officer Alojzy Plewa in September 1942; witness placed under a false identity with the officer's family in Kliny, near Kepno; mother hides in bunker until the liberation; father survives; witness reunited with parents and moves to Warsaw in 1945; aunt murdered in Ostrowiec after the liberation; immigration to Eretz Israel with mother in 1946; father remains in Poland; recognition of Alojzy Plewa as Righteous among the Nations...

File Number : 13628

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ariela Fulman Harkavi, born in Lodz, Poland, in 1924, regarding her experiences in the ‎Lodz and Warsaw Ghettos, her escape and living under a false identity

Testimony of Ariela Fulman Harkavi, born in Lodz, Poland, in 1924, regarding her experiences in the ‎Lodz and Warsaw Ghettos, her escape and living under a false identity Her childhood in a well-to-do secular family; attendance at a Polish school; antisemitism; ‎occupation by the Germans; her expulsion from secondary school due to “Numerus Clausus” ‎‎(Jewish quotas); torching of the synagogue; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto at the beginning of ‎‎1940; transfer to Warsaw; transfer to the Warsaw Ghetto; studies at the Florence Nightingale ‎School of Nursing in the ghetto; death of her father; life in the...

File Number : 13653

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Edmund Dikman, born in Bukaczowce (Bukachivtsi), Poland, in 1929, regarding his ‎experiences in the Bukaczowce and Rohatyn ghettos and in Lawrykowce, Rohatyn and other ‎camps Testimony of Edmund Dikman, born in Bukaczowce (Bukachivtsi), Poland, in 1929, regarding his ‎experiences in the Bukaczowce and Rohatyn ghettos and in Lawrykowce, Rohatyn and other ‎camps

Testimony of Edmund Dikman, born in Bukaczowce (Bukachivtsi), Poland, in 1929, regarding his ‎experiences in the Bukaczowce and Rohatyn ghettos and in Lawrykowce, Rohatyn and other ‎camps Life before the war; move of his family to Lukowicze in 1930; childhood in the village; studies at a ‎Polish school and with a “melamed;” antisemitism; Soviet occupation in 1939; escape to a ‎boarding school in Lwow in 1940; occupation by the Germans; escape to Lukowicze; payment of ‎ransom by the Bukaczowce Judenrat in money and furs; deportation to Bukaczowce in 1942; life in ‎the ghetto; deportation to Bronislawowka;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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