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Testimony of Tzipora Frieda (Markovitz) Nemesh, born in Mukačevo, Czechoslovakia in 1919, regarding her experiences in Mukačevo Ghetto and Auschwitz-Birkenau and Zittau camps

Testimony of Tzipora Frieda (Markovitz) Nemesh, born in Mukačevo, Czechoslovakia in 1919, regarding her experiences in Mukačevo Ghetto and Auschwitz-Birkenau and Zittau camps Life before the war; receiving a Hebrew education; activity in Hashomer Hatza’ir youth movement; publication of blood libel; German occupation in March 1944; expulsion to ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; murder of part of the family in camp; transfer to Zittau about six months later; life in camp; labor in factory; liberation by Red Army; life after the war; aliya to Israel in 1956; absorption.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

The testimony of Liza Lotte Lily (Weiner) Bruml, born in 1923 in Trutnov, , Czechoslovakia - regarding her childhood in Trutnov and in the Theresienstadt Ghetto.

The testimony of Liza Lotte Lily (Weiner) Bruml, born in 1923 in Trutnov, Czechoslovakia. Childhood in Trutnov; escaping with family members before the annexation of the Sudetenland by Germany in 1938; moved to the area of the border with the Czechoslovakia; life on a relative's farm for a few weeks; move to Prague; the German occupation; her brother's illegal immigration to Eretz Israel in 1939; life under the Nazi regime; restrictions imposed on the Jews; deportation of the parents and the grandmother to the Theresienstadt Ghetto in 1942; death of her grandmother; life in the ghetto; parents’ labor in a...

File Number : 13502

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Transcript of the joint testimony of the sisters, Zippora Freilach Fiksler, born in Toron, Czechoslovakia, 1928, and Shoshana Freilach Weinberg, born in Maiden, Czechoslovakia, 1924, regarding their experiences in Toron, Munkacs, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen Life in Toron until 1941. Life in Munkacs until December 1942; life in Auschwitz, from June 1944; life in Bergen-Belsen.

File Number : 8225

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Dov Beri Bernard Lichtenstein, born in Mukacevo, Czechoslovakia, 1922; regarding his experiences in Auschwitz, Mauthausen, Melk and Ebensee

Testimony

Testimony of Dov Beri Bernard Lichtenstein, born in Mukacevo, Czechoslovakia, 1922; regarding his experiences in Auschwitz, Mauthausen, Melk and Ebensee Learns in "heder" and attends a government school until 1934; life in the village until 1944. Deportation to Auschwitz; murder of his mother, April 1944; transfer to Mauthausen, May 1944; transfer to Melk, June 1944; transfer to Ebensee, April-May 1945; liberation, May 1945. Work in the Sudetenland, 1946; unsuccessful aliya attempt to Eretz Israel, 1947; detention in Cyprus for 10 months, 1947-1948; return aliya to Israel, 1948.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rina Charlotte Sharlotte (Yakubovitz) Herzl, born in Nemecka Poruba, Czechoslovakia, 1924, regarding her experiences in Ungvar, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Ruthweiler

Testimony

Testimony of Rina Charlotte Sharlotte (Yakubovitz) Herzl, born in Nemecka Poruba, Czechoslovakia, 1924, regarding her experiences in Ungvar, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Ruthweiler Life before the war; religious family with hardships; move to Ungvar; life in Ungvar including her studies; relations with Czech neighbors. Re-annexation to Hungary; disappearance of her father; receives knowledge regarding the detention of her father due to being informed on; visit to her father in detention; her father receives beatings; transfer of her father to the prison in Szeged, 1942; deportation to a brick factory, 1944;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avraham Brener, born in Sevlus, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Sevlus Ghetto, Auschwitz, Mauthausen and Kaufering

Testimony

Testimony of Avraham Brener, born in Sevlus, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Sevlus Ghetto, Auschwitz, Mauthausen and Kaufering Life before the war; his father is the owner of an agricultural farm. Deportation to the Sevlus Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz, 1943; camp life; transfer to Mauthausen; camp life including labor; transfer to Kaufering; camp life including labor; liberation by the US Army, 1945. Return to Sevlus; move to Germany; move to the Youth Aliyah organization in Paris; aliya to Eretz Israel on the "Biriah" ship, 1947.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Gerti (Goldman) Vest, born in Lodenice, Czechoslovakia, 1929, regarding her experiences in Ivancice and Theresienstadt

Testimony

Testimony of Gerti (Goldman) Vest, born in Lodenice, Czechoslovakia, 1929, regarding her experiences in Ivancice and Theresienstadt Life on a farm in Bohemia. Deportation to Ivancice, 1938; aliya training with Maccabi Hatzair; deportation to Theresienstadt, April 1942; ghetto life including work as an activities coordinator and farm labor for the children; rescue from deportation to Auschwitz; liberation. Move to Switzerland, February 1945; aliya to Eretz Israel via Bari, September 1945.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yehudit (Pinchovski) Iegerman, born in Karlovy Vary, 1929, regarding her experiences in Karlovy Vary, Prague, Theresienstadt, Auschwitz and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Yehudit (Pinchovski) Iegerman, born in Karlovy Vary, 1929, regarding her experiences in Karlovy Vary, Prague, Theresienstadt, Auschwitz and other places Childhood and family background; community life; increase in antisemitism; move to Prague. German occupation; deportation to Theresienstadt; rubella; transfer to Auschwitz; transfer to a labor camp in Hamburg; death march to Bergen-Belsen; liberation. Aliya.

File Number : 12569

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Bozena Elisheva (Hermann) Cohen from Czechoslovakia regarding her experiences in Hungary, the Soviet Union and as a soldier in the Czechoslovakian Army in Buzuluk

Testimony of Bozena Elisheva (Hermann) Cohen from Czechoslovakia regarding her experiences in Hungary, the Soviet Union and as a soldier in the Czechoslovakian Army in Buzuluk Dismissal of Jewish intellectuals from their employment in Prague, 1939; escape to Hungary; refugees in Soviet occupied territories, 1940; protection of political refugees and deportation of others; Czechoslovakian battalion in Buzuluk, 1942; activities of Jewish Communists; Communist indoctrination; influence of Czechoslovakian ambassador and Czechoslovakian Communists in Moscow; names of Jews tried in military field courts; trials of...

File Number : 9

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Czech, German

Testimony of Teodor Fis, born in Vrutky, Czechoslovakia, 1912, regarding his experiences in the Soviet Union, labor in Donbas, as a Czechoslovakian Army soldier in Buzulak and Sadagura, and in combat in Sokolovo and Dukla Membership of Jews in the Czechoslovakian Communist Party since 1930; arrival of refugee groups in Katowice and Krakow, 1939; refusal of Jewish Communist refugees to join the Czechoslovakian military group in Bronowice, 1939; situation of the refugees in the territories occupied by the Soviet Union; assistance from the Communist International organization, 1940; enlistment of...

File Number : 22

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings

Language : Czech, German

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