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Testimony of Miriam Roth née Kaf, born in 1930 in Vinkovci, Yugoslavia, about her experiences in the Baja ghetto and with her twin sister in the "Mengele's twins" barracks in Auschwitz

Life with an identical twin sister; childhood in Vojvodina; Hungary re-annexes the area in 1941; father inducted into labor brigades; connection with father lost; livelihood hardships and placement with mother's family in the countryside; German occupation ensues in 1944; Jewish community rounded up, deported to the Baja ghetto, and placed in a brickyard; deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau on May 28, 1944; twins separated in a selection; witness placed in the "Mengele's twins" barracks; undergoes frequent blood tests; receives help at the hospital; evacuation order issued in January 1945; finding a hiding place in...

File Number : 13585

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shalom Jakubovitz, born in Sighetul Marmatiei, Romania, 1926, regarding his experiences in Sighetul Marmatiei, Auschwitz-Birkenau; Buna-Monowitz and Buchenwald

Testimony of Shalom Jakubowitz, born in Sighetul Marmatiei, Romania, 1926, regarding his experiences in Sighetul Marmatiei, Auschwitz-Birkenau; Buna-Monowitz and Buchenwald Life before the war in Sighetul Marmatiei; Outbreak of the war, 1939; increasing displays of antisemitism; draft of Jews to labor battalions; deportation to Auschwitz, 1944; forced labor; transfer to Buna-Monowitz; forced death march of the inmates, 18 January 1945; travel on a train for eight days including mortality and eating snow; arrival in Buchenwald; life in the children's block in Buchenwald; liberation; Aliya to Eretz...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Shoshana (Rot) Goldstein, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1924, regarding her experiences in Budapest, Bergen-Belsen, Switzerland and Israel

Memoirs of Shoshana (Rot) Goldstein, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1924, regarding her experiences in Budapest, Bergen-Belsen, Switzerland and Israel Occupation of Budapest, March 1944; life in Budapest using the false identity of an Aryan woman including activities in the movement [?] and living quarters in a marked house; daily life in Budapest; wanderings; meetings with the contact person; meetings with her sister; invitation to join the Kasztner group; deportation to Bergen-Belsen, 08 July 1944; camp life together with the other Jews in the group with no work including hunger for five months. Transfer to...

File Number : 8224

Type of Material : Memoirs, Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Joseph Marcus Heitner, born in Radauti, Romania, 1931, regarding his experiences in Gura Humorului and Murafa

Testimony

Testimony of Joseph Marcus Heitner, born in Radauti, Romania, 1931, regarding his experiences in Gura Humorului and Murafa Family life in Gura Humorului before the outbreak of the war. Deportation to Murafa in Transnistria; life in Murafa; liberation. Life after the war; aliya to Israel, 1950.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avigdor Janos Peter Balint Bar On, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1931, regarding his experiences in Budapest and in hiding

Testimony

Testimony of Avigdor Janos Peter Balint Bar On, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1931, regarding his experiences in Budapest and in hiding His childhood in Budapest with his family. Outbreak of the war; German Army occupation of Hungary; in hiding outside the ghetto while using forged documents. Aliya to Eretz Israel within the context of the Hashomer Hatzair movement.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Malka Margit (Lichtenstater) Benedek, born in Hegyfalu, Hungary, 1918, regarding her experiences in Hegyfalu, the Sarvar Ghetto, Auschwitz, Prague, Bratislava and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Malka Margit (Lichtenstater) Benedek, born in Hegyfalu, Hungary, 1918, regarding her experiences in Hegyfalu, the Sarvar Ghetto, Auschwitz, Prague, Bratislava and other places Her childhood in her parents' home; displays of antisemitism. German Army occupation of Hegyfalu, 1944; Sarvar Ghetto life; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life including labor in a factory; transfer to a labor camp; camp life including labor in a factory and labor paving roads; death march; liberation by the US Army. Move to Prague; move to Bratislava; move back home; attitude of the Hungarian population; move to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew, Hungarian

Testimony of Shimon Shimi Gluzer, born in Sighet, Romania, 1929, regarding his experiences in Sighet, Auschwitz, Wolfsberg, Mauthausen, Ebensee and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Shimon Shimi Gluzer, born in Sighet, Romania, 1929, regarding his experiences in Sighet, Auschwitz, Wolfsberg, Mauthausen, Ebensee and other places His childhood in an Orthodox, religious family; attitude of the non-Jewish neighbors. Hungarian Army occupation of Sighet, 1938; life under Hungarian rule including antisemitism and anti-Jewish decrees; deportation to the Sighet Ghetto; Sighet Ghetto life, including help to needy people and finding informers; draft of his father to forced labor, 1943; return of his father; German Army occupation of Sighet, March 1944; deportation to Auschwitz;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sara (Avraham) Izkovitz, born in Chust, Czechoslovakia, 1924

Testimony

Testimony of Sara (Avraham) Izkovitz, born in Chust, Czechoslovakia, 1924 From a religious family. Hungarian occupation; antisemitism; drafted into the Hungarian Army and labor battalion; deported to a ghetto for three weeks, 1944; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau Lager 9; transfer to a labor camp in Zittau, Germany, for forced labor in a factory; transfer to a military factory in Reichenberg; liberation by the Red Army, May 1945; transfer to Prague, Czechoslovakia and from there to Liberec, Germany. Illegal aliya to Eretz Israel; rehabilitation and acclimation.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Bella (Fridman) Berkovits, born in Berehovo, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Berehovo Ghetto, Auschwitz, Braunschweig, Bendorf and Bergen-Belsen

Testimony

Testimony of Bella (Fridman) Berkovits, born in Berehovo, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Berehovo Ghetto and in Auschwitz, Braunschweig, Bendorf and Bergen-Belsen From a well-to-do, Orthodox family; childhood; unsuccessful aliya attempt to Eretz Israel in the 1930s; annexation to Hungary, 1938; restrictions on Jews; curfew; cessation of studies; displays of antisemitism by neighbors. Outbreak of the war, 1939; information on the fate of the Jews in the occupied countries; meeting with Polish and Slovakian [Jewish] refugees; confiscation of bank accounts; black market activity;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Georgette Dandi (Braun) Goldstein, born in Domoszlo, Hungary, 1925

Testimony

Testimony of Georgette Dandi (Braun) Goldstein, born in Domoszlo, Hungary, 1925 Childhood in the Domoszlo village; high school studies and living together with her sister at her aunt's house in Eger, 1938; life under anti-Jewish laws and increasing displays of antisemitism. German occupation, 1944; eviction and life with her sister in the Eger Ghetto; meeting with her parents and her other sister in the transit camp in the area, 1944; deportation to Auschwitz, 1944; deportation to a labor camp and labor in a weapons production factory in Allendorf, Germany, 1944; death march towards Kassel, Germany, 1945;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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