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Testimony of Hela (Feltz) Reznik, born in Bedzin, Poland, 1925 regarding her experiences in the Parschnitz labor camp, Czechoslovakia

Testimony

Prewar childhood; antisemitism; plans for aliya to Eretz Israel; outbreak of the war; German occupation; burning of houses; deportation to the Parschnitz labor camp, Czechoslovakia; camp life, 1941-1945; hunger; longing; murder of her family; liberation by the Red Army; Rebuilding life after the war; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1948.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Testimony

Childhood in Zarki; antisemitism; move to Sosnowiec, 1934; antisemitism; German occupation, September 1939; abuse; anti-Jewish legislation; confiscation of property; Judenrat; deportation to the Johannsdorf labor camp, late 1939; work in excavations and laying railroad tracks; transfer to the Markstadt camp; various forced labors; transfer to the Klettendorf camp; labor as a porter; beatings; transfer to the Dyhernfurth camp to work in a weapons factory; beatings; hunger; death march to Bergen-Belsen; high mortality; hunger; liberation by the British Army, April 1945; Life after the war; aliya to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Eduard Fosner, born 1927 in Bucharest, Romania, about expulsion to the Oradea ghetto, deportation to Auschwitz and other camps, death march, and escape

Testimony

Testimony of Eduard Fosner, born in Bucharest, Romania, in 1927 , regarding expulsion to the Oradea ghetto, deportation to Auschwitz and other camps, death march, and escape Childhood before the war; transfer to Oradea in 1938; entry of the Hungarians in 1940; expulsion from school; anti-Jewish legislation ; service in the Levente Association; German occupation in 1944; order to wear yellow badge, and other orders; expulsion to the ghetto in May 1944; deportation to Birkenau; hunger; roll-calls and selections; transfer to Buchenwald for a brief time and from there to Magdeburg; labor in rebuilding and...

File Number : 13773

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ze'ev Yitzhaki, born in Iasi, Romania, 1936, regarding his experiences in Iasi during the war

Testimony

Testimony of Ze'ev Yitzhaki, born in Iasi, Romania, 1936, regarding his experiences in Iasi during the war Early childhood. Increase in anti-Semitism, 1939; anti-Jewish orders and legislation; pogrom at police stations and trains, June 1941; the bombings.Liberation by the Red Army, summer of 1944; joining the Dror organization; moving to a children's home in Piatra Neat; boarding the illegal immigrant ship Pan York, December 1947; exile to Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel, March 1948; absorption.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shnirer Tulo, born in 1927 in Krakow, Poland, regarding transfer to the Krakow ‎Ghetto in 1941 and deportation to labor camps

Testimony

Testimony of Shnirer Tulo, born in 1927 in Krakow, Poland, regarding transfer to the Krakow ‎Ghetto in 1941 and deportation to labor camps Childhood: traditional family, Jewish school, antisemitism before the war, death of his father in ‎‎1936; German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939; anti-Jewish decrees; wearing the yellow ‎badge; limitations on movement; confiscation of property, etc.; German officials taking over part ‎of the family’s apartment; transfer to the Krakow Ghetto in March 1941; the Judenrat and the ‎Jewish police; forced labor inside and outside the ghetto; Jewish underground; Nazi...

File Number : 13740

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Katarina (Reisner) Klein, born in Salonta, Romania, 1928 regarding the Oradea ghetto, deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau and additional camps

Testimony

Her parents' home; membership in the "Dror Habonim" movement; Entry of the Hungarian Army, 1941; economic decrees; her father taken for forced labor; cessation of studies; antisemitism; prohibition on keeping a Christian maid; entrusting valuables for safekeeping with a neighbor; German Army occupation, March 1944; yellow badge; restrictions on movement; cessation of activity in the movement [Dror Habonim]; eviction from her home; gathering in a synagogue; deportation to the Oradea ghetto; deportation by train to Auschwitz-Birkenau; selection; entry to Barrack 16, Lager C, May 1944; transfer by truck to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mordechai Levinger, born in Galanta, Czechoslovakia, 1921 regarding his service in the Hungarian labor battalions

Testimony

Childhood in Galanta; antisemitism before the war; entry of the Hungarians, March 1939; Anti-Jewish legislation; revocation of the family business license; violence by the Hungarian gendarmes; drafted into the Hungarian labor battalions, October 1942; basic training in Komarom; antisemitism of the commanders; transfer to forced labor in the Koszeg area, January 1943; labor in a quarry; transfer to agricultural labor in Mohacs, October 1943; last visit to his house in Galanta, January 1944; transfer to labor digging and building fortification in the Poland-Czechoslovakia border area; death march, late 1944;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Judit (Kraus) Lahav, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1930 regarding the move of her family to Komarom, deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, additional camps and death march

Testimony

Childhood before the war; annexation of Slovakia by Nazi Germany, 1938; move of her family to Komarom, Hungary; Drafting of her father to labor battalions; increase in antisemitism; German invasion, 19 March 1944; anti-Jewish legislation; deportation for a short time to a citadel in the city that became a ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; selection and transfer to Plaszow; labor paving roads; return to Auschwitz for a short time and from there to Rochlitz for labor in a factory producing airplane parts; transfer to Calw to an airplane factory; death march to Buching; liberation, late April...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yisrael Veisvaser, born in 1922 in Krasnystaw, Poland, about the German occupation in September 1939 and his escape to the Soviet Union

Testimony

Testimony of Yisrael Veisvaser, born in 1922 in Krasnystaw, Poland, about the German occupation in September 1939 and his escape to the Soviet Union Childhood in a traditional home; attends a cheder and a Polish elementary school; active in the Betar movement; German occupation ensues; Soviet invasion ensues in 1939; witness escapes to Brest and thence to Minsk; back to Brest; on to Ludman; arrested due to Zionist activity; deported to a labor camp in Rom, Soviet Union; transferred to a camp for craftspersons; released in June 1943; reaches Zhitomir and Chełm; discharged from the Polish Army in 1946; moves...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Liliana Kaliger Giske, born in Lodz, Poland, in 1928 regarding the Lodz ghetto, Auschwitz and other camps

Testimony

Childhood in Lodz; antisemitism; German occupation in September 1939; confiscation of property and businesses; acts of abuse on the steets, expulsion from apartment; curfew in the evenings; white band; deportation to the Lodz ghetto in February 1940; dysentery epidemic; starvation; death of the mother and niece; abuse; work at a knitting resort; arrival of refugees; the Judenradt; the Jewish police; doctors in the ghetto; improvement in September 1942; activity in the Communist underground; liquidation of the Lodz ghetto in the summer 1944; deportation to Auschwitz Birkenau; starvation; beatings; transfer to...

File Number : 13686

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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