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Testimony of Sara Aharoni née Iudovitz, born in 1928 in Chust, Czechoslovakia, about her experiences in the Chust ghetto, Auschwitz, and Theresienstadt during the war

Life before the war; offspring of a religious family; Shabbat and festivals; attends a Jewish school; Jewish community life; activity of synagogues and Zionist youth movements; witness joins the Bnei Akiva movement; Hungary re-annexes the area in 1939; men inducted into the labor service; witness deported to the Chust ghetto; life in the ghetto; cultural and religious life; Hungarian gendarmes guard the ghetto; confiscation of valuables; witness wears the yellow star; deported to Auschwitz; selection in the camp and separation of family members; sister sent to Bergen-Belsen and dies from typhus there; roll...

File Number : 13610

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Izabela (Farkash) Cohen, born in Luncsoara, Romania, 1923, regarding her experiences in Damis, the Oradea Ghetto, Auschwitz, Theresienstadt and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Izabela (Farkash) Cohen, born in Luncsoara, Romania, 1923, regarding her experiences in Damis, the Oradea Ghetto, Auschwitz, Theresienstadt and other places Her childhood with her family; move to Damis; life in Damis including studies at home; move to Oradea; life in Oradea including sewing studies; displays of antisemitism. Entry of the Hungarian Army into Oradea, 1940; escape to Bratca; German Army occupation of Bratca, March 1944; life under German occupation including the decree regarding wearing a yellow badge; confiscation of property by Hungarian Gendarmes; deportation to the Oradea...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Menachem Mendel Sabo, born in Sat Sugatag, Romania, 1926, regarding his experiences in Sat Sugatag, the Berbesti Ghetto, Sighet Ghetto, Auschwitz, Kittlitztreben and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Menachem Mendel Sabo, born in Sat Sugatag, Romania, 1926, regarding his experiences in Sat Sugatag, the Berbesti Ghetto, Sighet Ghetto, Auschwitz, Kittlitztreben and other places His family's life, including his parents' work; Jewish community life; witness attends a Christian school and learns in a "heder". Hungarian Army occupation of Sat Sugatag, September 1940; draft of men to forced labor; German Army occupation of Sat Sugatag, March 1944; life under German occupation including the decree to wear a yellow badge; deportation to the Berbesti Ghetto; Berbesti Ghetto life; transfer to the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Miriam Eshel, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1938, regarding her experiences in Budapest, Bergen-Belsen, Switzerland and Eretz Israel

Testimony

Testimony of Miriam Eshel, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1938, regarding her experiences in Budapest, Bergen-Belsen, Switzerland and Eretz Israel Her childhood in a well-to-do, traditional, Zionist family; antisemitism before the war; imposition of restrictions on Jews; dismissal of her father from his work; curfew; obligation to wear the yellow badge; her mother's work on the community [Relief and Rescue] Committee as a forger of certificates for refugees who arrived to Budapest. German occupation of Hungary, March 1944; deportation to a Jewish [marked] house; life during the German occupation, including...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zwi Hershel Zeligman, born in Lodz, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Czestochowa, Buchenwald, Sonnenberg and on a death march

Testimony

Testimony of Zwi Hershel Zeligman, born in Lodz, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Czestochowa, Buchenwald, Sonnenberg and on a death march Family background; Shabbat and religious holidays; youth movements and synagogues in the community; assistance to the needy; Bnei Akiva activities; neighborly relations with the Volksdeutsche. German occupation of Lodz; being snatched up for forced labor; yellow badge; desecration of the synagogue; sealing of the ghetto, late April 1940; murder of his brother in Poznan; ghetto life; Judenrat actvities and Rumkowski; labor in the Resort...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Israel Kasovicz, born in Cluj, (Hungary) Romania, 1930, regarding his experiences as a child on the Kasztner train and in Bergen-Belsen

Testimony of Israel Kasovicz, born in Cluj, (Hungary) Romania, 1930, regarding his experiences as a child on the Kasztner train and in Bergen-Belsen Family life; the Jewish community; studies; Gordonia activities by his father. Transfer to Cluj as refugees; draft of his father to labor service and to forced labor; desertion of his father; murder; numerus clausus and numerus nullus; arrest and interrogations; transfer to Budapest and being hidden in Jewish homes; his family joins the Kasztner group following his father's request; transport on a train to Bergen-Belsen and a stopover in Linz, Austria;...

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Batia Bashinka (Lewin) Berkowicz, born in Smorgonie, Poland, 1929, regarding her experiences in Smorgonie, Schischmaren, as a forced laborer in Koschedaren, in Stutthof, Gleiwitz and in other places Family background; attends a "Tarbut" school; the community and synagogues; her father's Gordonia activities. Soviet occupation, 1939; Jewish life under Soviet rule and confiscation of her father's workshop; German occupation, June 1941; attempt to escape to the Soviet Union; burning of the village; murder of men including her father; deportation to the Smorgonie Ghetto; life and work in the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Reuven Meir Fersztenburg, born in Rajgrod, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and as a forced laborer in the Kaufering camp

Testimony

Testimony of Reuven Meir Fersztenburg, born in Rajgrod, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and as a forced laborer in the Kaufering camp Family background; move to Lodz; way of life in his home; Shabbat and religious holidays; attends a Yavneh school; the Jewish community; his father's Bund activities; his mother's Zionist movement activities; membership in Gordonia. Occupation of Lodz by the Germans, September 1939; kidnapping of people for forced labor; destruction of the synagogue; yellow badge; disappearance of his father; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yocheved (Frank) Milner, born in Krompachy, Slovakia, regarding her experiences in the Kosice Mesto Ghetto and in Auschwitz-Birkenau and Plaszow camps and more

Testimony

Testimony of Yocheved (Frank) Milner, born in Krompachy, Slovakia, regarding her experiences in the Kosice Mesto Ghetto and in Auschwitz-Birkenau and Plaszow camps and more Life before the war; move to Spisska Nova ves; life there; studies; move to Kosice Mesto; life there; joining the Maccabi Hatzair movement; Re-annexation to Hungary; deportation of her father to a labor battalion; imposition of the numerus clausus; German occupation, March 1944; wearing the yellow badge; escape of Jews to Budapest; suicides and conversions of Jews; concentration together with the other Jews in the Neolog synagogue;...

File Number : 13223

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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