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Testimony of Dvora Edit Platsek, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1924, regarding her experiences in forced labor in Ujpest, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ravensbrueck and Berlin-Schoenholz camp

Testimony

Testimony of Dvora Edit Platsek, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1924, regarding her experiences in forced labor in Ujpest, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ravensbrueck and Berlin-Schoenholz camp Life before the war in Rakospalota; attends a non-Jewish school; studies millinery and design; displays of antisemitism; drafted to forced labor; labor in a textile factory for the army in Ujpest; refused to be rescued from deportation in order to stay with her mother; deportation from Bekesmegyer to Auschwitz-Birkenau; camp life; transfer to Ravensbrueck; forced labor in a HASAG factory in Berlin-Schoenholz; transfer from the camp...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

Testimony of Zipora (Hirshfeld) Fridman, born in Vac, Hungary, 1921, regarding her experiences in the Budapest Ghetto, Auschwitz, Ravensbrueck, Berlin and a death march

Testimony

Testimony of Zipora (Hirshfeld) Fridman, born in Vac, Hungary, 1921, regarding her experiences in the Budapest Ghetto, Auschwitz, Ravensbrueck, Berlin and a death march Her family; studies Hebrew in Budapest. Arrival of women refugees from Poland using false identities, 1943; economic hardships; confiscation of her father's property; establishment of the Budapest Ghetto, April 1944; marriage of her sister; ghetto life in a brick factory in Monor; deportation to Auschwitz, June 1944; meets her sister Sara; life in Lager B-3; block elder Kato Klein from Novi-Zamki; futile labor; transfer to Ravensbrueck...

File Number : 6718

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Shoshana Suzan (Heimler) Golombok, born in Eger, Hungary, 1918, regarding her experiences in the Eger Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ravensbrueck, a death march, Oranienburg and other places Life before the war; her father is a lawyer. Draft of her father to a labor battalion in the Soviet Union, 15 May 1942; Hungarian Minister of Defense obtains a release for her father; refusal by the military chief of staff to release her father; death of her father in captivity in Kiev; establishment of the Eger Ghetto, 15 May 1944; Eger Ghetto life under the supervision of the Hungarian police; transfer to...

File Number : 5011

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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File Number : 3543

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian