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Testimony of Nancy Vera Rachel Arbel, born in Baktaloranthaza, Hungary, in 1826 regarding deportation to the Auschwitz Birkenau , Plaszow and Reichenbach camps

Testimony

Childhood before the war; coexistence; outbreak of the war; restrictions on Jews; German occupation in March 1944; deportation to ghetto; mutual help; robbery of property; fictitious marriage for the purpose of rescue; deportation to Auschwitz Birkenau; transfer to Plaszow; transfer to a protected camp; improvement in food and living conditions; transfer back to Auschwitz Birkenau; transfer to Germany for agricultural works and for working in a factory manufacturing planes; liberation by the Russians; rehabilitation of life after the war; aliya to Israel in 1949

File Number : 13703

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Gover Branddshtein Agnes, born in Bustina, Czech Republic, in 1929 regarding Mateszalka ghetto, regarding deportation to Auschwitz Birkenau , Birnbaumel and others

Testimony

Parents'house; Hungarian occupation in 1939; deportation of the Jews without citizenship; getting Hungarian citizenship; studies in Mukacevo; expulsion from school in 1943; presence of people from the Arrow Cross Party in the village; curfew; yellow badge; searches at home; preparation for deportation; deportation of the father to a labor camp in 1941; moving to a small house; hiding the jewelry in the courtyard; concentration of the Jewish population in the synagogue; deportation to the Mateszalka ghetto; food parcels from the grandfather in Budapest; deportation to Auschwitz Birkenau in freight trains;...

File Number : 13705

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Edita Alon Carl Shultz, born in Kosice, Czechoslovakia, in 1920 regarding the Kosice ghetto and her rescue in Budapest.

-About the family; transition to Hungarian ruling in 1939; she married a Jewish doctor, a refugee from Czechoslovakia in 1940; recruitment with protection to a unit of Hungarian doctors in 1941; confiscation of the shop owned by the family; expropriation of a room for the benefit of a Hungarian officer; German occupation in 1944; his mother was arrested for interrogation; confiscation of jewelry; deportation to the ghetto ; she got permission to reunite with her husband; rescue; moving to Budapest; birth of a son, starvation; double suicide attempt and rescue; hiding in the Jewish hospital; murder by people...

File Number : 13695

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letters and postcards written by Alfréd Nobel, a forced laborer in a forced labor battalions, to his wife Alfrédné Violetta (Nágel) Nobel and to the Nobel and Nágel families, 1940-1945 and more

Letters and postcards written by Alfréd Nobel, a forced laborer in forced labor battalions, to his wife Alfrédné Violetta (Nágel) Nobel and to the Nobel and Nágel families, 1940-1945 and more - Postcards sent to Alfrédné (Nágel) Nobel by her husband Alfréd during his time of service in Labor Battalion Nos. IX/5 and 101/303 in various places in Hungary, 1940-1945; - Post card sent by Alfréd Nobel to his father Elek Nobel and his mother Tata Nobel while serving in labor battalions, 31 July 1940; - Letter from Alfréd Nobel to Nicolette Nikolette Nágel Nagel and Marietta Nágel in Budapest (in its original...

File Number : 2177

Type of Material : Letter, Document

Language : Hungarian

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 Meir Andrash Weiss, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1934, regarding the Budapest ghetto and hiding in the Jewish gymnasium under the auspices of a Hungarian officer

Testimony

Testimony of Meir Andrash Weiss, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1934, regarding the Budapest ghetto and hiding in the Jewish gymnasium under the auspices of a Hungarian officer Family background; his father owns a printing house; life before the war; studies in a Hungarian school; enlistment of his father to labor battalions, 1940; management of the family business by his mother. German occupation, 1944; duty to wear a yellow badge; dropping out of school; an attempt by his mother to flee to the province with the witness and his brother; ban on train travel; confiscation of printing machines in the family...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yehuda Miklosh Vinter Talmon, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1929, regarding his experiences in Budapest including living in a marked house and in hiding

Testimony

Testimony of Yehuda Miklosh Vinter Talmon, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1929, regarding his experiences in Budapest including living in a marked house and in hiding Residence in the Christian Quarter; displays of antisemitism; transfer to a Jewish school, 1939. Drafting of the witness' brother into a labor battalion, 1943; German occupation, 1944; confiscation of the family shop and its inventory; deportation to marked houses; air-raids on his street and the nearby railroad station; harassment by Arrow Cross men; Salaszi's revolution; turning to the Church and asking for help; acceptance into a protected...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Lili Liliana (Mulbauer) Gelberman, born in Sovata, Romania, 1927, regarding her experiences in Sovata, in the Targu Mures Ghetto, Auschwitz, Theresienstadt and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Lili Liliana (Mulbauer) Gelberman, born in Sovata, Romania, 1927, regarding her experiences in Sovata, in the Targu Mures Ghetto, Auschwitz, Theresienstadt and other places Life before the war; religious family. Re-annexation to Hungary, 1944; German occupation, April 1944; wears a yellow badge; deportation to the Targu Mures Ghetto, April 1944; deportation to Auschwitz on a train; camp life; daily selection; suicides by inmates; fasting on Yom Kippur; large selection, October 1944; transfer in freight cars to Germany; camp life including labor in a tank parts factory; labor in shifts;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Shoshana Rozalia (Perel) Magen, born in Lunca De Jos, Romania, 1932, regarding her experiences as a child in Lunca De Jos, the Szabolcs refugee camp, the Magdolna refugee camp and in hiding in Budapest Life before the war. Deportation order from Lunca De Jos, 1940; escape to Budapest with her mother and siblings; transfer to the Magdolna refugee camp, transfer to the Szabolcs refugee camp; transfer to an orphanage for Jewish girls; German occupation, 1944; Germans take over the girls' orphanage building; transfer of the girls to the boys' orphanage; changing the orphanage into a Red Cross...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Aharon Solomon, born in Bogarovice, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Mukacevo Ghetto, Auschwitz, Mauthausen and Gusen

Testimony

Testimony of Aharon Solomon, born in Bogarovice, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Mukacevo Ghetto, Auschwitz, Mauthausen and Gusen Well-to-do family who are landowners and owners of a farm, department store and a mortgage bank; investments in Eretz Israel by his mother, with the help of emissaries. Outbreak of the war; annexation to Hungary, 1940; anti-Jewish restrictions; forced labor digging bunkers and in agriculture in exchange for food; deportation to the Mukacevo Ghetto in a brick factory; deportation to Auschwitz; selection; murder of his mother and sisters; labor as a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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