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Testimony of Shoshana Zuzi Zhuzha (Polak) Levinger, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1932 regarding her experiences in Budapest in a marked house, in the ghetto and in a children's home

Childhood in a secular family; living in various towns due to her father's work; good relations with Christians; Move to Budapest, summer 1942 or 1943; drafting of her father into a labor battalion, probably early 1944; German occupation, March 1944; air-raids; move to a marked house; move to a protected house; eviction of all the residents by members of the Arrow Cross Party, her father arrived in an army uniform and took her out of the group; continued life in the ghetto with many children; staying in shelter most of the time; liberation by the Red Army, January 1945; Joining Youth Aliyah; 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 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 Nancy Vera Rachel Arbel, born in Baktaloranthaza, Hungary, in 1826 regarding deportation to the Auschwitz Birkenau , Plaszow and Reichenbach camps

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 Mordechay (Paul Georg) Fleischer, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1926 regarding his escape to Budapest, deportation to detention camps, escape from a death march and residing in the Glass House

Childhood before the war; Fascist Slovakia, 1938; antisemitic events; Attempts to move to Budapest, Hungary, winter 1942-1943; getting arrested by Hungarian soldiers while escaping; sent back to Slovakia; escape to Hungary with the aid of a smuggler; arrival in Budapest; capture and arrest; decrees and restrictions; transferred to a prison by two Hungarian soldiers; deportation to a brick factory; escape to a marked house; capture and deportation for labor building fortifications and digging anti-tank trenches near Solnok, late October 1944; march towards Austria; escape to the Red Cross house in Budapest...

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

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

Testimony of Lu Daniel (Levi Dan), born in Sibiu, Romania in 1934, regarding his childhood in Sibiu, Arad, and Deva

Testimony of Lu Daniel (Levi Dan), born in Sibiu, Romania in 1934, regarding his childhood in Sibiu, Arad, and Deva Dismissal of his father from his position as a physician due to his Jewishness in 1939; escape with his family from Sibiu to Arad; transfer of his father to Bershad because he was a physician; expulsion from school; life in poverty; suffering from beatings by young bullies; his father’s return in 1944; Hungarian occupation; bombings of the location by the Germans; escape to Deva; life there until liberation; joining the Zionist youth movement; move to the children’s home in Apeldoorn; aliya to...

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 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 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

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