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Testimony of Moshe (Dezho) David, born in Gurghiu, Romania, 1927 regarding his experiences in Kaufering and additional camps

Testimony

Childhood; family background; the murder of his father by Romanians, 1934; attends a Romanian school and moves to learn in a workshop in Cluj; Annexation of the area to Hungary; German invasion, 1944; yellow badge; concentration of the Jews in a brick factory; deportation to Auschwitz camp; transfer to Kaufering camp; positive treatment by the German labor manager; labor in an underground factory for airplane production; transfer to Dachau; death march towards Bad-Toelz; liberation; Return to Gurghiu and Cluj; aliya training in Timisoara; illegal immigration to Eretz Israel and exile to Cyprus; digging...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Lottie Grussgott, born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 1928, regarding her experiences in Frankfurt am Main, Brussels, France and the Malines camp

Memoirs of Lottie Grussgott, born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 1928, regarding her experiences in Frankfurt am Main, Brussels, France and the Malines camp Life before the war. Life under the Nazi regime; anti-Jewish legislation; Kristallnacht; unsuccessful attempt of her father to escape to the Netherlands; capture of her father by a Dutch border guard and his return to Germany; deportation of her father to Buchenwald; being watched over along with her brother Leon by her older sister, Dora,13, because their mother was ill; release of her father from Buchenwald because he had a visa to go to England;...

File Number : 8629

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : French

Testimony of Miriam Klopper Fogel, born in Zagreb, Croatia in 1937, regarding her experiences in Budapest, in Austria, in labor camps, and on the death march

Testimony

Testimony of Miriam Klopper Fogel, born in Zagreb, Croatia in 1937, regarding her experiences in Budapest, in Austria, in labor camps, and on the death march Her nuclear family; parents’ occupations; way of life; Sabbaths and holidays; establishment of Croatian state in April 1941; the Ustaše organization; escape with mother to Budapest under false identity; conditions in Budapest; move to Sombor and living in uncle’s home; kindergarten; Passover in uncle’s home; expulsion to brick factory and from there to Baja Ghetto by Hungarian gendarmes; father’s draft to labor brigades of the Hungarian army; murder of...

File Number : 13691

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Anita (Derman) Mark, born in Chernowitz, Romania, 1923, regarding her experiences in Bratslav, the Tulchin Ghetto, the Mogilev Ghetto and Tiraspol, 1942-1944

Memoirs of Anita (Derman) Mark, born in Chernowitz, Romania, 1923, regarding her experiences in Bratslav, the Tulchin Ghetto, the Mogilev Ghetto and Tiraspol, 1942-1944 - Birth certificate of Josif Mark, born in Sibiu, Romania, 1925; father's name: Avram Mark; - Experiences of Josif Mark in Temesvár, Craiova and Bucharest and his aliya to Eretz Israel on the ship "Maritsa" via Constanta and Istanbul, 1935-1945; - Experiences of Leon Leizer Derman, born in Stanislawow, Poland, 1877; - Letter from Leon Derman to Anita as part of the biography about him, 26 January 1955. Testimony of Anita (Derman)...

File Number : 8591

Type of Material : Memoirs, Document, Testimony

Language : Hebrew, German

Testimony of Malka Stern née Grinberger, born in 1926 in Ganice, Czechoslovakia, about her experiences in Ganice, the Mateszalka ghetto, and the Birkenau and Lübberstedt camps during the war

Life before the war; offspring of a religious family; good relations with the non-Jewish population; Hungary re-annexes the area in 1939; family business license evoked; father deported to a labor camp in 1941; neighbors who lack Hungarian citizenship deported; refugees from Poland arrive; German occupation ensues in March 1944; witness deported to the Mateszalka ghetto; robbed of jewelry; deported to Auschwitz on Shavuot 1944; escapes from a group being transferred in the camp to a crematorium; sent to Lübberstedt in summer 1944; life in the camp; manufacturing bombs; the front closes in and the camp is...

File Number : 13558

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Itzhak Revah, born in Greece, regarding his experiences during the war

Memoirs of Itzhak Revah, born in Greece, regarding his experiences during the war The witness is sent by the Jewish Brigade to Thessaloniki; taken captive by the Germans; escape en route to Germany; arrival to Stalag 7A and Stalag 4B camps; forced labor in various places; liberation by the US Army.

File Number : 8417

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Nachum Landman Ben-Artzi, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1931, regarding his experiences in Cernauti, Teplik, Bershad, Iasi, Roman and other places

Memoirs of Nachum Landman Ben-Artzi, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1931, regarding his experiences in Cernauti, Teplik, Bershad, Iasi, Roman and other places Deportation of the family to the Cernauti Ghetto at the outbreak of the war; deportation of the family to Transnistria; transfer to the Teplik camp with his parents; camp life including forced labor; decision of the Germans to murder the children and inmates unfit for work; in hiding with additional children during the "Aktion"; escape with his mother; transfer to a nearby village; he and his mother are turned in to the police by a Ukrainian farmer;...

File Number : 8264

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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File Number : 13509

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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