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Testimony of Melvina Malka Avrahami, born in Pavlovo, Czechoslovakia, 1924, regarding the deportation to the Munkac Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Melvina Malka Avrahami, born in Pavlovo, Czechoslovakia, 1924, regarding the deportation to the Munkac Ghetto Family background; life before the war. Entry of the Hungarians, 1938; lifestyle changes for worse; food rationing; a ban on Christian doctors to treat Jews; refusal to treat her sister and her death in a hospital; sewing studies at Munkac; transfer to Svalava; German occupation; deportation to the Munkac ghetto by Hungarian gendarmes; *Second part of the testimony is missing, the witness refused to continue being interviewed.

Type of Material : Testimony

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 Adela Udel (Ehrenfeld) Gitli, born in Tamaseni, Romania, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Satu Mare Ghetto and Auschwitz

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Testimony of Adela Udel (Ehrenfeld) Gitli, born in Tamaseni, Romania, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Satu Mare Ghetto and Auschwitz Her childhood; good neighborly relations with the Hungarians. Outbreak of the war; annexation to Hungary; termination of her studies; eviction from their home; transfer to Satu Mare; German occupation, March 1944; deportation to the Satu Mare Ghetto; ghetto life including mutual help; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life including forced labor digging anti-tank trenches for approximately eight months; approach of the Red Army; death march; liberation by the US...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ester Agnes (Fishel) Efrat, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1933, regarding her experiences as a child in a protected house and in the Budapest Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Ester Agnes (Fishel) Efrat, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1933, regarding her experiences as a child in a protected house and in the Budapest Ghetto Life before the war; from a well-to-do Orthodox family. German occupation, March 1944; yellow badge; confiscation of valuables; concentration of the Jews in Jewish homes; deportation of her father and her mother to a camp; transfer of her parents to the place; transfer of her parents to another camp; transfer together with her siblings to a protected house; receiving protective documents; receiving information regarding the location of her parents;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Esther Veronika (Katz) Kraus, born in Kecskemet, Hungary, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Kecskemet Ghetto and in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Allendorf and Melsungen camps

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Testimony of Esther Veronika (Katz) Kraus, born in Kecskemet, Hungary, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Kecskemet Ghetto and in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Allendorf and Melsungen camps Life before the war. Deportation to a brick factory with the Jews; transfer to the Kecskemet Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz- Birkenau, 01 July 1944; camp life; transfer to Allendorf with a group of women, including her sister; camp life; forced labor; transfer to a room in the Revier, the camp hospital; receives lighter labor; transfer on a death march; the Germans flee; escape to a house belonging to the Hitler-Jugend...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Eliezer Laci Grunwald, born in Szombathely, Hungary, 1927, regarding his experiences in Szombathely and in hiding in Budapest

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Testimony of Eliezer Laci Laszlo Grunwald, born in Szombathely, Hungary, 1927, regarding his experiences in Szombathely and in hiding in Budapest Life before the war; Hanoar Hatzioni activities; help to refugees from Austria, 1938. Anti-Jewish legislation, 1939; expulsion from high school; transfer to Budapest, 1943; German occupation, March 1944; confiscation of property; work in a factory; confiscation of the factory by the Germans; forced labor in the factory; turning the factory into a camp; receipt of the last letter from his mother; deportation of his mother and his family to Auschwitz; escape to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Elisheva Bozi Erzhebet Bozhena Kaufman, born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, 1937, regarding her experiences as a child in Brno and in the Budapest Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Elisheva Bozi Erzhebet Bozhena Kaufman, born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, 1937, regarding her experiences as a child in Brno and in the Budapest Ghetto Life before the war. Escape to Budapest with her family, 1940; deportation of her father to the Soviet Union for forced labor; escape to a marked house; arrest of her mother on a streetcar; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; transfer to orphanages; life in the Budapest Ghetto; liberation by the Red Army. Fear of rape by Red Army soldiers; hiding of Jewish girls; life in various orphanages; move to a DP camp; legal aliya to Eretz Israel with a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Szimha Otto Weisz, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1930, regarding his experiences in hiding, in a marked house, performing forced labor and in an orphanage in Budapest

Testimony

Testimony of Szimha Otto Weisz, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1930, regarding his experiences in hiding, in a marked house, performing forced labor and in an orphanage in Budapest From a well-established secular family. German occupation, 1944; his oldest brother is drafted to a labor battalion; in hiding in the home of a Hungarian woman; move to a marked house; work digging anti-tank trenches; hospitalization; transfer on foot during air-raids and shooting; life in a Jewish orphanage; liberation by the Red Army, January 1945. Joins the Zionist movement; unsuccessful aliya attempt to Eretz Israel, 1946;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Itschak Bronstein Sheffer Seffer, born in Nizni Studeny, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Iza Ghetto, Auschwitz, Mauthausen and Ebensee

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Testimony of Itschak Bronstein Sheffer Seffer, born in Nizni Studeny, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Iza Ghetto, Auschwitz, Mauthausen and Ebensee Life before the war. Annexation to Hungary, 1938; violence of the Hungarian gendarmes; deportation to Jazlowiec, summer 1941; life as refugees; work for a Ukrainian farmer using a false identity; mass murders of Jews; family is hidden by a Ukrainian employer; crosses the border illegally and return to Nizni Studeny; hiding during the re-deportation of the family; German occupation, March 1944; deportation to the Iza Ghetto; deportation...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Joint testimony of Zipora Feiga (Altman) Levi, born in Mezokovacshaza, Hungary, 1924, and her cousin Hendel Vera (Iungreis) Shreter, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1928, regarding their experiences in the Miskolc Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Krakow, Wiesau and Langenbielau Both Zipora and Hendel are first-born daughters; both are the daughters of regional community rabbis; attendance at Jewish elementary schools; lessons at home. German occupation, March 1944; ghetto life from May 1944; yellow badge; help from Hungarian neighbors in obtaining food; deportation to the Miskolc Ghetto; shearing of the beards of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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