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Testimony of Sylvia Rachel Davidovicz, nee Weiss, born in Sacalaseni, Romania, in 1929, regarding her experiences in the Baia Mare ghetto and in the Auschwitz Birkenau, Boizenburg and Ludwigslust camps

Testimony of Sylvia Rachel Davidowicz, nee Weiss, born in Sacalaseni, Romania, in 1929, regarding her experiences in the Baia Mare ghetto and in the Boizenburg, Auschwitz Birkenau and Ludwigslust camps Childhood in Baia Mare; re- annexation of the place to Hungary in 1940; transfer of ownership of the father's flour mill to Hungarians in 1941; the rise of antisemitism; interruption of studies; the German occupation in 1944; deportation to the ghetto in 1944; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau camp; transfer to Boizenburg; life in the camp; transfer to work in a factory manufacturing tanks and planes; transfer...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yitzkhak Keren Klein, born in Lugoj, Romania, in 1936 regarding his experiences as a child hiding in Odorheiu

Testimony of Yitzkhak Keren Klein, born in Lugoj, Romania,in 1936 regarding his experiences a a child in hiding in Oderheiu Moving with the family to Odorheiu; re- annexation of the place to Hungary in 1940; the family gets "privileges" due to serving during World War 1; occupation in 1944; deportation of the Jewish community to camps;rescue from deportation due to their privileges; compulsory reporting to the police; facing bullying at school; finding a hiding place in a forest hut with a non-Jewish acquaintance from July 1944 till Autumn 1944; liberation; life after the war;aliya to Israel in 1950;...

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

Testimony of Regev Yisrael Gerber, born in Mukacevo, Czechoslovakia, in 1927, regarding the Garan camp, Slovakia.

Testimony

Childhood in Mukacevo; Hebrew school founded and managed by his father; life under Hungarian ruling in 1938; they received a deportation order according to which the whole family was to leave Hungary within 30 days because they didn't have a Hungarian nationality; at the same time his father got a recruitment order for the labor service within the Hungarian army in 1940;his father's service in the labour service during 9 months; return of his father and deportation of the family to the Garan detention camp, Slovakia in 1941; ( because they didn't have a Hungarian nationality); stay in the camp for a few months;...

File Number : 13774

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Eugenia Peterzeil (Itzkovitz), born in Jasina, Czechoslovakia, in 1925, regarding ‎her experiences in Jasina and Marseszalka and in Auschwitz and other camps

Testimony of Eugenia Peterzeil (Itzkovitz), born in Jasina, Czechoslovakia, in 1925, regarding ‎her experiences in Jasina and Marseszalka and in Auschwitz and other camps Hungary’s annexation of Carpatho-Ukraine in 1939; her father’s murder while in the labor ‎battalions (forced labor); roundup of the Jews at the cemetery in April 1944; deportation to ‎Mateszalka Ghetto in Hungary; Hungarian indifference; transport to Auschwitz; selections; the ‎sisters stay together; deportation to Dachau and Geislingen an der Steige; work in an arms factory; ‎liberation by the US Army in May 1945; antisemitism in...

File Number : 13771

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe Arno Porat Frish, born in Hajdunanas, Hungary in 1931 regarding his deportation to camps in Austria.

Testimony of Moshe Porat Frish, born in Hajdunanas, Hungary in 1931 He was born in an orthodox family; his father's recruitment in a labor battalion in 1943; imposing restrictions on the family business; disbelief in the rumors about the murder of Jews; concentration of the Jews of Hajdunanas in the brick factory in Debrecen for deportation in April 1944; bar mitzvah in the ghetto; deportation by convoy to Austria; death of people in the wagons; life in the camp in Vienna; working in construction; hospitalization of his brother and sister ; death march; the soldiers'abuse of the marchers; life in the...

File Number : 13744

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yehudit Berkovitz née Fridman, , born in 1933 in Szikszó, Hungary, about her experiences as a girl in Szikszo, in the Košice ghetto, and in hiding with a Hungarian peasant in Felsovadasz until winter 1945

Life before the war; refugees from Poland arrive; antisemitism; German occupation ensues in March 1944; serving German officers who invade the family home; deportation to the Košice ghetto; wearing the yellow star; living in a brickyard; family escapes from the ghetto with help from a Hungarian friend of the witness's father; finding a hideout with the friend in Felsovadasz; hiding in a granary for three and a half months; hunger, cold, and lice; liberation by Red Army forces in winter 1945; poor physical and mental condition; back to Szikszó; life after the war; immigration to Israel in 1949; adjustment to...

File Number : 13598

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chananya Lyush Abramovitz, born in Mezokovacshaza, Hungary in 1937, regarding his experiences in the Mezokovacshaza Ghetto, in the Debrecen Ghetto and in Strasshof and Sollenau camps

Testimony of Chananya Lyush Abramovitz, born in Mezokovacshaza, Hungary in 1937, regarding his experiences in the Mezokovacshaza Ghetto, in the Debrecen Ghetto and in Strasshof and Sollenau camps Life before the war; Hasidic, religious family; antisemitism; anti-Jewish legislation; fear of the gendarmes; German occupation, March 1944; deportation to the Mezokovacshaza Ghetto; attitude of the Hungarian population; transfer to the Debrecen Ghetto via the Bekescaba Ghetto; confiscation and burning of holy books and religious articles; deportation to Strasshof camp; transfer with his family to agricultural...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Erzsebet (Klinger) Roth Cohen, born in Kosice Mesto, Slovakia in 1920, regarding her experiences in Cluj, while using a false identity in Eger, and in Savar, Auschwitz-Birkenau and other camps Life as a child in Vienna before the war; Escape to Kosice Mesto in 1939; re-annexation of Kosice Mesto to Hungary in 1938; attempt to deport her to Kamenets Podolski because she has Austrian citizenship; halting of that deportation, and deportation to the Ricse detention camp in 1941; release, several months later, because she marries; escape of her family members to Cluj in 1942; German occupation,...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Ruth Palgi née Shpitz, born in 1927 in Nadost, Czechoslovakia, about her experiences in Kosice Mesto and the Auschwitz and Peterswaldau camps

Offspring of an affluent family in Nadost; impoverishment and relocation to Kosice Mesto in 1938; area reannexed by Hungary; father helps refugees to slip out of Germany; German occupation in 1944; dispossession; eviction from the faily home; Jews rounded up in a brickyard; deportation to Auschwitz in May 1944; parents and five siblings murdered; witness and sister transferred to Peterswaldau in June 1944; life in the camp; manucturing aircraft spare parts; typhus and hospitalization; liberation by Red Army forces in May 1945; back to Hungary; joining the Hashomer Hatzair movement in Slovakia; immigration to...

File Number : 13508

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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