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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 Zelman Buchbinder, born in Ternovo, Czechoslovakia, in 1926 regarding the deportation to Auschwitz, Plaszow and regarding the labor camp Mauthausen

Childhood in Ternovo; community life in Ternovo; good relations between Jews and non-Jews in Ternovo; invasion of the Hungarians in 1939; recruiting the elder brothers to Hungarian labor camps; anti-Jewish legislation;riots; harming the rabbi of the community; German occupation; deportation of the family to Mateszalka ghetto, Hungary in March 1944; conditions in the ghetto; diseases; yellow badge; deportation of the family to Auschwitz Birkenau; "aktion" by Mengele; crematorium; starvation; death of family members; transfer to Plaszow camp,Poland about 2 weeks later; beating of inmates; murder of inmates by the...

File Number : 13776

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Tzipora Frieda (Markovitz) Nemesh, born in Mukačevo, Czechoslovakia in 1919, regarding her experiences in Mukačevo Ghetto and Auschwitz-Birkenau and Zittau camps

Testimony of Tzipora Frieda (Markovitz) Nemesh, born in Mukačevo, Czechoslovakia in 1919, regarding her experiences in Mukačevo Ghetto and Auschwitz-Birkenau and Zittau camps Life before the war; receiving a Hebrew education; activity in Hashomer Hatza’ir youth movement; publication of blood libel; German occupation in March 1944; expulsion to ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; murder of part of the family in camp; transfer to Zittau about six months later; life in camp; labor in factory; liberation by Red Army; life after the war; aliya to Israel in 1956; absorption.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

The testimony of Liza Lotte Lily (Weiner) Bruml, born in 1923 in Trutnov, , Czechoslovakia - regarding her childhood in Trutnov and in the Theresienstadt Ghetto.

The testimony of Liza Lotte Lily (Weiner) Bruml, born in 1923 in Trutnov, Czechoslovakia. Childhood in Trutnov; escaping with family members before the annexation of the Sudetenland by Germany in 1938; moved to the area of the border with the Czechoslovakia; life on a relative's farm for a few weeks; move to Prague; the German occupation; her brother's illegal immigration to Eretz Israel in 1939; life under the Nazi regime; restrictions imposed on the Jews; deportation of the parents and the grandmother to the Theresienstadt Ghetto in 1942; death of her grandmother; life in the ghetto; parents’ labor in a...

File Number : 13502

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

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

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Esther Leib née Rath, born in 1919 in Beclean, Romania, about her experiences in Beclean, the Dej ghetto, Bergen-Belsen, Auschwitz, and elsewhere

Testimony of Esther Leib née Rath, born in 1919 in Beclean, Romania, about her experiences in Beclean, the Dej ghetto, Bergen-Belsen, Auschwitz, and elsewhere Life before the war; Hungary reannexes the area in 1940; anti-Jewish legislation; German occupation ensues in March 1944; the yellow star edict; deportation to the Dej ghetto; dispossession, musual aid; abuse; three weeks later: deportation to Auschwitz and separation from family; life in the camp; roll calls; mutual aid; hunger; three months later: transfer to Bergen-Belsen; life in the camp on Yom Kippur; the front closes in and the camp is...

File Number : 13446

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yisrael Zoldan Ben Meir Lax, born in 1920 in Selce (Siltse), Podkarpatska Rus, Czechoslovakia, about service in the Hungarian Armlabor brigades, 1939–1943, and deportation to Auschwitz in 1944

Testimony about an Orthodox family: transition to Hungarian rule in 1938; service in the labor brigades in October 1939–December 1943; infrastructure work in Ukrainian territory; non Jews' testimonies about murder of Jews in Kolomyja; murder of witness's family in Kamieniece Podolski; back to Siltse in December 1943; German occupation ensues in March 1944; building fences in the Chust ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz in June 1944; clearing rubble in the Warsaw ghetto; forced to march to Kraków, with mass mortality; transfer to Dachau; construction of the Kaufering camp; epidemic typhus; burying the dead in...

File Number : 13678

Type of Material : Testimony

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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