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Testimony of Mati Azaria, born in Thessaloniki, Greece, 1928, regarding her experiences in Thessaloniki and in Auschwitz

Testimony of Mati Azaria, born in Thessaloniki, Greece, 1928, regarding her experiences in Thessaloniki and in Auschwitz Death of her father; life with her mother and sister. Deportation to the "Baron Hirsch" Ghetto, for approximately two days; deportation to Auschwitz; selection; tattooing of a number on her arm; camp life including typhus disease and labor in the Aussenkommando and the Canada Kommando; receives help including from a Kapo man and from physicians; receives information about Mala, including her escape; escape of the Greeks; labor by Greeks in the Sonderkommando in Birkenau; murder of two...

File Number : 6560

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Greek

Testimony of Endrieta Molcho, born in Thessaloniki, Greece, 1924, regarding her experiences in Thessaloniki, Auschwitz and Weberei

Testimony of Endrieta Molcho, born in Thessaloniki, Greece, 1924, regarding her experiences in Thessaloniki, Auschwitz and Weberei History of her family. Deportation to Auschwitz; camp life including labor in the Aussenkommando for two months and in the Canada Kommando; transfer to Weberei; liberation by the US Army. Return to Greece; rescue of many people by Dr. Cuenca; survival of her brother.

File Number : 6552

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Greek

Testimony of Blanka (Altman) Sarid, born in Kurima, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding her experiences in prison in Bardejov, Auschwitz, Ravensbrueck, Retzow and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Blanka (Altman) Sarid, born in Kurima, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding her experiences in prison in Bardejov, Auschwitz, Ravensbrueck, Retzow and other places Religious family; her father is a cattle merchant; attends a pubic school and learns Jewish studies at home; move to Presov to study sewing; life with her grandfather on weekends. German occupation; escape with relatives to a hiding place in a forest with help from a non-Jew; move to a farmers' family in Bardejov; informed on and detention in a prison in Bardejov; deportation to Poprad with her brother; deportation to Auschwitz; camp...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Agi Ilana Hershkowitz, born in Sighet, Romania, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Sighet Ghetto, Auschwitz, Oswiecim and Malchow

Testimony

Testimony of Agi Ilana Hershkowitz, born in Sighet, Romania, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Sighet Ghetto, Auschwitz, Oswiecim and Malchow Life before the war. Annexation to Hungary; life under Hungarian occupation; German occupation, 1944; deportation to the Sighet Ghetto; ghetto life; forced labor; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life including labor in the Aussen Kommando; blowing up of the crematoria; transfer to Oswiecim, winter 1944; life in Oswiecim and labor sewing; death march to Ravensbrueck, October 1944; transfer to Malchow; disease; liberation by the Red Army in Brandenburg. Return...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Group testimony of the sisters, Helén, Eszter, Piroska and Sári Schwimmer and Margit Teichmann and Hanna Taub, born in Nagyrákóc, Czechoslovakia, regarding their experiences in the Munkács Ghetto and in Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen camps The German occupation; marking Jewish homes; being subjected to beatings by Hungarian soldiers; deportation to the Munkács Ghetto by military gendarmes; ghetto life; abuse of Hanna Taub's father; encircling the ghetto with a fence; supervision of the ghetto by Hungarian and Jewish police officers; beating Jews to death; undergoing body searches; deportation to...

File Number : 2829

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

Group testimony of Erna Moskovits, born in 1921, and Eszter Klein, born in 1926, in Ungvár, Czechoslovakia, regarding their experiences in the Ungvár Ghetto and in Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen Life in the Ungvár Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau by train, 22 April 1944; life on the road in a freight car for three days; life with crowding with between 90 to 100 people in the train car; not receiving water; arrival in the camp, 25 April 1944; selection; transfer to a shower; cropping of their hair; changing clothes into torn clothing; keeping their shoes; transfer to Camp "C"; life without...

File Number : 2689

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

Testimony of Józsefné Reichmann, born in Skotarska, Czechoslovakia, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Munkács Ghetto and in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ravensbrück and Neustadt Glewe camps

Testimony of Józsefné Reichmann, born in Skotarska, Czechoslovakia, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Munkács Ghetto and in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ravensbrück and Neustadt Glewe camps German occupation of Hungary; daily reporting at the police station; being accused of Communist activity [life in the Munkács Ghetto]; parting from her four-year-old son and her mother-in-law who were sent to the concentration camp on another transport; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau on a train; arrival in the camp, 22 May 1944; arrival in the camp; watching pits with fire; [selection] and transfer to a shower; changing...

File Number : 2655

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

Testimony of Frida Zimmermann, born in Pazdics, Slovakia, 1916, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz- Birkenau and Ravensbrück camps

Testimony of Frida Zimmermann, born in Pazdics, Slovakia, 1916, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz- Birkenau and Ravensbrück camps Deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, March 1942; arrival in the camp, 26 March 1942; camp life; labor in the (Aussenkommando) outside command together with her sister; arrival to the place of labor on foot; shooting on the way by SS soldiers; labor in clearing the rubble of houses; labor in the (Baukommando) construction labor group after three months; illness of her sister after four months; labor in sorting clothing and personal belongings for six weeks; transfer to labor as...

File Number : 2652

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : German

Testimony of Rózsi Herskovits, born in Kenézpatak, Czechoslovakia in 1929, regarding her experiences in the Beregszász Ghetto and in Auschwitz-Birkenau and Ravensbrück camps

Testimony of Rózsi Herskovits, born in Kenézpatak, Czechoslovakia in 1929, regarding her experiences in the Beregszász Ghetto and in Auschwitz-Birkenau and Ravensbrück camps Beregszász Ghetto [life]; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau camp on a deportation train; arrival to Auschwitz-Birkenau camp; she is selected immediately for labor in the Aussenkommando; labor in agriculture; allotment of food; labor from 06:00 in the morning until 18:00 in the evening; receipt of shoves and beatings from the female SS soldiers at the place of labor; residence in a barracks; washing conditions; the female inmates receive...

File Number : 2582

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

Testimony of Berko Davidovics, born in Széleslonka, Czechoslovakia in 1924, regarding his experiences in the Técső Ghetto and in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Budy, Mauthausen and other camps

Testimony of Berko Davidovics, born in Széleslonka, Czechoslovakia in 1924, regarding his experiences in the Técső Ghetto and in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Budy, Mauthausen and other camps Técső Ghetto [life]; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau [on a deportation train]; arrival to Auschwitz-Birkenau camp; selection; Birkenau camp life; receipt of very little food; receipt of beatings; receipt only of bread; transfer to Auschwitz camp, eight days later; Auschwitz camp life; receipt of more food; allotment of food; transfer to Budy camp (a camp located five kilometers from Auschwitz-Birkenau camp); Budy camp life;...

File Number : 2579

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

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