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Testimony of Arie Likht, born in Hajduszoboszlo, Hungary, 1924 regarding his experiences in Hungary during the war period

Testimony

His parents' home; antisemitism; move to Budapest, 1942; German occupation, March 1944; obligation to report for labor clearing rubble; restrictions on movement; yellow badge; drafting order; transfer to Szolnok; labor in a military factory, July 1944; sorting of skilled workers; drafting into the Hungarian Army and deployment to the front; approach of the Soviet front; retreat; Horthy's declaration, 1944; expulsion from the Hungarian Army; concentration of the Jewish soldiers and transfer to the Austrian border; transfer into the hands of the German Army, Sopron; labor building fortifications along the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mirka (Klaver) Zaklikovski, born in Lodz, Poland, 1927, regarding the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, and other camps, 1940-1945

Testimony

Childhood before the war; Outbreak of the war; arrival of refugees from Czechoslovakia and Germany; restrictions; deportation to the ghetto; curfew; forced labor; taking of her father to forced labor; "Aktions"; public hangings of Jews; escapes from the ghetto; cultural life in the ghetto; liquidation of the ghetto; transfer to labor camps in Germany; working in a weapons factory; reasonable treatment by the Germans; liberation by the British Army; Rebuilding life after the war; aliya to Israel, 1949.

File Number : 13855

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Bina (Iankovitz) Iakab, born in Stefanesti, Romania, 1934 regarding the deportation of the Jews of Stefanesti and wanderings in Romania

Testimony

Childhood in Stefanesti; Deportation from Stefanesti, 1941; looting of property by the local population; move to Sulita; deportation of the Jews of Sulita; transfer to Harlau; yellow badge; restriction of movement; antisemitism; hunger; liberation by the Red Army, 1944; Life after the war; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947; exiled to Cyprus; return aliya to Eretz Israel, 1948.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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

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 Ze'ev Yitzhaki, born in Iasi, Romania, 1936, regarding his experiences in Iasi during the war

Testimony

Testimony of Ze'ev Yitzhaki, born in Iasi, Romania, 1936, regarding his experiences in Iasi during the war Early childhood. Increase in anti-Semitism, 1939; anti-Jewish orders and legislation; pogrom at police stations and trains, June 1941; the bombings.Liberation by the Red Army, summer of 1944; joining the Dror organization; moving to a children's home in Piatra Neat; boarding the illegal immigrant ship Pan York, December 1947; exile to Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel, March 1948; absorption.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shnirer Tulo, born in 1927 in Krakow, Poland, regarding transfer to the Krakow ‎Ghetto in 1941 and deportation to labor camps

Testimony

Testimony of Shnirer Tulo, born in 1927 in Krakow, Poland, regarding transfer to the Krakow ‎Ghetto in 1941 and deportation to labor camps Childhood: traditional family, Jewish school, antisemitism before the war, death of his father in ‎‎1936; German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939; anti-Jewish decrees; wearing the yellow ‎badge; limitations on movement; confiscation of property, etc.; German officials taking over part ‎of the family’s apartment; transfer to the Krakow Ghetto in March 1941; the Judenrat and the ‎Jewish police; forced labor inside and outside the ghetto; Jewish underground; Nazi...

File Number : 13740

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chava (Eva) Liber Benkel, born in 1927 in Lodz, Poland, regarding the Lodz ‎Ghetto, Auschwitz and other camps

Testimony

Childhood in Lodz; antisemitism before the war; German conquest and occupation in September 1939; the yellow star; burning of synagogues; liquidation of the Lodz ghetto in April 1940; starvation; arrival of refugees; constant struggle for survival; the Judenrat; deportations to Chelmno in January 1942; typhus epidemic; השפרה in September 1942; Jewish police; working in various workshops ("ressortes"); ghetto songs; deportation to Auschwitz in summer 1944; separation from family; transfer to Langenbielau a day later; transfer to Hundsfeld Breslau several days later; work in a munitions factory; starvation;...

File Number : 13796

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

Testimony

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 Markovitz and Bar Zahava Golda, born in Uzhorod, Czechoslovakia, in 1927 regarding the Moskovitz ghetto, Auschwitz camp and Bruntal labor camp

Testimony

Childhood before the war; good relations between the local population and the Jews in Uzhorod; invasion of the Hungarians in 1938; antisemitism; looting and burning of the family property by Hungarian soldiers; yellow badge; confiscation of property by the Germans; deportation to Moskovitz ghetto in 1943; harsh physical and emotional conditions; starvation; smuggling of food; deportation to Auschwitz Birkenau; selection; separation from the family; forced labor; crematorium; starvation; brutal attitude of the kapo; gypsy inmates; clearing the corpses; roll-calls; help by the Blockalteste to the women inmates of...

File Number : 13769

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Meir Max Sherman, born in Paris, France, 1935, regarding hiding in the village of Saint Julien du Saul

Testimony

Childhood in Paris before the war; family life; German occupation, May 1940; arrest of his father following denunciation and his deportation to Drancy, 1941; yellow badge decree, early 1942; manhunt for Jews, July 1942; escape with his mother and grandfather with the assistance of a [female] French worker employed in the family business; hiding in Saint Julien du Sault; denunciation, and capture of his mother and grandfather; being smuggled to a nearby forest with the help of the partisans; return to the village after about ten days; liberation in the summer of 1944; Life after the war; aliya to Eretz...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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