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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Klára Lavičková and Alžbeta Rosová, sisters née Brodi, born in Zabokreky, about their experiences in 1939–1945

Memoirs of Klára Lavičková and Alžbeta Rosová, sisters née Brodi, born in Zabokreky, about their experiences in 1939–1945 Memoirs of Klára Lavičková, pp. 2–14: Establishment of independent Slovakia in March 1939; anti-Jewish rules and regulations; Klára is fired from her job with a Jewish-owned company due to the company’s “Aryanization”; working as a seamstress in Bielice; anti-Jewish atmosphere in Zabokreky; young Jews mobilized for service in labor camps under Slovakian Army auspices; Klára deported to the Patronka camp on March 27, 1942, and then, several days later, to Auschwitz; shaving of hair;...

File Number : 3680

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Slovak, Czech

Documentation of the Taglicht family of Bresov, Czechoslovakia, 1926–1958, and testimony about concealment of the Taglicht family

Members of the family: - Josef Taglicht, born in 1901 in Brezov; his wife Margita Taglicht, born in 1911 in Chicago; and their children, Elvira and Eduard Taglicht - Amalia Taglicht and Mojžíš Taglicht, Josef's parents. Also in the file: - testimony of Jan Mihočk, 1958, about concealment of the Taglichts from September 1, 1944, to April 1945; - stamp of the Municipality of Priepasné; - certificate from Bratislava, 1947, with the names of members of the Diamant, Nagel, Salomon, and Schwarz families who perished in the Holocaust. Submitter's remarks: The Taglicht family owned a wool and leather...

File Number : 197

Type of Material : Certification, Letter, Personal Documents

Language : Slovak, English

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Reuven Noiman, born in 1931 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, about hiding in the mountains, obtaining an "Aryan" document, and living under a false identity until the end of the war

Testimony

Testimony of Reuven Noiman, born in 1931 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, about hiding in the mountains, obtaining an "Aryan" document, and living under a false identity until the end of the war Family background; father manages the Jewish National Fund account in Bratislava; life before the war; Bratislava bombarded in 1939; family moves from one apartment to another in town; witness sent to grandparents' home in Belke Visha in 1943; Slovak Uprising; mother and sister join witness in Belke Visha; hiding with other families in a castle; servant in the castle warns about approach of Germans bearing lists of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs written by Ruth Weiss entitled "I was there", regarding her experiences in Prague, Theresienstadt, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Neugaul, Bergen Belsen and more

Memoirs written by Ruth Weiss entitled "I was there", regarding her experiences in Prague, Theresienstadt, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Neugaul, Bergen Belsen and more Transfer to Prague; imposition of restrictions on the Jews; dismissal of her father from his job because he was Jewish; wearing a yellow badge; distribution of special food vouchers for Jews; work in different places thanks to her Slavic appearance and knowledge of the German language; transfer to Theresienstadt; life in Theresienstadt; hunger; work in the lice disinfection and treatment station; transfer of the children from Bialystok (who were...

File Number : 10037

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yuri Joseph Gonen Feldman, born in Zitavske Knazice, , Czechoslovakia, 1929, regarding his experiences being hidden by a Slovak couple on a farm in a village

Testimony

Testimony of Yuri Joseph Gonen Feldman, born in Zitavske Knazice,, Czechoslovakia, 1929, regarding his experiences being hidden by a Slovak couple on a farm in a village Childhood; attendance at a Czechoslovak elementary school; the synagogue that served the Jews of his village and those of the surrounding area was located in the witness's courtyard; displays of antisemitism before the war; Slovakian fascist regime; decrees; yellow star; arrest and deaths of his parents and sick grandmother; arrival in the village of a Jewish couple named Brichta who arranged for him to be hidden by a farming couple in a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew