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Testimony of Yitzhak Istvan Krauser, born in Subotica, Yugoslavia, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Subotica Ghetto, Szeged and with the partisans

Testimony

Testimony of Yitzhak Istvan Krauser, born in Subotica, Yugoslavia, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Subotica Ghetto, Szeged and with the partisans Life before the war; the Jewish community; education; his father's military service during World War I; Blau-Weiss activities; his Bar-Mitzvah celebration; relations with their non-Jewish neighbors. Annexation of the area to Hungary, April 1941; life on pre-army training in Hungary; move to Budapest; return home; family holiday; work in his father's shop; German occupation, March 1944; decrees including confiscation of property and yellow badge;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Esther (Shtekler) Shnabel, born in Ceske Budejovice, Czechoslovakia, 1923, regarding her experiences living with a priest and on a farm in Denmark

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Testimony of Esther (Shtekler) Shnabel, born in Ceske Budejovice, Czechoslovakia, 1923, regarding her experiences living with a priest and on a farm in Denmark Secular Zionist family; her father is a bank clerk; move to Jihlava, 1931; attends a non-Jewish school. Move to Prague with the onset of the German occupation; joins the Maccabi movement; dismissal of her father from his work; aliya of her parents to Eretz Israel with certificates, winter 1939; move to Denmark with Youth Aliya, October 1939; work on a farm; life with a Protestant priest; joins a Youth Aliya group. Aliya to Eretz Israel via the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zvi Heler, born in Plzen, Czechoslovakia, 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in Plzen and a village in Bohemia until 1939

Testimony

Testimony of Zvi Heler, born in Plzen, Czechoslovakia, 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in Plzen and a village in Bohemia until 1939 Middle-class family; looked after by a nanny; work of his parents in a textile shop; his parents were musicians in an orchestra; cultural life; his father is a Zionist, sportsman and member of Maccabi; displays of antisemitism; confiscation of his grandparents factory by the Germans, 1938; his grandmother came to live with them; move with his brother and mother to a farmer's in a village in Bohemia; life using a false identity; abuse in school; the German nanny...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Dvora (Polak) Ron, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1924, regarding her experiences in a teacher's home in a village in Denmark

Testimony

Testimony of Dvora (Polak) Ron, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1924, regarding her experiences in a teacher's home in a village in Denmark Well-to-do Zionist family in Prague; life before the war; her father is a Czech political activist and a Zionist activist. German occupation, 1938; membership in the Blau-Weiss youth movement; move to Denmark with a group of children under the protection of the Jewish Agency and the Danish Women's League for Peace and Freedom, November 1939; life in a teacher's home in a village including work as a housemaid for the family; social and cultural activities lead by an...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Kurt Verner, born in Moravska Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding his experiences in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Goleszow and Wolfratshausen

Testimony

Testimony of Kurt Verner, born in Moravska Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding his experiences in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Goleszow and Wolfratshausen German occupation, 1939; deportation of the family to Theresienstadt, 1942; camp life including labor in the kitchen; deportation of the family to Auschwitz-Birkenau, January 1943; murder of his parents; transfer to Goleszow; camp life including labor in a cement factory until 1944; transfer back to Auschwitz; camp life including labor as a gardener for SS officers; death march to Wolfratshausen, January 1945; liberation by the US...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Dov Oskar Strauss, born in Benesov, Czechoslovakia, 1924, regarding his experiences in Irlava and a village in Denmark

Testimony

Testimony of Dov Oskar Strauss, born in Benesov, Czechoslovakia, 1924, regarding his experiences in Irlava and a village in Denmark Move of the family to Irlava; life before the war. German occupation, 15 March 1939; decrees; work in a sweets factory; work in a metalwork workshop that was established by Maccabi Hatzair movement; move with help by the movement to Denmark; dispersion of the children to villages in western Denmark; life with a farmer family; help in farm work; German occupation in Denmark, April 1940; receives permission to make aliya, June 1940; aliya to Eretz Israel via Lebanon.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Suzi (Tieber) Weiss, born in Znojmo, 1928, regarding her experiences as a child in Znojmo, Brno, Theresienstadt, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen camp

Testimony

Testimony of Suzi (Tieber) Weiss, born in Znojmo, 1928, regarding her experiences as a child in Znojmo, Brno, Theresienstadt, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen camp Childhood as an only child in a well-to-do family in Znojmo in the Sudetenland. Entry of the Germans, 1938, and escape to Brno; life in Brno; attends a Czech school; cardiomyopathy and recovery; attends a Jewish school and is active in the Tchelet Lavan youth movement; her parents' arrest and detention, 1940; deportation to Theresienstadt; life with her mother in the barracks, January 1942; transfer about six months later to Children's...

File Number : 12136

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Arie Artur Alter, born in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, 1915, regarding his experiences in Ostrava, Nisko, Stanislawow, Siberia and in the Czech Brigade

Testimony

Testimony of Arie Artur Alter, born in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, 1915, regarding his experiences in Ostrava, Nisko, Stanislawow, Siberia and in the Czech Brigade His childhood in Ostrava; attends a Czech school; activities in the Tehelet Lavan youth movement. Deportation to Nisko in a group of 1,000 Jews; labor building a concentration camp; escape to Stanislawow, in Soviet Union territory and then he follows the Red Army to Siberia; labor logging trees; joins the Czech Brigade and participates in battles in the vicinity of Kharkov and Kiev; liberation, April 1945. Hospitalization in a hospital in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Adolf Avraham Benesh, born in Konesin, 1906, regarding his experiences in the Zionist leadership in Brno and Prague, Theresienstadt Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Kaufering camp

Testimony

Testimony of Adolf Avraham Benesh, born in Konesin, 1906, regarding his experiences in the Zionist leadership in Brno and Prague, Theresienstadt Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Kaufering camp Life before the German occupation; member of the Techelet-Lavan (Blue and White) youth movement and studying law; served in the Czechoslovakian Army; work as a lawyer; German occupation, March 1939; member as the secretary of the Zionist organization in Brno; member of the Zionist leadership in Prague; work in the Eretz Israel office negoitiating for certificates; he was the secretary for Jacob Edelstein; the head of the...

File Number : 10341

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chava Kermish, born in Volyne, 1922, regarding her experiences in Volyne, Denmark and Sweden

Testimony

Testimony of Chava Kermish, born in Volyne, 1922, regarding her experiences in Volyne, Denmark and Sweden Childhood and family background in Volyne; membership in the Blau-Weiss movement. Change in attitude of the population after the annexation of the Sudetenland to Germany; visit of the Gestapo in the family's home; receives permission to join a student exchange between Germans and Danes; move to a farm on Staetland Island in the Kobenhavn area; daily life; meeting with Hechalutz movement in the area; keeps contact with her family until 1942; escape to Gilleleje with her future husband; smuggled to...

File Number : 10163

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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