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Testimony of Gover Branddshtein Agnes, born in Bustina, Czech Republic, in 1929 regarding Mateszalka ghetto, regarding deportation to Auschwitz Birkenau , Birnbaumel and others

Testimony

Parents'house; Hungarian occupation in 1939; deportation of the Jews without citizenship; getting Hungarian citizenship; studies in Mukacevo; expulsion from school in 1943; presence of people from the Arrow Cross Party in the village; curfew; yellow badge; searches at home; preparation for deportation; deportation of the father to a labor camp in 1941; moving to a small house; hiding the jewelry in the courtyard; concentration of the Jewish population in the synagogue; deportation to the Mateszalka ghetto; food parcels from the grandfather in Budapest; deportation to Auschwitz Birkenau in freight trains;...

File Number : 13705

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

באומן לנצמן Testimony of Sonia Lancman Bauman, born in 1933 in Danzig, Poland-Germany: immigration to Eretz Israel aboard the Patria in Testimony of Sonia Lantzman Bauman, born in 1933 in Danzig, Poland-Germany: immigration to Eretz Israel aboard the Patria in 1940

Childhood in a traditional home; antisemitism before the war; war breaks out; family moves to Gydinia; father arrested and released; back to Danzig; hiding in the loft of the apartment; Eretz Isarel immigration visa given by the local Jewish committee in 1940; leaving Danzig and traveling to Bratislava by rail, escorted by German soldiers; illegal immigration to Eretz Israel aboard the Patria; ship blown up by the Haganah and rescue by means of a fishing board; detention at the Atlit camp for approx. a year; release from the camp and reunited with father; several months later: exiled to Malawi, Africa; studies...

File Number : 13445

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

To be translated

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letters written by Sergeant Boh Vazac, a soldier in the British Army serving in the Middle East, to Olga Libicka in London, 1941-1943

File Number : 1634

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Czech

To be translated

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Mira Magdala Druckman Sadot, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1939, regarding her experiences in Cernauti, the Soviet Union and Bucharest

Testimony

Testimony of Mira Magdala Druckman Sadot, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1939, regarding her experiences in Cernauti, the Soviet Union and Bucharest Conversion of her mother to Judaism before her marriage; her parents make aliya to Eretz Israel, 1943; witness' life with her mother's non-Jewish parents. Red Army invasion [of Romania]; deportation of her family to the Soviet Union; her mother's sister obtains a permit for the family to move back, as Romanians of German origin; life with her Christian grandmother and grandfather; escape from Cernauti in the direction of the villages, 1941; arrival along with...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Lola (Rosenzweig) Finkelstein, born in Lodz, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences in Lodz, Krakow, the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Stutthof and Munich

Testimony

Testimony of Lola (Rosenzweig) Finkelstein, born in Lodz, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences in Lodz, Krakow, the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Stutthof and Munich Her childhood in a religious home including attending a Jewish school; antisemitism before the war. German Army occupation of Lodz, September 1939; life under German occupation including the imposition of decrees; deportation of Jews from the old city [of Lodz] by train to the Jaslo forest on the border of the Soviet Union, 1940; release of her family; move to Krakow; escape back to Lodz with her mother, with help from smugglers; death of her...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Joli Yolan (Fekete) Shalmon, born in Debrecen, Hungary, 1930, regarding her experiences in Gegeny, the Simapuszta Ghetto, Auschwitz, Kurzbach, Gross-Rosen and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Joli Yolan (Fekete) Shalmon, born in Debrecen, Hungary, 1930, regarding her experiences in Gegeny, the Simapuszta Ghetto, Auschwitz, Kurzbach, Gross-Rosen and other places Her childhood in a religious home; move to Gegeny, 1938. German Army occupation of Gegeny, March 1944; life under German occupation including the imposition of decrees, expulsion from school, yellow badge, confiscation of property and travel restrictions; concentration of the Jews in the synagogue; deportation to the Simapuszta Ghetto; concentration of the men in the ghetto, including her father, and their transfer to an...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letters written by British Army soldier Herbert Lewis Katz to his sister Rita Katz, who made aliya to Eretz Israel in the context of the Exchange Agreement with the German Templers

Letters written by British Army soldier Herbert Lewis Katz to his sister Rita Katz, who made aliya to Eretz Israel in the context of the Exchange Agreement with the German Templers Comment: - Herbert Lewis Katz was killed in a motor vehicle accident in Medjez el Bab, Tunis, 16/04/1943; - Letter from the commander of Herbert Lewis Katz, regarding his bravery as a soldier; Included in the file: - List of British Army soldiers who were killed in Medjez El Bab.

File Number : 1429

Type of Material : Photograph, List of Soldiers, Letter, List of Murdered Persons

Language : English, German

Testimony of Mina (Golobrodka) Goldberg, born in Wysokie Mazowieckie, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, Pruzana Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen

Testimony

Testimony of Mina (Golobrodka) Goldberg, born in Wysokie Mazowieckie, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, Pruzana Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen Life before the war. German occupation, September 1939; burning of most of the houses and synagogues in the city; deportation of her father and brother to labor and their return after a short time; escape to Sokole; joins her family in Bialystok; German Army retreat; Soviet occupation; return occupation by the German Army, 1941; anti-Jewish decrees; deportation to the Bialystok Ghetto; ghetto life including agricultural...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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