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Testimony of Efraim Furman, born in Wasiliszki, Poland, 1917, regarding his experiences in Biala Podlaska camp, Konskowola camp, Budzyn camp, Plaszow camp, Gross-Rosen camp and more

Testimony of Efraim Furman, born in Wasiliszki, Poland, 1917, regarding his experiences in Biala Podlaska camp, Konskowola camp, Budzyn camp, Plaszow camp, Gross-Rosen camp and more Death of his mother before the war; work of his father as a tailor; marriage of his elder brother; five siblings; service in the Polish Army before the war; Being taken prisoner by the Germans one half year after the beginning of the war; transfer to a POW camp in Stalag 1; life in Stalag 1 including forced labor in a separate regiment for Jewish POWs, until late 1940; deportation from Germany to Poland, 1941; arrival at...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

Testimony of Mózes Farkas, born in Makó, Hungary, 1927, regarding his experiences in Makó, the Makó Ghetto, the Szeged Ghetto, Auschwitz, Kaufering camp and more

Testimony of Mózes Farkas, born in Makó, Hungary, 1927, regarding his experiences in Makó, the Makó Ghetto, the Szeged Ghetto, Auschwitz, Kaufering camp and more Anti-Jewish decrees, 1944; obligation to wear a yellow band and badge; restrictions on movement; prohibition against the opening of businesses [?]; deportation to the Makó Ghetto; ghetto life including the prohibition against leaving the ghetto; transfer to the Szeged Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz on the last transport from Hungary, June 1944; travel in train cars for a period of approximately six days; arrival in Auschwitz; selection by Mengele;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yechiel Chiel Szedler, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences during the war

Testimony of Yechiel Chiel Szedler, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences during the war Included in the file: - Document with registration summary regarding his birth, produced by the population registration office in Bialystok, 05 October 1956, for Chiel Szedler, born 22 June 1922; his father's name was Abram Szedler and his mother's name was Szejna (Fiszer) Szedler; - Document with registration summary regarding her birth, produced by the population registration office in Lodz, 19 October 1956, for Sonia Gleicher, born in Polanczyk, 25 December 1921; her father's name was Abram...

File Number : 8602

Type of Material : Document, Testimony, Document, Student Project

Language : Hebrew, Polish, Russian, Yiddish, Ukrainian

Memoirs of Shamai Kizelsztejn, born in Bialystok, Poland, 19 December 1924, regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, the Bialystok prison, and in Majdanek, Blizyn, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buna and other camps Life in Bialystok under the Red Army occupation; German occupation of Bialystok; establishment of the Bialystok Ghetto; deportation to the Bialystok Ghetto; Bialystok Ghetto life including labor constructing the Krywlany airfield and forced labor constructing a road, spring 1942; detention in the Bialystok prison; transfer to Majdanek camp; transfer to Blizyn camp; camp life; transfer to...

File Number : 8594

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe Hofman, born in Sziget, Romania, 1935, regarding his experiences in Sziget, in the Sziget Ghetto and in Auschwitz

Testimony of Moshe Hofman, born in Sziget, Romania, 1935, regarding his experiences in Sziget, in the Sziget Ghetto and in Auschwitz Life in Sziget until the German occupation; Deportation to the Sziget Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; selections; camp life including receiving an inmate number #28148, and forced labor digging and building bunkers; liberation by the Red Army; Note: The brothers, Emanuel, Yoel, Alexander, Eliyahu and Michael; the sisters Leah (?), Perl (?) and Ruchele; his father's work as a melamed (religious studies teacher) in a "heder" for children aged 3-13 in Sziget; his mother...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Sheindi (Ehrenwald) Miller, born in Galanta, Slovakia, 31 December 1930, regarding her experiences in the Galanta Ghetto, Érsekújvár Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Peterswaldau labor camp Testimony of Sheindi Miller, as it appears in the "Neveh Shmuel" Yeshiva journal, 5758 (1998); - Persecution of the Jews in Galanta, 1942; deportation of women and men to forced labor; transfer to the Galanta Ghetto, April 1944; theft of Jewish property; transfer to the Érsekújvár Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau by train, including a description of the travel in freight cars for three days; selection...

File Number : 8600

Type of Material : Excerpt(s), Testimony

Language : Hebrew, Hungarian

Testimony of Yosef Goldberger, born in Dunajská Streda, Czechoslovakia, 1930, regarding his experiences in Dunajská Streda, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Mauthausen and Vienna, 1938-1945

Testimony of Yosef Goldberger, born in Dunajská Streda, Czechoslovakia, 1930, regarding his experiences in Dunajská Streda, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Mauthausen and Vienna, 1938-1945 Annexation of Dunaszerdahely - Dunajská Streda to Hungary, 1939 [it should be: 1938]; life in Dunaszerdahely until Pesach (April), 1944; German army occupation of Dunaszerdahely before Pesach (April), 1944; deportation to the Dunaszerdahely Ghetto; Dunaszerdahely Ghetto life, for approximately one month; deportation by train to Auschwitz; camp life; death of his father Gabriel Goldberger in Auschwitz; death of his mother Miriam Rachel...

File Number : 8599

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Diary kept by Elvira Ulmer in the Szolnok Ghetto and in the camps, 10 June 1944-01 April 1945, and memoirs of Dávid József Ulmer regarding his experiences during the Holocaust

Diary kept by Elvira Ulmer in the Szolnok Ghetto and in the camps, 10 June 1944-01 April 1945, and memoirs of Dávid József Ulmer regarding his experiences during the Holocaust - Diary in Hungarian written by Elvira Ulmer, including a Hebrew translation; - Memoirs of Dávid József Ulmer, as recorded by Margalit Tovi Kisus, including an interview conducted with Dávid Ulmer; The Ulmer family: Occupation of Hungary by the German Army, March 1944; life in Körösladány; deportation to the Szolnok Ghetto, June 1944; deportation to the Strasshof camp; transfer to the Heiligenkreuz camp; life in Heiligenkreuz,...

File Number : 8598

Type of Material : Interview(s), Diary, Project, Memoirs

Language : German, Hungarian

Memoirs of Meddie Silbermann, born in Romania, 1934, regarding her family's experiences in the Gura Humorului Ghetto and in Kopaygorod

Memoirs of Meddie Silbermann, born in Romania, 1934, regarding her family's experiences in the Gura Humorului Ghetto and in Kopaygorod Deportation to the Gura Humorului Ghetto; Gura Humorului Ghetto life; transfer to Transnistria; life in Kopaygorod; liberation, 1944; Return to Bukovina, 1945; her brother makes aliya to Eretz Israel via Cyprus, 1947; aliya of her family to Israel, 1950; - Mezuzah given to Yad Vashem by Meddie Silbermann; removal of the mezuzah from the door frame of their home during their deportation to the ghetto, 1940; her father kept the mezuzah and hid it in his pocket [during the...

File Number : 8597

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Rózsa Veronika (Klein) Farkash, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1937, regarding her experiences, 1944-1945

Memoirs of Rózsa Veronika (Klein) Farkash, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1937, regarding her experiences, 1944-1945 Deportation of her father Jenő Klein to Auschwitz, April 1944; transfer of her family to a protected house of the Swedish Embassy in Budapest; deportation to the Budapest Ghetto; life in the ghetto, including starvation, lice and murder; liberation by the Red Army. Life under the Communist regime in Budapest; aliya to Israel, 1955; marriage to Menáchem Farkash, 1959; life in Jerusalem. The Klein family: Death of her father in Auschwitz at age 42 (date of death is unknown; likely he was...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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