Transcript of an interview with Hana (Vohryzková) Stiborová, born in Prague regarding her experiences, 1939-1951
The life of Hana Vohryzková with her parents and her younger sister Věra in Brno, in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia; anti-Jewish legislation; prohibition on attendance of Jewish children in schools; attending private lessons in private homes; transfer to Norway with her sister and other children as part of a Red Cross arrangement, 1939; return to their parents in Brno with her sister after the German occupation of Norway, 1940; deportation of her family to the Theresienstadt Ghetto,...
Memoirs of Avraham Stahl, regarding his stay in Westerbork camp as a child
Westerbork camp life and the experience among the children; songs which they sang; he studies in an improvised school.
Testimony of Yitzhak Weisz Livnat, born in Sevlus, Czechoslovakia, 1930, regarding his experiences in the children's block in Auschwitz and a death march
Zionist family; his father manages a farm for a Hungarian noble; family with five children; attends a Hebrew elementary school and a Hungarian high school.
German occupation, March 1944; deportation with his family to the ghetto, April 1944; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau in a cattle car with all his family members, except for his eldest brother who was drafted to a labor battalion; separation from his family; life in the children's block; survives...
Testimony of Emil Klausz, born in 1929, regarding his experiences in the Munkács Ghetto and in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Gleiwitz, Buchenwald and other camps
[Deportation to the] Munkács Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; arrival to Auschwitz-Birkenau camp on 27/05/1944; selection, and he remains with his father and uncle; exchange of clothes for inmates clothing; transfer to the block, tattooing with an inmate's number, and transfer to a quarantine camp; quarantine camp life; transfer of inmates to various labor assignments, a week later; he is selected, along with his uncle, for labor in the Müllfanrer...
Testimony of Avraham Fuks, born in Nitra,Czechoslovakia,in 1937, regarding his experiences in hiding in Nitra and in " children's barracks" in camp of Auschwitz.
Childhood in Nitra before war; Slovakia becoming occupied by nazis,March 1939; persecutions of Jewish population; anti-Jewish legislation; wearing yellow badge; collecting of jews of Nitra,summer 1942; issuing certificate of"useful to the Slavak economy" for his father with help of manager of factory where he worked; family is taken off the deportation train thanks to father's certificate; further living under constant threat of deportation until...
P.75 - Rachel Minc collection
Rachel Minc (born in Lodz, Poland, in 1899 and died in 1978) is a Polish-born French Jewish educator and writer who worked for the rescue of Jewish children during the Second World War.
She studied educational psychology and pedagogy in Berlin, and then in the Scandinavian countries, where she met the anti-fascist pedagogue Minna Specht, founder, with Leonard Nelson, of the German resistance movement to Nazism, the Internationaler Sozialistischer Kampfbund (ISK). This movement was banned by the Nazis in 1933 and after the war allied with the German Social Democratic...
Testimony of Itzhak Marcel Cohen,born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, in 1939' regarding his experiences in Bratislava, in the Sered camp, in Nitra and in the Auschwitz and Birkenau camps.
Childhood in Bratislava before war; Jewish community institutions; deportation to Sered; birth of his brother in camp; his grandmother works as kitchen manager; grandfather's , father's and mother's work; family escape to region of Nitra,1944; agreement between Rabbi Schmuel Unger and German authorities regarding keeping control of the "Yeshiva" area as a safe region for Jews; family escapes back to Bratislava after one...
Testimony of Silvia Davidovitz (Veis), born in Sacalaseni,Romania,in 1929, regarding her deportation to Auschwitz and her working in factory in Boizenburg.
Family background; family's moving to Baia Mare; outbreak of war; entering ghetto; staying for about a month in ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; staying there for about 3 months; transfer to labour camp in Boizenburg near Hamburg; staying in factory until Spring 1945; going on death march; end of war; return home; mother's re-marriage; joining the "aliya training" in Romania; aliya to Israel; exile to Cyprus; aliya to Israel,1948; rehabilitation and...