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List of inventory of the property of the Kőrösi family, from Cegléd, Hungary, 1944

List of inventory of the property of the Kőrösi family, from Cegléd, Hungary, 1944 - Included is a translation of the list to Hebrew by a cousin of Miklós Zvi Kőrösi. Comments by the submitter of the material: - The submitter of the material, Miklós Zvi Kőrösi, was born in Cegléd, Hungary, 04 September 1927; - His father, Jenő Kőrösi, born in 1888, was a merchant who owned a delicatessen shop; - His mother, Margit (Klein) Kőrösi, born in 1892, was a housewife and assisted in the shop; - His sister Magda was born in Cegléd, 1932.

File Number : 484

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : Hungarian

Personal documents of Avigdor Gyozo Berger, born in Vác, Hungary, 16 November 1928, from the period of his stay in the Ecksberg hospital in the Muehldorf area, and in Prague, after his liberation from Muehldorf camp by the US Army - Certificate from the Muehldorf municipality confirming that Gyozo Berger is an Hungarian citizen, dated, 11 June 1945; - Certification regarding the hospitalization of Gyoezoe Berger, issued by the Ecksberg hospital near Muehldorf, 20 June 1945; - Document from the US Army regarding the liberation of Gyozo Berger; Berger was an inmate in Dachau, Birkenau and Muehldorf...

File Number : 717

Type of Material : Personal Documents

Language : Czech, English, German

Correspondence and personal documentation belonging to the Hartman family in Pap, Hungary, 1926-1994

Correspondence and personal documentation belonging to the Hartman family in Pap, Hungary, 1926-1994 - Farewell letter from Joseph Hartman to his brother Eugene Hartman in Pap a short time prior to Eugene's emigration to Canada, March 1926; - Letter from Miklós in Pap to his brother Joseph Hartman in the United States, 1942; - Letter from Miklós Nicholas Hartman to President Roosevelt requesting a student visa in order to continue studying medicine (copy), 29 December 1939; - Certification from UNRRA issued to Leslie Hartman, that Miklós and Zoltan Hartman perished in Dachau, their father Adolf...

File Number : 1966

Type of Material : Investigation Report, Letter, Legal Documentation, Official Documentation

Language : English, Hungarian

Testimony of Kalman Meyer Schweiger, born in Szeged, Hungary, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Szeged Ghetto and deportation to Auschwitz

Testimony of Kalman Meyer Schweiger, born in Szeged, Hungary, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Szeged Ghetto and deportation to Auschwitz Life in Szeged during the war; imposition of restrictions on the Jews; deportation of Jews to labor battalions; yellow badge as a way of separating Jewish and non-Jewish workers; transfer with the Jews to the Szeged Ghetto under the supervision of the Hungarian police, March 1944; ghetto life; guarding of the ghetto by Hungarian gendarmes under the command of Imri Pinta; Hungarian gendarmes' weapons and uniforms; transfer with the Jews to a brick factory;...

File Number : 8518

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letter written by Red Army soldier B. A. Spivak regarding the extermination of the Jews in the city of Szeged

Letter written by Red Army soldier B. A. Spivak regarding the extermination of the Jews in the city of Szeged Red Army soldier B. A. Spivak entered the city of Szeged, Hungary, with the Red Army forces; there he photographed a synagogue which the Germans had made into a warehouse of items confiscated from the Jews; the photographs are attached to his letter. Spivak tells that when they entered Szeged, the Germans established a ghetto in several structures around the synagogue which was turned into a warehouse; according to Spivak, the Jews in the ghetto were later murdered with gas trucks.

File Number : 198

Type of Material : Photograph

Language : Russian

Letter written by Meshulam and Etel Herstik, together with their two daughters, Alice and Rachel, from Máramarossziget, 17 April 1944, just before they went into the Máramarossziget Ghetto, to their son and brother, Otto Herstik, serving in a Hungarian Army labor battalion Notes from Otto Herstik, the submitter: The Herstik family hid the letter with their housemaid who returned it to them at the end of the war; Alice Aliza (Herstik) Zusman was born in Máramarossziget in 1925; Otto Herstik was born in Máramarossziget in 1921; Rachel Herstik was born in 1923; they were born in Transylvania under Romanian...

File Number : 1807

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Hungarian

Testimony of Emil Friedmann, regarding his experiences in Gyergyó, forced labor in Hungarian Army labor battalions at the Soviet front, and deportation to the Dachau and Mühldorf camps

Testimony

Testimony of Emil Friedmann [born in 1914], regarding his experiences in Gyergyó, forced labor in Hungarian Army labor battalions at the Soviet front, and deportation to the Dachau and Mühldorf camps From an observant family in Gyergyó, Transylvania; his parents were Farkas and Regina (Adler) Friedmann; his siblings were Izidor, Eugénia, Sándor, Artúr, Margit, Ernő, Henrich; his father served in the Hungarian Army during World War I, was wounded in battle, and died of his wounds in 1916, when the witness was two years old; harsh economic conditions; learning at a cheder from a young age; attendance at a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

Memoirs of Bracha (Grosberger) Socher, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1928, regarding her experiences in Budapest, on the Kasztner train, in Bergen-Belsen camp and in Switzerland

Memoirs of Bracha (Grosberger) Socher, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1928, regarding her experiences in Budapest, on the Kasztner train, in Bergen-Belsen camp and in Switzerland Life in Budapest, until June 1944. Life on the Kasztner train; Bergen-Belsen camp life; transfer to Switzerland .

File Number : 8234

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Haim Gunsberger Genizi, born in Budapest, Hungary in 1934, regarding his experiences as a child in a protected house and in the Budapest Ghetto

Testimony of Haim Gunsberger Genizi, born in Budapest, Hungary in 1934, regarding his experiences as a child in a protected house and in the Budapest Ghetto Life before the war; implementation of anti-Jewish legislation during the 1930s; Hiding of refugees from Austria and Slovakia; antisemitism by the non-Jewish population; transfer of his father to service in the labor battalions, 1940; release of his father, approximately one year later; German occupation, March 1944; appropriation of the Jewish school building, and halting of the studies; wearing a yellow badge; confiscation of property; marking of...

File Number : 13245

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Edith Charna Ita (Lando) Weinberger, born in Vasarosnameny, Hungary, 1930, regarding her experiences as a child in the Berehovo Ghetto, Hiesov camp, Nuernberg camp, Auschwitz and other places Life before the war. Deportation of Jews to Ukraine and murder of Jews there; draft of her father to a labor battalion within the Hungarian Army; confiscation of valuables by the Hungarian gendarmes; German occupation, 1944; yellow badge; concentration with the Jews in a synagogue; deportation to the Berehovo Ghetto; ghetto life; deportation via train to Auschwitz; death of people on the train; camp...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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