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Testimony

Testimony of Shlomo Sandor Levy, born in Nyiregyhaza, Hungary, 1919, regarding his experiences in labor battalions in various camps, including Komarom and Mohacs, in the Dunafoldvar Ghetto and the Budapest Ghetto in a Swiss protected house The immediate family; family life; Sabbath and religious holidays, studies; rabbis; synagogues and Zionist activities in the community; his father is taken captive by the Soviets in World War I; move to Budapest and studies in the Teachers' Seminary; draft to a Hungarian Army labor battalion; temporary release in order to complete studies. Transfer to forced labor in...

File Number : 13211

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yitzhak Julius Gyula Deutsch, born in Zemianska Olca, Czechoslovakia, 1921, regarding his experiences in Budapest, Bretcu, Skole and Mauthausen

Testimony

Testimony of Yitzhak Julius Gyula Deutsch, born in Zemianska Olca, Czechoslovakia, 1921, regarding his experiences in Budapest, Bretcu, Skole and Mauthausen Life before the war; move to Bratislava; move to Budapest; life in Budapest. Deportation to Bretcu; camp life including enduring humiliations; life in a hospital in Skole; smuggle of Jews to Budapest by a Jewish Brigade person; attempt to obtain forged documents from the Swiss Consulate staff; transfer to the banks of the Danube River in a group of Jews; shooting of the Jews, and his escape; joins a group of Jews and transfer to Mauthausen; life in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of A.S., born in Lwow, Poland, regarding his experiences in Poland and Romania

Testimony of A.S., born in Lwow, Poland, regarding his experiences in Poland and Romania Crosses the Romanian border from Poland, 17 September 1939; life in Romania as a refugee; attitude of the local population and Romanian government to refugees; financial assistance to the refugees; attitude of the Polish refugees to the Jews; life in the refugee camps including displays of antisemitism; end of the war. Aliya to Eretz Israel, July 1944. The testimony was recorded in 1944.

File Number : 58

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

List of Jews in France who are likely to be included in the Mandatory Palestine barter exchange, 1943

List of Jews in France who are likely to be included in the Mandatory Palestine barter exchange, 1943 The list is attached to a letter written 20 July 1943.

File Number : 43

Type of Material : List of Names

Language : French

List of Jews in France who received visas to enter Mandatory Palestine with help from the Swiss Consulate, 18 August 1943

File Number : 43

Type of Material : List of Names

Language : French

Testimony of Lea Agnes (Blau) Hoffmann, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1937, regarding her experiences as a child in a marked house, a protected house, in hiding and in the Budapest Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Lea Agnes (Blau) Hoffmann, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1937, regarding her experiences as a toddler in a marked house, a protected house, in hiding and in the Budapest Ghetto Expulsion from her home; transfer to a marked house; transfer to a Swiss protected house; in hiding in a shop; deportation to the Budapest Ghetto; liberation. Life in a village; convalescence in a sanatorium; return home.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Personal documentation belonging to Jews, including Arpad Stern and Ioan Kun, from the Holocaust period

Personal documentation belonging to Jews, including Arpad Stern and Ioan Kun, from the Holocaust period - Identity cards issued to the Jews Gabriela Ebner, Francisca Ebner, and Samuel Guttman in Cernauti; - Identification document belonging to the Jew Antal Grunfeld issued by Labor Battalion No. X/3 in Baia Mare; - Furlough authorization issued to the Jew Arpad Stern by Labor Battalion No. 102/18; - Birth certificate of Ludwig Grosz, born on 08 November 1944; - Buchenwald Prisoner's Card issued to Laszlo Schonberger; - Swiss protective passport issued to Arpad Stern by the Swiss Consulate...

File Number : 11

Type of Material : List of Names, Personal Documents

Language : Romanian, Hungarian

Correspondence regarding the deportation of the Jews of Hungary, Auschwitz and rescue efforts, particularly in Hungary, 1943-1945

Correspondence regarding the deportation of the Jews of Hungary, Auschwitz and rescue efforts, particularly in Hungary, 1943-1945 The file has two volumes. Volume 1: Pages 1-6: Letter from Moshe Krausz to Chaim Pazner regarding the deportation of Hungarian Jews and a description of Auschwitz extermination camp, 19 June 1944; Pages 7-11: Telegrams and summaries of correspondence between Chaim Pazner, Moshe Krausz, Chaim Barlas and Itzhak Gruenbaum (who also wrote letters to additional people) regarding the letter from Moshe Krausz, June-July 1944; Page 12: Warning from the US Government to the...

File Number : 30

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Protocol, Telegram, Survey Report, List of Persecuted Persons, Letter, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, Polish, French, English, German

Union Generale des Israelites de France (UGIF-General Union of Jews in France), Zone Nord correspondence with the Hungarian, Belgian, Portuguese and Swiss Consulates regarding repatriation of their Jewish citizens from France, 1942-1944 The material was created by: Group 1 General Secretariat the Swiss, Hungarian, Belgian and Portuguese Consulates In the file: UGIF correspondence with the Hungarian, Belgian, Portuguese and Swiss Consulates regarding repatriation of their Jewish citizens from France; letters from the Bulgarian and Danish consulates to the Commissariat General aux Questions Juives (CGQJ-...

File Number : 43

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Names, List of Names

Language : French, German

Testimony of Aladar Somlo, born in Szeged, Hungary, 1890, regarding his experiences in Budapest and the Pest Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Aladar Somlo, born in Szeged, Hungary, 1890, regarding his experiences in Budapest and the Pest Ghetto Community life in Sannicolau Mare and the community in Timisoara between World War I and World War II. Deportation to Hungary, 1941; volunteers for public labor; contacts with the Swiss consul, Carl Lutz (later recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations); contacts with the embassy man, Raoul Wallenberg (later recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations); German occupation; anti-Jewish decrees in Budapest; rescue from the deportation of Pest Jews, 30 November 1944; return to the Pest Ghetto;...

File Number : 3431

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : German

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