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Testimony of Mordechay (Paul Georg) Fleischer, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1926 regarding his escape to Budapest, deportation to detention camps, escape from a death march and residing in the Glass House

Testimony

Childhood before the war; Fascist Slovakia, 1938; antisemitic events; Attempts to move to Budapest, Hungary, winter 1942-1943; getting arrested by Hungarian soldiers while escaping; sent back to Slovakia; escape to Hungary with the aid of a smuggler; arrival in Budapest; capture and arrest; decrees and restrictions; transferred to a prison by two Hungarian soldiers; deportation to a brick factory; escape to a marked house; capture and deportation for labor building fortifications and digging anti-tank trenches near Solnok, late October 1944; march towards Austria; escape to the Red Cross house in Budapest...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Fruma (Godfried) Kaplan, born in Vilna, (Lithuania) Poland, 1920, regarding her experiences in Vilna and her aliya to Eretz Israel

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Testimony of Fruma (Godfried) Kaplan, born in Vilna, (Lithuania) Poland, 1920, regarding her experiences in Vilna and her aliya to Eretz Israel Childhood and youth in Vilna. Outbreak of the war, 1939; air-raids; occupation of Vilna by the Soviet Army, 1939; life under the Lithuanian regime, 1939; pogrom by Lithuanians against the Jews, 1940; receiving a legal aliya certificate to Eretz Israel from her fiance in Eretz Israel, 1940; attempts to obtain a visa; aliya to Eretz Israel through Haleb, Istanbul, Odessa, Minsk, Moskow and Beirut, 1942. Receiving information regarding the death of her father in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Miriam Agnes Lowy Zilberman, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1933, regarding her experiences in Budapest and in protected houses

Testimony

Testimony of Miriam Agnes Lowy Zilberman, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1933, regarding her experiences in Budapest and in protected houses Her childhood in Budapest; increase in displays of antisemitism in Hungary, 1938-1939. Draft of her father to labor in Budapest, 1940; German Army occupation of Budapest, 1944; move to a marked house, summer 1944; transfer to a stadium; murder of Jews on the Danube River; transfer to a Red Cross protected house with her younger brother; separation from her mother; deportation of her mother to a transit camp, summer 1944; escape to a protected house of Raoul Wallenberg,...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Klara (Rozenbaum) Suss, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1930, regarding her experiences in Budapest

Testimony

Testimony of Klara (Rozenbaum) Suss, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1930, regarding her experiences in Budapest Her parents' home in Budapest. German occupation, March 1944; deportation of her parents, 21 March 1944; witness' transfer to the family home in a village; her grandfather is informed on; return to Budapest, June 1944; her father's return; anti-Jewish legislation including travel restrictions and yellow badge; air-raids; her mother is in the Kistarcsa [transit] camp; her mother's illness and return home, August 1944; Ferenc Szalasi's rise to power, October 1944; in hiding in her aunt's house;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe Kramer Carmel, born in Telgart, Czechoslovakia, 1933, regarding his experiences as a child in Dobsina and in the Budapest Ghetto and a residence under Swiss protection in Budapest

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Testimony of Moshe Kramer Carmel, born in Telgart, Czechoslovakia, 1933, regarding his experiences as a child in Dobsina and in the Budapest Ghetto and a residence under Swiss protection in Budapest Life in Dobsina before the war. German occupation, 1941; avoids deportation; escape to Budapest while using forged documents and with the help of a smuggler; life in Budapest in the home of a female relative; receives Hungarian citizenship certificates; deportation of his father to forced labor; deportation to the Budapest Ghetto; transfer to a children's home in Budapest under Swiss protection; rescue of his...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Berl Shur, born in Krakow, Poland, 1927, regarding his experiences in Krakow, Vilna, escape to Kobe in 1941, New Zealand and other places

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Testimony of Berl Shur, born in Krakow, Poland, 1927, regarding his experiences in Krakow, Vilna, escape to Kobe in 1941, New Zealand and other places Life before the war. Well-to-do religious family. Outbreak of the war, 1939; escape with his sister and her husband and additional family members on a bus; his parents remain and they continue their lives their due to their Turkish citizenship, 1943; his parents help Jews; escape to Vilna; life in Vilna; learns at school and at home; his brother-in-law obtains visas to Japan in Kaunas; escape, spring 1941; escape on the Trans-Siberian train to Moscow and...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Agnes (Hadinger) Radian, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1925, regarding her experiences in Budapest and Borgond

Testimony

Testimony of Agnes (Hadinger) Radian, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1925, regarding her experiences in Budapest and Borgond Life before the war; traditional family; move to Brazil, 1930; return to Hungary, 1937; life in Hungary including the revocation of her father's business license, 1941; displays of antisemitism; arrival of refugees from Austria, 1942. German occupation, 19 March 1944; anti-Jewish restrictions including the yellow badge; deportation to the Budapest Ghetto, 10 May 1944; life in Budapest including labor in a weaving factory; robbery of valuables; receives knowledge regarding the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chava (Cainy) Perl, born in Csany, Hungary, 1925, regarding her experiences in a Jewish school for the deaf under Red Cross protection and the Budapest Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Chava (Cainy) Perl, born in Csany, Hungary, 1925, regarding her experiences in a Jewish school for the deaf under Red Cross protection and the Budapest Ghetto Deaf from infancy; death of her mother; life with her grandmother in Szeged; attends the Mexico Jewish school for the deaf in Budapest; life at the school; return to Szeged; learns the dressmaking trade. Transfer to Budapest with protective documents issued by Raoul Wallenberg; evades deportation; in hiding in the "Mexico" School under the protection of the Red Cross; deportation to the Budapest Ghetto; liberation. Life with her...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Signs Language

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