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Testimony of Arie Likht, born in Hajduszoboszlo, Hungary, 1924 regarding his experiences in Hungary during the war period

Testimony

His parents' home; antisemitism; move to Budapest, 1942; German occupation, March 1944; obligation to report for labor clearing rubble; restrictions on movement; yellow badge; drafting order; transfer to Szolnok; labor in a military factory, July 1944; sorting of skilled workers; drafting into the Hungarian Army and deployment to the front; approach of the Soviet front; retreat; Horthy's declaration, 1944; expulsion from the Hungarian Army; concentration of the Jewish soldiers and transfer to the Austrian border; transfer into the hands of the German Army, Sopron; labor building fortifications along the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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 Sara Shuster Tolchinski, born in Calarasi, Romania, 1925 regarding her escape to the Soviet Union

Testimony

Childhood before the war; coexistence; Outbreak of the war; arrival of Jewish refugees; mutual assistance; riots against the Jews, 1941; escape to the Soviet Union with the retreating Red Army; drafting of her father and brother to labor camps; move to Korosten; assistance from the Soviets; move to Kazakhstan; work; Rebuilding life; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1957.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zeev Semel On, born in Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland, in 1924, regarding labour camps, his deportation to Buchenwald and other camps

Testimony

-Parents'house; anti-semitism; air-raids; occupation by the German army on 04 September,1939; humiliations; forced labour; deportation to the Piotrkow Trybunalski ghetto; the father is a member of the Judenradt; contribution demand; confiscation of furs; walking on the pavement is forbidden; starvation; passing of valuables to local neighbours; reduction of the ghetto; issuance of working papers on 21 October 1942; his work as a porter in "Shneider shop" (tailor shop) for the needs of the German army and cargo transfer from place to place; assembling the children in the big synagogue and their murder;...

File Number : 13463

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Abraham Ernst Ponger, born in Mikulas Litovsky Svaty, Czechoslovakia, in 1922, regarding his experiences in the Sered camp and in the battle of the partisans

Childhood before the war; Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria 1938; expulsion from school and carpentry studies; independence of Slovakia and anti-Jewish legislation 1939; deportation of Jews and escape to the mountains in March 1942; going back home and deportation to the Sered camp,in April 1945; work in carpentry; underground in the camp; Slovak uprising and escape ,in August 1944; joining partisans; actions against Germans; liberation by the red army,in April 1945; joining aliya training; illegal immigration to Eretz Israel on the Theodor Herzl ship,on 01 April 1947; exile to Cyprus; aliya back to...

File Number : 13772

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Tzipora Frieda (Markovitz) Nemesh, born in Mukačevo, Czechoslovakia in 1919, regarding her experiences in Mukačevo Ghetto and Auschwitz-Birkenau and Zittau camps

Testimony of Tzipora Frieda (Markovitz) Nemesh, born in Mukačevo, Czechoslovakia in 1919, regarding her experiences in Mukačevo Ghetto and Auschwitz-Birkenau and Zittau camps Life before the war; receiving a Hebrew education; activity in Hashomer Hatza’ir youth movement; publication of blood libel; German occupation in March 1944; expulsion to ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; murder of part of the family in camp; transfer to Zittau about six months later; life in camp; labor in factory; liberation by Red Army; life after the war; aliya to Israel in 1956; absorption.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yisrael Salek Delayahu Dłuzniewski, born in 1926 in Łódź, about his experiences in the Łódź ghetto and in the Auschwitz, Gusen-Men, Birkenau, and Mauthausen camps

Life as a boy in Lodz; family background; attends a cheder and a Polish school; belongs to the Zionist youth movement; war erupts in 1939; shops vandalized; shortage of bread; witness escapes with mother to Tomaszow Mazowiecki; escapes back to Lodz; life in the ghetto; the Sperre Aktion; parting with mother and sister, who are deported to Chełmno; labor in a leather workshop; Jews from Germany arrive; the Yom Kippur fast in the ghetto in 1944; deportation by train to Auschwitz-Birkenau; the chair of the Judenrat, Chaim Rumkowski; witnessing the murder of the commander of the Jewish police (Hosenblat); life in...

File Number : 13620

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Lea Kanik Vinshtok, born in Darabani, Romania in 1927, regarding her experiences ‎of deportation to Transnistria, Tropova and Konatkovtsy

Testimony of Lea Kanik Vinshtok, born in Darabani, Romania in 1927, regarding her experiences ‎of deportation to Transnistria, Tropova and Konatkovtsy Her childhood before the war; the increase of nationalism and antisemitism in 1938; expulsion ‎from school; entry of Romania in the war against the Soviet Union in 1941; the pogrom in ‎Dorohoi; wearing the yellow badge; deportation from her home to Targu Jiu and from there to ‎Turnu Severin; help of the Jewish community; transfer to Dorohoi; deportation to Transnistria in ‎November 1941; theft of possessions; march to Tropovoye and from there to Konatkovtsy;...

File Number : 13670

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letters sent from Lidzbark Warminski to Bella (Garson) Winokur in Eretz Israel, by means of Leontyna Matejko, who hid Bella during the war period, 1957-1968, and official and legal documentation of the couple Szmul and Bella Winokur, from Widze - Letter sent by Leontyna Matejko from Lidzbark Warminski to Bella Winokur Kantorowicz, including the envelope, 10/11/1968; - Court ruling of a lawsuit by Pesia Feldman, from Widze, concerning tax payments, 1922; - Craftsman's work permit, given to Bela Garson in Swieciany, 17/06/1929; - Notarized copy of the craftsman's certificate, in the name of Bejla...

File Number : 2013

Type of Material : Letter, Legal Documentation, Official Documentation

Language : Lithuanian, Hebrew, Polish

Testimony of Michal Mishe Rauch née Löwenherz, born in 1926 in Przemyśl, Poland, about her experiences in the Przemyśl ghetto and in hiding on the "Aryan" side in a Ukrainian's home until liberation in 1944

German occupation of Przemyśl in 1939; riots; Soviet occupation ensues in 1939; German occupation ensues in 1941; restrictions on Jews and upturn in antisemitism; deportation to the Przemyśl ghetto with parents; family members receive labor permits; father works in a factory outside the ghetto and witness works with mother on a farm outside the ghetto in 1942; finding a hideout during the second Aktion; witness and parents arrested due to denunciation and taken to a lockup in Przemyśl; they escapes from the lockup and return to the ghetto (part of which has become a labor camp) in 1943; witness and parents...

File Number : 13595

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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