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Testimony of Meir Friedman, born in 1925 in Halmaj, Hungary, about his experiences in Halmaj and Budapest

Testimony

Testimony of Meir Friedman, born in 1925 in Halmaj, Hungary, about his experiences in Halmaj and Budapest Offspring of an Orthodox religious family in Halmaj; German occupation of Hungary begins in 1944; Jews of the area rounded up in a brick factory in Kosiĉe; witness is transferred with his family to Budapest by a brother; entering a marked house in April 1944; escaping to the "Glass House" in October 1944; Arrow Cross operatives assault the house; saved by a German officer from murder on the Danube on December 31, 1944; liberation by Red Army forces on January 18, 11945; half a year in Vienna;...

File Number : 13472

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yechiel Hahn, born in 1932 in Budapest, about his experiences as a boy in protected houses of the Swedish and Spanish embassies in Budapest during the German occupation

Life before the war in parents' home; grandfather, Gerson Hahn, establishes a Sephardi Orthodox synagogue in Budapest; antisemitism in school; father inducted into the Hungarian labor service in 1940; German occupation ensues in March 1944; secretly listening to BBC radio broadcasts; wearing the yellow star; shop nationalized; studies halted; movement restrictions imposed; ban on employing a non-Jewish domestic; concealing valuables; moving to a marked house; moving to a house protected by the Swedish Embassy in July 1944; a rescue and relief organization helps with food; bombardments; moving into a cellar; a...

File Number : 13604

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yehudit Brok née Stern, born in 1925 in Galanta, Czechoslovakia, about her experiences in the ghettos of Galanta and Nove Zamky and in the Auschwitz and Hohenelbe camps until 1945

Hungary re-annexes the Galanta area and anti-Jewish violence in 1938; antisemitism escalates and authorities impose restrictions; German occupation ensues in 1944; father arrested and deported to a detention camp in Hungary in 1944; witness deported with mother and siblings to the Galanta ghetto for several days; deportation to a ghetto in a brickyard in Nove Zamky; deporation to Auschwitz in 1944; life in Auschwitz and receiving help from father; transferred to Hohenelbe; life in the camp; working at a factory that turns out aircraft parts; typhus; rescue by a non-Jewish Dutch nurse in 1945; liberation by Red...

File Number : 13525

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mona (Cardincioso) Scharf, born in 1934 in Iasi, Romania, regarding her experiences as a child in Iasi

Testimony of Mona (Cardincioso) Scharf, born in 1934 in Iasi, Romania, regarding her experiences as a child in Iasi Life before the war; the rise of anti-Semitism in the late 1930s; the father's affiliation with leftist movements; the family's failed escape attempt to Darabani in 1940; the removal of the family from the house on June 29, 1941; gathered together in the yard; release of women and children; the murder of the father and uncles in the "death train"; wearing a yellow badge; expulsion from the Romanian school; joining the Hashomer Hatzair movement in 1944; illegal aliya to Eretz Israel on the "Pan...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Edit Esther (Kohen) Hakarmi, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1922, regarding her experiences in Vienna, Budapest and Bucharest

Testimony

Testimony of Edit Esther (Kohen) Hakarmi, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1922, regarding her experiences in Vienna, Budapest and Bucharest Her family's life; move to Vienna, 1924; her father's return to Hungary, 1938; demand by their non-Jewish neighbors that they [her family] leave their apartment; receives a Hungarian passport; acts of harassment against Jews; Kristallnacht; return to Hungary, 1938; joins the Bnei Akiva movement; arrival of refugees from Vienna and Poland; receives help from the concierge of their building; ban on participation in activities of the youth movements. German Army occupation of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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File Number : 13509

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Dov Bene Weiss, born in Bekescsaba, Hungary, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Bekescsaba Ghetto, Budapest, Auschwitz and Muehldorf

Testimony

Testimony of Dov Bene Weiss, born in Bekescsaba, Hungary, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Bekescsaba Ghetto, Budapest, Auschwitz and Muehldorf Life in Bekescsaba. Deportation to the Bekescsaba Ghetto; transfer to Budapest; life in Budapest; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life; transfer to Muehldorf; camp life.

File Number : 13370

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avraham Gross, born in Hercegszanto, Hungary, 1929, regarding his experiences in Hercegszanto, the Bacsalmas Ghetto, Auschwitz, Mathausen, Gusen and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Avraham Gross, born in Hercegszanto, Hungary, 1929, regarding his experiences in Hercegszanto, the Bacsalmas Ghetto, Auschwitz, Mathausen, Gusen and other places His childhood in Hercegszanto, including his education. Draft of his father and brother to forced labor; arrival of refugees from Poland; German Army occupation of Hercegszanto, March 1944; detention of his father in Kistarcsa; activities of the Arrow Cross Party; deportation to the Bacsalmas Ghetto under the supervision of Hungarian Gendarmes; Bacsalmas Ghetto life including the confiscation of valuables and the existence of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Samuel Berger, born in Svalava, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding his experiences in Budapest, the Budapest Ghetto, Vienna, DP camps and Israel

Testimony

Testimony of Samuel Berger, born in Svalava, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding his experiences in Budapest, the Budapest Ghetto, Vienna, DP camps and Israel Life under Hungarian occupation, 1939; control taken over his father's shoemaking workshop; detention of his father by the Hungarians, 1940; increase in antisemitism; anti-Jewish legislation; return of his father, 1940; move to Budapest, 1942; life in Budapest including work in odd jobs; German Army occupation of Budapest, 1944; life in a marked house; draft to forced labor battalions of the Hungarian Army in the Budapest area, 1944; transfer back to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Natan Brenner, born in Kosice Mesto, Czechoslovakia, 1938, regarding his experiences in the Kosice Ghetto, in hiding and using a false identity in Budapest

Testimony

Testimony of Natan Brenner, born in Kosice Mesto, Czechoslovakia, 1938, regarding his experiences in the Kosice Ghetto, in hiding and using a false identity in Budapest From a well-to-do, religious and Zionist family; learns in a "heder" and a government school; displays of antisemitism. Deportation of his father to a labor camp, 1943; German occupation and establishment of the ghetto, 1944; concentration in anticipation of deportation to Auschwitz; escape; in hiding in an attic, known as "the Bunker"; help from the outside; emptying of the ghetto; leaving the hiding place; walking by night; turned in to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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