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Testimony of Frida Iosef, born in Mukacevo, Czechoslovakia, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Mukacevo Ghetto, Auschwitz, Dachau and Bergen-Belsen

Testimony

Testimony of Fradi Yosef, born in Mukacevo, Czechoslovakia, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Mukacevo Ghetto, Auschwitz, Dachau and Bergen-Belsen Life before the war; Jewish community; displays of antisemitism; deportation to the Mukacevo Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life; death march to Dachau; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; camp life including labor in the kitchen and help in smuggling food to the inmates and the children's block; liberation by the British Army. Typhus, life after the war; return to Mukacevo; move to Chomutov; move to the Wasserburg DP camp; life in the DP camp; aliya to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Tzvi Grisha Goldgamer, born in Suwalki, 1926, regarding his experiences in hiding in Knienicze and Serniki

Testimony

Testimony of Tzvi Grisha Goldgamer, born in Suwalki, 1926, regarding his experiences in hiding in Knienicze and Serniki Religious family; attends a “heder” and the Jewish school; antisemitism. Entry of the Germans and immediate escape to Augustow, 1939; escape of his brother and a male cousin in the same direction; attends school; transfer to Slonim by the Russians; transfer to his uncle in Luck, 20 February 1941; transfer from the Luck Ghetto to hiding with another 17 Jews in a granary owned by a Czech Catholic family in Knienicze; move to a hiding place in Serniki; burning of Serniki by the Germans;...

File Number : 8448

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Official documentation regarding the Deutsche Partei (German Party), 1939-1943

Official documentation regarding the Deutsche Partei (German Party), 1939-1943 - Regulations and organizational matters, letters, certificates and instructions of the German Party; Included in the file: - Party instructions regarding the deportation of the Czechs from the borders of Slovakia, 16 June 1939.

File Number : 31

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Testimony of Pesi (Weisman-Bernsdorfer) Rosenfeld, born in Mukacevo, 1926, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Langenbielau and Chrastava camps

Testimony

Testimony of Pesi (Weisman-Bernsdorfer) Rosenfeld, born in Mukacevo, 1926, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Langenbielau and Chrastava camps Life in Subotica until the outbreak of the war. Hungarian occupation; German occupation, 1944; deportation of her father to a labor camp in Novi-Sad; deportation of the rest of the family to Bacsalmas and then to Auschwitz-Birkenau, two weeks later; transfer to Langenbilau camp to labor in a Flechteur spinning mill; camp life; evacuation of the camp, March 1945; death march in the direction of Parschnitz; forced labor digging trenches; transfer to...

File Number : 10786

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ester Edith (Schwarcz) Boros, born in Miskolc, Hungary, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Miskolc Ghetto, Auschwitz and Bad Kudova

Testimony

Testimony of Ester Edith (Schwarcz) Boros, born in Miskolc, Hungary, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Miskolc Ghetto, Auschwitz and Bad Kudova Family life before war. Deportation of father and brother to labor camps; German occupation and start of decrees; deportation to a ghetto; transfer to a brick factory; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life; transfer to a factory for aircraft spare parts in Bad Kudowa; camp life; liberation. Help from a Czech couple named Zamenek and other Czechs from Nachod; return to Miskolc and reunion with her brother; move to Budapest; aliya to Israel, 1948; absorption...

File Number : 10613

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yosef Shteinberg, born in Trebisov, 1925, regarding his experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau and using a false identity in Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen and Litomerice camps

Testimony

Testimony of Yosef Shteinberg, born in Trebisov, 1925, regarding his experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau and using a false identity in Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen and Litomerice camps His childhood in Trebisov; membership in Hashomer Hatzair. Detention of his father as a Communist and his escape to the partisans; volunteers to join his brother in labor, March 1942; stay in Zilina for ten days; deportation to Auschwitz on a train; camp registration process and tattooing of his number; entry into Birkenau; labor digging pits, moving cement and other materials to build the crematoria; labor moving corpses from a...

File Number : 7355

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chava Klingberg, born in Abauzszanto, 1927, regarding her experiences in Miskolc, Bergen-Belsen, Birkenau and Markkleeberg camps and on a death march

Testimony

Testimony of Chava Klingberg, born in Abauzszanto, 1927, regarding her experiences in Miskolc, Bergen-Belsen, Birkenau and Markkleeberg camps and on a death march Life in the village of Szikszo; attends commercial school in Miskolc. Concentration of Jews in city hall; transfer to brick factory in Kassa, 16 April 1944; deportation by train to Birkenau, 23 May 1944; Lager C in the camp; transfer to Bergen-Belsen, 23 September 1944; forced labor in Markkleeberg; death march in the direction of Theresienstadt, April 1945; stay in Dresden, air raids; to Aussig; a Czech hides her in a store room;...

File Number : 7292

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Karmela (Reichman) Gor, born in Mukacevo, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding her experiences in a ghetto, Auschwitz, Unterluess and Bergen-Belsen camps

Testimony

Testimony of Karmela (Reichman) Gor, born in Mukacevo, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding her experiences in a ghetto, Auschwitz, Unterluess and Bergen-Belsen camps Good relations between the Jews and the Christian population before the war. Hungarian occupation; deterioration of relations and economic conditions; German occupation; deportation of Jews to two ghettos and their concentrartion in two brick factories; coordination by the Jews to supply food and help to the Jews in the ghettos and the brick factories; help to smuggle two children out of the ghetto and to transfer the children to Hungary, 1944;...

File Number : 7275

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zippora Ronen, born in Medzilaborce, Czechoslovakia, regarding her experiences in hiding in a cellar and the forests

Testimony

Testimony of Zippora Ronen, born in Medzilaborce, Czechoslovakia, regarding her experiences in hiding in a cellar and the forests Financially secure family. Confiscation of the family business, 1943; in hiding with 20 adults and children in the cellar of a family acquaintance; move to a bunker dug in a forest; move between bunkers; supply of food by the acquaintance; return to the acquaintance's cellar until the liberation. Aliya to Israel.

File Number : 7097

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Aliza Gor, born in Kosice, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding her experiences in hiding and using a false identity in Kosice and Budapest

Testimony

Testimony of Aliza Gor, born in Kosice, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding her experiences in hiding and using a false identity in Kosice and Budapest Her father is a sales agent and her mother is a housewife; religious family; attends a Jewish school. Detention of her parents, 1940; in hiding in the neighbors' attic; move to a Jewish dormitory in Budapest, 1941; escape with other girls from the dormitory on the day of the children's deportation to a ghetto; obtains forged documents, thanks to her Aryan looks; in hiding in a monastery until the end of the war. Reunion with her mother who returned from...

File Number : 7086

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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