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Testimony of Rifka Roza Rozi (Volberg) Swarz, born in Tokaj, Hungary, 1924, regarding her experiences in Budapest, Dachau, Bergen-Belsen, Bernsdorf, Braunschweig and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Rifka Roza Rozi (Volberg) Swarz, born in Tokaj, Hungary, 1924, regarding her experiences in Budapest, Dachau, Bergen-Belsen, Bernsdorf, Braunschweig and other places From an Orthodox family; move to Budapest; Beitar and Bnei Akiva membership; displays of antisemitism. Drafting of her father to forced labor, 1941; German occupation, March 1944; yellow badge; move to a marked house; Hungarian identity card; hides in a cellar, October 1944; sealing of Jewish houses; concentration of the Jews in the synagogue; transfer across the Austrian border on foot; transfer to Dachau on freight trains;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Lea (Pinchuk) Zeiger, born in Rafalowka, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Rafalowka Ghetto, in hiding in a forest and with the partisans

Testimony

Testimony of Lea (Pinchuk) Zeiger, born in Rafalowka, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Rafalowka Ghetto, in hiding in a forest and with the partisans Traditional family; Hebrew education when she attends a Tarbut school; activities in the Beitar movement. Outbreak of the war, 1939; attends a Soviet school; exile of wealthy people to Siberia; termination of private commerce; German occupation, 1941; termination of the Jews' trade activities and studies; deportation to the Rafalowka Ghetto; forced labor of young people; mass murder, and burial in a common grave; acts of murder; hides in a pit...

File Number : 12947

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yitzhak Gdalevski, born in Ostrog, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Ostrog, Stalingrad, in detention and as a Red Army soldier in Berlin

Testimony

Testimony of Yitzhak Gdalevski, born in Ostrog, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Ostrog, Stalingrad, in detention and as a Red Army soldier in Berlin From a family of limited means; attends a Polish school; displays of antisemitism; Beitar and Gordonia activities; enlists in the Irgun. German occupation; aliya training; arrest by the Soviet authorities; escape to the Soviet Union, 1941; transfer to Stalingrad; camp life including labor digging pits and in refineries; attempt to enlist in Anders Army; detention; drafted into the Red Army; combat in Berlin and liberation of a women's camp in the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Reports of the Sicherheitspolizei (SIPO-Security Police) and the Sicherheitsdiens (SD-Security Service) headquarters regarding military and political activity during the occupation of the Soviet Union: Report No. 38, 30/07/1941 Part 1 - Political events: Sabotage on the roads in northern Yugoslavia (in the Kraina and Untersteiermark areas); activity against Communists suspected of sabotage; release from imprisonment, by Communists, of a man who carried out an act of sabotage on a radio transmitter, in Belgrade; continuation of the searches for the members [?]; planning of a widespread operation to carry out...

File Number : 163.38

Type of Material : Statistical Data, Survey Report

Language : German

Testimony of Jakub Gilsohn, born in Podwoloczyska, Poland, 1912, regarding his experiences in Kamionki camp, his forced labor for the Ostbahn railroad company and sabotage acts against it on the Podwoloczyska-Tarnopol line Medical studies in Lwow. German occupation; deportation to the Kamionki camp, October 1941; camp life until the evacuation of the camp, July 1943: reign of terror in the camp, murder of inmates by beating and torture; release of the witness to his home due to illness, in exchange for bribery; drafted again to forced labor for the Ostbahn railroad company; details of his sabotage acts...

File Number : 194

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Izrael Frenkiel, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1899, regarding his experiences in Tomaszow Mazowiecki, Goerlitz camp, Buchenwald and Buna-Monowitz (Auschwitz III)

Testimony of Izrael Frenkiel, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1899, regarding his experiences in Tomaszow Mazowiecki, Goerlitz camp, Buchenwald and Buna-Monowitz (Auschwitz III) Life in Tomaszow Mazowiecki before the war. Detention with the German occupation, 13 September 1939; deportation with a group of 1,000 people, among them 200 Jews, to the POW transit camp in Goerlitz, in the Sudeten Mountains; deportation of 2,000 inmates, among them 200 Jews, from Tomaszow Mazowiecki several days later; transfer to Krakow; transfer to Buchenwald; life in the Small Camp established for the Jewish inmates, including...

File Number : 185

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Memoirs of Stanislaw Witold Aronson (known in the underground as "Rysiek"), born in Warsaw, Poland, regarding his experiences in the Kedyw sabotage unit of the Armia Krajowa - AK, in Skruda and Warsaw, in hiding in Pruszkow, and in other places Outbreak of the war; his family's escape from Lodz to Warsaw; his family's escape to Rowno; life in Lwow during 1939-1942; escape to the Warsaw Ghetto, 1942; transfer of his entire family to the "Umschlagplatz" in 1943; transfer on a train; separation from his family members, and escape from the train back to Warsaw; work for a tinsmith; start of activities in the...

File Number : 5340

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Polish

Collective testimony of Sándorné Kun, Etelka Giesser, Gabriella Kopp, Veronika Robert, Ferencné Pollcsek, Györgyi Szőke, Márta Gottlieb and Vera Lantos, born in Hungary, regarding their experiences in Budapest in a marked house with a yellow star, in a labor battalion in Isaszeg, and in Dachau, Ravensbrück and other camps [Life in] Budapest in a marked house with a yellow star; publication of an order that women who are 16-40 years old must present themselves to the authorities at the KISOK sports field; arrival to the field on 23/10/1944; the witnesses meet; appointment to various tasks, as female forced...

File Number : 2494

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

Testimony of József Lakatos, born in Budapest, Hungary in 1916, regarding his experiences in the labor battalion in Komárom, Mátyásföld and Budapest and in Engerau camp

Testimony of József Lakatos, born in Budapest, Hungary in 1916, regarding his experiences in the labor battalion in Komárom, Mátyásföld and Budapest and in Engerau camp "Drafted" to the labor battalion in Komárom in 1942; labor in the construction of a railroad track and the repair of a railroad track; transfer to Mátyásföld [it is a part of Budapest today]; labor in an army garage; sabotage; treatment, sometimes good and sometimes bad; transfer to an assembly place on Hajógyár Island in June 1944; labor in an army garage on Zách Street in Budapest; rescue of Jews - forced laborers gathered and hid other...

File Number : 673

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

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File Number : 3551

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

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