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Testimony of Alexander Hershkovitz, born in Somcuta Mare, Romania, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Baia Mare Ghetto, Auschwitz, Melk, Mauthausen, Gunskirchen and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Alexander Hershkovitz, born in Somcuta Mare, Romania, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Baia Mare Ghetto, Auschwitz, Melk, Mauthausen, Gunskirchen and other places Life under Hungarian rule, 1940; deportation to the Baia Mare Ghetto, 1944; deportation to Auschwitz; transfer to Mauthausen; transfer to Melk; camp life including forced labor in an ammunitions factory; death march to Mauthausen and Gunskirchen, 1944; camp life including hunger and acts of cannibalism; liberation by the US Army, 1945. Hospitalization and rehabilitation in a hospital in Linz; move back to Budapest; move back...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of David Weiss, born in Debrecen, Hungary, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Debrecen Ghetto, Strasshof, Vienna, Mauthausen and other places

Testimony

Testimony of David Weiss, born in Debrecen, Hungary, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Debrecen Ghetto, Strasshof, Vienna, Mauthausen and other places Life in Debrecen before the war; religious family; witness learns in a "heder" and attends a Jewish school. Transfer of his father to a camp; escape of his father to the United States; witness leaves the school; help to his mother in the administration of the family's textile factory; German occupation, March 1944; deportation to the Debrecen Ghetto; Debrecen Ghetto life including labor clearing rubble; deportation to a brick factory; transfer to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Vera (Kannengiesser) Assenheimer, born in Kosice, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Gross-Rosen, Morgenstern, Dora and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Vera (Kannengiesser) Assenheimer, born in Kosice, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Gross-Rosen, Morgenstern, Dora and other places Only child; her father is a lawyer; witness is cared for by a nanny; attends a Jewish Neolog school; learns the languages Slowak and German. Re-annexation to Hungary, 1944; decrees; termination of studies; yellow badge; restrictions on Jews; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1944; separation from her father; transfer with her mother to Zelletral via Gross-Rosen; camp life including labor in a cloth factory; transfer on foot...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : German

Testimony of Chaim Ringel, born in Rasice, Czechoslovakia, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Mateszalka Ghetto, Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Rehmsdorf, a death march and Theresienstadt

Testimony

Testimony of Chaim Ringel, born in Rasice, Czechoslovakia, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Mateszalka Ghetto, Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Rehmsdorf, a death march and Theresienstadt Life before the war. Re-annexation to Hungary; draft of his father into the Hungarian Army; decrees including deportation of Jews without Hungarian citizenship, forced labor and confiscation of property; return of his father; deportation to the Mateszalka Ghetto, 1944; ghetto life including labor as a postman; deportation to Auschwitz; transfer to Buchenwald; camp life including labor hauling rocks; transfer to Rehmsdorf;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Lea (Saker) Kusznir, born in Vilna, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Kaiserwald, Strassenhof and Stutthof

Testimony

Testimony of Lea (Saker) Kusznir, born in Vilna, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Kaiserwald, Strassenhof and Stutthof Life before the war; attends a high school. Soviet occupation, 1939; German occupation, 1941; deportation to the Vilna Ghetto; ghetto life; labor for an estate owner in exchange for food; liquidation of the ghetto, 1943; disappearance of her parents after a selection; deportation to Kaiserwald; transfer to Strassenhof; camp life including forced labor digging trenches and in a carpet factory; deportation to Stutthof; camp life including forced labor digging...

File Number : 12447

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : German

Testimony of Ferenc Halasz, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1907, regarding his experiences in a labor battalion in Ukraine, Komarom, Schattendorf, on a death march, in Mauthausen and Gunskirchen

Testimony

Testimony of Ferenc Halasz, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1907, regarding his experiences in a labor battalion in Ukraine, Komarom, Schattendorf, on a death march, in Mauthausen and Gunskirchen Life before the war. Outbreak of the war, 1939; drafted to a labor battalion, 1942; transfer to Ukraine; injury; transfer to a military hospital in Komarom, 1944; deportation to Schattendorf; death march to Mauthausen; transfer to Gunskirchen; liberation by the US Army. Return to Budapest; aliya to Israel, 1957.

File Number : 2429

Type of Material : Testimony, Survey

Language : Hebrew, Hungarian

Testimony of Herzel Iczkovics, born in Kökényes, Hungary in 1912, regarding his experiences during service in a labor battalion in Kassa, and in Siegendorf, Mauthausen and Günskirchen camps

Herzel Iczkovics, born 1912 in Kokenyes - Testimony taken by the Degob Commission on his fate in Hungary and Austria. Eenlistment to the labor camp in Kassa, where he spent a year; transfer to Ukraine; return to Hungary as Soviet front drew near; handing over to the Germans and transfer to Siegendorf; life in work camp - fairly good treatment, malnutrition, forced labor in digging trenches; sent on death-march: regular beatings, exhaustion, famine, many deaths; later transport by wagons: over two hundred in each, little food and many death cases; arrival in Mauthausen; life in concentration camp:abuse and...

File Number : 397

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Sraga Sragai, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1924, regarding his experiences in Miskolc, Mauthausen and Guenskirchen

Testimony

Testimony of Sraga Sragai, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1924, regarding his experiences in Miskolc, Mauthausen and Guenskirchen Life before the war. German occupation; deportation to Miskolc; drafted to a labor battalion; transfer to Mauthausen; transfer to Guenskirchen; liberation.

File Number : 1000

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : German, Hungarian

Letters from the Schwarcz and Deutsch families in Komló and Budapest, 1940-1942, memoirs of Edit and Joseph Gur (birth name Janos Joszef György), documentation and more

- Letters sent to Hermann Schwarcz in Jerusalem, 1940-1941, without specific dates: -- His daughter Edith, his brother-in-law Jenő Deutsch, his brother-in-law's wife Piri and their daughter Eva in Budapest; -- His son Miklós in Budapest with the Deutsch family; -- His daughters Piri and Elza in Hungary and other relatives without specifying location; -- Jenő Manael in Tiszadorogma; - Letter sent by Herman Schvarcz in Jerusalem throught the British Red Cross to his wife and children in Komló, Hungary, 1941; reply from the family on the back of the letter, 1942; - Memoirs of Edit (Edith Zelta) Gur née...

File Number : 6118

Type of Material : Certification, Testimony, Birth Certificate, Marriage Certificate, Postcard, Identity Card, Personal Documents, Medical Documentation, כתובה, Diary, Red Cross Letter, Letter, Genealogy, Memoirs, Excerpt(s), Passport

Language : Hebrew, English, German, Hungarian

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