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Memoirs of Eliezer Brenner, his sister Shaindel (Brenner) Vigenanski, and his wife, Yettie (Lanzet) Brenner, regarding their experiences in Krakow, the Melk camp, the Plaszow camp, Transnistria and more Experiences of Eliezer Brenner, born in Rzeszow, Poland, 1913: Deportation to the Krakow Ghetto; deportation to the Plaszow camp; camp life including labor in Wieliczka; camp life with his brother, Moshe; transfer to the Mauthausen camp; camp life; selection; labor in a quarry; transfer to the Melk camp; labor in a subterranean ammunitions factory; transfer to the Ebensee camp by death march; liberation in...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 8621

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Document, Memoirs

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Testimony of Mózes Farkas, born in Makó, Hungary, 1927, regarding his experiences in Makó, the Makó Ghetto, the Szeged Ghetto, Auschwitz, Kaufering camp and more

Testimony of Mózes Farkas, born in Makó, Hungary, 1927, regarding his experiences in Makó, the Makó Ghetto, the Szeged Ghetto, Auschwitz, Kaufering camp and more Anti-Jewish decrees, 1944; obligation to wear a yellow band and badge; restrictions on movement; prohibition against the opening of businesses [?]; deportation to the Makó Ghetto; ghetto life including the prohibition against leaving the ghetto; transfer to the Szeged Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz on the last transport from Hungary, June 1944; travel in train cars for a period of approximately six days; arrival in Auschwitz; selection by Mengele;...

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Memoirs of Shamai Kizelsztejn, born in Bialystok, Poland, 19 December 1924, regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, the Bialystok prison, and in Majdanek, Blizyn, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buna and other camps Life in Bialystok under the Red Army occupation; German occupation of Bialystok; establishment of the Bialystok Ghetto; deportation to the Bialystok Ghetto; Bialystok Ghetto life including labor constructing the Krywlany airfield and forced labor constructing a road, spring 1942; detention in the Bialystok prison; transfer to Majdanek camp; transfer to Blizyn camp; camp life; transfer to...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 8594

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Memoirs

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe Hofman, born in Sziget, Romania, 1935, regarding his experiences in Sziget, in the Sziget Ghetto and in Auschwitz

Testimony of Moshe Hofman, born in Sziget, Romania, 1935, regarding his experiences in Sziget, in the Sziget Ghetto and in Auschwitz Life in Sziget until the German occupation; Deportation to the Sziget Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; selections; camp life including receiving an inmate number #28148, and forced labor digging and building bunkers; liberation by the Red Army; Note: The brothers, Emanuel, Yoel, Alexander, Eliyahu and Michael; the sisters Leah (?), Perl (?) and Ruchele; his father's work as a melamed (religious studies teacher) in a "heder" for children aged 3-13 in Sziget; his mother...

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Memoirs of Sheindi (Ehrenwald) Miller, born in Galanta, Slovakia, 31 December 1930, regarding her experiences in the Galanta Ghetto, Érsekújvár Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Peterswaldau labor camp Testimony of Sheindi Miller, as it appears in the "Neveh Shmuel" Yeshiva journal, 5758 (1998); - Persecution of the Jews in Galanta, 1942; deportation of women and men to forced labor; transfer to the Galanta Ghetto, April 1944; theft of Jewish property; transfer to the Érsekújvár Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau by train, including a description of the travel in freight cars for three days; selection...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 8600

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony, Excerpt(s)

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew, Hungarian

Diary kept by Elvira Ulmer in the Szolnok Ghetto and in the camps, 10 June 1944-01 April 1945, and memoirs of Dávid József Ulmer regarding his experiences during the Holocaust

Diary kept by Elvira Ulmer in the Szolnok Ghetto and in the camps, 10 June 1944-01 April 1945, and memoirs of Dávid József Ulmer regarding his experiences during the Holocaust - Diary in Hungarian written by Elvira Ulmer, including a Hebrew translation; - Memoirs of Dávid József Ulmer, as recorded by Margalit Tovi Kisus, including an interview conducted with Dávid Ulmer; The Ulmer family: Occupation of Hungary by the German Army, March 1944; life in Körösladány; deportation to the Szolnok Ghetto, June 1944; deportation to the Strasshof camp; transfer to the Heiligenkreuz camp; life in Heiligenkreuz,...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 8598

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Interview(s), Diary, Memoirs, Project

results.listIds.lang : German, Hungarian

Diary of Heniek Veingarten, born in Niwice, Poland, 1910, regarding his experiences in Sosnowiec, Lwow, Luck, being hidden by farmers, as a partisan in the Rowne forest and more

Diary of Heniek Veingarten, born in Niwice, Poland, 1910, regarding his experiences in Sosnowiec, Lwow, Luck, being hidden by farmers, as a partisan in the Rowne forest and more Life with his family in Niwice; move to Wolbrom with his family due to difficulties in supporting themselves, 1920; abuse by gangs loyal to General Haller, including capture of his father and pulling out his beard; move of the family to Strzemieszyce, 1926; move of the family to Sosnowiec. Concentration of the Jews in the Szenja Hall in Sosnowiec, September, 1939; abuse of the Jews; mass murder of Jews; separation from his parents...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 8571

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Diary

results.listIds.lang : Polish

Testimony of an anonymous Jewish woman from the village of Rakow, Poland regarding her experiences in the Rakow Ghetto, escapes to the Aryan side using a false identity, hiding in the forest and in a Polish village and work in Germany using a false identity Life in Rakow at the time of the occupation including anti-Jewish legislation; life in the ghetto; capture of the witness; prevention of her deportation to Skarzysko-Kamienna due to the giving a bribe; escape of the family from the ghetto; hiding of the parents by farmers they had known before the war; trips taken to Czestochowa by train by the witness,...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 297.1

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Polish

Testimony of Yitzchak Shmartz Yeshayahu, born in Limanowa, Poland, 1923, regarding his escape to Lwow, deportation to a camp with other Polish refugees to a camp near Ufa, and recruitment to the Polish battalion during the war Childhood in a Hasidic family in reasonable financial condition; his family's livelihood from a lumberyard; family life; studies in a Polish school; studies in the "Room" in parallel with studies in school; Jewish holidays and Sabbaths. The outbreak of war, 1939; escape of the witness to Lwow; refusal to obtain Soviet citizenship; deportation of Polish refugees to a camp near Ufa;...

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Testimony of Asher Yona Rutenshtein, born in 1937 in Ocsod, Hungary, about his experiences as a boy in the Szarvas and Szolnok ghettos, the Strasshof camp, and another camp during the war

Life before the war; offspring of a religious family; antisemitism; German occupation; wearing the yellow star; promulgation of anti-Jewish laws; valuables confiscated; deportation to the Szarvas ghetto; deportation to the Szolnok ghetto; life of terror and fear; deportation to the Strasshof camp; transfer to another camp; farm labor; taken back to Strasshof; surviving bombardments; liberated by Red Army forces in 1945; back to Hungary; life after the war; immigration to Israel in 1956; adjustment to life in Israel.

results.listIds.fileNumber : 13641

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

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