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Testimony

Testimony of David Kohn, born in Rimavska Sobota, Czechoslovakia, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in Rimavska Sobota, using a false identity in Budapest, Cegled, the Kasztner train, Bergen-Belsen and other places Life before the war; learns in a "heder". Deportation of his family due to his father's support of Tomas Masaryk (the first President of unified Czechoslovakia, 1918),1939; escape to acquaintances and family members in various villages; separation from his parents; escape back to Rimavska Sobota; life in Rimavska Sobota including attending various schools; expulsion from the school,...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letter written by Matild Stern in Karcag to her daughter Ibolya Kohn in Budapest in 1940

Letter written by Matild Stern in Karcag to her daughter Ibolya Kohn in Budapest in 1940 - the letter includes two additional lines written by Magda Stern - Ibolya's sister. It is written on the letterhead of Lajos Stern (senior) in Karcag. Comments by the submitter of the material: (Imre Mohai) Ibolya Stern was born in 1917 and moved to Budapest in 1939 with her husband Ferenc Kohn, born in Kisujszállás in 1908. He was deported to a labor camp in 1943 and perished in Buchenwald in March 1945. Ibolya and Ferenc had two children - András in 1941 and Julia in 1944. Ibolya and her children survived the...

File Number : 5089

Type of Material : Letter, Envelope

Language : Hungarian