Testimony of Eduard Fosner, born in Bucharest, Romania, in 1927 , regarding expulsion to the Oradea ghetto, deportation to Auschwitz and other camps, death march, and escape
Childhood before the war; transfer to Oradea in 1938; entry of the Hungarians in 1940; expulsion from school; anti-Jewish legislation ; service in the Levente Association; German occupation in 1944; order to wear yellow badge, and other orders; expulsion to the ghetto in May 1944; deportation to Birkenau; hunger; roll-calls and selections; transfer to Buchenwald for a brief time and from there to Magdeburg; labor in rebuilding and...
Childhood before the war; Fascist Slovakia, 1938; antisemitic events;
Attempts to move to Budapest, Hungary, winter 1942-1943; getting arrested by Hungarian soldiers while escaping; sent back to Slovakia; escape to Hungary with the aid of a smuggler; arrival in Budapest; capture and arrest; decrees and restrictions; transferred to a prison by two Hungarian soldiers; deportation to a brick factory; escape to a marked house; capture and deportation for labor building fortifications and digging anti-tank trenches near Solnok, late October 1944; march towards Austria; escape to the Red Cross house in Budapest...
Testimony of Shalom Jakubowitz, born in Sighetul Marmatiei, Romania, 1926, regarding his experiences in Sighetul Marmatiei, Auschwitz-Birkenau; Buna-Monowitz and Buchenwald
Life before the war in Sighetul Marmatiei;
Outbreak of the war, 1939; increasing displays of antisemitism; draft of Jews to labor battalions; deportation to Auschwitz, 1944; forced labor; transfer to Buna-Monowitz; forced death march of the inmates, 18 January 1945; travel on a train for eight days including mortality and eating snow; arrival in Buchenwald; life in the children's block in Buchenwald; liberation;
Aliya to Eretz...
Testimony of Rafael Reuveni Rubin, born in Pristina, Yugoslavia in 1938, regarding his life in Albania and in the Bergen-Belsen camp
Childhood in Pristina and life of Sephardic Jews in the community; German occupation in April 1941 and transition to Italian military government about two months later; exile to Berat, Albania in 1942; return to Pristina in 1944; entry of Muslim soldiers from the 21st Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Skanderbeg (1st Albanian); deportation of Jews to Sajmište concentration camp and from there by train to Bergen-Belsen; hunger; disease; connection with Dutch prisoners; entry of...
Personal documentation of Walter Simoni, born in Vienna, Austria, 09 May 1919, including documents relating to Malines, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Golleschau, Mechelen, and Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg camps, where he was an inmate, 1938-1945
- Description of the camps in which Walter Simoni was an inmate, including the dates of his detention in each of the camps, 1938-1945;
- Document from the Auschwitz Museum, certifying the transfer of Walter Simoni from Malines camp to Auschwitz, 05 August 1942; labor by Simoni in Kl Au III-Goleszow camp;
- List of inmates, including the name of Walter Simoni; the list is...
Testimony of Joseph Bekhor, born in Pristina, Yugoslavia in 1927, regarding his life in Pristina, Albania, in Bergen-Belsen, and on the lost train
Childhood and youth in Pristina; Jews’ life and livelihood; German occupation in April 1941 and transfer of control to Italian army; exile of the men to Berat camp, Albania; life in Albania until Germans entered in late 1943; return home following a false message that Pristina had been liberated; arrest by SS men from the Skanderbeg units (which were established with the encouragement of Hajj Amin al-Husseini, mufti of Jerusalem – note M. A.); deportation to...
Testimony of Aharon Abramovitz, born in Pristina, Yugoslavia in 1929, regarding his experiences in Sajmište, Albania; Bergen-Belsen; and the “lost train”
Childhood in Pristina; life in the Jewish community; his mother’s death; moving to Zagreb to live with relatives; outbreak of war in April 1941; expulsion of foreign residents from Croatia; return to Pristina; entry of Germans and transfer of regime to Italian army; his father’s death; supporting himself; move to Berat, Albania, where the Jews of Pristina were exiled; entry of Germans in September 1943; return to Pristina; arrest by Germans and Muslim 21st...
Testimony of Lea Kanik Vinshtok, born in Darabani, Romania in 1927, regarding her experiences of deportation to Transnistria, Tropova and Konatkovtsy
Her childhood before the war; the increase of nationalism and antisemitism in 1938; expulsion from school; entry of Romania in the war against the Soviet Union in 1941; the pogrom in Dorohoi; wearing the yellow badge; deportation from her home to Targu Jiu and from there to Turnu Severin; help of the Jewish community; transfer to Dorohoi; deportation to Transnistria in November 1941; theft of possessions; march to Tropovoye and from there to Konatkovtsy;...
Life before the war; offspring of a religious family; Hungary re-annexes the area in 1940; promulgation of anti-Jewish laws; men inducted into labor brigades; antisemitic acts; German occupation ensues in March 1944; witness's mother accused of communist activity and imprisoned; wearing the yellow star; banishment to the Targu Mures ghetto on May 3, 19144; mutual assistance; plunder of valuables; deportation to Auschwitz on May 27, 1944; selections in the camp; diseases, roll calls, transferred to Ober-Hohenelbe; life in the camp; living conditions improve; working at welding aircraft parts; liberation by Red...
Testimony of Kalman Meyer Schweiger, born in Szeged, Hungary, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Szeged Ghetto and deportation to Auschwitz
Life in Szeged during the war; imposition of restrictions on the Jews; deportation of Jews to labor battalions; yellow badge as a way of separating Jewish and non-Jewish workers; transfer with the Jews to the Szeged Ghetto under the supervision of the Hungarian police, March 1944; ghetto life; guarding of the ghetto by Hungarian gendarmes under the command of Imri Pinta; Hungarian gendarmes' weapons and uniforms; transfer with the Jews to a brick factory;...