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Testimony of Nancy Vera Rachel Arbel, born in Baktaloranthaza, Hungary, in 1826 regarding deportation to the Auschwitz Birkenau , Plaszow and Reichenbach camps

Testimony

Childhood before the war; coexistence; outbreak of the war; restrictions on Jews; German occupation in March 1944; deportation to ghetto; mutual help; robbery of property; fictitious marriage for the purpose of rescue; deportation to Auschwitz Birkenau; transfer to Plaszow; transfer to a protected camp; improvement in food and living conditions; transfer back to Auschwitz Birkenau; transfer to Germany for agricultural works and for working in a factory manufacturing planes; liberation by the Russians; rehabilitation of life after the war; aliya to Israel in 1949

File Number : 13703

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Leb Margalit, born in Galgau, Romania, in 1928 regarding the Dej ghetto, Auschwitz Birkenau and other camps

Childhood in Galgau and in Deja; invasion of the Hungarians in 1940; anti-Jewish legislation; recruiting for labor battalions; deterioration of the economic situation; German occupation in March 1944; yellow badge; confiscation of property; deportation to the Dej ghetto; life under the sky; starvation; deportation to Auschwitz Birkenau in June 1944; camp admission process; life in the camp; starvation and thirst; transfer to Bremen about 2 months later; working in clearing the ruins; getting help from German citizens; mutual help; transfer to Bergen Belsen; typhus epidemic; piles of corpses; liberation by the...

File Number : 13712

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yehudit Blom, nee Fridman, born in Uzhorod, Czechoslovakia, ,in 1930 regarding her experiences as a young girl in the Uzhorod ghetto, and in camps in Poland and Germany during the war.

Testimony of Yehudit Blom nee Fridman, born in Uzhorod, Czechoslovakia, in 1930, regarding her experiences as a girl in the Uzhorod ghetto and in camps in Poland and Germany during the war Life before the war; annexation of the new place to Hungary in 1938; deportation of the stateless ; arrival of refugees; German occupation in March 1944; confiscation of property; deportation to the Uzhorod ghetto at the end of April 1944; life in the ghetto for about 6 weeks; deportation to Auschwitz Birkenau; life in the camp; starvation; transfer to Gelsenkirchen; life in the camp; work in clearing rubble; starvation;...

File Number : 13597

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Aron Farkas, born in Horincovo, Czechoslovakia, 1922, regarding his experiences in labor battalions in Hungary, 1943, and a release certificate for Rózsi Herschkovics from Halbstadt camp, 14 May 1945 - Draft to a labor battalion in Ózd, October 1943; transfer to Kőszeg; stay in a hospital; return to Kőszeg; transfer to Bsattalion III/3, Repinne [?], near the Polish border; labor in digging, until late September 1944; arrival in Csap on foot; arrival at Kópháza labor camp; labor as a gravedigger in Kópháza camp; release from Kópháza camp, late April 1944; - Experiences of the family, deportation...

File Number : 8573

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony, Document

Language : Hebrew, German

Testimony of Yehudit Brok née Stern, born in 1925 in Galanta, Czechoslovakia, about her experiences in the ghettos of Galanta and Nove Zamky and in the Auschwitz and Hohenelbe camps until 1945

Hungary re-annexes the Galanta area and anti-Jewish violence in 1938; antisemitism escalates and authorities impose restrictions; German occupation ensues in 1944; father arrested and deported to a detention camp in Hungary in 1944; witness deported with mother and siblings to the Galanta ghetto for several days; deportation to a ghetto in a brickyard in Nove Zamky; deporation to Auschwitz in 1944; life in Auschwitz and receiving help from father; transferred to Hohenelbe; life in the camp; working at a factory that turns out aircraft parts; typhus; rescue by a non-Jewish Dutch nurse in 1945; liberation by Red...

File Number : 13525

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shmuel Berkovitz, born in 1925 in Sangeorgiul De Padure, Romania, about his experiences in Sangeorgiul De Padure, the Targu Mures ghetto, the Gleiwitz and Buna Monowitz camps, etc.

Testimony of Shmuel Berkovitz, born in 1925 in Sangeorgiul De Padure, Romania, about his experiences in Sangeorgiul De Padure, the Targu Mures ghetto, the Gleiwitz and Buna Monowitz camps, etc. Son of a Religious Zionist family; antisemitism; Hungary re-annexes the area in 1939; persecution of Zionists and Communists; inducted into labor battalions; German occupation ensues in March 1944; deportation to the Targu Mures ghetto; life in a brick factory, dispossession; deportation to Auschwitz several weeks later; transfer to Buna Monowitz; life in the camp; assigned to forced labor; hunger; Yom Kippur;...

File Number : 13870

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chananya Lyush Abramovitz, born in Mezokovacshaza, Hungary in 1937, regarding his experiences in the Mezokovacshaza Ghetto, in the Debrecen Ghetto and in Strasshof and Sollenau camps

Testimony of Chananya Lyush Abramovitz, born in Mezokovacshaza, Hungary in 1937, regarding his experiences in the Mezokovacshaza Ghetto, in the Debrecen Ghetto and in Strasshof and Sollenau camps Life before the war; Hasidic, religious family; antisemitism; anti-Jewish legislation; fear of the gendarmes; German occupation, March 1944; deportation to the Mezokovacshaza Ghetto; attitude of the Hungarian population; transfer to the Debrecen Ghetto via the Bekescaba Ghetto; confiscation and burning of holy books and religious articles; deportation to Strasshof camp; transfer with his family to agricultural...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

כרמי שרהTestimony of Sara Arzbet Karmi née Yakubovitz, born in 1926 in Nyiregyhaza, Hungary, about her experiences in the Mateszalka ghetto, Auschwitz, the Teplice camp, and Theresienstadt

German occupation ensues in 1944; deported to the Mateszalka ghetto in 1944; deported to Auschwitz in 1944; taken to the Teplice camp in 1944; works at an armaments and aircraft manufacturing plant; sent to Theresienstadt in 1945; liberated by Red Army forces in 1945; back to Nyiregyhaza; moves to Budapest and joins an Agudath Israel "kibbutz" in 1946; moves (illegally) to Zagreb; waits approx. two months in 1946; illegal immigration to Eretz Israel aboard the Knesset Israel under Aliya Bet auspices; deported to the "winter camp" in Cyprus in 1946; marries in 1947; immigrates to Eretz Israel in 1947; adjusts to...

File Number : 13513

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yitzhak Leibowitz, born in 1926 in Loza, Czechoslovakia, about the Munkacs ghetto and the Auschwitz, Gunskirchen, Mauthausen, and other camps

Life under Hungarian rule in 1939; father inducted into the Hungarian Army labor brigades in 1941 and returns; German occupation ensues in 1944; deportation to the Munkacs ghetto in 1944; deportation to Auschwitz in 1944; transferred to Mauthausen (in Austria) in 1944; forced labor: building an underground armaments factory; death march to the Gunskirchen camp in 1945; liberation by American forces in 1945; back to Loza, Carpathian Ruthenia, upon the end of the war in 1945; unsuccessful attepmpt to slip into Hungary in 1945; moving to Romania and thence to Budapest in 1946; joining a Hakibbutz Hameuhad...

File Number : 13480

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Dvora (Farkash Appel) Pozniak, born in Velatin, Czechoslovakia, 1933, regarding her experiences in Velatin, the Chust Ghetto, Auschwitz, Nuremberg, Plzen and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Dvora (Farkash Appel) Pozniak, born in Velatin, Czechoslovakia, 1933, regarding her experiences in Velatin, the Chust Ghetto, Auschwitz, Nuremberg, Plzen and other places Her childhood in Velatin; orphaned of her mother. Hungarian Army occupation [of Velatin], 1938; deportation to the Chust Ghetto including separation between men and women, 1944; [Chust Ghetto life including] forced labor; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life including forced labor; transfer of her father to Dachau; murder of her father; transfer to Nuremberg; life in Nuremberg including forced labor in a Siemens factory;...

File Number : 13415

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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