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File Number : 13417

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Miriam (Farkash) Leibovitz, born in Nove Zamky, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding her experiences in Nove Zamky, in hiding, using a false identity, in Teplice and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Miriam (Farkash) Leibovitz, born in Nove Zamky, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding her experiences in Nove Zamky, in hiding, using a false identity, in Teplice and other places Life under Hungarian rule, 1938; draft of her brothers to the Hungarian Army, to forced labor; help by her family in the smuggle of children from Slovakia to Budapest, 1942; her father is informed on; her father's detention in house arrest; in hiding while hidden by a Slovakian Christian family in Urmin, Slovakia, in exchange for payment, 1944; life while using a false identity as Maria Yablonka; move from the Slovakian...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mikulash Gutman, born in Nitra, Czechoslovakia, 1930, regarding his experiences in Topolcany, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Gleiwitz

Testimony

Testimony of Mikulash Gutman, born in Nitra, Czechoslovakia, 1930, regarding his experiences in Topolcany, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Gleiwitz Only child; small Jewish community in Velke Ripnany; his father is the manager of an agricultural farm; move to Topolcany following his father's bankruptcy before 1938; witness attends a state Jewish school; death of his father, 1938; life in a Neolog community in Topolcany. Outbreak of the war; decrees, 1939; attempts to stop deportations of Jews to extermination camps; increase in the persecutions after the Slovak National Uprising, 1944; his mother's escape; capture...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zoltan Bezalel Perlrot Shultz, born in Banska Bystrica, Czechoslovakia, 1931, regarding his experiences in Banska Bystrica, Zilina, Kezmarok, Plaszow, Sachsenhausen and Schwerin

Testimony

Testimony of Zoltan Bezalel Perlrot Shultz, born in Banska Bystrica, Czechoslovakia, 1931, regarding his experiences in Banska Bystrica, Zilina, Kezmarok, Plaszow, Sachsenhausen and Schwerin From a traditional well-to-do family. Outbreak of the war, 1939; restrictions on the Jews including termination of studies; forced registration of property and handing over of valuables to a local aristocrat, 1941; handing over the shop and family's apartment to a non-Jewish family, 1941; unsuccessful attempt to escape to Hungary; deportation with his parents to Zilina, June 1942; move to Kezmarok with help from a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Adolf Shimko, born in Topolcany, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding his experiences in Topolcany, Auschwitz, Sered, Birkenau and Friedland

Testimony

Testimony of Adolf Shimko, born in Topolcany, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding his experiences in Topolcany, Auschwitz, Sered, Birkenau and Friedland Life before the war; son in a traditional family; father's livelihood from commerce. Deportation to Sered camp, September 1944; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, October 1944; transfer as a carpenter to Friedland, December 1944; camp life including labor logging trees and a lumber shed; liberation by the Red Army, 10 May 1945. Return to Slovakia; the family's possessions are returned to them; nationalization of property by the Soviet authorities; aliya to...

File Number : 13019

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Helena (Brisk) Grega, born in Tornala, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz, Plaszow and Kratzau

Testimony

Testimony of Helena (Brisk) Grega, born in Tornala, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz, Plaszow and Kratzau Life before the war; move to Kosice. Restrictions and bans; closure of the witness' father's shop; annexation to Hungary, 1938; concentration of the Jews in two synagogues; deportation to a brick factory, May 1944; deportation to Auschwitz by train, June 1944; separation of the elderly and very young children from the others; transfer to Plaszow, July 1944; camp life including labor as a porter; her sister's assignment to kitchen duties and smuggling food; transfer to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Questionnaire regarding the experiences of Miriam Rosenberg during the Holocaust

Questionnaire regarding the experiences of Miriam Rosenberg during the Holocaust Miriam Rosenberg, born in Hust, Czechoslovakia, 1929: Deportation to Birkenau (Auschwitz II) together with her family, May 1944; separation from her parents and four siblings; probable deaths of her parents and four siblings at Birkenau; transfer to the Stutthof camp together with one sister, who remained with her for the duration of the war, August 1944; transfer to the Argenau camp, September 1944; transfer to the Thorn camp; transfer to the Rosenberg camp, November 1944; labor constructing defense buildings; evacuation of...

File Number : 345

Type of Material : Questionnaire, Record of Murdered Persons, Record of Survivors, Record of Deportees

Language : English

Questionnaire regarding the experiences of Mendel Weinberger during the Holocaust

Questionnaire regarding the experiences of Mendel Weinberger during the Holocaust Mendel Weinberger, born in Munkacs, Czechoslovakia, 1928: Deported to Auschwitz with his parents, March 1944; deaths of his parents in Auschwitz; transfer to Mauthausen, January 1945; transfer to the Gunskirchen camp, March 1945; liberation in Gunskirchen by the US Army, May 1945. Arrival at the Wolfratshausen DP camp, December 1945; plans to make aliya to Erez Israel.

File Number : 336

Type of Material : Record of Survivors, Record of Murdered Persons, Questionnaire, Record of Deportees

Language : English

Questionnaire regarding the experiences of Nandor Smilovics during the Holocaust

Questionnaire regarding the experiences of Nandor Smilovics during the Holocaust Nandor Smilovics, born in Tacovo, Czechoslovakia, 1929: Deportation from Tacovo to Auschwitz together with his parents and four sisters, May 1943; agricultural labor on neighboring farms until January 1944; transfer to Buchenwald; transfer to the Reimsdorf camp (near Leipzig), March 1944; labor clearing away rubble until April 1945; transfer to Theresienstadt; liberation of Theresienstadt by the Red Army, May 1945. Return to Tacovo in an unsuccessful search for his father until October; joins a transport to the Foehrenwald...

File Number : 323

Type of Material : Record of Survivors, Questionnaire, Record of Murdered Persons, Record of Deportees

Language : English

Questionnaire regarding the experiences of Josef Moskovitz during the Holocaust

Questionnaire regarding the experiences of Josef Moskovitz during the Holocaust Josef Moskovitz, born in Drahovo, Czechoslovakia, 1929: Deportation to Auschwitz with his mother and six siblings, May 1944; deaths of the rest of his family in Auschwitz; transfer to Buchenwald, June 1944; transfer to the Dora (Germany) camp eight days later; forced labor; liberation by the US Army, May 1945. Move to the Bergen- Belsen DP camp; move to the Zelle (Germany) DP camp; move to Czechoslovakia; work in a bakery until May 1946; move to the Wolfratshausen DP Camp in preparation for aliya to Eretz Israel. Josef's...

File Number : 314

Type of Material : Questionnaire, Record of Murdered Persons, Record of Deportees, Record of Survivors

Language : English

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