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Testimony of Yaakov Amit Altman, born in Noua Sulita, Romania, 1935 regarding the deportation of his family to Transnistria

Testimony

Family background; drafting of his father into the Red army; His family's escape to Ukraine following the Red Army; capture of his family by the Germans along with additional escapees; deportation of his family to Chernovitse; his family's livelihood from knitting; obtaining food with great difficulty; living in a basement; living conditions; liberation by the Red Army; Week-long return by foot to Noua Sulita; living conditions in Noua Sulita; reunion with his father; move to Transylvania and Bukovina, Romania; illegal immigration to Eretz Israel on the ship "Knesset Israel"; arrest by the British and...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

שוורץ עזריאלTestimony of Azriel Shvartz, born 1930 in Berehovo, Carpathia, Czechoslovakia, about the Berehovo ghetto and the camps of Auschwitz, Javisovice, and Buchenwald

Testimony

Testimony of Azriel Shvartz, born in Berehovo, Carpathia, Czechoslovakia in 1930, regarding life in the Berehovo Ghetto and Auschwitz, Javisovice, and Buchenwald camps Childhood; life under the Hungarian regime in 1938; increasing antisemitism and restrictions; the Hungarians’ takeover of his father’s businesses and nationalizing them in 1940; German occupation in 1944; confiscation of property and valuables in 1944; expulsion to the Berehovo Ghetto; life in the ghetto for several weeks; deportation to Auschwitz in 1944 and staying in the camp for several days; the deportation of the witness and his father...

File Number : 13685

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ze'ev Yitzhaki, born in Iasi, Romania, 1936, regarding his experiences in Iasi during the war

Testimony

Testimony of Ze'ev Yitzhaki, born in Iasi, Romania, 1936, regarding his experiences in Iasi during the war Early childhood. Increase in anti-Semitism, 1939; anti-Jewish orders and legislation; pogrom at police stations and trains, June 1941; the bombings.Liberation by the Red Army, summer of 1944; joining the Dror organization; moving to a children's home in Piatra Neat; boarding the illegal immigrant ship Pan York, December 1947; exile to Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel, March 1948; absorption.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe (Dezho) David, born in Gurghiu, Romania, 1927 regarding his experiences in Kaufering and additional camps

Testimony

Childhood; family background; the murder of his father by Romanians, 1934; attends a Romanian school and moves to learn in a workshop in Cluj; Annexation of the area to Hungary; German invasion, 1944; yellow badge; concentration of the Jews in a brick factory; deportation to Auschwitz camp; transfer to Kaufering camp; positive treatment by the German labor manager; labor in an underground factory for airplane production; transfer to Dachau; death march towards Bad-Toelz; liberation; Return to Gurghiu and Cluj; aliya training in Timisoara; illegal immigration to Eretz Israel and exile to Cyprus; digging...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Judit (Kraus) Lahav, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1930 regarding the move of her family to Komarom, deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, additional camps and death march

Testimony

Childhood before the war; annexation of Slovakia by Nazi Germany, 1938; move of her family to Komarom, Hungary; Drafting of her father to labor battalions; increase in antisemitism; German invasion, 19 March 1944; anti-Jewish legislation; deportation for a short time to a citadel in the city that became a ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; selection and transfer to Plaszow; labor paving roads; return to Auschwitz for a short time and from there to Rochlitz for labor in a factory producing airplane parts; transfer to Calw to an airplane factory; death march to Buching; liberation, late April...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Arye Simcha Perl, born in Petrova, Romania, 1919 regarding being drafted into a Hungarian Army forced labor battalion

Testimony

From a Hasidic family; observing Shabbat and holidays; keeping customs; attends a local school and a heder; the Jewish community; Hamizrachi and Agudat Israel movements; Entry of the Hungarians, late August 1940; anti-Jewish decrees; drafting of men, including the witness into Hungarian Army forced labor battalions; forced labor at the airfield, Hungary; wearing a yellow armband; labor camp life; typhus; liberation, late 1944; Return home; news of the murder of his family in Auschwitz; attempt to locate relatives in Sighet; membership in Agudat Israel; rebuilding life after the war; marriage in Petrova,...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Genia (Nistenpover) Hermon, born in Pultusk, Poland, 1929 regarding the deportation of her family to Bialystok, USSR, and life in Berezniki, Ural

Testimony

German occupation, 1939; the family's escape to a nearby town and return after a short time; deportation on foot by the Germans to the Soviet border and transfer to a refugee camp in Bialystok; deportation by the Soviet authorities to Adamova Gora near Berezniki, Ural; her parents working in construction; liberation following the outbreak of the Soviet-German war; move to Orsha, Belorussia, 1941; approach of the front; air-raids; escape to Uzbekistan, 1941; move to a kolkhoz to work in cotton picking for several months; move to Kassansay; studies in a Soviet school; Her return with the family after the end...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letters from Marianna Ertler in Ipolyság, Czechoslovakia to her [boy]friend István Lányi in Ipolynyék and Hévmagyarad, Czechoslovakia, 1944, last letter written by István Lányi's father before his deportation to Auschwitz, and letters sent by friends in Cyprus to István Lányi, 1947 - Last letter written by Sándor Lányi (father of István Lányi) to the members of his family regarding the handling of his land during his time in the detention camp in Hungary before his deportation to Auschwitz; - Letters from Marianna Ertler in Ipolyság to her [boy]friend István Pista Lányi in Ipolynyék and Hévmagyarad,...

File Number : 2191

Type of Material : Article, Drawing, Envelope, Letter

Language : Slovak, Hebrew, Hungarian

To be translated

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Abraham Ernst Ponger, born in Mikulas Litovsky Svaty, Czechoslovakia, in 1922, regarding his experiences in the Sered camp and in the battle of the partisans

Childhood before the war; Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria 1938; expulsion from school and carpentry studies; independence of Slovakia and anti-Jewish legislation 1939; deportation of Jews and escape to the mountains in March 1942; going back home and deportation to the Sered camp,in April 1945; work in carpentry; underground in the camp; Slovak uprising and escape ,in August 1944; joining partisans; actions against Germans; liberation by the red army,in April 1945; joining aliya training; illegal immigration to Eretz Israel on the Theodor Herzl ship,on 01 April 1947; exile to Cyprus; aliya back to...

File Number : 13772

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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