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Testimony of Eduard Fosner, born 1927 in Bucharest, Romania, about expulsion to the Oradea ghetto, deportation to Auschwitz and other camps, death march, and escape

Testimony

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...

File Number : 13773

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mordechay (Paul Georg) Fleischer, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1926 regarding his escape to Budapest, deportation to detention camps, escape from a death march and residing in the Glass House

Testimony

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...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Bronia (Bratt) Landau, born in Kromolow, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Sagan and Gruenberg labor camps, on a death march to Helmbrechts, escape from the death march in Wildenau and wanderings until the liberation Deportation of male Jews to labor camps, including her brothers and her father; 1940-1941; return of her father, taking leave of her family and deportation to Sosnowiec, 10 February 1942; volunteering for labor and transfer together with 100 women to Sagan camp in Germany; transfer to Gruenberg camp, after seven months; camp life for approximately three years; labor in...

File Number : 8625

Type of Material : Memoirs, Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, Polish, German

Memorial booklet written by Miriam Friedman Morris regarding the experiences of her parents, Hildegard (Taussig) Friedman, born in Berlin, Germany, 1921, and David Friedman, born in Märisch Ostrau, Czechoslovakia, 1893, in Prague, Theresienstadt, the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and other places - Experiences of Hildegard (Taussig) Friedman, who was born in Berlin, Germany, 06 April 1921, as described in the booklet: Her family's life before the war; German occupation, 1939; life under German occupation; deportation from Prague to Theresienstadt, 17 December 1941; labor planting trees in Krivoklat forest...

File Number : 8592

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Newspaper Clippings, Postcard, Memoirs, Red Cross Letter, Letter, Documentary, Article(s), List(s), Text(s)

Language : Czech, English, German

Memoirs of Sheva (Levi) Kopolovitz, born in Lask, Poland, 1910, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, the Koenigsberg camp, using a false identity near the Baltic Sea and more

Memoirs of Sheva (Levi) Kopolovitz, born in Lask, Poland, 1910, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, the Koenigsberg camp, using a false identity near the Baltic Sea and more Life before the war; experiences of her father, Ephraim Fishel Levi as a merchant in Lask until 1934; move to Lodz with her family due to difficulties in supporting themselves. Escape of her brother Azriel to the Soviet Union; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto with her family; work as a seamstress in a workshop at No. 10 Jakuba Street; obtaining a food supplement (because of which she survived); receiving an order to...

File Number : 8569

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Memoires of Ire Ora (Minc) Orenbach, born in Lodz, Poland, 1929, regarding her experiences during the war and after her liberation from Bergen-Belsen, and poems she wrote in Germany and Eretz Israel

Memoirs of Ire Ora (Minc) Orenbach, born in Lodz, Poland, 1929, regarding her experiences during the war and after her liberation from Bergen-Belsen, and poems she wrote in Germany and Eretz Israel The memoirs were written down in a notebook given to her by her liberators, US Army soldiers; they include poems written by Ire Minc (in Polish and in Yiddish) both in Frankfurt en route to Eretz Israel and after her aliya to Eretz Israel, 14 October-03 November 1947. Poems such as "Litzmanstad ghetto" (Lodz Ghetto) or "Polska bez Zydow" (Poland Without Jews) were written about the events of the Holocaust. -...

File Number : 8564

Type of Material : Certification, Poems/songs, Memoirs

Language : Polish, Yiddish

Testimony of Eva Rocek, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding her experiences in Prague, Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, the Kurzbach camp and other places

Testimony of Eva Rocek, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding her experiences in Prague, Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, the Kurzbach camp and other places Life before the war; her parents are Viktor Porges, born in Horazdovice and Anna (Bondy), born in Horovice. German occupation; ban on owning animals by Jews; payment of a bribe to a veterinarian for certifying the euthanization of her dog; termination of studies by Jewish students, including high school studies; yellow badge; deportations to Lodz and Theresienstadt, 1941; deportation to Theresienstadt with her family, July 1942; life in camp in...

File Number : 8521

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English

Certification from the Odeljenje za zaštitu naroda (Department for the Defense of the People) that Manó Hahn escaped from an inmates' forced march and is now returning to Hungary, 1944, and a document certifying that the family of his father, Gerschon Hahn, numbers five children, 1943 The documentation includes: - Certification from the Odeljenje za zaštitu naroda that Manó Hahn, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1903, escaped from an inmates' forced march that originated in the Bor camp and is now returning to his homeland, issued in Bolec, 26 October 1944; - Document issued by the Population Registry of the...

File Number : 473

Type of Material : Personal Records

Language : Serbian, Hungarian

Testimony of Matvey Lichterman, born in Shumyachi, Soviet Union, 1921, regarding his experiences in the Red Army, in a POW camp in Uman and Vinnitsa

Testimony of Matvey Lichterman, born in Shumyachi, Soviet Union, 1921, regarding his experiences in the Red Army, a POW camp in Uman and Vinnitsa Participation in a Red Army military operation as a paratrooper; death of many soldiers and his capture by the German Army; transfer to Uman; life in a POW camp; hiding his Jewish identity; life using the false identity of Mikhail Garin; murder of many POWs; transfer to forced labor outside the camp; receiving food from the local population; survival due to the food; draft of Ukrainians as forced laborers for the German Army and the camp police; propaganda campaign...

File Number : 8509

Type of Material : Interview(s)

Language : Russian

Memoirs of Sonia Engelsberg, born in Torun, Czechoslovakia, 1924, regarding her experiences in Cesky Tesín, in a Polish village near the Dniester river, the Sevlus Ghetto, Auschwitz, the prison in Most, Theresienstadt and other places Move to Cesky Tesín, life with her parents and four siblings until 1938. Clash between the Polish Army and the Czechoslovakian Army; the German occupation; anti-Jewish legislation and regulations; draft of Jewish men to forced labor; escape of the family to Torun; annexation of the area to Hungary, 1939; deportation of the Jews without Hungarian citizenship to Poland,...

File Number : 8482

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Czech

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