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Memoirs of Pavel Klein regarding his experiences in a labor battalion in Budapest, Hungary, his desertion from the battalion during a death march to Stary Oskol, his imprisonment in a Soviet POW camp and his service as a physician on the front lines in the Czech unit of the Red Army Work as a physician in the Jewish hospital in Budapest, Hungary. Outbreak of the war; draft of the Jewish men to labor battalions at the front; draft of his brother, Laci; message regarding the death of his brother; draft of Pavel to a labor battalion as a physician, late 1942; final preparations and arrival in Ersekujvar;...

File Number : 8555

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Laszlo Lederer, born in Ujpest, Hungary, 1926

Testimony

Testimony of Laszlo Lederer, born in Ujpest, Hungary, 1926 Raised in a large family with hardships; helping to support the family from a young age. Drafted to a labor battalion; German occupation, March 1944; reporting to the labor battalion; labor in a factory in Alsfuzito under reasonable conditions; escape; arrival in Budapest with a forged document; joining a labor battalion in Budapest; escape when the battalion departed from Budapest; detention by the German Army and transfer to the Arrow Cross men, late December 1944; deportation to the Budapest Ghetto; life in the ghetto for a few weeks until the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shmuel Levi, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, 1922, regarding his experiences in Sofia, labor battalion in Pazardzhik and with the partisans in the Stata Planina mountains

Testimony

Testimony of Shmuel Levi, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, 1922, regarding his experiences in Sofia, labor battalion in Pazardzhik and with the partisans in the Stata Planina mountains Life before the war; assimilated family with hardships; receives help from the Hadassah organization; attends a Jewish school; joins Hashomer Hatzair movement. Deportation to a labor battalion in Pazardzhik, 1942; escape to the Stara Planina mountains, 1943; life in the mountains including joining the partisans; partisan activities; liberation by the Red Army, 1944. Return to Sofia; life in Sofia; service in the Police force;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zvi Peer, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1931, regarding his experiences in the Budapest Ghetto, the streets of Budapest and in hiding in a villa on the outskirts of Budapest

Testimony

Testimony of Zvi Peer, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1931, regarding his experiences in the Budapest Ghetto, the streets of Budapest and in hiding in a villa on the outskirts of Budapest From an assimilated family. Detention of his father as disloyal to the regime; draft of his father to labor battalions; deportation of his father to Poland; escape of his father who joins the Red Army; German occupation, March 1944; leaves school; destruction of their home by hooligans; abandonment of his mother during deportation to the ghetto; decision to evade deportation; life on the streets of Budapest with his younger...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avraham Bergmann, born in Komarno, Czechoslovakia, 1912, regarding his experiences in Komarno and as a forced laborer on the Soviet front

Testimony

Testimony of Avraham Bergmann, born in Komarno, Czechoslovakia, 1912, regarding his experiences in Komarno and as a forced laborer on the Soviet front Life before the war. Resistance against the fascist riots, 1939; anti-Jewish decrees, 1938-1940; forced labor on the Soviet front, 1942-1943; escape to Romania by ship, 1943.

File Number : 8038

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

Testimony of Moshe Mandel Shkedi, born in Tolcsva, Hungary, 1925, regarding his experiences as a forced laborer in Budapest, a Hungarian labor battalion and life in the Glass House in Budapest

Testimony

Testimony of Moshe Mandel Shkedi, born in Tolcsva, Hungary, 1925, regarding his experiences as a forced laborer in Budapest, a Hungarian labor battalion and life in the Glass House in Budapest Life in Tolcsva, Satoraljaujhely, Bonyhad and Paks in a yeshiva and "heder"; displays of antisemitism; death of his brother in an accident. German occupation of Budapest; receives an order and draft to forced labor in an oil factory; life in a labor battalion in Szolnok filling pits caused by air-raids and transferring goods, shortly thereafter; jumps from a train to escape, 15 October 1944; arrival to his uncle in...

File Number : 7666

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Yitzkhak Braun, born in Sopron, Hungary, 1922, regarding his experiences in labor battalions and the underground in Budapest, in Romania and his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1944

Memoirs of Yitzkhak Braun, born in Sopron, Hungary, 1922, regarding his experiences in labor battalions and the underground in Budapest, in Romania and his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1944 Memoirs of Yitzkhak Braun (his literary name is Bar Am), divided into two parts: Part 1 - a short autobiography of Yitzkhak Braun: Deportation to a labor battalion, Hungary, 1943; escape before being transferred to the eastern front; German occupation, March 1944; activities in the Zionist Youth underground; smuggling friends to Budapest; forging documents; deportation of his mother and his sister from the Sopron Ghetto to...

File Number : 20

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hungarian

Memoirs of Gyorgy Ritter, born in 1903, regarding his experiences as a Hungarian Army soldier and in Soviet captivity

Memoirs of Gyorgy Ritter, born in 1903, regarding his experiences as a Hungarian Army soldier and in Soviet captivity Deportation to forced labor by the Hungarian Army; separation from his wife and baby; combat against the Red Army at the eastern front as a Hungarian Army soldier together with [on the side of] the Germans; treatment by the Hungarian Army soldiers; treatment by the German Army soldiers; treatment by his Jewish comrades; treatment by the local population in the places where he served; possibilities of escape to the Soviet side; taken captive by the Soviets; transfer to a POW camp run by German...

File Number : 4765

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hungarian

Memoirs of Frigyes Bass regarding his experiences in a labor battalion in Hungary and at the Soviet front, 1940-1944

Memoirs of Frigyes Bass regarding his experiences in a labor battalion in Hungary and at the Soviet front, 1940-1944 Life in labor battalions in Hungary and at the Soviet front, including abuse, starvation and theft of property by Hungarian soldiers, 1940-1944; [disappearance of] his younger brother at the Soviet front; treatment by the Hungarian officers and physicians; return from the front, 1943; drafted again to labor battalions during the occupation of Hungary by the German Army, 1944.

File Number : 3475

Type of Material : Personal Records

Language : Hungarian

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