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Testimony of Arie Likht, born in Hajduszoboszlo, Hungary, 1924 regarding his experiences in Hungary during the war period

Testimony

His parents' home; antisemitism; move to Budapest, 1942; German occupation, March 1944; obligation to report for labor clearing rubble; restrictions on movement; yellow badge; drafting order; transfer to Szolnok; labor in a military factory, July 1944; sorting of skilled workers; drafting into the Hungarian Army and deployment to the front; approach of the Soviet front; retreat; Horthy's declaration, 1944; expulsion from the Hungarian Army; concentration of the Jewish soldiers and transfer to the Austrian border; transfer into the hands of the German Army, Sopron; labor building fortifications along the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mirka (Klaver) Zaklikovski, born in Lodz, Poland, 1927, regarding the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, and other camps, 1940-1945

Testimony

Childhood before the war; Outbreak of the war; arrival of refugees from Czechoslovakia and Germany; restrictions; deportation to the ghetto; curfew; forced labor; taking of her father to forced labor; "Aktions"; public hangings of Jews; escapes from the ghetto; cultural life in the ghetto; liquidation of the ghetto; transfer to labor camps in Germany; working in a weapons factory; reasonable treatment by the Germans; liberation by the British Army; Rebuilding life after the war; aliya to Israel, 1949.

File Number : 13855

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Hela (Feltz) Reznik, born in Bedzin, Poland, 1925 regarding her experiences in the Parschnitz labor camp, Czechoslovakia

Testimony

Prewar childhood; antisemitism; plans for aliya to Eretz Israel; outbreak of the war; German occupation; burning of houses; deportation to the Parschnitz labor camp, Czechoslovakia; camp life, 1941-1945; hunger; longing; murder of her family; liberation by the Red Army; Rebuilding life after the war; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1948.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shlomo Tibor Rosenthal, born in Miskolc, Hungary, 1928 regarding his experiences in the ghetto and the labor battalion in Hungary

Testimony

From an Orthodox family; learns in a heder and a Jewish school; prohibition on ritual slaughter; closing of the family butcher shop; German occupation, March 1944; His house within the ghetto area; drafting of his father and brother to a labor battalion; transfer to a brick factory; entlists into the labor battalions on the advice of a Hungarian officer; liberation by the Red Army; Return home; reunion with his two sisters; activity in the Bnei Akiva movement; move with a group of children to a children's home in Budapest; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1948.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Testimony

Childhood in Zarki; antisemitism; move to Sosnowiec, 1934; antisemitism; German occupation, September 1939; abuse; anti-Jewish legislation; confiscation of property; Judenrat; deportation to the Johannsdorf labor camp, late 1939; work in excavations and laying railroad tracks; transfer to the Markstadt camp; various forced labors; transfer to the Klettendorf camp; labor as a porter; beatings; transfer to the Dyhernfurth camp to work in a weapons factory; beatings; hunger; death march to Bergen-Belsen; high mortality; hunger; liberation by the British Army, April 1945; Life after the war; aliya to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yeshayahu Nahum Horovitz, born in 1920 in Lodz, about his experiences in the Lodz ghetto and the Hasag camp during the war

Testimony

Life before the war; refugees from Germany arrive in 1938; German occupation ensues in September 1939; anti-Jewish legislation; dispossession; abductions for forced labor; plunder of property; desecration of synagogues; ghettoization in April 1940; activity of hakhsharot (training centers) in Marysin; activity of the Bnei Akiva movement; hunger; working in the Judenrat kitchens; deportation to Hasag, in Częstochowa, in March 1944; life in the camp; working in an armaments factory; religious life and faith; liberation by Red Army forces in January 1945; life after the war; antisemitism; immigration to Israel in...

File Number : 13615

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rivka van Coevorden née van Amstel, born in 1924 in Coevorden, Netherlands, about her experiences in Amsterdam and in hiding in the Netherlands during the war

Testimony

Life before the war; offspring of a family that had lived in the Netherlands since 1400; moving to Amsterdam in 1938; war breaks out in 1940; deportation to a labor camp; escape; assigned to farm labor; marries and gives birth to a daughter; hiding in various places; liberation; reunited with daughter; life after the war; immigration to Israel in 1951; adjustment to life in Israel.

File Number : 13536

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yisrael Shemonovitz, born 1922 in Sevlus, Czechoslovakia, about his life in Sevlus in the region of Carpathian Ruthenia and in the region of Galicia

Testimony of Yisrael Shemonovitz, born in Sevlus, Czechoslovakia in 1922, regarding his life in Sevlus in the region of Carpathian Ruthenia and in the region of Galicia Life before the war; his mother’s death; living with his uncle; re-annexation of the area to Hungary in 1940; the German occupation in March 1944; deportation to the camp; transfer to forced labor; transfer to the region of Galicia, due to work needs from the Carpathian Ruthenia region; liberation by the Red Army; aliya to Eretz Israel on the “Transylvania” of the Joint Distribution Committee and the Agudath Israel movement in 1945; raising...

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 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

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