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Testimony of Fryda (Kniz) Berger, born in Dabrowa Tarnowska, Poland, 1910, regarding her experiences in Debica, Nagoszyn, Radomysl Wielki, in a forest and in hiding

Testimony of Fryda (Kniz) Berger, born in Dabrowa Tarnowska, Poland, 1910, regarding her experiences in Debica, Nagoszyn, Radomysl Wielki, in a forest and in hiding Air-raids on Debica; mass escape of the residents, September 1939; move with her daughter Miriam, who was 4 years old, to her parents' home in Nagoszyn; visits by the Germans serving in the Sonderdienst (Special Service) to rob property and extort money; detention of her father, a US citizen, by the Gestapo, April 1942; execution of her father in a forest, three weeks later; deportation order to the Jews in villages and towns, requiring them to...

File Number : 220

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Group testimony of Jews who escaped from the Ninth Fort in Kaunas on 25 December 1943, regarding the opening of graves and incineration of the bodies of Jews who were murdered in the area of the fort

Group testimony of Jews who escaped from the Ninth Fort in Kaunas on 25 December 1943, regarding the opening of graves and incineration of the bodies of Jews who were murdered in the area of the fort Information regarding mass murders of Jews in the area of the Ninth Fort in 1941-1942; opening the graves to destroy the bodies and conceal the murders; concentration of laborers for labor at the Ninth Fort in 1943; murder of the sick and elderly laborers in November 1943; opening of graves and incineration of the bodies from 1 November 1943 to 25 December 1943; escape of laborers from the fortress on 25...

File Number : 2745

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

Memoirs of Henry Chaim Sarna, regarding his stay in the Small Fortress in Theresienstadt

File Number : 2446

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English

Testimony of Özv. (widow) Lajosné Margit (Rónai) Hodosi, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1901, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bergen-Belsen, Braunschweig and Warthestadt camps and more Life in Újvidék during the re-annexation of Újvidék to Hungary, 13 April 1941; change for the worse in the treatment of Jews; revocation of the business license of the family-owned restaurant and cafeteria, June 1941; selling the businesses; confiscation of property; manhunt by 500 gendarmes from Szeged, 1942; imposition of restrictions; exploding the ice over the Danube River (in minus 24 degrees Centigrade);...

File Number : 2740

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian