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Testimony of Nancy Vera Rachel Arbel, born in Baktaloranthaza, Hungary, in 1826 regarding deportation to the Auschwitz Birkenau , Plaszow and Reichenbach camps

Testimony

Childhood before the war; coexistence; outbreak of the war; restrictions on Jews; German occupation in March 1944; deportation to ghetto; mutual help; robbery of property; fictitious marriage for the purpose of rescue; deportation to Auschwitz Birkenau; transfer to Plaszow; transfer to a protected camp; improvement in food and living conditions; transfer back to Auschwitz Birkenau; transfer to Germany for agricultural works and for working in a factory manufacturing planes; liberation by the Russians; rehabilitation of life after the war; aliya to Israel in 1949

File Number : 13703

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Felicja (Rosenblueth) Wachs, born in Krakow, Poland, 1919, regarding her experiences during the Holocaust in the Krakow Ghetto and in Plaszow and Bruenlitz camps, and her personal documents from before and after the war Memoirs: Completion of medical studies; work in the Jewish hospital in Krakow, 1940; confiscation of Jewish homes and businesses; imposition of restrictions and bans on the Jews of Krakow; deportation to the Krakow Ghetto, 1941; labor as a nurse in the prison; the first transports from the ghetto, June 1942; the large "Aktion", October 1942; liquidation of the ghetto and the...

File Number : 8604

Type of Material : Memoirs, Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, Polish, French

Trial by the district courts in Klagenfurt, Vienna, Salzburg and Linz against members of the HSSPF Lublin, volume 69: Correspondence between Landesgericht Klagenfurt and other regional courts regarding the criminal proceeding against Helmut Pohl and Ernst Lerch; testimonies of the accused

Documentation from trials conducted in Landesgericht Klagenfurt (the Klagenfurt District Court), Landesgericht Wien (the Vienna District Court), Landesgericht Salzburg (the Salzburg District Court) and Landesgericht Linz (the Linz District Court) against members of the HSSPF (Höhere SS- und Polizeiführer-Higher SS and Police Leader) Lublin: Documentation of the trial, volume 69: Correspondence between Landesgericht Klagenfurt and other regional courts regarding the criminal proceeding against Helmut Pohl and Ernst Lerch; testimonies of the accused - Yad Vashem file card (p. 1); - Landesgericht Klagenfurt...

File Number : 127

Type of Material : Legal Documentation, Names of Perpetrators, Letter, Testimony, Official Documentation

Language : German

Testimony

Testimony of Blanka (Kuenreich) Ickowicz, born in Krakow, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences as a child using a false identity in a village, in the Krakow Ghetto, Plaszow, Skarzysko Kamienna, Leipzig and a death march Life before the war. German occupation, 1939; confiscation of the family's property; restrictions on the Jews including wearing an armband; eviction from the family's home; life in a village in the home of a Polish family; life using a false identity as a non-Jew; escape of her father to Lwow; deportation to the Krakow Ghetto; ghetto life including walks to Krakow and bringing objects...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rachel Lea (Schwimmer) Gross, born in Selce, Czechoslovakia, 1930, regarding her experiences in the Mukacevo Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Plaszow and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Rachel Lea (Schwimmer) Gross, born in Selce, Czechoslovakia, 1930, regarding her experiences in the Mukacevo Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Plaszow and other places Life before the war; education. Re-annexation to Hungary, 1938; draft of her father to forced labor; restrictions on Jews including the yellow badge; German occupation, March 1944; restrictions; transfer to Irsava; deportation to the Mukacevo Ghetto; ghetto life including shearing of her father's beard; confiscation of valuables by the Hungarian gendarmes; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; camp life including the death of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Hertz Hirshberg, born in Krakow, Poland, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Krakow Ghetto, Plaszow; Gross-Rosen and Brnenec

Testimony

Testimony of Hertz Hirshberg, born in Krakow, Poland, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Krakow Ghetto, Plaszow; Gross-Rosen and Brnenec Life before the war; education. German occupation, September 1939; restrictions on Jews including yellow badge; confiscation of valuables; deportation to a ghetto; ghetto life including Judenrat activities and Jewish police; Bar Mitzvah; deportation of the Jews to Auschwitz; transfer to Belzec; transfer to Plaszow; camp life; labor crushing gravestones in the Jewish cemetery; labor paving roads; smuggling food into camp; makes contact with Oskar Schindler; transfer...

File Number : 12814

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yaakov (Yanek) Wilk Sarid, born in Sniatyn, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in Krakow, the Krakow Ghetto, Mauthausen, Plaszow, Gusen II, Guenskirchen and a death march

Testimony

Testimony of Yaakov (Yanek) Wilk Sarid, born in Sniatyn, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in Krakow, the Krakow Ghetto, Mauthausen, Plaszow, Gusen II, Guenskirchen and a death march His family background; move to Krakow; community life; education; arrival of refugees from Germany. Outbreak of the war; German occupation; decrees; marking of Jewish businesses as Jewish; draft of Jews to forced labor; closure of Jewish schools; deportation to the Krakow Ghetto; death of his father in Belzec; witness' labor for the Judenrat; mass mortality rate; deportation to Plaszow; camp life; transfer by train to...

File Number : 12599

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rozsi (Kramer) Ehrenfeld, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1921, regarding her experiences in the Komarno Ghetto, Auschwitz, Plaszow and Augsburg

Testimony

Testimony of Rozsi (Kramer) Ehrenfeld, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1921, regarding her experiences in the Komarno Ghetto, Auschwitz, Plaszow and Augsburg Life before the war; religious life; attends school; the Jewish community; studies literature. Draft of the men to labor camps; German occupation; deportation of her father to Auschwitz; yellow badge; deportation to the Komarno Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life; transfer to Plaszow; camp life; transfer to Augsburg; camp life and labor in an aircraft parts factory; injury; labor shaving hair in the camp; liberation by the US Army. Return to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Tereza (Kohn) Vajnorsky, born in Nagy Magyer, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding her experiences in Komarno, Auschwitz and Plaszow camp

Testimony

Testimony of Tereza (Kohn) Vajnorsky, born in Nagy Magyer, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding her experiences in Komarno, Auschwitz and Plaszow camp Life before the war; the Jewish community. Outbreak of the war; concentration of Jews in her father's house; escape of her brother to Hungary; move to a Jewish family's home; move to Komarno; labor of her father as a tailor; deportation to a village; attends school; anti-Jewish laws and decrees; yellow badge; draft of her father to a labor camp; confiscation of valuables; transfer to the Kosice train station; deportation to Auschwitz; transfer to Plaszow; camp...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Livia (Span) Fleischman, born in Veľký Meder, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Budapest Ghetto, Auschwitz, Plaszow and Theresienstadt

Testimony

Testimony of Livia (Span) Fleischman, born in Veľký Meder, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Budapest Ghetto, Auschwitz, Plaszow and Theresienstadt Life before the war; attends school. Deportation of relatives to Auschwitz; move to Budapest; deportation to the Budapest Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; death of her mother; transfer to Plaszow; camp life; transfer back to Auschwitz; transfer to a labor camp in Germany; labor in an aircraft parts factory; death march to Theresienstadt; typhus; liberation by the Red Army. Return home; marriage, 1945; joins aliya training; member of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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