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Memoirs of Chana Szinay Sinai, born in Tiszalok, Hungary in 1925, regarding her fate during the Holocaust, including a poem, telegram, Ketubah (Jewish marriage certificate) and inmate-number tag

File Number : 7447

Type of Material : Memoirs, Poems/songs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Klara (Einhorn) Roth, born in Valea Lu Mihai, Romania, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Oradea Ghetto, Auschwitz and Salzwedel

Testimony

Testimony of Klara (Einhorn) Roth, born in Valea Lu Mihai, Romania, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Oradea Ghetto, Auschwitz and Salzwedel Life before the war in Ermihalyfalva; attends a Jewish school and a Romanian school; studies to be a seamstress; membership in youth movements Hamizrachi, Hanoar Hatzioni and Wizo Hatzair. Re-annexation to Hungary; confiscation of Jewish owned businesses; termination of Zionist activities; draft of the men for forced labor; displays of antisemitism; deportation to the Oradea Ghetto, 05 April 1944; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life; transfer to Salzwedel; camp...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

Testimony of Chana Szinai, born in Tiszalok, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Simapuszta ghetto; in the Birkenau camp, and in forced labor camps

Testimony

Testimony of Chana Szinai, born in Tiszalok, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Simapuszta ghetto; in the Birkenau camp, and in forced labor camps Childhood recollections and family background in Tiszalok; studies in a Jewish elementary school; displays of antisemitism in 1939. Her father's being forced to enlist in labor battalions; concentration of the Jews in the Simapuszta ghetto with the entry of the Germans in 1944; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; the children's block; roll calls; harsh treatment from Irma Greze; life in the camp; selections; receiving disk number 7981 in Birkenau;...

File Number : 11562

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Jona Terez (Kappel) Sonnenklar, born in Cluj, 1920, regarding her experiences in the Cluj Ghetto, Auschwitz and Weisswasser camps

Testimony

Testimony of Jona Terez (Kappel) Sonnenklar, born in Cluj, 1920, regarding her experiences in the Cluj Ghetto, Auschwitz and Weisswasser camps Life in Cluj until the entry of the Germans. Deportation to ghetto, 1944; financial help from a non-Jew; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Camp C; transfer to Weisswasser; camp life; liberation by the Red Army. Hardships en route home; marriage and life in Cluj; aliya to Israel, 1962.

File Number : 10030

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Katalin Weinberger, born in Satu Mare, Romania, 1930, regarding her experiences in the Satu Mare Ghetto, Auschwitz, a death march and Rechlin camp

Testimony

Testimony of Katalin Weinberger, born in Satu Mare, Romania, 1930, regarding her experiences in the Satu Mare Ghetto, Auschwitz, a death march and Rechlin camp Her childhood and family background. Hungarian occupation, 1940; deterioration of conditions; attends a non-Jewish high school; German occupation, Pesach 1944; establishment of the Satu Mare Ghetto; negative position toward the Judenrat; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, 05 September 1944; camp life as inmate number A9224, November 1944-January 1945; labor in a clothing storeroom near the crematorium; improvement in conditions; view of people...

File Number : 9584

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ibi Ibolia (Engel) Man, born in Irsava, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen

Testimony

Testimony of Ibi Ibolia (Engel) Man, born in Irsava, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen Well-to-do secular family; attends the Hebrew high school in Mukacevo. German occupation; deportation to a concentration camp in Mukacevo on the night of the Pesach seder, 1944; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, April 1944; camp life including labor in an "infirmary"; death march to Bergen-Belsen, January 1945; camp life; liberation by the British Army. Move to Malmoe, Sweden for medical rehabilitation; aliya to Israel, 1948.

File Number : 9462

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Dvora Chaya (Feig) Bas, born in Veliky Bockov, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding her experiences in Veliky Bockov, the Mateszalka Ghetto and camps

Testimony

Testimony of Dvora Chaya (Feig) Bas, born in Veliky Bockov, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding her experiences in Veliky Bockov, the Mateszalka Ghetto and camps Family of Vizhnitzer hasidim, their life and her father's work in Veliky Bockov. Annexation to Hungary, 1938; anti-Jewish legislation; deportation of Jews who are non-citizens to Kamenets Podolsky, 1941; antisemitism and murder of Jews; German occupation of Hungary and the expropriation of rooms in their home for Germans, 19 March 1944; deportation to the Mateszalka Ghetto after Pesach; emissaries of Kasztner appear in the ghetto and calm the public;...

File Number : 9104

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Joint testimony of Irén Grünberger, born in 1918, and Edith Grünberger, born in 1925, in Gánya, Czechoslovakia, regarding their experiences in the Mátészalka Ghetto and in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bergen-Belsen and Waldeslust camps Deportation to the Mátészalka Ghetto; ghetto life with approximately 22,000 inmates; receiving food twice a day (occasionally only once a day); food rationing; hostile attitude of the gendarmes; sleeping in a cemetery and afterwards in the attics of buildings; Jews being subjected to beatings; deportation to Auschwitz- Birkenau in a transport of 5,000 inmates, May 1944; life on the way...

File Number : 2825

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

Group testimony of Sári Janovics, Rózsi Meizlik and Lívia Váradi, all born in Czechoslovakia, regarding their experiences in the Huszt and Munkács Ghettos, and in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Reichenbach and Trautenau camps and more German occupation; yellow badge; deportation to a ghetto after three weeks; ghetto life with crowding; prohibition from leaving the ghetto; hunt by the policemen; hostile treatment by the Gestapo; punishment for not wearing the yellow badge by giving 25 lashes with a whip; rape of women by the gendarmes and Germans; establishment of a soup kitchen; receiving permission to cook; transfer...

File Number : 2824

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

Testimony of Lenke Berkovits, born in Alsó-Neresznicze, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Hochweiler, Gross-Rosen and Bergen-Belsen camps

Testimony of Lenke Berkovits, born in Alsó-Neresznicze, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Hochweiler, Gross-Rosen and Bergen-Belsen camps Deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau on a train; arrival in the camp, 15 April 1944; selection; transfer to a shower room; changing clothes; suffering from extreme cold; transfer to Block No. 14; wakeup call before dawn; roll call from three-thirty until nine in the morning; receiving porridge; additional roll call from five-thirty until eight o'clock; punishment of the female inmates including kneeling on the ground for hours; labor in...

File Number : 2823

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

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