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Correspondence of Menachem Degani Kornblueh from Eretz Israel with his brother David Kornblueh who was in Bardejov and Bratislava, 1938-1940, and Krattigen, Switzerland, 1944-1945, letters sent by Menachem to his parents and sisters in Bardejov, 1938-1940 and his personal documentation from the period prior to his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1938 Letters and postcards: - Letter from Menachem Degani in Cesky Tesin to his brother David Kornblueh, 10 September 1937; - Letter from Menachem Degani in Cesky Tesin to Rabbi Simcha Tannenbaum, 09 November 1937; - Letters sent by Menachem Degani in Eretz Israel to...

File Number : 2237

Type of Material : Letter, Postcard, Newspaper Clippings, Personal Documents, Official Documentation

Language : Slovak, Hebrew, German, Yiddish, Hungarian

Testimony of Alexander Javor Kahn, born in Rajec, Czechoslovakia, 1902, regarding his experiences in Nove Mesto, Piestany, in hiding in Bratislava and with the partisans in Pastuchov

Testimony of Alexander Javor Kahn, born in Rajec, Czechoslovakia, 1902, regarding his experiences in Nove Mesto, Piestany, in hiding in Bratislava and with the partisans in Pastuchov Life before the war; attends an elementary school; life in Zilina including attending high school; attends the agricultural academy; drafted to the Czechoslovakian Army (discharged with the rank of First Lieutenant); life in Male Lednice including work on the family farm; move to Germany, 1926; life in Germany; work on an experimental farm raising domestic animals; visits to experimental farms in Sweden and Denmark; marriage to...

File Number : 8513

Type of Material : Memoirs, Personal Documents

Language : Slovak, Hebrew

Marching song of the Hlinka Postova Garda (Postal Guard), Slovakia, 1939

File Number : 73

Type of Material : Poems/songs

Language : Slovak, Musical Score

Testimony of Herta (Fogel) Sakov, born in Piestany, Slovakia, 1928, regarding her experiences in Piestany, Nove Mesto and in hiding in Krajne

Testimony

Testimony of Herta (Fogel) Sakov, born in Piestany, Slovakia, 1928, regarding her experiences in Piestany, Nove Mesto and in hiding in Krajne Life before the war. Outbreak of the war, 1939; restrictions on the Jews; detention of her father by the Helinka Guard and his release in exchange for a bribe; unsuccessful attempt to escape to Italy; obtains forged documents; joins the Madchen Bund Deutscher movement as a camoflauge; escape to the hills in Nove Mesto; life in the hills, 1943; rescue from deportation to Auschwitz; joins relatives being hidden by a family in Krajne; life in hiding in a bunker...

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 Dov Otto Presburger, born in Ternava, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Ternava, Sered, Auschwitz; Birkenau and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Dov Otto Presburger, born in Ternava, 1923, regarding his experiences in Ternava, Sered, Auschwitz, Birkenau and other places Son of a family from the Status Quo movement; education; membership in Maccabi. Occupation of Czechoslovakia; drafted to Hriadky labor camp with the establishment of fascist Slovakia; camp life including labor paving roads; deportation to Sered; transfer to Auschwitz; transfer to Birkenau; camp life including learning to read blueprints; his father's and brother's deaths; transfer to Budy; camp life including labor as a carter; rescue from being sent to the...

File Number : 12292

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Artur Honig, born in Kecerovske Peklany, Czechoslovakia, 1920, regarding his experiences as a forced laborer in various camps, Banska Bystrica, the Czech Army and with the partisans

Testimony

Testimony of Artur Honig, born in Kecerovske Peklany, Czechoslovakia, 1920, regarding his experiences as a forced laborer in various camps, Banska Bystrica, the Czech Army and with the partisans Life before the war; attends school; move to Presov; Jewish community; membership in the Maccabi movement; ban on Jewish activities. Draft to a labor camp, 1941; transfer to various labor camps; camp life; deportation of his sisters to Auschwitz; escape from a labor camp to Banska Bystrica; draft into the underground Czech Army; joins the partisans; Slovak National Uprising; defeat of Banska Bystrica; suppression...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yedidia Ernest Bloch, born in Zvolen, Czechoslovakia, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Slovak National Uprising, the underground, prison, Novaki and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Yedidia Ernest Bloch, born in Zvolen, Czechoslovakia, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Slovak National Uprising, the underground, prison, Novaki and other places Life before the war; attends school; Jewish community; activities in a youth movement; displays of antisemitism. Participation in the Slovak National Uprising, August 1944; combat in the mountains; builds bunkers; meets Soviet partisans; food shortage; work selling an underground newspaper; capture by the Germans; detention in prison; murder of his father and brother; deportation to Novaki; camp life including forced labor;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Amnon Klein, born in Vienna, Austria, 1928, regarding his experiences in Vienna and his travel to make aliya to Eretz Israel

Testimony

Testimony of Amnon Klein, born in Vienna, Austria, 1928, regarding his experiences in Vienna and his travel to make aliya to Eretz Israel His family’s life; his parents’ work; way of life at home; attends school; Jewish community; relations with their neighbors; Shabbat and religious holidays. Annexation of Austria; draft of his mother to labor scrubbing floors; witness' activities in the Hashomer Hatzair movement; Kristallnacht; confiscation of valuables and eviction from their apartment; deportation of Jews to Dachau; detention of his father; move to Bratislava with his mother; move to Romania; travel...

File Number : 12247

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zvi Ivan Krasniansky Karmil, born in Bratislava, 1934, regarding his experiences in Bratislava, Sered and Auschwitz camps

Testimony

Testimony of Zvi Ivan Krasniansky Karmil, born in Bratislava, 1934, regarding his experiences in Bratislava, Sered and Auschwitz camps From a well-to-do family, his father was a well known engineer and architect in Slovakia; the family remains in the Bratislava because his father has an essential worker's permit, 1940-1944; his uncle prints forged work permits; under the identity of Evangelist Christians, move to Zlate Moravce, a small city, in order not to stand out, early 1944; informed on and arrest by the authorities; deportation with his parents and younger brother to Sered, and then to Auschwitz,...

File Number : 12015

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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