Yad Vashem Collections - Documents

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Memoirs of David Eilat regarding his experiences in Arad, his aliya to Eretz Israel, and memoirs of his wife Batia Eilat on her aliya to Eretz Israel on the illegal immigrant ship "Salah-a-Din" on October 1944 Escape of his uncle from Hungary to Romania, 1944; life under the auspices of the Jewish community in Arad for three weeks. Aliya to Eretz Israel. Batia sets sail to Turkey on the illegal immigrant ship "Salah-a-Din" in October 1944; arrival in Eretz Israel.

File Number : 8300

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yehuda Miklosh Vinter Talmon, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1929, regarding his experiences in Budapest including living in a marked house and in hiding

Testimony

Testimony of Yehuda Miklosh Vinter Talmon, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1929, regarding his experiences in Budapest including living in a marked house and in hiding Residence in the Christian Quarter; displays of antisemitism; transfer to a Jewish school, 1939. Drafting of the witness' brother into a labor battalion, 1943; German occupation, 1944; confiscation of the family shop and its inventory; deportation to marked houses; air-raids on his street and the nearby railroad station; harassment by Arrow Cross men; Salaszi's revolution; turning to the Church and asking for help; acceptance into a protected...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Menachem Mendel Hershkovitz, born in Czechoslovakia, 1922, regarding his experiences in Budapest, the Mateszalka Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Buchenwald

Testimony

Testimony of Menachem Mendel Hershkovitz, born in Czechoslovakia, 1922, regarding his experiences in Budapest, the Mateszalka Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Buchenwald Life before the war. Re-annexation to Hungary, 1938; life in Budapest including work, 1940; German occupation, 19 March 1944; deportation to the Mateszalka Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; transfer to Buchenwald; camp life; substitution of his father in place of the witness in a deportation to extermination; liberation. Return to Czechoslovakia; life in Czechoslovakia; joins a Hashomer Hatzair settlers' group; move to Italy;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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File Number : 1657

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hungarian

Memoirs of David Ulmer, born in Körösladány in 1932, about his experiences before, during, and after the Holocaust, as recorded by Margalit Tovi Kisus

Memoirs of David Ulmer, born in Körösladány in 1932, about his experiences before, during, and after the Holocaust, as recorded by Margalit Tovi Kisus - the experiences of David Ulmer, written on the basis of interviews with him by Margalit Tovi Kisus, including his memories of family members and friends: Childhood in Körösladány; anti-Jewish measures begin in 1938; father, László Ulmer, inducted into Hungarian Army labor battalions in 1940; contact with father lost in 1932; Germany occupies Hungary in March 1944; Jews of Körösladány sent to ghetto; internment in the Körösladány ghetto lasts approx. one...

File Number : 12545

Type of Material : Biography

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of David Frank, born in Tamasi, regarding his experiences in the Tamasi Ghetto and Auschwitz, Buchenwald and other camps in the years 1944-1945

Memoirs of David Frank, born in Tamasi, regarding his experiences in the Tamasi Ghetto and Auschwitz, Buchenwald and other camps in the years 1944-1945 Deportation of the Jews of Tamasi to the ghetto after the German occupation in 1944; deportation of his father to forced labor (perished); deportation of the rest of the family to Auschwitz camp; separation of the witness from his mother (perished) and his sister (survived); the witness's stay in Auschwitz and Buchenwald camps and in a labor camp in Germany; death march in April 1945; arrival in Theresienstadt; liberation and medical rehabilitation; return to...

File Number : 11606

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

To be translated

File Number : 3619

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

Testimony of Miriam Golan Feldman, born in Debrecen, Hungary, in 1939, regarding her experiences in Hungary and in Austria

Testimony

Testimony of Miriam Golan Feldman, born in Debrecen, Hungary, in 1939, regarding her experiences in Hungary and in Austria Childhood in a poor religious family; her father is a tailor; her mother is a seamstress; German occupation of Hungary in 1944; theft of property, including jewelry and valuables, by the Germans and members of the Arrow Cross; rounding up of the Jews and deportation to the area of the brick factory; deportation by train; arrival in Vienna; drafted to forced labor in clearing rubble; Allied air-raids; fleeing of the German soldiers; liberation; return to Hungary; rehabilitation of life...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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