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Testimony of Arie Likht, born in Hajduszoboszlo, Hungary, 1924 regarding his experiences in Hungary during the war period

Testimony

His parents' home; antisemitism; move to Budapest, 1942; German occupation, March 1944; obligation to report for labor clearing rubble; restrictions on movement; yellow badge; drafting order; transfer to Szolnok; labor in a military factory, July 1944; sorting of skilled workers; drafting into the Hungarian Army and deployment to the front; approach of the Soviet front; retreat; Horthy's declaration, 1944; expulsion from the Hungarian Army; concentration of the Jewish soldiers and transfer to the Austrian border; transfer into the hands of the German Army, Sopron; labor building fortifications along the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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, Personal Documents, Newspaper Clippings, Postcard, Official Documentation

Language : Slovak, Hebrew, German, Yiddish, Hungarian

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

Letters sent to Max and Ilse (Goldbach) Frank in Eretz Israel by their parents in Straubing and Marktbreit, 1939-1941, and letters sent from Straubing by Max's father Nathan Frank to Bezalel Kasten in Sweden, 1941 - Letter sent to Max Frank in Eretz Israel by his parents Nathan and Flora Frank in Straubing, 20 July 1939; - Letters sent to Ilse (Goldbach) Frank in Eretz Israel by her parents Abraham and Klara Goldbach in Marktbreit, 1939-1940; - Red Cross letter sent by Ilse Frank in Eretz Israel to her father Abraham Israel Goldbach in Marktbreit, 11 April 1941, and her parents' response on the reverse...

File Number : 2220

Type of Material : Letter, Red Cross Letter

Language : German

Diary of Regina Fleischer from Bochnia written in the Akiva Movement training detachment in Chrzanow and in Eretz Israel, 1933-1937, letters sent to Regina Fleischman by her family in Bosnia and Kamionka, 1940-1941, letter from her husband's mother Mirjam Wierzbolowski from Lukow, 04 March 1940 and personal documentation belonging to Regina and her husband Chono Wierzbolowski Diary: - Diary of Regina Fleischer written in the Akiva Movement training detachment in Chrzanow. The first entry in the diary is from 13 March 1933, the last is from 29 July 1937 (written in Eretz Israel). Letters and...

File Number : 8639

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Letter, Diary, Red Cross Letter, Postcard

Language : Hebrew, Polish, English, German

Memoirs of Roza (Segal) Romascanu, born in Lespezi, Romania, 1929, regarding her experiences and those of her family in Lespezi, Pascani, Falticeni, Botosani and Communist Romania

Memoirs of Roza (Segal) Romascanu, born in Lespezi, Romania, 1929, regarding her experiences and those of her family in Lespezi, Pascani, Falticeni, Botosani and Communist Romania Life at home; the Jewish community in Lespezi before the war; displays of antisemitism among the neighbors. Outbreak of the war; deportation of the Jewish men to an unknown place, among them, Roza's father, Shmuel Segal; deportation of Roza with her mother Rachel, her sisters, Mitza and Sophie along with the rest of the Jews from the village, to Pascani; transfer of the family to Falticeni two months later; release of her...

File Number : 8637

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shimshon Moshe, born in Gherla, Romania, in 1925 regarding activity in the Zionist youth underground between 1941 and 1944

Father-merchant; moving to Cluj; Hungarian control in 1940; activity in the Zionist youth movement; agriculture studies in Budapest; recruitment for underground activity; smuggling Jewish workers from Poland to Romania between 1942 and 1944; German occupation; denunciation and arrest; investigations; escape from the prison by the underground; aliya to Israel via Turkey in May 1944; absorption ; information about the death of relatives in the camps

File Number : 13746

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letters sent to Rachel Ruchcia Szwarc in Vilna by her family members and friends in Sosnowiec, Dzialoszyce, Panevezys and other places, letters she received from her siblings in Tadzhikistan during her stay in Eretz Israel, letters sent to her by her sister in Makoshyne and Feldafing DP camp, and other documentation, 1940-1946 Letters and postcards: - Letters and a postcard sent to Ruchcia Szwarc in Sosnowiec and Vilna by her friend Aron in Dzialoszyce, 1939-1940; - Three postcards sent to Ruchcia Szwarc in Vilna by her girlfriend Chana Wiernik in Sosnowiec, 01-04/1940; - Letters sent to Ruchcia...

File Number : 2195

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Postcard, Letter, Memoirs, Red Cross Letter, Documentary, Genealogy, Diary, Lists, Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, Polish, French, Russian, Yiddish

Correspondence between Smuel Viliam Spiegel in Eretz Israel and his family members in Nove Mesto nad Vahom, Czechoslovakia, 1939-1940, letters sent to him from his sisters in Czechoslovakia, 1945-1948, and letters sent to Sidi Weiss in Auschwitz, 1944 - Postcard sent to Viliam Spiegel in Nove Mesto nad Vahom, Czechoslovakia, from the Maccabi Hatzair summer camp, 15 July 1937; - Letters and a postcard sent by his family members in Nove Mesto nad Vahom, Czechoslovakia, to Smuel Vilko Spiegel, 1939-1940; - Postcard sent by Adolf Spiegel in Nove Mesto nad Vahom to his son Viliam Vilko Spiegel who was...

File Number : 2168

Type of Material : Envelope, Personal Documents, Postcard, Letter, Official Documentation

Language : Slovak, Czech, English, Russian

Letters sent to Avraham and Meir Lezerkiewicz in Eretz Israel before the war by their parents and brothers in Nowy Targ, and an invitation to Avraham Lezerkiewicz's wedding in Nowy Targ, sent to his brother Meir, in Eretz Israel, 1937-1946 - Letters received by Avraham and Meir Lezerkiewicz in Eretz Israel from their parents, David and Sara Lezerkiewicz, and their younger brothers, Herman (Zvi) and Aryeh in Nowy Targ (one postcard was sent in April 1937, and the rest of the letters are undated); -Invitation to the wedding of Avraham Lezerkiewicz and Slava Kalb, sent from Nowy Targ to Meir Lezerkiewicz in...

File Number : 2138

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

Language : Hebrew, Polish, Yiddish

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