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Testimony of Abraham Ernst Ponger, born in Mikulas Litovsky Svaty, Czechoslovakia, in 1922, regarding his experiences in the Sered camp and in the battle of the partisans

Childhood before the war; Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria 1938; expulsion from school and carpentry studies; independence of Slovakia and anti-Jewish legislation 1939; deportation of Jews and escape to the mountains in March 1942; going back home and deportation to the Sered camp,in April 1945; work in carpentry; underground in the camp; Slovak uprising and escape ,in August 1944; joining partisans; actions against Germans; liberation by the red army,in April 1945; joining aliya training; illegal immigration to Eretz Israel on the Theodor Herzl ship,on 01 April 1947; exile to Cyprus; aliya back to...

File Number : 13772

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shlomo Sigmund Weiss, born in Dunajska Streda, Czechoslovakia, 1919, regarding his experiences in Komarom, Banhida, Kisber, the Dunajska Streda Ghetto, Auschwitz and more

Testimony

Testimony of Shlomo Sigmund Weiss, born in Dunajska Streda, Czechoslovakia, 1919, regarding his experiences in Komarom, Banhida, Kisber, the Dunajska Streda Ghetto, Auschwitz and more Home life; annexation to Hungary, 1938 [name of town changed to its Hungarian name, Dunaszerdahely]; displays of antisemitism; cancellation of family business license; house searches; economic difficulties. German occupation, 1939; locking up Jews in a cellar, beatings and interrogations about valuables; hiding of the family valuables; draft and deportation to a labor camp in Komarom, 1942; escape during : Hanukkah...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Katarina (Goldbergerová) Pazerini, born in Prešov, regarding her experiences during 1939-1945

- Life of the Goldberger family in Prešov; establishment of "Independent Slovakia" in 03/1939; start of the persecution of the Jews; anti-Jewish legislation, 1941; confiscation of Jewish property; order given to Katarina Goldbergerová to present herself to the authorities for labor, 21/03/1942; separation from her parents and from her brother Juraj; concentration of young women from Prešov and the surrounding area who are ages 16-25, and their transfer to a concentration place in Poprad; confiscation of valuables by members of the Hlinka Guard; marriage proposal by Miki Pazerini, with the aim of removing Kati...

File Number : 4666

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Slovak, Hebrew

Interview with Abraham Grusscott, born in Bardejov, regarding his activities in the Slovak underground and with the partisans in Bardejov and the surrounding area between 1941 and 1945

Interview with Abraham Grusscott, born in Bardejov, regarding his activities in the Slovak underground and with the partisans in Bardejov and the surrounding area between 1941 and 1945 Persecution of Jews in Slovakia between 1940 and 1941 (anti-Jewish legislation, boycott of businesses, yellow badge, etc.); joining the underground; rescue of Jews from ghettos in Poland and smuggling them to Slovakia; deportation of Jews to camps in Poland in April-May 1942 by the Hungarian Nazi Guard (Hlinka Guard); Aktion in Bardejov on 15 May 1942; obtaining protective documents (specialist worker certificates) for the...

File Number : 1309

Type of Material : Questionnaire, Interview(s), Memoirs

Language : English

Memoirs of Georg Keleti, born in Michalovce, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding his experiences in Slovakia before during and after the Holocaust

- memoirs of Georg Keleti regarding his experiences in Spišská Nová Ves and the area in the 1930’s and 1940’s. The memoirs were written in the early 1990’s: move of the family from Michalovce to Spišská Nová Ves in the 1930’s; antisemitism on the part of the local population; declaration of autonomy of Slovakia in October 1938; persecution of Jews in Spišská Nová Ves by members of the FS (Freiwillige Schutzstaffel) and HG (Hlinka Guard); establishment of independent state of Slovakia in March 1939; attacks of the Hungarian Army, including air-raids on Spišská Nová Ves in March 1939; decrees against Jews in...

File Number : 12986

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English

Letters from the head of the Nitra region to the Slovak Ministry of the Interior from 1944, regarding permission to increase the number of Jews in the Degeš labor camp for the construction of a road

Letters from the head of the Nitra region to the Slovak Ministry of the Interior from 1944, regarding permission to increase the number of Jews in the Degeš labor camp for the construction of a road - Article written by Dr. Kamenec of the Historical Institute of Slovakia in 1994 regarding labor camps in Slovakia in 1942-1944; description of the Degeš labor camp near Nitra and its function. Included in the file: - Confirmation of the date of birth of Samuel Klein from Kremnica, from the commander of the Hlinka Guard in September 1939; Jozef Schwartz's statement from 1946 regarding his position as the...

File Number : 192

Type of Material : Order, Certification, Article, Official Documentation, List

Language : Slovak

Memoirs of Ruth Lotte (Neumann) Mitelman, born in Bratislava, Slovakia in 1925, regarding her experiences during the Holocaust period, and a letter sent to relatives in August 1945

Memoirs of Ruth Lotte (Neumann) Mitelman, born in Bratislava, Slovakia in 1925, regarding her experiences during the Holocaust period, and a letter sent to relatives in August 1945 Her childhood in Bratislava; she joins a Zionist youth movement; travel to Budapest in August 1939; closure of the borders in September 1939 due to the outbreak of the war; return to Bratislava in summer 1940; her family moves; imposition of anti-Jewish decrees; obligation regarding wearing a yellow badge in 1941; transports to camps in 1942; dispersion of her family members; her parents are in hiding, separately from the...

File Number : 9085

Type of Material : Memoirs, Letter

Language : Hebrew, English

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