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Testimony of Zeev Ram (formerly Tibor Herman), born in Mukacevo, Czechoslovakia in 1930, ‎regarding his experiences in the Auschwitz, Fuerstenstein and Bergen Belsen camps, and the ‎death march

Testimony of Zeev Ram (formerly Tibor Herman), born in Mukacevo, Czechoslovakia in 1930, ‎regarding his experiences in the Auschwitz, Fuerstenstein and Bergen Belsen camps, and the ‎death march Childhood and early adolescence, up to the German entry into Hungary in March 1944; ‎deportation to Auschwitz in April 1944; transfer to Fuerstenstein ‎‏ ‏‎ in May 1944; death march in ‎February 1945; arrival in Bergen-Belsen in March-April 1945; Muselmann; death of his father and ‎brother; meeting with his mother and her disappearance in April 1945; liberation in April 1945; ‎recuperation in Sweden and preparation...

File Number : 13679

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation regarding the activities of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the War Refugee Board (WRB), 1944

Documentation regarding the activities of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the War Refugee Board (WRB), 1944 Pages 22, 24 (?): Incomplete dispatch (No. 7454) from the US Legation, Bern, to the Secretary of State, Washington, regarding the proposed program of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) for the relief of Jewish refugees and other persecuted groups in enemy territory, 02 March 1944; Page 2: Enclosure No. 1 to dispatch No. 7454 from the US Legation, Bern, to the President of the ICRC, Geneva, regarding the provision of food and medicines for Jews and other...

File Number : 93

Type of Material : Financial Accounts, Official Documentation, Telegram, Correspondence, Memorandum, Note, Letter(s)

Language : French, English

Memoirs of Shoshana (Rot) Goldstein, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1924, regarding her experiences in Budapest, Bergen-Belsen, Switzerland and Israel

Memoirs of Shoshana (Rot) Goldstein, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1924, regarding her experiences in Budapest, Bergen-Belsen, Switzerland and Israel Occupation of Budapest, March 1944; life in Budapest using the false identity of an Aryan woman including activities in the movement [?] and living quarters in a marked house; daily life in Budapest; wanderings; meetings with the contact person; meetings with her sister; invitation to join the Kasztner group; deportation to Bergen-Belsen, 08 July 1944; camp life together with the other Jews in the group with no work including hunger for five months. Transfer to...

File Number : 8224

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Dov Beri Bernard Lichtenstein, born in Mukacevo, Czechoslovakia, 1922; regarding his experiences in Auschwitz, Mauthausen, Melk and Ebensee

Testimony

Testimony of Dov Beri Bernard Lichtenstein, born in Mukacevo, Czechoslovakia, 1922; regarding his experiences in Auschwitz, Mauthausen, Melk and Ebensee Learns in "heder" and attends a government school until 1934; life in the village until 1944. Deportation to Auschwitz; murder of his mother, April 1944; transfer to Mauthausen, May 1944; transfer to Melk, June 1944; transfer to Ebensee, April-May 1945; liberation, May 1945. Work in the Sudetenland, 1946; unsuccessful aliya attempt to Eretz Israel, 1947; detention in Cyprus for 10 months, 1947-1948; return aliya to Israel, 1948.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Levi Moshkovitz, born in Orsowa, Czechoslovakia, 1922, regarding his experiences in labor battalions in the Brustury forest, Kosice, Hodmezovasarhely, Novi Sad and Cop

Testimony

Testimony of Levi Moshkovitz, born in Orsowa, Czechoslovakia, 1922, regarding his experiences in labor battalions in the Brustury forest, Kosice, Hodmezovasarhely, Novi Sad and Cop Life before the war. Annexation to Hungary, March 1939; nationalization of property and ban on ritual slaughter; learns in a yeshiva in Kosino; deportation of Jews to Galicia as foreign citizens and their murder; drafted into labor battalions; labor in the Brustury forest; camp life including religious life; transfer to Kosice; transfer to Hodmezovasarhely by freight train; Yom Kippur prayers on the train; forced labor digging...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Eti Berkovitz, born in Tacovo, Czechoslovakia, 1923, regarding her experiences in Tacovo, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Salzwedel

Testimony

Testimony of Eti Berkovitz, born in Tacovo, Czechoslovakia, 1923, regarding her experiences in Tacovo, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Salzwedel Life in Tacovo before the war; hasidic family; attends a state school until 1938. Re-annexation to Hungary; German occupation, March 1944; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, June 1944; camp life; transfer to Salzwedel, 1944; camp life including labor in an ammunitions factory; rescue by a female SS officer named Annalise Schmidt; liberation by the US Army, May 1945. Return to her family's home; life in her family's home including reunion with her father and brother;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of David Mendelovitz, born in Reghin, Romania, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Reghin Ghetto, a labor battalion, Mauthausen and Gunskirchen

Testimony

Testimony of David Mendelovitz, born in Reghin, Romania, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Reghin Ghetto, a labor battalion, Mauthausen and Gunskirchen Life before the war; Sabbaths and religious holidays; the Jewish community; synagogues and youth movements; studies; Hanoar Hatzioni activities. Annexation to Hungary; draft of his father to forced labor; his Bar Mitzvah celebration; murder of a female relative by Hungarians; Reghin as a center for draftees to forced labor; drafted to Levente; German occupation, March 1944; behavior of the Hungarians; anti-Jewish decrees including yellow badge;...

File Number : 13002

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Yitzhak Yulius Cohen, born in Aranos Na Zitnom Ostrove, Czechoslovakia, 1922, regarding his experiences in a labor battalion in Komarno and on the Austro-Hungarian border and in Mauthausen Life before the war; education; move to Komarno; life in Komarno including Maccabi Hatzair and Beitar activities. Ban on youth movement activities; deportation to a labor battalion; life in the labor battalion including training and forced labor; flooding of the camp and damage to property; meets Jews on a march from Budapest to Austria; explosion in a railroad station and labor evacuating the injured;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Katalin (Szabados) Halevi, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1922, regarding her experiences in Budapest, Gyor, Landsberg, Tuerkheim and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Katalin (Szabados) Halevi, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1922, regarding her experiences in Budapest, Gyor, Landsberg, Tuerkheim and other places Life in Budapest before the war; well-to-do Neolog family; witness attends a Jewish elementary school and the Jewish high school; studies in a commerce academy. Numerus clausus, 1940; anti-Jewish restrictions including ban on work in the free professions; curfew; transfer of her father to forced labor; disappearance of her father, 1944; deportation to labor of women who are 15-40 years old; transfer to a stadium; transfer on foot without food or water;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yitzchak Tesler, born in Debrecen, Hungary, 1920, regarding his experiences in Budapest, the Soviet Union and Poland

Testimony

Testimony of Yitzchak Tesler, born in Debrecen, Hungary, 1920, regarding his experiences in Budapest, the Soviet Union and Poland Life before the war; Jewish community; death of his mother, 1935; learns to be a baker; remarriage of his father; move to Budapest. Drafted to labor battalions; deportation to the Soviet Union; life in the Soviet Union including confiscation of valuables, labor constructing and dismantling mines; death of a friend; transfer to Poland, 1944; capture by the Red Army; disappearance of his father; life in Poland including labor in coal mines under Red Army soldier supervision;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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