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Testimony of Shmuel Hamajda Hadar, born in Kosice, (Slovakia) Czechoslovakia, 1935, regarding his experiences as a child while in hiding in a forest, in Kosice, the Budapest Ghetto and an orphanage

Testimony

Testimony of Shmuel Hamajda Hadar, born in Kosice, (Slovakia) Czechoslovakia, 1935, regarding his experiences as a child while in hiding in a forest, in Kosice, the Budapest Ghetto and an orphanage Move to Kezmarok; attends school. German occupation; escape and hidden in the home of a farmer; escape to Hungary; robbed by border smugglers; life in hiding in a forest; capture by Slovakians; detention by the police; escape from detention with help from a police officer; capture by Hungarian soldiers; return to Kosice; meets family relatives; detention of his mother; escape to Sighet; learns in a "heder";...

File Number : 12326

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaim Yosef Katz, born in Kisvarda, Hungary, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Kisvarda Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Melk and Ebensee

Testimony

Testimony of Chaim Yosef Katz, born in Kisvarda, Hungary, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Kisvarda Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Melk and Ebensee Life before the war; attends school and a "heder"; Jewish community; displays of antisemitism; his father’s military service. Deportation of his uncle to Ukraine; German occupation, March 1944; decrees; deportation to the Kisvarda Ghetto; ghetto life including service in the Jewish police; confiscation of property and valuables; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; his mother's pregnancy; camp life including the burning of prayer shawls and tefillin; meets...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yechiel Doron, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1930, regarding his experiences in a marked house and a brick factory in Budapest and a camp in Austria

Testimony

Testimony of Yechiel Doron, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1930, regarding his experiences in a marked house and a brick factory in Budapest and a camp in Austria Life before the war; attends school; displays of antisemitism; the Jewish community. German occupation; deportation of relatives to Auschwitz; draft of his father and uncle to labor battalions; yellow badge; his Bar-Mitzvah celebration; contact with his father; move with his mother to a marked house; air-raids; death of his father in Buchenwald; rise of Szalasi to power; transfer to a brick factory; life in the factory; buys protective passports;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shemuel Hoffman, born in Hajduszoboszlo, Hungary, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in Budapest, a ghetto, Strasshof, Vienna and a death march

Testimony

Testimony of Shemuel Hoffman, born in Hajduszoboszlo, Hungary, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in Budapest, a ghetto, Strasshof, Vienna and a death march Family life; his parents' livelihood; Shabbat and religious holidays; attends school and learns in a "heder"; Jewish community; antisemitism; move to Budapest for studies; draft of his brothers to the labor battalions. German occupation; return to Hajduszoboszlo; confiscation of property; deportation to a brick factory; deportation to Strasshof; disinfection process; transfer to Vienna; life in a school; forced labor; deportation in a death...

File Number : 12209

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shmuel Imre Gellman, born in Zsujta, Hungary, 1928, regarding his experiences in Polgar, Budapest and Buchenwald, Niederorschel and Landsberg camps

Testimony

Testimony of Shmuel Imre Gellman, born in Zsujta, Hungary, 1928, regarding his experiences in Polgar, Budapest and Buchenwald, Niederorschel and Landsberg camps His immediate family's life; his parents' livelihood; move to Polgar and home life; Shabbat and religious holidays; learns in a school and a "heder"; displays of antisemitism; Jewish community; burning of the family's flour mill; move to Budapest; detention of family relatives; vocational studies. German occupation of Hungary, March 1944; confinement of Jews in marked houses; Slichot prayers in the Great Synagogue; yellow badge; deportation of his...

File Number : 12208

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Survey of conditions in German-occupied countries, Eretz Israel and the region, as reported in the Nazi and local press and by witnesses with an emphasis on the situation of the Jews, August 1943

Survey of conditions in German-occupied countries, Eretz Israel and the region, as reported in the Nazi and local press and by witnesses with an emphasis on the situation of the Jews, August 1943 Poland: Testimony from a French soldier POW regarding the "Warsaw Ghetto Uprising"; the number of Jews in the Krakow Ghetto; attacks on Germans by the Polish underground; use of sacks of ashes from the crematoria in fertilizer factories near Belzec; guarding the German Ghetto in Warsaw; the women's sections at Majdanek; transports of Poles to labor in a quarry at Wolyn; opposition to German control over their crops by...

File Number : 16

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Dov (Miklos) Bodor, born in Budapest, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in Budapest

Testimony

Testimony of Dov (Miklos) Bodor, born in Budapest, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in Budapest Family life; attends school; displays of antisemitism in school; relatives support the community; Jewish community. German occupation of Hungary, March 1944; anti-Jewish legislation; yellow badge; concentration of the Jews in marked houses; Jewish refugees from Poland; deportation of a relative to a concentration camp; life in a marked house; Arrow Cross activities; murder of Jews by Germans; deportation of his father, mother and brother to forced labor; Vatican protection extended to the family's...

File Number : 12158

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Livia (Span) Fleischman, born in Veľký Meder, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Budapest Ghetto, Auschwitz, Plaszow and Theresienstadt

Testimony

Testimony of Livia (Span) Fleischman, born in Veľký Meder, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Budapest Ghetto, Auschwitz, Plaszow and Theresienstadt Life before the war; attends school. Deportation of relatives to Auschwitz; move to Budapest; deportation to the Budapest Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; death of her mother; transfer to Plaszow; camp life; transfer back to Auschwitz; transfer to a labor camp in Germany; labor in an aircraft parts factory; death march to Theresienstadt; typhus; liberation by the Red Army. Return home; marriage, 1945; joins aliya training; member of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zvi Zoltan Gruenstein, born in Tokaj, regarding his experiences in Budapest

Testimony

Testimony of Zvi Zoltan Gruenstein, born in Tokaj, 1929, regarding his experiences in Budapest Immediate family; attends "heder" and school; Jewish community; restrictions on Jews; hostile Gendarmerie activities against Jews. Draft of Jews to labor battalions; passage of soldiers through the town; draft of his father to a labor battalion; disappearance of his father; his mother's labor assignments; the children manage the home; relations with neighbors; draft of youth to pre-military training in Levente; Levente activities; beatings from the company commander; punishment; Shabbat Bar Mitzvah; sympathy...

File Number : 11982

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Joel Otto Hershkovitz Elizur, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1921, regarding his experiences in a Hungarian labor battalion, the Salgotarjan Ghetto, the Glass House in Budapest and other places Life before the war; relations with the local population; learns in a yeshiva. German occupation, March 1944; draft to a labor battalion; forced labor preparing a field for firing ranges and evacuation of apartments in the Salgotarjan Ghetto; obtains protective passports; return to Budapest; life in the "Glass House"; Hungarians break into the Glass House and are distanced away by diplomats; liberation by...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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