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Personal documents of Desider Dezső Fuchs and Maria (Salamon) Fuchs, including various certificates, a hospitalization record, a travel pass and more, May-July 1945

Personal documents of Desider Dezső Fuchs and Maria (Salamon) Fuchs, including various certificates, a hospitalization record, a travel pass and more, May-July 1945 Documents concerning Desider Fuchs, born in Margitta, 24 December 1904: - Explanatory document written by inmates of the Dachau camp, among them Desider Fuchs, shortly before the liberation, following a request made by Dr. Paul Husarek, the infirmary physician, that they sign a document attesting that he treated the inmates well, 01 May 1945; - Hospitalization record from the Dachau camp issued to Dezső Fuchs, 23 April 1945; -...

File Number : 753

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Personal Records, Personal Documents

Language : Czech, English, German, Hungarian

Testimony Joseph Fridman, born in Borsa, Romania, in 1927 regarding deportation to Auschwitz and other camps

Orthodox family; 10 Jewish families in the village; moving to Hungarian control in 1940; anti-Jewish laws; deportation to the Cluj ghetto in 1944; deportation by transport to Auschwitz Birkenau in May 1944; remaining with the father; transfer to Buchenwald and Magdeburg camps; injury of the father during the bombing of the camp; moving to the barrack for handicapped in Buchenwald; information regarding the death of the parents and the brothers; activity in aliya bet; illegal immigration on board the ship "Arba Hirouyot" (four freedoms) in 1946; exile to Cyprus; aliya back to Israel; establishment of the Odim...

File Number : 13692

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Gover Branddshtein Agnes, born in Bustina, Czech Republic, in 1929 regarding Mateszalka ghetto, regarding deportation to Auschwitz Birkenau , Birnbaumel and others

Testimony

Parents'house; Hungarian occupation in 1939; deportation of the Jews without citizenship; getting Hungarian citizenship; studies in Mukacevo; expulsion from school in 1943; presence of people from the Arrow Cross Party in the village; curfew; yellow badge; searches at home; preparation for deportation; deportation of the father to a labor camp in 1941; moving to a small house; hiding the jewelry in the courtyard; concentration of the Jewish population in the synagogue; deportation to the Mateszalka ghetto; food parcels from the grandfather in Budapest; deportation to Auschwitz Birkenau in freight trains;...

File Number : 13705

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Personal documents of Avigdor Gyozo Berger, born in Vác, Hungary, 16 November 1928, from the period of his stay in the Ecksberg hospital in the Muehldorf area, and in Prague, after his liberation from Muehldorf camp by the US Army - Certificate from the Muehldorf municipality confirming that Gyozo Berger is an Hungarian citizen, dated, 11 June 1945; - Certification regarding the hospitalization of Gyoezoe Berger, issued by the Ecksberg hospital near Muehldorf, 20 June 1945; - Document from the US Army regarding the liberation of Gyozo Berger; Berger was an inmate in Dachau, Birkenau and Muehldorf...

File Number : 717

Type of Material : Personal Documents

Language : Czech, English, German

Permit issued in the Lamsdorf POW camp for British soldier Albert Fano, 13 May 1942, and military service booklet received by him upon mobilization, 9 December 1940

Permit issued in the Lamsdorf POW camp for British soldier Albert Fano, 13 May 1942, and military service booklet received by him upon mobilization, 9 December 1940 - Permit issued in the Lamsdorf POW camp for the transfer of British Jewish soldier Albert Fano to the camp hospital, 13 May 1942; - Notification sent on behalf of the British Army regarding Albert Fano being taken captive, 16 August 1941; - Military service booklet belonging to Albert Bohor Fano, born in Burgas, Bulgaria, 23 March 1908, mobilized in Sarafand, 9 December 1940; booklet contains soldier’s personal information, including...

File Number : 634

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Notepad, Personal Records

Language : English, German

Testimony of Renée Kenoshi née Gold, born in 1930 in Odorheiu, Romania, about her experiences in the Targu Mures ghetto and the Auschwitz and Ober-Hohenelbe camps

Life before the war; offspring of a religious family; Hungary re-annexes the area in 1940; promulgation of anti-Jewish laws; men inducted into labor brigades; antisemitic acts; German occupation ensues in March 1944; witness's mother accused of communist activity and imprisoned; wearing the yellow star; banishment to the Targu Mures ghetto on May 3, 19144; mutual assistance; plunder of valuables; deportation to Auschwitz on May 27, 1944; selections in the camp; diseases, roll calls, transferred to Ober-Hohenelbe; life in the camp; living conditions improve; working at welding aircraft parts; liberation by Red...

File Number : 13642

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Eva Rocek, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding her experiences in Prague, Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, the Kurzbach camp and other places

Testimony of Eva Rocek, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding her experiences in Prague, Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, the Kurzbach camp and other places Life before the war; her parents are Viktor Porges, born in Horazdovice and Anna (Bondy), born in Horovice. German occupation; ban on owning animals by Jews; payment of a bribe to a veterinarian for certifying the euthanization of her dog; termination of studies by Jewish students, including high school studies; yellow badge; deportations to Lodz and Theresienstadt, 1941; deportation to Theresienstadt with her family, July 1942; life in camp in...

File Number : 8521

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English

Release certificate from German captivity issued to Albert Hano, a British soldier, as part of a prisoner exchange between England and Germany, 05 November 1942

Release certificate from German captivity issued to Albert Hano, a British soldier, as part of a prisoner exchange between England and Germany, 05 November 1942 "Brit. Jude" (British Jew) appears under "Nationality" [on the certificate]. Comments by the submitter of the material regarding the experiences of Albert Hano, born in Bulgaria, 1908: - Aliya to Eretz Israel with his wife Lenka, 1935; - Fought in the British Army; - Capture by the German Army; - Life in Lamsdorf camp including working in the coal mines; - Release from captivity as part of an exchange of sick prisoners, due to his...

File Number : 628

Type of Material : Personal Records

Language : German

Memoirs of Shimon Gutman, born in Irena Deblin, Poland, regarding his experiences in Bergen-Belsen

Memoirs of Shimon Gutman, born in Irena Deblin, Poland, regarding his experiences in Bergen-Belsen Life in Bergen-Belsen, 14 June 1945; transfer to the sick barrack after contracting typhus, February 1945; being unconscious for eight days; observing the Pesach holiday (March 1945) including baking matza and saying kiddush over the matza; transfer of his brother Yaakov to the sick barrack; announcement by the block leader of the transfer of all the inmates except for those in the sick barrack; order to evacuate the camp; remaining with his sick brother and additional patients with typhus; caring for the sick;...

File Number : 8506

Type of Material : Poems/songs, Personal Documents, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, Polish

Memoirs of Yizhak Zwik, born in Ulyaniki, Ukraine, 1924, regarding his experiences in Torchin, Kiev, Dobranichevka, Pereyaslav and in hiding, 1941-1945

Memoirs of Yizhak Zwik, born in Ulyaniki, Ukraine, 1924, regarding his experiences in Torchin, Kiev, Dobranichevka, Pereyaslav and in hiding, 1941-1945 Outbreak of the war; German Army occupation of Ulyaniki; life under German occupation including acts of abuse and murder; move to Torchin with his family; his mother and sister move to Ozdeniz; deportation of men ages 17-60 to forced labor; deportation to Kiev; confiscation of valuables; camp life including labor unloading and loading various materials; murder of inmates and execution of sick people in the camp; plan to escape; injury of his father; transfer...

File Number : 8502

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Russian

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