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Testimony of Emil Friedmann, regarding his experiences in Gyergyó, forced labor in Hungarian Army labor battalions at the Soviet front, and deportation to the Dachau and Mühldorf camps

Testimony

Testimony of Emil Friedmann [born in 1914], regarding his experiences in Gyergyó, forced labor in Hungarian Army labor battalions at the Soviet front, and deportation to the Dachau and Mühldorf camps From an observant family in Gyergyó, Transylvania; his parents were Farkas and Regina (Adler) Friedmann; his siblings were Izidor, Eugénia, Sándor, Artúr, Margit, Ernő, Henrich; his father served in the Hungarian Army during World War I, was wounded in battle, and died of his wounds in 1916, when the witness was two years old; harsh economic conditions; learning at a cheder from a young age; attendance at a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

Testimony of Veronika (Sztrul) Friedmann, born in Sarmas, Transylvania, 1918, regarding her experiences before the Holocaust and in the Plaszów, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Parschnitz camps

Testimony

Testimony of Veronika (Sztrul) Friedmann, born in Sarmas, Transylvania, 1918, regarding her experiences before the Holocaust and in the Plaszów, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Parschnitz camps Born to an observant family in Sarmas (Hungarian: Salamas); her parents were Adolf, born in Bilbor and Eszter (Rubin) Sztrul, born in Salamas; her siblings were Jenő Sztrul and Ernő Sztrul; her other siblings were not mentioned by name; her maternal grandfather was Salamon Rubin whose two sons Adolf and Herman perished in the Holocaust, and whose daughter, the witness' mother, and the two children of his second daughter,...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

Letter of testimony by Jan Schoeneich, a Pole, regarding his hiding of a Jewish woman and her baby in his home, Mysia Sokol and her daughter Sabina, who was born in November 1941, starting December 1942 Fate of the Jews of Legionowo who succeeded in escaping during the liquidation of the ghetto, August 1942; persecution of the refugees, and their attempts to survive in the forests; hiding of a Jewish woman, Mysia Sokol, along with her baby daughter, alternately by the witness' brother and sister, in their homes in Legionowo; transfer of the mother and her baby to his home in Pruszkow, with the increase in...

File Number : 482

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of a Pole, Jan Tomaszkiewicz, regarding the experiences of Alicja Salzberg, born in Czestochowa, Poland, 1922, while in hiding places in a village near Rzeszow and in Krakow

Testimony of a Pole, Jan Tomaszkiewicz, regarding the experiences of Alicja Salzberg, born in Czestochowa, Poland, 1922, while in hiding places in a village near Rzeszow and in Krakow Liquidation of the Czestochowa Ghetto; immediate application by Alfred and Eugenia Salzberg to their Polish acquaintances, with a request to take care of their daughter Alicja, September 1942; removal of Alicja from the ghetto by Maria Dziubinska, a Polish dentist, several hours before the liquidation of the ghetto; transfer of Alicja to the dentist's sister-in-law, in a village near Rzeszow; Alicja's facial looks revealed her...

File Number : 348

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Zoltan Jesajahu Birnbaum, born in Putnok, Hungary, 1919, regarding his experiences in Putnok, in a labor battalion in Ukraine and as a POW in the Soviet Union

Testimony

Testimony of Zoltan Jesajahu Birnbaum, born in Putnok, Hungary, 1919, regarding his experiences in Putnok, in a labor battalion in Ukraine and as a POW in the Soviet Union Deportation of Jews without Hungarian citizenship, 1941; transfer to a labor battalion; transfer to Ukraine; taken captive by the Red Army; life as a POW.

File Number : 1036

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : German, Hungarian

Testimony of Dr. Miklósné Neu, born in Serke, Hungary in 1909, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Frankfurt am Main, Ravensbrück and Salzwedel camps

Testimony of Dr. Miklósné Neu, born in Serke, Hungary in 1909, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Frankfurt am Main, Ravensbrück and Salzwedel camps Deportation of the Jews of Slovakia in 1942; escape from Serke to Budapest on 01/05/1942; life in hiding in the home of a Jewish family; captured by a Hungarian detective on 03/07/1944; deportation to a detention camp in a yeshiva building (Beit Midrash) on Röck Szilárd Street in Budapest; life there, without labor; transfer to Csepel on 19/06/1944; labor in Csepel in a factory; ban against departing from the factory, as of 01/07/1944; transfer to...

File Number : 689

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : German

Testimony of Rózsi Friedmann, born in Ungvár, Hungary in 1931, regarding her experiences in the Ungvár Ghetto and in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Stutthof and Bromberg camps

Testimony of Rózsi Friedmann, born in Ungvár, Hungary in 1931, regarding her experiences in the Ungvár Ghetto and in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Stutthof and Bromberg camps German occupation, March 1944; detention of her father on the street, after he is informed on and accused of being sympathetic to Communism; transfer of her father to the counter-espionage [headquarters/ center]; her father receives severe beatings and is deported to the Ungvár Ghetto; her deportation to the Ungvár Ghetto by gendarmes in April 1944; Ungvár Ghetto life; labor in the municipality and labor sorting belongings that were confiscated...

File Number : 658

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

Testimony of Sándor Fonyódi, born in Békéscsaba, Hungary in 1894, regarding his experiences in a marked house in Budapest, in service in a labor battalion in Isaszeg, in Hegyeshalom, and in Buchenwald and other camps Life in Budapest in a marked house with a yellow star on Géza Street no. 3; rise to power of [Ferenc] Szálasi in Hungary, and deportation to forced labor in Isaszeg by Arrow Cross Party men; labor constructing fortifications; transfer to Hegyeshalom on a death march; transfer to Zurndorf; they are handed over to the German authorities in Zurndorf; transfer to Buchenwald; life en route, in...

File Number : 538

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : German

Testimony of Ernő Klein, born in Perkáta, Hungary in 1902, regarding his experiences during service in a labor battalion in Jászberény, in the Hatvan Ghetto, and in Auschwitz-Birkenau and Auschwitz camps He presents himself to the authorities for forced labor in service in a labor battalion in Jászberény on 12/06/1944; after the transfer, with 300-400 forced laborers, he undergoes a medical examination (at his request) in Hatvan; detention at the railroad station by gendarmes and SS soldiers; he receives beatings with a rifle butt and other [instruments?]; deportation to the Hatvan Ghetto, including...

File Number : 2874

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

Testimony of Imre Hirsch, born in Nagyvárad, Hungary in 1913, regarding his experiences during service in a labor battalion in Hungary and in the Transylvania area, and in Engerau, Mauthausen and other camps Deportation to forced labor in service in a labor battalion in Monor on 15/12/1942; life in the labor battalion in Monor for six weeks; transfer to Felsőlok [Gyimesfelsőlok?]; transfer to Hidegség; transfer to Farkaspatak; labor in those places in the construction of fortifications and logging trees; transfer to Budapest a year later; transfer to Ercsi; labor in agriculture on a farm (on an estate);...

File Number : 2871

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

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