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Testimony of Arie Likht, born in Hajduszoboszlo, Hungary, 1924 regarding his experiences in Hungary during the war period

Testimony

His parents' home; antisemitism; move to Budapest, 1942; German occupation, March 1944; obligation to report for labor clearing rubble; restrictions on movement; yellow badge; drafting order; transfer to Szolnok; labor in a military factory, July 1944; sorting of skilled workers; drafting into the Hungarian Army and deployment to the front; approach of the Soviet front; retreat; Horthy's declaration, 1944; expulsion from the Hungarian Army; concentration of the Jewish soldiers and transfer to the Austrian border; transfer into the hands of the German Army, Sopron; labor building fortifications along the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Arye Simcha Perl, born in Petrova, Romania, 1919 regarding being drafted into a Hungarian Army forced labor battalion

Testimony

From a Hasidic family; observing Shabbat and holidays; keeping customs; attends a local school and a heder; the Jewish community; Hamizrachi and Agudat Israel movements; Entry of the Hungarians, late August 1940; anti-Jewish decrees; drafting of men, including the witness into Hungarian Army forced labor battalions; forced labor at the airfield, Hungary; wearing a yellow armband; labor camp life; typhus; liberation, late 1944; Return home; news of the murder of his family in Auschwitz; attempt to locate relatives in Sighet; membership in Agudat Israel; rebuilding life after the war; marriage in Petrova,...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe Shper, born in Volove, Carpathian Ruthenia, Czechoslovakia, in 1921 regarding his recruitment to labour battalions and his deportation to Mauthausen

wealthy family; he attends the Hebrew Gymnasium in Mukacevo; transition to Hungarian rule in 1939; rise of anti-semitism ; deportation of the stateless to Poland, recruitment for labor battalions in 1942; work in a car workshop in Budapest; German occupation in 1944; escape attempts; march to Austria; digging bunkers in Szombathely; cruelty of the SS; Gunskirchen and Mathausen camps; liberation; return to Carpathian Ruthenia; return of his mother and sisters from Auschwitz; aliya to Israel in 1949.

File Number : 13693

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Miriam Klopper Fogel, born in Zagreb, Croatia in 1937, regarding her experiences in Budapest, in Austria, in labor camps, and on the death march

Testimony

Testimony of Miriam Klopper Fogel, born in Zagreb, Croatia in 1937, regarding her experiences in Budapest, in Austria, in labor camps, and on the death march Her nuclear family; parents’ occupations; way of life; Sabbaths and holidays; establishment of Croatian state in April 1941; the Ustaše organization; escape with mother to Budapest under false identity; conditions in Budapest; move to Sombor and living in uncle’s home; kindergarten; Passover in uncle’s home; expulsion to brick factory and from there to Baja Ghetto by Hungarian gendarmes; father’s draft to labor brigades of the Hungarian army; murder of...

File Number : 13691

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Josef Heiman, born in Szolnok, Hungary, 1922, regarding enlistment in labor troops in the Hungarian army, 1942-1945

Testimony

Testimony of Josef Heiman, born in Szolnok, Hungary, 1922, regarding enlistment in labor battalions in the Hungarian army, 1942-1945 Childhood in a religious family lacking economic means; studies in a Jewish school and then in a general school. Anti-Jewish legislation; restrictions on the employment of Jews in public office; limitation on the number of students in universities (Numerus clausus); conscription into the Hungarian army for labor battalions, 1942; anti-Semitic incidents in the labor battalions; heavy penalties; transfer of the battalion to Austria, 1944; fortification works near...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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File Number : 13667

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letters and postcards sent to Miklós Sonnenfeld from his parents in the Szombathely Ghetto, 1944, letters from Miklós Sonnenfeld to his brother Pál Sonnenfeld who was a POW in the Soviet Union, 1946-1947, and personal certificates belonging to Miklós Sonnenfeld before the war and the period following the war First letter from parents Izabella (Stadler) and Móricz Ferenc Sonnenfeld in Szombathely to their son Miklós Sonnenfeld, serving in a Hungarian Army labor battalion, relating that they are well and they are still living in their home, 24 April 1944; - Letters and postcards sent to Miklós Sonnenfeld...

File Number : 1928

Type of Material : Interview(s), Personal Documents, Letter, Newspaper Clippings, Official Documentation, Postcard

Language : English, Russian, Hungarian

Letters and postcards sent to Dina Bibring, born in Stanislawow, Poland, 1910, in Eretz Israel by her family members in Stanislawow, 1934-1941, and letters sent by Dina from Mikuliczyn to her future husband Adolf Jankolovits in Eretz Israel, 1938, and including Dina's personal documents and her memoirs regarding her experiences and the experiences of her family members Letters and postcards: - Letters and postcards sent to Dina Bibring in Eretz Israel by her father Mordekhai Markus Bibring and her mother Mina, her sister Gincia, and her brother Salo in Stanislawow regarding their life in Stanislawow,...

File Number : 1917

Type of Material : Notebook, Personal Documents, Postcard, Travel Ticket, Documentary, Memoirs, Letter

Language : Hebrew, Polish, German, Yiddish, Hungarian

Testimony of Erzsebet (Klinger) Roth Cohen, born in Kosice Mesto, Slovakia in 1920, regarding her experiences in Cluj, while using a false identity in Eger, and in Savar, Auschwitz-Birkenau and other camps Life as a child in Vienna before the war; Escape to Kosice Mesto in 1939; re-annexation of Kosice Mesto to Hungary in 1938; attempt to deport her to Kamenets Podolski because she has Austrian citizenship; halting of that deportation, and deportation to the Ricse detention camp in 1941; release, several months later, because she marries; escape of her family members to Cluj in 1942; German occupation,...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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