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Testimony of Nancy Vera Rachel Arbel, born in Baktaloranthaza, Hungary, in 1826 regarding deportation to the Auschwitz Birkenau , Plaszow and Reichenbach camps

Testimony

Childhood before the war; coexistence; outbreak of the war; restrictions on Jews; German occupation in March 1944; deportation to ghetto; mutual help; robbery of property; fictitious marriage for the purpose of rescue; deportation to Auschwitz Birkenau; transfer to Plaszow; transfer to a protected camp; improvement in food and living conditions; transfer back to Auschwitz Birkenau; transfer to Germany for agricultural works and for working in a factory manufacturing planes; liberation by the Russians; rehabilitation of life after the war; aliya to Israel in 1949

File Number : 13703

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mordechay (Paul Georg) Fleischer, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1926 regarding his escape to Budapest, deportation to detention camps, escape from a death march and residing in the Glass House

Testimony

Childhood before the war; Fascist Slovakia, 1938; antisemitic events; Attempts to move to Budapest, Hungary, winter 1942-1943; getting arrested by Hungarian soldiers while escaping; sent back to Slovakia; escape to Hungary with the aid of a smuggler; arrival in Budapest; capture and arrest; decrees and restrictions; transferred to a prison by two Hungarian soldiers; deportation to a brick factory; escape to a marked house; capture and deportation for labor building fortifications and digging anti-tank trenches near Solnok, late October 1944; march towards Austria; escape to the Red Cross house in Budapest...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mordechai Levinger, born in Galanta, Czechoslovakia, 1921 regarding his service in the Hungarian labor battalions

Testimony

Childhood in Galanta; antisemitism before the war; entry of the Hungarians, March 1939; Anti-Jewish legislation; revocation of the family business license; violence by the Hungarian gendarmes; drafted into the Hungarian labor battalions, October 1942; basic training in Komarom; antisemitism of the commanders; transfer to forced labor in the Koszeg area, January 1943; labor in a quarry; transfer to agricultural labor in Mohacs, October 1943; last visit to his house in Galanta, January 1944; transfer to labor digging and building fortification in the Poland-Czechoslovakia border area; death march, late 1944;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Leb Margalit, born in Galgau, Romania, in 1928 regarding the Dej ghetto, Auschwitz Birkenau and other camps

Childhood in Galgau and in Deja; invasion of the Hungarians in 1940; anti-Jewish legislation; recruiting for labor battalions; deterioration of the economic situation; German occupation in March 1944; yellow badge; confiscation of property; deportation to the Dej ghetto; life under the sky; starvation; deportation to Auschwitz Birkenau in June 1944; camp admission process; life in the camp; starvation and thirst; transfer to Bremen about 2 months later; working in clearing the ruins; getting help from German citizens; mutual help; transfer to Bergen Belsen; typhus epidemic; piles of corpses; liberation by the...

File Number : 13712

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yehudit Blom, nee Fridman, born in Uzhorod, Czechoslovakia, ,in 1930 regarding her experiences as a young girl in the Uzhorod ghetto, and in camps in Poland and Germany during the war.

Testimony of Yehudit Blom nee Fridman, born in Uzhorod, Czechoslovakia, in 1930, regarding her experiences as a girl in the Uzhorod ghetto and in camps in Poland and Germany during the war Life before the war; annexation of the new place to Hungary in 1938; deportation of the stateless ; arrival of refugees; German occupation in March 1944; confiscation of property; deportation to the Uzhorod ghetto at the end of April 1944; life in the ghetto for about 6 weeks; deportation to Auschwitz Birkenau; life in the camp; starvation; transfer to Gelsenkirchen; life in the camp; work in clearing rubble; starvation;...

File Number : 13597

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sara (Fogel) Rovinsky, born in Petrova, Romania in 1929, regarding her life in Petrova, in Viseul de Sus Ghetto, and in Auschwitz, Gelsenkirchen, and other camps

Testimony of Sara (Fogel) Rovinsky, born in Petrova, Romania in 1929, regarding her life in Petrova, in Viseul de Sus Ghetto, and in Auschwitz, Gelsenkirchen, and other camps Childhood in Petrova; Hungarian occupation in 1940; rise of antisemitism among the local population; anti-Jewish legislation; revocation of family’s business license; expulsion from school in 1942; transfer of people to labor brigades; German occupation in March 1944; wearing of yellow badge; expulsion to Viseul de Sus Ghetto; hunger and overcrowding; deportation to Auschwitz about a month later; life in the camp; mutual help; suffering...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Tzipora Frieda (Markovitz) Nemesh, born in Mukačevo, Czechoslovakia in 1919, regarding her experiences in Mukačevo Ghetto and Auschwitz-Birkenau and Zittau camps

Testimony of Tzipora Frieda (Markovitz) Nemesh, born in Mukačevo, Czechoslovakia in 1919, regarding her experiences in Mukačevo Ghetto and Auschwitz-Birkenau and Zittau camps Life before the war; receiving a Hebrew education; activity in Hashomer Hatza’ir youth movement; publication of blood libel; German occupation in March 1944; expulsion to ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; murder of part of the family in camp; transfer to Zittau about six months later; life in camp; labor in factory; liberation by Red Army; life after the war; aliya to Israel in 1956; absorption.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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File Number : 13649

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yehudit Berkovitz née Fridman, , born in 1933 in Szikszó, Hungary, about her experiences as a girl in Szikszo, in the Košice ghetto, and in hiding with a Hungarian peasant in Felsovadasz until winter 1945

Life before the war; refugees from Poland arrive; antisemitism; German occupation ensues in March 1944; serving German officers who invade the family home; deportation to the Košice ghetto; wearing the yellow star; living in a brickyard; family escapes from the ghetto with help from a Hungarian friend of the witness's father; finding a hideout with the friend in Felsovadasz; hiding in a granary for three and a half months; hunger, cold, and lice; liberation by Red Army forces in winter 1945; poor physical and mental condition; back to Szikszó; life after the war; immigration to Israel in 1949; adjustment to...

File Number : 13598

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shmuel Berkovitz, born in 1925 in Sangeorgiul De Padure, Romania, about his experiences in Sangeorgiul De Padure, the Targu Mures ghetto, the Gleiwitz and Buna Monowitz camps, etc.

Testimony of Shmuel Berkovitz, born in 1925 in Sangeorgiul De Padure, Romania, about his experiences in Sangeorgiul De Padure, the Targu Mures ghetto, the Gleiwitz and Buna Monowitz camps, etc. Son of a Religious Zionist family; antisemitism; Hungary re-annexes the area in 1939; persecution of Zionists and Communists; inducted into labor battalions; German occupation ensues in March 1944; deportation to the Targu Mures ghetto; life in a brick factory, dispossession; deportation to Auschwitz several weeks later; transfer to Buna Monowitz; life in the camp; assigned to forced labor; hunger; Yom Kippur;...

File Number : 13870

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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