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Appeal of the State Association of Hungarian Jews to Ilya Ehrenburg requesting that he assist the Hungarian ambassador in returning Hungarian citizens to their motherland, 15 December 1945

File Number : 7

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Russian

Memoirs of Paulina (Barak) Birnbaum, born in Orinin, Ukraine, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Zhvanchik Ghetto, the Gorodok Ghetto, in Kopaygorod, Tulchin, Mogilev and Barlad

Memoirs of Paulina (Barak) Birnbaum, born in Orinin, Ukraine, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Zhvanchik Ghetto, the Gorodok Ghetto, in Kopaygorod, Tulchin, Mogilev and Barlad German occupation of Zhvanchik; attitude of the local population; attempts of Jews to appease the Germans by welcoming them with a Torah scroll; acts of abuse against the Jews; collaboration of the Ukrainians with the Germans; pogrom in Zhvanchik, 31 August 1941, including the murder of her father; in hiding in an attic; mass murder of the Jews of Zhvanchik [in killing pits]; in hiding in a cemetery; "Aktion" in the ghetto;...

File Number : 8480

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Memoirs

Language : Russian

Memoirs of Sam Gottesman, born in Irsava, Czechoslovakia, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Munkacs Ghetto, Auschwitz, Wustegiersdorf, Wolfsberg and other places

Memoirs of Sam Gottesman, born in Irsava, Czechoslovakia, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Munkacs Ghetto, Auschwitz, Wustegiersdorf, Wolfsberg and other places Life before the war; re-annexation to Hungary; life in Ungar under Hungarian rule, until 1944. Munkacs Ghetto life; Auschwitz camp life; Wolfsberg camp life; Wustegiersdorf camp life; Gross-Rosen camp life; Bergen-Belsen camp life; Hildesheim camp life; Hannover camp life; liberation by the Red Army.

File Number : 8301

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English

Memoirs of Lilly Fluss, born in Mateszalka, Hungary, 1929, regarding her experiences in the Mateszalka Ghetto, Strasshof, Langenlebarn and Moosbierbaum

Memoirs of Lilly Fluss, born in Mateszalka, Hungary, 1929, regarding her experiences in the Mateszalka Ghetto, Strasshof, Langenlebarn and Moosbierbaum Life in the Mateszalka Ghetto; work in a brick factory; life in Strasshof; the love between her sister, Julia, and Andre, a French man, during their stay in Strasshof until after the liberation; life in Langenlebarn; life in Moosbierbaum.

File Number : 8231

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English

Testimony of Livia (Szabo) Kransberg, born in Petrova, 1919, regarding her experiences in Sighet, Auschwitz, a death march and Ravensbrueck

Testimony

Testimony of Livia (Szabo) Kransberg, born in Petrova, 1919, regarding her experiences in Sighet, Auschwitz, a death march and Ravensbrueck Her family; relations with the local population; attends high school in Sighet. Entry of the Hungarians into the area and resultant changes; deportation of her young relatives to labor camps, 1941; “Aktion", July 1942; walks to the detention place instead of her father and her release by a school friend, Pope Vasile; harassment by a girl she went to school with, who later informs on her family to Nazis; deportation of the Jews of Sighet to a camp outside the city; 19...

File Number : 11295

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Shaindl Hershkovitz, born in Dulev, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Mateszalka Ghetto, Auschwitz, Gelsenkirchen and Hessen camps

Testimony

Testimony of Shaindl Hershkovitz, born in Dulev, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Mateszalka Ghetto, Auschwitz, Gelsenkirchen and Hessen camps Life before the war. Annexation to Hungary; anti-Jewish legislation; entry of the Germans, 19 March 1944; deportation of the Jews from the area, to the Mateszalka Ghetto; ghetto life; deportation to Auschwitz, mid-May 1944; camp life; transfer to Gelsenkirchen; camp life including labor clearing away rubble; transfer to Hessen; camp life, including labor in an ammunitions factory; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; camp life including typhus; liberation by the...

File Number : 9379

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Adolf Hirsh, born in Dej, Romania, 1914, regarding his experiences in the Dej Ghetto, Auschwitz, Stutthof, a death march and in hiding

Testimony

Testimony of Adolf Hirsh, born in Dej, Romania, 1914, regarding his experiences in the Dej Ghetto, Auschwitz, Stutthof, a death march and in hiding His father owned a soap factory. Administration of the factory under Romanian rule and then under Hungarian rule; transfer to a Hungarian Army forced labor camp for a short time; release due to illness; deportation to the Dej Ghetto located in a forest near Dej, without sanitation facilities; decision not to escape in order not to leave his wife and baby daughter who was one year old; deportation to Auschwitz where his wife, daughter and parents are sent to...

File Number : 8693

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avraham Adar, born in Szekesfehervar, Hungary, 1936, regarding his experiences in Budapest, in hiding, a children's home and a ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Avraham Adar, born in Szekesfehervar, Hungary, 1936, regarding his experiences in Budapest, in hiding, a children's home and a ghetto His childhood in his grandfather's house following his parents' divorce; his father's remarriage; life with his father in Budapest when the witness is 5 years old. German occupation, March 1944; concentration of the Jews from assembly points; deportation of his father; separation; placed in a Jewish orphanage by his step-mother; life in the orphanage, and the children in the orphanage; escape during the transfer of the orphanage children to a ghetto; hidden by...

File Number : 8622

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shoshana (Hobosh) Gordon, born in Budapest, 1929, regarding her experiences in Budapest and in hiding

Testimony

Testimony of Shoshana (Hobosh) Gordon, born in Budapest, 1929, regarding her experiences in Budapest and in hiding Life in Rakospalota from a young age. Swallows poison together with her mother during an "Aktion"; hospitalization in a Jewish hospital in Budapest; escape from the hospital with help from Gyula Haben, a Communist friend, who arranges a hiding place for them in a one-room apartment in Paszto; Gyula Haben declares that they are his relatives and sends his wife and son to live together with them; Gyula Haben saved 17 families and killed a soldier who discovered people hiding in Gyula Haben's...

File Number : 7849

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zvi Stern Steinmetz, born in Masiv, (Czechoslovakia) Romania, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Wisho Ghetto, Jaworzno and Blechhammer camps

Testimony

Testimony of Zvi Stern Steinmetz, born in Masiv, (Czechoslovakia) Romania, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Wisho Ghetto, Jaworzno and Blechhammer camps Draft of men, including his father, to forced labor to build fortifications in Ukraine; Hungarian occupation; discrimination against the Jews to earn a livelihood; robbery and looting of Jewish owned property; house to house searches and abuse of Jews; German occupation of Hungary, March 1944; ban on Jews from earning a livelihood; concentration of Jews in the villages and their transfer to the Wisho Ghetto; life in severely overcrowded houses;...

File Number : 6603

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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