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Testimony of Joseph Shner Schwartz, borin in 1932 in Kalocsa, Hungary, about his experiences as a boy in the Kalocsa ghetto and in an apartment in Budapest during the war

Life in a Neolog community before the war; Jews not admitted to high school; moves to Budapest for studies; family receives extra privileges because grandfather died in World War I; receives information from a refugee from Poland in 1943 about murder of Jews; German occupation ensues; living in the Kalocsa ghetto; escaping to Budapest; living in an apartment due to the family's extra privileges; hiding acquaintances in the apartment; conditions worsen in October 1944; mother captured and interrogated; life in hiding in the apartment until liberation; Zionist youth movement; slipping into Czechoslovakia;...

File Number : 13600

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaim Hauszman Nave, born in Budapest, Hungary in 1933, regarding his experiences as a child in hiding in Budapest

Testimony of Chaim Hauszman Nave, born in Budapest, Hungary in 1933, regarding his experiences as a child in hiding in Budapest Life in Budapest in the home of an assimilated family; German occupation, 1944; deportation from their home; separation from his mother; life in hiding in Budapest until the liberation in 1945; He joins a group of children who were gathered by the JDC organization and by members of the Gordonia movement; they set sail for Eretz Israel on the "Knesset Yisrael" ship; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel in 1947; service in the Israel Air Force, IAF; receipt of the Mofet...

File Number : 13579

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yisrael Salek Delayahu Dłuzniewski, born in 1926 in Łódź, about his experiences in the Łódź ghetto and in the Auschwitz, Gusen-Men, Birkenau, and Mauthausen camps

Life as a boy in Lodz; family background; attends a cheder and a Polish school; belongs to the Zionist youth movement; war erupts in 1939; shops vandalized; shortage of bread; witness escapes with mother to Tomaszow Mazowiecki; escapes back to Lodz; life in the ghetto; the Sperre Aktion; parting with mother and sister, who are deported to Chełmno; labor in a leather workshop; Jews from Germany arrive; the Yom Kippur fast in the ghetto in 1944; deportation by train to Auschwitz-Birkenau; the chair of the Judenrat, Chaim Rumkowski; witnessing the murder of the commander of the Jewish police (Hosenblat); life in...

File Number : 13620

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Speech delived by Gur Laish, Commander of Staff No. 3 of the IDF "Witnesses in Uniform" delegation

Speech delived by Gur Laish, Commander of Staff No. 3 of the IDF "Witnesses in Uniform" delegation Delegation witness: Ms. Sara Tesler; date of the speech: November 2008.

File Number : 313.8

Type of Material : Speech

Language : Hebrew, English

Testimony of Yakob Eizenbaum Erez, born in Brzesc Nad Bugiem, Poland, 1936, regarding his experiences in Komi and in the area around Osh, Kirghizstan

Testimony

Testimony of Yakob Eizenbaum Erez, born in Brzesc Nad Bugiem, Poland, 1936, regarding his experiences in Komi and in the area surrounding Osh, Kirghizstan Escape from Brzesc Nad Bugiem to the Soviet Union with his parents, approximately 1940; life in a labor camp in the Komi region of Siberia, 1941; his father's work as a baker in the camp; transfer of the family to a kolkhoz near Osh, Kirghizstan, 1941; his parents' work harvesting cotton; relations with the Uzbek neighbors; drafting of his father into the Red Army; his father's return to Poland and joining Anders Army; move back to Poland with his mother,...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mordechai Moni Hershkovitz Tsivion, born in Iasi, Romania, 1934, regarding his experiences as a child in Iasi and Bucharest

Testimony

Testimony of Mordechai Moni Hershkovitz Tsivion, born in Iasi, Romania, 1934, regarding his experiences as a child in Iasi and Bucharest Life before the war. Pogrom against the Jews including the murder of his uncle; escape to Bucharest. Illegal aliya attempt to Eretz Israel; detention in Cyprus; life in Cyprus.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Joint testimony of Aharon Reich, born in Nove Mesto, 1935, and Yehuda Reich, born in Nitra, 1938, regarding their experiences as young children in hiding in a storeroom and Bergen-Belsen

Testimony

Joint testimony of Aharon Reich, born in Nove Mesto, 1935, and Yehuda Reich, born in Nitra, 1938, regarding their experiences as young children in hiding in a storeroom and Bergen-Belsen Move to Mocenok. German occupation; anti-Jewish decrees; life in hiding in a storeroom; detention and transfer to Sered; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; camp life; death of their grandmother; liberation by the British Army. Return to Nitra and Mocenok; witnesses attend a public school; displays of antisemitism; emigration to Dublin; life in an institution in Clonyn Castle; aliya to Israel, 1949; adjustment.

File Number : 12426

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe Ben-Ozer, born in Semeliskes, Lithuania, 1931, regarding his experiences as a child in the Kaunas Ghetto, Landsberg, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald and other camps

Testimony

Testimony of Moshe Ben-Ozer, born in Semeliskes, Lithuania, 1931, regarding his experiences as a child in the Kaunas Ghetto, Landsberg, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald and other camps Childhood and family background including religious life in Kaunas. Soviet occupation; unsuccessful attempt to escape with the retreating Red Army soldiers; German occupation; deportation to the Kaunas Ghetto, August 1941; ghetto life including "Aktions"; liquidation of the ghetto and transfer to Landsberg; camp life including imprisonment; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; camp life including labor storing potatoes; transfer to...

File Number : 12299

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shmuel Kalosh Karmeli, born in Mukacevo, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Mukacevo Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Shmuel Kalosh Karmeli, born in Mukacevo, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Mukacevo Ghetto From an Orthodox family; life before the war; attends the synagogue of the Munkacs Rebbe; displays of antisemitism. Outbreak of the war; re-annexation to Hungary; anti-Jewish legislation; ghetto life; his father is in hiding outside of Mukacevo, 1944; contact with his father; liberation by the Red Army. Return to the family home which had been taken over by local residents; drafted into the Red Army; desertion and return to Mukacevo; illegally crosses the border into Hungary;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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