Testimony of Eduard Fosner, born in Bucharest, Romania, in 1927 , regarding expulsion to the Oradea ghetto, deportation to Auschwitz and other camps, death march, and escape
Childhood before the war; transfer to Oradea in 1938; entry of the Hungarians in 1940; expulsion from school; anti-Jewish legislation ; service in the Levente Association; German occupation in 1944; order to wear yellow badge, and other orders; expulsion to the ghetto in May 1944; deportation to Birkenau; hunger; roll-calls and selections; transfer to Buchenwald for a brief time and from there to Magdeburg; labor in rebuilding and...
Testimony of Ze'ev Yitzhaki, born in Iasi, Romania, 1936, regarding his experiences in Iasi during the war
Early childhood.
Increase in anti-Semitism, 1939; anti-Jewish orders and legislation; pogrom at police stations and trains, June 1941; the bombings.Liberation by the Red Army, summer of 1944; joining the Dror organization; moving to a children's home in Piatra Neat; boarding the illegal immigrant ship Pan York, December 1947; exile to Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel, March 1948; absorption.
Childhood before the war; programming aliya to Israel; aliya of the two brothers ; confiscation of family businesses; outbreak of the war; burning the synagogue and houses of Jews; deportation to ghetto; forced labor; murder of the father; "aktions"; deportation of the mother and sister to Auschwitz Birkenau; deportation of the witness with her sister to Peterswaldau; help of the German female commander; liberation by the Russians; escape to the American side; rehabilitation of life after the war; aliya to Israel in 1946
Childhood before the war; coexistence;
Outbreak of the war; arrival of Jewish refugees; mutual assistance; riots against the Jews, 1941; escape to the Soviet Union with the retreating Red Army; drafting of her father and brother to labor camps; move to Korosten; assistance from the Soviets; move to Kazakhstan; work;
Rebuilding life; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1957.
Childhood in Mukacevo; Hebrew school founded and managed by his father; life under Hungarian ruling in 1938; they received a deportation order according to which the whole family was to leave Hungary within 30 days because they didn't have a Hungarian nationality; at the same time his father got a recruitment order for the labor service within the Hungarian army in 1940;his father's service in the labour service during 9 months; return of his father and deportation of the family to the Garan detention camp, Slovakia in 1941; ( because they didn't have a Hungarian nationality); stay in the camp for a few months;...
Personal documentation of Lothar Yehuda Speyer, born in Wenkheim, Germany, 1913, and personal documentation of Martha (Goldbach) Speyer, born in Kitzingen, Germany, 1921, from the years 1922-1947
- Ketubah (Jewish marriage certificate) of the groom Yehuda Speyer and the bride Martha Goldbach, married in Tirat Zvi, 30 Nissan 5702 (17 April 1942);
- Marriage Certificate of Yehuda Speyer and Martha Goldbach, 17 April 1942; parents of the groom: Shmuel and Fanny (Godlewsky) Speyer; parents of the bride: Abraham and Clara (Blum) Goldbach;
- Prussian Certificate of Citizenship of Lothar Speyer from...
Testimony of Liana Shoshana Fura Shvartz, born in Vienna, Austria, regarding her experiences in Austria and Czechoslovakia and her aliya to pre-state Israel
Childhood before the war; Anschluss in 1938; Kristallnacht in 1938; attacks; Aryanization of family factory; restrictions; certificate for father for a month; attempt to bring relatives from Hungary; family’s escape to the grandfather’s estate in Sala; receiving certificates as colonial subjects; aliya to pre-state Israel in 1940; absorption.
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.
Documentation belonging to Arthur Spier regarding events surrounding the Talmud Torah School in Hamburg during the years he served as its principal, 1926-1940
Arthur Spier was born 22 July 1898; he worked as a teacher in the elementary school run by the Jewish community in Frankfurt am Main; he served as principal of the Talmud Torah School in Hamburg, 1926-1940 ; he participated in the Kindertransport (sending of children to England), 1938-1939.
Testimony of Sukhar Stolerman, born in Lipcani, Bessarabia, Romania in 1930, regarding his experiences during the expulsion to Zhmerynka in Transnistria
Childhood before the war; antisemitism; Jewish refugees from Poland in 1939; Russian occupation in 1940; change in their lifestyle; Russo–German war in June 1941; entry of Romanians and Germans; expulsion to Briceni; march to Atachi; continuation of march via Mogilev to Zhmerynka; life in the ghetto; the Jewish Committee; various types of labor; murder and abuse; partisans; liberation by Red Army in March 1944; return to Lipcani; rebuilding life after the...