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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 Moshe Hilzenrath Ben-Shlomo, born in Jasina, Czechoslovakia, 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in Jasina, the area of Galicia, Tluste and the Budapest Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Moshe Hilzenrath Ben-Shlomo, born in Jasina, Czechoslovakia, 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in Jasina, the area of Galicia, Tluste and the Budapest Ghetto Life before the war; from a socialist traditional family; learns in a local school and a "heder"; riots by Ukrainians, 1938. Re-annexation to Hungary, November 1938; deportation of his father and brother to a camp, 1939; transfer of his brother from Kosice to Jasina; smuggling his brother in by the family; deportation to the Galicia area with his mother and brother, June 1941; transfer to Tluste; life in Tluste; rumors about the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yeshayahu Shpitzer, born in Hajdunanas, Hungary, 1925, regarding his experiences in Hajdunanas, the Debrecen Ghetto, Sombathely camp, Szolok and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Yeshayahu Shpitzer, born in Hajdunanas, Hungary, 1925, regarding his experiences in Hajdunanas, the Debrecen Ghetto, Sombathely camp, Szolok and other places Life before the war; family is Sanz hassidim. Death of his father, 1942; life in Debrecen and vocational studies; German occupation, 1944; deportation to the Debrecen Ghetto; ghetto life; escape; life in the local prison; receives help from the local Jewish community; trial; life in Szolok camp with political inmates; transfer to labor loading coal on trains; transfer to another camp; camp life; construction of a bunker against...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rachel Rochela Roza (Polak) Green, born in Viseul De Sus, Romania, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Cluj Ghetto, Auschwitz, Mittelsteine and Weisswasser

Testimony

Testimony of Rachel Rochela Roza (Polak) Green, born in Viseul De Sus, Romania, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Cluj Ghetto, Auschwitz, Mittelsteine and Weisswasser Life before the war; move to Cluj. Deportation to a brick factory in the Cluj Ghetto, April 1944; deportation by the Hungarian border police to the German Army, May 1944; deportation to Auschwitz, September 1944; transfer to Mittelsteine; transfer to Weisswasser, January 1945; liberation by the Red Army, May 1945. Move to Budapest; life in Budapest including release of her father from prison; reunion with her father; return to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of George Geiger, born in Lunca de Jos, Romania, 1926, regarding his experiences in forced labor in Hangony, Kecsekmet, Szolnok, Obuda and Budapest

Testimony

Testimony of George Geiger, born in Lunca de Jos, Romania, 1926, regarding his experiences in forced labor in Hangony, Kecsekmet, Szolnok, Obuda and Budapest Only son; orphaned; life with his grandmother in Targu Mures; attends elementary school; move to his father's family in Hatvan; learns goldsmith craft. German occupation, 1944; drafted to forced labor; training camp in Hangony; anti-Jewish legislation; transfer to a labor camp in an airfield in Kecsekmet; yellow badge; transfer to a labor group at a train junction in Szolnok, Septermber 1944; Rosh Hashana prayers in the camp; approach of the Soviet...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avraham Andor Bendi Cohen, born in Ozd, Hungary, 1928, regarding his experiences in a Hungarian labor battalion, the Miskolc Ghetto, Bruck camp and Mauthausen

Testimony

Testimony of Avraham Andor Bendi Cohen, born in Ozd, Hungary, 1928, regarding his experiences in a Hungarian labor battalion, the Miskolc Ghetto, Bruck camp and Mauthausen Childhood in Ozd and Miskolc. German occupation, March 1944; volunteers for a labor camp near Ozd; drafting of his father to a labor battalion; deportation to the Miskolc Ghetto, April 1944; drafted to a labor unit; transfer to Olšovany; labor cutting and logging trees; transfer to Poland; building dams; air-raids; escape to Hungary, September 1944; work burying Red Army soldiers, evacuation og wounded Hungarians and clearing rubble;...

File Number : 12622

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Tamar Edith (Zeltzer) Kavar, born in Mezotur, Hungary, 1932, regarding her experiences in the Oroshaza Ghetto, Debrecen, Strasshof and Gross Jedlersdorf

Testimony

Testimony of Tamar Edith (Zeltzer) Kavar, born in Mezotur, Hungary, 1932, regarding her experiences in the Oroshaza Ghetto, Debrecen, Strasshof and Gross Jedlersdorf Deportation of her parents and move to her grandparents in Oroshaza; life berfore the war; German occupation, 1944; decrees, expulsion from school and deportation to the Oroshaza Ghetto; transfer to Debrecen, May 1944; deportation to Strasshof; transfer to Gross Jedlersdorf; camp life including labor of her mother and brother in a casting factory and her grandmother's labor in the kitchen; liberation, May 1945. Return to Oroshaza; joins...

File Number : 12743

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Arie Viktor Mesleni, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1931, regarding his experiences in Budapest

Testimony

Testimony of Arie Viktor Mesleni, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1931, regarding his experiences in Budapest Life before the war; childhood with no family or social contact. Outbreak of the war. Decrees including dismissal of his father from his work in a bank and his deportation to Koszeg to labor in a beer factory; return of his father; German occupation, March 1944; ghetto life in a protected house; placed in an orphanage after the draft of his father to labor in strengthening fortifications at the Soviet front and deportation of his mother to Auschwitz, December 1944; liberation by the Red Army, January...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Correspondence of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) administration in Krakow and Warsaw with Jewish institutions and organizations abroad, 12 February 1940-08 February 1942

Correspondence of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) administration in Krakow and Warsaw with Jewish institutions and organizations abroad, 12 February 1940-08 February 1942 - Requests sent by institutions and organizations abroad and personal applications to the JDC administration in Krakow to locate the addresses of Jews in Poland; - Applications from organizations abroad and personal applications to the JDC administration in Krakow requesting relief for individuals; - Requests to receive financial assistance from institutions and organizations abroad and confirmation of receipt of aid; -...

File Number : 5

Type of Material : Letter, Telegram

Language : Slovak, Polish, French, English, German

Article written by Dr. Fritz Berger in response to the book, "Die Geschichte von Joel Brand" (The Story of Joel Brand) by Alex Weissberg, comparing rescue operations for Jews in Germany and in Hungary - Berger, who was born in Chemnitz, Germany in 1902, compares the description of rescue operations for Hungarian Jews as presented by Brand and Weissberg with his own experiences as someone who organized rescue operations in Germany. - Berger's main thesis is that the initial rescue operations conducted by Jews in Germany were more organized and more efficient because the German Jews sensed Hitler's...

File Number : 316

Type of Material : Testimony, Official Documentation

Language : German

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