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Testimony of Regev Yisrael Gerber, born in Mukacevo, Czechoslovakia, in 1927, regarding the Garan camp, Slovakia.

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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;...

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results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

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Testimony of Abraham Ernst Ponger, born in Mikulas Litovsky Svaty, Czechoslovakia, in 1922, regarding his experiences in the Sered camp and in the battle of the partisans

Childhood before the war; Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria 1938; expulsion from school and carpentry studies; independence of Slovakia and anti-Jewish legislation 1939; deportation of Jews and escape to the mountains in March 1942; going back home and deportation to the Sered camp,in April 1945; work in carpentry; underground in the camp; Slovak uprising and escape ,in August 1944; joining partisans; actions against Germans; liberation by the red army,in April 1945; joining aliya training; illegal immigration to Eretz Israel on the Theodor Herzl ship,on 01 April 1947; exile to Cyprus; aliya back to...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 13772

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

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Memoirs of Miriam Eva (Reiter) Zinger, born in Munkacs, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Munkacs Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and the Lenzing camp

Memoirs of Miriam Eva (Reiter) Zinger, born in Munkacs, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Munkacs Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and the Lenzing camp Life before the war; attends the Hebrew high school. German occupation; yellow badge; deportation to the Munkacs Ghetto; transfer of her father and other Jews to the Great Synagogue; abuse of the Jews by Hungarian soldiers; liquidation of the ghetto, April 1944; deportation to Auschwitz by death march; camp life; murder of her father, grandfather and grandmother; life in Birkenau in the Gypsy camp; transfer of the Gypsies to the gas...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 8517

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Memoirs

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Testimony of Sara Aharoni née Iudovitz, born in 1928 in Chust, Czechoslovakia, about her experiences in the Chust ghetto, Auschwitz, and Theresienstadt during the war

Life before the war; offspring of a religious family; Shabbat and festivals; attends a Jewish school; Jewish community life; activity of synagogues and Zionist youth movements; witness joins the Bnei Akiva movement; Hungary re-annexes the area in 1939; men inducted into the labor service; witness deported to the Chust ghetto; life in the ghetto; cultural and religious life; Hungarian gendarmes guard the ghetto; confiscation of valuables; witness wears the yellow star; deported to Auschwitz; selection in the camp and separation of family members; sister sent to Bergen-Belsen and dies from typhus there; roll...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 13610

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

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Certificate titled "Havtacha U'migama" ("A Pledge and an Aspiration"), from the Hebrew high school in Munkacs, 1934, and research regarding the fate of the high school graduates who signed it

Certificate titled "Havtacha U'migama" ("A Pledge and an Aspiration"), from the Hebrew high school in Munkacs, 1934, and research regarding the fate of the high school graduates who signed it Certificate titled "A Pledge and an Aspiration", from the Hebrew high school in Munkacs, signed by high school graduates, 1934, who promised to have a reunion in ten years on Pesach 1944, next to the Kotel Hama'arvi (Western Wall) in Jerusalem; The file contains: research concerning the certificate, with details about the fate of the people who signed the document, including those who perished during the Holocaust.

results.listIds.fileNumber : 435

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Personal Records, List of Jewish Pupils

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew, English

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Testimony of Alexander Shulz, born in Farkasd, Czechoslovakia, 1923, regarding his experiences in Farkasd, Budapest and Israel

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Testimony of Alexander Shulz, born in Farkasd, Czechoslovakia, 1923, regarding his experiences in Farkasd, Budapest and Israel His childhood in a family of merchants. Hungarian Army annexation of Farkasd, 1938; life under Hungarian rule including the imposition of anti-Jewish decrees and the theft of property; vocational studies; move to Budapest; draft to a labor camp; escape while using a false identity; stealing of food during the shelling of Budapest; liberation by the Red Army. Move back to Czechoslovakia; return of property; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1948; life in Israel.

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Testimony of Shulamit Folk, born in Presov, Czechoslovakia, 1928, regarding her experiences as a child in Presov and a camp in the Warsaw area

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Testimony of Shulamit Folk, born in Presov, Czechoslovakia, 1928, regarding her experiences as a child in Presov and a camp in the Warsaw area Life before the war; Orthodox family; attends a Jewish school; Bnei Akiva and Hashomer Hatzair activities; meets Jewish refugees from Poland; help to refugees. Information on the murder of Jews; closure of the store; Ukranian and Slovakian Hlinka Guard brutality; deportation to a camp in the Warsaw area; camp life; labor unloading coal; Wermacht control of the camp; cruelty of the Jewish Kapo from Poland; activities of the orchestra, Polish and Yiddish theatre;...

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Testimony of Ada Erika (Brok) Verobel, born in Galanta, Czechoslovakia, 1928, regarding her experiences as a child in Galanta, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Allendorf

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Testimony of Ada Erika (Brok) Verobel, born in Galanta, Czechoslovakia, 1928, regarding her experiences as a child in Galanta, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Allendorf Life before the war; from a religious Orthodox family. Deportation of those without citizenship by Hungarian soldiers, 1940; restrictions on the Jews including termination of studies; yellow badge; confiscation of property; Aryanization of the family shop; curfew; witness' father is drafted into the Hungarian Army; transfer of her father to a camp; deportation to a brick factory; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, May 1944; camp life; information...

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