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Testimony of Eduard Fosner, born 1927 in Bucharest, Romania, about expulsion to the Oradea ghetto, deportation to Auschwitz and other camps, death march, and escape

Testimony

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...

File Number : 13773

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Meir Andrash Weiss, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1934, regarding the Budapest ghetto and hiding in the Jewish gymnasium under the auspices of a Hungarian officer

Testimony

Testimony of Meir Andrash Weiss, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1934, regarding the Budapest ghetto and hiding in the Jewish gymnasium under the auspices of a Hungarian officer Family background; his father owns a printing house; life before the war; studies in a Hungarian school; enlistment of his father to labor battalions, 1940; management of the family business by his mother. German occupation, 1944; duty to wear a yellow badge; dropping out of school; an attempt by his mother to flee to the province with the witness and his brother; ban on train travel; confiscation of printing machines in the family...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Judit (Keren) Gross, born in Satu Mare, Romania, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Satu Mare Ghetto, Auschwitz and Lenzing

Testimony

Testimony of Judit (Keren) Gross, born in Satu Mare, Romania, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Satu Mare Ghetto, Auschwitz and Lenzing Her childhood in a traditional family; move to Czechoslovakia when she was 6 years old; attitude of the Czech population. Outbreak of the war, 1939; move to Satu Mare; Hungarian Army occupation of Satu Mare, 1940; life under Hungarian occupation including acts of abuse against the Jews and anti-Jewish legislation and restrictions on movement; Aryanization; numerus clausus; expulsion from the Lutheran school; attends Jewish schools including receiving private lessons;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe Kandel, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in the Budapest Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Moshe Kandel, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in the Budapest Ghetto Life before the war; from a Neolog family; attends Jewish schools; numerus clausus; Deportation of his father to a labor battalion; disappearance of his father; meets refugees from Poland; German occupation, March 1944; imposition of restrictions on Jews including the yellow badge; confiscation of Jewish homes; concentration of Jews in marked houses (with a Star of David); rise to power of the Arrow Cross; murder of Jews in the Danube River; deportation of Jews including his mother to...

File Number : 13234

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zvi Goldstein Zahavi, born in Nyirbator, Hungary, 1935, regarding his experiences in Nyirbator, the Debrecen Ghetto, Floridsdorf, Strasburg and in hiding

Testimony

Testimony of Zvi Goldstein Zahavi, born in Nyirbator, Hungary, 1935, regarding his experiences in Nyirbator, the Debrecen Ghetto, Floridsdorf, Strasburg and in hiding Well-to-do, Orthodox family. Outbreak of the war; listens to the B.B.C.; disbelief of knowledge regarding the mass murder of Jews; anti-Jewish restrictions; ban on travel using public transportation; yellow badge; smuggled to Debrecen; teasing and abuse of Jews by Arrow Cross Party members; informing on and collaboration between the Hungarians and Germans; deportation of his father and brother, and their murder; deportation to the Debrecen...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Aron Lipa Veinberger Gur, born in Uzhorod, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding his experiences in Papa, the Ujhely Ghetto, using a false identity in Budapest and in hiding on a farm

Testimony

Testimony of Aron Lipa Veinberger Gur, born in Uzhorod, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding his experiences in Papa, the Ujhely Ghetto, using a false identity in Budapest and in hiding on a farm Life before the war; hasidic family with hardships; witness learns in a "heder" and attends the Jewish school; learns in a yeshiva in Papa. Deportation to the Ujhely Ghetto, 1944; Ujhely Ghetto life; escape with help from Jews from a labor battalion; move to Budapest; life in Budapest including receiving forged documents; finds a hiding place on a farm; liberation by the Red Army, 1945. Reunion with his sister;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Pnina Iren (Frish) Rubinstein, born in Hajdunanas, Hungary, 1929, regarding her experiences in the Hajdunanas Ghetto, Debrecen, Strasshof and Wien

Testimony

Testimony of Pnina Iren (Frish) Rubinstein, born in Hajdunanas, Hungary, 1929, regarding her experiences in the Hajdunanas Ghetto, Debrecen, Strasshof and Wien Life before the war; attends the Jewish school and learns at home; numerus clausus. Outbreak of the war; draft of her father to forced labor logging trees, 1940; restrictions on Jews including selling merchandise; German occupation, Pesach 1944; deportation of the Jewish men including her father to a labor camp; yellow badge; deportation to the Hajdunanas Ghetto; ghetto life including first aid courses; concentration of the Jews in the railroad...

File Number : 12767

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rivka Katalin (Keizler) Ivri, born in Debrecen, Hungary, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Mateszalka Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Stutthof

Testimony

Testimony of Rivka Katalin (Keizler) Ivri, born in Debrecen, Hungary, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Mateszalka Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Stutthof Life before the war; attends a Jewish school. German occupation, 1941; deportation to the Mateszalka Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; separation from her family; selection; transfer to Stutthof; camp life including labor for the Germans in a Dynamit Nobel factory; transfer on foot to an unknown destination, 1945; liberation by the Red Army; forced labor digging for the Red Army; escape to Hungary with help from the Red Cross. Help from...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of David Endre Schonviesner Erdei, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1921, regarding his experiences in forced labor in Hajduhadhaz, Mezotelegd, Szilagynagyfalu, Mauthausen, a death march and Gunskirchen Life before the war; attends a Jewish school, Hungarian high school and a school for commerce; Beitar youth movement activities. Outbreak of the war; draft to forced labor, 1940; transfer to Hajduhadhaz; camp life including labor building barracks for the army; transfer to Mezotelegd; transfer to Szilagynagyfalu; transfer to Mauthausen by members of the Arrow Cross, 1944; death march to Gunskirchen;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

Testimony of Moshe Hamer, born in Debrecen, Hungary, 1924, regarding his experiences in forced labor in Szolnok

Testimony

Testimony of Moshe Hamer, born in Debrecen, Hungary, 1924, regarding his experiences in forced labor in Szolnok Only son in a middle-class family; looked after by a German nanny; cultural life; attends a Jewish school and a Jewish high school; studies to become an electrician; draft preparatory course; drafted to forced labor in Szolnok; separation from his parents; labor fixing railroad tracks; labor in a Germany Army hospital; labor as an electrician; death march in the direction of Budapest; liberation by the Red Army on a farm. Collecting corpses of German soldiers; return to Budapest via Bucharest;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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