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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 Moshe (Dezho) David, born in Gurghiu, Romania, 1927 regarding his experiences in Kaufering and additional camps

Testimony

Childhood; family background; the murder of his father by Romanians, 1934; attends a Romanian school and moves to learn in a workshop in Cluj; Annexation of the area to Hungary; German invasion, 1944; yellow badge; concentration of the Jews in a brick factory; deportation to Auschwitz camp; transfer to Kaufering camp; positive treatment by the German labor manager; labor in an underground factory for airplane production; transfer to Dachau; death march towards Bad-Toelz; liberation; Return to Gurghiu and Cluj; aliya training in Timisoara; illegal immigration to Eretz Israel and exile to Cyprus; digging...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Roza (Segal) Romascanu, born in Lespezi, Romania, 1929, regarding her experiences and those of her family in Lespezi, Pascani, Falticeni, Botosani and Communist Romania

Memoirs of Roza (Segal) Romascanu, born in Lespezi, Romania, 1929, regarding her experiences and those of her family in Lespezi, Pascani, Falticeni, Botosani and Communist Romania Life at home; the Jewish community in Lespezi before the war; displays of antisemitism among the neighbors. Outbreak of the war; deportation of the Jewish men to an unknown place, among them, Roza's father, Shmuel Segal; deportation of Roza with her mother Rachel, her sisters, Mitza and Sophie along with the rest of the Jews from the village, to Pascani; transfer of the family to Falticeni two months later; release of her...

File Number : 8637

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Personal documentation of Ivan Lang, born in Caransebes, Romania, 14 July 1935, 1941-1947

Personal documentation of Ivan Lang, born in Caransebes, Romania, 14 July 1935, 1941-1947 The documents include: - Birth certificates of Ivan Lang and of his parents, Stefan Lang and Emma (Grosz) Lang, issued in Caransebes, 15 July 1941; - Document issued by the Recruitment Office in Lugoj, 22 February 1942, certifying that Stefan Lang worked in forced labor in Caransebes, 09-13 February 1942; - Document issued in Lugoj, certifying that Stefan Lang is of Jewish origin, 29 May 1942; - Travel permit to Timisoara granted to Emma Lang in Caransebes, 01 December 1942; - Certificate issued to Ivan...

File Number : 345

Type of Material : Personal Documents

Language : English, Romanian, German

Testimony of Shalom Jakubovitz, born in Sighetul Marmatiei, Romania, 1926, regarding his experiences in Sighetul Marmatiei, Auschwitz-Birkenau; Buna-Monowitz and Buchenwald

Testimony of Shalom Jakubowitz, born in Sighetul Marmatiei, Romania, 1926, regarding his experiences in Sighetul Marmatiei, Auschwitz-Birkenau; Buna-Monowitz and Buchenwald Life before the war in Sighetul Marmatiei; Outbreak of the war, 1939; increasing displays of antisemitism; draft of Jews to labor battalions; deportation to Auschwitz, 1944; forced labor; transfer to Buna-Monowitz; forced death march of the inmates, 18 January 1945; travel on a train for eight days including mortality and eating snow; arrival in Buchenwald; life in the children's block in Buchenwald; liberation; Aliya to Eretz...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mia (Ordinon) Beili, born in Cernauti, Romania in 1938, regarding her experiences as a child in the Cernauti Ghetto and on the Aryan side

Testimony of Mia (Ordinon) Beili, born in Cernauti, Romania in 1938, regarding her experiences as a child in the Cernauti Ghetto and on the Aryan side Life before the war; assimilated, Zionist family; Deportation to the Cernauti Ghetto; Cernauti Ghetto life including overcrowding; smuggled from the ghetto with her parents and taken to the smuggler's home; life on the Aryan side; retreat by the Germans; liberation by the Red Army; Move to Brasov with help from the Jewish community; she attends a Jewish school; attempt to make illegal aliya to Eretz Israel on the "Pan York" ship; detention in Cyprus;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Veronika (Sztrul) Friedmann, born in Sarmas, Transylvania, 1918, regarding her experiences before the Holocaust and in the Plaszów, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Parschnitz camps

Testimony

Testimony of Veronika (Sztrul) Friedmann, born in Sarmas, Transylvania, 1918, regarding her experiences before the Holocaust and in the Plaszów, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Parschnitz camps Born to an observant family in Sarmas (Hungarian: Salamas); her parents were Adolf, born in Bilbor and Eszter (Rubin) Sztrul, born in Salamas; her siblings were Jenő Sztrul and Ernő Sztrul; her other siblings were not mentioned by name; her maternal grandfather was Salamon Rubin whose two sons Adolf and Herman perished in the Holocaust, and whose daughter, the witness' mother, and the two children of his second daughter,...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

Memoirs of Chana Malik, born in Moisei, Romania, 1921, regarding her experiences in the Viseu Ghetto and in Auschwitz, Gelsenberg, Sommerda and other camps

Memoirs of Chana Malik, born in Moisei, Romania, 1921, regarding her experiences in the Viseu Ghetto and in Auschwitz, Gelsenberg, Sommerda and other camps Life in Moisei. Re-annexation to Hungary; deportation to the Viseu Ghetto, 1944; Viseu Ghetto life; Auschwitz camp life; Gelsenberg camp life; Sommerda camp life.

File Number : 8247

Type of Material : Memoirs, Interview(s)

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Lidia Lili (Simsovits) Fischer, born in Sighet, Maramures, Romania, 1929, regarding her experiences in the Satu Mare Ghetto, Auschwitz, Geppersdorf, on a death march and in Georgenthal

Testimony

Testimony of Lidia Lili (Simsovits) Fischer, born in Sighet, Maramures, Romania, 1929, regarding her experiences in the Satu Mare Ghetto, Auschwitz, Geppersdorf, on a death march and in Georgenthal Childhood in Sighet, Maramures. Hungarian occupation, 1940; anti-Jewish legislation; move to Satu Mare for studies; deportation of people lacking citizenship, 1941; closing of the Jewish school; restrictions in movement; yellow badge; confiscation of property; partial curfew; deportation to the Satu Mare Ghetto; then to Auschwitz, after approximately three weeks; repeated abuse; mutual help; hunger; Yom Kippur;...

File Number : 13380

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Moshe Zisman, born in Bucharest, Romania, 1937, regarding his experiences and the experiences of his family being rescued from deportation to Transnistria with the help of an Iron Guard man and in hiding in Bucharest Family life; synagogues in the community; attends the Achdut Jewish school; rise to power of the Iron Guard; draft to labor of the men including his father; a neighbor serving in the Iron Guard; forced labor [of his father]; his family's relationship with the neighbor; detention of his father and his release with the aid of his neighbor; pogroms in Bucharest; deportation of Jews...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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