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Testimony of Mordechay (Paul Georg) Fleischer, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1926 regarding his escape to Budapest, deportation to detention camps, escape from a death march and residing in the Glass House

Testimony

Childhood before the war; Fascist Slovakia, 1938; antisemitic events; Attempts to move to Budapest, Hungary, winter 1942-1943; getting arrested by Hungarian soldiers while escaping; sent back to Slovakia; escape to Hungary with the aid of a smuggler; arrival in Budapest; capture and arrest; decrees and restrictions; transferred to a prison by two Hungarian soldiers; deportation to a brick factory; escape to a marked house; capture and deportation for labor building fortifications and digging anti-tank trenches near Solnok, late October 1944; march towards Austria; escape to the Red Cross house in Budapest...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaim Kohen, born in Nabeul, Tunisia, 1927 regarding the period of German occupation in Tunisia

Testimony

The Jewish community in Nabeul; friendship with the local population; rumors about the war in Europe; German occupation, 1942; yellow badge decree; drafting of Jewish men to forced labor; work at the Hammamet port; Allied air-raids; work as a barber for German officers; entry of the British Army, November 1942; Zionist activity after the war; aliya by himself to Israel, 1948.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Regina Yaari née Blutshtein, born in Paris in 1928, about her experiences as a girl in Paris and Toulouse

Testimony

Testimony of Regina Yaari née Blutshtein, born in Paris in 1928, about her experiences as a girl in Paris and Toulouse Father dies in 1936; older brother serves in the French Army in 1940–1943; escaping from Paris with her mother in 1941; escaping back to Paris; life there; escaping to Toulouse in early 1943; life there until the liberation in August 1944; back to Paris; joining the Hashomer Hatzair movement in 1946; immigration to Israel in 1948; establishment of Kibbutz Karmia in 1949.

File Number : 13331

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Inga (Weissler) Sinigaelia, born in Danzig, Poland, 1929, regarding her experiences in Danzig, Beuthen, Cardiff and London

Testimony

Testimony of Inga (Weissler) Sinigaelia, born in Danzig, Poland, 1929, regarding her experiences in Danzig, Beuthen, Cardiff and London Her father's position as a physician; receives information concerning the murder of her father in Danzig by the Germans, 1933; her mother's remarriage; move to Beuthen with her mother, 1934; emigration to Cardiff, England with help from the Jewish community, 1936; help to Jewish refugees, 1936-1939. Outbreak of the war; air-raids on Cardiff, 1939-1940; move with other children to a village for two weeks. Life in London after the war; travels to Israel.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Erna Vera (Siha) Veinshtein, born in Subotica, Yugoslavia, 1929, regarding her experiences in Novi Sad, while using a false identity, in Budapest and Israel

Testimony

Testimony of Erna Vera (Siha) Veinshtein, born in Subotica, Yugoslavia, 1929, regarding her experiences in Novi Sad, while using a false identity, in Budapest and Israel Life in Novi Sad under Hungarian rule, 1941; registered as a Catholic by her Catholic father who converted to Christianity before the war; attends a school administered by Catholic nuns, 1941; murder of Jews in Novi Sad by Hungarian soldiers during the large Razzia (round-up); life with her parents while using a false identity as a Catholic, with the help of forged documents; deportation of her mother's family to the Subotica Ghetto, 1943;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zeev Schuss, born in Krakow, Poland, 1937, regarding his experiences as a child in Lwow, with a group of orphans in the Anders Army in Teheran, aliya to Eretz Israel in 1943 and other

Testimony

Testimony of Zeev Schuss, born in Krakow, Poland, 1937, regarding his experiences as a child in Lwow, with a group of orphans in the Anders Army in Teheran, aliya to Eretz Israel in 1943 and other German occupation, September 1939; escape with the family to Lwow; life in Lwow; German occupation, June 1941; escape to Bukhara; life in Bukhara; move with his sister to a Polish orphanage; eats together with children scraps of food at the gate of the camp of the Anders Army; joins with the orphanage the Anders Army en route to Teheran, August 1942; life en route; move to Krasnovodsk; life in Krasnovodsk; travel...

File Number : 13125

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew