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Testimony of Arye Simcha Perl, born in Petrova, Romania, 1919 regarding being drafted into a Hungarian Army forced labor battalion

Testimony

From a Hasidic family; observing Shabbat and holidays; keeping customs; attends a local school and a heder; the Jewish community; Hamizrachi and Agudat Israel movements; Entry of the Hungarians, late August 1940; anti-Jewish decrees; drafting of men, including the witness into Hungarian Army forced labor battalions; forced labor at the airfield, Hungary; wearing a yellow armband; labor camp life; typhus; liberation, late 1944; Return home; news of the murder of his family in Auschwitz; attempt to locate relatives in Sighet; membership in Agudat Israel; rebuilding life after the war; marriage in Petrova,...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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...

File Number : 13610

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Dov Ber Izidor Weiss Levanoni, born in Kerecky, Czechoslovakia, 1921, regarding his experiences in Kerecky, Orsowa and Komarom

Testimony

Testimony of Dov Ber Izidor Weiss Levanoni, born in Kerecky, Czechoslovakia, 1921, regarding his experiences in Kerecky, Orsowa and Komarom Life with his family [in Kerecky?]; Jewish community life [in Kerecky]; move to Orsowa; life in Orsowa including attending school and learning in a "heder". Hungarian Army occupation [of Orsowa], 1939; draft to the labor battalions before Yom Kippur; transfer to Komarom; camp life including the decree regarding wearing a yellow badge, and forced labor; transfer of the inmates on foot under the supervision of Hungarian Gendarmerie men; escape with a friend; deportation...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

List of Jewish teachers and administrative staff necessary for the functioning of 3 high schools, Bucharest, December 1941

List of Jewish teachers and administrative staff necessary for the functioning of 3 high schools, Bucharest, December 1941 - Indicating age, rank in the army and profession.

File Number : JM/13369

Type of Material : List of Persecuted Persons, List of Forced Laborers, List of Teachers

Language : Romanian

Pre-trial hearings of former employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin for murder (deportation of Jews to extermination camps): Testimonies by former employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin and by a Berlin Jewish survivor, 1965 The file includes i. A.: - Pre-trial hearings of the following former employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin as witnesses: Fritz Miekeley, Franz Stupin, Rudolf Hermann Bast, Gustav Tränkle, Emil Freise, Alfred Hausding, Hans Hasse, Heinz Fehrmann, Otto Malina, Adolf Janßen, Hans Kummerow, Paul Klimesch, Rudolf Martens, Otto...

File Number : 8

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : German

Testimony of Hermann Herskovits, born in Huszt, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding his experiences in a labor battalion in Budapest, in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Gross-Rosen and Bolkenhain camps and more

Testimony of Hermann Herskovits, born in Huszt, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding his experiences in a labor battalion in Budapest, in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Gross-Rosen and Bolkenhain camps and more Life in Budapest in a labor battalion including labor in a slaughterhouse; detention by military gendarmes and deportation to an assembly point, 02 July 1944; being subjected to physical torture; transfer to the Budakalász detention camp; deportation by train to Auschwitz-Birkenau, the next day; life on the way in freight cars for three days; arrival in the camp, 08 July 1944; selection by Dr. Mengele; camp life;...

File Number : 1946

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

עדותו של נוימן מרדכי ג'ורי, יליד 1930 Vac הונגריה, על רדיפות המשפחה וקורותיו בהונגריה

File Number : 14324

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation of the Consistoire Israélite de Luxembourg (Jewish Consistory of Luxembourg): Personal folders (T-Z) of Luxembourg Jews, primarily regarding means of support, the management of Jewish assets, requests for financial help, deportation of Luxembourg Jews and emigration attempts, 1941-1943 In the file: Documentation regarding - Permits and permission to use public transportation; - Means of support and requests for financial assistance; - The transfer of funds, frozen accounts and the management of Jewish assets; - Liquidation of Jewish businesses and confiscation of Jewish...

File Number : JM/31295-2

Type of Material : Certification, Correspondence, Names, Official Documentation, Letter(s)

Language : German

Documentation of the Consistoire Israélite de Luxembourg (Jewish Consistory of Luxembourg): Personal folders (S) of Luxembourg Jews, primarily regarding means of support, the management of Jewish assets, requests for financial help, deportation of Luxembourg Jews and emigration attempts, 1940-1943 In the file: Documentation regarding - Means of support and requests for financial support; - Transfer of funds, frozen accounts and the management of Jewish assets; - Payment of medical bills and nursing costs; - Medical certification; - Emigration attempts; - [Forced] labor deployment of...

File Number : JM/31295-1

Type of Material : Certification, Names, Correspondence, Telegram, Letter(s), Lists, Official Documentation, Personal Documents

Language : German

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