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Testimony of Jacob Israel Katvan, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1923, regarding his experiences in Cernauti, the USSR and Tashkent

Testimony

Testimony of Jakob Israel Katvan, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1923, regarding his experiences in Cernauti, the USSR and Tashkent Childhood in an Orthodox family including attending a Jewish school; Maccabi sports activities; displays of antisemitism before the war; cases of provocation and opposition to giving aid to the refugees; prevention of making aliya [to Eretz Israel] by the Vizhnitzer Rebbe. Outbreak of the war; occupation [of Cernauti] by the Red Army; deportation of wealthy people to Siberia; transfer with friends to the Soviet Union and studies at a school for spies; transfer to Tashkent,...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yochanan Janos Miklos Wosner, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1933, regarding his experiences as a child in Budapest, in a protected house and in the Budapest Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Yochanan Janos Miklos Wosner, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1933, regarding his experiences as a child in Budapest, in a protected house and in the Budapest Ghetto Life in Csillaghegy, before the war; his father's activities as a rabbi in the Neolog community; witness attends a Jewish school; move to Budapest; life in Budapest including attending the "Torat Emet" school. Draft of his father to a labor battalion in Bor; German occupation; anti-Jewish decrees including wearing a yellow badge; concentration of the Jews in marked houses; life in his uncle's home, with his mother; life in his uncle's...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Max Zilberman, born in Iasi, Romania, 1933, regarding his experiences as a child in Iasi, in hiding and in Bucharest

Testimony

Testimony of Max Zilberman, born in Iasi, Romania, 1933, regarding his experiences as a child in Iasi, in hiding and in Bucharest From a traditional family. Outbreak of the war; restrictions on Jews; Aryanization of businesses; curfew; expulsion from Romanian schools; prohibition to congregate; deportation to labor; preparation of hiding places; confiscation of radios, bicycles, telephones; Iasi pogrom, June 1941; being rescued by a Wehrmacht officer; assistance to Jews by Romanians; being hidden and rescued; bribery in exchange for release from forced labor; survival through the black market; information...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shmuel Weis, born in Sevlus, Czechoslovakia, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Kaufering camp and other camps

Testimony

Testimony of Shmuel Weis, born in Sevlus, Czechoslovakia, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Kaufering camp and other camps

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Tzvi Schoenfeld, born in Chust, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Chust Ghetto, Auschwitz, Plaszow, Gross, Posen and Zittau

Testimony

Testimony of Tzvi Schoenfeld, born in Chust, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Chust Ghetto, Auschwitz, Plaszow, Gross-Rosen and Zittau From an Orthodox family, attends a Czech elementary school and "heder"; his father makes aliya to Eretz Israel, 1934, and his return to Czechoslovakia. Annexation to Hungary, 1938; Aryanization of Jewish businesses; meeting with and assistance to Polish Jewish refugees; disbelief regarding information about fate of the Jews; draft of his father to labor battalions in Ukraine, 1942; receiving information of his death from typhus; deportation of Chust...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shoshana (Rozenberg) Porges, born in Oradea, Romania, 1938, regarding her experiences as a child hidden by Germans in Oradea

Testimony

Testimony of Shoshana (Rozenberg) Porges, born in Oradea, Romania, 1938, regarding her experiences as a child hidden by Germans in Oradea Vague memories of daily life in Oradea;deportation of her father to labor camp; life being hidden by the Albert family who were German; yellow badge; liberation by the Red Army. Reunion with father who returned from the Hungarian labor battalions; their imprisonment in Budapest due to lack of Hungarian citizenship; release and return to Oradea; Dror activities; displays of antisemitism after the war; transfer to a Jewish school; aliya to Israel in 1963; return visit to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Oren Ben Zion, born in Herta, Romania, 1928, regarding his experiences in Bucharest and in labor battalions

Testimony

Testimony of Oren Ben Zion, born in Herta, Romania, 1928, regarding his experiences in Bucharest and in labor battalions Childhood; move to Bucharest. Expulsion from the government school because he is Jewish, 1941; anti-Jewish legislation; yellow badge; evading pogroms, 1943; drafted into labor battalions; air-raids by the US Army and the British Army, 23 August 1944; occupation by the Red Army. Life after the war; aliya to Israel, 1970.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mordechai Iungreiss, born in Lorinci, Hungary, 1926, regarding his experiences in Kiskoros, the Salgotarjan Ghetto, Mauthausen and Gunskirchen

Testimony

Testimony of Mordechai Iungreiss, born in Lorinci, Hungary, 1926, regarding his experiences in Kiskoros, the Salgotarjan Ghetto, Mauthausen and Gunskirchen Life before the war; Orthodox family; attends a Hungarian school; learns in a "heder" and yeshiva; move to Kiskoros; life in Kiskoros. Outbreak of the war; restrictions on the Jews; deportation of his father to forced labor; return of his father; deportation to the Salgotarjan Ghetto; ghetto life; transfer with his father to forced labor; labor in construction of an airfield and digging anti-tank trenches; approach of the Red Army; transfer in a death...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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