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Testimony of Jacob Markovich, born in Nagyleta, Hungary, 1922, regarding his experiences in labor battalions in Hungary, Transylvania and Marghita

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Testimony of Jacob Markovich, born in Nagyleta, Hungary, 1922, regarding his experiences in labor battalions in Hungary, Transylvania and Marghita Childhood in an Orthodox family in Szeghalom; move to Budapest for Yeshiva studies; return after three years; apprenticeship as a tailor; move with his sister to Budapest. Reporting to a labor battalion, October 1943; forced labor for approximately one year building an airfield in Szentkiralyszabadja; living conditions in Szentkiralyszabadja; transfer to Transylvania after a year; labor in a sawmill under comfortable conditions; receiving information regarding...

File Number : 13233

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Tzvi Tibor Eizenberger Gibor, born in Debrecen, Hungary, 1922, regarding his experiences in Debrecen, Puspokladany, Szaszregen Furesztelep, Budapest, Mauthausen and Gunskirchen

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Testimony of Tzvi Tibor Eizenberger Gibor, born in Debrecen, Hungary, 1922, regarding his experiences in Debrecen, Puspokladany, Szaszregen Furesztelep, Budapest, Mauthausen and Gunskirchen Revocation of the family business license, 1940; restrictions in school attendance; transfer to labor battalions, 1943; life in the Puspokladany camp; life in the Szaszregen Furesztelep camp including punishment and labor building foundations for an airfield; air-raids by Allied forces; transfer to Budapest; approach of the Red Army; escape attempt; arrest; transfer on foot to Austria including shooting [at the inmates];...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Naomi Katalin (Kremer) Born, born in Tiszacsege, Hungary, 1935, regarding her experiences in Tiszacsege, Debrecen, Strasshof and Vienna

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Testimony of Naomi Katalin (Kremer) Born, born in Tiszacsege, Hungary, 1935, regarding her experiences in Tiszacsege, Debrecen, Strasshof and Vienna Jewish community life in Tiszacsege; move to Debrecen. Draft of her father to labor battalions, 1941; revocation of her family's business license; secret activities in a Zionist movement, by her brother; German Army occupation [of Debrecen]; establishment of the Debrecen Ghetto; hiding of property; deportation to a brick factory; deportation to Strasshof camp; transfer to labor in Vienna, with her mother and brother; labor by the children, clearing rubble;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yoel Erno Gruner, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1935, regarding his experiences in Budapest, in a protected house and in a children's home

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Testimony of Yoel Erno Gruner, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1935, regarding his experiences in Budapest, in a protected house and in a children's home Draft of his father to labor battalions; eviction from their home following the occupation; deportation of his mother to Austria; transfer to a Swiss protected house with his brother and baby sister; fascists take control of the children's home; in hiding in a barrel; move to a children's home under the protection of the Red Cross; liberation by the Red Army. Rehabilitation with help from the JDC; disappearance of his baby sister; report regarding the death...

File Number : 13427

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaim Moshkovitz, born in Borsa, Romania, 1939, regarding his experiences in Borsa, the Viseu Ghetto, Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Rehmsdorf and other places

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Testimony of Chaim Moshkovitz, born in Borsa, Romania, 1939, regarding his experiences in Borsa, the Viseu Ghetto, Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Rehmsdorf and other places Hungarian Army occupation [of Borsa]; life under Hungarian occupation, 1940; lack of possibility to actualize the use of certificates to Eretz Israel; death of his father, 1940; German Army occupation [of Borsa]; deportation to the Viseu Ghetto, 1944; deportation to Auschwitz, 1944; transfer to Buchenwald with his brother, 1944; transfer to Rehmsdorf camp; camp life including labor in a factory for the production of synthetic fuel [BRABAG -...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sosia (Fridman) Fuks, born in Nove Barovo, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding her experiences in Nove Barovo, the Mateszalka Ghetto, Auschwitz, Praust and Puck

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Testimony of Sosia (Fridman) Fuks, born in Nove Barovo, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding her experiences in Nove Barovo, the Mateszalka Ghetto, Auschwitz, Praust and Puck Her childhood in a religious family. Annexation of Nove Barovo to Hungary, 1939; displays of antisemitism; deportation of her brothers to labor; deportation of her parents to Galicia; looting of property; visits to her family in the prison in Budapest; German Army occupation of Nove Barovo, 1944; life under German occupation including the decree regarding wearing a yellow badge; deportation to the Mateszalka Ghetto; robbery of valuables;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zeev Volf Yeger, born in Rona, Romania, 1918, regarding his experiences in Rona, Budapest, Szentkiralyszabadja, in hiding and in Bucharest and other places

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Testimony of Zeev Volf Yeger, born in Rona, Romania, 1918, regarding his experiences in Rona, Budapest, Szentkiralyszabadja, in hiding and in Bucharest and other places Draft into the Romanian Army and service in the army after unsuccessful attempts to make aliya to Eretz Israel; Hungarian Army occupation of Rona; release [from the military]; escape to Budapest, 1940; draft to labor battalions in Budapest, 1944; forced labor building an airfield in Szentkiralyszabadja, 1944; transfer with a labor battalion to forced labor in a copper mine in Serbia, 1944; acts of abuse by Hungarian soldiers; contact with...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shlomo Gruner, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1934, regarding his experiences in Budapest, the Budapest Ghetto, in a marked house and in hiding

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Testimony of Shlomo Gruner, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1934, regarding his experiences in Budapest, the Budapest Ghetto, in a marked house and in hiding His father's work in the Hungarian Army. Life under German occupation including the termination of studies and restrictions; deportation to the Budapest Ghetto; obtains food for his family; wanderings outside the ghetto, without wearing a yellow badge; draft of his father to a labor battalion; capture of his mother and his aunt; deportation of his mother and his aunt; takes care of his younger brother and baby sister; move of the children to a protected...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Asher Roth, born in Sevlus, Czechoslovakia, 1924, regarding his experiences in Sevlus, Budapest, Transylvania and in hiding

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Testimony of Asher Roth, born in Sevlus, Czechoslovakia, 1924, regarding his experiences in Sevlus, Budapest, Transylvania and in hiding His childhood in an Orthodox, religious family. Life under Hungarian occupation including the removal of Jews from schools, 1939; ban on kosher ritual slaughter, and acts of abuse by Hungarian gendarmes; beating to death of an Admor [rabbi]; move to Budapest with his brother, 1942; German Army occupation of Budapest; deportation to forced labor in the clearing of rubble; loss of contact with his family; labor for the Germans digging trenches against air-raids; transfer...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaim Zilberman Caspi, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1941, regarding his experiences in Budapest, protected houses, an orphanage in Hungary, and in Transylvania and other places

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Testimony of Chaim Zilberman Caspi, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1941, regarding his experiences in Budapest, protected houses, an orphanage in Hungary, and in Transylvania and other places Stories that he heard in his childhood. Deportation of his father to labor camps by the Hungarians, 1943; death of his father toward the end of the war, 1945; German Army occupation of Budapest, 1944; deportation [of Jews] to labor camps; placed in a Red Cross protected house by his grandfather, along with his sister, 1944; escape from the protected house, with help from a Christian Hungarian, to a protected house of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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