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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Angela (Schwartz) Weiss, born in Fancikovo, Czechoslovakia, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Berehovo Ghetto, Auschwitz, Gelsenkirchen and a death march

Testimony

Testimony of Angela (Schwartz) Weiss, born in Fancikovo, Czechoslovakia, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Berehovo Ghetto, Auschwitz, Gelsenkirchen and a death march Life before the war; move to Berehovo; education; the Jewish community; member of Hashomer Hatzair. Restrictions on Jews including drafting of men, including her father, to forced labor; yellow badge; confiscation of valuables; German occupation, March 1944; deportation to the Berehovo Ghetto; ghetto life; march to the train station; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life including death of her mother and brother in the gas chambers;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yosef Lichtenfeld, born in Bedzin, Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences in Sosnowiec, Blechhammer, Grossmasselwitz, Bunzlau and on a death march to Bergen-Belsen

Testimony

Testimony of Yosef Lichtenfeld, born in Bedzin, Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences in Sosnowiec, Blechhammer, Grossmasselwitz, Bunzlau and on a death march to Bergen-Belsen Life before the war; traditional family; his father is a house painter; learns in a "heder" and a public school. German occupation; burning of the synagogue; decrees and a yellow badge; confiscation of valuables; men are drafted to forced labor; capture by a German policeman; deportation of Bedzin Jews to extermination in Auschwitz; murder of Poles by Germans; deportation to a transit camp at Sosnowiec; camp life; transfer to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Malvina (Farkas) Stern, born in Kosice, Czechoslovakia, regarding her experiences in the Kosice Ghetto, Auschwitz and Gutowo

Testimony

Testimony of Malvina (Farkas) Stern, born in Kosice, Czechoslovakia, regarding her experiences in the Kosice Ghetto, Auschwitz and Gutowo Life before the war. German occupation; deportation to the Kosice Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; transfer to Gutowo; liberation.

File Number : 792.4

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Miriam Manci (Eiseman) Rothman, born in Ungvar, Czechoslovakia, regarding her experiences in the Ungvar Ghetto, Auschwitz and Gutowo

Testimony

Testimony of Miriam Manci (Eiseman) Rothman, born in Ungvar, Czechoslovakia, regarding her experiences in the Ungvar Ghetto, Auschwitz and Gutowo Life before the war. German occupation; decrees and deportation of the Jews to the Ungvar Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; transfer to Gutowo; liberation.

File Number : 792.2

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Haia (Katz) Schvartz, born in Osoi, Romania, 1929, regarding her experiences in the Dej Ghetto, Auschwitz, Birkenau and Altenburg

Testimony

Testimony of Haia (Katz) Schvartz, born in Osoi, Romania, 1929, regarding her experiences in the Dej Ghetto, Auschwitz, Birkenau and Altenburg Attends a local Romanian school and a Hungarian school. Annexation to Hungary; restrictions; displays of antisemitism, yellow badge and turning over valuables; deportation of her family with Jews from the area to the Dej Ghetto, May 1944; ghetto life; deportation to Auschwitz after six weeks; life in Camp A with a group of women; many suicides; transfer to Birkenau after six weeks; receives food before transfer to Altenburg; camp life including labor manufacturing...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

Testimony of Sara (Yakubovitz) Ben Paz, born in Kisvarda, Hungary, 1930, regarding her experiences in the Mateszalka Ghetto and in camps in Poland and Germany

Testimony

Testimony of Sara (Yakubovitz) Ben Paz, born in Kisvarda, Hungary, 1930, regarding her experiences in the Mateszalka Ghetto and in camps in Poland and Germany Her family; her life and education in Mandok; attends a Christian school in Vasarosnameny. Escape of the family to Szamosszeg, Pesach 1944; deportation to the Mateszalka Ghetto, Nisan (April) 1944; abuse; visit by Adolf Eichmann to the ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz, Sivan (May-June) 1944; transfer for forced labor in construction in Plaszow; making of whips from tefillin straps; camp life; return to Auschwitz, Av (July-August) 1944; transfer to...

File Number : 8378

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ita Heida, born in Dabrowa Gornicza, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Dabrowa Gornicza Ghetto, Gruenberg, Christianstadt and Hellenbrecht

Testimony

Testimony of Ita Heida, born in Dabrowa Gornicza, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Dabrowa Gornicza Ghetto, Gruenberg, Christianstadt and Hellenbrecht Life before the war. German occupation, September 1939; deportation to the Dabrowa Gornicza Ghetto; deportation to Gruenberg; camp life including labor in a textile factory; transfer to Christianstadt; death march to Hellenbrecht; escape; liberation by the US Army.

File Number : 2046

Type of Material : Photograph, Survey, Testimony

Language : Polish

Correspondence between Josef Weiss and various bodies regarding the Dutch Jews in Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen, 1945-1964

Correspondence between Josef Weiss and various bodies regarding the Dutch Jews in Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen, 1945-1964 Correspondence between Josef Weiss in the Netherlands and Jews and non-Jews seeking his help in receiving information regarding family members or friends because Weiss had been a Lageralteste (camp elder) in Bergen-Belsen, and due to the vast fund of information he possessed regarding the post-war period; among those turning to him are attorneys representing the heirs of those who perished or people looking for confirmation that they had behaved properly during the war; requests for...

File Number : 73

Type of Material : Personal Documents

Language : Dutch, German

Testimony of Rena (Pachanover) Mildner, born in Krakow, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Krakow Ghetto, Plaszow labor camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ravensbruek and Malhot camps and death march

Testimony

Testimony of Rena (Pachanover) Mildner, born in Krakow, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Krakow Ghetto, Plaszow labor camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ravensbruek and Malhot camps and a death march Her family; childhood; attends a Polish school. Entry of the Germans; sanctions, restrictions and termination of studies; deportation to ghetto; sealing the ghetto; organization in the ghetto: school and library; life with mother and selling valuables in order to exist; labor in knitting factory; deportations and rumors about the killing of Jews; liquidation of ghetto, March 1943; transfer to Plaszow labor camp;...

File Number : 10830

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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