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Testimony of Arie Lipot Grifel Ben Yehuda, born in Lunca De Jos, Romania in 1931, regarding his experiences as a child in Lunca De Jos, in the Budapest Ghetto, using a false identity and in hiding

Testimony of Arie Lipot Grifel Ben Yehuda, born in Lunca De Jos, Romania in 1931, regarding his experiences as a child in Lunca De Jos, in the Budapest Ghetto, using a false identity and in hiding Life before the war; education. Deportation to Budapest with his family, 1940; life in Budapest; German occupation, 1944; life as refugees; pogroms against Jews; transfer of his brother to a labor battalion; transfer to a marked house with his family; his sister's escape from deportation to a camp; his sister finds a hiding place; his family is a candidate for being included on the Kasztner train; life as...

File Number : 12819

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rachel Yehudit (Liser) Cohen, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1936, regarding her experiences as a child in Budapest

Testimony

Testimony of Rachel Yehudit (Liser) Cohen, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1936, regarding her experiences as a child in Budapest Life before the war. German occupation, 1944; life in the Budapest Ghetto including living in a protected house and the deportation of her mother; liberation by the Red Army. Move to Pecs; move to Gmund Am Tegernsee; unsuccessful aliya attempt to Eretz Israel from Marseilles on the ship, "Exodus"; deportation to France; deportation to Hamburg; transfer to Emden-Papendorf; aliya to Israel, 1948.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Eva (Bruck) Szendro Bartsila, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1925, regarding her experiences in a marked house in Budapest, in hiding, prison with Hannah Szenes and the Budapest Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Eva (Bruck) Szendro Bartsila, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1925, regarding her experiences in a marked house in Budapest, in hiding, prison with Hannah Szenes and the Budapest Ghetto Life before the war; learns in a monastery; attends a Jewish school. German occupation; transfer to a marked house; life in a marked house; life in subterranean hiding with the family and additional Jews near the home of the engineer Bokody, who supplied them food for a month; capture of the family by the Arrow Cross; life in prison including sharing a cell with Hannah Szenes; release from prison; move to Buda;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Josef Gibor, born in Niskolc, Hungary, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Miskolc Ghetto, wandering and hiding in the forests and villages in Galicia

Testimony

Testimony of Josef Gibor, born in Niskolc, Hungary, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Miskolc Ghetto, wandering and hiding in the forests and villages in Galicia The nuclear family, parents' livelihood; lifestyle at home and religious holidays; relations with neighbors; school; the Jewish community; his parents support Zionist youth movements; his sister's activities in Beitar; Scouts membership. Recruitment of Jews for forced labor; death of the mother; confiscation of property; entry of the Germans to Miskolc; yellow badge; deportation of the Jews to the ghetto; life in the ghetto; forged identity...

File Number : 11396

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zipora Gittel (Kalman) Fischer, born in Budapest, 1933, regarding her experiences in Budapest

Testimony

Testimony of Zipora Gittel (Kalman) Fischer, born in Budapest, 1933, regarding her experiences in Budapest Life before the war. Her father is taken with most of the other men in the city to a labor camp in 1940; diffulties making a living and much poverty; death of her father and distribution of the children in her family among relatives. Entry of the Germans, 19 March 1944; decrees; round-up of the Jews into one area; establishment of the Budapest Ghetto after the Szálasi uprising, 19 October 1944; issuing of "protective passports", November 1944; move of the witness and her family to a Swiss shelter...

File Number : 11310

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation regarding rescue efforts of Jewish organizations during the war, testimonies of Holocaust survivors, emigration attempts and the postwar handling of Holocaust survivors and the Holocaust in general, 1943-1973 Pages 101-122: Notes of a member of the Joodse Raad voor Amsterdam (Jewish Council in Amsterdam) regarding the situation in the Netherlands, most probably 1943: - Initial anti-Jewish decrees, 1940, including the ban on ritual slaughter, 31 July 1940; - Dismissal of Jewish officials, November 1940; - Anti-Jewish propaganda, early 1941; - Brawls between the Nationaal-Socialistische...

File Number : 132

Type of Material : Correspondence, Reports, Official Documentation, Letter(s), Lists, Testimony, Telegram

Language : Hebrew, French, English, German

Official documentation regarding cooperation by various Jewish organizations concerning rescue attempts, in particular in Hungary, 1944

Official documentation regarding cooperation by various Jewish organizations concerning rescue attempts, in particular in Hungary, 1944 Page 4: Letter from Chaim Pazner, Geneva, to Zionist organization member Kubo, [most probably A. L. Kubowitzki], partly in code, 07 January 1944, regarding: - Veteran certificates for Isaac-Leon Elbaum and his family; - A veterans list, containing 69 families or individuals, sent by the Jewish Agency, Jerusalem, transmitted by the Foreign Office, London, via the Protecting Power, Bern, to the responsible authorities in Germany; - Registration for the exchange; -...

File Number : 131

Type of Material : Reports, Correspondence, Testimony, Letter(s), Official Documentation, Telegram, Copy

Language : Hebrew, Polish, French, English, German, Yiddish

To be translated

File Number : 5070

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : French

Affidavit submitted by Kasztner, regarding the persecution of the Jews in Hungary and the attempts to rescue the Jews of Hungary, dated, 1945

Affidavit submitted by Kasztner, regarding the persecution of the Jews in Hungary and the attempts to rescue the Jews of Hungary, dated, 1945 Submission of the affidavit as preparation for the Nuremberg Trial, including a translation to English; Kasztner's life experiences [Curriculum Vitae?], including details regarding his roles in the Jewish leadership that will make it possible for him to testify about the process of the "Final Solution" in Hungary; contacts with Eichmann and his staff people; meeting held between Kurt Becher and Saly Mayer; negotiations between representatives of Jewish institutions and...

File Number : 25

Type of Material : Record of Persecuted Persons, Statistical Data, Survey Report, Names of Perpetrators

Language : German

Publications, correspondence and articles regarding the character of Righteous Among the Nations, Anton Schmid; documentation of the German-Jewish writer Hermann Adler who survived due to Anton Schmid and wrote about him; documentation regarding Righteous Among the Nations Carl Lutz, 1944-1990 - Audio cassette containing a broadcast by Hermann Adler devoted to Anton Schmid (pp. 2-4); - Correspondence between Hermann Adler, a German-Jewish writer who was rescued by Anton Schmid, and Bronia Klibanski on the subject of Schmid, dated 1987-1990, including much information regarding Schmid and pertaining to his...

File Number : 51

Type of Material : List, Article, Research Article

Language : French, German, Yiddish, Hungarian

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