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Testimony of Mordechay (Paul Georg) Fleischer, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1926 regarding his escape to Budapest, deportation to detention camps, escape from a death march and residing in the Glass House

Testimony

Childhood before the war; Fascist Slovakia, 1938; antisemitic events; Attempts to move to Budapest, Hungary, winter 1942-1943; getting arrested by Hungarian soldiers while escaping; sent back to Slovakia; escape to Hungary with the aid of a smuggler; arrival in Budapest; capture and arrest; decrees and restrictions; transferred to a prison by two Hungarian soldiers; deportation to a brick factory; escape to a marked house; capture and deportation for labor building fortifications and digging anti-tank trenches near Solnok, late October 1944; march towards Austria; escape to the Red Cross house in Budapest...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Reports prepared by the regional branch of the Centralverein - CV (Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith) in Hesse-Nassau, regarding the persecution of local Jews, 17/11/1934-28/10/1938 Reports regarding various incidents of persecution of Jews in the Hesse-Nassau area, including: - Ban on making purchases in Jewish businesses; registration and photographing of people who violate the ban; imposition of economic sanctions on violators of the ban; - Ban on the sale, supply or giving of all other services to Jews and Jewish businesses; registration and photographing of people who...

File Number : JM/28890

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Brochure, Official Documentation

Language : German

Testimony of Hava Weiner Wolf, born in Bruxelles, Belgium, 1936, regarding her life during the war in Slavonski Brod in various hiding places and in a Jewish orphanage sponsored by the Red Cross

Testimony

Testimony of Hava Weiner Wolf, born in Bruxelles, Belgium, 1936, regarding her life during the war in Slavonski Brod in various hiding places and in a Jewish orphanage sponsored by the Red Cross Family background; move to Slavonski Brod, 1941. The outbreak of the war; the bombings; order to move to houses marked with a Star of David; move to her aunt's house rescued by the owner of the factory where her father works; giving work to Jewish men and the women and children hiding in an apartment in a factory; rescuing 17 Jews by the owner of a factory called Palesz Antal; issuing an order to arrive at a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yechiel Hahn, born in 1932 in Budapest, about his experiences as a boy in protected houses of the Swedish and Spanish embassies in Budapest during the German occupation

Life before the war in parents' home; grandfather, Gerson Hahn, establishes a Sephardi Orthodox synagogue in Budapest; antisemitism in school; father inducted into the Hungarian labor service in 1940; German occupation ensues in March 1944; secretly listening to BBC radio broadcasts; wearing the yellow star; shop nationalized; studies halted; movement restrictions imposed; ban on employing a non-Jewish domestic; concealing valuables; moving to a marked house; moving to a house protected by the Swedish Embassy in July 1944; a rescue and relief organization helps with food; bombardments; moving into a cellar; a...

File Number : 13604

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Edit Esther (Kohen) Hakarmi, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1922, regarding her experiences in Vienna, Budapest and Bucharest

Testimony

Testimony of Edit Esther (Kohen) Hakarmi, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1922, regarding her experiences in Vienna, Budapest and Bucharest Her family's life; move to Vienna, 1924; her father's return to Hungary, 1938; demand by their non-Jewish neighbors that they [her family] leave their apartment; receives a Hungarian passport; acts of harassment against Jews; Kristallnacht; return to Hungary, 1938; joins the Bnei Akiva movement; arrival of refugees from Vienna and Poland; receives help from the concierge of their building; ban on participation in activities of the youth movements. German Army occupation of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Haim Gunsberger Genizi, born in Budapest, Hungary in 1934, regarding his experiences as a child in a protected house and in the Budapest Ghetto

Testimony of Haim Gunsberger Genizi, born in Budapest, Hungary in 1934, regarding his experiences as a child in a protected house and in the Budapest Ghetto Life before the war; implementation of anti-Jewish legislation during the 1930s; Hiding of refugees from Austria and Slovakia; antisemitism by the non-Jewish population; transfer of his father to service in the labor battalions, 1940; release of his father, approximately one year later; German occupation, March 1944; appropriation of the Jewish school building, and halting of the studies; wearing a yellow badge; confiscation of property; marking of...

File Number : 13245

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Benjamin Dror Friedman Yano, born in Satu Mare, Romania, 1927, regarding his experiences in Budapest with the outbreak of war, escape to Romania and aliya to Eretz Israel in 1944

Testimony

Testimony of Benjamin Dror Friedman Yano, born in Satu Mare, Romania, 1927, regarding his experiences in Budapest with the outbreak of war, escape to Romania and aliya to Eretz Israel in 1944 Family background; Satmar community; his father runs an alcohol factory; father service during World War I at the front; life before the war; studies in general schools. Shift to Hungarian rule, 1941; Antisemitic remarks; worsening treatment of Jews; limiting the number of Jewish students in schools; prohibition of business by Jews; move to Budapest, 1941; receiving a notice from his parents in Romania that they are...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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