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Testimony of Arie Likht, born in Hajduszoboszlo, Hungary, 1924 regarding his experiences in Hungary during the war period

Testimony

His parents' home; antisemitism; move to Budapest, 1942; German occupation, March 1944; obligation to report for labor clearing rubble; restrictions on movement; yellow badge; drafting order; transfer to Szolnok; labor in a military factory, July 1944; sorting of skilled workers; drafting into the Hungarian Army and deployment to the front; approach of the Soviet front; retreat; Horthy's declaration, 1944; expulsion from the Hungarian Army; concentration of the Jewish soldiers and transfer to the Austrian border; transfer into the hands of the German Army, Sopron; labor building fortifications along the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Eduard Fosner, born 1927 in Bucharest, Romania, about expulsion to the Oradea ghetto, deportation to Auschwitz and other camps, death march, and escape

Testimony

Testimony of Eduard Fosner, born in Bucharest, Romania, in 1927 , regarding expulsion to the Oradea ghetto, deportation to Auschwitz and other camps, death march, and escape Childhood before the war; transfer to Oradea in 1938; entry of the Hungarians in 1940; expulsion from school; anti-Jewish legislation ; service in the Levente Association; German occupation in 1944; order to wear yellow badge, and other orders; expulsion to the ghetto in May 1944; deportation to Birkenau; hunger; roll-calls and selections; transfer to Buchenwald for a brief time and from there to Magdeburg; labor in rebuilding and...

File Number : 13773

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Menahem Lior, born in Bedzin, Poland in 1928, regarding his experiences during ‎deportation to the Bedzin Ghetto and the work camp in Kamionka; hidden by a Pole; escape to ‎Eretz Israel His childhood in a socialist Zionist home; refugees from Germany; rise of antisemitism; outbreak of ‎war on 1 September 1939; anti-Jewish laws and decrees; restriction of Jewish movement and ‎concentration in one area; youth movements; agricultural farm; Zionist and underground ‎activities; infiltrating into a nearby work camp; work collecting and sorting possessions of the Jews ‎in the ghetto; removing dead...

File Number : 13735

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Article published in a Soviet newspaper regarding the murder of Jews, POWS and local residents in Slutsk

Article published in a Soviet newspaper regarding the murder of Jews, POWS and local residents in Slutsk The article, by Yevgeniy Dolmatovskiy, the author, was apparently written immediately after the liberation of the city of Slutsk; the whole city was turned into one big cemetery; the city was burned, only new villas built during the German occupation remained; for the building of the villas, they used tombstones from the local cemetery; mass grave of Soviet POWs, some of whom died in the camp and some of whom were murdered; also buried there are local residents; Dolmatovskiy mentions some of the names of...

File Number : 276

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings

Language : Russian

Letter sent by Rubin Reder from Lwow to Ilya Ehrenburg in Moscow, 29 October 1944

Letter sent by Rubin Reder from Lwow to Ilya Ehrenburg in Moscow, 29 October 1944 The letter is an appeal to Ilya Ehrenburg to publicize what went on in the Belzec death camp in any way that he possibly can in order to reveal the atrocities to the whole world Rubin Reder writes of his experiences since his capture with other Jews in Lwow, 15 July 1942, including his deportation to the Janowska camp, and from there to Belzec; according to him, 5,000 people were crammed into each car on the deportation train; after their arrival and the shearing of the women's hair, they were all forced into a shower, as...

File Number : 169

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Polish, Russian, Yiddish

Testimony of Rosa Varda Vachtel Graiover, born in 1924 in Schodnica, Poland, about the murder of the Jews of Borysław and the area of the Borysław ghetto

Childhood in Schodnica; antisemitism; German occupation ensues in September 1939; Russians enter approx. two weeks later; refugees arrive; Germans reoccupy the area in July 1941; pogrom by Ukrainians on July 22, 1941; common grave in Schodnica forest; dispossession; dismissal from jobs; evening curfew; shortage of food; abuse by Ukrainians; pogrom against the Jews of nearby Urycz; witness's mother murdered in grandfather's home in Urycz; common grave of the Jews of Urycz in grandfather's courtyard; witness moves to an aunt in Borysław; white armband; assistance from Poles; hiding with non-Jewish acquaintances...

File Number : 13439

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Pepi (Kahlenbeg) Laufer, born in Storojinet, Romania, 1920, regarding her experiences in Storojinet, Bessarabia, Balta and in an orphanage in Bucharest

Testimony

Testimony of Pepi (Kahlenbeg) Laufer, born in Storojinet, Romania, 1920, regarding her experiences in Storojinet, Bessarabia, Balta and in an orphanage in Bucharest Her childhood in a traditional family, including attending a Romanian school and high school; attitude of the local population toward the Jews. Outbreak of the war; Soviet occupation; Romanian occupation; concentration of the Jews in a school without food and water, for several days; deportation to the Storojinet Ghetto; deportation to Cernauti in freight trains, including overcrowding and hunger; arrival to Bessarabia; march on foot including...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yehuda Albin, born in Tluste, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in Tluste and in the Tluste Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Yehuda Albin, born in Tluste, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in Tluste and in the Tluste Ghetto His childhood in a Zionist, Orthodox religious family including learning in a "heder" and attending a Hebrew school and a Polish school; activities in a Zionist youth movement; displays of antisemitism before the war. Outbreak of the war; attempts by Ukrainians and Poles to attack the Jews; closure of Jewish businesses; exile to Siberia of wealthy residents and members of the intelligentsia; meets refugees from Poland; help given to the refugees; German Army occupation [of Tluste], 1941;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Simha Juclea, born in Darabani, Romania, 1926, regarding his experiences in Targu Jiu, Turnu Severin, Dorohoi, Atachi and more

Testimony

Testimony of Simha Juclea, born in Darabani, Romania, 1926, regarding his experiences in Targu Jiu,Turnu Severin, Dorohoi, Atachi and more Childhood in a religious family, increasing displays of antisemitism, 1939-1940. Deportation to Targu Jiu; transfer to Turnu Severin; residence in a synagogue; receiving aid from local Jews; transfer to Dorohoi, residence in a synagogue; transfer to Atachi by train; transfer to Mogilev; transfer on foot to Tropova; life in Tropova including illness; morning roll calls and transporting the dead to mass graves; escape to the village of Bilyana; liberation. Return to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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