Testimony of Erzsebet (Klinger) Roth Cohen, born in Kosice Mesto, Slovakia in 1920, regarding her experiences in Cluj, while using a false identity in Eger, and in Savar, Auschwitz-Birkenau and other camps
Life as a child in Vienna before the war;
Escape to Kosice Mesto in 1939; re-annexation of Kosice Mesto to Hungary in 1938; attempt to deport her to Kamenets Podolski because she has Austrian citizenship; halting of that deportation, and deportation to the Ricse detention camp in 1941; release, several months later, because she marries; escape of her family members to Cluj in 1942; German occupation,...
List of Jews murdered in the Euthanasia Program ("Aktion" T4) in Pirna-Sonnenstein, 1940-1941
Murder of mentally ill and disabled patients who were in local convalescent homes (sanatorium); transfer of inmates from Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen to Pirna-Sonnenstein in order to murder them in the context of the Euthanasia Program.
Testimony of Betsie Bausch née Polak, de Leeuw, born in 1919 in Amsterdam, about her experiences in Amsterdam, Deventer, in hiding in Laren, The Hague, etc.
Life before the war; activity in the Mizrachi movement; helping refugees from Europe, marriage in December 1939; German occupation ensues in May 1940; unsuccessful attempts to escape to Britain; escape to a Zionist training facility in Deventer; Jews registered; wearing the yellow star; expulsion from school; dispossession; underground activity; escaping to Apeldoor in spring 1942; working in a Jewish psychiatric hospital there; arranging hideouts for...
Documentation from the trial of Helmut Pohl and other members of the staff of the HSSPF ("Hoeherer SS- und Polizeifuehrer" - Higher SS and police leader) held in the Klagenfurt Regional Court; Testimonies by perpetrators from SSPF Lublin, Grafeneck and Hadamar euthanasia centers and Belzec extermination camp, 1959 - 1964
Testimony of Hans-Joachim Uhlig, born 1901 in Quedlinburg, member of the staff of the SSPF Lublin since summer 1940: His activities and different operating sites; information about staff members and their activities; disclaiming any precise knowledge about the fate of the Jews and the...
File Number : 112
Type of Material : Legal Documentation, Letter, Names of Perpetrators, Drawing, Official Documentation, Testimony, Reports
Testimony of Margalit (Markus) Croitoru, born in Suceava, Romania, 1935, regarding her experiences as a child in Suceava, Atachi, Mogilev-Podolski and Murafa
Life before the war; traditional family.
Anti-Jewish restrictions including restrictions on movement; yellow badge; confiscation of valuables by a Romanian bank; deportation to Atachi, October 1941; life in Atachi; receives information about the robbery of homes and property in Suceava; transfer of mentally ill people from Cernauti to Atachi; transfer to Mogilev-Podolski; transfer to Murafa; life in Murafa including the death of people due to a...
Testimony of Lea Miriam (Levenvirt) Reuveni, born in Irsava, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding her experiences in Antwerp, Lille, Sierck, San-Martino and Florence
From a traditional family; immigration to Antwerp, 1929.
Air-raid on Antwerp, May 1940; escape of the family to Lille; German occupation; return to Antwerp; disappearance of her mother and siblings; reunion of the family, November 1941; transfer to Sierck, August 1942; help from Father Pierre-Marie Benoit, later recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations, to move to San-Martino; German occupation; escape attempt; rescue by Father Raymondo Viala;...
Testimony of Viara (Hertman) Brant, born in Prestice, Czechoslovakia, 1920, regarding her experiences in Prestice, Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, Stutthof and other places
Life before the war; help of her father to refugees from Germany, 1933.
German occupation, March 1939; dismissal from work in a lawyer's office; anti-Jewish legislation; confiscation of property and bank accounts; expulsion from school; the Jewish community arranges the education instead of school; detention of her father by the Gestapo, June 1941; receives knowledge of the murder of her father in Auschwitz; yellow badge, September 1941;...
Testimony of Miriam Agnes (Rozendorn) Steiner, born in Dombovar, Hungary, 1929, regarding her experiences in the Kaspovar Ghetto, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, the Markkleeberg camp and other places
Life before the war.
Deportation of her father to a labor battalion, 1944; German occupation, March 1944; yellow badge; deportation to the Kaspovar Ghetto, 24 May 1944; ghetto life including curfew in effect most of the day; smuggling of food into the ghetto by a non-Jewish friend; deportation to Auschwitz with her mother and aunt, July 1944; life on the train including loss of their sanity by some of the...
Testimony of Ilana Alin (Veizer Shitz) Iovel, born in Storojinet, Romania, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto, Chetvertinovka, Demidovka, Bershad and Balta
From a traditional Zionist family; displays of antisemitism; move to Cernauti, 1939.
Soviet occupation, 1940; German occupation, 1941; decrees including the yellow badge and deportation to the Cernauti Ghetto; deportation to Chetvertinovka, 1942; camp life including typhus and dysentery; transfer to Demidovka, autumn 1942; escape to Bershad; camp life including education and a choir; escape to an orphanage in Balta; liberation by...