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Postcards sent by Sándor Reichenberg from the Hungarian Army labor battalions to family in Budapest, 1944; postcard sent to Reichenberg's wife Ilona (Lowinger) Reichenberg by her brother Eugen Lowinger from Majdanek, 1943; letter sent by Helen Lowinger from Nitra to her daughter Ilona (Lowinger) Reichenberg, 1941; personal documents of Ilona (Lowinger) Reichenberg and family, pre- and postwar Postcards sent by Sándor Reichenberg, a forced laborer in the Hungarian Army labor battalions to family members in Budapest, 1944, a postcard sent to Ilona (Lowinger) Reichenberg, Sándor Reichenberg's wife, by her...

File Number : 2251

Type of Material : Letter, Personal Documents, Postcard

Language : Hebrew, German, Hungarian

Letter of appointment of Rabbi Mendel Schaechter as the rabbi of the Ósándorfalva community, and certifications regarding his work as the rabbi of Ósándorfalva, 1941-1944

Letter of appointment of Rabbi Mendel Schaechter as the rabbi of the Ósándorfalva community, and certifications regarding his work as the rabbi of Ósándorfalva, 1941-1944 - Letter of appointment of Rabbi Menachem Schaechter as the rabbi of the Ósándorfalva community, signed by the heads of the households of the Ósándorfalva community, April 1941; - Certification issued by the Orthodox community of Ósándorfalva that Rabbi Mendel Schaechter (born in Bustyaháza, 24 February 1920) is serving as the rabbi of the community, 05 May 1943; the certification was issued and signed by the heads of the community and...

File Number : 488

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Certification, Personal Records

Language : Hebrew, Hungarian

Personal documents of Emanoil Mendelsohn from Bacau, 1935-1944

Personal documents of Emanoil Mendelsohn from Bacau, 1935-1944 Included in the file: - Draft notice to forced labor, issued to pharmacist Emanoil Mendelsohn from Tighina, 15 February 1943; - Confirmation regarding the start of Emanoil Mendelsohn's service in the Piatra Neamt labor battalion, issued in Bucharest, 21 December 1943; - Confirmation that Emanoil Mendelsohn served as a pharmacist in the Piatra Neamt labor battalion, 25 December 1943-23 March 1944, issued, 21 March 1944; - Military service booklet belonging to Emanoil Mendelsohn, born in Bacau, 07 July 1909, including information...

File Number : 341

Type of Material : Personal Documents

Language : Romanian

Personal documents of Ferencz Grósz, born in Vámospércs, Hungary, 1924; documents dated, 1942-2001

Personal documents of Ferencz Grósz, born in Vámospércs, Hungary, 1924; documents dated, 1942-2001 - Work booklet issued to Ferencz Grósz in Debrecen, Hungary, 27 March 1942; list of places in which Grósz worked, including after the war, until October 1948; - Military service booklet of Ferencz Grósz, issued in the draft center in Arad, Romania, May 1944; - Two articles published in the United States and Israel regarding the reunion of brothers Efraim (Ferencz) and Avraham Grósz, 56 years after their separation in Budapest. Comments by the submitter of the material: Efraim (Ferencz) Grósz was...

File Number : 480

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, English, Hungarian

Memoirs of Pavel Klein regarding his experiences in a labor battalion in Budapest, Hungary, his desertion from the battalion during a death march to Stary Oskol, his imprisonment in a Soviet POW camp and his service as a physician on the front lines in the Czech unit of the Red Army Work as a physician in the Jewish hospital in Budapest, Hungary. Outbreak of the war; draft of the Jewish men to labor battalions at the front; draft of his brother, Laci; message regarding the death of his brother; draft of Pavel to a labor battalion as a physician, late 1942; final preparations and arrival in Ersekujvar;...

File Number : 8555

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Michael Shtein, born in Nové Zámky, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding his experiences as a forced laborer in Nové Zámky and Komárno, using a false identity and as a partisan

Testimony of Michael Shtein, born in Nové Zámky, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding his experiences as a forced laborer in Nové Zámky and Komárno, using a false identity and as a partisan Michael Shtein's father, Emanuel Shtein, was born in Beszterce, Hungary and studied in Nové Zámky; Shtein's mother, Berta (Schwartz) Shtein was born in Ogyalla, Hungary, 1900; his parents were married in 1922; the family owned a small textile store; his father also worked as an itinerant merchant of tropical fruit, and his mother as a seamstress. Arrival of an order for his father to report for work, and the 14-year old...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Kornélia Weichler, born in Komárno, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Komárno Ghetto and in Auschwitz, Plaszow camp, Birkenau, Gebhardsdorf camp and others

Memoirs of Kornélia Weichler, born in Komárno, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Komárno Ghetto and in Auschwitz, Plaszow camp, Birkenau, Gebhardsdorf camp and others Life before the war, 1938; anti-Jewish legislation; closing of stores belonging to Jews. Transfer of her father and brother to forced labor; German occupation, 1944; work in a local school; transfer together with her family to the Komárno Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; camp life; selection; transfer to Plaszow camp; camp life including labor in a quarry; transfer back to Auschwitz; camp life; ill with...

File Number : 8536

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hungarian

Postcard written by Bracha Ziner (Igaz Jenőné) from the Békéscsaba Ghetto in Hungary to her husband, Igaz Jenő, in the labor camp in Debrecen, 23 June 1944

Postcard written by Bracha Ziner (Igaz Jenőné) from the Békéscsaba Ghetto in Hungary to her husband, Igaz Jenő, in the labor camp in Debrecen, 23 June 1944 - The postcard is attached to a short investigation of the fate of the Jews of Hungary during the Holocaust period; in the investigation the fate of the Igaz family is mentioned as an example of the awareness of the Hungarian Jews regarding what could be expected during the deportation period. Many details regarding the Igaz and Ziner families are mentioned in the investigation: - Deportation of Bracha and her five children to Auschwitz-Birkenau...

File Number : 2002

Type of Material : Postcard

Language : Hebrew, Hungarian

Identity card belonging to Renee Loebenschuss from Cernauti, issued 04 May 1942, and document certifying the drafting of Solomon Loebenschuss to forced labor, 24 September 1944

Identity card belonging to Renee Loebenschuss from Cernauti, issued 04 May 1942, and document certifying the drafting of Solomon Loebenschuss to forced labor, 24 September 1944 - Identity card belonging to Renee Loebenschuss issued in Cernauti, 04 May 1942; on the reverse side of the card there is a certification that Renee Loebenschuss has been listed in the population registry as a person of Jewish blood, 17 July 1942; - Document certifying that Solomon Loebenschuss was drafted to forced labor repairing roads and maintaining warehouses for the Romanian Army in Piatra Neamt, 24 September 1944.

File Number : 325

Type of Material : Personal Documents

Language : Romanian

Correspondence between Ferenc Munk, drafted to a Hungarian Army forced labor battalion, and his wife Ferencné Munk in Budapest, 1944

Correspondence between Ferenc Munk, drafted to a Hungarian Army forced labor battalion, and his wife Ferencné Munk in Budapest, 1944 - 4 postcards from Ferenc Munk to his wife Ferencné; - 3 postcards from Ferencné Munk to her husband Ferenc.

File Number : 1971

Type of Material : Postcard

Language : Hungarian

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