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Testimony of Naomi Erika Reizl (Unger) Shtraser, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1938 regarding the journey on the Kastner train and her stay in Bergen-Belsen and Switzerland

Testimony

Early childhood in a well-to-do observant family, active in Mizrachi; German occupation, March 1944; arrest of her father by the Gestapo; listing of her family on the passenger list intended for the Kasztner train; her mother's efforts to release her father; the family's departure on the Kasztner train, June 1944; arrival at Bergen-Belsen; life with her mother and cousin in a women's barracks under conditions of hunger and cold; departure to Caux, Switzerland, December 1944; recovery; transfer to a children's home; Return to Hungary with her parents; rebuilding life after the war; aliya to Israel,1950.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Arye Simcha Perl, born in Petrova, Romania, 1919 regarding being drafted into a Hungarian Army forced labor battalion

Testimony

From a Hasidic family; observing Shabbat and holidays; keeping customs; attends a local school and a heder; the Jewish community; Hamizrachi and Agudat Israel movements; Entry of the Hungarians, late August 1940; anti-Jewish decrees; drafting of men, including the witness into Hungarian Army forced labor battalions; forced labor at the airfield, Hungary; wearing a yellow armband; labor camp life; typhus; liberation, late 1944; Return home; news of the murder of his family in Auschwitz; attempt to locate relatives in Sighet; membership in Agudat Israel; rebuilding life after the war; marriage in Petrova,...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shoshana Zhuzhana Deizi Hendel (Unger) Klein, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1928 regarding the experiences of her family in Budapest during the period of German occupation

Testimony

Childhood in a well-to-do Orthodox family; her father is a Zionist and holds a central role in the Hamizrachi movement in Budapest; her parents' visit to Mandatory Palestine; additional visit to Mandatory Palestine in order to arrange aliya, 1939; return to Hungary; Outbreak of the war; German occupation, 10 March 1944; air-raids on Budapest; work as a clerk in the Judenrat; the family's move to the Glass House; distribution of protective passports from the Swiss Embassy to Jews outside the Glass House by her father; end of the war; Aliya to Israel with the last group of the Hamizrachi movement,1949;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Sam Gottesman, born in Irsava, Czechoslovakia, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Munkacs Ghetto, Auschwitz, Wustegiersdorf, Wolfsberg and other places

Memoirs of Sam Gottesman, born in Irsava, Czechoslovakia, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Munkacs Ghetto, Auschwitz, Wustegiersdorf, Wolfsberg and other places Life before the war; re-annexation to Hungary; life in Ungar under Hungarian rule, until 1944. Munkacs Ghetto life; Auschwitz camp life; Wolfsberg camp life; Wustegiersdorf camp life; Gross-Rosen camp life; Bergen-Belsen camp life; Hildesheim camp life; Hannover camp life; liberation by the Red Army.

File Number : 8301

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English

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

Testimony of Rut (Globinski) Marks, born in Kalisz, Poland, 1931 regarding her experiences during the German occupation of Kalisz, deportation to Sandomierz, in the Sandomierz Ghetto, escape to Warsaw and life using a false identity in Warsaw German occupation of Kalisz, and deportation of her family to Sandomierz, 1939; life in the Sandomierz Ghetto; her mother's work as a teacher in the ghetto; escape with her [female] cousin to the Aryan side of Warsaw, 1942; life with the Korstrzewe family using the false identy of a Polish Christian in Piastów, a suburb of Warsaw; arrest and execution of her cousin,...

File Number : 13442

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Alexander Galambos, born in Liptovsky Svaty Jan, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding his experiences in Liptovsky Svaty Jan, Nove Zamky, Esztergom, the Komarno Ghetto, Auschwitz and other places His childhood in Liptovsky Svaty Jan and in Nove Zamky, including activities in the Mizrachi movement. Hungarian Army occupation of the area, 1938; attitude of the local population; closure of the Jewish school in Nove Zamky including the expulsion of Jews from the high school; arrival of refugees from Poland; life under Hungarian occupation including the confiscation of property, forced labor and fear of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Miriam (Farkash) Leibovitz, born in Nove Zamky, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding her experiences in Nove Zamky, in hiding, using a false identity, in Teplice and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Miriam (Farkash) Leibovitz, born in Nove Zamky, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding her experiences in Nove Zamky, in hiding, using a false identity, in Teplice and other places Life under Hungarian rule, 1938; draft of her brothers to the Hungarian Army, to forced labor; help by her family in the smuggle of children from Slovakia to Budapest, 1942; her father is informed on; her father's detention in house arrest; in hiding while hidden by a Slovakian Christian family in Urmin, Slovakia, in exchange for payment, 1944; life while using a false identity as Maria Yablonka; move from the Slovakian...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Emil Schwimmer, born in Uzhorod, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Uzhorod Ghetto, Auschwitz, labor camps, on a death march and more

Testimony

Testimony of Emil Schwimmer, born in Uzhorod, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Uzhorod Ghetto, Auschwitz, labor camps, on a death march and more Childhood in Uzhorod, attends a Talmud Torah, Hamizrachi movement. Annexation to Hungary; drafted for forced labor, late 1938; anti-Jewish legislation; German occupation ; deportation to the Uzhorod Ghetto under guard by Hungarian gendarmes, March 1944; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; tattooing of an inmate number on his arm; departure for the Eintrachthuette camp and digging trenches; transfer to the Koenigshuette labor camp to labor in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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