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List of Jews from Hungary who perished after the liberation of Mauthausen and Gunskirchen camps and were buried in the Wels camp cemetery, 05-07/1945

List of Jews from Hungary who perished after the liberation of Mauthausen and Gunskirchen camps and were buried in the Wels camp cemetery, 05-07/1945 The Jews' death was due to weakness and disease during the first weeks following the liberation; reburial was done in orderly cemeteries in Wels and Hoersing, with registration of their names and the number of the grave; most of the people buried here were originally from Hungary. Detailed lists appear in various websites, and include an additional 500 Jews who were buried in the area; following are links to the...

File Number : 1187

Type of Material : List of Murdered Jews

Language : German

Testimony of Sylvia (Rozenblat) Levin, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1933, regarding her experiences as a child in the Cernauti Ghetto, Atachi, Cariera de Piatra, Ladyzhin and more

Testimony

Testimony of Sylvia (Rozenblat) Levin, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1933, regarding her experiences as a child in the Cernauti Ghetto, Atachi, Cariera de Piatra, Ladyzhin and more Life before the war. Soviet occupation, June 1940; illness of her father and his hospitalization; German-Romanian occupation, 1941; deportation of the family to the Cernauti Ghetto; deportation to Transnistria via Atachi on trains; crossing the river on boats; transfer to Cariera de Piatra; life in Cariera de Piatra; being guarded by Romanian gendarmes; transfer to various places; transfer to Ladyzhin; life in Ladyzhin; transfer...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Pnina (Bezner) Sery, born in Radauti, Romania, 1930, regarding her experiences as a child in Radauti and Mogilev-Podolski

Testimony

Testimony of Pnina (Bezner) Sery, born in Radauti, Romania, 1930, regarding her experiences as a child in Radauti and Mogilev-Podolski Life before the war; religious family; pogrom against Jews; escape of the refugees from Poland to Radauti. Outbreak of the German-Soviet Union war, 1941; deportation on a train with the family to the Dniester river; transfer to Mogilev-Podolski; life in Mogilev-Podolski in an abandoned building; kidnapping from the street and transfer to a convoy; escape; death of her grandfather and grandmother from hunger; contact with child deportees; writes a diary with the children in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Enrico Merko, born in Thessaloniki, Greece, 1925, regarding his experiences in Thessaloniki, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald, Magdeburg camp and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Enrico Merko, born in Thessaloniki, Greece, 1925, regarding his experiences in Thessaloniki, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald, Magdeburg camp and other places Life before the war. Outbreak of the war, 1941; closure of the Jewish school; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1943; camp life in Auschwitz with two siblings and a brother-in-law; life of inactivity; search for skilled professionals and declares he is a shoemaker; selections; evacuation of the camp, 18 January 1945; transfer to Buchenwald; camp life including labor digging; transfer to Magdeburg camp; transfer to Sachsenhausen; transfer...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ahuva Frenkal, born in Mako, Hungary, 1929, regarding her experiences as a child in Mako, the Szeged Ghetto, Vienna, Theresienstadt and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Ahuva Frenkal, born in Mako, Hungary, 1929, regarding her experiences as a child in Mako, the Szeged Ghetto, Vienna, Theresienstadt and other places Life before the war; ultra-Orthodox Army. Outbreak of the war; deportation of young men to forced labor, 1942-1943; violence against Jews; robbery of businesses and property owned by Jews, 1943; deportation of her father to forced labor; return home of her father; deportation to the Szeged Ghetto; ghetto life; deportation of the Jews; life in an open field; life in a brick factory, June 1944; transfer to Strasshof; transfer to Vienna; life in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Schmuel Eisenberg, born in Hotin, Romania, 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in Hotin, Kopaygorod and Bucharest and his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1944

Testimony

Testimony of Schmuel Eisenberg, born in Hotin, Romania, 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in Hotin, Kopaygorod and Bucharest and his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1944 Life before the war. Deportation to Transnistria on trains; transfer on marches; Kopaygorod Ghetto life; his illness with typhus and dysentery; life in an orphanage; transfer from Transnistria to Bucharest with other orphans; his aliya to Eretz Israel with the orphans, 1944.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Norbert Weinstein, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto and his deportation to Transnistria

Testimony

Testimony of Norbert Weinstein, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto and his deportation to Transnistria His childhood in a traditional family with an orientation toward German culture; rise in nationalism and the weakening of personal security. German occupation of Poland, 1939; refugees from Poland; confiscation of valuables; Soviet occupation, 22 June 1940; Soviet education; German and Romanian occupation, and the Soviets flee, 1941; decrees and bans; deportation to the Cernauti Ghetto; Cernauti Ghetto life including overcrowding; preparations for his...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Iva (Volovski) Gold, born in Chisinau, Romania, 1925, regarding her experiences in Chisinau, Transnistria and Balta

Testimony

Testimony of Iva (Volovski) Gold, born in Chisinau, Romania, 1925, regarding her experiences in Chisinau, Transnistria and Balta Life before the war. Deportation on a march to Transnistria; life in Transnistria; her mother's suicide; life in Balta in an orphanage. Aliya to Israel, 1963.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Schifra (Rotblit) Paley, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1929, regarding her experiences as a child in the Kaunas Ghetto, in Stutthof and Duesseldorf camps, in the Danzig area and in other places Kaunas Ghetto life, as of June 1941; transfer to a POW camp in the area, December 1943; deportation to Stutthof camp, July 1944; transfer to various places in Germany; transfer to Duesseldorf, August 1944; life in Duesseldorf; transfer to forced labor; liberation by the Red Army in a village in the Danzig area, April 1945. Aliya to Israel, 1973.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

Testimony of Moshe Lion Samuel Levi, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, 1926, regarding his experiences in Sofia and Ruse

Testimony

Testimony of Moshe Lion Samuel Levi, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, 1926, regarding his experiences in Sofia and Ruse Life before the war. Imposition of anti-Jewish restrictions; confiscation of his family's home, property and workshop; deportation to Ruse on trains; life in Ruse; labor in agriculture; fear of deportation to concentration camps; his illness with tuberculosis. Aliya to Israel, 1948.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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