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Testimony of Tereza (Kohn) Vajnorsky, born in Nagy Magyer, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding her experiences in Komarno, Auschwitz and Plaszow camp

Testimony

Testimony of Tereza (Kohn) Vajnorsky, born in Nagy Magyer, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding her experiences in Komarno, Auschwitz and Plaszow camp Life before the war; the Jewish community. Outbreak of the war; concentration of Jews in her father's house; escape of her brother to Hungary; move to a Jewish family's home; move to Komarno; labor of her father as a tailor; deportation to a village; attends school; anti-Jewish laws and decrees; yellow badge; draft of her father to a labor camp; confiscation of valuables; transfer to the Kosice train station; deportation to Auschwitz; transfer to Plaszow; camp...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yehuda Parma, born in Jasienica, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Nisko, camps in Taiga, as a soldier in the Czech unit of the Red Army in Dukla, Kiev and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Yehuda Parma, born in Jasienica, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Nisko, camps in Taiga, as a soldier in the Red Army Czech unit in Dukla, Kiev and other places Life before the war; move to Cesky Tesin. German occupation, 1939; forced labor cleaning and clearing rubble; deportation to Nisko with his father; escape to the Soviet occupied area; meeting with his brother and sister; deportation to forced labor camps in Taiga by the Soviets; joins a Red Army Czech unit under the command of Svoboda, 1942; combat in Kiev, Dukla, Charkov and the liberation of Ukraine; army rank promotions;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation on the Jewish question, 1938-1944

Documentation on the Jewish question, 1938-1944 Photographs of the Munich summit and the Molotov-Rippentrop pact; documents of the Ministry of Labor and the German Army.

File Number : 185

Type of Material : Documentary

Language : German

Testimony of Adela (Bergman) Binder, born in Munkacevo, Czechoslovakia, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Munkacevo Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bergen-Belsen and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Adela (Bergman) Binder, born in Munkacevo, Czechoslovakia, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Munkacevo Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bergen-Belsen and other places Family with hardships; orphaned of her father; life in an ultra-Orthodox community. Re-annexation to Hungary; decrees; deportation of those with Polish citizenship to Poland; German occupation; German soldiers shop in her mother's store; deportation to the Munkacevo Ghetto, April 1944; ghetto life including help to the elderly and the sick; concentration of the Jews in a brick factory; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; camp...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Klára Lavičková and Alžbeta Rosová, sisters née Brodi, born in Zabokreky, about their experiences in 1939–1945

Memoirs of Klára Lavičková and Alžbeta Rosová, sisters née Brodi, born in Zabokreky, about their experiences in 1939–1945 Memoirs of Klára Lavičková, pp. 2–14: Establishment of independent Slovakia in March 1939; anti-Jewish rules and regulations; Klára is fired from her job with a Jewish-owned company due to the company’s “Aryanization”; working as a seamstress in Bielice; anti-Jewish atmosphere in Zabokreky; young Jews mobilized for service in labor camps under Slovakian Army auspices; Klára deported to the Patronka camp on March 27, 1942, and then, several days later, to Auschwitz; shaving of hair;...

File Number : 3680

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Slovak, Czech

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File Number : 1639

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Czech

Obituary notice regarding the Death of the Republic of Czechoslovakia, signed by Edvard Benes as a reaction to the Munich Agreement, published, 01/10/1938

File Number : 315

Type of Material : Placards, Announcement

Language : German

Collection of anti-Jewish legislation of the Czechoslovak Republic and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, 1938-1941

Collection of anti-Jewish legislation of the Czechoslovak Republic and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, 1938-1941 - Legislation of the Czechoslovak Republic, regarding the question of Czechoslovak citizenship; the legislation applied to Jews in most part; - Anti-Jewish legislation published by the Reichsprotector, the German Ministry of the Treasury and the local German authorities, regarding the confiscation of Jewish property and apartments belonging to Jews, and the establishment of specific times for Jews in various cities for the making of purchases.

File Number : 1

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Testimony of Pesel Priska (Bortner) Gantz, born in Michalovce, Slovakia, 1916, regarding her experiences in Bratislava, Patronka camp and in hiding

Testimony

Testimony of Pesel Priska (Bortner) Gantz, born in Michalovce, Slovakia, 1916, regarding her experiences in Bratislava, Patronka camp and in hiding Life in an Orthodox family in Slovakia; studies medicine in Bratislava; abuse by Slovakians after the Munich Agreement, 1938; marriage to Dr. Isidor Gantz, 1939. Confiscation of Jewish houses and property by Slovakians; cancellation of the depature to Eretz Israel, 1939; economic difficulties, 1941; birth of their son Moshe in Bratislava; her husband's work in Ustredna Zidov; wearing the yellow badge, September 1941. Deportation to Patronka camp, 13 June...

File Number : 10580

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Richard Glaser, born 1888 in Brieg, regarding the situation of Jews in the German finance sector between 1933 and 1938 and his experiences as an executive employee in the Commerzbank

Testimony of Richard Glaser, born in Brieg, Poland, 1888, regarding the situation of the Jews in the German financial sector, 1933-1938, and his experiences as an executive employee in the Commerzbank - Service as Vice Director of the Commerzbank in Berlin, a position he had held even before 1933 (the exact date is not mentioned); -Pilot trip to Eretz Israel as part of his emigration plans, 1934; summons to speak with Mr. Reinhard, the Chairman of the Board of Directors along with two other Jews in executive positions on his return; assurance from Reinhard that Hitler is the greatest man since Jesus, and...

File Number : 196

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Testimony

Language : German

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