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Testimony of Mordechay (Paul Georg) Fleischer, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1926 regarding his escape to Budapest, deportation to detention camps, escape from a death march and residing in the Glass House

Testimony

Childhood before the war; Fascist Slovakia, 1938; antisemitic events; Attempts to move to Budapest, Hungary, winter 1942-1943; getting arrested by Hungarian soldiers while escaping; sent back to Slovakia; escape to Hungary with the aid of a smuggler; arrival in Budapest; capture and arrest; decrees and restrictions; transferred to a prison by two Hungarian soldiers; deportation to a brick factory; escape to a marked house; capture and deportation for labor building fortifications and digging anti-tank trenches near Solnok, late October 1944; march towards Austria; escape to the Red Cross house in Budapest...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Meir Andrash Weiss, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1934, regarding the Budapest ghetto and hiding in the Jewish gymnasium under the auspices of a Hungarian officer

Testimony

Testimony of Meir Andrash Weiss, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1934, regarding the Budapest ghetto and hiding in the Jewish gymnasium under the auspices of a Hungarian officer Family background; his father owns a printing house; life before the war; studies in a Hungarian school; enlistment of his father to labor battalions, 1940; management of the family business by his mother. German occupation, 1944; duty to wear a yellow badge; dropping out of school; an attempt by his mother to flee to the province with the witness and his brother; ban on train travel; confiscation of printing machines in the family...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Benjamin Gunter Born, born in Berlin, Germany, 1932, regarding his experiences in Berlin and in hiding

Testimony

Testimony of Benjamin Gunter Born, born in Berlin, Germany, 1932, regarding his experiences in Berlin and in hiding His childhood in Germany during the 1930s; witness was the only Jewish pupil in his class. Expulsion from the school; calling of insults by children; unsuccessful attempts [by his family] to leave Germany; transfer of his mother to forced labor in a factory; his father receives a work permit as a truck driver; deportation of relatives to camps; rumors concerning the murder of Jews in pits; extension of [his father's] work license; rescue from a deportation; deportation of his family, October...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Henriette (Petel) Sternhell, born in Iasi, Romania, 1926

Testimony

Testimony of Henriette (Petel) Sternhell, born in Iasi, Romania, 1926 Childhood in a religious Zionist family; rise of the fascist party and radicalization of the displays of anti-semitism, 1936, expulsion from the government school, 1940. German-Soviet war; air-raids on Iasi, summer 1941; assembly of all the Jews in Iasi in the police station courtyard; release of the women and children and taking of all the men, 29 June 1941; robbery of the property; [anti-Jewish] decrees and prohibitions; aid from the Jewish community; studies in a Talmud Torah; approach of the front; bombings; liberation by the Soviet...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Jehoshua Neeman Noiman, born in Breslau, Germany, 1926, regarding his experiences in Germany until 1933, and his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1934

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Testimony of Jehoshua Neeman Noiman, born in Breslau, Germany, 1926, regarding his experiences in Germany until 1933, and his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1934 From a religious, Zionist family; death of his Zionist uncle in World War I, and his uncle's will; his mother's Zionist activities; Nazi party rise to power, 1933; breaking of display windows and marking the letter "J" on Jewish-owned shops; his father's death; move to Klaipeda, Lithuania; school attendance and antisemitic atmosphere; studying Hebrew; legal aliya to Eretz Israel, 1934; detention for Irgun activities; life in Israel.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shulamit Shlima (Markovitz) Barkan, born in Stefanesti, Romania, 1936, regarding her experiences as a child in Stefanesti and Botosani

Testimony

Testimony of Shulamit Shlima (Markovitz) Barkan, born in Stefanesti, Romania, 1936, regarding her experiences as a child in Stefanesti and Botosani Childhood in a religious Zionist family. Burning of Jewish homes, summer 1941; deportation to Botosani; yellow badge; difficulty in obtaining food; school attendance; clandestine activity in a Hashomer Hatzair group; displays of antisemitism; keeping the Jewish traditions; air-raids, Pesach (April) 1944; liberation by the Red Army. Detention of her father for Zionist activity; 29 November 1948 [1947?]; aliya to Israel, 1951.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sara Sarina Dalina (Chaim) Moscovici, born in Iasi, Romania, 1935, regarding her experiences in Iasi during the Iasi pogrom

Testimony

Testimony of Sara Sarina Dalina (Chaim) Moscovici, born in Iasi, Romania, 1935, regarding her experiences in Iasi during the Iasi pogrom Her childhood in a traditional family; rise of the nationalist party; weakening of security. Warning about the pogrom; escape; Romanian soldiers break into her grandfather's home; sounds of gunshot and shouting, 29 June 1941; disappearance of her father; liberation by the Red Army, 23 August 1944; looting of property. Activities in the Hashomer Hatzair movement; ban on activities by Zionist youth movements; aliya to Israel, 1950.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Haim Beigelman, born in Czestochowa, Poland, 1914, regarding his experiences in the Czestochowa Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Haim Beigelman, born in Czestochowa, Poland, 1914, regarding his experiences in the Czestochowa Ghetto Religious-Zionist family; activities in the Hanoar Hatzioni movement. Outbreak of the war, 1939; robbery of valuables; forced labor including labor in the HASAG-Pelzery factory; deportation to the Czestochowa Ghetto, summer 1941; arrival of refugees from Lodz; Czestochowa Ghetto life including underground activities of the Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB); approach of the front; liberation by the Red Army, 16 January 1945. Kielce pogrom; joins the Bericha organization; aliya to Israel,...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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