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Official documents from Argentina regarding the stay of Josef Mengele in Argentina as of 1958, including documents regarding the "Fadrofarm Sociedad en Comandita por Acciones" company, 1958-1975

File Number : 321

Type of Material : Report, Booklet(s)

Language : Spanish

Testimony of Sima Haksh, born in 1924 in Sighet, Romania, about her experiences in Sighet, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen

Testimony

Testimony of Sima Haksh, born in 1924 in Sighet, Romania, about her experiences in Sighet, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen Life under Hungarian rule in 1940, including upturn in antisemitic manifestations and closure of businesses; German occupation; expulsion to the ghetto; conscription of brothers for the MUSZ; sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944; twin brothers placed in the twins' barracks; working in the outside labor squad; evacuation of the camp in January 1945; death march in the snow to Bergen-Belsen; typhus, liberation in April 1945; reunification of family in Sighet; illegal immigration to Eretz Isarel...

File Number : 13350

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ella Weiss, born in Sighet, Romania, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Sighet Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, on a death march and in Bergen-Belsen

Testimony

Testimony of Ella Weiss, born in Sighet, Romania, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Sighet Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, on a death march and in Bergen-Belsen Childhood in a religious family. Hungarian occupation, 1940; refugees from Poland and Czechoslovakia; deterioration of the economic and security situation; deportation to the Sighet Ghetto, Pesach (08 April), 1944; mutual help; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Shavuot (28 May), 1944; selections; help from the female physician and the Blockalteste; religious holidays in the camp; death march to Bergen-Belsen, January 1945; hunger; total...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Susanne (Perlgrund) Biro-Balazs, born in Bratislava, Slovakia, 1937, regarding her experiences in Budapest, Bratislava, Pliesovce and in hiding

Testimony

Testimony of Susanne (Perlgrund) Biro-Balazs, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1937, regarding her experiences in Budapest, Bratislava, Pliesovce and in hiding Escape to Budapest with her brother, 1941; life in Budapest; death of her father; German occupation of Hungary, 1944; move back to Bratislava; escape to Pliesovce with her mother's sister's family; life [in Pliesovce] as Slovakian farmers; in hiding [in Pliesovce] and in the mountains until the liberation; liberation by the Red Army, 1945. Receives knowledge regarding the death of her mother in Auschwitz; receives knowledge regarding the death...

File Number : 13124

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony

Testimony of Zvi Hirsh Ksienski, born in Jedrzejow, Poland, 1918, regarding his experiences in Jedrzejow, aliya to Eretz Israel, 1939, service in the British Army in Greece and in German captivity in Stalag 6 camp Life before the war; meets Menachem Begin; payment of bribery to Poles; aliya to Eretz Israel with Aliya Bet, 1939. Enlists in the British Army, 1940; life during service in the British Army in Greece including being taken captive, 1941; life in Germany in Stalag 6 camp; transfer on a death march; liberation, February 1945. Return to Eretz Israel, 1945.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaia Klara (Hochstadt) Klinghoffer, born in Storojinet, Romania, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto and Mogilev-Podolski

Testimony

Testimony of Chaia Klara (Hochstadt) Klinghoffer, born in Storojinet, Romania, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto and Mogilev-Podolski Wealthy family; displays of antisemitism before the war between Germany and the Soviet Union. Escape by her family to Cernauti; witness attends a Soviet agricultural school; pogroms implemented by Romanians against the Jews after the Soviet retreat; deportation to the Cernauti Ghetto; Cernauti Ghetto life; deportation to Transnistria on Hoshana Raba, [eve of] Sukkot (autumn); violence by Romanian gendarmes and soldiers during the deportation; arrival to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Eta Etus (Markovitz) Mendzitzki, born in Iedul, Romania, 1924, regarding her experiences in Dragomiresti, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Budy, on a death march and Bergen-Belsen

Testimony

Testimony of Eta Etus (Markovitz) Mendzitzki, born in Iedul, Romania, 1924, regarding her experiences in Dragomiresti, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Budy, on a death march and Bergen-Belsen From a well-to-do religious Zionist family; her parents own a supermarket; death of her father; Bnei Akiva activities; attends a Romanian school. Annexation to Hungary, August 1940; German occupation, March 1944; deportation to Dragomiresti, the day after Pesach (16 April) 1944; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, April 1944; camp life including the deaths of her mother and brother; typhus and transfer to the infirmary; rescue...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Affidavit of Frank Ziereis, the commander of Mauthausen camp, submitted at the Nuremburg Trials

Affidavit of Frank Ziereis, the commander of Mauthausen camp, submitted at the Nuremburg Trials Methods of murder in Mauthausen and in the Gusen, Linz and Ebensee sub-camps and others; order given by Himmler and Kaltenbrunner at the end of the war to murder all of the camp inmates, but Ziereis refused to carry out the order; denial of guilt; names and the current location of the staff personnel who carried out the acts of murder, including Dr. Krebsbach, who ordered the building of the gas chamber in Mauthausen, and the Police and SS men Jantsch, Richter, Pohl and Eigruber, who murdered inmates; operation...

File Number : 287

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Card for a medical examination performed on Klein Jeno in Auschwitz, 11 December 1944

Card for a medical examination performed on Klein Jeno in Auschwitz, 11 December 1944 Included in the file: Letter confirming that Jeno Klein was an inmate in Auschwitz.

File Number : 438

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : Polish, German

List of inmates in Auschwitz who underwent physical examinations for the detection of Streptococcus, 10/07/1944

File Number : 430

Type of Material : Lists

Language : German

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