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Testimony of Avraham Reinitz, born in Kosice Mesto, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding his experiences in Kosice Mesto, Auschwitz, Wustegiersdorf, Schottenwerk and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Avraham Reinitz, born in Kosice Mesto, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding his experiences in Kosice Mesto, Auschwitz, Wustegiersdorf, Schottenwerk and other places Life before the war; displays of antisemitism; his siblings' activities in Zionist movements. Outbreak of the war; re-annexation to Hungary; anti-Jewish restrictions; detention of his father; confiscation of Jewish property; transfer along with other Jews to the courtyard of the synagogue; deportation to a brick factory; life in the brick factory including labor in cleaning; deportation to Auschwitz, April 1944; camp life including...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Hanah Charna (Gorbach) Elroi, born in Rozyszcze, Poland, 1919, regarding her experiences in the Rozyszcze Ghetto, a camp and in hiding

Testimony

Testimony of Hanah Charna (Gorbach) Elroi, born in Rozyszcze, Poland, 1919, regarding her experiences in the Rozyszcze Ghetto, a camp and in hiding Life before the war; activities in Zionist youth movements; meets Jewish refugees from Germany, 1938. Outbreak of the war; Soviet occupation; deportation of Jews to Siberia; German occupation, 1941; anti-Jewish decrees and restrictions; deportation to the Rozyszcze Ghetto; Rozyszcze Ghetto life including deportation with youth people to a camp; camp life including mutual help between Jews; escape to the forests; finds a hiding place when hidden in the home of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Magda Gila (Dreier) Keren Zur, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1934, regarding her experiences in hiding, Zilina, Sered, Vyhne, Novaky and on a death march

Testimony

Testimony of Magda Gila (Dreier) Keren Zur, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1934, regarding her experiences in hiding, Zilina, Sered, Vyhne, Novaky and on a death march Life before the war; her father is a forester. Outbreak of war; imposition of anti-Jewish restrictions; escape between Bratislava and Hlohovec; hospitalization and rescue from deportation, 1942; deportation to Zilina; camp life including payment of a bribe in exchange for labor and living quarters outside the camp; conversion with other families; life in hiding in various hiding places in Bratislava; obtains forged documents; transfer...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avraham Andor Bendi Cohen, born in Ozd, Hungary, 1928, regarding his experiences in a Hungarian labor battalion, the Miskolc Ghetto, Bruck camp and Mauthausen

Testimony

Testimony of Avraham Andor Bendi Cohen, born in Ozd, Hungary, 1928, regarding his experiences in a Hungarian labor battalion, the Miskolc Ghetto, Bruck camp and Mauthausen Childhood in Ozd and Miskolc. German occupation, March 1944; volunteers for a labor camp near Ozd; drafting of his father to a labor battalion; deportation to the Miskolc Ghetto, April 1944; drafted to a labor unit; transfer to Olšovany; labor cutting and logging trees; transfer to Poland; building dams; air-raids; escape to Hungary, September 1944; work burying Red Army soldiers, evacuation og wounded Hungarians and clearing rubble;...

File Number : 12622

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Bracha Brinka Rokitovitz Sinai, born in Lodz, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Halbstadt

Testimony

Testimony of Bracha Brinka Rokitovitz Sinai, born in Lodz, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Halbstadt From a well-to-do family; attends a Jewish school. Some of her siblings escape to the Soviet Union with the outbreak of the war, September 1939; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto; ghetto life including labor in a shoe factory; her father is deported to an unknown destination, September 1942; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, August 1944; camp life; transfer to Halbstadt; camp life including forced labor in an ammunitions factory; liberation, May...

File Number : 12476

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Correspondence and proposed legislation of the Uniunea Evreilor Romani (UER - Union of Romanian Jews), May-June 1945

Correspondence and proposed legislation of the Uniunea Evreilor Romani (UER - Union of Romanian Jews), May-June 1945 - Proposed law to annul the anti-Jewish legislation, including voiding sales contracts from the period of the fascist regime; copies of correspondence with government offices regarding not drafting the survivors to the Romanian Army; creation of suitable conditions [in the army] for the Jewish conscripts and the return of refugees from the Soviet Union; - Internal report regarding revival of antisemitism in Iasi and Bucharest, May 1945 (pp. 232-233); - Report issued by the UER regarding...

File Number : 18

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : Romanian

Testimony of Reuven Gotzegen, born in Biel, Czechoslovakia in 1926, regarding his experiences in the Satorjaujely ghetto and in the Auschwitz and Dachau camps

Testimony of Reuven Gotzegen, born in Biel, Czechoslovakia in 1926, regarding his experiences in the Satorjaujely ghetto and in the Auschwitz and Dachau camps Childhood before the war; Hungarian annexation of the area in 1938; worsening of the economic situation; escalation of antisemitism; German occupation in 1944; deportation to the Satorjaujely ghetto in April 1944; deportation to Auschwitz for two days in May 1944; transfer to Warsaw to clear rubble from the ghetto until July 1944; approach of the Red Army and death march to Dachau; continuation of death march to Kaufering; work repairing railroad...

File Number : 14166

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew