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Memoirs and documentation of Andras Durovecz, regarding Hannah Szenes

Memoirs and documentation of Andras Durovecz, regarding Hannah Szenes - Calling card of George Steiger; - Photograph of Hannah Szenes; - Greeting card for the new year, in Hungarian, sent by Andras Durovecz to the brother of Hannah Szenes, regarding his planned visit in Israel, 1991; - Note written in Hebrew by Hasida David, who interviewed Andras Durovecz about his meeting with Hannah Szenes in Egypt before her transfer to Hungary, that Durovecz had left to the interviewer in his will the article he wrote about his meeting with Szenes; - Memoirs of Durovecz, in Hungarian (up to p. 16); the rest...

File Number : 6743

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English, Hungarian

Testimony of Sandor Shandor Fleischmann, born in Kispest, Hungary, 1919, regarding his experiences in Isaszegre and with the underground in Budapest

Testimony

Testimony of Sandor Shandor Fleischmann, born in Kispest, Hungary, 1919, regarding his experiences in Isaszegre and with the underground in Budapest Life in Isaszegre including being drafted to a labor battalion; joins together with a group of young Zionist Communists; pretends he is a diabetic and is discharged from the labor battalion; drafted a second time and discharge; smuggles Jews out of Slovakia, 1943; German occupation, March 1944; contacts with partisans; contacts with an Eretz-Israel unit of the British Army under the command of Reuven Dafni; crosses the border illegally with help from smugglers;...

File Number : 7393

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

Memoirs of Rabbi Béla Berend regarding his experiences in Budapest during the war and his standing trial after the war on the charge of collaboration

Memoirs of Rabbi Béla Berend regarding his experiences in Budapest during the war and his standing trial after the war on the charge of collaboration Life in Budapest under the German occupation including service as a rabbi in the Budapest Ghetto; standing trial after the war on the charge of collaboration; being found guilty; serving a two year sentence [in prison]; clearing of Rabbi Berend's name, 1947; emigration to the United States, 1954.

File Number : 3461

Type of Material : Book

Language : Hungarian

Letter written by Nenad Gol in Zagreb in 1989, regarding a tour that followed the last route taken by Hannah Szenes from Yugoslavia to Hungary, where she was captured

File Number : 2450

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Baruch Kamin, born in Akkerman, Romania, 1914, regarding his experiences in the British Army in Arad as a parachutist from Mandatory Palestine and using a false identity in Bucharest

Testimony

Testimony of Baruch Kamin, born in Akkerman, Romania, 1914, regarding his experiences in the British Army in Arad as a parachutist from Mandatory Palestine and using a false identity in Bucharest Activities in the Gordonia movement; aliya to Eretz Israel, 01 September 1939. Draft into the British Army, 1940; establishment of a parachutist unit, 1943; volunteers for the parachutists unit; military training; parachutes into Romania with Dov Harari, August 1944; discovery of the parachutists by the local residents; transfer to Arad; makes contact with people in the movement; move to Bucharest using forged...

File Number : 4020

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Beniamin Borenstein, born in Jastrabie Nad Toplou, Czechoslovakia, 1909, regarding his experiences in rescue activities, in Michalovce, Bratislava, Banska Bystrica, the Tatara mountains and in villages Activities as a teacher in Jewish schools in various cities in Slovakia; activities to establish Zionist youth movements and new branches of the Hashomer Hatzair movement; Jewish public, from the social and ideological point of view. Activities to rescue deportees from Slovakia, 1938-1939; "Aktions" in Michalovce, May-June 1942; rescue activities using Aryan documents; construction of bunkers...

File Number : 3429

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe Moskovich, born in Moldavia, Romania, 1922, regarding his experiences in Bucharest, Brasov, with an organization that fostered illegal immigration to Eretz Israel and in detention

Testimony

Testimony of Moshe Moskovich, born in Moldavia, Romania, 1922, regarding his experiences in Bucharest, Brasov, with an organization that fostered illegal immigration to Eretz Israel and in detention Membership in Dror in Bucharest; deportation to Brasov; contact with Lyuba Gokovsky-Achishar, a wounded Eretz Israel parachutist, in the hospital; successful contact with the parachutist with help from Dr. Shpringer and Aliana, a non-Jewish nurse at the hospital; contact with Baruch Kamin-Kaminker, Dov Berger Harrari and other emissaries from Eretz-Israel regarding arranging illegal immigration to Eretz Israel;...

File Number : 3531

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Abraham Kirszner, born in Przemyslany, Poland, 1902, regarding his experiences in Mikolajow, Stryj, Gorka, Budapest and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Abraham Kirszner, born in Przemyslany, Poland, 1902, regarding his experiences in Mikolajow, Stryj, Gorka, Budapest and other places Outbreak of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union, June 1941; escape from Mikolajow to Stryj; German occupation; transfer with his family, as a skilled professional, to labor in a ceramics factory in Mikolajow; attitude of the German factory manager named Karl Schnelinger; deportation of Jews from the surrounding area to Belzec during the second "Aktion", spring 1942; murder of injured people after they had jumped from trains; continuation of his labor in...

File Number : 3515

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Dawid Margalit, born in Radom, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Radom Ghetto, using a false identity in Budapest, and Romania

Testimony

Testimony of Dawid Margalit, born in Radom, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Radom Ghetto, using a false identity in Budapest, and Romania Life before the war. German occupation; deportation to the Radom Ghetto; ghetto life including contacts with the Armia Krajowa (AK); informed on; rescue by a Pole; escape to Budapest using forged documents; life using a false identity including help from the Polish Relief Committee; underground activities with the Zionist movement; escape to Romania; help from foreign representatives; liberation. Aliya to Eretz Israel, 1945.

File Number : 3005

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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