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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 Abraham Ernst Ponger, born in Mikulas Litovsky Svaty, Czechoslovakia, in 1922, regarding his experiences in the Sered camp and in the battle of the partisans

Childhood before the war; Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria 1938; expulsion from school and carpentry studies; independence of Slovakia and anti-Jewish legislation 1939; deportation of Jews and escape to the mountains in March 1942; going back home and deportation to the Sered camp,in April 1945; work in carpentry; underground in the camp; Slovak uprising and escape ,in August 1944; joining partisans; actions against Germans; liberation by the red army,in April 1945; joining aliya training; illegal immigration to Eretz Israel on the Theodor Herzl ship,on 01 April 1947; exile to Cyprus; aliya back to...

File Number : 13772

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Alexander Javor Kahn, born in Rajec, Czechoslovakia, 1902, regarding his experiences in Nove Mesto, Piestany, in hiding in Bratislava and with the partisans in Pastuchov

Testimony of Alexander Javor Kahn, born in Rajec, Czechoslovakia, 1902, regarding his experiences in Nove Mesto, Piestany, in hiding in Bratislava and with the partisans in Pastuchov Life before the war; attends an elementary school; life in Zilina including attending high school; attends the agricultural academy; drafted to the Czechoslovakian Army (discharged with the rank of First Lieutenant); life in Male Lednice including work on the family farm; move to Germany, 1926; life in Germany; work on an experimental farm raising domestic animals; visits to experimental farms in Sweden and Denmark; marriage to...

File Number : 8513

Type of Material : Memoirs, Personal Documents

Language : Slovak, Hebrew

Testimony of Eva (Grinwald) Veis, born in Zilina, Slovakia, 1929, regarding her experiences in Zilina, in prison in Ilava, in the Sered camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau and other places

Testimony of Eva (Grinwald) Veis, born in Zilina, Slovakia, 1929, regarding her experiences in Zilina, in prison in Ilava, in the Sered camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau and other places Life before the war; attendance at various schools until 1942; imposition of restrictions on the Jews. Transfer to a one room apartment, 1943; deportation to Ilava, September 1944; life in prison; deportation to the Sered camp; camp life until 28 September 1944; transfer to Auschwitz-Birkenau; camp life; transfer to the Bad-Kudowa camp; camp life including hospitalization in the sick room; [deportation to the Matzdorf camp;] life...

Type of Material : Secondary Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Transcript of the testimony of Eva (Grinvald) Veis born in Zilina, Slovakia, 1929, regarding her experiences in Zilina, in detention in Ilava, in Sered, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bad Kudowa and Matzdorf

Transcript of the testimony of Eva (Grinvald) Veis born in Zilina, Slovakia, 1929, regarding her experiences in Zilina, in detention in Ilava, in Sered, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bad Kudowa and Matzdorf Life before the war; attends various schools until 1942. Anti-Jewish legislation; forced transfer to a one room apartment, 1943; deportation to Sered via the Ilava prison, 1944; life in Sered until 28 September 1944; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; life in Birkenau for approximately one month; transfer to Bad Kudowa; camp life including hospitalization in the clinic; liberation by the Red Army. Return to...

File Number : 8321

Type of Material : Genealogy, Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shlomo Ronen Reismann, born in 1927 in Berehovo, Czechoslovakia, about his experiences in Bererhovo, living under a false identity in Budapest, and immigrating to Eretz Israel in 1944

Testimony

Testimony of Shlomo Ronen Reismann, born in 1927 in Berehovo, Czechoslovakia, about his experiences in Bererhovo, living under a false identity in Budapest, and immigrating to Eretz Israel in 1944 Life with his family in Berehovo; Hungary re-annexes the area; rest of the family is deported to Auschwitz; Dror Habonim movement activity; working in Budapest under a false identity; immigration to Eretz Israel in 1944; rehabilitation and adjustment to life in Eretz Israel.

File Number : 13515

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zvi Herman Ludvig Steiner, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1931, regarding his experiences in Bratislava, Hlohovec, Topolcany, in hiding, in Banska Bystrica and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Zvi Herman Ludvig Steiner, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1931, regarding his experiences in Bratislava, Hlohovec, Topolcany, in hiding, in Banska Bystrica and other places His childhood in Bratislava; displays of antisemitism, 1938. [Arrival of] Jewish refugees from Austria; his family's unsuccessful attempts to leave the country under Slovakian protection; decree regarding wearing a yellow badge, 1941; marking of Jewish homes; Aryanization of the family's book shop; closure of the Jewish school; deportation of his father to Auschwitz, summer 1942; escape with his mother and siblings;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Miriam (Farkash) Leibovitz, born in Nove Zamky, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding her experiences in Nove Zamky, in hiding, using a false identity, in Teplice and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Miriam (Farkash) Leibovitz, born in Nove Zamky, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding her experiences in Nove Zamky, in hiding, using a false identity, in Teplice and other places Life under Hungarian rule, 1938; draft of her brothers to the Hungarian Army, to forced labor; help by her family in the smuggle of children from Slovakia to Budapest, 1942; her father is informed on; her father's detention in house arrest; in hiding while hidden by a Slovakian Christian family in Urmin, Slovakia, in exchange for payment, 1944; life while using a false identity as Maria Yablonka; move from the Slovakian...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Erica Kelerman née Shvartz, born in 1927 in Vranov, Slovakia, about her experiences in Vranov, Budapest, the Berehovo ghetto, Auschwitz, Ravensbrück, etc.

Testimony

Testimony of Erica Kelerman née Schwarz, born in 1927 in Vranov, Slovakia, about her experiences in Vranov, Budapest, the Berehovo ghetto, Auschwitz, Ravensbrück, etc. Childhood in Vranov, Slovakia; father dies in 1935; the Slovakian regime promulgates anti-Jewish decrees and laws from 1939 on; escape with mother and brother to Budapest in 1943; hiding by means of forged papers; hideout is discovered; arrest in Budapest; released by paying a bribe; escaping with mother to Berehovo in 1943; deportation to ghetto in a brick factory in Berehovo with the onset of the German occupation in 1944; sent to Auschwitz;...

File Number : 13388

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Eliezer Brichta, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1929, regarding his experiences in Bratislava, in prison and as a member of the Jewish underground in Budapest

Testimony

Testimony of Eliezer Brichta, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1929, regarding his experiences in Bratislava, in prison and as a member of the Jewish underground in Budapest His childhood. Persecution of the Jews from the late 1930s; eviction of his family from their home, 1940; transfer to the Jewish Quarter; pogroms in the Jewish Quarter; fear of members of the Hitlerjugend (Hitler youth); arranging of Jewish protection for the Jewish Quarter; Nazi propaganda; Aryanization; yellow badge; ban on entry into public places; community support for the refugees; travel restrictions; abuse of those with...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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