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Testimony of Nancy Vera Rachel Arbel, born in Baktaloranthaza, Hungary, in 1826 regarding deportation to the Auschwitz Birkenau , Plaszow and Reichenbach camps

Testimony

Childhood before the war; coexistence; outbreak of the war; restrictions on Jews; German occupation in March 1944; deportation to ghetto; mutual help; robbery of property; fictitious marriage for the purpose of rescue; deportation to Auschwitz Birkenau; transfer to Plaszow; transfer to a protected camp; improvement in food and living conditions; transfer back to Auschwitz Birkenau; transfer to Germany for agricultural works and for working in a factory manufacturing planes; liberation by the Russians; rehabilitation of life after the war; aliya to Israel in 1949

File Number : 13703

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sylvia Rachel Davidovicz, nee Weiss, born in Sacalaseni, Romania, in 1929, regarding her experiences in the Baia Mare ghetto and in the Auschwitz Birkenau, Boizenburg and Ludwigslust camps

Testimony of Sylvia Rachel Davidowicz, nee Weiss, born in Sacalaseni, Romania, in 1929, regarding her experiences in the Baia Mare ghetto and in the Boizenburg, Auschwitz Birkenau and Ludwigslust camps Childhood in Baia Mare; re- annexation of the place to Hungary in 1940; transfer of ownership of the father's flour mill to Hungarians in 1941; the rise of antisemitism; interruption of studies; the German occupation in 1944; deportation to the ghetto in 1944; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau camp; transfer to Boizenburg; life in the camp; transfer to work in a factory manufacturing tanks and planes; transfer...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Leb Margalit, born in Galgau, Romania, in 1928 regarding the Dej ghetto, Auschwitz Birkenau and other camps

Childhood in Galgau and in Deja; invasion of the Hungarians in 1940; anti-Jewish legislation; recruiting for labor battalions; deterioration of the economic situation; German occupation in March 1944; yellow badge; confiscation of property; deportation to the Dej ghetto; life under the sky; starvation; deportation to Auschwitz Birkenau in June 1944; camp admission process; life in the camp; starvation and thirst; transfer to Bremen about 2 months later; working in clearing the ruins; getting help from German citizens; mutual help; transfer to Bergen Belsen; typhus epidemic; piles of corpses; liberation by the...

File Number : 13712

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Regev Yisrael Gerber, born in Mukacevo, Czechoslovakia, in 1927, regarding the Garan camp, Slovakia.

Testimony

Childhood in Mukacevo; Hebrew school founded and managed by his father; life under Hungarian ruling in 1938; they received a deportation order according to which the whole family was to leave Hungary within 30 days because they didn't have a Hungarian nationality; at the same time his father got a recruitment order for the labor service within the Hungarian army in 1940;his father's service in the labour service during 9 months; return of his father and deportation of the family to the Garan detention camp, Slovakia in 1941; ( because they didn't have a Hungarian nationality); stay in the camp for a few months;...

File Number : 13774

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yehudit Blom, nee Fridman, born in Uzhorod, Czechoslovakia, ,in 1930 regarding her experiences as a young girl in the Uzhorod ghetto, and in camps in Poland and Germany during the war.

Testimony of Yehudit Blom nee Fridman, born in Uzhorod, Czechoslovakia, in 1930, regarding her experiences as a girl in the Uzhorod ghetto and in camps in Poland and Germany during the war Life before the war; annexation of the new place to Hungary in 1938; deportation of the stateless ; arrival of refugees; German occupation in March 1944; confiscation of property; deportation to the Uzhorod ghetto at the end of April 1944; life in the ghetto for about 6 weeks; deportation to Auschwitz Birkenau; life in the camp; starvation; transfer to Gelsenkirchen; life in the camp; work in clearing rubble; starvation;...

File Number : 13597

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rub Israel, born in Sasovo, Carpathian Ruthenia, Czechoslovakia, in 1923 regarding his arrest in Prague and Dresden and regarding Theresienstadt , Dachau and other camps

-Childhood in Sasovo and Trebusany in Carpathian Ruthenia; his family is from a hasidic background( Hasidut Dolina); attendance at the "heder" in Berehovo in 1934; Hungarian control in 1938; his family moves to Moravska Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, in 1938; attendance at a yeshiva in Solotvina, Carpathian Ruthenia(Hungary) in 1937; he goes back to his family in Moravska Ostrava in 1938; he joins the Bnei Akiva movement and moves to Prague, Czechoslovakia; agricultural training on a farm in Louny and in Stribrna Skalice; he goes back to Prague and moves to a farm in Hostoun Kladno; he is arrested by the gestapo in...

File Number : 13688

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Sheindi (Ehrenwald) Miller, born in Galanta, Slovakia, 31 December 1930, regarding her experiences in the Galanta Ghetto, Érsekújvár Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Peterswaldau labor camp Testimony of Sheindi Miller, as it appears in the "Neveh Shmuel" Yeshiva journal, 5758 (1998); - Persecution of the Jews in Galanta, 1942; deportation of women and men to forced labor; transfer to the Galanta Ghetto, April 1944; theft of Jewish property; transfer to the Érsekújvár Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau by train, including a description of the travel in freight cars for three days; selection...

File Number : 8600

Type of Material : Excerpt(s), Testimony

Language : Hebrew, Hungarian

Diary kept by Elvira Ulmer in the Szolnok Ghetto and in the camps, 10 June 1944-01 April 1945, and memoirs of Dávid József Ulmer regarding his experiences during the Holocaust

Diary kept by Elvira Ulmer in the Szolnok Ghetto and in the camps, 10 June 1944-01 April 1945, and memoirs of Dávid József Ulmer regarding his experiences during the Holocaust - Diary in Hungarian written by Elvira Ulmer, including a Hebrew translation; - Memoirs of Dávid József Ulmer, as recorded by Margalit Tovi Kisus, including an interview conducted with Dávid Ulmer; The Ulmer family: Occupation of Hungary by the German Army, March 1944; life in Körösladány; deportation to the Szolnok Ghetto, June 1944; deportation to the Strasshof camp; transfer to the Heiligenkreuz camp; life in Heiligenkreuz,...

File Number : 8598

Type of Material : Memoirs, Project, Diary, Interview(s)

Language : German, Hungarian

Testimony of Josef Heiman, born in Szolnok, Hungary, 1922, regarding enlistment in labor troops in the Hungarian army, 1942-1945

Testimony

Testimony of Josef Heiman, born in Szolnok, Hungary, 1922, regarding enlistment in labor battalions in the Hungarian army, 1942-1945 Childhood in a religious family lacking economic means; studies in a Jewish school and then in a general school. Anti-Jewish legislation; restrictions on the employment of Jews in public office; limitation on the number of students in universities (Numerus clausus); conscription into the Hungarian army for labor battalions, 1942; anti-Semitic incidents in the labor battalions; heavy penalties; transfer of the battalion to Austria, 1944; fortification works near...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yehudit Brok née Stern, born in 1925 in Galanta, Czechoslovakia, about her experiences in the ghettos of Galanta and Nove Zamky and in the Auschwitz and Hohenelbe camps until 1945

Hungary re-annexes the Galanta area and anti-Jewish violence in 1938; antisemitism escalates and authorities impose restrictions; German occupation ensues in 1944; father arrested and deported to a detention camp in Hungary in 1944; witness deported with mother and siblings to the Galanta ghetto for several days; deportation to a ghetto in a brickyard in Nove Zamky; deporation to Auschwitz in 1944; life in Auschwitz and receiving help from father; transferred to Hohenelbe; life in the camp; working at a factory that turns out aircraft parts; typhus; rescue by a non-Jewish Dutch nurse in 1945; liberation by Red...

File Number : 13525

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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