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Testimony of Eduard Fosner, born 1927 in Bucharest, Romania, about expulsion to the Oradea ghetto, deportation to Auschwitz and other camps, death march, and escape

Testimony

Testimony of Eduard Fosner, born in Bucharest, Romania, in 1927 , regarding expulsion to the Oradea ghetto, deportation to Auschwitz and other camps, death march, and escape Childhood before the war; transfer to Oradea in 1938; entry of the Hungarians in 1940; expulsion from school; anti-Jewish legislation ; service in the Levente Association; German occupation in 1944; order to wear yellow badge, and other orders; expulsion to the ghetto in May 1944; deportation to Birkenau; hunger; roll-calls and selections; transfer to Buchenwald for a brief time and from there to Magdeburg; labor in rebuilding and...

File Number : 13773

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation regarding the Dora-Mittelbau camp and other camps near Nordhausen, 1949-1999

Documentation regarding the Dora-Mittelbau camp and other camps near Nordhausen, 1949-1999 The documentation was gathered by Holocaust survivor Moshe Leib Plachta, born in Lodz, Poland, 1926: - Testimony [of] Concentration Camp Prisoner B-7092: History of the family: Deportation of his sister Luba to the Czestochowa labor camp, 1943; deportation of Moshe Leib with his parents and younger brother to Auschwitz, August 1944; murder of his patents and brother in Auschwitz; transfer of Moshe Leib to the Fuerstengrube labor camp and from there to Dora-Nordhausen, March 1945; life of the inmates in Dora;...

File Number : 444

Type of Material : Correspondence, Administrative Documentation, Postcard, Brochure, Diagram, Survey Report, Personal Documents, Drawing, Letter, Maps, Photograph

Language : French, English, German

estimony of Beverli Mizrahi Shreier, born in 1941 in Radziwillow, Poland, regarding her experiences in hiding with a Catholic family

Testimony of Beverli Mizrahi Shreier, born in 1941 in Radziwillow, Poland, regarding her experiences in hiding with a Catholic family. The family; giving the girl baby to a Polish servant; murder of the servant and her husband by the Gestapo; moving the baby to another hiding place; the baby's return to the family hiding her; fleeing towards Berlin; in the Russian sector; escape to the American sector; joining a street gang; emigration to the United States; adjusting to a new life.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Musical score and words to the composition, "Buchenwalder Marsch" ("Buchenwald March"), composed by Hermann Leopoldi, 07 March 1939

Musical score and words to the composition, "Buchenwalder Marsch" ("Buchenwald March"), composed by Hermann Leopoldi, 07 March 1939 Note: Hermann Leopoldi composed the work, "Buchenwald March", after returning from detention, 1939. The file contains the musical score and the words to the music written under the appropriate notes. The work ends with the words, "the day will come and we shall be free". On the sheet music is a dedication to Dr. Gerhardt Wollner, noting the place, Vienna, and the date, 07 March 1939.

File Number : 271

Type of Material : Musical Notes, Poem/song

Language : German

Postcards sent by Karlo Stern and Mladen J. Stern from Jasenovac to Zagreb and Jastrebarsko, 1942-1944

Postcards sent by Karlo Stern and Mladen J. Stern from Jasenovac to Zagreb and Jastrebarsko, 1942-1944 Also in the file: Postcards sent by various people, including Isidor Schleifer, Vilko Goldberger, Ella Bencic, Karlo Stern, Mladen J. Stern and Irena Hirsl from the Stara Gradiska camp, the Loborgrad camp, the Jasenovac camp and the Lepoglava camp

File Number : 1757

Type of Material : Postcard

Language : Croatian, German

Report on Auschwitz, 1944, and personal documentation of Benzion Kalb, 1943-1968

Report on Auschwitz, 1944, and personal documentation of Benzion Kalb, 1943-1968 - Number of inmates in the transports according to country of origin; list of Jews from Slovakia who were interned in Auschwitz, early April 1944; report written by two Slovak Jews who escaped from Auschwitz, 1944; - Letters received by Benzion Kalb in Kezmarok during the war from persons actively working with Kalb in rescuing the Jews of Poland; - Letter sent by Rabbi Weissmandl to Benzion Kalb with a request to hide the children who were rescued in homes of non-Jews; non-compliance of the request by Benzion Kalb; -...

File Number : 130

Type of Material : Survey Report, Documentary, Article, List of Camp Inmates, Letter, List of Jewish Survivors

Language : Hebrew, Polish, German, Yiddish

Testimony of Leon Tabokh, born in 1926 in Thessaloniki, Greece, about his experiences in the Thessaloniki ghetto and in Auschwitz, Gross Rosen, Birkenau, and Mauthausen

Testimony

Testimony of Leon Tabokh, born in 1926 in Thessaloniki, Greece, about his experiences in the Thessaloniki ghetto and in Auschwitz, Gross Rosen, Birkenau, and Mauthausen Pre-war life; war with Italy breaks out in October 1940; German occupation begins in April 1941; hunger; dispossession of Jews in 1942; "black Sabbath" in July 1942; restrictions on Jews including the yellow star edict; eviction from home and confiscation of the house for Germans' residential use; life in the "Baron Hirsch" quarter of the ghetto in early 1943; deportation to Auschwitz in March 1943; life in Birkenau; working in the ADE...

File Number : 13563

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Judit (Keren) Gross, born in Satu Mare, Romania, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Satu Mare Ghetto, Auschwitz and Lenzing

Testimony

Testimony of Judit (Keren) Gross, born in Satu Mare, Romania, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Satu Mare Ghetto, Auschwitz and Lenzing Her childhood in a traditional family; move to Czechoslovakia when she was 6 years old; attitude of the Czech population. Outbreak of the war, 1939; move to Satu Mare; Hungarian Army occupation of Satu Mare, 1940; life under Hungarian occupation including acts of abuse against the Jews and anti-Jewish legislation and restrictions on movement; Aryanization; numerus clausus; expulsion from the Lutheran school; attends Jewish schools including receiving private lessons;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

List of inmates transferred to Kaufering III camp, 11/07/1944-16/04/1945

List of inmates transferred to Kaufering III camp, 11/07/1944-16/04/1945 Included in the file: - Letter of explanation by Chaim Melech regarding the list; - Information about the commemoration activities of the Organization of Survivors of Kaufering Camps.

File Number : 1248

Type of Material : Letter, List of Camp Inmates, Survey

Language : German

Documentation including reports by former inmates, regarding the fate of inmates in Auschwitz, Birkenau and other camps, dated, 1944-1962

Documentation including reports by former inmates, regarding the fate of inmates in Auschwitz, Birkenau and other camps, dated, 1944-1962 Interviews, testimonies, research reports, articles, and excerpts from books: Research report regarding activities by the underground in Monowitz camp, by British POW Charles Coward and his friends; Research report by Wladislaw Tejkiel, 28/07/1961; Protocol of an interview with Gerta Gerzonowa, a former inmate in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz and Flossenburg camps, 19/11/1945; Interviews with Elisabeth Guttenberger and Regine Lebensfeld-Hofstaedter, regarding...

File Number : JM/14175

Type of Material : Interview(s), Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Statistics, Correspondence, Testimony, Protocol, Survey Report

Language : Czech, French, English, German

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