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Postcard sent to Mórné [Ilona] Weisz in Budapest by her two sons, György Weisz and Tibor Weisz, who were living an International Red Cross children's home in Budapest, 21 December 1944

Postcard sent to Mórné [Ilona] Weisz in Budapest by her two sons, György Weisz and Tibor Weisz, who were living an International Red Cross children's home in Budapest, 21 December 1944 Notes from Aharon Weisz, who submitted the material: Mór and Ilona Weisz lived in Budapest together with their sons Aharon, born in 1926, who submitted the material, and Avri, born in 1930. Mór Weisz was born in Ürmény, Czechoslovakia in 1895, and moved to Budapest in the 1920s; he received a draft notice to report for service in a labor battalion in Jászberény in 1943. He was transferred to a number of labor camps and...

File Number : 2202

Type of Material : Postcard

Language : Hungarian

Testimony of Meir Friedman, born in 1925 in Halmaj, Hungary, about his experiences in Halmaj and Budapest

Testimony

Testimony of Meir Friedman, born in 1925 in Halmaj, Hungary, about his experiences in Halmaj and Budapest Offspring of an Orthodox religious family in Halmaj; German occupation of Hungary begins in 1944; Jews of the area rounded up in a brick factory in Kosiĉe; witness is transferred with his family to Budapest by a brother; entering a marked house in April 1944; escaping to the "Glass House" in October 1944; Arrow Cross operatives assault the house; saved by a German officer from murder on the Danube on December 31, 1944; liberation by Red Army forces on January 18, 11945; half a year in Vienna;...

File Number : 13472

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Prushka Ruth Hermann Pest, born in 1931 in Györ, Hungary, about the Györ ghetto and Mengele's twins block in Auschwitz

Childhood in an Orthodox home; Germans enter Hungary in March 1944; Jews of Györ rounded up in a synagogue; compulsory wearing of the yellow star; humiliating measures; dispossession; ghettoization; eviction from the ghetto to a collection camp; abuse of the community leaders; deportation to Auschwitz; selection and transfer to Mengele's twins block in Birkenau; murder of the family in Auschwitz; description of the examinations that the twins endured; transfer to C-Lager before autumn; spared from a death march on January 18, 1945; Red Army forces arrive and witness is placed in a convent in Katowice; discharge...

File Number : 13403

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avraham Stern, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1935, regarding his experiences in Budapest and the Budapest Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Avraham Stern, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1935, regarding his experiences in Budapest and the Budapest Ghetto His family's life and his education; his father's service in the Hungarian Army during Word War I. German Army occupation of Budapest, March 1944; life under German occupation including decree regarding wearing a yellow badge; rise to power of the Arrow Cross party; confiscation of property and valuables; deportation to the Budapest Ghetto; Budapest Ghetto life including religious life and mortality due to disease, cold and hunger; activities of the Judenrat in the Budapest Ghetto;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yehuda Perl Margalit, born in Nove Zamky, Czechoslovakia, 1934, regarding his experiences in Nove Zamky, children's homes and in the Budapest Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Yehuda Perl Margalit, born in Nove Zamky, Czechoslovakia, 1934, regarding his experiences in Nove Zamky, children's homes and in the Budapest Ghetto Deportation of his parents and three younger siblings to Kamenets Podolski and their murder, 27-28 August 1941; deportation of Yehuda and his two older siblings to the Tlranaz school in Budapest; return to Nove Zamky, October 1941; deportation to children's homes in Budapest; life in children's homes, April-October 1944; deportation to the Budapest Ghetto, October 1944; liberation, 18 January 1945. Transfer to Hashomer Hatzair children's homes in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

To be translated

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memory book from the Boys' Orphanage that was maintained by the Jewish community in Budapest, 1938-1946, as it was written and collected by Avraham (Ferenc) Lebovits, 1999

Memory book from the Boys' Orphanage that was maintained by the Jewish community in Budapest, 1938-1946, as it was written and collected by Avraham (Ferenc) Lebovits, 1999 - Establishment of the Budapest Jewish Community Boys' Orphanage during the 19th century; increase in the number of children in the orphanage after the annexation of the Felvidék areas, Karpathos Taurus, and Transylvania to Hungary, 1938-1940; division of the children into three groups, by age; establishing a daily routine: studies, physical activities, games, and reading stories; - Drafting of some of the teachers into Hungarian Army...

File Number : 5861

Type of Material : Photograph, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, English, German, Hungarian

Otto Komoly's work appointment books, 1934-17 December 1944

File Number : 44

Type of Material : Diary

Language : Hungarian

Memoirs of Elisheva Libovich, (maiden name: Zonenfeld), born in Újpest in 1929, regarding her experiences during the Holocaust, and the memoirs of Avraham Libovich, born in 1921, regarding his experiences in 1944-1945, from his book about the Jewish orphanage in Budapest - "To my children and grandchildren": Elisheva Libovich’s memoirs of her experiences in the Holocaust: persecution of Hungarian Jews in the early 1940s; German invasion of Hungary on 19 March 1944; deportation of her father to labor camps (he perished); life in the Újpest Ghetto; deportation with family members to Auschwitz; selection in...

File Number : 11092

Type of Material : Survey, Genealogy, Memoirs, Article

Language : Hebrew

To be translated

File Number : 3610

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

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