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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 Menahem Lior, born in Bedzin, Poland in 1928, regarding his experiences during ‎deportation to the Bedzin Ghetto and the work camp in Kamionka; hidden by a Pole; escape to ‎Eretz Israel His childhood in a socialist Zionist home; refugees from Germany; rise of antisemitism; outbreak of ‎war on 1 September 1939; anti-Jewish laws and decrees; restriction of Jewish movement and ‎concentration in one area; youth movements; agricultural farm; Zionist and underground ‎activities; infiltrating into a nearby work camp; work collecting and sorting possessions of the Jews ‎in the ghetto; removing dead...

File Number : 13735

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Asher Keller, born in 1927 in Miskolc, Hungary, about his experiences on a march toward Austria and in a protected house and in hiding in Budapest

Testimony

Testimony of Asher Keller, born in 1927 in Miskolc, Hungary, about his experiences on a march toward Austria and in a protected house and in hiding in Budapest Life before the war, moving with the family to Budapest in 1937; antisemitism in school; refugees from Yugoslavia and Austria reached his location; expelled from academic high school and transferred to a vocational school in 1943; German occupation ensues in March 44; the yellow star edict; the house is marked with a star; curfew in some daytime hours is announced; taking off the yellow star while venturing outside in search of food; Arrow Cross...

File Number : 13444

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation regarding rescue efforts of Jewish organizations during the war, testimonies of Holocaust survivors, emigration attempts and the postwar handling of Holocaust survivors and the Holocaust in general, 1943-1973 Pages 101-122: Notes of a member of the Joodse Raad voor Amsterdam (Jewish Council in Amsterdam) regarding the situation in the Netherlands, most probably 1943: - Initial anti-Jewish decrees, 1940, including the ban on ritual slaughter, 31 July 1940; - Dismissal of Jewish officials, November 1940; - Anti-Jewish propaganda, early 1941; - Brawls between the Nationaal-Socialistische...

File Number : 132

Type of Material : Correspondence, Reports, Official Documentation, Letter(s), Lists, Testimony, Telegram

Language : Hebrew, French, English, German

Testimony of Vilmos Krausz, born in Budapest, Hungary in 1925, regarding his experiences during service in a labor battalion in Budapest and in Bruck an der Leitha, Wiener Neustadt, Linz and other camps

File Number : 507

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

Documentation, including a list of Jewish refugees from Poland who are in Hungary that was sent to Saly Mayer by Nathan Schwalb, a letter written by Israel Kasztner to Saly Mayer regarding the negotiations with the SS, a report by Philip von Freudiger regarding the events in Hungary, and other matters; documents dated, 1944-1978 - List of names of Jewish refugees from Poland who are still in Hungary, sent to Saly Mayer by Nathan Schwalb, 03 October 1944; - Letter written by Israel Kasztner to Saly Mayer, regarding the "ARBA" [?] negotiations with the SS, 10 October 1944; - Report sent by Philip von...

File Number : להזמנת התיק ראו קוד מיקרופילם

Type of Material : List of Persecuted Persons, Official Documentation

Language : English, German

Testimony of László Weinberger, born in Szolnok, Hungary in 1914, regarding his experiences during service in a labor battalion in Jászberény and Budapest, and in Mauthausen, Günskirchen and other camps He presents himself to the authorities for forced labor in service in a labor battalion in Jászberény on 21/05/1944; transfer to Budapest; labor in Budapest as a railroad laborer; he receives good treatment and a permit to return to his family's home each day; the labor battalion receives a protective document; residence on Páva Street; labor repairing a railroad track at the Ferencváros railroad station;...

File Number : 598

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

Testimony of György Beretvás, born in Budapest, Hungary in 1905, regarding his experiences during service in a labor battalion in Budapest, and in Oranienburg, Sachsenhausen, Ohrdruf and other camps He presents himself to the authorities for forced labor in a labor battalion in Budapest on 01/06/1944; labor in the labor battalion in Budapest in a [military] food storeroom; he obtains a protective document from the Swiss Embassy; they are put into freight cars at a railroad station in Józsefváros in Budapest on 01/12/1944; life en route for ten days, including receiving food twice; transfer to Hegyeshalom;...

File Number : 565

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

Testimony of Miklós Benedek, born in Sajószentpéter, Hungary in 1922, regarding his experiences during service in a labor battalion in Felsőhangony and Budapest, and in Buchenwald, Neubrandenburg and other camps Deportation to forced labor in labor battalion 11/3 in Felsőhangony in October 1943; he obtains a Swiss Embassy protective document on 08/11/1944; transfer to Budapest for service in labor battalion 701/26; implementation of labor, in odd jobs; they receive thinned-out food; transfer to Buchenwald in December 1944; life en route in a freight car with approximately 80 inmates inside for 18 days;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : German

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