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Testimony of Joseph Folk, born in Cece, Hungary, 1926, regarding his experiences in Cece and labor battalions in Bor

Testimony

Testimony of Joseph Folk, born in Cece, Hungary, 1926, regarding his experiences in Cece and labor battalions in Bor Life before the war; well-to-do family; attends a Hungarian school and high school; unsuccessful emigration attempts to Australia and Eretz Israel, 1938; Zionist youth movement activities. Outbreak of the war; restrictions on the Jews; confiscation of businesses and livelihood; deportation with his father to Auschwitz; murder of his father, April 1944; transfer to a labor battalion in Bor (Mine); Yugoslavian partisan activities; deportation of the Hungarian Army; liberation, September...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Julious Iancu, born in Bacau, Romania, 1920, regarding his experiences as a forced laborer in labor battalions

Testimony

Testimony of Julious Iancu, born in Bacau, Romania, 1920, regarding his experiences as a forced laborer in labor battalions Life in a religious family of craftsmen. Outbreak of the war; anti-Jewish restrictions; draft to labor battalions, 1941; labor clearing rubble; labor laying railroad tracks; publication of knowledge in daily newspapers and BBC broadcasts regarding the extermination of Jews in extermination camps; liberation by the Red Army, August 1944; eviction from their home; move to Bucharest. Life after the war; aliya to Israel, 1964.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chava (Trakinski) Borenstein, born in Podbrodzie, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences in Vilna, the Vilna Ghetto, Swir Ghetto, Kaiserwald, Strasshof and Stutthof

Testimony

Testimony of Chava (Trakinski) Borenstein, born in Podbrodzie, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences in Vilna, the Vilna Ghetto, Swir Ghetto, Kaiserwald, Strasshof and Stutthof Traditional family; displays of antisemitism before the war; move to Vilna, 1929; meets Jewish refugees; activities in the Hashomer Hatzair movement. German occupation, 1941; deportation to the Vilna Ghetto; large Vilna Ghetto life and small Vilna Ghetto life; anti-Jewish restrictions; liquidation of the small ghetto; return of her father to Podbrodzie; escape in the direction of Bialystok; in hiding in a flour mill; in hiding...

File Number : 13028

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shlomo Braunstein, born in Izky, Czechoslovakia, 1920, regarding his experiences in a labor battalion and during his wanderings

Testimony

Testimony of Shlomo Braunstein, born in Izky, Czechoslovakia, 1920, regarding his experiences in a labor battalion and during his wanderings Orphaned of his mother; orphaned of his father when he was 7 years old; life with his siblings; move to Volovec; life with one of his siblings including work as a tailor's apprentice. Outbreak of the war; drafted into a Hungarian Army labor battalion; building fortifications along the front and laying railroad tracks; harsh discipline including corporal punishment; obtains food through barter with the Ukrainians and Romanians; several escapes from the camp; escape to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Arie Ludwik Libovitz, born in Kralovo, Czechoslovakia, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Chust Ghetto, Auschwitz, Warsaw, Dachau and Muehldorf Waldlager

Testimony

Testimony of Arie Lurwik Libovitz, born in Kralovo, Czechoslovakia, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Chust Ghetto, Auschwitz, Warsaw, Dachau and Muehldorf Waldlager Life before the war; relations with the non-Jewish population. Outbreak of the war, 1939; annexation to Hungary; decrees and restrictions; deportation of converts; ban on studies in schools; draft of his father to a labor camp, 1941; deportation of youths above the age of 18 to labor on the Russian front; deportation to the Chust Ghetto, April 1944; ghetto life; deportation to Auschwitz; transfer to Warsaw; camp life including labor...

File Number : 12839

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of members of the Holer family (Avraham [the father], Pnina [his wife], and their children Yehuda, Rivka and Menachem), from Likowa, regarding their experiences in Likowa and in a group of partisans in the forest

Memoirs of Avraham Holer from Likowa regarding his experience in Likowa and in a group of partisans in the forest Life in Likowa during the German occupation, 01/09/1939; first days of the occupation, and the retreat of the Germans upon the arrival of the Red Army; return of the German occupation after a short while; imposition of restrictions on the Jews; transfer of Jews to forced labor on 01/01/1940; deportation of Avraham with the Jewish men to Belzec camp on the eve of Rosh Hashana (September) 1941; news regarding the horrors in Belzec camp including the murder of the Gypsies who were detained in the...

File Number : 10148

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian