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Testimony of Miriam Roth née Kaf, born in 1930 in Vinkovci, Yugoslavia, about her experiences in the Baja ghetto and with her twin sister in the "Mengele's twins" barracks in Auschwitz

Life with an identical twin sister; childhood in Vojvodina; Hungary re-annexes the area in 1941; father inducted into labor brigades; connection with father lost; livelihood hardships and placement with mother's family in the countryside; German occupation ensues in 1944; Jewish community rounded up, deported to the Baja ghetto, and placed in a brickyard; deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau on May 28, 1944; twins separated in a selection; witness placed in the "Mengele's twins" barracks; undergoes frequent blood tests; receives help at the hospital; evacuation order issued in January 1945; finding a hiding place in...

File Number : 13585

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ilana Hochbaum Milikowski, born in Lyntupy, Poland, in 1936 regarding her escape from a liquidation"Aktion" and regarding the help of Russian partisans

Testimony

German occupation 1941; establishment of the ghetto; deportation with the parents to the Postawy ghetto; liquidation of the ghetto and uprising; smuggling with her sister by a Pole to Lyntupy; "Aktion" of liquidation; the grandfather is shot; escape with the sister and aunt during the "Aktion"; hiding with villagers; patronage and protection of Russian partisans; liberation in 1944; Soviet education and activity at the komsomol; aliya to Israel in 1960

File Number : 13757

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Kedar Fakdrager Yehuda, born in Amsterdam, Holland, in 1937, regarding the deportation to Westerbork and Bergen Belsen camps

Testimony

Family background ; appointment of the uncles to the Jewish Committee in Amsterdam during German occupation; death of the brother in the shelling of the city in 1943; deportation to Westerbork in September 1943; deportation of the family to The "star camp"(Sternenlager)in Bergen Belsen in January 1944; joining of the grandfathers to an inmate exchange deal with the Templars in 1944; death of the parents and grandmother in Bergen Belsen; joining the group of children sponsored by the Birenboim family; the labor train; liberation by the Russians in Troebitz in April 1944; living in the children's home of Rabbi...

File Number : 13800

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shimshon Moshe, born in Gherla, Romania, in 1925 regarding activity in the Zionist youth underground between 1941 and 1944

Father-merchant; moving to Cluj; Hungarian control in 1940; activity in the Zionist youth movement; agriculture studies in Budapest; recruitment for underground activity; smuggling Jewish workers from Poland to Romania between 1942 and 1944; German occupation; denunciation and arrest; investigations; escape from the prison by the underground; aliya to Israel via Turkey in May 1944; absorption ; information about the death of relatives in the camps

File Number : 13746

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Eikhner Perser Suzanna Esther , born in Nitra, Czechoslovakia, in 1937 regarding the christianization of the family and the hiding with acquaintances

Educated family; the grandfather-head of the community; independance of Slovakia in 1939; leaving the house due to limitations in the number of Jews allowed to live on the main street; christianization of the family; obtaining certificates; learning in a monastery; denunciation and deportation of the parents to Auschwitz Birkenau in September 1944; rescue by the christian family nanny; hiding with the christaian nanny until May 1945; recognition of the nanny Pestunka Augusta as a Righteous Among the Nations; return of the father after the war; aliya to Israel in 1949

File Number : 13737

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sherer Moshkovitz Lea Lula, born in Konin, Poland, in 1924 regarding the Ostrowiec ghetto and the Kamienna Skarzysko camps and others

Testimony

Antisemitism before the war; outbreak of war in 1939; arrest and deportation from the city; asylum in Ostrowiec; deportation to the ghetto; cleaning works; murder of the brother was he was trying to escape to Russia; murder of the mother and brothers in gas vansnear Konin in 1941; liquidation "aktion" of the Ostrowiec ghetto; deportation to the Skarzysko Kamienna camp in 1942; working in a porcelain factory; forced labor in moving stones from one place to the other in Auschwitz; going on the death march at the end of 1944-January 1945; deportation to the Kratzau and Gruental camps in the Sudetenland; forced...

File Number : 13741

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mikhael Peter Hendrich Ben Dror Kelman, born in 1941 in Hilversum, Netherlands, about his experiences as an infant in the Amsterdam ghetto, in the Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen camps, and immigration to Eretz Israel as part of a prisoner swap

Parents born in Germany; grandson of the writer Georg Hermann Borchardt; family escapes from Germany to the Netherlands in 1933; grandfather's books burned in Germany; father, Herbert Kelman, escapes; deportation to the Amsterdam ghetto along with mother and grandfather; deportation to Westerbork in 1943; hospitalized in the camp and spared from the transports; grandfather sent to Auschwitz and transferred to Bergen-Belsen; swapping of Templer prisoners from Mandate Palestine; transported to Eretz Israel by train via Turkey in June 1944; received by Kibbutz Sede Nehemia.

File Number : 13546

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zohar Shlomo zilgelshtein, born in Verecki Pss, Czechoslovakia, in 1923, regarding his hiding in the forests, his deportation to the Gusen and Mauthausen camps, Austria.

Testimony

Orthodox family related to "Sharf" from Sterlinsk (from the Greats of the hasidut); activity in the Beitar; transition to Hungarian rule in 1939; deportation order for the Jews without a Czech nationality towards the Polish border in 1939; housing the deportees in a house that was built on the border; smuggling of the deportees by the witness back to Czechoslovakia on hidden paths; hiding in the forests of Ukraine; capture by Germans; deportation to camps in Austria; forced labour in a quarry in the Gusen camp; he comes across his brother in Mauthausen; march to Gunskirchen; death of his brother; liberation in...

File Number : 13743

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe Shper, born in Volove, Carpathian Ruthenia, Czechoslovakia, in 1921 regarding his recruitment to labour battalions and his deportation to Mauthausen

wealthy family; he attends the Hebrew Gymnasium in Mukacevo; transition to Hungarian rule in 1939; rise of anti-semitism ; deportation of the stateless to Poland, recruitment for labor battalions in 1942; work in a car workshop in Budapest; German occupation in 1944; escape attempts; march to Austria; digging bunkers in Szombathely; cruelty of the SS; Gunskirchen and Mathausen camps; liberation; return to Carpathian Ruthenia; return of his mother and sisters from Auschwitz; aliya to Israel in 1949.

File Number : 13693

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Dvora Doris Shner née Klatz, born in 1932 in Dortmund, Germany, about her experiences as a girl in Rożniatów, Bursztin, the Rohatyn ghetto, and in hiding with villagers during the war

Offspring of immigrant parents from Galicia, receiving a "certificate" (Mandate Palestine immigration visa); father deported to Zbąszyń in 1938; reunited with father in Rożniatów in 1939; Poland partititioned and life under Soviet occupation; escaping to Bursztin; German occupation ensues in June 1941; a German soldier warns the family about murder of Jews; establishment of Judenrat; father refuses to translate from German into Polish; receiving word about murder of people in pits in Rohatyn; receiving a postcard from a family member with information about sending of trains to Bełżec; deportation to the Rohatyn...

File Number : 13614

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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