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Testimony of Betty Miatovitz, born in Backa Palanka, Yugoslavia, 1929, regarding her experiences in Backa Palanka, the Bia Ghetto, in Auschwitz and Braunschweig camp

Testimony of Betty Miatovitz, born in Backa Palanka, Yugoslavia, 1929, regarding her experiences in Backa Palanka, the Bia Ghetto, in Auschwitz and Braunschweig camp Hungarian occupation of Backa Palanka, 1941; yellow badge; termination of studies; dismissal of her father; hunger; mutual help in the Jewish community; German occupation, early 1944; deportation to the Bia Ghetto, in Hungary; deportation to Auschwitz after four months; selection; separation between parents and their children; camp life together with her sister; rescue by a Romanian physician; separation from her sister; transfer to Braunschweig...

File Number : 55

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yaakov Zoltan Israel Izak, born in Chendul Mic, 1922, regarding his experiences in a Hungarian labor battalion, Mauthausen and Gunskirchen

Testimony

Testimony of Yaakov Israel, born in Chendul Mic, 1922, regarding his experiences in a Hungarian labor battalion, Mauthausen and Gunskirchen From an ultra-Orthodox family; learns in "heder" and attends a public school; relations with the local population; learns in a yeshiva in a nearby village; learns the tailoring trade in Bucharest, 1934; move to Budapest. Drafted to a labor battalion, 1942; labor logging trees in Reghin; the Hungarian officers transfer the labor battalion to the Germans, 1944; deportation to Mauthausen; transfer to Gunskirchen to remove the corpses with the approach of the front;...

File Number : 12519

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Gusztav Gross, born in Gyoer, Hungary in 1923, regarding his experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Lieberose, Oranienburg, Gusen II and other camps

Testimony of Gusztav Gross, born in Gyoer, Hungary in 1923, regarding his experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Lieberose, Oranienburg, Gusen II and other camps Transfer to the Gestapo on 23/03/1944; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in June 1944; selection by Dr. Mengele; selected for labor, and separation from his father, mother and two brothers; Auschwitz-Birkenau camp life; labor in the area of the crematoria in October 1944; he views the Sonderkommando Uprising; transfer to Lieberose after the uprising; transfer to Falkensee on foot; transfer to Oranienburg camp; transfer to Gusen II camp; liquidation...

File Number : 3630

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : German

Testimony of Efraim Shpilman, born in Mahmudia, Romania in 1936, regarding his experiences as a boy in Mahmudia and in Tulcea

Testimony

Testimony of Efraim Shpilman, born in Mahmudia, Romania in 1936, regarding his experiences as a boy in Mahmudia and in Tulcea Life before the war; life in a small Jewish community; antisemitic bullying in the late 1930s; father saved from murder by members of the Iron Guard; confiscation of the family business; expulsion to Tulcea; father’s deportation to forced labor in 1942; receiving a letter containing information on the father’s death in the Transnistria region; anti-Jewish legislation; suffering from shortages; liberation by the Red Army in 1944; life in an orphanage in Bucharest; illegal immigration...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Collective testimony of Joseph Burger Ezrachi, born in Lachowicz, Poland, 1918, and Esther Lichtenstein, born in Buciumi, Romania, regarding their experiences, 1939-1948

Collective testimony of Joseph Burger Ezrachi, born in Lachowicz, Poland, 1918, and Esther Lichtenstein, born in Buciumi, Romania, regarding their experiences, 1939-1948 Testimony of Joseph Burger Ezrachi: His childhood in Lachowicz; attends a high school in Baranowicz; start of stomatology studies; outbreak of the war; service in the cavalry corps, 1939; taken captive by the Germans; attitude toward the Jewish POWs; transfer to a camp on Lipowa Street, no. 7, in Lublin, 01/1941; camp life; [transfer to Majdanek camp]; Majdanek camp life; typhus disease; establishment of an underground group in Lipowa;...

File Number : 8749

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew, Yiddish