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Testimony of Yechiel Hahn, born in 1932 in Budapest, about his experiences as a boy in protected houses of the Swedish and Spanish embassies in Budapest during the German occupation

Life before the war in parents' home; grandfather, Gerson Hahn, establishes a Sephardi Orthodox synagogue in Budapest; antisemitism in school; father inducted into the Hungarian labor service in 1940; German occupation ensues in March 1944; secretly listening to BBC radio broadcasts; wearing the yellow star; shop nationalized; studies halted; movement restrictions imposed; ban on employing a non-Jewish domestic; concealing valuables; moving to a marked house; moving to a house protected by the Swedish Embassy in July 1944; a rescue and relief organization helps with food; bombardments; moving into a cellar; a...

File Number : 13604

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ilona Rachel Lea (Hershkovitz) Isaak, born in Coltirea, Romania, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Baia Mare Ghetto, Auschwitz and Goerlitz

Testimony

Testimony of Ilona Rachel Lea (Hershkovitz) Isaak, born in Coltirea, Romania, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Baia Mare Ghetto, Auschwitz and Goerlitz Her childhood in her parents' home. Romania joins the war, 1940; hiding of their valuables with their neighbors; deportation to the Baia Mare Ghetto; deportation on a train to Auschwitz; separation between men and women; selection by Dr. Mengele; tattooing of number 12473 on her arm; life in Auschwitz in Block 20, Camp C, together with her mother and another 1,200 women, including fasting on Yom Kippur; transfer to Block 16 in Camp B in Auschwitz;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shlomo Sigmund Weiss, born in Dunajska Streda, Czechoslovakia, 1919, regarding his experiences in Komarom, Banhida, Kisber, the Dunajska Streda Ghetto, Auschwitz and more

Testimony

Testimony of Shlomo Sigmund Weiss, born in Dunajska Streda, Czechoslovakia, 1919, regarding his experiences in Komarom, Banhida, Kisber, the Dunajska Streda Ghetto, Auschwitz and more Home life; annexation to Hungary, 1938 [name of town changed to its Hungarian name, Dunaszerdahely]; displays of antisemitism; cancellation of family business license; house searches; economic difficulties. German occupation, 1939; locking up Jews in a cellar, beatings and interrogations about valuables; hiding of the family valuables; draft and deportation to a labor camp in Komarom, 1942; escape during : Hanukkah...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mordechai Winter, born in Halberstadt, Germany, 1924, regarding his experiences in Halberstadt and in Israel

Testimony

Testimony of Mordechai Winter, born in Halberstadt, Germany, 1924, regarding his experiences in Halberstadt and in Israel His family's move to Halberstadt, 1921; his childhood in his parent's home; Life after the Nazi rise to power, including antisemitism and acts of abuse against the Jews, 1933; Zionist activities of his family members; announcement by the Government of Poland regarding the revocation of Polish citizenship [of the Jews living outside the borders of Poland], 1938; deportation to Poland of Jews lacking [German] citizenship; capture of his parents by the Gestapo; transfer of Jews who were...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Hana (Titler) Cohen, born in Vasilau, Romania, 1925, regarding her experiences in Vasilau, Dzhurin, Cernauti, Radauti, Eretz Israel and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Hana (Titler) Cohen, born in Vasilau, Romania, 1925, regarding her experiences in Vasilau, Dzhurin, Cernauti, Radauti, Eretz Israel and other places Her life in an ultra-Orthodox, Zionist family; membership in Bnei Akiva. Soviet occupation of Vasilau, 1940; life under Soviet occupation including closure of their shop, trade on the black market, shortage of food and ban on gatherings; German Army occupation of Vasilau, 1941; murder and robbery of property, for a period of three days; deportation to a ghetto; handing over of property to acquaintances for safekeeping; life under German...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chava (Frid) Steiner, born in Viseul De Mijloc, Romania, 1929, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz and additional camps

Testimony

Testimony of Chava (Frid) Steiner, born in Viseul De Mijloc, Romania, 1929, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz and additional camps

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Tova Gita Landau, born in Cernauti, Romania in 1938, regarding her experiences in Berhomet and in the Mogilev-Podolski Ghetto

Testimony of Tova Gita Landau, born in Cernauti, Romania in 1938, regarding her experiences in Berhomet and in the Mogilev-Podolski Ghetto Only child in a religious family; Deportation on foot from Berhomet to Atachi; transfer on rafts to Mogilev-Podolski; Mogilev-Podolski Ghetto life; capture of her mother; deportation of her mother to forced labor; her mother's escape; death of her father in Mogilev-Podolski; obtaining food; liberation by the Red Army, 1944; Wanderings; return to Cernauti; move to Dorohoi; move to Bucharest; her mother's illness and hospitalization; the witness is placed in an...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rachel Edith (Verdinger) Vardi, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1934, regarding her experiences as a child in a marked house, using a false identity and in hiding in Budapest

Testimony

Testimony of Rachel Edith (Verdinger) Vardi, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1934, regarding her experiences as a child in a marked house, using a false identity and in hiding in Budapest Life in Budapest before the war; from a religious family; attends a Jewish school; displays of antisemitism. Deportation of her father to a labor battalion; German occupation, 1944; the family home becomes a marked house; the house becomes a Swedish protected house; using forged documents, finds a hiding place in the home of a Hungarian couple; return to the family home; release of her father from the labor battalion; her...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Menachem Golan, born in Laskod, Hungary, 1928, regarding his experiences in labor battalions and the Budapest Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Menachem Golan, born in Laskod, Hungary, 1928, regarding his experiences in labor battalions and the Budapest Ghetto From a religious family; move to Budapest, 1943. Drafted to labor battalions; German occupation, 1944; deportation to the Budapest Ghetto; ghetto life including forced labor; liberation by the Red Army, 1945. Aliya to Eretz Israel via Italy, 1948; joins Palyam naval military training.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Reports of the Sicherheitspolizei (SIPO-Security Police) and the Sicherheitsdiens (SD-Security Service) headquarters regarding military and political activity during the occupation of the Soviet Union: Report No. 45, 07/08/1941 Part 1 - Political events: Distribution of placards in Untersteiermark and Krain containing a call to the Slovenian population to boycott all the German institutions and fight the occupiers and [including] a threat to shoot anyone who will cooperate with the Germans; detention of a group of Red Army paratroopers in a forest near Oleczne, Poland; clash of police forces near Kielce...

File Number : 163.45

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : German

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