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Testimony of Rivka (Ovich) Shapira, born in Sacel, Romania, 1929 regarding her deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau and other camps

Testimony

From an Orthodox family; Hungarian rule, 1940; Deportation from her home to the Dragomiresti Ghetto; burying valuables in the yard; death of her father in the ghetto; deportation on a transport to Auschwitz-Birkenau; separation from her family; quarrying and paving work; insistence on observing religious commandments; selection for work and transfer to Ravensbrueck, October 1944; transfer to the Malchow camp for weapons production; approach of the Red Army and death march; liberation; Move to the Bergen-Belsen DP camp; legal aliya under the auspices of Agudat Israel, 1947.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Arye Simcha Perl, born in Petrova, Romania, 1919 regarding being drafted into a Hungarian Army forced labor battalion

Testimony

From a Hasidic family; observing Shabbat and holidays; keeping customs; attends a local school and a heder; the Jewish community; Hamizrachi and Agudat Israel movements; Entry of the Hungarians, late August 1940; anti-Jewish decrees; drafting of men, including the witness into Hungarian Army forced labor battalions; forced labor at the airfield, Hungary; wearing a yellow armband; labor camp life; typhus; liberation, late 1944; Return home; news of the murder of his family in Auschwitz; attempt to locate relatives in Sighet; membership in Agudat Israel; rebuilding life after the war; marriage in Petrova,...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of trudi Volakh Salomons, born in Amsterdam, Holland, in 1929, regarding her deportation to Westerbork and other camps.

Testimony

Daughter of an orthodox family; German occupation in 1940; denial of rights; rejection of relatives'offer for asylum in Switzerland; birth of her sister in 1943; her mother had the Swiss nationality; her father was Dutch; refusal of the parents to get divorced and their stay together in Holland; obtaining certificates of aliya to Palestine by her father; obtaining passports of Peru by relatives of her mother who lived in Switzerland; arrival at the train station; deportation to Westerbork in July 1943; stay in Westerbork and protecting from deportation thanks to their certificates and passports of Peru; their...

File Number : 13696

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe Arno Porat Frish, born in Hajdunanas, Hungary in 1931 regarding his deportation to camps in Austria.

Testimony of Moshe Porat Frish, born in Hajdunanas, Hungary in 1931 He was born in an orthodox family; his father's recruitment in a labor battalion in 1943; imposing restrictions on the family business; disbelief in the rumors about the murder of Jews; concentration of the Jews of Hajdunanas in the brick factory in Debrecen for deportation in April 1944; bar mitzvah in the ghetto; deportation by convoy to Austria; death of people in the wagons; life in the camp in Vienna; working in construction; hospitalization of his brother and sister ; death march; the soldiers'abuse of the marchers; life in the...

File Number : 13744

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Chart of Hebrew dates prepared by Moshe Mendel Herstik from Aninoasa, Romania during his internment in the Ilioara camp

Chart of Hebrew dates prepared by Moshe Mendel Herstik from Aninoasa, Romania during his internment in the Ilioara camp Also in the file: - Letter from Moshe Mendel Herstik written in Yiddish with the stamp of his business in Aninoasa. Note from the submitter of the material: Moshe Mendel Herstik founded a synagogue and a "heder" in the Ilioara camp and prepared a chart of Hebrew dates to facilitate the observance of organized religious life in the camp. The submitter of the material, Yechezkel Herstik, born in Aninoasa, Romania, 1931, is the son of Moshe Mendel Herstik.

File Number : 318

Type of Material : Calendar, Letter

Language : Romanian, Yiddish

Transcript of testimony of Frida Flaksberg, born in Craciunesti, Romania, 1923, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz and labor camps in Germany, 1944-1945

Transcript of testimony of Frida Flaksberg, born in Craciunesti, Romania, 1923, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz and labor camps in Germany, 1944-1945 Life before the war. Life in Auschwitz and labor camps in Germany; liberation by the US Army, 1945. Life in Germany after the war; life in Austria after the war; life in Italy after the war; aliya to Israel, 1949.

File Number : 8196

Type of Material : Documentary, Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Chaim Menachem Teichtal, born in 1922 in Piestany, Czechoslovakia, about escaping to Belgium and thence to France; internment in various camps including Saint Cyprien, and escaping

Family life; community; studies; personality of the witness's father, Rabbi Yissachar Shlomo Teichtal; Slovakia given autonomy in October 1938; Hlinka's Slovak People's Party; anti-Jewish decrees and the yellow-star rule; escaping to Belgium via Vienna and Munich; a stay in Antwerp; Germans enter Belgium in May 1940; escaping to France aboard a refugee train; assistance from the Red Cross; reaching southern France; interned in various camps, including Saint Cyprien; religious life and starvation in the camp; escaping to Marseilles with two brothers after a stay in Toulouse; manhunt in the streets of Toulouse;...

File Number : 13333

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation including reports by former inmates, regarding the fate of inmates in Auschwitz, Birkenau and other camps, dated, 1944-1962

Documentation including reports by former inmates, regarding the fate of inmates in Auschwitz, Birkenau and other camps, dated, 1944-1962 Interviews, testimonies, research reports, articles, and excerpts from books: Research report regarding activities by the underground in Monowitz camp, by British POW Charles Coward and his friends; Research report by Wladislaw Tejkiel, 28/07/1961; Protocol of an interview with Gerta Gerzonowa, a former inmate in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz and Flossenburg camps, 19/11/1945; Interviews with Elisabeth Guttenberger and Regine Lebensfeld-Hofstaedter, regarding...

File Number : JM/14175

Type of Material : Interview(s), Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Statistics, Correspondence, Testimony, Protocol, Survey Report

Language : Czech, French, English, German

Testimony of Yozef Bramson, born in Franeker, the Netherlands, 1934, regarding his experiences in the Westerbork camp, the Vught camp, the Barneveld camp, Bergen-Belsen and his liberation on "The Lost Train" in Troebitz

Testimony

Testimony of Yozef Bramson, born in Franeker, the Netherlands, 1934, regarding his experiences in the Westerbork camp, the Vught camp, the Barneveld camp and Bergen-Belsen, and his liberation while on "The Lost Train" in Troebitz Immediate family; his parent's professions; way of life at home; Shabbatot and religious holidays; setting up of a community kibbutz training facility by his father; move to Wildervank; attends a Jewish school. Anti-Jewish legislation and yellow badge; occupation of the Netherlands, May 1940; plan to make aliya to Eretz Israel that is not realized; his father's library and its...

File Number : 13243

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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