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Testimony of Mordechay (Paul Georg) Fleischer, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1926 regarding his escape to Budapest, deportation to detention camps, escape from a death march and residing in the Glass House

Testimony

Childhood before the war; Fascist Slovakia, 1938; antisemitic events; Attempts to move to Budapest, Hungary, winter 1942-1943; getting arrested by Hungarian soldiers while escaping; sent back to Slovakia; escape to Hungary with the aid of a smuggler; arrival in Budapest; capture and arrest; decrees and restrictions; transferred to a prison by two Hungarian soldiers; deportation to a brick factory; escape to a marked house; capture and deportation for labor building fortifications and digging anti-tank trenches near Solnok, late October 1944; march towards Austria; escape to the Red Cross house in Budapest...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Postcard sent to Mórné [Ilona] Weisz in Budapest by her two sons, György Weisz and Tibor Weisz, who were living an International Red Cross children's home in Budapest, 21 December 1944

Postcard sent to Mórné [Ilona] Weisz in Budapest by her two sons, György Weisz and Tibor Weisz, who were living an International Red Cross children's home in Budapest, 21 December 1944 Notes from Aharon Weisz, who submitted the material: Mór and Ilona Weisz lived in Budapest together with their sons Aharon, born in 1926, who submitted the material, and Avri, born in 1930. Mór Weisz was born in Ürmény, Czechoslovakia in 1895, and moved to Budapest in the 1920s; he received a draft notice to report for service in a labor battalion in Jászberény in 1943. He was transferred to a number of labor camps and...

File Number : 2202

Type of Material : Postcard

Language : Hungarian

Documentation regarding Jeno Wertheimer and his family including a letter and postcards to his family in Budapest, a death certificate, a widow's benefits certificate for his wife and more, 1942-1947

Documentation regarding Jeno Wertheimer and his family including a letter and postcards to his family in Budapest, a death certificate, a widow's benefits certificate for his wife and more, 1942-1947 - Letter and postcards written by Jeno Wertheimer, a forced laborer in a labor battalion in Hungary, to his family in Budapest, 1942; - Postcard written by a friend of Jeno Wertheimer, noting that Jeno "has not been seen recently", 10 March 1943; - Death certificate for Jeno Wertheimer, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1901, issued by the Red Cross in Hungary; - Death certificate for Jeno Wertheimer,...

File Number : 1644

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Death Certificate, Postcard, Letter

Language : Hungarian

Testimony of Sofia Doczminer née Fried, born in 1924 in Berbesti, Romania, about her experiences in Berbesti, Budapest, the Hunsfeld camp, Auschwitz, and elsewhere

Testimony

Testimony of Sofia Doczminer née Fried, born in 1924 in Berbesti, Romania, about her experiences in Berbesti, Budapest, the Hunsfeld camp, Auschwitz, and elsewhere Life before the war; connection with the Satmar Hasidim; antisemitism in Romania escalates; activity of the Iran Guard movement in 1937; Hungary re-annexes the area in 1940; antisemitism escalates and Jews are placed under restrictions; father's business is transferred to Sighet in 1940; escaping to relatives in Budapest in 1943; escaping back to Berbesti in 1944; deportation to Auschwitz in 1944; transfer with her three sisters to Hunsfeld; life...

File Number : 13453

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Menachem Mendel Haberman, born in 1927 in Irlava, Czechoslovakia, about his experiences in the Mukacevo ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Loslan, and Buchenwald

Testimony

Testimony of Menachem Mendel Haberman, born in 1927 in Irlava, Czechoslovakia, about his experiences in the Mukacevo ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Loslan, and Buchenwald Childhood in a haredi Hasidic family; moving to Mikacevo in 1930, next door to the Munkacser rebbe's yeshiva; attending a cheder and a public school; antisemitic manifestations in Mukacevo; assigned to farm labor under Hungarian gendarmes' supervision, 1941–1943; Mukacevo ghetto sealed in March 1944 (the witness' house was in the ghetto confines); deportation in the first transpsort to Birkenau in April 1944; 120 people in each car; mutual...

File Number : 13497

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Haim Yahalom (Diamant), born in 1935 in Prague, Czechoslovakia, about his experiences in Prague and in Theresienstadt ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Haim Yahalom (Diamant), born in 1935 in Prague, Czechoslovakia, about his experiences in Prague and in Theresienstadt ghetto Childhood in Prague; German occupation ensues in 1939; father continues to work in manufacturing with the help of the German factory manager; deportation to Theresienstadt ghetto in 1941; placement in a children's home in the ghetto in 1942; parents work in a ghetto crafts shop, turning put leather accessories for the German Army in 1942; placement in isolation in the hospital hosopital due to typhus and tuberculosis; life in the ghetto, mainly of children, in 1941–1945;...

File Number : 13382

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Eva Cederbaum, born in Radom, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Pionki camp and additional camps

Testimony

Testimony of Eva Cederbaum, born in Radom, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Pionki camp and additional camps Aliya to Israel, 1984.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Reuven Meir Fersztenburg, born in Rajgrod, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and as a forced laborer in the Kaufering camp

Testimony

Testimony of Reuven Meir Fersztenburg, born in Rajgrod, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and as a forced laborer in the Kaufering camp Family background; move to Lodz; way of life in his home; Shabbat and religious holidays; attends a Yavneh school; the Jewish community; his father's Bund activities; his mother's Zionist movement activities; membership in Gordonia. Occupation of Lodz by the Germans, September 1939; kidnapping of people for forced labor; destruction of the synagogue; yellow badge; disappearance of his father; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letter written by Urlik Jos from Morgins to the Lepine family, the rescuers of his daughter Henriette Hertel Yetty in Villedieu, France, 12/10/1944

Letter written by Urlik Jos from Morgins to the Lepine family, the rescuers of his daughter Henriette Hertel Yetty in Villedieu, France, 12/10/1944 Note: The parents of the Jos family resided in Antwerp, and escaped to France; they entrusted their daughter Yetty (born, 10 September 1940) to the Red Cross; the parents moved to Switzerland with their other children Doudy (born, 03 July 1944) and Danielle (born, 02 January 1943).

File Number : 1301

Type of Material : Letter

Language : French

Correspondence and reports of the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington, the US State Department and US diplomatic legations in Europe regarding the situation of the Jews in Romania and Hungary (also after the war) and rescue attempts, May 1944-January 1945 Pages 1-6: Report transmitted from the US Legation in Bern regarding rescue activities in Romania and a plan to take 5,000 children out of Romania (French original, English translation), a cover letter from the US Legation in Stockholm regarding the treatment of Jews by various Romanian personalities, May 1944; Pages 7-12: Document of the War Refugee...

File Number : 87

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Record of Persecuted Persons, Statistical Data, Telegram, Survey Report

Language : English

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