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Testimony of Hava Eva (Rutkai) Ungar, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1931, regarding her experiences as a child in Szeged, Strasshof and the Floridsdorf Wien camp

Testimony

Testimony of Hava Eva (Rutkai) Ungar, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1931, regarding her experiences as a child in Szeged, Strasshof and the Floridsdorf Wien camp Life before the war; life in Szeged in an orphanage; attends a government school; ostracism by the Jewish children. Concentration of the Jewish children in a roof tile factory, March 1944; deportation to Vienna by train; life in Vienna; help from the Jewish community and the Joint Distribution Committee; deportation to Strasshof; camp life; guarding of the camp by Ukrainian guards and German guards; transfer by truck to Vienna; transfer to a paint...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Correspondence and reports by the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington regarding requests to receive and transfer funds from organizations in the United States for rescue purposes, May-November 1944

Correspondence and reports by the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington regarding requests to receive and transfer funds from organizations in the United States for rescue purposes, May-November 1944 Pages 1-3: Requests from Norweb in Lisbon to the WRB to transfer funds to Saly Mayer and to the Jewish Agency in Switzerland, May 1942; Pages 4-5: Report regarding the sums of money that the WRB can transfer to Sweden and to Norway, for support of Jewish Christians, among others, June 1944; Page 6: Report from the Jewish Distribution Committee (JDC) to the US Embassy in Lisbon, sent via the WRB;...

File Number : 99

Type of Material : Telegram, Official Documentation

Language : English

Correspondence and reports from the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington regarding rescue attempts and the obtaining of certificates [for legal aliya to Eretz Israel] for Hungarian Jews, May-December 1944 Pages 1-2: - Letter from the World Jewish Congress (WJC) to Yitzchak Gruenbaum at the Jewish Agency (sent via the WRB and the US Consulate in Jerusalem) dealing with the US government's position concerning the issuing of certificates and population exchanges, 06 July 1944; Page 3: - Telegram from London regarding the position of the British government regarding the exchanging of Jews holding...

File Number : 96

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Survey Report, Telegram

Language : English

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

Language : English

Correspondence and reports from the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington, the US State Department and United States diplomatic legations in Europe regarding the mission of Joel Brand and efforts to save the Jews of Hungary, May-December 1944 Page 1: - Telegram from the US legation in Bern to the US State Department in Washington regarding the proposal to exchange Hungarian Jews for Hungarian POWs in the Soviet Union and in other countries; 27 May 1944; Pages 2-3: - Copy of a report by the British High Commissioner in Eretz Israel regarding his meeting with David Ben Gurion and Moshe Shertok about the...

File Number : 85

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Telegram

Language : English

Correspondence and reports of the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington, the US State Department and diplomatic missions of the United States in Europe regarding the Nazi occupation of Hungary, deportation of Jews and rescue attempts, August-December 1944 Pages 1-15: Telegrams from the US legation in Bern to the US State Department in Washington and from McClelland in Switzerland to the War Refugee Board (WRB) regarding the situation of the Jews in Budapest, rescue possibilities and rescue attempts, August 1944; Pages 16-17: Report from London regarding a debate in Parliament regarding the provision of...

File Number : 84

Type of Material : Survey Report, Telegram, Official Documentation

Language : English, German

Correspondence and reports by the WRB (War Refugee Board) in Washington, the US State Department and US diplomatic legations in Europe regarding the Nazi occupation of Hungary, deportation of the Jews and rescue efforts, 1943-1944 Page 1: Message from the US State Department to the US Consul in Istanbul with a summary of what was said by the Hungarian Minister of the Interior, Ferenc Keresztes-Fischer, during a discussion in the Hungarian Parliament regarding the illegal infiltration of Jews into Hungary, December 1943; Pages 2-4: Memorandum by H. W. Emerson from the US Embassy in London summarizing a...

File Number : 83

Type of Material : Survey Report, Official Documentation, Telegram

Language : English

Correspondence and reports of the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington, the US State Department and US diplomatic legations in Europe regarding relief for Jews, also following liberation, primarily in Hungary, and rescue attempts, 1944 Included in the file: Volume 1 (pages 1-105): Pages 1-2: Letter from the US consul in Istanbul to the US State Department in Washington, notifying of the illegal entry into Hungary of thousands of Jews from the neighboring countries, 23 December 1943; Pages 3-7: Letter from the US consul in Istanbul to the US State Department including the testimony of a Polish...

File Number : 112

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

Language : English

Correspondence and reports of the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington, the US State Department and US diplomatic legations in Europe on various issues related to rescue attempts, and testimonies regarding Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1944 The file includes copies of documents found in other files in the records group. Volume 1: Pages 1-16: Summary from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC - Red Cross) in Geneva regarding the activities of its delegates concerning the question of emigration of Balkan Jews, March 1942-April 1943, including details of their connections with the Jewish Agency for...

File Number : 111

Type of Material : Maps, Survey Report, Official Documentation, Diagram, Record of Persecuted Persons, Telegram

Language : English, German

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