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Testimony of Katarina (Reisner) Klein, born in Salonta, Romania, 1928 regarding the Oradea ghetto, deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau and additional camps

Testimony

Her parents' home; membership in the "Dror Habonim" movement; Entry of the Hungarian Army, 1941; economic decrees; her father taken for forced labor; cessation of studies; antisemitism; prohibition on keeping a Christian maid; entrusting valuables for safekeeping with a neighbor; German Army occupation, March 1944; yellow badge; restrictions on movement; cessation of activity in the movement [Dror Habonim]; eviction from her home; gathering in a synagogue; deportation to the Oradea ghetto; deportation by train to Auschwitz-Birkenau; selection; entry to Barrack 16, Lager C, May 1944; transfer by truck to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Gover Branddshtein Agnes, born in Bustina, Czech Republic, in 1929 regarding Mateszalka ghetto, regarding deportation to Auschwitz Birkenau , Birnbaumel and others

Testimony

Parents'house; Hungarian occupation in 1939; deportation of the Jews without citizenship; getting Hungarian citizenship; studies in Mukacevo; expulsion from school in 1943; presence of people from the Arrow Cross Party in the village; curfew; yellow badge; searches at home; preparation for deportation; deportation of the father to a labor camp in 1941; moving to a small house; hiding the jewelry in the courtyard; concentration of the Jewish population in the synagogue; deportation to the Mateszalka ghetto; food parcels from the grandfather in Budapest; deportation to Auschwitz Birkenau in freight trains;...

File Number : 13705

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zeev Semel On, born in Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland, in 1924, regarding labour camps, his deportation to Buchenwald and other camps

Testimony

-Parents'house; anti-semitism; air-raids; occupation by the German army on 04 September,1939; humiliations; forced labour; deportation to the Piotrkow Trybunalski ghetto; the father is a member of the Judenradt; contribution demand; confiscation of furs; walking on the pavement is forbidden; starvation; passing of valuables to local neighbours; reduction of the ghetto; issuance of working papers on 21 October 1942; his work as a porter in "Shneider shop" (tailor shop) for the needs of the German army and cargo transfer from place to place; assembling the children in the big synagogue and their murder;...

File Number : 13463

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Liana Shoshana Fura Shvartz, born in Vienna, Austria, regarding her experiences in Austria and Czechoslovakia and her aliya to pre-state Israel

Testimony of Liana Shoshana Fura Shvartz, born in Vienna, Austria, regarding her experiences in Austria and Czechoslovakia and her aliya to pre-state Israel Childhood before the war; Anschluss in 1938; Kristallnacht in 1938; attacks; Aryanization of family factory; restrictions; certificate for father for a month; attempt to bring relatives from Hungary; family’s escape to the grandfather’s estate in Sala; receiving certificates as colonial subjects; aliya to pre-state Israel in 1940; absorption.

File Number : 13470

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Tzipora Sharf Klein, born in Stryi, Poland in 1936, regarding her experiences during ‎the liquidation of the Stryi ghetto and hiding in a bunker in 1943-1944‎

Testimony of Tzipora Sharf Klein, born in Stryi, Poland in 1936, regarding her experiences during ‎the liquidation of the Stryi ghetto and hiding in a bunker in 1943-1944‎ Her father was a timber merchant who was exiled to Siberia in 1940; the German conquest in ‎‎1941; looting of their house by Ukrainians; order to relinquish possessions; prohibition to leave the ‎house; sale of gold; expulsion to the ghetto; impersonating a Polish girl and escaping through the ‎ghetto fence; looking for food outside the ghetto at the age of five; murder of her grandmother ‎during the Great Aktion; hiding in a wine cellar;...

File Number : 13700

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Renée Kenoshi née Gold, born in 1930 in Odorheiu, Romania, about her experiences in the Targu Mures ghetto and the Auschwitz and Ober-Hohenelbe camps

Life before the war; offspring of a religious family; Hungary re-annexes the area in 1940; promulgation of anti-Jewish laws; men inducted into labor brigades; antisemitic acts; German occupation ensues in March 1944; witness's mother accused of communist activity and imprisoned; wearing the yellow star; banishment to the Targu Mures ghetto on May 3, 19144; mutual assistance; plunder of valuables; deportation to Auschwitz on May 27, 1944; selections in the camp; diseases, roll calls, transferred to Ober-Hohenelbe; life in the camp; living conditions improve; working at welding aircraft parts; liberation by Red...

File Number : 13642

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yona Yonas Tzeiger, born in Radauti, Romania in 1939, regarding his experiences as a child in Radauti, Obodovka, Yampol, Dorohoi and more.

Testimony of Yona Yonas Tzeiger, born in Radauti, Romania in 1939, regarding his experiences as a child in Radauti, Obodovka, Yampol, Dorohoi and more. Life in his parents' home; his father's recruitment to the Romanian army in 1939; his father's release due to his Jewish identity in 1940; " the uprising of the Legionnaires" in 1941; deportation to Obodovka in October 1941; outbreak of a typhus epidemic in 1941; working with villagers; existence of a torah scroll and orgazing a minyan for prayers; starvation; his father's transfer to construction works of a bridge over the Bug river in 1942; approach of the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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

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File Number : 13649

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Malka Stern née Grinberger, born in 1926 in Ganice, Czechoslovakia, about her experiences in Ganice, the Mateszalka ghetto, and the Birkenau and Lübberstedt camps during the war

Life before the war; offspring of a religious family; good relations with the non-Jewish population; Hungary re-annexes the area in 1939; family business license evoked; father deported to a labor camp in 1941; neighbors who lack Hungarian citizenship deported; refugees from Poland arrive; German occupation ensues in March 1944; witness deported to the Mateszalka ghetto; robbed of jewelry; deported to Auschwitz on Shavuot 1944; escapes from a group being transferred in the camp to a crematorium; sent to Lübberstedt in summer 1944; life in the camp; manufacturing bombs; the front closes in and the camp is...

File Number : 13558

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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