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Testimony of Avraham Gross, born in Hercegszanto, Hungary, 1929, regarding his experiences in Hercegszanto, the Bacsalmas Ghetto, Auschwitz, Mathausen, Gusen and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Avraham Gross, born in Hercegszanto, Hungary, 1929, regarding his experiences in Hercegszanto, the Bacsalmas Ghetto, Auschwitz, Mathausen, Gusen and other places His childhood in Hercegszanto, including his education. Draft of his father and brother to forced labor; arrival of refugees from Poland; German Army occupation of Hercegszanto, March 1944; detention of his father in Kistarcsa; activities of the Arrow Cross Party; deportation to the Bacsalmas Ghetto under the supervision of Hungarian Gendarmes; Bacsalmas Ghetto life including the confiscation of valuables and the existence of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe Kandel, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in the Budapest Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Moshe Kandel, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in the Budapest Ghetto Life before the war; from a Neolog family; attends Jewish schools; numerus clausus; Deportation of his father to a labor battalion; disappearance of his father; meets refugees from Poland; German occupation, March 1944; imposition of restrictions on Jews including the yellow badge; confiscation of Jewish homes; concentration of Jews in marked houses (with a Star of David); rise to power of the Arrow Cross; murder of Jews in the Danube River; deportation of Jews including his mother to...

File Number : 13234

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Hans Hanania Teutsch, born in Karlsruhe, Germany, 1926, regarding his experiences during Kristallnacht, in Gurs camp, in a children's home in Rivesaltes, and in Switzerland

Testimony

Testimony of Hans Hanania Teutsch, born in Karlsruhe, Germany, 1926, regarding his experiences during Kristallnacht, in Gurs camp, in a children's home in Rivesaltes, and in Switzerland Traditional family in Germany; attends a German elementary school until 1935; Jewish community; Kristallnacht; his father's appointment as the treasurer of the community; antisemitism and decrees; attempts to obtain a visa to the United States; his younger brother is included on a Kindertransport to Britain, 1939; Outbreak of the war, 1939; increase in antisemitism; concentration of the Jews at the railroad station;...

File Number : 12823

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaim Baruch Shurek, born in Puchov, Czechoslovakia, 1935, regarding his experiences as a child in Lazec, Budapest, Debrecen and labor camps in Austria

Testimony

Testimony of Chaim Baruch Shurek, born in Puchov, Czechoslovakia, 1935, regarding his experiences as a child in Lazec, Budapest, Debrecen and labor camps in Austria Life before the war; attends a Slovakian kindergarten. German occupation, 1938; life under fascist rule; anti-Jewish legislation; confiscation of valuables; restrictions on the Jews; establishment of a Jewish school; draft of males aged 18-28 to forced labor; deportation of females 18-28 to camps; meets refugees from Poland; move to Lazec to his brother who has been classified as an essential worker, 1942; deportation of the Jews to Zilina on...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letters written from Majdan Tatarski by Rabbi Elimelech Zvi Talmud, of the Lublin Ghetto survivors, to Rabbi Chaim Arie Berglas in Pinczow, 1942

Letters written from Majdan Tatarski by Rabbi Elimelech Zvi Talmud, of the Lublin Ghetto survivors, to Rabbi Chaim Arie Berglas in Pinczow, 1942 - Ghetto life, and the rabbi's suffering, July 1942; - Attempts to send money and to help people in other communities; his attempts to locate people, and his despair when it becomes clear to him that they were already deported; prayers for the High Holydays in the ghetto [which he lead], October 1942.

File Number : 897

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yehuda Fisher, born in Baba, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Bungard Ghetto; Auschwitz, Bunzlau, Nordhausen and other camps

Testimony

Testimony of Yehuda Fisher, born in Baba, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Bungard Ghetto; Auschwitz, Bunzlau, Nordhausen and other camps Life before the war; his father is a merchant. Hungarian rule, 1940; German occupation; deportation to the ghetto in the Bungard forest, near Des; help and food from the rural population; deportation to Auschwitz and loss of his family; transfer to Bunzlau, near Breslau; camp life including labor constructing and loading dummy planes; liquidation of the camp; death march to Goerlitz via Nordhausen, June 1944-February 1945; transfer to Hamburg; transfer to...

File Number : 12296

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Announcement regarding the organization of prayers for the High Holydays, in the university classroom, with chazanut by Yitzchak Krol, the cantor who performed with the Lodz Philharmonic Orchestra and was the famous cantor in the Kalisz Synagogue

File Number : 1454

Type of Material : Announcement

Language : Yiddish

Correspondence of the Joodse Raad (Jewish Council) regarding religious and halachic issues in the Jewish communities in north and east of the Netherlands, 1942-1943

Correspondence of the Joodse Raad (Jewish Council) regarding religious and halachic issues in the Jewish communities in north and east of the Netherlands, 1942-1943 Correspondence of the chief rabbis of the Drenthe, Friesland and Gelderland districts with the various departments of the Joodse Raad and individuals regarding halachic issues such as marriage, divorce, especially issuing a Get (Jewish divorce) during war, births, deaths, burial, cemeteries, Pesach kashrut and other; The file also includes: Ketubahs of marriages that were performed in Westerbork (pp. 1, 174-186); Circumcision certificates...

File Number : 29

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, Dutch, German

[Announcement regarding] the arranging of a minyan (10-men quorum required for public prayer services) for High Holiday services with the well-known cantor Jonas Garfinkiel, posted by the administration and Zionist Committee at Beit HaIchud at the Landsberg (Germany) DP camp

File Number : 1283

Type of Material : Announcement

Language : Yiddish / Latin Characters

Announcement of registration times for places in the synagogue for prayers during the High Holidays, posted by the Synagogue Organization

File Number : 1210

Type of Material : Announcement

Language : Yiddish

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