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Testimony of Eva Goldberg née Avraham, born in 1929 in Cristur, Romania, about her experiences in the Auschwitz-Birkenau, Horneburg, Porta Westfalica, and Fallersleben camps, etc.

Antisemitism in Romaniain 1938; escapes from riots by members of the Legionnaire movement; Hungary re-annexes the area in 1940; father inducted into the labor brigades; German occupation ensues in 1944; concealing valuables; Jews rounded up in the Dej forest; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; selections; taken to a crematorium; hides in a hearse-cart and in a latrine; slips into a group selected for labor; transferred to Horneburg; life in the camp; manufacturing ship and aircraft parts; factory manager helps women prisoners; local German women help with food; cruelties by SS men; transferred to the Porta...

File Number : 13609

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Sonia Engelsberg, born in Torun, Czechoslovakia, 1924, regarding her experiences in Cesky Tesín, in a Polish village near the Dniester river, the Sevlus Ghetto, Auschwitz, the prison in Most, Theresienstadt and other places Move to Cesky Tesín, life with her parents and four siblings until 1938. Clash between the Polish Army and the Czechoslovakian Army; the German occupation; anti-Jewish legislation and regulations; draft of Jewish men to forced labor; escape of the family to Torun; annexation of the area to Hungary, 1939; deportation of the Jews without Hungarian citizenship to Poland,...

File Number : 8482

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Czech

Memoirs of Benjamin Anolik, born in Vilna, Lithuania, 1926, regarding his experiences in Lagedi, Klooga and Auvere camps, 1943-1944, and lectures and interviews that he held, 1947-2008

Memoirs of Benjamin Anolik, born in Vilna, Lithuania, 1926, regarding his experiences in Lagedi, Klooga and Auvere camps, 1943-1944, and lectures and interviews that he held, 1947-2008 Deportation by train from the Vilna Ghetto; journey by train via Ponary; fear regarding Ponary as a destination; arrival in Auvere; forced labor; transfer on foot to Kivioli camp; transfer to Klooga camp; meets his father; [camp life] including hunger; attempts to obtain bread; acts of abuse against inmates by the SS and falling in love with a girl called Nina; receiving love letters from Nina; farewell from Nina due to her...

File Number : 8477

Type of Material : Poems/songs, Memoirs, Lecture, Documentary, Interview(s)

Language : Hebrew, Russian, Yiddish

Correspondence by József Deustch, who was a forced laborer for the Hungarian Army, with his family members, 1942-1944, and the memoirs of Zahava (Deutsch) Inbar, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Zillerthal, Mauthausen and Gunskirchen camps, and in other places - Letters and postcards sent by Deutsch family members from Lucska, Rozsnyó, Kunmadaras and from the Rimaszécs Ghetto, 1942-1944; - Memoirs of Zahava (Deutsch) Inbar, written, 1993: German occupation of Hungary; in hiding in an attic in Szepsi; inability to return to her parents' home in Lucska; presents herself before the Police,...

File Number : 1832

Type of Material : Letter, Memoirs, Postcard

Language : Hebrew, Hungarian

Memoirs of Miriam (Mandel) Goldshmidt, born in Ober Apsa, Czechoslovakia, including memoirs of various family members

Memoirs of Miriam (Mandel) Goldshmidt, born in Ober Apsa, Czechoslovakia, including memoirs of various family members Memoirs of Miriam (Mandel) Goldshmidt, born in Ober Apsa, Czechoslovakia, regarding her experiences in Ober Apsa until 1944; Mateszalka Ghetto life until June 1944; Auschwitz-Birkenau camp life; Stutthof camp life and life on an agricultural farm near the camp, including forced labor, until March 1945; life on board a ship under the guard of SS men until liberation at Neustadt; Bindermichl DP camp life; Memoirs of her family members: 1) Montzi (Vizel) Mandel, born in Ober Apsa,...

File Number : 8284

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ita (Weber) Vinogron, born in Vilna, Lithuania, 1933, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Kaiserwald, Thorn and on a death march

Testimony of Ita (Weber) Vinogron, born in Vilna, Lithuania, 1933, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Kaiserwald, Thorn and on a death march Murder of the witness' father in Ponary; murder of her mother and older sister in a concentration camp in Estonia; life in the Vilna Ghetto with her remaining sisters; hiding of the witness in a flour sack by her sister during the "Aktions"; liquidation of the Vilna Ghetto; deportation to Kaiserwald; transfer to Danzig; transfer to Thorn; life in Thorn including being hidden under a bed by a female SS officer during the "Aktions"; death march, January 1945;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Irena Yocheved Gafner née Peskowska, born in Łódź in 1923, about her experiences in the Łódź ghetto and in the Bergen-Belsen, Auschwitz, and Salzweden camps until April 1945

Offspring of an affluent family in Łódź; attends a Jewish Zionist school; war breaks out; home expropriated; witness captured in the street and assigned to cleaning work; sent to the ghetto; mother works at the ghetto offices; father runs a cooking station; witness goes to school in Marysin; embroidery workshop; father captured in an Aktion in 1942; a doctor helps the witness find shelter in a hospital; selection by Hans Biebow; brother and father die in the ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz in August 1944; transferred to Bergen-Belsen in October 1944; works in a munitions plant at the Salzwedel camp until April...

File Number : 13520

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Hermina (Gruenberg) Vlasopolos, born in Bucharest, Romania, 1919, regarding her experiences in the Oradea Ghetto, Auschwitz, the Reichenbach camp, the Parschnitz camp and other places

Testimony of Hermina (Gruenberg) Vlasopolos, born in Bucharest, Romania, 1919, regarding her experiences in the Oradea Ghetto, Auschwitz, the Reichenbach camp, the Parschnitz camp and other places Life in the Oradea Ghetto, 04 April-01 June 1944; [deportation to Auschwitz, 01 June 1944;] life in Auschwitz until August 1944; [deportation to the Reichenbach camp, August 1944;] life in Reichenbach; [deportation to the Parschnitz camp;] life in Parschnitz; [deportation to the Sudetenland;] life in an aircraft factory in the Sudetenland.

File Number : 8042

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Ruth (Hirsch) Yosefi, born in Targu-Mures, Romania, 1923, regarding her experiences in Targu-Mures, Auschwitz, Allach, Landsberg, on a death march and more

Testimony

Testimony of Ruth (Hirsch) Yosefi, born in Targu-Mures, Romania, 1923, regarding her experiences in Targu-Mures, Auschwitz, Allach, Landsberg, on a death march and more Childhood in an intellectual family; Life under the Hungarian regime including antisemitism, 1940; occupation of Targu-Mures by the German Army, 1944; establishment of a ghetto in a brick factory; assembly of the hospitalized patients and physicians in the synagogue; ghetto life including beatings and torture; receiving help from a Hungarian gendarme in obtaining food; deportation to Auschwitz, May 1944; life in Auschwitz including labor...

File Number : 13253

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Esther Erzsebet (Weiss) Cohen, born in Sajovamos, Hungary, 1926, regarding her experiences in Upjest, in Auschwitz, Venusberg and Ravensbrueck camps, and in other places

Testimony

Testimony of Esther Erzsebet (Weiss) Cohen, born in Sajovamos, Hungary, 1926, regarding her experiences in Upjest, in Auschwitz, Venusberg and Ravensbrueck camps, and in other places Life before the war; move to Upjest with her family; life in Upjest. Transfer of her brother and brother-in-law to the war front in Ukraine, 1942; confiscation of her family's shop, and the loss of their livelihood, 1943; confiscation of private property; German occupation, 1944; volunteers for labor for the German Army; labor in a factory producing bandages, and life as if in a camp; deportation of her parents and sisters to...

File Number : 13298

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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