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Testimony of Mordekhai Miklosh Shtraser born in Budapest, Hungary, 1931, regarding life in Budapest during the war in a protected house and using a false Christian identity

Testimony

Childhood in an indigent ultra-Orthodox family; life in a Jewish environment; studies in a Jewish school; drafting of his father and two brothers to a labor battalion; German occupation, March 1944; continued living in a marked house; bringing additional people into the house; air-raids; transfer to a protected house by a cousin, a refugee from Slovakia; with the assistance of the cousin, transfer with his family to the hiding place of a Jew who was deported, October 1944; living under a false Christian identity; bringing food from a pantry in a bombed house; living in a shelter from late 1944 until...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Certification from the Odeljenje za zaštitu naroda (Department for the Defense of the People) that Manó Hahn escaped from an inmates' forced march and is now returning to Hungary, 1944, and a document certifying that the family of his father, Gerschon Hahn, numbers five children, 1943 The documentation includes: - Certification from the Odeljenje za zaštitu naroda that Manó Hahn, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1903, escaped from an inmates' forced march that originated in the Bor camp and is now returning to his homeland, issued in Bolec, 26 October 1944; - Document issued by the Population Registry of the...

File Number : 473

Type of Material : Personal Records

Language : Serbian, Hungarian

Memoirs of Gabriella (Fried) Falus, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1930, regarding her experiences in Budapest and the experiences of the family of her mother, Rozalia Rabinek, and the family of her father, Jozsef Fried

File Number : 8274

Type of Material : Documentary, Memoirs

Language : English, Hungarian

Memoirs of Mordechai Neumann, born in Vac, Hungary, 1930, regarding his experiences while using a false identity in a protected house in Budapest

Memoirs of Mordechai Neumann, born in Vac, Hungary, 1930, regarding his experiences while using a false identity in a protected house in Budapest Life in Budapest in his parents' home, until 1944. Life while using a false identity in the home of a non-Jewish family; life in a protected house under the protection of the Swiss Embassy. The file includes: - His parents' marriage certificate; - Article about his sister Esther, published in the "HaKibbutz" journal, 28 April 2005.

File Number : 8246

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Newspaper Clippings, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yoel Erno Gruner, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1935, regarding his experiences in Budapest, in a protected house and in a children's home

Testimony

Testimony of Yoel Erno Gruner, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1935, regarding his experiences in Budapest, in a protected house and in a children's home Draft of his father to labor battalions; eviction from their home following the occupation; deportation of his mother to Austria; transfer to a Swiss protected house with his brother and baby sister; fascists take control of the children's home; in hiding in a barrel; move to a children's home under the protection of the Red Cross; liberation by the Red Army. Rehabilitation with help from the JDC; disappearance of his baby sister; report regarding the death...

File Number : 13427

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Asher Roth, born in Sevlus, Czechoslovakia, 1924, regarding his experiences in Sevlus, Budapest, Transylvania and in hiding

Testimony

Testimony of Asher Roth, born in Sevlus, Czechoslovakia, 1924, regarding his experiences in Sevlus, Budapest, Transylvania and in hiding His childhood in an Orthodox, religious family. Life under Hungarian occupation including the removal of Jews from schools, 1939; ban on kosher ritual slaughter, and acts of abuse by Hungarian gendarmes; beating to death of an Admor [rabbi]; move to Budapest with his brother, 1942; German Army occupation of Budapest; deportation to forced labor in the clearing of rubble; loss of contact with his family; labor for the Germans digging trenches against air-raids; transfer...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zeev Goldberg, born in Wisnicz Maly, Poland, 1937

Testimony

Testimony of Zeev Goldberg, born in Wisnicz Maly, Poland, 1937 Capture of his father by the Germans, 1942; move to the Bochnia Ghetto together with his mother and his brother; illegal crossing of the border to Slovakia with the aid of a Jewish guide; illegal crossing of the border to Hungary; detention on the train by Hungarian policemen; incarceration; hospitalization for scarlet fever; transfer to a orphanage for refugees; transfer to a Christian children's institution under a Christian identity; air-raids on Budapest; being hidden in various children's homes; searching for food on the streets; marching of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rachel Olga (Levi) Shemer, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1927, regarding her experiences in Budapest as an active member of Hanoar Hatzioni

Testimony

Testimony of Rachel Olga (Levi) Shemer, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1927, regarding her experiences in Budapest as an active member of Hanoar Hatzioni From an Orthodox family. Drafting of three of her brothers to labor battallions, 1942; joining Hanoar Hatzioni, 1943; assistance from the youth movement to Polish and Slovak refugees; underground activity forging certificates; her brother taken captive in Ukraine; German occupation, 1944; escape attempts through Romania; eldest brother impersonating a priest; detention of her father and his deportation; caring for orphans in a Red Cross home; capture of her...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Malka Iuliana (Hegedus) Nuriel, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1933, regarding her experiences in a marked house and under the protection of the Red Cross

Testimony

Testimony of Malka Iuliana (Hegedus) Nuriel, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1933, regarding her experiences in a marked house and under the protection of the Red Cross German occupation, 1944; concentration of the Jews in a stadium; transfer to a marked house; yellow badge; drafting of her father to labor battalions; deportation with her mother to a death march, October 1944; concentration of children in a synagogue under the protection of the Red Cross; entry of the Red Army. Reunion with family members; joins Gordonia with her brother; crossing the border illegally; unsuccessful aliya attempt to Eretz...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Shoshana Rozalia (Perel) Magen, born in Lunca De Jos, Romania, 1932, regarding her experiences as a child in Lunca De Jos, the Szabolcs refugee camp, the Magdolna refugee camp and in hiding in Budapest Life before the war. Deportation order from Lunca De Jos, 1940; escape to Budapest with her mother and siblings; transfer to the Magdolna refugee camp, transfer to the Szabolcs refugee camp; transfer to an orphanage for Jewish girls; German occupation, 1944; Germans take over the girls' orphanage building; transfer of the girls to the boys' orphanage; changing the orphanage into a Red Cross...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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