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Testimony of Beatrice Dalia de Hoz Rozental, born in 1934 in Antwerp, about hiding with families in the Netherlands and deportation of her family to the camps

Moving to Amsterdam in 1939; German occupation ensues in 1940; anti-Jewish laws; mother produces furs for the German Army; father hauls merchandise for the Germans; Jewish children exfiltrated from detention; Aktionen; contacting the NV resistance; three children placed with Christian families in Treebeek in December 1942; denunciation and German manhunts; witness smuggled from hideout to hideout; parents deported to Auschwitz; grandmother dies in Sobibór; rehabilitation in residential institutions after liberation; immigration to Israel in 1951; adjustment to life in Israel.

File Number : 13408

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Haim Gunsberger Genizi, born in Budapest, Hungary in 1934, regarding his experiences as a child in a protected house and in the Budapest Ghetto

Testimony of Haim Gunsberger Genizi, born in Budapest, Hungary in 1934, regarding his experiences as a child in a protected house and in the Budapest Ghetto Life before the war; implementation of anti-Jewish legislation during the 1930s; Hiding of refugees from Austria and Slovakia; antisemitism by the non-Jewish population; transfer of his father to service in the labor battalions, 1940; release of his father, approximately one year later; German occupation, March 1944; appropriation of the Jewish school building, and halting of the studies; wearing a yellow badge; confiscation of property; marking of...

File Number : 13245

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe Aharon, born in 1930 in Istanbul, about his experiences as a boy in Bucharest with the help of a protective passport from the Turkish embassy

Testimony

Testimony of Moshe Aharon, born in 1930 in Istanbul, about his experiences as a boy in Bucharest with the help of a protective passport from the Turkish embassy Life in Turkey; offspring of a family of Romanian and Turkish origin; father deported from Turkey; moving to Bucharest in 1935; pogrom in the Jewish quarter in 1939; obtaining a protective passport from the Turkish embassy; concealing Jews in an apartment; father taken away for forced labor as a non-citizen in 1941; returning to home in 1943; the war ends; joining the Dror Habonim movement; immigration to Israel aboard the Transylvania in 1951.

File Number : 13426

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Aliza Aliz (Goldshtein) Stern, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1932, regarding her experiences in Sekeshvehevar, Budapest and a protected house

Testimony

Testimony of Aliza Aliz (Goldshtein) Stern, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1932, regarding her experiences in Szekesfehervar, Budapest and a protected house Childhood in an Orthodox home. Deportation of her mother's family members to Kamieniec Podolskiy; murder of her mother's family members in Kamieniec Podolskiy, summer 1941; drafting of her father to a work battalion, transfer to Szekesfehervar by the Aid and Rescue Committee, autumn 1943; return to Budapest, early 1944; German occupation [of Budapest], March 1944; life under German occupation including restrictions, transfer to a marked house, search for...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mordehai Sternberg, born in Oroshaza, Hungary, 1922, regarding his experiences in Oroshaza, Budapest, Debrecen, Szeged and the Budapest Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Mordehai Sternberg, born in Oroshaza, Hungary, 1922, regarding his experiences in Oroshaza, Budapest, Debrecen, Szeged and the Budapest Ghetto His father owns a factory; antisemitism during the 1930s; beating of the witness in school because he is Jewish; move to Budapest to obtain a profession, 1942. Draft to a labor battalion; escape from a march to Ukraine; infrastructure labor in Debrecen and Szeged; escape to Budapest due to fear of deportation to Austria; receives a Swiss protective passport; move to the Budapest Ghetto; digging of a killing pit near the Danube River; murder of women...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Esther Eva (Spiller) Klein, born in Budapest, Hungary, regarding her experiences in Budapest, Kiskoros and more

Testimony

Testimony of Esther Eva (Spiller) Klein, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1926, regarding her experiences in Budapest, Kiskoros and more Life in Budapest until March 1944. Concentration in a school, 16 October [1944?]; labor digging [anti] tank [trenches] near Vacbottyan; delivery [distribution] of protection certificates (Schutzpass) by her mother; tearing up of one of the certificates by an Iron Cross [should be: Arrow Cross] officer, deliberation on whether to give the remaining certificate to her friend in order to save her life; transfer to Swiss protection; deportation to the ghetto; death of her brother;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Eva Renee Rivka (Weisz) Klang, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1932, regarding her experiences in Budapest, a marked house, Bratislava and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Eva Renee Rivka (Weisz) Klang, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1932, regarding her experiences in Budapest, a marked house, Bratislava and other places Her childhood in Budapest including antisemitism and her attending a Jewish high school. German Army occupation of Budapest, March 1944; life under German occupation including the imposition of anti-Jewish decrees; move to a marked house on Népszínház utca Street no. 49; murder of Jews in the marked house, August 1944; move to another marked house on Miksa utca Street [?] until October 1944; receives Swiss Schutzpass, protective passports; move to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaim Zilberman Caspi, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1941, regarding his experiences in Budapest, protected houses, an orphanage in Hungary, and in Transylvania and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Chaim Zilberman Caspi, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1941, regarding his experiences in Budapest, protected houses, an orphanage in Hungary, and in Transylvania and other places Stories that he heard in his childhood. Deportation of his father to labor camps by the Hungarians, 1943; death of his father toward the end of the war, 1945; German Army occupation of Budapest, 1944; deportation [of Jews] to labor camps; placed in a Red Cross protected house by his grandfather, along with his sister, 1944; escape from the protected house, with help from a Christian Hungarian, to a protected house of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Passports belonging to Judel Zesark and Dina Kuritzki, residents of Wilkomierz and Swieciany, Lithuania, issued by the German authorities, early 1917

File Number : 585

Type of Material : Identity Card

Language : German, Yiddish

Testimony of Miriam Agnes Lowy Zilberman, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1933, regarding her experiences in Budapest and in protected houses

Testimony

Testimony of Miriam Agnes Lowy Zilberman, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1933, regarding her experiences in Budapest and in protected houses Her childhood in Budapest; increase in displays of antisemitism in Hungary, 1938-1939. Draft of her father to labor in Budapest, 1940; German Army occupation of Budapest, 1944; move to a marked house, summer 1944; transfer to a stadium; murder of Jews on the Danube River; transfer to a Red Cross protected house with her younger brother; separation from her mother; deportation of her mother to a transit camp, summer 1944; escape to a protected house of Raoul Wallenberg,...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

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