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Testimony of Michael Shtein, born in Nové Zámky, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding his experiences as a forced laborer in Nové Zámky and Komárno, using a false identity and as a partisan

Testimony of Michael Shtein, born in Nové Zámky, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding his experiences as a forced laborer in Nové Zámky and Komárno, using a false identity and as a partisan Michael Shtein's father, Emanuel Shtein, was born in Beszterce, Hungary and studied in Nové Zámky; Shtein's mother, Berta (Schwartz) Shtein was born in Ogyalla, Hungary, 1900; his parents were married in 1922; the family owned a small textile store; his father also worked as an itinerant merchant of tropical fruit, and his mother as a seamstress. Arrival of an order for his father to report for work, and the 14-year old...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Alexander Javor Kahn, born in Rajec, Czechoslovakia, 1902, regarding his experiences in Nove Mesto, Piestany, in hiding in Bratislava and with the partisans in Pastuchov

Testimony of Alexander Javor Kahn, born in Rajec, Czechoslovakia, 1902, regarding his experiences in Nove Mesto, Piestany, in hiding in Bratislava and with the partisans in Pastuchov Life before the war; attends an elementary school; life in Zilina including attending high school; attends the agricultural academy; drafted to the Czechoslovakian Army (discharged with the rank of First Lieutenant); life in Male Lednice including work on the family farm; move to Germany, 1926; life in Germany; work on an experimental farm raising domestic animals; visits to experimental farms in Sweden and Denmark; marriage to...

File Number : 8513

Type of Material : Memoirs, Personal Documents

Language : Slovak, Hebrew

Testimony of Juszko Josef Herz, born in 1927 in Zavazna Poruba, Czechoslovakia, about his experiences in Zavazna Poruba, Mikulas, hiding in Roksbany, etc.

Testimony

Testimony of Juszko Josef Herz, born in 1927 in Zavazna Poruba, Czechoslovakia, about his experiences in Zavazna Poruba, Mikulas, hiding in Roksbany, etc. Life in Zavazna Poruba as offspring of a lone Jewish family; deportation to Mikulas in 1941; typhus and hospitalization in April 1942; spared with parents from transport to camps; life in hiding in Roksbany from August 1942 to March 1944; taken to Lamsdorf; taken to Lichtenfeld; liberation in April 1945; immigration to Eretz Israel in 1947.

File Number : 13566

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Bronka (Haber) Wollman, born in Nisko, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in Ulanow, the Bochnia Ghetto, in Slovakia and Israel

Testimony

Testimony of Bronka (Haber) Wollman, born in Nisko, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in Ulanow, the Bochnia Ghetto, in Slovakia and Israel Deportation of the community's Jews to the other side of the San River, September 1939; transfer to Ulanow; escape of her father to Lwow; concentration of the Jews; her mother and sister are hidden by a Christian family; escape to the Bochnia Ghetto by train; illegally enters the ghetto with help from a Jewish policeman; Bochnia Ghetto life including labor sewing uniforms for the Germans; her sister's move to Warsaw; decision to escape to Slovakia; help to the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shoshana (Rozner) Dirnfeld, born in Sarateni, Romania, 1933, regarding her experiences in the Gherla Ghetto, Cluj Ghetto, Auschwitz and Hohenelbe Vrchlabi

Testimony

Testimony of Shoshana (Rozner) Dirnfeld, born in Sarateni, Romania, 1933, regarding her experiences in the Gherla Ghetto, Cluj Ghetto, Auschwitz and Hohenelbe Vrchlabi Ultra-Orthodox family; increase in the displays of antisemitism, 1938; move to Gherla. Life under Hungarian rule occupation and the confiscation of her family's business, 1941; German occupation, 1944; burial of property in a pit in the yard; deportation to the Gherla Ghetto in a brick factory in Gherla; help with food from non-Jewish acquaintances; demand by the gendarmes to hand over money and gold; abuse of her father and the wealthy...

File Number : 12989

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

List of partisans from the Stalin brigade, prepared, 05/1943

File Number : 224

Type of Material : List of Partisans

Language : Russian

Testimony

Testimony of Viara (Vozner) Fleishman, born in Dunajska Streda, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Dunajska Streda Ghetto, in hiding in Budapest and Nitra, with partisans in Banska Bystrica and a bunker in the Jelenska Skala mountains Life before the war. Transfer of her father's shop to non-Jewish trustees, 1938; deportation to the Dunajska Streda Ghetto, March 1944; escape with her uncle to a hiding place in Budapest using a false identity; escape to Nitra; joins the partisans in the Banska Bystrica area and the Jelenska Skala Mountains; in hiding in a bunker; life in the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Meir Yurai Hirshel Ben Zvi, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1938, regarding his experiences as a child in Topolcany and with the partisans in Stare Hory

Testimony

Testimony of Meir Yurai Hirshel Ben Zvi, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1938, regarding his experiences as a child in Topolcany and with the partisans in Stare Hory Life before the war; family moves to Topolcany. German occupation; escape with the partisans; life in Stare Hory; liberation. Return to Topolcany; education; increase in antisemitism, including a pogrom; activities in Hashomer Hatzair; aliya to Israel; return visit to Czechoslovakia.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Hella Verni (Veis) Kornblum, born in Vienna, Austria, 1932, regarding her experiences in Kamanova, Topolcany, Sered and Theresienstadt

Testimony

Testimony of Hella Verni (Veis) Kornblum, born in Vienna, Austria, 1932, regarding her experiences in Kamanova, Topolcany, Sered and Theresienstadt Life until the Anschluss. Family move to Kamanova; life on a farm; education; meets with Slovakian partisans, 1942; life in hiding in a cellar; escape to Topolcany; arrest of the family by Slovakian soldiers; deportation to Sered; camp life; deportation to Theresienstadt; liberation by the Red Army. Return to Kamanova; move to Bratislava, 1947; joins Hashomer Hatzair; aliya to Israel, 1949.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Eliezer Ludvig Veis, born in Lomne, Czechoslovakia, 1934, regarding his experiences in Novaki and Modry Kamen

Testimony

Testimony of Eliezer Ludvig Veis, born in Lomne, Czechoslovakia, 1934, regarding his experiences in Novaki and Modry Kamen Life before the war. Decrees, 1941; escape to forests; life in a forest and help from the local partisans; detention by the Slovakian Army; deportation to Novaki; camp life including life in a block for single men; release from the camp during the Slovak National Uprising; escape to Modry Kamen; escape to the surrounding villages; liberation by the Red Army. Return to Stropkov; move to a children's home in Kosice; return to Stropkov; aliya to Israel with Youth Aliya, 1949; enlists...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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