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Testimony of Chaja (Goldstein) Rozen, born in Bardejov, Czechoslovakia, 1932, regarding her experiences as a child in Bardejov, the Novaky camp, forests and in hiding in Hronsek

Testimony

Testimony of Chaja (Goldstein) Rozen, born in Bardejov, Czechoslovakia, 1932, regarding her experiences as a child in Bardejov, the Novaky camp, forests and in hiding in Hronsek Childhood. Life in Slovakia as a German Protectorate, from March 1939;unsuccessful attempts to leave for the US; liquidation of her family's businesses; anti-Jewish legislation; clandestine Jewish studies organized by the community; yellow badge; deportation of her father to Novaky, spring 1942; family joins her father in the camp; confiscation of property; forced labor; school, cultural and sport activities; life in constant...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sara Serena (Krautwirt) Weis, born in Presov, Czechoslovakia, 1922, regarding her experiences using a false identity in Presov, Sered, Auschwitz, Ravensbrueck and other places

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Testimony of Sara Serena (Krautwirt) Weis, born in Presov, Czechoslovakia, 1922, regarding her experiences using a false identity in Presov, Sered, Auschwitz, Ravensbrueck and other places Life in Presov before the war; attends a Jewish elementary school; attends a Czechoslovakian state high school until 1940; activities in the Beit Yaakov movement. Yellow armband; yellow badge, as of 1941; concentration of young Jewish women, 1942; finds a hiding place while using a false identity; escape to Hungary with the help of a border smuggler, 1942; life in Kosice while using a false identity; escape to Presov;...

File Number : 12978

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shimon Henig, born in Maly Lipnik, Czechoslovakia in 1924, regarding his experiences in detention in Presov, in Chminany, in a bunker in a forest, and with Polish and Soviet partisans

Testimony of Shimon Henig, born in Maly Lipnik, Czechoslovakia in 1924, regarding his experiences in detention in Presov, in Chminany, in a bunker in a forest, and with Polish and Soviet partisans Life before the war; attends school in Gnazda, 1936; expulsion from school; return home, 1939; Anti-Jewish decrees including the yellow badge; increase in antisemitism among the local population; one of his sisters hides inside the local police station; Slovakian policemen turn a blind eye; pretends to be sick; hospitalization along with his sister; return home; detention in Presov; escape; in hiding in his...

File Number : 12803

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yitzhak Milder, born in Secovce, Czechoslovakia, 1928, regarding his experiences in Michalovce, Bratislava, Sered, Oranienburg, Berlin and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Yitzhak Milder, born in Secovce, Czechoslovakia, 1928, regarding his experiences in Michalovce, Bratislava, Sered, Oranienburg, Berlin and other places Life before the war; witness' father's work as manager of the local bank. Anti-Jewish decrees from late 1939; evening curfews; yellow badge; transfer to living quarters on a side street; arrival of refugees from Germany, 1940; compulsory handing over of family jewelry to the authorities; expulsion from school; transfer to classes in a Jewish school; Beitar activities; witness' father is removed from his job; increase in antisemitism;...

File Number : 12748

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Miriam Golan, born in Bardejov, Czechoslovakia, 1922, regarding her experiences in Slovakia using a false identity

Testimony

Testimony of Miriam Golan, born in Bardejov, Czechoslovakia, 1922, regarding her experiences in Slovakia using a false identity Move to Kosice; life and education in a trade school. Life after the annexation to Hungary; German occupation, 19 March 1944; encounters a German soldier; attempt to obtain a forged document; searches in their home; last Pesach seder; move to Slovakia, 21 April 1944; life in Presov with a Jewish family; move to Bratislava; life using forged documents; work in a bakery shop; move to Nitra; interrogation by the Slovakian police; return to Bratislava and work in the bakery shop;...

File Number : 9051

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaskiel Fischman, born in Tarnow, Poland, 1921, regarding his family's experiences in Tarnow and his experiences in Pustkow camp, Auschwitz and other places

Testimony of Chaskiel Fischman, born in Tarnow, Poland, 1921, regarding his family's experiences in Tarnow and his experiences in Pustkow camp, Auschwitz and other places Outbreak of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union; detention of his parents and sister; their release from detention two days later, following the amputation [cutting off] of his father's leg; deportation of his family during the first "Aktion"; escape of the witness after the arrival of Polish policemen who came to search for him; taking of his uncle and his aunt as hostages, with the promise that the witness will voluntarily...

File Number : 370

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

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Testimony of Chana Epelstein, born in Zilina, Czechoslovakia, 1935, regarding her experiences in Zilina, in hiding in the mountains and Theresienstadt Her family's life in Zilina and her education. German occupation and decrees; escape to the mountains and in hiding in a hut, September-early winter, 1944 when they left; wanderings of the family and escape from place to place; capture on a train by Slovakian guards during family's attempt to join the partisans; return to Zilina and detention in prison; deportation to Sered; transfer to Theresienstadt, 16 January 1945; deportation of her father to...

File Number : 9138

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Adina Edith Sever, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding her experiences in hiding in Nove Mesto Nad Vahom

Testimony

Testimony of Adina Edith Sever, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding her experiences in hiding in Nove Mesto Nad Vahom Life before the war. German occupation; escape to Nove Mesto Nad Vahom; life in hiding help from the Slovakian police commander; liberation.

File Number : 2697

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : German

Testimony of Karl Kalman Rubin, born in Dubova, Slovakia, 1911, regarding his experiences in Presov, the Aryan side of Bratislava, Sered and Theresienstadt

Testimony

Testimony of Karl Kalman Rubin, born in Dubova, Slovakia, 1911, regarding his experiences in Presov, the Aryan side of Bratislava, Sered and Theresienstadt Restrictions on the Jews; manager of a sawmill and furniture factory with a Slovakian partner in the Presov vicinity; arrest and murder of L. Stevonka, the head of the police, and Ivan Kolesar, a priest, who both rescued Jews; deportation of the Jews; move to the Aryan side of Bratislava; undercover management of his business; arrest with his wife and two children after being informed on; deportation to Sered; transfer to Theresienstadt in exchange for a...

File Number : 3762

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : German

Testimony of Josef Leicht, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1915, regarding his experiences in a Slovakian Army labor camp, using a false identity, Novaky and with the partisans

Testimony

Testimony of Josef Leicht, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1915, regarding his experiences in a Slovakian Army labor camp, using a false identity, Novaky and with the partisans Life before the war; aliya training with Hanoar Hechalutzi in Brezno. Outbreak of the war, 1939; drafted to a Slovakian Army labor camp; escape; life using a false identity; capture; deportation to Novaky; joins the partisans; liberation. Life after the war including displays of antisemitism.

File Number : 3073

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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