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File Number : 1167

Type of Material : תיאור

Language : Polish, German

Memoirs of Mátyás Schik, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz, 1944-1945

Memoirs of Mátyás Schik, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz, 1944-1945 Deportation to Auschwitz with her husband and three children (one son who was 5 years old, and twins, a son and a daughter who were one year old); camp life; selection by Dr. Josef Mengele; transfer to the medical experiments block with her children; life in the medical experiments block as the mother of twins; death of the twins; protects her son; Sonderkommando uprising and the results; cruelty by the Germans before the liberation; liberation by the Red Army, 27 January 1945; receives help from a Red Army soldier; death of her son,...

File Number : 8260

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hungarian

Testimony of Shmuel Fabian, born in Strzegowo, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in Strzegowo, Plonsk, the Strzegowo Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buna-Monowitz and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Shmuel Fabian, born in Strzegowo, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in Strzegowo, Plonsk, the Strzegowo Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buna-Monowitz and other places German Army occupation of Strzegowo, 1939; escape to Plonsk with his family; life with his family in Plonsk, for two weeks; move back to Strzegowo; deportation [to the Strzegowo Ghetto], 1940; Strzegowo Ghetto life including "Aktions" and the hanging of Jews, 1942; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1942; camp life with two brothers, including forced labor; transfer to Buna-Monowitz, 1943; camp life including forced labor;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Natan Ernest Grosman, born in Novosad, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding his experiences in Novosad, the Ujpest Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and on a death march to Dachau via Gross-Rosen

Testimony

Testimony of Natan Ernest Grosman, born in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia, 1927, regarding his experiences in Novi Sad, the Ujpest Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and on a death march to Dachau via Gross-Rosen His childhood in Novi Sad. Re-annexation to Hungary, 1938; confiscation of the family's business license; draft of the men to the labor battalions; move to Ujpest, 1941; activities in the Dror Habonim movement; care by the community for refugees from Poland and Slovakia; mutual help; German occupation, March 1944; deportation to the Ujpest Ghetto and concentration of the Jews in the brick factory, approximately...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Dov Yisaskhar Feldmar, born in Nered, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Sala Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Sachsenhausen, Ohrdruf and Bergen-Belsen

Testimony

Testimony of Dov Yisaskhar Feldmar, born in Nered, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Sala Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Sachsenhausen, Ohrdruf and Bergen-Belsen Life before the war; the Jewish community; member of Bnei Akiva youth movement. Re-annexation to Hungary, November 1938; draft of his father to forced labor; German occupation, March 1944; confiscation of property; deportation to the Sala Ghetto; ghetto life; transfer to a brick factory in Nove Zamky; transfer via Budapest and Kosice to Auschwitz-Birkenau; camp life; liquidation of the Gypsy camp; arrival of Jews from Lodz; the...

File Number : 13812

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Arie Emerich Tzeisler, born in Kosice, Czechoslovakia, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Kosice Ghetto and Auschwitz-Birkenau

Testimony

Testimony of Arie Emerich Tzeisler, born in Kosice, Czechoslovakia, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Kosice Ghetto and Auschwitz-Birkenau From a Neolog, Reform financially secure family; witness's father is a grain and wool merchant; contacts his father has with non-Jews until 1941. German occupation, 1942; draft of his father and brother to labor battalions; anti-Jewish decrees; expulsion from school; deportation to the Kosice Ghetto; his father's illness and hospitalization; deportation to Auschwitz with eight family members, February 1944; murder of his mother and relatives; camp life including...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rachel (Veitzman) Cohen, born in Bedzin, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in Bedzin, Sosnowiec, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ravensbrueck and other camps

Testimony

Testimony of Rachel (Veitzman) Cohen, born in Bedzin, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in Bedzin, Sosnowiec, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ravensbrueck and other camps Her father is among the founders of the Beit Yaakov school for girls; life before the war. Outbreak of the war, 1939; deportation to the Bedzin Ghetto; ghetto life; transfer to Sosnowiec camp; return to the Bedzin Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; camp life,including labor sewing and in agriculture; rescue from death by a German soldier; death march in the direction of Gleiwitz; transfer to Ravensbrueck; camp life; transfer to...

File Number : 12478

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Stela Nachum, born in Thessaloniki, Greece, 1917, regarding her experiences in Athens, Haidari, Auschwitz, Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen

Testimony of Stela Nachum, born in Thessaloniki, Greece, 1917, regarding her experiences in Athens, Haidari, Auschwitz, Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen Life in Athens with her husband and two daughters, before the outbreak of the war; her husband's work as a printing press worker; move of her two daughters with the landlady, with the agreement of the policemen who came to take them. German Army occupation of Athens, September 1943; deportation to Haidari with her husband and mother; transfer to Auschwitz; arrival to Birkenau, including the tattooing of a number on her arm; camp life including selections and...

File Number : 6569

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Greek

Testimony of Benjamin Kapon, born in Thessaloniki, Greece, 1927, regarding his experiences in hiding in Athens, and in Haidari, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen

Testimony of Benjamin Kapon, born in Thessaloniki, Greece, 1927, regarding his experiences in hiding in Athens, and in Haidari, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen Outbreak of the war; fate of his family members; move to Athens; life in Athens while using the false name Pouris Loannis by means of a forged identity document during the Italian occupation; in hiding in various homes; informed on; in hiding in various homes including while hidden by the Christian owner of a villa, Constantinos Tsakonas; capture along with his brother, by two of the Dekanati brothers, who were collaborators with the Germans; Beniko jumps;...

File Number : 6568

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Greek

Testimony of Hinda Edit (Yakubovitz) Glazer, born in Uzhorod, Slovakia, 1927, regarding her experiences in Sekernice, the Chust Ghetto; Auschwitz, Ravensbrueck and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Hinda Edit (Yakubovitz) Glazer, born in Uzhorod, Slovakia, 1927, regarding her experiences in Sekernice, the Chust Ghetto; Auschwitz, Ravensbrueck and other places From a hasidic family; life in Negrovec before the war; attends a local school. Witness' father is drafted, 1938; hostility on the part of the Ukrainians; re-annexation to Hungary; anti-Jewish legislation; her father is drafted to labor battalions; deportation of those without Hungarian citizenship to Kamenets Podolskiy, 1941; release of her father; redraft of her father; German occupation, March 1944; expulsion of the family from...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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