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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

Testimonies by the Jewish Auschwitz survivors Otto Wolken and Hans-Peter Messerschmidt; Petition to the court by Bovensiepen's lawyer for his release, 1945, 1968

Testimonies by the Jewish Auschwitz survivors Otto Wolken and Hans-Peter Messerschmidt; Petition to the court by Bovensiepen's lawyer for his release, 1945, 1968 The file includes i.A.: - Petition (dated on 04/03/1945) of Dr Otto Wolken, a Jewish physican and Auschwitz survivor, to the "international public" in order to accuse Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler and all other Nazi criminals of systematical murdering of "millions of Jews", detailed information on Auschwitz: pp 1-6 - Testimony of -above mentionend- Dr Otto Wolken in front of a Polish commision: Wolken, an Austrian social-democrate, was arrested...

File Number : 36

Type of Material : Testimony, Letter

Language : German

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