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Testimony of Edita Alon Carl Shultz, born in Kosice, Czechoslovakia, in 1920 regarding the Kosice ghetto and her rescue in Budapest.

-About the family; transition to Hungarian ruling in 1939; she married a Jewish doctor, a refugee from Czechoslovakia in 1940; recruitment with protection to a unit of Hungarian doctors in 1941; confiscation of the shop owned by the family; expropriation of a room for the benefit of a Hungarian officer; German occupation in 1944; his mother was arrested for interrogation; confiscation of jewelry; deportation to the ghetto ; she got permission to reunite with her husband; rescue; moving to Budapest; birth of a son, starvation; double suicide attempt and rescue; hiding in the Jewish hospital; murder by people...

File Number : 13695

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ben Dor Blau Yohanan Yitzkhak Tibor, born in Makó, Hungary in 1935, regarding his experiences in Makó and Szeged Ghettos and in Theresienstadt and Strasshof camps

Testimony of Ben Dor Blau Yohanan Yitzkhak Tibor, born in Makó, Hungary in 1935, regarding his experiences in Makó and Szeged Ghettos and in Theresienstadt and Strasshof camps Childhood in a modern Orthodox family; father was vice president of the Mizrachi movement in Hungary after the war; studies in Neolog School and in heder at the same time; antisemitism; entry of Germans in March 1944; confiscation of radio receivers and valuables; yellow badge; closing of Makó Ghetto and family living in grandfather’s home inside the ghetto; expulsion via freight train to Újszeged; roundup of Jews on a soccer pitch;...

File Number : 13654

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation regarding a Jewish lawyer, Curt Waldmann, and his German spouse Else Waldmann, 1933-2010

Documentation regarding a Jewish lawyer, Curt Waldmann, and his German spouse Else Waldmann, 1933-2010 - Curriculum Vitae (CV) of Curt Waldmann, written by Waldmann in Breslau, 22 July 1933; - Confirmation regarding the granting of the "Cross of Honor" medal to Lawyer Curt Waldmann for his participation in World War I; confirmation, issued in Breslau, 01 October 1934; - Marriage certificate of Curt Waldmann and Else Marie Pauline Bruckner, issued, 1933; - Birth certificate of Curt Waldmann, who was born in Glatz, 05 April 1883; certificate issued in Glatz, 29 December 1938; - Two letters sent to...

File Number : 627

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony, Curriculum Vitae (cv), Postcard, Official Documentation, Personal Documents, Newspaper Clippings, Research Article

Language : German

Last letter sent by Josef and Lea Lisowoder from Lwow to their daughter while she was en route to Eretz Israel, 09 November 1940

Last letter sent by Josef and Lea Lisowoder from Lwow to their daughter while she was en route to Eretz Israel, 09 November 1940 Lidia Avidan (granddaughter of Josef and Lea Lisowoder) was born in Krakow, Poland, 1932. Escape of Lidia from Lwow with her parents Roma and Ludwig Bluhbaum, 1939; arrival of Lidia and her parents to Bucharest; aliya of Lidia and her parents to Eretz Israel via Turkey on a small ship after their unsuccessful attempt to make aliya on the "Patria" ship; Lidia and her parents receive a letter from Josef and Lea after their arrival to Eretz Israel; her family remaining in Lwow...

File Number : 1910

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Polish, Yiddish

Letters sent by Leopold and Grete Ferber in Elberfeld to their daughter Lore Heumann, who was born in Wuppertal, Germany in 1920, in Eretz Israel, 1939-1941

Letters sent by Leopold and Grete Ferber in Elberfeld to their daughter Lore Heumann, who was born in Wuppertal, Germany in 1920, in Eretz Israel, 1939-1941 Included in the file: Letter sent by Leo Israel Ferber from Elberfled, to Heinz Lewin in the Netherlands, 06 March 1941; Comment by the submitter of the material, Lore Heumann-Farber: Aliya to Eretz Israel with her husband Rafael Heumann, 1938; correspondence with her parents on a regular basis until 1941, when letters ceased to arrive; Receipt of information after the war that not a single family member survived the war except for her...

File Number : 1850

Type of Material : Postcard, Letter

Language : German

Letter of testimony written by Anna Schorek regarding her experiences in Theresienstadt, the Christianstadt camp and on a death march, October 1945

Letter of testimony written by Anna Schorek regarding her experiences in Theresienstadt, the Christianstadt camp and on a death march, October 1945 The letter was written in Prague and sent to relatives of Anna Schorek in England, 18 October 1945. Time spent in Theresienstadt with her two daughters, Lizzi and Franzi, as forced laborers, September 1942-May 1944; the structure of the camp and its hierarchies; the fate of Jews who belonged to the upper class, during the liquidation of the camp; transfer to the Christianstadt camp; camp life until February, 1945; escape from the death march; help from a...

File Number : 8460

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony

Language : English

Memoirs of Ruth Costiner, born in Bukovina, Romania, 1907, regarding her experiences in Cernauti, Transnistria and Mogilev-Podolski camp

Memoirs of Ruth Costiner, born in Bukovina, Romania, 1907, regarding her experiences in Cernauti, Transnistria and Mogilev-Podolski camp Life in Cernauti until June 1942. Deportation to Transnistria; Mogilev-Podolski camp life; murder of many [inmates] in the camp.

File Number : 8362

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Romanian, German

Testimony of Chava (Gross) Hertz, born in 1930 in Kisvarda, Hungary, regarding her experiences as a child in Debrecen and in the Strasshof, Mathausen, and Gunskirchen camps, and more.

Testimony of Chava (Gross) Hertz, born in 1930 in Kisvarda, Hungary, regarding her experiences as a child in Debrecen and in the Strasshof, Mathausen, and Gunskirchen camps, and more. Move to Debrecen; help for refugees from Poland; German occupation, 1944; the father’s transfer to a labor company; confiscation of the store; expelled to the tile factory; theft of valuables; cruelty to the wealthy; deported to Strasshof camp; life in the camp; electric shock in the field; hospitalization in an Austrian hospital; transferred to Vienna; work cleaning streets after air-raids; death march to Mathausen camp;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe Feldman, born in 1932 in Rozan, Poland, about escaping to Russia and a labor camp in Siberia, 1940–1944

Childhood; antisemitism before the war; war breaks out in 1939; Germans arrive; Jewish townspeople evicted; physical abuse and murder of the town's ritual slaughterer; reaching Maków Mazowiecki; men inducted for forced labor and murdered; escaping from the city; hiding out during the day; walking at night toward the Soviet border; bribing the Polish border guards; reaching Białystok; lack of solidarity on the part of the Jewish townspeople; grandmother dies; unsuccessful attempts to trace father, who remained in Warsaw; refugees deported to Siberia: a month and a half of travel by rail; many die; cases of...

File Number : 13664

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zeev Lorber Dafni, born in Puspokladany, Hungary in 1927, regarding his experiences in the Puspokladany Ghetto and in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Mueldorf, Mittergars and other camps

Testimony of Zeev Lorber Dafni, born in Puspokladany, Hungary in 1927, regarding his experiences in the Puspokladany Ghetto and in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Mueldorf, Mittergars and other camps Life before the war; antisemitism; imposition of economic restrictions on the Jews, 1938; German occupation, March 1944; wearing the yellow badge; deportation of his brother to forced labor; deportation to the Puspokladany Ghetto; construction of a fence and the digging of a trench around the ghetto; transfer to labor in public works in the ghetto; deportation in a freight train to a brick factory in Debrecen; transfer...

File Number : 13443

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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