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Testimony of Yechiel Hahn, born in 1932 in Budapest, about his experiences as a boy in protected houses of the Swedish and Spanish embassies in Budapest during the German occupation

Life before the war in parents' home; grandfather, Gerson Hahn, establishes a Sephardi Orthodox synagogue in Budapest; antisemitism in school; father inducted into the Hungarian labor service in 1940; German occupation ensues in March 1944; secretly listening to BBC radio broadcasts; wearing the yellow star; shop nationalized; studies halted; movement restrictions imposed; ban on employing a non-Jewish domestic; concealing valuables; moving to a marked house; moving to a house protected by the Swedish Embassy in July 1944; a rescue and relief organization helps with food; bombardments; moving into a cellar; a...

File Number : 13604

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yoel Gyorgy Hershkovitz Harpaz, born in Puspokladany, Hungary, 1942, regarding his experiences in Puspokladany and Budapest

Testimony of Yoel Gyorgy Hershkovitz Harpaz, born in Puspokladany, Hungary, 1942, regarding his experiences in Puspokladany and Budapest Life in Puspokladany with his family. Draft of his father to the labor battalions, summer 1942; death of his father, 1943; move to Budapest with his mother; German Army occupation of Hungary, March 1944; sealing of the Budapest Ghetto; Budapest Ghetto life including the smuggle of food by his uncle while using a false identity; in hiding in the attic during the approach of Arrow Cross men; air-raids; liberation by the Red Army, January 1945. Life after the war...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Asher Keller, born in 1927 in Miskolc, Hungary, about his experiences on a march toward Austria and in a protected house and in hiding in Budapest

Testimony of Asher Keller, born in 1927 in Miskolc, Hungary, about his experiences on a march toward Austria and in a protected house and in hiding in Budapest Life before the war, moving with the family to Budapest in 1937; antisemitism in school; refugees from Yugoslavia and Austria reached his location; expelled from academic high school and transferred to a vocational school in 1943; German occupation ensues in March 44; the yellow star edict; the house is marked with a star; curfew in some daytime hours is announced; taking off the yellow star while venturing outside in search of food; Arrow Cross...

File Number : 13444

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Judith (Moshkovitz) Natt, born in Uzhorod, Czechoslovakia, 1932, regarding her experiences in Uzhorod, Budapest, the Uzhorod Ghetto and in hiding in Budapest

Testimony of Judith (Moshkovitz) Natt, born in Uzhorod, Czechoslovakia, 1932, regarding her experiences in Uzhorod, Budapest, the Uzhorod Ghetto and in hiding in Budapest Hungarian Army occupation [of Uzhorod]; life under Hungarian occupation, 1938; increase in the displays of antisemitism; importance to the Hungarians of the brick factory owned by her father; German Army occupation [of Uzhorod], 1944; Germans take control of the factory owned by her father; her family receives a special permit from the Hungarian Minister of the Interior and an exemption from the anti-Jewish restrictions imposed on the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Laszlo Lederer, born in Ujpest, Hungary, 1926

Testimony of Laszlo Lederer, born in Ujpest, Hungary, 1926 Raised in a large family with hardships; helping to support the family from a young age. Drafted to a labor battalion; German occupation, March 1944; reporting to the labor battalion; labor in a factory in Alsfuzito under reasonable conditions; escape; arrival in Budapest with a forged document; joining a labor battalion in Budapest; escape when the battalion departed from Budapest; detention by the German Army and transfer to the Arrow Cross men, late December 1944; deportation to the Budapest Ghetto; life in the ghetto for a few weeks until the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mordehai Sternberg, born in Oroshaza, Hungary, 1922, regarding his experiences in Oroshaza, Budapest, Debrecen, Szeged and the Budapest Ghetto

Testimony of Mordehai Sternberg, born in Oroshaza, Hungary, 1922, regarding his experiences in Oroshaza, Budapest, Debrecen, Szeged and the Budapest Ghetto His father owns a factory; antisemitism during the 1930s; beating of the witness in school because he is Jewish; move to Budapest to obtain a profession, 1942. Draft to a labor battalion; escape from a march to Ukraine; infrastructure labor in Debrecen and Szeged; escape to Budapest due to fear of deportation to Austria; receives a Swiss protective passport; move to the Budapest Ghetto; digging of a killing pit near the Danube River; murder of women...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avraham Stern, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1935, regarding his experiences in Budapest and the Budapest Ghetto

Testimony of Avraham Stern, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1935, regarding his experiences in Budapest and the Budapest Ghetto His family's life and his education; his father's service in the Hungarian Army during Word War I. German Army occupation of Budapest, March 1944; life under German occupation including decree regarding wearing a yellow badge; rise to power of the Arrow Cross party; confiscation of property and valuables; deportation to the Budapest Ghetto; Budapest Ghetto life including religious life and mortality due to disease, cold and hunger; activities of the Judenrat in the Budapest Ghetto;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Joseph Weiss, born in Cehul Silvaniei, Romania, 1932, regarding his experiences in Cehul Silvaniei, the Budapest Ghetto, in hiding, in Leipheim, Gailingen and other places

Testimony of Joseph Weiss, born in Cehul Silvaniei, Romania, 1932, regarding his experiences in Cehul Silvaniei, the Budapest Ghetto, in hiding, in Leipheim, Gailingen and other places His childhood in a Jewish religious community in an Hungarian area, including details about the culture and politics. Annexation of Cehul Silvaniei to Hungary, 1939; German Army occupation of Cehul Silvaniei, March 1944; deportation of his family to a prison in Cluj; deportation to Auschwitz; transfer of his mother and seven of the children to the Kistarcsa prison near Budapest; transfer to the transit camp on Columbus...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Language : Hebrew

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