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Testimony of Mordechay (Paul Georg) Fleischer, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1926 regarding his escape to Budapest, deportation to detention camps, escape from a death march and residing in the Glass House

Testimony

Childhood before the war; Fascist Slovakia, 1938; antisemitic events; Attempts to move to Budapest, Hungary, winter 1942-1943; getting arrested by Hungarian soldiers while escaping; sent back to Slovakia; escape to Hungary with the aid of a smuggler; arrival in Budapest; capture and arrest; decrees and restrictions; transferred to a prison by two Hungarian soldiers; deportation to a brick factory; escape to a marked house; capture and deportation for labor building fortifications and digging anti-tank trenches near Solnok, late October 1944; march towards Austria; escape to the Red Cross house in Budapest...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Miriam Shtein Fuks, born in Gurghiu, Romania, in 1924 regarding deportation to Auschwitz Birkenau and other camps

Family background in Gurghiu; family with religious lifestyle; attending a local school; moving to a government gymnasium in Reghin; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish laws in 1942; deportation of the men to labor camps; moving to Cluj; attending the Jewish gymnasium; German occupation; yellow badge; concentration of the Jews in the ghetto; deportation by wagons to Auschwitz Birkenau; negative attitude of the blockalteste; life in the Czech barrack number 26 in the Lager B1; moving by train to Zschopau; working in a factory producing motorbikes; improvement of the living conditions; transfer to...

File Number : 13736

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation regarding Dola Ickowitz-Blaiberg, born in Krakow, Poland, 1936; documents dated, 1957-2010

Documentation regarding Dola Ickowitz-Blaiberg, born in Krakow, Poland, 1936; documents dated, 1957-2010 - Correspondence by Dola Ickowitz and notaries Dr. Gluecksmann and Haas in Tel Aviv, with the compensation payment authorities in Saarburg and Mainz, Germany, 1957-2010, regarding Ickowitz' experiences during the war; - Her life as a Christian, while hidden by Aniela Matras in Krakow; move to the Krakow Ghetto, by Matras; Krakow Ghetto life, with two Jewish girls; escape from the ghetto along with 10 children, while under the protection of a youth named Romek; return to Matras; life in hiding [with...

File Number : 538

Type of Material : Photograph, Personal Records, Correspondence, Survey, Drawing, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, English, German

Personal documents of Anton Krauser, born in Subotica, Yugoslavia, 1921, submitted by his brother Yitzchak Krauser

Personal documents of Anton Krauser, born in Subotica, Yugoslavia, 1921, submitted by his brother Yitzchak Krauser - Student booklet of Krauser A. Antush from the University of Belgrade, 1938/1939 academic year; - Student booklet of Krauser Antal from the University of Budapest, 1941/1942 academic year and the 1942/1943 academic year; - Card with the name Krauser Andor, for a reserved seating place in the synagogue in Subotica, 1940/1941 year; - Military service booklet of a forced laborer in Budapest, in the name of Istvan Krauser, May-October 1944; - Birth certificate of Carol Krauser, 23 March...

File Number : 212

Type of Material : Personal Records, Official Documentation

Language : Slovak, German, Hungarian

Documentation regarding Robert and Dora (Schwebel) Zwass, including letters they received, school report cards, birth certificates and more

Documentation regarding Robert and Dora (Schwebel) Zwass, including letters they received, school report cards, birth certificates and more Letters and postcards: - Letter sent to Dora Zwass in Chemnitz by her female friend in London, 13 January 1935; - Letter sent to Dora Schwebel in Berlin by her sister Hanna Schwebel congratulating Dora on her [upcoming] marriage, 16 January 1935; - Congratulatory telegrams sent to Dora (Schwebel) and Robert Zwass on their marriage, 25 January 1935; - Postcards sent to Hanna Schwebel in Eretz Israel by her father Chaim Schwebel in Buczacz, 1941; - Letters...

File Number : 2134

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Letter, Postcard

Language : Hebrew, German

Photographs and drawings of synagogues and property belonging to Jewish communities in various cities in Bavaria

Photographs and drawings of synagogues and property belonging to Jewish communities in various cities in Bavaria The material was collected for the book "Der 10 November 1938" (The 10th of November, 1938) by Shimon Brueckheimer. Also in file: - Two wimpels (decorated strips of cloth for wrapping the Sefer Torah, which it was customary for parents to prepare and dedicate to the synagogue upon the birth of a son); one is from the 1800's and one is from the early 1900's.

File Number : 7

Photographs and drawings of synagogues, religious articles and Jewish cemeteries in various cities in Bavaria

Photographs and drawings of synagogues, religious articles and Jewish cemeteries in various cities in Bavaria The material was collected for the book "Der 10 November 1938" (The 10th of November, 1938) by Shimon Brueckheimer.

File Number : 8

Photographs and drawings of property belonging to the Jewish communities in Germany

Photographs and drawings of property belonging to the Jewish communities in Germany The material relates to the following cities: Luebeck, Leipzig, Berlin, Ludwigshafen, Hechingen, Krefeld, Gailingen, Munich, Hamburg, Cologne, Bielefeld, Alsbach, Darmstadt, Limburg, Frankfurt, Michelstadt, Zoppot, Aachen, Worms, Eberswalde, Ladenburg, Mannheim, Danzig, Baden-Baden, Kiel, Neustadt/Saale, Koenigsberg, Offenbach, Essen, Rhina, Heidelberg, Laudenbach and Kuelsheim.

File Number : 9

Testimony of Menahem Lior, born in Bedzin, Poland in 1928, regarding his experiences during ‎deportation to the Bedzin Ghetto and the work camp in Kamionka; hidden by a Pole; escape to ‎Eretz Israel His childhood in a socialist Zionist home; refugees from Germany; rise of antisemitism; outbreak of ‎war on 1 September 1939; anti-Jewish laws and decrees; restriction of Jewish movement and ‎concentration in one area; youth movements; agricultural farm; Zionist and underground ‎activities; infiltrating into a nearby work camp; work collecting and sorting possessions of the Jews ‎in the ghetto; removing dead...

File Number : 13735

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Joseph Viner, born in Gradki, Poland, in 1932, regarding his experiences in the ‎deportation to Sine Waly estate, escape and hiding among farmers and in the forest‎

Testimony of Joseph Viner, born in Gradki, Poland, in 1932, regarding his experiences in the ‎deportation to Sine Waly estate, escape and hiding among farmers and in the forest‎ His childhood in a rural community; annexation to the Soviet Union in 1939; the German ‎occupation in June 1941; his expulsion from school; deportation to Sine Waly estate; escape and ‎hiding in the forest and with farmers in summer 1942; meeting his father and moving to a families ‎camp in the forest in autumn 1942; attack by a gang of Ukrainians; his father murdered and Joseph ‎injured; move to Dubno under a borrowed identity in...

File Number : 13682

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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