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Testimony

Testimony of Yitzhak Yulius Cohen, born in Aranos Na Zitnom Ostrove, Czechoslovakia, 1922, regarding his experiences in a labor battalion in Komarno and on the Austro-Hungarian border and in Mauthausen Life before the war; education; move to Komarno; life in Komarno including Maccabi Hatzair and Beitar activities. Ban on youth movement activities; deportation to a labor battalion; life in the labor battalion including training and forced labor; flooding of the camp and damage to property; meets Jews on a march from Budapest to Austria; explosion in a railroad station and labor evacuating the injured;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Arie Lipot Grifel Ben Yehuda, born in Lunca De Jos, Romania in 1931, regarding his experiences as a child in Lunca De Jos, in the Budapest Ghetto, using a false identity and in hiding

Testimony of Arie Lipot Grifel Ben Yehuda, born in Lunca De Jos, Romania in 1931, regarding his experiences as a child in Lunca De Jos, in the Budapest Ghetto, using a false identity and in hiding Life before the war; education. Deportation to Budapest with his family, 1940; life in Budapest; German occupation, 1944; life as refugees; pogroms against Jews; transfer of his brother to a labor battalion; transfer to a marked house with his family; his sister's escape from deportation to a camp; his sister finds a hiding place; his family is a candidate for being included on the Kasztner train; life as...

File Number : 12819

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shmuel Hamajda Hadar, born in Kosice, (Slovakia) Czechoslovakia, 1935, regarding his experiences as a child while in hiding in a forest, in Kosice, the Budapest Ghetto and an orphanage

Testimony

Testimony of Shmuel Hamajda Hadar, born in Kosice, (Slovakia) Czechoslovakia, 1935, regarding his experiences as a child while in hiding in a forest, in Kosice, the Budapest Ghetto and an orphanage Move to Kezmarok; attends school. German occupation; escape and hidden in the home of a farmer; escape to Hungary; robbed by border smugglers; life in hiding in a forest; capture by Slovakians; detention by the police; escape from detention with help from a police officer; capture by Hungarian soldiers; return to Kosice; meets family relatives; detention of his mother; escape to Sighet; learns in a "heder";...

File Number : 12326

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Eva (Bruck) Szendro Bartsila, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1925, regarding her experiences in a marked house in Budapest, in hiding, prison with Hannah Szenes and the Budapest Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Eva (Bruck) Szendro Bartsila, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1925, regarding her experiences in a marked house in Budapest, in hiding, prison with Hannah Szenes and the Budapest Ghetto Life before the war; learns in a monastery; attends a Jewish school. German occupation; transfer to a marked house; life in a marked house; life in subterranean hiding with the family and additional Jews near the home of the engineer Bokody, who supplied them food for a month; capture of the family by the Arrow Cross; life in prison including sharing a cell with Hannah Szenes; release from prison; move to Buda;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yechiel Doron, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1930, regarding his experiences in a marked house and a brick factory in Budapest and a camp in Austria

Testimony

Testimony of Yechiel Doron, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1930, regarding his experiences in a marked house and a brick factory in Budapest and a camp in Austria Life before the war; attends school; displays of antisemitism; the Jewish community. German occupation; deportation of relatives to Auschwitz; draft of his father and uncle to labor battalions; yellow badge; his Bar-Mitzvah celebration; contact with his father; move with his mother to a marked house; air-raids; death of his father in Buchenwald; rise of Szalasi to power; transfer to a brick factory; life in the factory; buys protective passports;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shemuel Hoffman, born in Hajduszoboszlo, Hungary, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in Budapest, a ghetto, Strasshof, Vienna and a death march

Testimony

Testimony of Shemuel Hoffman, born in Hajduszoboszlo, Hungary, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in Budapest, a ghetto, Strasshof, Vienna and a death march Family life; his parents' livelihood; Shabbat and religious holidays; attends school and learns in a "heder"; Jewish community; antisemitism; move to Budapest for studies; draft of his brothers to the labor battalions. German occupation; return to Hajduszoboszlo; confiscation of property; deportation to a brick factory; deportation to Strasshof; disinfection process; transfer to Vienna; life in a school; forced labor; deportation in a death...

File Number : 12209

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shmuel Imre Gellman, born in Zsujta, Hungary, 1928, regarding his experiences in Polgar, Budapest and Buchenwald, Niederorschel and Landsberg camps

Testimony

Testimony of Shmuel Imre Gellman, born in Zsujta, Hungary, 1928, regarding his experiences in Polgar, Budapest and Buchenwald, Niederorschel and Landsberg camps His immediate family's life; his parents' livelihood; move to Polgar and home life; Shabbat and religious holidays; learns in a school and a "heder"; displays of antisemitism; Jewish community; burning of the family's flour mill; move to Budapest; detention of family relatives; vocational studies. German occupation of Hungary, March 1944; confinement of Jews in marked houses; Slichot prayers in the Great Synagogue; yellow badge; deportation of his...

File Number : 12208

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zvi Zoltan Gruenstein, born in Tokaj, regarding his experiences in Budapest

Testimony

Testimony of Zvi Zoltan Gruenstein, born in Tokaj, 1929, regarding his experiences in Budapest Immediate family; attends "heder" and school; Jewish community; restrictions on Jews; hostile Gendarmerie activities against Jews. Draft of Jews to labor battalions; passage of soldiers through the town; draft of his father to a labor battalion; disappearance of his father; his mother's labor assignments; the children manage the home; relations with neighbors; draft of youth to pre-military training in Levente; Levente activities; beatings from the company commander; punishment; Shabbat Bar Mitzvah; sympathy...

File Number : 11982

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zechrya Zoltan Simon, born in Valea Lui Mihai, Romania, 1921, regarding his experiences in a Hungarian labor battalion, Slovakia and Sopron

Testimony

Testimony of Zechrya Zoltan Simon, born in Valea Lui Mihai, Romania, 1921, regarding his experiences in a Hungarian labor battalion, Slovakia and Sopron Life before the war; community life; learns in a public school, "heder" and various yeshivas. Outbreak of the war; drafted into pre-army military training; displays of antisemitism; arrival of refugees from Poland; re-annexation to Hungary; drafted into a labor battalion, 1942; transfer to the Carpathian Mountains; life in the Carpathian Mountains including forced labor; transfer to Slovakia; transfer to Sopron; life in Sopron including typhus; liberation...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Joel Otto Hershkovitz Elizur, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1921, regarding his experiences in a Hungarian labor battalion, the Salgotarjan Ghetto, the Glass House in Budapest and other places Life before the war; relations with the local population; learns in a yeshiva. German occupation, March 1944; draft to a labor battalion; forced labor preparing a field for firing ranges and evacuation of apartments in the Salgotarjan Ghetto; obtains protective passports; return to Budapest; life in the "Glass House"; Hungarians break into the Glass House and are distanced away by diplomats; liberation by...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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