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Testimony of Miriam Marila Liber Prague née Kostin, born in 1921 in Warsaw, about her experiences in the Warsaw ghetto, in Hungary, with the partisans in Yugoslavia, and as a forced laborer in Germany

Life before the war; German occupation ensues; dispossession; deportation to the Warsaw ghetto; life in the ghetto; escaping to the "Aryan" side with help of forged papers; marrying; escaping to Lwów; escaping back to Warsaw; escaping to Hungary; receiving privileges from the Polish Consulate; escaping to Yugoslavia; joining the partisans in March 1944; sabotaging a railroad track; arrested by the Germans and taken to Germany; working in a factory that manufactures spare parts for tanks; posing as a Croat; receiving extra privileges; liberated by American forces; reaching Buchenwald; encountering Holocaust...

File Number : 13612

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Chava Eva (Reichman) Shoham, born in Nyiregyhaza, Hungary, 1929, regarding her experiences as a child in Budapest, her aliya to Eretz Israel with a group of children, 1943 and her experiences in other places Life before the war; aliya to Eretz Israel, move to Mozambique and move to Angola, 1930-1936; move to Budapest; life in Budapest in a children's institution supervised by a family, 1937; contact with a female cousin (her legal guardian). Deportation of the men in the family to camps; her mother's escape [?]; receives information from refugees; deportation of people lacking citizenship;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Esther Spitzer, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1919, regarding her experiences in Budapest

Testimony

Testimony of Esther Spitzer, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1919, regarding her experiences in Budapest Life before the war; studies in a teachers seminary in Miskolc; life in Budapest. Escape with her baby, April 1944; receives a protective passport from the Swiss Embassy; escape to various homes in Budapest. Aliya to Israel, 1953.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of David Mendelovitz, born in Reghin, Romania, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Reghin Ghetto, a labor battalion, Mauthausen and Gunskirchen

Testimony

Testimony of David Mendelovitz, born in Reghin, Romania, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Reghin Ghetto, a labor battalion, Mauthausen and Gunskirchen Life before the war; Sabbaths and religious holidays; the Jewish community; synagogues and youth movements; studies; Hanoar Hatzioni activities. Annexation to Hungary; draft of his father to forced labor; his Bar Mitzvah celebration; murder of a female relative by Hungarians; Reghin as a center for draftees to forced labor; drafted to Levente; German occupation, March 1944; behavior of the Hungarians; anti-Jewish decrees including yellow badge;...

File Number : 13002

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Newspaper clippings regarding the activities of Hanna Szenes, 1973-1994

File Number : 82

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs and documentation of Andras Durovecz, regarding Hannah Szenes

Memoirs and documentation of Andras Durovecz, regarding Hannah Szenes - Calling card of George Steiger; - Photograph of Hannah Szenes; - Greeting card for the new year, in Hungarian, sent by Andras Durovecz to the brother of Hannah Szenes, regarding his planned visit in Israel, 1991; - Note written in Hebrew by Hasida David, who interviewed Andras Durovecz about his meeting with Hannah Szenes in Egypt before her transfer to Hungary, that Durovecz had left to the interviewer in his will the article he wrote about his meeting with Szenes; - Memoirs of Durovecz, in Hungarian (up to p. 16); the rest...

File Number : 6743

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English, Hungarian

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 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 Yehuda Shaul Frenkel, born in Budapest, 1930, regarding his experiences in Budapest

Testimony

Testimony of Yehuda Shaul Frenkel, born in Budapest, 1930, regarding his experiences in Budapest Family life in Budapest and Brasso; his father is active in the Mizrachi; his mother is the chairwoman of Hamizrachi women; witness is an active member of Bnei Akiva; learns in the Torat Emet Yeshiva. His family helps refugees in transit from Poland and Slovakia to escape on the Orient Express and helps with certificates; witness relinquishes his place on the escape route in favor of a cousin who is a refugee from Slovakia, 1942; entry of the Germans into Hungary; concentration of the movement's emissaries in...

File Number : 7833

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Michael Marci Hershkovitz Ofri, born in Dombovar, 1922, regarding his experiences in labor battalions in Dombovar, Gorgenyoroszfalu, Mauthausen and Gunskirchen camp and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Michael Marci Hershkovitz Ofri, born in Dombovar, 1922, regarding his experiences in labor battalions in Dombovar, Gorgenyoroszfalu, Mauthausen and Gunskirchen camp and other places Family life before the war; his father is a cantor; community leaders forbid Zionist activities; studies in Budapest. Drafted to forced labor, October 1943; Yom Kippur in Cluj; forced labor building an air field in Gorgenyoroszfalu; transfer to Ferihegy; builds an airfield in Rakoshegy, winter 1943; German occupation, May 1944; removal of Jewish belongings from Rakoshegy; transfer to Ersekujvar, autumn, 1944;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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