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Memoirs of Yaakov Kleinman, a resident of Munkacs, Czechoslovakia, as told to his daughter, Rachel Shpunt, regarding his experiences as a forced laborer, a captive of the Soviets and his return to Czechoslovakia

File Number : 8334

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Arnon Zussman, born in Petach Tikva, Eretz Israel, 1938, regarding his experiences as a child in Katowice, in the Kielce and Wislica Ghettos, return of the family to Eretz Israel thanks to an exchange deal in 1942, and more Life before the war; visiting Katowice together with his family, July 1939; life there including visiting family members; German occupation, September 1939; yellow badge; deportation together with other Jews; his mother leaving the line and announcing her having British passports; decision by the German Obersturmfuhrer to have the family stay; life in the Wislica Ghetto;...

File Number : 13190

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Aharon Ari Wiezen, born in Trebisov, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Kosice Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Oranienburg, Mauthausen and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Aharon Ari Wiezen, born in Trebisov, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Kosice Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Oranienburg, Mauthausen and other places From an ultra-Orthodox family; learns in a "heder" and a local school until 1939; learns in a yeshiva until 1942. Escape to Hungary and information regarding what is happening in the extermination camps, 1943; German occupation, March 1944; deportation to the Kosice Ghetto, May 1944; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; camp life including labor as the assistant to an SS man; laying tefillin in secret in his workplace; transfer...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yitzhak Arie Igo Helving, born in Radauti, Romania, 1935, regarding his experiences as a child in Radauti, Atachi and the Mogilev-Podolski Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Yitzhak Arie Igo Helving, born in Radauti, Romania, 1935, regarding his experiences as a child in Radauti, Atachi and the Mogilev-Podolski Ghetto Life before the war; traditional family. Deportation to Transnistria, 1941; transfer via train to Atachi; transfer via rafts to Mogilev-Podolski; life in Mogilev-Podolski including his mother contracts typhus; help of the Jewish police in capturing deportees to forced labor; observing Jewish religious holidays; ghetto life; liberation by the Red Army, 1944. Move to family in Cernauti; return to Radauti; efforts to make aliya; aliya to Israel,...

File Number : 13064

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yisrael Leifer, born in Bustina, Czechoslovakia, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Mateszalka Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald, Magdeburg and Schlieben

Testimony

Testimony of Yisrael Leifer, born in Bustina, Czechoslovakia, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Mateszalka Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald, Magdeburg and Schlieben From a religious family; life before the war; learns in a "heder" and yeshiva; witness' father is head of the Yeshiva. Annexation to Hungary; deportation of Jews without Hungarian citizenship to Poland; deportation to the Mateszalka Ghetto, 1944; his father brings a Torah scroll to the ghetto; ghetto life; deportation of his family to Auschwitz-Birkenau; separation form the family; transfer to Buchenwald; camp life including labor...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Michael Zoltan Bochner, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1924, regarding his experiences in Zagreb, Belgrade, in hiding in villages in Serbia and with the partisans

Testimony

Testimony of Michael Zoltan Bochner, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1924, regarding his experiences in Zagreb, Belgrade, in hiding in villages in Serbia and with the partisans Life before the war; emigration of the family to Czechoslovakia; move to Zagreb. Outbreak of the war, 1941; escape to Belgrade; life in Belgrade; air-raids; escape south; hidden by a Serb family; life in hiding using an assumed identity; hiding the tephilin; escape via various villages; offer by a Serb priest to hide the family; arrest by Yugoslavia gendarmes; transfer to the German command; interrogation of the father by a...

File Number : 13020

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zvi Itzkovitz, born in Benedikovce, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Mukacevo Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Mauthausen, Ebensee and Gunskirchen

Testimony

Testimony of Zvi Itzkovitz, born in Benedikovce, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Mukacevo Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Mauthausen, Ebensee and Gunskirchen From an ultra-Orthodox family; learns in a "heder" and attends school. Life under Hungarian rule from 1939; activities of the community rabbi of Mukacevo; deportation to labor camps near Mukacevo; camp life including labor as a messenger; German occupation, 1944; deportation to the Mukacevo Ghetto; reaction of the neighbors; theft of property; his mother's illness; deportation to Auschwitz; murder of his parents and siblings;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe David Shreiber, born in Reghin Sat, Romania, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Reghin Sat Ghetto, Oradea, Koszeg, Papa and Schachendorf

Testimony

Testimony of Moshe David Shreiber, born in Reghin Sat, Romania, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Reghin Sat Ghetto, Oradea, Koszeg, Papa and Schachendorf From a religious Zionist family; the family owns an oil factory; learns in a "heder", a Jewish school and a yeshiva; Mizrachi Youth activities. Re-annexation to Hungary; decrees including the confiscation of property and draft to a labor division, early 1944; German occupation, March 1944; deportation to the Reghin Sat Ghetto; transfer to Oradea; deportation to Koszeg, September 1944; camp life including labor digging ditches; transfer to Papa;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yosef Imre Stadler born in Dunajska-Streda Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Dunajska-Streda Ghetto, Auschwitz and Walldorf

Testimony

Testimony of Yosef Imre Stadler born in Dunajska-Streda Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Dunajska-Streda Ghetto, Auschwitz and Walldorf Life before the war. Annexation to Hungary, 1938; decrees; his father's arrest for trading in kosher meat; illegal Beitar activities; deportation of Jews without citizenship and their murder, 1942; German occupation, March 1944; deportation to the Dunajska-Streda Ghetto, May 1944; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life; transfer to Walldorf, September 1944; camp life including labor constructing a subterranean airport, and in the kitchen; steals...

File Number : 12696

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yehudit (Braf) Akerman, born in Kosice, Czechoslovakia, 1933, regarding her experiences in the Budapest Ghetto, a protected house and using a false identity

Testimony

Testimony of Yehudit (Braf) Akerman, born in Kosice, Czechoslovakia, 1933, regarding her experiences in the Budapest Ghetto, a protected house and using a false identity Well-to-do religious family; death of her mother; attends a Jewish school. Annexation to Hungary, 1938; draft of her father to a labor battalion; release of her father; German occupation, 1944; escape of the family with forged documents to Budapest; deportation to the Budapest Ghetto; ghetto life; move to a protected Jewish children's home; in hiding in a protected house under the protection of Raoul Wallenberg; her father was in hiding...

File Number : 12709

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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