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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Elieazer Virzberger, born in Sangeorgiul De Padure, Romania, 1929, regarding his experiences as a child in Sangeorgiul De Padure, Auschwitz and Kaufering

Testimony

Testimony of Elieazer Virzberger, born in Sangeorgiul De Padure, Romania, 1929, regarding his experiences as a child in Sangeorgiul De Padure, Auschwitz and Kaufering Life before the war. Outbreak of the war; re-annexation to Hungary; anti-Jewish restrictions; closure of businesses; expulsion from the school; transfer to the cultural center with his parents, May 1944; hiding of valuables in a pit; deportation to a brick factory; transfer to a field in the cattle market; life in the field in the cattle market; receives knowledge regarding the Jews' fate, and his disbelief; deportation to Auschwitz; camp...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Herman Zvi Iakobson, born in Satu Mare, Romania, 1935, regarding his experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto and the Mogilev-Podolski Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Herman Zvi Iakobson, born in Satu Mare, Romania, 1935, regarding his experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto and the Mogilev-Podolski Ghetto Life before the war; witness' father is a member of the Communist party. His father's arrest; family moves to Bucharest; move to Siberia; move to Cernauti; German occupation; life in the Cernauti Ghetto including yellow badge; deportation to Mogilev-Podolski via Atachi; ghetto life including the birth of a sister; liberation. Return to Bucharest via Botosani and Dorohoi; help from the JDC; marriage; aliya to Israel, 1964.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yolan Henci (Weisz) Kesztelman, born in Forgolan, Czechoslovakia, 1932, regarding her experiences in the Sevlus Ghetto, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Fallersleben and Salzwedel

Testimony

Testimony of Yolan Henci (Weisz) Kesztelman, born in Forgolan, Czechoslovakia, 1932, regarding her experiences in the Sevlus Ghetto, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Fallersleben and Salzwedel Life before the war; her father is a trader. Re-annexation to Hungary, 1938; cancelation of the family's business license; work of her parents farming; German occupation, March 1944; deportation to the Selvus Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life including labor making gravel and washing the sewers; information of families from Czechoslovakia who perished; her sister became a mother figure; transfer to Bergen-Belsen;...

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 Dov Perl Peer, born in Sighet, Romania, 1923, regarding his experiences in labor battalions and camps in Germany

Testimony

Testimony of Dov Perl Peer, born in Sighet, Romania, 1923, regarding his experiences in labor battalions and camps in Germany Life in Somcuta Mare; poor religious family; education. Hungarian occupation, 1940; restrictions on Jews; dormitory for Jewish youth and vocational studies in metalworking; work in Budapest, 1943; return to Somcuta Mare, February 1944; draft to a labor battalion, April 1944; labor in Nagy-Kata and Hortiliget in Hungary; labor in a factory assembling aircraft; Allied air-raids; transfer to Csepel to a weapons factory; activities in an anti-government group; informed on; torture;...

File Number : 11960

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ester (Gabor) Gai-Herzog, born in Miskolc, 1921, regarding her experiences in Mikolc and in Budapest, and joining the Kasztner train

Testimony

Testimony of Ester (Gabor) Gai-Herzog, born in Miskolc, 1921, regarding her experiences in Mikolc, Budapest and the Kasztner train Her family; her father's military service; move of the family to southern Hungary; studies in school and at home; home life; the Jewish community; her girlfriends in the Scouts movement; joins Hashomer Hatzair; cultural activities in the youth movement; displays of antisemitism; transfer to the Beitar movement; unsuccessful plans to make aliya to Eretz Israel; anti-Jewish decrees; her mother's death, 1942. Self-defense excercises in the underground; draft of young men into...

File Number : 11911

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Judit (Schochter) Goldstein, born in Kunszentmiklos, 1932, regarding her experiences in the Kiskoros Ghetto in Budapest

Testimony

Testimony of Judit (Schachter) Goldstein, born in Kunszentmiklos, 1932, regarding her experiences in the Kiskoros Ghetto in Budapest Life before the war; happy childhood, content family and small community; antisemitism after anti-Jewish legislation; religious holicays and Shabbat at home and in synagogue; deportation of the father to a labor camp, 1940; the family has no income; entry of the Germans, 1944; rise in antisemitism; deportation of the remaining men; transfer of the women to the Kiskoros Ghetto; concentration of Jews on the community's grounds; transport in cattle cars to a brick factory; living...

File Number : 11434

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Amalia Nemes, born in Targu Lapus, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Dej Ghetto, Auschwitz and camps in Riga and Germany

Testimony

Testimony of Amalia Nemes, born in Targu Lapus, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Dej Ghetto, Auschwitz and camps in Riga and Germany Life in the Jewish community of Targu Lapus, Romania; studies and religious lessons in school; restrictions on Jews, 1940; her brother is sent to a labor camp; relations with non-Jewish neighbors after the Hungarian occupation; concentration of the Jews in the synagogue; deportation by wagons to the Dej Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; journey in train wagons; separation from her parents; encounter with Dr. Mengele; life in Auschwitz; spending a whole night in a gas...

File Number : 11112

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shmuel Sheiner, born in Maramarosziget, Romania, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Maramarosziget Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Jaworzno, Bedestyl, on a death march and in Buchenwald

Testimony

Testimony of Shmuel Sheiner, born in Maramarosziget, Romania, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Maramarosziget Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Jaworzno, Bedestyl, on a death march and in Buchenwald Life before the war; from a well-to-do hasidic family; relations with the non-Jewish population. Re-annexation to Hungary, 1941; displays of antisemitism; cruelty towards the Jews shown by the Arrow Cross members; escape of Jewish refugees from Lwow to Maramarosziget, 1943; knowledge concerning murder of Jews from the refugees; rabbinical prevention of escape by the family; German occupation, March 1944;...

File Number : 5779

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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