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Testimony of Markovitz and Bar Zahava Golda, born in Uzhorod, Czechoslovakia, in 1927 regarding the Moskovitz ghetto, Auschwitz camp and Bruntal labor camp

Testimony

Childhood before the war; good relations between the local population and the Jews in Uzhorod; invasion of the Hungarians in 1938; antisemitism; looting and burning of the family property by Hungarian soldiers; yellow badge; confiscation of property by the Germans; deportation to Moskovitz ghetto in 1943; harsh physical and emotional conditions; starvation; smuggling of food; deportation to Auschwitz Birkenau; selection; separation from the family; forced labor; crematorium; starvation; brutal attitude of the kapo; gypsy inmates; clearing the corpses; roll-calls; help by the Blockalteste to the women inmates of...

File Number : 13769

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Mala Maroko Freund regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, on a death march, in Mauthausen, Bergen-Belsen and more

Memoirs of Mala Maroko Freund regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, on a death march, in Mauthausen, Bergen-Belsen and more Transfer of Mala Maroko Freund and her family from Lodz to within the Lodz Ghetto limits, November 1939; life in the Lodz Ghetto until 28 August 1944; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; transfer to the Langenbielau camp, September 1944; transfer to the Breslau-Hundsfeld camp, late September; death march to Gross-Rosen, December 1944; transfer to Mauthausen, January 1945; transfer to Bergen-Belsen, March 1945; liberation by the British Army, 15 April...

File Number : 8538

Type of Material : Interview(s), Excerpt(s)

Language : Swedish

Memoirs of Miriam Eva (Reiter) Zinger, born in Munkacs, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Munkacs Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and the Lenzing camp

Memoirs of Miriam Eva (Reiter) Zinger, born in Munkacs, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Munkacs Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and the Lenzing camp Life before the war; attends the Hebrew high school. German occupation; yellow badge; deportation to the Munkacs Ghetto; transfer of her father and other Jews to the Great Synagogue; abuse of the Jews by Hungarian soldiers; liquidation of the ghetto, April 1944; deportation to Auschwitz by death march; camp life; murder of her father, grandfather and grandmother; life in Birkenau in the Gypsy camp; transfer of the Gypsies to the gas...

File Number : 8517

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Letter written by Boris Toybis, a Lieutenant Colonel in the Red Army Medical Corps, regarding the murder of Jews and Gypsies in Varaklani

Letter written by Boris Toybis, a Lieutenant Colonel in the Red Army Medical Corps, regarding the murder of Jews and Gypsies in Varaklani Boris Toybis, a Lieutenant Colonel in the Red Army Medical Corps, writes in reaction to an article by Ilya Ehrenburg, published in the "Krasnaya Zvezda" newspaper 25 September 1944; he tells of the impression he was left with from his work in the military in the exhumation at the murder site in Varaklani; all the Jews and the Gypsies of Varaklani were murdered in two ditches; Toybis spoke with a Latvian eye-witness who told him about the murder; in June 1944 the Germans...

File Number : 205

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Russian

Testimony of Moshe David Bleier, born in Kisterenye, Hungary in 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in Kisterenye, in the Salgotarjan Ghetto, and in Auschwitz-Birkenau and Auschwitz camps

Testimony of Moshe David Bleier, born in Kisterenye, Hungary in 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in Kisterenye, in the Salgotarjan Ghetto, and in Auschwitz-Birkenau and Auschwitz camps Life before the war; middle-class, traditional family; antisemitism; closure of his father's store by the Hungarian Gendarmerie, and its sale by the "Cash-Box Guards" Police [?]; transfer of his father to service in the labor battalions; disappearance of his father during 1939-1940; concentration of the Jews, and their deportation to the Salgotarjan Ghetto by the Hungarian Police and SS men, 1944; deportation to...

File Number : 13572

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zeev Lorber Dafni, born in Puspokladany, Hungary in 1927, regarding his experiences in the Puspokladany Ghetto and in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Mueldorf, Mittergars and other camps

Testimony of Zeev Lorber Dafni, born in Puspokladany, Hungary in 1927, regarding his experiences in the Puspokladany Ghetto and in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Mueldorf, Mittergars and other camps Life before the war; antisemitism; imposition of economic restrictions on the Jews, 1938; German occupation, March 1944; wearing the yellow badge; deportation of his brother to forced labor; deportation to the Puspokladany Ghetto; construction of a fence and the digging of a trench around the ghetto; transfer to labor in public works in the ghetto; deportation in a freight train to a brick factory in Debrecen; transfer...

File Number : 13443

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Arie Leib Vered, born in Roman, Romania, 1921, regarding his experiences in Bucharest, in detention in Vacaresti; in detention in Zilava and in detention in Fetesti

Testimony

Testimony of Arie Leib Vered, born in Roman, Romania, 1921, regarding his experiences in Bucharest, in detention in Vacaresti; in detention in Zilava and in detention in Fetesti Family background; family makes aliya to Eretz Israel, 1923; return to Romania due to economic difficulties; move to Bucharest; displays of antisemitism; joining the Maccabi youth movement. Burning of the store and closing of the business, 1940; pogroms; rescue of his family; unsuccessful aliya attempt to Eretz Israel; return to Bucharest; detention by Romanian gendarmes; detention for 30 days for lack of possession of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sofia Doczminer née Fried, born in 1924 in Berbesti, Romania, about her experiences in Berbesti, Budapest, the Hunsfeld camp, Auschwitz, and elsewhere

Testimony

Testimony of Sofia Doczminer née Fried, born in 1924 in Berbesti, Romania, about her experiences in Berbesti, Budapest, the Hunsfeld camp, Auschwitz, and elsewhere Life before the war; connection with the Satmar Hasidim; antisemitism in Romania escalates; activity of the Iran Guard movement in 1937; Hungary re-annexes the area in 1940; antisemitism escalates and Jews are placed under restrictions; father's business is transferred to Sighet in 1940; escaping to relatives in Budapest in 1943; escaping back to Berbesti in 1944; deportation to Auschwitz in 1944; transfer with her three sisters to Hunsfeld; life...

File Number : 13453

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Information regarding the murder of three Jews in Kiperchency, 10/08/1941

File Number : 1271

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony

Language : Russian

Testimony of Mira Magdala Druckman Sadot, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1939, regarding her experiences in Cernauti, the Soviet Union and Bucharest

Testimony

Testimony of Mira Magdala Druckman Sadot, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1939, regarding her experiences in Cernauti, the Soviet Union and Bucharest Conversion of her mother to Judaism before her marriage; her parents make aliya to Eretz Israel, 1943; witness' life with her mother's non-Jewish parents. Red Army invasion [of Romania]; deportation of her family to the Soviet Union; her mother's sister obtains a permit for the family to move back, as Romanians of German origin; life with her Christian grandmother and grandfather; escape from Cernauti in the direction of the villages, 1941; arrival along with...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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