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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 Metuka Zysl (Turkeltaub) Berkovitz, born in Oradea, Romania, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Oradea Ghetto, Auschwitz, Krottingen, Stutthof, Krakow and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Metuka Zysl (Turkeltaub) Berkovitz, born in Oradea, Romania, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Oradea Ghetto, Auschwitz, Krottingen, Stutthof, Krakow and other places Her parents' home; her father serves as a rabbi. Hungarian Army occupation of Oradea, 1940; life under Hungarian rule including hunger and the allocation of food; German Army occupation of Oradea, March 1944; Oradea Ghetto life including the establishment of a soup kitchen; transfer of Jews to the Dreher beer factory for interrogation; preparations for deportation; illness; deportation by train to Auschwitz, May 1944;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Samuel Scharf, born in Sighet, Romania, 1919, regarding his experiences in Sighet, Iasi, Cernauti, Stalingrad, Lyubimovka and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Samuel Scharf, born in Sighet, Romania, 1919, regarding his experiences in Sighet, Iasi, Cernauti, Stalingrad, Lyubimovka and other places His childhood in Sighet in a family of Vizhnitz hasidim; his family's move to Iasi, 1935; activities in Torah V'Avodah; community's concern for refugees from Poland, 1939; move to the Soviet area, summer 1940; life in Cernauti; move to work in a steel factory in Stalingrad, autumn 1940. German Army occupation, June 1941; labor in a quarry in Frolovo; transfer to labor drilling oil in Lyubimovka and in a nearby kolkhoz; approach of the military front;...

File Number : 13200

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rachel Grinberg, born in Vaslui, Romania, 1936, regarding her experiences in Vaslui

Testimony

Testimony of Rachel Grinberg, born in Vaslui, Romania, 1936, regarding her experiences in Vaslui Her parents' home in Vaslui (which was also the Hashomer Hatzair chapter before and during the war); help to refugees who reached Vaslui. Continuation of her education at school during the war; German soldiers; meeting with Red Army soldiers, 1944. Aliya to Eretz Israel via Marseilles, Zagreb and Tismora [?] on the ship, "Hagana"; being transferred to a British destroyer and anchoring in the Haifa harbor, 02 August 1946.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Hazon Arie born in Zutphen The Netherlands 1925.

Testimony

File Number : 13317

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Emil Schwimmer, born in Uzhorod, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Uzhorod Ghetto, Auschwitz, labor camps, on a death march and more

Testimony

Testimony of Emil Schwimmer, born in Uzhorod, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Uzhorod Ghetto, Auschwitz, labor camps, on a death march and more Childhood in Uzhorod, attends a Talmud Torah, Hamizrachi movement. Annexation to Hungary; drafted for forced labor, late 1938; anti-Jewish legislation; German occupation ; deportation to the Uzhorod Ghetto under guard by Hungarian gendarmes, March 1944; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; tattooing of an inmate number on his arm; departure for the Eintrachthuette camp and digging trenches; transfer to the Koenigshuette labor camp to labor in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mendel Zhepka, born in Kosow Lacki, Poland, 1919, regarding his experiences in Kosow Lacki

Testimony

Testimony of Mendel Zhepka, born in Kosow Lacki, Poland, 1919, regarding his experiences in Kosow Lacki Life before the war; religious family; Hashomer Hatzair activities. Outbreak of the war, 01 September 1939; unsuccessful escape attempt to the East; help of the Jewish community to refugees from the Kalisz area; life in the Judenrat as the youth representative; work in the family bakery; "Aktion" and unsuccessful attempt to rescue the family on Yom Kippur, 1942; deportation of the family to Treblinka; approach of the front; escape from a firing squad, summer 1944; draft to the Polish Army(?); end of the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Imre Yitzhak Kovach, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1925, regarding his experiences in Auschwitz and additional camps

Testimony

Testimony of Imre Yitzhak Kovach, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1925, regarding his experiences in Auschwitz and additional camps

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Miriam Mania (Blitz) Drenger, born in Krakow, Poland 1921, regarding her experiences in Biezanow, the Krakow Ghetto, Plaszow, Auschwitz-Birkenau and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Miriam Mania (Blitz) Drenger, born in Krakow, Poland 1921, regarding her experiences in Biezanow, the Krakow Ghetto, Plaszow, Auschwitz-Birkenau and other places Life before the war; well-to-do family; Zionist activities in the Scouts movement. Outbreak of the war; German occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; deportation of craftsmen to the Krakow Ghetto, 1940; expropriation of her family's apartment; selling of jewelry in order to buy food; deportation to Biezanow; camp life; labor laying railroad tracks from Krakow to Auschwitz; labor as the secretary of the camp commander, Miler; barracks...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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