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Testimony of Edita Alon Carl Shultz, born in Kosice, Czechoslovakia, in 1920 regarding the Kosice ghetto and her rescue in Budapest.

-About the family; transition to Hungarian ruling in 1939; she married a Jewish doctor, a refugee from Czechoslovakia in 1940; recruitment with protection to a unit of Hungarian doctors in 1941; confiscation of the shop owned by the family; expropriation of a room for the benefit of a Hungarian officer; German occupation in 1944; his mother was arrested for interrogation; confiscation of jewelry; deportation to the ghetto ; she got permission to reunite with her husband; rescue; moving to Budapest; birth of a son, starvation; double suicide attempt and rescue; hiding in the Jewish hospital; murder by people...

File Number : 13695

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation of Arthur Plotsk, born in Leipzig, Germany, of Rabbi Simon Dasberg and his daughter Dina, from Groningen, the Netherlands, and of Alfred Weiss, born in Banovce, Slovakia; documentation dated, 1920-1941 - Transit pass issued for Arthur Plotzk by the police in Zagreb, before his travel to Eretz Israel, 20 February 1941; postcard sent by Jetta Plotsk from the Lodz Ghetto to her niece in Denmark, 11 November 1941; - Affidavit from Jozef Weiss (whose last place of residence before his deportation was Hilversum, the Netherlands) and by lawyer I. S. de Vries (whose last place of residence before...

File Number : 145

Type of Material : Passport, Postcard, Letter, Diploma, Administrative Documentation, List of Detainees, Poem/song, Declaration

Language : Hebrew, French, English, Dutch, Hungarian, Serbian-Croatian

Testimony of Dvora Shperling, nee Moskowitz, born in Satu Mare, Romania, in 1928, regarding her deportation to Auschwitz and other camps

Testimony

Parents are from Slovakia; Hungarian rule 1940; rumors about deportations in Slovakia in 1942; rise of anti-semitism; curfew; German occupation in 1944; deportation to the ghetto; brutality of the Hungarian gendarmes; deportation to Auschwitz; selections; transfer to a weapon factory Hasag; Germany; air-raids; Ukrainian and Yugoslavian POWs help Jewish inmates; air-raids on a train of female inmatesnear Neustadt; escape to the forest; liberation by the British 1945; return to Romania; aliya on the "Four Liberties"ship in 1946

File Number : 13474

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Sheva (Levi) Kopolovitz, born in Lask, Poland, 1910, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, the Koenigsberg camp, using a false identity near the Baltic Sea and more

Memoirs of Sheva (Levi) Kopolovitz, born in Lask, Poland, 1910, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, the Koenigsberg camp, using a false identity near the Baltic Sea and more Life before the war; experiences of her father, Ephraim Fishel Levi as a merchant in Lask until 1934; move to Lodz with her family due to difficulties in supporting themselves. Escape of her brother Azriel to the Soviet Union; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto with her family; work as a seamstress in a workshop at No. 10 Jakuba Street; obtaining a food supplement (because of which she survived); receiving an order to...

File Number : 8569

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Personal documents of Lina Van Straten and an affidavit by the Dutch Red Cross regarding the fate of Daniel Hes and his family members, 1939-1946

Personal documents of Lina Van Straten and an affidavit by the Dutch Red Cross regarding the fate of Daniel Hes and his family members, 1939-1946 - Red Cross letter sent by the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem to the Jewish Council in Amsterdam, with a request to inform Lina Van Straten and her family members that their names appear on the 6th Veteran Zionists list, 25 January 1944, and they are therefore included on the list of people intended for aliya to Eretz Israel in the context of the exchange agreements; - Certification regarding the deportation of Lina Van Straten on the transport departing, 15 March...

File Number : 143

Type of Material : Diploma, Letter, Red Cross Letter, Personal Records, Official Documentation

Language : English, Dutch, German

Testimony of Zeev Ram (formerly Tibor Herman), born in Mukacevo, Czechoslovakia in 1930, ‎regarding his experiences in the Auschwitz, Fuerstenstein and Bergen Belsen camps, and the ‎death march

Testimony of Zeev Ram (formerly Tibor Herman), born in Mukacevo, Czechoslovakia in 1930, ‎regarding his experiences in the Auschwitz, Fuerstenstein and Bergen Belsen camps, and the ‎death march Childhood and early adolescence, up to the German entry into Hungary in March 1944; ‎deportation to Auschwitz in April 1944; transfer to Fuerstenstein ‎‏ ‏‎ in May 1944; death march in ‎February 1945; arrival in Bergen-Belsen in March-April 1945; Muselmann; death of his father and ‎brother; meeting with his mother and her disappearance in April 1945; liberation in April 1945; ‎recuperation in Sweden and preparation...

File Number : 13679

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yisrael Salek Delayahu Dłuzniewski, born in 1926 in Łódź, about his experiences in the Łódź ghetto and in the Auschwitz, Gusen-Men, Birkenau, and Mauthausen camps

Life as a boy in Lodz; family background; attends a cheder and a Polish school; belongs to the Zionist youth movement; war erupts in 1939; shops vandalized; shortage of bread; witness escapes with mother to Tomaszow Mazowiecki; escapes back to Lodz; life in the ghetto; the Sperre Aktion; parting with mother and sister, who are deported to Chełmno; labor in a leather workshop; Jews from Germany arrive; the Yom Kippur fast in the ghetto in 1944; deportation by train to Auschwitz-Birkenau; the chair of the Judenrat, Chaim Rumkowski; witnessing the murder of the commander of the Jewish police (Hosenblat); life in...

File Number : 13620

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yisrael Fiser, born in 1929 in Borsa, Romania, about his experiences in Borsa, the Viseul de Sus ghetto, and camps in Poland and Germany during the war

Life before the war; offspring of an Orthodox religious family; antisemitic harassment in school; Hungary re-annexes the area in 1939; father inducted into the labor brigades in 1941; economic hardship; ban on kosher slaughter; Passover in April 1944; Jews rounded up in a synagogue; deportation to the Viseul de Sus ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; family lost in a selection in the camp; transferred to Fürstengrube; coal mining at the camp; death march; transported in open freight cars and mortality among prisoners; taken to Dora Mittelbau and Bergen-Belsen; liberation; Hapoel Hamizrachi movement activity in...

File Number : 13640

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of an anonymous Jewish woman from the village of Rakow, Poland regarding her experiences in the Rakow Ghetto, escapes to the Aryan side using a false identity, hiding in the forest and in a Polish village and work in Germany using a false identity Life in Rakow at the time of the occupation including anti-Jewish legislation; life in the ghetto; capture of the witness; prevention of her deportation to Skarzysko-Kamienna due to the giving a bribe; escape of the family from the ghetto; hiding of the parents by farmers they had known before the war; trips taken to Czestochowa by train by the witness,...

File Number : 297.1

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Letter sent by Rubin Reder from Lwow to Ilya Ehrenburg in Moscow, 29 October 1944

Letter sent by Rubin Reder from Lwow to Ilya Ehrenburg in Moscow, 29 October 1944 The letter is an appeal to Ilya Ehrenburg to publicize what went on in the Belzec death camp in any way that he possibly can in order to reveal the atrocities to the whole world Rubin Reder writes of his experiences since his capture with other Jews in Lwow, 15 July 1942, including his deportation to the Janowska camp, and from there to Belzec; according to him, 5,000 people were crammed into each car on the deportation train; after their arrival and the shearing of the women's hair, they were all forced into a shower, as...

File Number : 169

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Polish, Russian, Yiddish

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