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Testimony of Prushka Ruth Hermann Pest, born in 1931 in Györ, Hungary, about the Györ ghetto and Mengele's twins block in Auschwitz

Childhood in an Orthodox home; Germans enter Hungary in March 1944; Jews of Györ rounded up in a synagogue; compulsory wearing of the yellow star; humiliating measures; dispossession; ghettoization; eviction from the ghetto to a collection camp; abuse of the community leaders; deportation to Auschwitz; selection and transfer to Mengele's twins block in Birkenau; murder of the family in Auschwitz; description of the examinations that the twins endured; transfer to C-Lager before autumn; spared from a death march on January 18, 1945; Red Army forces arrive and witness is placed in a convent in Katowice; discharge...

File Number : 13403

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe Miklos Bleier Ofer, born in Berehovo, Czechoslovakia, 1931, regarding his experiences as a child in the Sevlus Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, on a death march and more

Testimony

Testimony of Moshe Miklos Bleier Ofer, born in Berehovo, Czechoslovakia, 1931, regarding his experiences as a child in the Sevlus Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, on a death march and more Childhood in a wealthy, religious family. Hungarian occupation and rise in displays of antisemitism; German occupation, 1944; yellow badge; robbery of valuables and assets; deportation to the Sevlus Ghetto, 1944; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; selection and transfer together with his twin brother to a camp hospital (Kranken Hause); medical experiments; transfer to Camp D and labor near Crematorium 2; approach of the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation including reports by former inmates, regarding the fate of inmates in Auschwitz, Birkenau and other camps, dated, 1944-1962

Documentation including reports by former inmates, regarding the fate of inmates in Auschwitz, Birkenau and other camps, dated, 1944-1962 Interviews, testimonies, research reports, articles, and excerpts from books: Research report regarding activities by the underground in Monowitz camp, by British POW Charles Coward and his friends; Research report by Wladislaw Tejkiel, 28/07/1961; Protocol of an interview with Gerta Gerzonowa, a former inmate in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz and Flossenburg camps, 19/11/1945; Interviews with Elisabeth Guttenberger and Regine Lebensfeld-Hofstaedter, regarding...

File Number : JM/14175

Type of Material : Protocol, Interview(s), Survey Report, Correspondence, Statistics, Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Testimony

Language : Czech, French, English, German

Testimony of Sima Haksh, born in 1924 in Sighet, Romania, about her experiences in Sighet, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen

Testimony

Testimony of Sima Haksh, born in 1924 in Sighet, Romania, about her experiences in Sighet, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen Life under Hungarian rule in 1940, including upturn in antisemitic manifestations and closure of businesses; German occupation; expulsion to the ghetto; conscription of brothers for the MUSZ; sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944; twin brothers placed in the twins' barracks; working in the outside labor squad; evacuation of the camp in January 1945; death march in the snow to Bergen-Belsen; typhus, liberation in April 1945; reunification of family in Sighet; illegal immigration to Eretz Isarel...

File Number : 13350

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Anny (Ballek) Lohr, born in Prostejov, Czechoslovakia, 1917, regarding her experiences in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, Hamburg and Bergen-Belsen

Testimony

Testimony of Anny (Ballek) Lohr, born in Prostejov, Czechoslovakia, 1917, regarding her experiences in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, Hamburg and Bergen-Belsen From a traditional, Zionist family; preparations for aliya to Eretz Israel; unsuccessful attempt to make aliya to Eretz Israel on the ship, "Patria"; return home due to illness. German occupation, 1939; deportation to Theresienstadt, autumn 1940; handing over of valuables; separation between men and women; camp life including labor in the laundry, performances and cultural life; transfer to Auschwitz; camp life; tattoo with number 73255; transfer to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Hani (Hershtik) Craita, born in Teceu Mic, Romania, 1928, regarding her experiences as a child in the Teceu Mic Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Weisswasser, Horneburg and Bergen-Belsen

Testimony

Testimony of Hani (Hershtik) Craita, born in Teceu Mic, Romania, 1928, regarding her experiences as a child in the Teceu Mic Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Weisswasser, Horneburg and Bergen-Belsen Life before the war; religious-Zionist family; relations with Romanian, Hungarian and Jewish residents. Re-annexation to Hungary, 1940; displays of antisemitism; closure of the family's business; yellow badge; German occupation, 1944; deportation to the Teceu Mic Ghetto, Pesach (April) 1944; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1944; selection; life in the twins barracks; selections; transfer to Weisswasser, August...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe Shugam Shoham, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1929, regarding his experiences as a child in the Kaunas Ghetto, Landsberg, Dachau, Auschwitz-Birkenau and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Moshe Shugam Shoham, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1929, regarding his experiences as a child in the Kaunas Ghetto, Landsberg, Dachau, Auschwitz-Birkenau and other places Life before the war; traditional Zionist family; witness attends a Hebrew school; activities in the Hashomer Hatzair movement. Soviet occupation; German occupation, summer 1941; deportation to the Kaunas Ghetto; Kaunas Ghetto life including work as a messenger; work in renovations and in the toy department of a factory; "Aktion" against children and finds a hiding place, spring 1944; life in hiding in a bunker; decision by his...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Miriam Rachel Chengeri and Zvi Chengeri, titled "Our Pesach (Passover) Haggadah", regarding their experiences during the war

File Number : 7425

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Eta Etus (Markovitz) Mendzitzki, born in Iedul, Romania, 1924, regarding her experiences in Dragomiresti, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Budy, on a death march and Bergen-Belsen

Testimony

Testimony of Eta Etus (Markovitz) Mendzitzki, born in Iedul, Romania, 1924, regarding her experiences in Dragomiresti, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Budy, on a death march and Bergen-Belsen From a well-to-do religious Zionist family; her parents own a supermarket; death of her father; Bnei Akiva activities; attends a Romanian school. Annexation to Hungary, August 1940; German occupation, March 1944; deportation to Dragomiresti, the day after Pesach (16 April) 1944; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, April 1944; camp life including the deaths of her mother and brother; typhus and transfer to the infirmary; rescue...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Joint testimony of identical twins Lea (Chengeri) Huber, born in Simleul Silvaniei, Romania, 1937, and Yehudit (Chengeri) Barnea, born in Simleul Silvaniei, Romania, 1937, regarding their experiences in Zalau and in the medical experiments block in Auschwitz-Birkenau Well-to-do religious family; life as identical twins. Outbreak of the war, 1939; draft of their father to a labor battalion, 1942; German occupation, 1944; deportation to Zalau; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; camp life including medical experiments; finding a hiding place with their mother during the evacuation of the camp; liberation by...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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