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Testimony of Avraham Iger, born in 1918 in Radom, Poland, about his experiences in Radom, the Jedlina ghetto, and camps in Poland and Austria, 1939–1945

German occupation ensues in 1939; witness assigned to felling timber as forced laborer; deportation to the Jedlina ghetto in 1941; forced labor in the ghetto; deportation with brother and sister to Pionki ni 1942; life in the camp; working in a gunpowder and munitions plant; transferred to Zwolen in 1942; interned there for severael weeks; sent back to Pionki; taken to Auschwitz in 1944; interned there for several days; sent on to Sosnowiec Srodula in 1944; life in the camp; working in an armaments plant; death march to Mauthausen in January 1945; transferred to Gunskirchen; interned there until liberated by...

File Number : 13611

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yehudit Brok née Stern, born in 1925 in Galanta, Czechoslovakia, about her experiences in the ghettos of Galanta and Nove Zamky and in the Auschwitz and Hohenelbe camps until 1945

Hungary re-annexes the Galanta area and anti-Jewish violence in 1938; antisemitism escalates and authorities impose restrictions; German occupation ensues in 1944; father arrested and deported to a detention camp in Hungary in 1944; witness deported with mother and siblings to the Galanta ghetto for several days; deportation to a ghetto in a brickyard in Nove Zamky; deporation to Auschwitz in 1944; life in Auschwitz and receiving help from father; transferred to Hohenelbe; life in the camp; working at a factory that turns out aircraft parts; typhus; rescue by a non-Jewish Dutch nurse in 1945; liberation by Red...

File Number : 13525

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaim Meirovitz/Meierovich, born in 1928 in Lodz, about his experiences in the Lodz ghetto and in the Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, and Kaltwasser camps, etc.

Life before the war; antisemitism before the war; German occupation ensues in September 1939; anti-Jewish legislation; the yellow-star edict; abuse of bearded Jews; dispossession; deportation to the Lodz ghetto in February 1940; hunger; working in a metal factory; activity of the Judenrat; activity of the Jewish police; deportation to labor camps; evading the transports; the Sperre Aktion in September 1942; witness finds shelter with mother in a loft; hardships at "training centers"; faith during the Holocaust; ghetto liquidated in summer 1944; deportation to Auschwitz in late August 1944; sent to the...

File Number : 13618

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Batya Hefetz née Fiser Szabo, born in 1923 in Viseul de Sus, Romania, about her experiences in the Viseul de Sus ghetto and in the Stutthof, Auschwitz, and Bromberg camps

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Testimony of Batya Hefetz née Fiser Szabo, born in 1923 in Viseul de Sus, Romania, about her experiences in the Viseul de Sus ghetto and in the Stutthof, Auschwitz, and Bromberg camps Hungary re-annexes Viseul de Sus; life under Hungarian rule in 1940; German occupation ensues in 1944; ghettoization; life in the ghetto in 1944; deportation with family to Auschwitz; transfer to Stutthof in autumn 1944; transfer to Bromberg; life in the camp; working in an armaments plant in 1944; death march; liberated by Red Army forces in January 1945; life in a Polish village nearby; convalescence; return to Viseul de Sus...

File Number : 13549

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Aharon Lencicky, born in Lodz, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in Lodz, Bialystok, Ural, Tashkent, Irbith and Hindenburg

Testimony

Testimony of Aharon Lencicky, born in Lodz, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in Lodz, Bialystok, Ural, Tashkent, Irbith and Hindenburg German Army occupation of Lodz, 1939; life under German occupation including forced labor; travel restrictions and anti-Jewish decrees; escape to Bialystok, December 1939; life in Bialystok under Soviet rule; move to initiated labor in a mine in the Moscow area, 1940; transfer to a labor camp producing bricks in Ural, 1940; release from the camp; move to Tashkent, 1941; outbreak of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union, 1941; transfer with a labor battalion to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Dov Bene Weiss, born in Bekescsaba, Hungary, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Bekescsaba Ghetto, Budapest, Auschwitz and Muehldorf

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Testimony of Dov Bene Weiss, born in Bekescsaba, Hungary, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Bekescsaba Ghetto, Budapest, Auschwitz and Muehldorf Life in Bekescsaba. Deportation to the Bekescsaba Ghetto; transfer to Budapest; life in Budapest; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life; transfer to Muehldorf; camp life.

File Number : 13370

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Miriam Maria (Daskalovitz) Rubin, born in Vilkovce, Czechoslovakia, 1930, regarding her experiences in Vilkovce, in hiding, in the Berehovo Ghetto, Auschwitz, Geislingen and other places

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Testimony of Miriam Maria (Daskalovitz) Rubin, born in Vilkovce, Czechoslovakia, 1930, regarding her experiences in Vilkovce, in hiding, in the Berehovo Ghetto, Auschwitz, Geislingen and other places Life under Hungarian rule, 1939; deportation by the Hungarians from Vilkovce to Kamenets-Podolski due to lack of a registered Hungarian citizenship; escape; illegally crosses the border to Vilkovce; in hiding until her family organizes matters regarding [their] Hungarian citizenship; detention of her brother, who was accused of Zionist activities by the Hungarians; anti-Jewish decrees imposed by the Hungarian...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shlomit Frida (Bornstein) Gidron, born in Bielsko, Poland, 1938, regarding her experiences in Bielsko, Lodz, the Bochnia Ghetto, Oradea, Bucharest and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Shlomit Frida (Bornstein) Gidron, born in Bielsko, Poland, 1938, regarding her experiences in Bielsko, Lodz, the Bochnia Ghetto, Oradea, Bucharest and other places German Army occupation of Bielsko, 1939; death of her mother from illness; move to Lodz with her father, 1940; deportation to the Bochnia Ghetto, 1941; Bochnia Ghetto life including her father's labor in a workshop; in hiding during "Aktions"; smuggled from the ghetto with her mother's parents to the Czech border, 1943; illegally crosses the border into Hungary, 1943; life while using forged documents as Christian Polish refugees in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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