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Testimony of Mordechay (Paul Georg) Fleischer, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1926 regarding his escape to Budapest, deportation to detention camps, escape from a death march and residing in the Glass House

Testimony

Childhood before the war; Fascist Slovakia, 1938; antisemitic events; Attempts to move to Budapest, Hungary, winter 1942-1943; getting arrested by Hungarian soldiers while escaping; sent back to Slovakia; escape to Hungary with the aid of a smuggler; arrival in Budapest; capture and arrest; decrees and restrictions; transferred to a prison by two Hungarian soldiers; deportation to a brick factory; escape to a marked house; capture and deportation for labor building fortifications and digging anti-tank trenches near Solnok, late October 1944; march towards Austria; escape to the Red Cross house in Budapest...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zvi Vartenberg Vardi, born in Galati, Romania, regarding his experiences in labor battalions in Budapest, Csepel and in the Glass House in Budapest

Testimony

Testimony of Zvi Vartenberg Vardi, born in Galati, Romania, regarding his experiences in labor battalions in Budapest, Csepel and in the Glass House in Budapest From an established traditional Zionist family; life under Hungarian rule; drafted to labor battalions, 1943; labor in an aircraft factory on the outskirts of Budapest; destruction of the factory in an air-raid; transfer to a weapons factory in Csepel; labor repairing the electric grid after air-raids; transfer to the port in Budapest, late 1944; labor loading sacks; escape to the Glass House; liberation by the Red Army, January 1945; volunteers...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Aleksander Sander Englender Emed, born in Center, Hungary, 1922, regarding his experiences in a labor battalion, in Ozd, Miskolc and Budapest

Testimony

Testimony of Aleksander Sander Englender Emed, born in Center, Hungary, 1922, regarding his experiences in a labor battalion, in Ozd, Miskolc and Budapest From a well-to-do assimilated estate-owning family; Christian and Jewish education; attends a Protestant high school; training to work in the estates. German occupation, March 1944; drafted to labor battalions, April 1944; release from labor in exchange for a bribe; deportation to Ozd, May 1944; help from the housekeeper whom his grandmother had adopted; transfer to Miskolc in freight trains, May 1944; looting of property by the local population;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sara Miriam (Rozenberg) Grinbom, born in Mukacevo, Czechoslovakia, 1924, regarding her experiences in Sala, in hiding and the Glass House in Budapest

Testimony

Testimony of Sara Miriam (Rozenberg) Grinbom, born in Mukacevo, Czechoslovakia, 1924, regarding her experiences in Sala, in hiding and the Glass House in Budapest From a large, well-to-do religious family; livelihood from a large department store and sale of homemade whiskey; attends a local kindergarten and Czechoslovakian schools. Life in Brod with the outbreak of the war; return home; capture by the police; humiliation of her father and grandfather at the police station; escape to Budapest; life in a friend's home; move to the home of Dr. Ungar, a dentist; work as his dental assistant; family...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Yehuda Iusca Ido Frid, born in Satu Mare, Romania, 1922, regarding his experiences using a false identity in Budapest, in a labor battalion in Szekesfehervar, Szodok, Hegyeshalom and other places From an Orthodox family; learns in a "heder", yeshiva and Jewish school; sings in the Great Synagogue choir; studies and works in a factory under non-Jewish ownership. Deportation of his oldest brother to work battalions in Ukraine; aliya of his father and sister to Eretz Israel; distances himself from Judaism; move to Budapest; work in a factory and economic help to his parents; joins the Communist...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

List of Jews and their family members who received protective documents from the Swedish Embassy in Budapest, 08/12/1944

File Number : 267

Type of Material : List of Persecuted Persons

Language : German

Testimony of Tibor Brenners, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1922, regarding his experiences in labor battalions in the Szeged area, in a bunker and in the Glass House in Budapest

Testimony

Testimony of Tibor Brenners, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1922, regarding his experiences in labor battalions in the Szeged area, in a bunker and in the Glass House in Budapest Life before the war; attends a religious school and a trade high school. Drafted to a labor battalion, October 1943; battalion life including labor building an airfield in the Szeged area; German occupation; return home, September 1944; contact with the Zionist underground; life in a bunker with acquaintances; move to the Glass House; life in the Glass House from 1944 until liberation. Studies medicine in Budapest; aliya to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Joel Otto Hershkovitz Elizur, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1921, regarding his experiences in a Hungarian labor battalion, the Salgotarjan Ghetto, the Glass House in Budapest and other places Life before the war; relations with the local population; learns in a yeshiva. German occupation, March 1944; draft to a labor battalion; forced labor preparing a field for firing ranges and evacuation of apartments in the Salgotarjan Ghetto; obtains protective passports; return to Budapest; life in the "Glass House"; Hungarians break into the Glass House and are distanced away by diplomats; liberation by...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yehuda Shaul Frenkel, born in Budapest, 1930, regarding his experiences in Budapest

Testimony

Testimony of Yehuda Shaul Frenkel, born in Budapest, 1930, regarding his experiences in Budapest Family life in Budapest and Brasso; his father is active in the Mizrachi; his mother is the chairwoman of Hamizrachi women; witness is an active member of Bnei Akiva; learns in the Torat Emet Yeshiva. His family helps refugees in transit from Poland and Slovakia to escape on the Orient Express and helps with certificates; witness relinquishes his place on the escape route in favor of a cousin who is a refugee from Slovakia, 1942; entry of the Germans into Hungary; concentration of the movement's emissaries in...

File Number : 7833

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Benjamin Gat Rimon, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1913, regarding his experiences in a marked house in Budapest, Felsohangony, in hiding, the Glass House in Budapest and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Benjamin Gat Rimon, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1913, regarding his experiences in a marked house in Budapest, Felsohangony, in hiding, the Glass House in Budapest and other places Studies at a rabbinical seminary in Budapest; studies for his doctorate at the University of Budapest; work as a religious teacher in the Jewish high school; marriage, 1941; anti-Jewish legislation; deportation of those without citizenship to Kamenets Podolski. German occupation, 19 March 1944; transfer to a marked house; drafted to forced labor in Felsohangony; release; return to Budapest; life in hiding; discovery...

File Number : 8375

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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