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Testimony of Yolan Henci (Weisz) Kesztelman, born in Forgolan, Czechoslovakia, 1932, regarding her experiences in the Sevlus Ghetto, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Fallersleben and Salzwedel

Testimony

Testimony of Yolan Henci (Weisz) Kesztelman, born in Forgolan, Czechoslovakia, 1932, regarding her experiences in the Sevlus Ghetto, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Fallersleben and Salzwedel Life before the war; her father is a trader. Re-annexation to Hungary, 1938; cancelation of the family's business license; work of her parents farming; German occupation, March 1944; deportation to the Selvus Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life including labor making gravel and washing the sewers; information of families from Czechoslovakia who perished; her sister became a mother figure; transfer to Bergen-Belsen;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mordechai Marton Rothschild, born in Sapanta, Romania, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Nagyvarad Ghetto, Auschwitz and camps in Germany

Testimony

Testimony of Mordechai Marton Rothschild, born in Sapanta, Romania, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Nagyvarad Ghetto, Auschwitz and camps in Germany His childhood with 12 siblings; religious Orthodox family; life in a yeshiva in Satu Mare; move to the Papa yeshiva; return home. Deportation to the Nagyvarad Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; declares that he is a metalwork artisan and transfer with 300 inmates to a Volkswagen factory; labor on an assembly line producing V-1 and V-2 missiles; transfer to Villerupt and then Derno, next to Koblentz; labor in a quarry; transfer to Dora camp, September...

File Number : 12020

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ornan Lev Ary, born in Vienna, Austria, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Cluj Ghetto, Auschwitz, Fallersleben, Thil and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Ornan Lev Ary, born in Vienna, Austria, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Cluj Ghetto, Auschwitz, Fallersleben, Thil and other places from an assimilated established family; his mother is an opera singer; his father is an atheist, socialist, anti-Zionist physician; attends a Jesuit Catholic school; move to Budapest, 1934; move to Cluj, autumn 1940. Establishment of the Cluj Ghetto; deportation of the family to Auschwitz; murder of his father because of his refusal to participate in Josef Mengele's research; suicide of his mother after the killing of an SS officer; transfer to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of David Mitler, born in Satu-Mare, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Targu-Mures Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Fallersleben, Dernau, Dora-Nordhausen and other camps

Testimony

Testimony of David Mitler, born in Satu-Mare, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Targu-Mures Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Fallersleben, Dernau, Dora-Nordhausen and other camps Life in Targu-Mures before the war; annexation of area by the Hungarians, 1940; entry of the Germans, 1944; deportation to ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; transfer to Fallersleben; camp life including forced labor constructing V1 missiles in the Volkswagen factory; forced labor constructing a camp by the French border; transfer to Dernau camp; deportation to Dora-Nordhausen; camp life; transfer to Ravensbrueck, April...

File Number : 10384

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Arie Pal, born in Cluj, Romania, 1926, regarding his experiences in Cluj, Auschwitz and forced labor in Wolfsburg, Thil, Doernhau and Dora-Mittelbau

Testimony

Testimony of Arie Pal, born in Cluj, Romania, 1926, regarding his experiences in Cluj, Auschwitz and forced labor in Wolfsburg, Thil, Doernhau and Dora-Mittelbau Family background; attends a Jewish high school. Annexation to Hungary and the Jews' excitement; abuse of Jewish youth by other youths; German occupation, March 1944; deportation to a ghetto, April-May 1944; deportation to Auschwitz, May 1944; selection and the disappearance of his family; inmate in camp C; transfer with a group of 300 inmates to Wolfsburg; labor in a Volkswagen factory producing V-1 and V-2 missiles; cover of secrecy...

File Number : 10134

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of George Stein, born in Oradea Mare, Romania, regarding his experiences in Oradea Mare, Auschwitz, Wolfsberg, Dora and Bergen-Belsen

Testimony

Testimony of George Stein, born in Oradea Mare, Romania, regarding his experiences in Oradea Mare, Auschwitz, Wolfsberg, Dora and Bergen-Belsen Life before the war. Re-annexation to Hungary; restrictions on the Jews; deportation to Auschwitz; transfer to Wolfsberg; camp life including labor in a Volkswagen factory; bombing of the factory; transfer to Dora; transfer to Bergen-Belsen.

File Number : 4482

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Memoirs of Shlomo Fridman, born in 1927 in Halmeu, about his experiences in the Dora-Mittelbau camp, in Auschwitz, and up to his immigration to Eretz Israel

Memoirs of Shlomo Fridman, born in 1927 in Halmeu, about his experiences in the Dora-Mittelbau camp, in Auschwitz, and up to his immigration to Eretz Israel Hebrew translation of Aliza Livnat's interview with Shlomo Fridman: Enroled in vocational studies in Oradea at age fourteen; anti-Jewish legislation and joining an engineer acquaintance; Germans occupy Oradea and establish a ghetto; family members deported to an extermination camp; witness deported to Auschwitz; reaching the camp and passing a selection; assigned to manufacturing weapons and bombs at a Volkswagen plant in Fallersleben; life at the...

File Number : 11410

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Documentation related to Lea Bass, while she used the false Polish name of Maria Taracha in a Volkswagen factory near Fallersleben during 1943-1945

Documentation related to Lea Bass, while she used the false Polish name of Maria Taracha in a Volkswagen factory near Fallersleben during 1943-1945 - Birth certificate of Maria Taracha, allegedly issued in Lublin, 09/11/1940; - Certificates, confirmations and stubs, in the name of Maria Taracha, issued in Stadt des KdF-Wagens bei Fallersleben, 1943-1945; - D.P. Index Card (refugee card) of Lea Bass; - Documentation related to compensation payments to Lea Bass including letters, inquiries, confirmations and other documents, produced in Poland, Germany and Belgium, 1987-2001; Included in the file: a...

File Number : 1739

Type of Material : Birth Certificate, Personal Documents, Financial Records, Certification, Work Permit

Language : Polish, English, German

Letters sent by residents of Poznan to the General Manager of the Volkswagen Poznan Company in Poznan and to the President of Germany in Berlin, 2011-2014, protesting the location of the company's factories in the area of the Nazi labor camps in which Jews were held during the Holocaust period Letters pertaining to the location of the Volkswagen Poznan Company factories in the area of the Nazi labor camps in which Jews were held during the Holocaust period sent by: - Tomasz Grzybkowski from Poznan to the General Manager of the Volkswagen Poznan Company in Poznan and to the President of Germany in Berlin,...

File Number : 208

Type of Material : Letter, Article(s), List(s), Text(s)

Language : Hebrew, Polish, German

Memoirs of Paul Sauber, born in Romania, regarding his experiences in the Cluj Ghetto and in Birkenau, Auschwitz, Mauthausen and Dachau camps

Memoirs of Paul Sauber, born in Romania, regarding his experiences in the Cluj Ghetto and in Birkenau, Auschwitz, Mauthausen and Dachau camps Life in Romania before the war; German Army occupation of Romania in April 1944; deportation to the Cluj Ghetto; deportation to Birkenau camp in June 1944; selection; murder in the gas chambers of people who are unfit for labor; Birkenau camp life; transfer to Auschwitz camp, several days later; murder of his parents in June 1944; transfer to a labor camp in Swietochlowice; Swietochlowice camp life until January 1945, including the public hanging of inmates after they...

File Number : 9218

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Article, Memoirs

Language : English

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