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Documentation collected by the historian, Dov Dinur, regarding the activity of Raoul Wallenberg in Hungary, 1944-1945

File Number : 49

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : English, German

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Esther Eva (Spiller) Klein, born in Budapest, Hungary, regarding her experiences in Budapest, Kiskoros and more

Testimony

Testimony of Esther Eva (Spiller) Klein, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1926, regarding her experiences in Budapest, Kiskoros and more Life in Budapest until March 1944. Concentration in a school, 16 October [1944?]; labor digging [anti] tank [trenches] near Vacbottyan; delivery [distribution] of protection certificates (Schutzpass) by her mother; tearing up of one of the certificates by an Iron Cross [should be: Arrow Cross] officer, deliberation on whether to give the remaining certificate to her friend in order to save her life; transfer to Swiss protection; deportation to the ghetto; death of her brother;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Miriam Agnes Lowy Zilberman, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1933, regarding her experiences in Budapest and in protected houses

Testimony

Testimony of Miriam Agnes Lowy Zilberman, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1933, regarding her experiences in Budapest and in protected houses Her childhood in Budapest; increase in displays of antisemitism in Hungary, 1938-1939. Draft of her father to labor in Budapest, 1940; German Army occupation of Budapest, 1944; move to a marked house, summer 1944; transfer to a stadium; murder of Jews on the Danube River; transfer to a Red Cross protected house with her younger brother; separation from her mother; deportation of her mother to a transit camp, summer 1944; escape to a protected house of Raoul Wallenberg,...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Yitzhak Kohavi, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1939, regarding his experiences in a protected house and in the Budapest Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Yitzhak Kohavi, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1939, regarding his experiences in a protected house and in the Budapest Ghetto From a secular family for whom tradition was important. His father is drafted into the army; German occupation, 1944; transfer to a protected house; yellow badge; his mother is taken; being hidden in a Christian home; air-raids; transfer to the ghetto with his aunt; hunger; crowding; liberation by the Red Army, winter 1945. Return home; studies; joins Youth Aliyah; aliya to Eretz Israel, March 1948.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Joseph Hamaida, born in Kosice Mesto, Czechoslovakia, 1933

Testimony

Testimony of Joseph Hamaida, born in Kosice Mesto, Czechoslovakia, 1933 Move to Kezmarok, 1936; draft of her father to the Slovakian Army; restrictions and decrees on the Jews; in hiding during an "Aktion"; receives papers he is an essential worker; deportation of his mother's family from Presov; receives letters from his mother’s sister and information on the extermination in Auschwitz; unsuccessful attempt to cross the Hungarian border; arrest by the Slovakians and Hungarians at the border; help from the station commander on the Slovakian side; move to Budapest; draft of his father to forced labor, 1944;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yehudit Pirkha (Klein) Blom, born in Kisvarda, Hungary, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Budapest Ghetto, Kaufering camp, Turkheim camp, Langenberg camp and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Yehudit Pirkha (Klein) Blom, born in Kisvarda, Hungary, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Budapest Ghetto, Kaufering camp, Turkheim camp, Langenberg camp and other places Life before the war; attends a Hungarian school; vocational studies. Escape with the family to Budapest, 1942; German occupation, March 1944; yellow badge; draft of men to forced labor; livelihood difficulties; escape of Jews to protected houses; deportation to the Budapest Ghetto; rescue of her younger brother in a protected house named after Raoul Wallenburg; deportation with Jews to a football stadium; transfer in a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

Testimony of Arie Lipot Grifel Ben Yehuda, born in Lunca De Jos, Romania in 1931, regarding his experiences as a child in Lunca De Jos, in the Budapest Ghetto, using a false identity and in hiding

Testimony of Arie Lipot Grifel Ben Yehuda, born in Lunca De Jos, Romania in 1931, regarding his experiences as a child in Lunca De Jos, in the Budapest Ghetto, using a false identity and in hiding Life before the war; education. Deportation to Budapest with his family, 1940; life in Budapest; German occupation, 1944; life as refugees; pogroms against Jews; transfer of his brother to a labor battalion; transfer to a marked house with his family; his sister's escape from deportation to a camp; his sister finds a hiding place; his family is a candidate for being included on the Kasztner train; life as...

File Number : 12819

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 Yael Edit (Quitt) Gerber, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1929, regarding her experiences in Budapest and under Swedish protection with help from Raoul Wallenberg

Testimony

Testimony of Yael Edit (Quitt) Gerber, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1929, regarding her experiences in Budapest and under Swedish protection with help from Raoul Wallenberg Life before the war; restrictions on the Jews including ban on studies; ban on attending theatre or opera performances; ban on hiring non-Jewish domestic help; escape of Jewish families from Poland and Slovakia to Budapest, 1939-1942; conversion of relatives and acceptance into high school with her sister, 1939; dismissal of her father, 1942. German occupation, March 1944; restrictions on Jews including night curfew, confiscation of the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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