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Testimony of Genia (Meytlis) Babiker, born in Zawiercie, Poland, 1927, regarding her experiences in Zawiercie, the Zawiercie Ghetto, Auschwitz and a death march

Testimony

Testimony of Genia (Meytlis) Babiker, born in Zawiercie, Poland, 1927, regarding her experiences in Zawiercie, the Zawiercie Ghetto, Auschwitz and a death march Her childhood and family background. Outbreak of the war and escape attempt; abuse; establishment of the Zawiercie Ghetto; receives a work permit for a German Army factory, 1941; her family hides in an attic during an "Aktion"; capture during the third "Aktion"; release by a policeman; deportation to Auschwitz, 1943; selection and separation from her mother; stay in camp A; disease; labor in a weaving workshop; transfer to the Gypsy block after...

File Number : 10212

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shulamit (Getschinska) Widawski, born in Aleksandrow, 1920, regarding her experiences in Aleksandrow, in the Lodz and Warsaw Ghettos, and in the Majdanek and Auschwitz-Birkenau camps

Testimony

Testimony of Shulamit (Getschinska) Widawski, born in Aleksandrow, 1920, regarding her experiences in Aleksandrow, in the Lodz and Warsaw Ghettos, and in the Majdanek and Auschwitz-Birkenau camps Childhood In Aleksandrow; her hasidic family were followers of the Radomsker Rebbe; the German occupation, 01 September 1939; burning of Jews in synagogues in the town; the move to Lodz; escape from the Lodz Ghetto to Warsaw, in the fall of 1940; work in the Balzerowitz plant to support her family; gradual liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto through "Aktions" and deportations; disappearance of her father and sister in...

File Number : 10011

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Bracha (Lesh) Gilai, born in Berehovo, Czechoslovakia, regarding her experiences in Berehovo, Budapest and camps

Testimony

Testimony of Bracha (Lesh) Gilai, born in Berehovo, Czechoslovakia, regarding her experiences in Berehovo, Budapest and camps Her family; performances as a child as an actress in the Beitar movement. Displays of antisemitism with the annexation of the area of south Carpathian-Ruthenia to Hungary; detention in a prison in Budapest with her family; return to Berehovo; hiding refugees from Poland; German occupation, April 1944; deportation to a ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz, 1944; camp registration process; labor; inmates' orchestra; appears as a singer in her block and receives food in exchange;...

File Number : 6665

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Piroska Braun, born in Tiszakerecseny, Czechoslovakia, 1931, regarding her experiences in the Kistarcsa detention camp and in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bergen-Belsen and Braunschweig camps and more German occupation of Hungary, 20 March 1944; detention at the Keletipályaudvar railroad station, in Budapest; deportation to the prison on Mosonyi Street for one day; deportation to the detention camp in Kistarcsa; receiving food from OMZSA (Országos Magyar Zsidó Segítő Akció-Hungarian Jewish National Aid Action); deportation to the Keletipályaudvar railroad station, 25 April 1944; being loaded onto freight...

File Number : 2791

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

Testimony of Özv. (widow) Lajosné Margit (Rónai) Hodosi, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1901, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bergen-Belsen, Braunschweig and Warthestadt camps and more Life in Újvidék during the re-annexation of Újvidék to Hungary, 13 April 1941; change for the worse in the treatment of Jews; revocation of the business license of the family-owned restaurant and cafeteria, June 1941; selling the businesses; confiscation of property; manhunt by 500 gendarmes from Szeged, 1942; imposition of restrictions; exploding the ice over the Danube River (in minus 24 degrees Centigrade);...

File Number : 2740

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

Joint testimony of the sisters Laura, Rosa, Helén and Sára Simon, born in Nagymuzsaly, Czechoslovakia, regarding their experiences in the Beregszász and Mátészalka Ghettos and in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Plaszów and Ravensbrück camps and more Laura, Rosa and Helén Simon: Deportation to the Beregszász Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, 22 May 1944; arrival in the camp, 25 May 1944; selection; camp life; transfer to labor in a weaving workshop (weberei); Sára Simon: Deportation to the Mátészalka Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, 04 June 1944; arrival in the camp, 07 June 1944; selection;...

File Number : 2703

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : German

Testimony of Mirjam Freilich, born in Ökörmező, Czechoslovakia, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Nagyszőllős Ghetto and in Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bruntal camps

Testimony of Mirjam Freilich, born in Ökörmező, Czechoslovakia, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Nagyszőllős Ghetto and in Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bruntal camps Life in the Nagyszőllős Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau on a train, 19 May 1944; arrival in the camp, 22 May 1944; selection; labor in cleaning rooms (Stubedienst); transfer to Bruntal camp, October 1944; arrival in the camp, November 1944; camp life; labor in a weaving workshop (Weberei); liberation by the Red Army, April 1945. Interviewer: Otto Rauch.

File Number : 2700

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : German

Joint testimony of Rózsi Smilovits, born in Técső, Czechoslovakia in 1920, and Mária Smilovits, born in Técső in 1922, regarding their experiences in the Técső Ghetto and in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Reichenbach and Bergen-Belsen camps German occupation, March 1944; conduct of searches in the homes of Jews, and theft of property by gendarmes; deportation to the Técső Ghetto by gendarmes on 11/04/1944; Técső Ghetto life, including overcrowding; residence on roofs of buildings and in cellars; ban against going out to the street; supervision over the ghetto by military gendarmes; holding of searches, and theft of...

File Number : 2620

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

Testimony of Frieda Kahan, born in Veléte, Czechoslovakia in 1928, regarding her experiences in the Iza Ghetto and in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Guben and Bergen-Belsen camps

Testimony of Frieda Kahan, born in Veléte, Czechoslovakia in 1928, regarding her experiences in the Iza Ghetto and in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Guben and Bergen-Belsen camps Life in Veléte; imposition of anti-Jewish decrees and restrictions; deportations; deportation to the Iza Ghetto in April 1944; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau camp by train; arrival to Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in May 1944; Auschwitz-Birkenau camp life; transfer to camp C; selections; hunger; selected for labor in a weaving workshop, two months later; labor in the weaving workshop, for one month; transfer to Guben camp in November 1944;...

File Number : 2397

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : German

Group testimony of Sári Indig, born in Bedőháza, Czechoslovakia, 1922, Sári Rézműves born in Taracköz, Czechoslovakia, 1927, and Regina Fuchs born in Sándorfalva, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding their experiences in the Mátészalka Ghetto and in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Gelsenkirchen and Essen camps and more Deportation to the Mátészalka Ghetto; robbery of possessions by the Hungarian gendarmes; ghetto life for four weeks; being subjected to abuses and beatings; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; life on the way in a train car together with 75 other people; arrival in the camp [selection]; disinfection and...

File Number : 1936

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : German

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