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Testimony of Edita Alon Carl Shultz, born in Kosice, Czechoslovakia, in 1920 regarding the Kosice ghetto and her rescue in Budapest.

-About the family; transition to Hungarian ruling in 1939; she married a Jewish doctor, a refugee from Czechoslovakia in 1940; recruitment with protection to a unit of Hungarian doctors in 1941; confiscation of the shop owned by the family; expropriation of a room for the benefit of a Hungarian officer; German occupation in 1944; his mother was arrested for interrogation; confiscation of jewelry; deportation to the ghetto ; she got permission to reunite with her husband; rescue; moving to Budapest; birth of a son, starvation; double suicide attempt and rescue; hiding in the Jewish hospital; murder by people...

File Number : 13695

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letter sent by Lottchen from Krakow to Herbert, her beloved German soldier, January 1944

Letter sent by Lottchen from Krakow to Herbert, her beloved German soldier, January 1944 - The last names of Lottchen and Herbert are unknown; it is clear that Lottchen is trying to discover why she has not received any letters from Herbert; a description of her service as a nurse in a military hospital. Also in the file: - Empty military service booklet from the Nazi Navy; - Notice from the German Army Intelligence Service.

File Number : 2288

Type of Material : Notepad, Letter

Language : German

Personal documents belonging to Hilel Gilel Penckes/Penchas Lustman, born in Lodz, Poland, 1904, and his wife, Ajdla/Ajala (Dyminska) Lustman, born in Lodz, Poland, 1907, from the time of their stay in Brussels, 1940-1943 The documentation includes: - Belgian identity card of Gilel Penckes Lustman, stamped with the word "Jew", issued 16 December 1941; - Work permit issued to Gilel Pencke Lustman, described as a "tailor", 10 April 1940; - Letter from the Saint-Pierre University Hospital in Brussels regarding medical treatment, 25 November 1942; - Belgian identity card belonging to Ajala Dyminska...

File Number : 84

Type of Material : Personal Documents

Language : French, Dutch, German

Documentation including reports by former inmates, regarding the fate of inmates in Auschwitz, Birkenau and other camps, dated, 1944-1962

Documentation including reports by former inmates, regarding the fate of inmates in Auschwitz, Birkenau and other camps, dated, 1944-1962 Interviews, testimonies, research reports, articles, and excerpts from books: Research report regarding activities by the underground in Monowitz camp, by British POW Charles Coward and his friends; Research report by Wladislaw Tejkiel, 28/07/1961; Protocol of an interview with Gerta Gerzonowa, a former inmate in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz and Flossenburg camps, 19/11/1945; Interviews with Elisabeth Guttenberger and Regine Lebensfeld-Hofstaedter, regarding...

File Number : JM/14175

Type of Material : Statistics, Interview(s), Testimony, Correspondence, Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Survey Report, Protocol

Language : Czech, French, English, German

Testimony

Testimony of Batia Bashinka (Lewin) Berkowicz, born in Smorgonie, Poland, 1929, regarding her experiences in Smorgonie, Schischmaren, as a forced laborer in Koschedaren, in Stutthof, Gleiwitz and in other places Family background; attends a "Tarbut" school; the community and synagogues; her father's Gordonia activities. Soviet occupation, 1939; Jewish life under Soviet rule and confiscation of her father's workshop; German occupation, June 1941; attempt to escape to the Soviet Union; burning of the village; murder of men including her father; deportation to the Smorgonie Ghetto; life and work in the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Jakov Yanko Teksler, born in Deda, Romania, 1923

Testimony

Testimony of Jakov Yanko Teksler, born in Deda, Romania, 1923 Childhood in a religious family; death of his father; move to Toplica. Drafted to labor battalions and transfer to labor camp 110/302 in Baia Mare, from 17 May 1944; transfer to Mitresti to lay train tracks under the supervision and abuse of the (Nyilas) Arrow Cross and the Germans; transfer to Szekesfehervar to rebuild a blown-up bridge; from there to Szombathely for labor repairing a train station and tracks that were destroyed during air-raids; transfer of the unit to Schaffendorf; digging of anti-tank trenches; transfer on foot to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

Testimony of Pinchas Peter Grosman, born in Hejocsaba, Hungary, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Budapest Ghetto, Miskolc camp, a labor battalion and Komarom camp

Testimony

Testimony of Pinchas Peter Grosman, born in Hejocsaba, Hungary, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Budapest Ghetto, Miskolc camp, a labor battalion and Komarom camp Life before the war; education in Miskolc; education in Budapest. Restrictions on the Jews and numerus clausus; deportation of his father to a labor battalion; Hungarian gendermes activities; German occupation, March 1944; deportation to the Budapest Ghetto; deportation to Miskolc camp; deportation of the family to Auschwitz; death of her mother in camp; transfer to a labor battalion in Komarom; camp life; life with Wermacht soldiers;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documents from the process in Regional Courts (Landesgericht) in Klagenfurt, Salzburg and Vienna against members of the HSSPF Lublin: Documentation of the trial, volume 28; Testimonies by Austrian and German perpetrators and Jewish survivors, 1960 - 1962 Testimony (05/09/1960) of Eugen Schweizer, born 1908; member of the NSDAP since 1933; police inspector with administrative tasks; transferred to Warsaw in 01/1940, ranked as SS-Obersturmfuehrer (first lieutenant); at the office of the KdS (commander of the security police) until 12/1944, detached to the RSHA (Reich Main Security Office) in Berlin in 01/1945;...

File Number : 85

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Legal Documentation, Names of Perpetrators

Language : German

Reports of the Sicherheitspolizei (SIPO-Security Police) and the Sicherheitsdiens (SD-Security Service) headquarters regarding military and political activity during the occupation of the Soviet Union: Report No. 74, 05/09/1941 Part 1 - Political Events: Setting fire to barns in the Vienna area; execution of 10 Communists in Untersteiermark in reaction to the assassination [attempt ?] of a policeman; Part 2 - Reports of the Einsatzgruppen: Einsatzgruppe C: Presence in Novo-Ukrainka; - Partisans: Checking the messages of local residents regarding partisans being hidden in the cities (the majority...

File Number : 164.74

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : German

Testimony of Mina (Veingarten-Karmi) Pshetitzki, born in Lublin, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in Lublin, Majdanek, Trawniki, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Aschersleben and Terezin

Testimony

Testimony of Mina (Veingarten-Karmi) Pshetitzki, born in Lublin, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in Lublin, Majdanek, Trawniki, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Aschersleben and Terezin Zionist, traditional family; activities in the Gordonia movement; witness attends a Tarbut school; displays of antisemitism before the war; meets refugees from Germany. Outbreak of the war; anti-Jewish decrees; forced labor in agriculture; "Aktions"; hidden by a Polish neighbor; informed on; disappearance of her father; deportation to Majdanek; labor camp life; labor in a workshop sorting clothing; infected with disease;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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