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Testimony of Chava (Eva) Liber Benkel, born in 1927 in Lodz, Poland, regarding the Lodz ‎Ghetto, Auschwitz and other camps

Testimony

Childhood in Lodz; antisemitism before the war; German conquest and occupation in September 1939; the yellow star; burning of synagogues; liquidation of the Lodz ghetto in April 1940; starvation; arrival of refugees; constant struggle for survival; the Judenrat; deportations to Chelmno in January 1942; typhus epidemic; השפרה in September 1942; Jewish police; working in various workshops ("ressortes"); ghetto songs; deportation to Auschwitz in summer 1944; separation from family; transfer to Langenbielau a day later; transfer to Hundsfeld Breslau several days later; work in a munitions factory; starvation;...

File Number : 13796

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Miriam Shtein Fuks, born in Gurghiu, Romania, in 1924 regarding deportation to Auschwitz Birkenau and other camps

Family background in Gurghiu; family with religious lifestyle; attending a local school; moving to a government gymnasium in Reghin; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish laws in 1942; deportation of the men to labor camps; moving to Cluj; attending the Jewish gymnasium; German occupation; yellow badge; concentration of the Jews in the ghetto; deportation by wagons to Auschwitz Birkenau; negative attitude of the blockalteste; life in the Czech barrack number 26 in the Lager B1; moving by train to Zschopau; working in a factory producing motorbikes; improvement of the living conditions; transfer to...

File Number : 13736

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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

Testimony of Dvora Shperling, nee Moskowitz, born in Satu Mare, Romania, in 1928, regarding her deportation to Auschwitz and other camps

Testimony

Parents are from Slovakia; Hungarian rule 1940; rumors about deportations in Slovakia in 1942; rise of anti-semitism; curfew; German occupation in 1944; deportation to the ghetto; brutality of the Hungarian gendarmes; deportation to Auschwitz; selections; transfer to a weapon factory Hasag; Germany; air-raids; Ukrainian and Yugoslavian POWs help Jewish inmates; air-raids on a train of female inmatesnear Neustadt; escape to the forest; liberation by the British 1945; return to Romania; aliya on the "Four Liberties"ship in 1946

File Number : 13474

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Anna Chana Edelshtein Braner, born in Ițcani in the Bukovina region of Romania in 1936, regarding her experiences during deportation to the Transnistria camps in 1941

Testimony of Anna Chana Edelshtein Braner, born in Ițcani in the Bukovina region of Romania in 1936, regarding her experiences during deportation to the Transnistria camps in 1941 Family’s origins from Lwów, Poland; parents’ aliya to pre-state Israel in 1938; expulsion by British to Romania; father drafted into Romanian army; German occupation in 1941; expulsion with mother to Mogilev in Transnistria; mother’s forced labor; search for food; father’s voluntary arrival in Transnistria; Tulchin and Pechora camps; hiding in Ukrainian woman’s home; deaths of grandmother and aunt in Transnistria; return to...

File Number : 13715

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Lea (Filip) Amir, born in Bucharest, Romania in 1938, regarding her experiences as a child in hiding in Bucharest

Testimony of Lea (Filip) Amir, born in Bucharest, Romania in 1938, regarding her experiences as a child in hiding in Bucharest Life in hiding while hidden by a woman friend of her family in 1942; her father escapes to Cluj; life in a cellar; Move to a children's home in Apeldoorn; studies; declaration of the establishment of the State of Israel; move to a children's home in Zandvoort; aliya to Israel; life in Kibbutz Ein HaHoresh.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ora Dobo Shvartz, born in 1925 in Satu Mare, Romania, about her wartime experiences in the Cluj ghetto and the Auschwitz Birkenau, Gross Rosen, and Bergen-Belsen camps

Life in Cluj; Hungary re-annexes the area in 1940; father inducted into the labor brigades in 1942; mother makes a living on the black market; promulgation of anti-Jewish laws; German occupation ensues; banishment to the ghetto; abuse of the wealthy; Kasztner's speech in the ghetto; deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau in June–October 1944; selections by Mengele; sent on to Gross Rosen; death march to Bergen-Belsen in March 1945; back to Romania after liberation; reunites with family; immigrates to Israel in 1949.

File Number : 13646

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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File Number : 13676

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Eva Goldberg née Avraham, born in 1929 in Cristur, Romania, about her experiences in the Auschwitz-Birkenau, Horneburg, Porta Westfalica, and Fallersleben camps, etc.

Antisemitism in Romaniain 1938; escapes from riots by members of the Legionnaire movement; Hungary re-annexes the area in 1940; father inducted into the labor brigades; German occupation ensues in 1944; concealing valuables; Jews rounded up in the Dej forest; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; selections; taken to a crematorium; hides in a hearse-cart and in a latrine; slips into a group selected for labor; transferred to Horneburg; life in the camp; manufacturing ship and aircraft parts; factory manager helps women prisoners; local German women help with food; cruelties by SS men; transferred to the Porta...

File Number : 13609

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Renata (Hendler) Weintraub, born in Vienna, Austria, 1930, regarding her experiences as a child in Vienna, in Oostende, in England and Argentina

Testimony of Renata (Hendler) Weintraub, born in Vienna, Austria, 1930, regarding her experiences as a child in Vienna, in Oostende, in England and Argentina Life before the war; German occupation; expulsion from school; escape to a children's home; escape to Oostende; escape to England; emigration to Argentina; return to Vienna; conversion [to Christianity?].

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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