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Testimony of Yehuda Gabor Havas, born in Debrecen, Hungary, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Debrecen Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Muehldorf

Testimony

Testimony of Yehuda Gabor Havas, born in Debrecen, Hungary, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Debrecen Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Muehldorf Life in Debrecen before the war; from a well-to-do secular family; attends a Jewish Neolog school; attends the Jewish high school and a vocational school. German occupation, 19 March 1944; deportation to the Debrecen Ghetto, April 1944; ghetto life including work as a welder in SS headquarters; deportation to a roof tile factory; life in the roof tile factory including removing the dead after a US Army Air Forces air-raid; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau,...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Correspondence between Saly Mayer and various relief organizations, a report by the American Friends Service Committee, and reports regarding the deportation of Hungary's Jews, 1944-1945

Correspondence between Saly Mayer and various relief organizations, a report by the American Friends Service Committee, and reports regarding the deportation of Hungary's Jews, 1944-1945 - Correspondence between Saly Mayer and relief organizations: Geneva-American Friends Service Committee, Zuerich Schweizerisches Hilfskomitee Fuer die Juden in Ungarn, Unitarian Service Committee Geneva, and the Geneva World Alliance of YMCAs; - Report prepared by the American Friends Service Committee, Geneva Office - Research and Information Department, regarding the transfer of relief (the representative of the...

File Number : להזמנת התיק ראו קוד מיקרופילם

Type of Material : Correspondence, Official Documentation, Survey Report

Language : English, German

Testimony of Salomon Schwaezar, born in Stanislawow, 1916, regarding his experiences in the Stanislawow and Stryj Ghettos, and escape to Hungary

Testimony

Testimony of Salomon Schwaezar, born in Stanislawow, 1916, regarding his experiences in the Stanislawow and Stryj Ghettos and escape to Hungary Jewish community of Stanislawow, 1939-1941. Life under Soviet rule; entry of the Germans, 1941; "Aktion" in Stanislawow, 15 December 1941; transfer to ghetto, construction of bunker; liquidation of ghetto, 1943; escape to Stryj Ghetto; ghetto life until its liquidation; escape to Budapest via Munkacs; help from the Polish consulate; stay in Harszagczonad near Baja; escape to Arad via Klausenburg after German entry into Hungary, 1944; capture by Romanians and sent...

File Number : 10561

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of David Ferstenberg, born in Miedzyrzec Podlaski, Poland, 1915, regarding his experiences as a citizen of Mandatory Palestine in detention camps in Germany and Austria

Testimony

Testimony of David Ferstenberg, born in Miedzyrzec Podlaski, Poland, 1915, regarding his experiences as a citizen of Mandatory Palestine in detention camps in Germany and Austria Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Visit in Poland during the outbreak of the war, 1939; detention; deportation to Wandsbek to a camp for foreign citizens; transfer to Kreuzburg camp; camp life until December 1944; evacuation to Austria; liberation by the British Army, 03 May 1945. Return to Eretz Israel via Naples.

File Number : 9913

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yitzhak Kramer, born in Bonn, Germany, 1925, regarding his experiences in Germany and France

Testimony

Testimony of Yitzhak Kramer, born in Bonn, Germany, 1925, regarding his experiences in Germany and France Antisemitism in Worms before the war; Kristallnacht events, November 1938. Life in Mannheim, 1938-1940; deportation with his family to Gurs and Rivesaltes camps in France and his stay in camp until June 1942; camp life; help to children by the Swiss Red Cross; Jewish Scouts activities with help from the YMCA; transfer to Lautrec, June 1942; unsuccessful attempt to escape to Switzerland, September 1942; detention in a prison in Annecy; release from prison because he is a minor; life in Guitalens while...

File Number : 6677

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Izydor Ferber, regarding his experiences in Lwow Ghetto, Janowska camp and in hiding

Testimony of Izydor Ferber, regarding his experiences in Lwow ghetto, Janowska camp and escape to Bucharest 0n July 30, 1943 German occupation, June 1941; restrictions on the Jews; pogroms against the Jews perpetrated by Germans and Ukrainians; Another pogrom known as "Petliura Days"; establishment of the Lwow Ghetto; ghetto life including "Aktions"; November, 1941 German concentration camp Janowska was established; deportation to Janowska; The first deportation to the Belzec extermination camp in March 1941. Following these initial deportations, death by disease and shootings, Jews were forced to work....

File Number : 251

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish