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Testimony of Shoshana Zuzi Zhuzha (Polak) Levinger, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1932 regarding her experiences in Budapest in a marked house, in the ghetto and in a children's home

Testimony

Childhood in a secular family; living in various towns due to her father's work; good relations with Christians; Move to Budapest, summer 1942 or 1943; drafting of her father into a labor battalion, probably early 1944; German occupation, March 1944; air-raids; move to a marked house; move to a protected house; eviction of all the residents by members of the Arrow Cross Party, her father arrived in an army uniform and took her out of the group; continued life in the ghetto with many children; staying in shelter most of the time; liberation by the Red Army, January 1945; Joining Youth Aliyah; aliya to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ze'ev Yitzhaki, born in Iasi, Romania, 1936, regarding his experiences in Iasi during the war

Testimony

Testimony of Ze'ev Yitzhaki, born in Iasi, Romania, 1936, regarding his experiences in Iasi during the war Early childhood. Increase in anti-Semitism, 1939; anti-Jewish orders and legislation; pogrom at police stations and trains, June 1941; the bombings.Liberation by the Red Army, summer of 1944; joining the Dror organization; moving to a children's home in Piatra Neat; boarding the illegal immigrant ship Pan York, December 1947; exile to Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel, March 1948; absorption.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Markovitz and Bar Zahava Golda, born in Uzhorod, Czechoslovakia, in 1927 regarding the Moskovitz ghetto, Auschwitz camp and Bruntal labor camp

Testimony

Childhood before the war; good relations between the local population and the Jews in Uzhorod; invasion of the Hungarians in 1938; antisemitism; looting and burning of the family property by Hungarian soldiers; yellow badge; confiscation of property by the Germans; deportation to Moskovitz ghetto in 1943; harsh physical and emotional conditions; starvation; smuggling of food; deportation to Auschwitz Birkenau; selection; separation from the family; forced labor; crematorium; starvation; brutal attitude of the kapo; gypsy inmates; clearing the corpses; roll-calls; help by the Blockalteste to the women inmates of...

File Number : 13769

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mordechay (Paul Georg) Fleischer, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1926 regarding his escape to Budapest, deportation to detention camps, escape from a death march and residing in the Glass House

Testimony

Childhood before the war; Fascist Slovakia, 1938; antisemitic events; Attempts to move to Budapest, Hungary, winter 1942-1943; getting arrested by Hungarian soldiers while escaping; sent back to Slovakia; escape to Hungary with the aid of a smuggler; arrival in Budapest; capture and arrest; decrees and restrictions; transferred to a prison by two Hungarian soldiers; deportation to a brick factory; escape to a marked house; capture and deportation for labor building fortifications and digging anti-tank trenches near Solnok, late October 1944; march towards Austria; escape to the Red Cross house in Budapest...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Kolette Khazan Halbert (Halber), born in Saint Raphael, France in 1939, regarding her experiences in the children’s orphanage and her rescue by righteous gentiles

Testimony

Testimony of Kolette Khazan Halbert (Halber), born in Saint Raphael, France in 1939, regarding her experiences in the children’s orphanage and her rescue by righteous gentiles Childhood in Saint Raphael in southern France; father’s deportation to Auschwitz in Vélodrome d’Hiver (or Vél d’Hiv) roundup on 16 July 1942; mother’s arrest in Marseille and deportation via Drancy to Auschwitz in May 1943; transfer by grandfather and grandmother to orphanage for children of French origin in Cannes; smuggling of children to Mirepoix on the Spanish border; rescue of herself and her siblings by Elisabeth Martinet and...

File Number : 13675

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Menahem Lior, born in Bedzin, Poland in 1928, regarding his experiences during ‎deportation to the Bedzin Ghetto and the work camp in Kamionka; hidden by a Pole; escape to ‎Eretz Israel His childhood in a socialist Zionist home; refugees from Germany; rise of antisemitism; outbreak of ‎war on 1 September 1939; anti-Jewish laws and decrees; restriction of Jewish movement and ‎concentration in one area; youth movements; agricultural farm; Zionist and underground ‎activities; infiltrating into a nearby work camp; work collecting and sorting possessions of the Jews ‎in the ghetto; removing dead...

File Number : 13735

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Personal documentation regarding Itzhak Izak Fruehman (former chairman of the Jewish National Fund in Dembica) and his wife Frida (Laufbahn) Fruehman, 1929-1935

Personal documentation regarding Itzhak Izak Fruehman (former chairman of the Jewish National Fund in Dembica) and his wife Frida (Laufbahn) Fruehman, 1929-1935 Included in the documentation: - Ketubah (Jewish marriage certificate) of Itzhak Fruehman and Frida Laufbahn (Freidl Laufbahn), signed in Dembica, 21 October 1928; - Congratulations from Sima Shuldenfrei in the name of the national library committee in Dembica on the occasion of the aliya of Itzhak Izak Fruehman to Eretz Israel, 11 March 1935; - Telegrams of congratulations on the occasion of the marriage of Itzhak Izak Fruehman and Frida...

File Number : 1179

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Telegram, Letter

Language : Hebrew, Polish

Memoirs of Moshe Lederman, born in Jedrzejow, Poland, 1913, regarding his experiences in Jedrzejow, Czechia, Fiume, his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1938 and more

Memoirs of Moshe Lederman, born in Jedrzejow, Poland, 1913, regarding his experiences in Jedrzejow, Czechia, Fiume, his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1938 and more Life before the war; attends a government elementary school; attends a Hamizrachi school conducted in Hebrew; displays of anti-Semitism; imposition of a commercial boycott on Jews; life in an aliya training facility; move to Czechia; move to Austria; move to Fiume; life at the Fiume port; aliya to Eretz Israel, 20 September 1938.

File Number : 8508

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chana Drori née Folk, born in 1931 in Prague, about her experiences as a girl in Olbramovice, Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and the Oederan camp up to April 1945

Childhood on a family farm in Olbamovice; Jews not allowed to own land and driven off the farm; mother lives in Prague; mother's home seized by a German officer; mother deported to Lodz in 1941; father assigned to work in building the Theresienstadt ghetto; witness deported to Theresienstadt along with uncles in July 1942; life in Room 28 (the Czech-speaking girls' quarters); studies in underground conditions; father deported and dies in Dachau; witness deported to Auschwitz in October 1944; works in a munitions plant at the Oederan camp; camp evacuated in April 1945; liberation in Theresienstadt; immigration...

File Number : 13527

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Reuben Cohen, born in Dorohoi, Romania, 1929, regarding his experiences in Dorohoi, Transnistria, Olyanitsa and a kolkhoz

Testimony

Testimony of Reuben Cohen, born in Dorohoi, Romania, 1929, regarding his experiences in Dorohoi, Transnistria, Olyanitsa and a kolkhoz His childhood in a village, including displays of antisemitism in the school; his family's shop is set on fire; move of his family to Dorohoi. Murder of his mother and sister during a pogrom, June 1941; deportation to Transnistria; well-to-do Jews remain, in exchange for bribery; march to Olyanitsa camp; transfer to a kolkhoz in Berezovka; life in the kolkhoz including labor in agriculture and mortality due to hunger and disease; death of his father; receives help from the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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