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Testimony of Shimshon Moshe, born in Gherla, Romania, in 1925 regarding activity in the Zionist youth underground between 1941 and 1944

Father-merchant; moving to Cluj; Hungarian control in 1940; activity in the Zionist youth movement; agriculture studies in Budapest; recruitment for underground activity; smuggling Jewish workers from Poland to Romania between 1942 and 1944; German occupation; denunciation and arrest; investigations; escape from the prison by the underground; aliya to Israel via Turkey in May 1944; absorption ; information about the death of relatives in the camps

File Number : 13746

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Joseph Weiss, born in Cehul Silvaniei, Romania, 1932, regarding his experiences in Cehul Silvaniei, the Budapest Ghetto, in hiding, in Leipheim, Gailingen and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Joseph Weiss, born in Cehul Silvaniei, Romania, 1932, regarding his experiences in Cehul Silvaniei, the Budapest Ghetto, in hiding, in Leipheim, Gailingen and other places His childhood in a Jewish religious community in an Hungarian area, including details about the culture and politics. Annexation of Cehul Silvaniei to Hungary, 1939; German Army occupation of Cehul Silvaniei, March 1944; deportation of his family to a prison in Cluj; deportation to Auschwitz; transfer of his mother and seven of the children to the Kistarcsa prison near Budapest; transfer to the transit camp on Columbus...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rachel Olga (Levi) Shemer, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1927, regarding her experiences in Budapest as an active member of Hanoar Hatzioni

Testimony

Testimony of Rachel Olga (Levi) Shemer, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1927, regarding her experiences in Budapest as an active member of Hanoar Hatzioni From an Orthodox family. Drafting of three of her brothers to labor battallions, 1942; joining Hanoar Hatzioni, 1943; assistance from the youth movement to Polish and Slovak refugees; underground activity forging certificates; her brother taken captive in Ukraine; German occupation, 1944; escape attempts through Romania; eldest brother impersonating a priest; detention of her father and his deportation; caring for orphans in a Red Cross home; capture of her...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Chava Eva (Galanda Klein) Fono, born in Bratislava, Slovakia, 1936, regarding her experiences as a child in Bratislava, Goring and Igram and using a false identity in Abraham village while in hiding at the Rovensky family, later recognized as Righteous Among the Nations Life in Bratislava during the war; anti-Jewish legislation, 1942; attends first and second grade in a Slovak school; detention together with her family and deportation to Goring, 1943; being rescued by a member of the Zionist underground; escape to Igram, August 1944; life in a Gypsy village in a dwelling belonging to an...

File Number : 13326

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Shoshana Agnes (Roth) Goldshtein, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1924, regarding her experiences while using a false identity in Budapest and her transfer on the Kasztner train to Bergen-Belsen camp and Switzerland Life before the war; religious family with hardships; activities in the Hashomer Hatzair movement. Deportation of her brother to Ukraine in the context of the labor battalions; disappearance of her brother; life until 1944; German occupation, March 1944; activities in the Hashomer Hatzair movement; receives forged documents from the movement; life in a marked house; meetings with a...

File Number : 13185

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yehudith (Grinbaum) Ben Gama, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1929, regarding her experiences as a young girl in Mezokovesd and in hiding in a convent in Budapest

Testimony

Testimony of Yehudith (Grinbaum) Ben Gama, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1929, regarding her experiences as a young girl in Mezokovesd and in hiding in a convent in Budapest Life before the war; childhood in an Orthodox family; attends a Hebrew school. Deportation of her father to labor battalions, 1942; hosting of Polish refugees, end September (Sukkot) 1942; placing limits on ritual slaughter; German occupation, 1944; being smuggled illegally to Mezokovesd by train; taking off the yellow badge on the train; detention on account of being informed on; transfer to Budapest; life in a "marked house"; life in...

File Number : 13094

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documents from the process in the Regional Courts (Landesgericht) in Klagenfurt, Salzburg and Vienna against members of the HSSPF Lublin: Documentation of the trial, volume 14; Testimonies by Austrian and German perpetrators and Jewish survivors, 1961 Letters (1961), one translated into French, from the investigating judge at the Landesgericht Salzburg (regional court) to various magistrate courts in Germany (and to a court in Paris) requesting legal assistance in the criminal proceedings against Hermann Hoefle and others; the letters contain an account of the suspicion, its factual foundation, and Hoefle's...

File Number : 71

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

Language : German

Testimony of Rachel (Goldberg) Beeri, born in Kowel, Poland, regarding her experiences in Grochow, in the underground in Zbaszyn, Vilna, her aliya to Eretz Israel, 1941 and more

Testimony

Testimony of Rachel (Goldberg) Beeri, born in Kowel, Poland, regarding her experiences in Grochow, in the underground in Zbaszyn, Vilna, her aliya to Eretz Israel, 1941 and more Life before the war; from a Zionist family; activities and leadership in Hechalutz Hatzair; attends the "Pioneer Seminary" in Warsaw, 1937; life in the aliya training facility in Grochow; deportation from Germany to Zbaszyn of people with Polish citizenship; move to Zbaszyn; life in Zbaszyn; adoption of approximately 50 Zbaszyn refugee children into the Grochow aliya training facility group; care for the children with another...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rivka (Klein) Zeevi, born in Mukacevo, Czechoslovakia, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Mukacevo Ghetto, using a false identity in Budapest and in Bucharest

Testimony

Testimony of Rivka (Klein) Zeevi, born in Mukacevo, Czechoslovakia, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Mukacevo Ghetto, using a false identity in Budapest and in Bucharest From a family of Belz hasidim; attends a Czech elementary school. Annexation to Hungary; anti-Jewish decrees; German occupation, 1944; anti-Jewish decrees including yellow badge; deportation to the Mukacevo Ghetto, April 1944; escape to Budapest with help from a bribe given to a Hungarian officer; life in Budapest using a false identity; contacts with the underground; transfer to Romania by the underground; move to Bucharest, July...

File Number : 12877

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yitzhak Ialon Iablonover, born in Vatra Dornei, Romania, 1922, regarding his experiences in Atachi and the underground in the Mogilev-Podolski Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Yitzhak Ialon Iablonover, born in Vatra Dornei, Romania, 1922, regarding his experiences in Atachi and the underground in the Mogilev-Podolski Ghetto Traditional Zionist family; learns in a Hebrew school and a Romanian high school; joins Hanoar Hatzioni youth movement; aliya training in Bucharest; move to Galatz by the movement; return to Vatra Dornei.Restrictions on Jews; deportation to Transnistria, 1941; transfer to Atachi; deportation to the Mogilev-Podolski Ghetto; ghetto life including labor in Siegfried Jaegendorf’s factory; activities in the Zionist underground; arrival of Yitzhak...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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