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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

Letter written by World War I and II veteran Yakov Stashkevich whose family members perished during the Holocaust in Simferopol, Melitopol and Genichesk, requesting assistance in presenting evidence at the Eichmann Trial In the letter there is information regarding: - The collection and murder of Jews in Simferopol, 10-12 December 1941; - Murder of the Simferopol Jews including members of Stashkevich's family, early 1942; - Murder of the Jews of Melitopol and Genichesk including members of Stashkevich's family; - Sending of female elementary school pupils to a brothel in Simferopol, 31 December...

File Number : 116

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Russian

Affidavit of Frank Ziereis, the commander of Mauthausen camp, submitted at the Nuremburg Trials

Affidavit of Frank Ziereis, the commander of Mauthausen camp, submitted at the Nuremburg Trials Methods of murder in Mauthausen and in the Gusen, Linz and Ebensee sub-camps and others; order given by Himmler and Kaltenbrunner at the end of the war to murder all of the camp inmates, but Ziereis refused to carry out the order; denial of guilt; names and the current location of the staff personnel who carried out the acts of murder, including Dr. Krebsbach, who ordered the building of the gas chamber in Mauthausen, and the Police and SS men Jantsch, Richter, Pohl and Eigruber, who murdered inmates; operation...

File Number : 287

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Testimony of Mordechai Szymonowicz, born in Lodz, Poland, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz and Sachsenhausen

Testimony

Testimony of Mordechai Szymonowicz, born in Lodz, Poland, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz and Sachsenhausen From a well-to-do Lodz family. German occupation, September 1939; escape of his father and sister in the direction of the Soviet Union; termination of studies; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto; ghetto life including prayer services in secret; death of his grandfather; joins a group of youth selling cigarettes; smuggling food into the Lodz Ghetto; stealing wood for heating; the hierarchal structure of the band of youth; black market activities; Judenrat and Jewish police;...

File Number : 12784

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Miriam Lemanska, born in Lodz, Poland, 1920, regarding her experiences in the Kamenets-Podolskiy Ghetto, the Rowne Ghetto, using a false identity in Lwow and Luebeck-Schlutup, and other places From a traditional-secular family; her father is a building contractor; her family makes aliya to Eretz Israel, 1925; her family return to Poland, 1926; her home becomes a shelter for Socialists and Communists; attends a Polish school. German occupation; decrees; behavior of the Volksdeutsche; escape to Bialystok with her sisters; move to Lwow; move to Kamenets-Podolskiy; German occupation; betrayal by...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Reghina (Abraham) Skolnik, born in Farcasa, Romania, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Borpatak Ghetto, Baia Mare, Auschwitz and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Reghina (Abraham) Skolnik, born in Farcasa, Romania, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Borpatak Ghetto, Baia Mare, Auschwitz and other places Life before the war. Annexation to Hungary, 1940; antisemitic persecution; abuse by the Hungarian gendarmes against Jews, 1942; deportation to the Borpatak Ghetto; deportation to Baia Mare, spring 1944; deportation to Auschwitz; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; transfer to Duderstadt; transfer to Theresienstadt.

File Number : 1921

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Romanian

Reports regarding Auschwitz camp, including the medical experiments, the brothel for prisoners, the demolition of three gas chambers, the last execution and the only official wedding of a prisoner held in the camp Reports regarding Auschwitz camp, prepared by Franz Danimann and Kurt Hacker: injections of phenol as a means of medical pseudo-experimentation, torture and execution in the concentration camp; female inmates of Birkenau camp are forced to work as prostitutes for the benefit of male slave laborers; an inmate witnesses the underground extermination facilities before their dismantling; the execution...

File Number : 504

Language : German

Testimonies, reports, a photograph, and newspaper clippings of the Jewish Historical Documentation Center in Linz, regarding Pia Wagner from Munich, responsible for brothels on five special "entertainment" trains (Unterhaltungszuege) and in camps Wagner, a veteran Nazi and the only woman in Germany who attained the rank of General in the SA, was responsible for brothels on five special "entertainment" trains (Unterhaltungszuege) and in camps, in which Jewish women inmates from Poland were used for prostitution, after which they were deported to their death by gas after a duration of one month, lest they...

File Number : 774

Type of Material : Original Document, Official Documentation

Language : Polish, German

Orders by Richard Gluecks to camp commanders, regarding the supervision of brothels in camps and the collection of payment from Ukrainian guards, of which half of the payment will be paid to Polish prostitutes

File Number : 442

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Original Document

Language : German

Testimony of Tova Gizella (Akerman) Blau, born in Makacevo, 1915, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz and Altenburg

Testimony

Testimony of Tova Yizella (Akerman) Blau, born in Makacevo, 1915, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz and Altenburg Daughter to a Zionist family members of the Belz Hassidim; the father owns a store for military equipment; attending a Hebrew school and a Catholic school. Recruitment of her husband to a labor battalion where he perished; antisemitism in the city; entry of the Germans and establishment of a ghetto, April 1944; life in the ghetto; concentration of the Jews by the Hungarians in a brick factory; deportation of all the Jews in the ghetto to Auschwitz; transport for forced labor in a weapons...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

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