Childhood in a well-to-do traditional family; German cultural influence; attends a local school;
Soviet occupation, 1940; rumors of deportation to Siberia and escape; outbreak of the war, June 1941; German invasion; disappearance of her father with additional men; deportation to a ghetto, 11 October 1941; deportation by train to Mogilev Podolskiy, Transnistria; bribing Romanian policemen to prevent further deportation; living with the extended family, 26 people, in one house in the ghetto under crowded conditions; participation in a children's theater; liberation by the Soviets, spring 1944;
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Testimony of Daniel Dino, born in Veroia, Greece in 1933, regarding his experiences in Veroia and in hiding
Sephardic community; his father is a well-to-do merchant; displays of antisemitism; Italian occupation; German occupation, 1942; receipt of information regarding the deportation of the Jews of Thessaloniki; deportation of Jews from Veroia to camps; his family escapes to the mountains; in hiding in the village of Sika; help from the local residents; they are informed on; entry of soldiers into the village, 1944; rescue by means of a bribe; liberation; return to Veroia; displays of antisemitism and acts...
Testimony of Liana Shoshana Fura Shvartz, born in Vienna, Austria, regarding her experiences in Austria and Czechoslovakia and her aliya to pre-state Israel
Childhood before the war; Anschluss in 1938; Kristallnacht in 1938; attacks; Aryanization of family factory; restrictions; certificate for father for a month; attempt to bring relatives from Hungary; family’s escape to the grandfather’s estate in Sala; receiving certificates as colonial subjects; aliya to pre-state Israel in 1940; absorption.
Testimony of Meir Friedman, born in 1925 in Halmaj, Hungary, about his experiences in Halmaj and Budapest
Offspring of an Orthodox religious family in Halmaj; German occupation of Hungary begins in 1944; Jews of the area rounded up in a brick factory in Kosiĉe; witness is transferred with his family to Budapest by a brother; entering a marked house in April 1944; escaping to the "Glass House" in October 1944; Arrow Cross operatives assault the house; saved by a German officer from murder on the Danube on December 31, 1944; liberation by Red Army forces on January 18, 11945; half a year in Vienna;...
Testimony of Esther Mirovski Asael, born in Bedzin, Poland in 1928, regarding her experiences in the Bendin Ghetto and in various camps, including Dulak, Peterswaldau, Klettendorf, and Gogolin
Occupation and life under German rule in 1939; deportation to the Bendin Ghetto in 1941; labor in a sewing workshop making uniforms for the German army; sleeping at night with her mother in the factory where her father worked, outside the ghetto, out of fear of the selections; deportation to a transit camp in Sosnowiec in 1943; transfer to the concentration camp in Annaberg, Germany in 1943; deportation to the...
Life before the war; German occupation ensues; dispossession; deportation to the Warsaw ghetto; life in the ghetto; escaping to the "Aryan" side with help of forged papers; marrying; escaping to Lwów; escaping back to Warsaw; escaping to Hungary; receiving privileges from the Polish Consulate; escaping to Yugoslavia; joining the partisans in March 1944; sabotaging a railroad track; arrested by the Germans and taken to Germany; working in a factory that manufactures spare parts for tanks; posing as a Croat; receiving extra privileges; liberated by American forces; reaching Buchenwald; encountering Holocaust...
Hungary re-annexes the Galanta area and anti-Jewish violence in 1938; antisemitism escalates and authorities impose restrictions; German occupation ensues in 1944; father arrested and deported to a detention camp in Hungary in 1944; witness deported with mother and siblings to the Galanta ghetto for several days; deportation to a ghetto in a brickyard in Nove Zamky; deporation to Auschwitz in 1944; life in Auschwitz and receiving help from father; transferred to Hohenelbe; life in the camp; working at a factory that turns out aircraft parts; typhus; rescue by a non-Jewish Dutch nurse in 1945; liberation by Red...
Testimony of Avraham Tavori Tureholz, born in Staszow, Poland, 1930, regarding deportation to Auschwitz, jumping off a train, joining partisans and assistance in the fighting against the German army
Family background, religious family; relocation to Arad, Romania, 1932; a visit to Eretz Israel, 1933, where his mother's family lives; attempt to stay in Eretz Israel; buying a plot of land; stabbing of his father by an Arab in Jaffa; the British authorities' investigation of the father and the understanding that there are no certificates for the family to remain in Eretz Israel; deportation within four weeks...
German occupation of Przemyśl in 1939; riots; Soviet occupation ensues in 1939; German occupation ensues in 1941; restrictions on Jews and upturn in antisemitism; deportation to the Przemyśl ghetto with parents; family members receive labor permits; father works in a factory outside the ghetto and witness works with mother on a farm outside the ghetto in 1942; finding a hideout during the second Aktion; witness and parents arrested due to denunciation and taken to a lockup in Przemyśl; they escapes from the lockup and return to the ghetto (part of which has become a labor camp) in 1943; witness and parents...