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Memoirs of Miriam Eva (Reiter) Zinger, born in Munkacs, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Munkacs Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and the Lenzing camp

Memoirs of Miriam Eva (Reiter) Zinger, born in Munkacs, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Munkacs Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and the Lenzing camp Life before the war; attends the Hebrew high school. German occupation; yellow badge; deportation to the Munkacs Ghetto; transfer of her father and other Jews to the Great Synagogue; abuse of the Jews by Hungarian soldiers; liquidation of the ghetto, April 1944; deportation to Auschwitz by death march; camp life; murder of her father, grandfather and grandmother; life in Birkenau in the Gypsy camp; transfer of the Gypsies to the gas...

File Number : 8517

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Fani Sholomon, born in Munkacs, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Munkacs Ghetto and in Auschwitz, Hochweiler and Bergen-Belsen

Memoirs of Fani Sholomon, born in Munkacs, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Munkacs Ghetto and in Auschwitz, Hochweiler and Bergen-Belsen Life in Munkacs during the re-annexation to Hungary, 1938; deportation of people with Czechoslovakian citizenship; imposition of evening curfew on the Jews; prohibition on Jews managing businesses, from 1940; continuing running her father's business by means of bribery; deportation to the Munkacs Ghetto, April 1944; transfer together with the Jews to a brick factory, 17 May 1944; deportation by train to Auschwitz; life on the train; hearing the...

File Number : 8500

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Letter sent by Rubin Reder from Lwow to Ilya Ehrenburg in Moscow, 29 October 1944

Letter sent by Rubin Reder from Lwow to Ilya Ehrenburg in Moscow, 29 October 1944 The letter is an appeal to Ilya Ehrenburg to publicize what went on in the Belzec death camp in any way that he possibly can in order to reveal the atrocities to the whole world Rubin Reder writes of his experiences since his capture with other Jews in Lwow, 15 July 1942, including his deportation to the Janowska camp, and from there to Belzec; according to him, 5,000 people were crammed into each car on the deportation train; after their arrival and the shearing of the women's hair, they were all forced into a shower, as...

File Number : 169

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Polish, Russian, Yiddish

Memoirs of Sonia Engelsberg, born in Torun, Czechoslovakia, 1924, regarding her experiences in Cesky Tesín, in a Polish village near the Dniester river, the Sevlus Ghetto, Auschwitz, the prison in Most, Theresienstadt and other places Move to Cesky Tesín, life with her parents and four siblings until 1938. Clash between the Polish Army and the Czechoslovakian Army; the German occupation; anti-Jewish legislation and regulations; draft of Jewish men to forced labor; escape of the family to Torun; annexation of the area to Hungary, 1939; deportation of the Jews without Hungarian citizenship to Poland,...

File Number : 8482

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Czech

Letters written by Irene Abraham in Cologne to her relatives in England after the war containing details regarding the fate of the family members who survived or perished in the Holocaust

File Number : 1797

Type of Material : Letter

Language : German

Postcards sent from Lublin to Bernard Weinberg in the United States from his mother Rachel Weinberg and sister Sara including translation of the letters to English and Hebrew, February - September 1941 The file also includes: Experiences of the Weinberg family including a list of family members who perished.

File Number : 1790

Type of Material : Record of Murdered Persons, Postcard

Language : Polish, English

Memoirs of Jack Gotfryd, formerly Yaakov Krapchik, born in Konin, Poland, regarding his experiences in Konin, the Ostrowiec Ghetto, forced labor, Mauthausen, Auschwitz, Ebensee, other camps and a death march Life in Konin, life in the Ostrowiec Ghetto; forced labor in a nearby factory until March 1942; life in Starachowice and Bleichen camps; life in Auschwitz, August - December 1944; death march; life in Mauthausen and Ebensee; liberation, May 1945.

File Number : 8306

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, English, Yiddish

Memoirs of Eliahu Rozenberg, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto and Treblinka

Memoirs of Eliahu Rozenberg, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto and Treblinka Life in the Warsaw Ghetto, deportation to Treblinka, life in Treblinka including participation in the Uprising; escape from Treblinka.

File Number : 8280

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

List of Jews murdered in the Euthanasia Program ("Aktion" T4) in Pirna-Sonnenstein, 1940-1941

List of Jews murdered in the Euthanasia Program ("Aktion" T4) in Pirna-Sonnenstein, 1940-1941 Murder of mentally ill and disabled patients who were in local convalescent homes (sanatorium); transfer of inmates from Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen to Pirna-Sonnenstein in order to murder them in the context of the Euthanasia Program.

File Number : 1350

Type of Material : List of Murdered Jews

Language : English, German

Memoirs of Istvan Blasz, born in Satu Mare, Romania, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Satu Mare Ghetto and in Auschwitz, Mauthausen and Gusen camps

Memoirs of Istvan Blasz, born in Satu Mare, Romania, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Satu Mare Ghetto and in Auschwitz, Mauthausen and Gusen camps Satu Mare Ghetto life; Auschwitz camp life; Mauthausen camp life; Gusen camp life.

File Number : 8239

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

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