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שוורץ עזריאלTestimony of Azriel Shvartz, born 1930 in Berehovo, Carpathia, Czechoslovakia, about the Berehovo ghetto and the camps of Auschwitz, Javisovice, and Buchenwald

Testimony

Testimony of Azriel Shvartz, born in Berehovo, Carpathia, Czechoslovakia in 1930, regarding life in the Berehovo Ghetto and Auschwitz, Javisovice, and Buchenwald camps Childhood; life under the Hungarian regime in 1938; increasing antisemitism and restrictions; the Hungarians’ takeover of his father’s businesses and nationalizing them in 1940; German occupation in 1944; confiscation of property and valuables in 1944; expulsion to the Berehovo Ghetto; life in the ghetto for several weeks; deportation to Auschwitz in 1944 and staying in the camp for several days; the deportation of the witness and his father...

File Number : 13685

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Judith Brinkman (Rubin), born in Kobenhavn, Denmark in 1926, regarding her experiences in Kobenhavn and in Theresienstadt from 1943

Childhood in an ultra-orthodox family in Kobenhavn; outbreak of the war, 1940 and invasion of the Germans; attendance at public school and sewing studies; sudden expulsion from home to the port during the night after Rosh Hashana 1943, from there to Germany by boat and to Theresienstadt by train; life with her mother and sister; prolonged hospital stay; death of her father,February 1944; working in a factory and in a children's home with babies; visit of the Danish delegation and the Red Cross; moving to another apartment in preparation for the visit; getting packages; liberation 15 April,1945; warm reception...

File Number : 13467

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Arye Simcha Perl, born in Petrova, Romania, 1919 regarding being drafted into a Hungarian Army forced labor battalion

Testimony

From a Hasidic family; observing Shabbat and holidays; keeping customs; attends a local school and a heder; the Jewish community; Hamizrachi and Agudat Israel movements; Entry of the Hungarians, late August 1940; anti-Jewish decrees; drafting of men, including the witness into Hungarian Army forced labor battalions; forced labor at the airfield, Hungary; wearing a yellow armband; labor camp life; typhus; liberation, late 1944; Return home; news of the murder of his family in Auschwitz; attempt to locate relatives in Sighet; membership in Agudat Israel; rebuilding life after the war; marriage in Petrova,...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Postcard sent by Simon Dasberg from Bergen-Belsen to Switzerland, 1944; letter sent by members of the Franck family from Eretz Israel to Simon and Isabella Dasberg in Groningen, 1942, greetings and drawings prepared by their children during the family's stay in Bergen-Belsen - Chanukah song written by their daughter, Fani Dasberg in Bergen-Belsen, 1944; - "A Taste of Mother", sketches by Fani Dasberg drawn in Bergen-Belsen, reflecting her dreams about the family home (meals prepared by her mother and a bathtub in the garden); - Poem written in Dutch and Hebrew by Simon Dasberg in honor of the Bat...

File Number : 2203

Type of Material : Postcard, Letter, Drawing, Poem/song, Red Cross Letter

Language : Hebrew, Dutch, German

Testimony of Bela (Goldwater) Shonfeld, born in Leipzig, Germany in 1929, regarding her experiences in Leipzig, Amsterdam, and England

Testimony of Bela (Goldwater) Shonfeld, born in Leipzig, Germany in 1929, regarding her experiences in Leipzig, Amsterdam, and England Life with family in Leipzig; attending the Carlebach School; the festivals; the Nazi party’s rise to power; Jewish students from German schools joining the school; Kristallnacht; expulsion of grandfather and grandmother to the Polish border; the family’s transfer by rail, together with other Jews of Polish origin, to the Polish embassy in Leipzig; escape from the train; return to the family apartment two days later; finding the apartment destroyed; suffering abuse; move to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Miriam Klopper Fogel, born in Zagreb, Croatia in 1937, regarding her experiences in Budapest, in Austria, in labor camps, and on the death march

Testimony

Testimony of Miriam Klopper Fogel, born in Zagreb, Croatia in 1937, regarding her experiences in Budapest, in Austria, in labor camps, and on the death march Her nuclear family; parents’ occupations; way of life; Sabbaths and holidays; establishment of Croatian state in April 1941; the Ustaše organization; escape with mother to Budapest under false identity; conditions in Budapest; move to Sombor and living in uncle’s home; kindergarten; Passover in uncle’s home; expulsion to brick factory and from there to Baja Ghetto by Hungarian gendarmes; father’s draft to labor brigades of the Hungarian army; murder of...

File Number : 13691

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Melvina Malka Avrahami, born in Pavlovo, Czechoslovakia, 1924, regarding the deportation to the Munkac Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Melvina Malka Avrahami, born in Pavlovo, Czechoslovakia, 1924, regarding the deportation to the Munkac Ghetto Family background; life before the war. Entry of the Hungarians, 1938; lifestyle changes for worse; food rationing; a ban on Christian doctors to treat Jews; refusal to treat her sister and her death in a hospital; sewing studies at Munkac; transfer to Svalava; German occupation; deportation to the Munkac ghetto by Hungarian gendarmes; *Second part of the testimony is missing, the witness refused to continue being interviewed.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shlomo Pash, born in Landsberg Warthe, Germany in 1935, regarding his ‎experiences as a child in Berlin, Potenza, a Jewish orphanage in Torino, on a farm in the area of ‎Casale Monferrato, and more Life in Berlin before the war; his father’s position as a judge; deportation of his father to a ‎concentration camp and his poisoning in 1939; escape with his mother to Potenza; escape to ‎Torino; life in a Jewish orphanage; attitude of the Jewish community after the German occupation ‎of northern Italy; escape with other children from the orphanage to Casale Monferrato; closure of ‎the orphanage and...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Aharon Lipitz, born in Plonsk, Poland in 1926, regarding his experiences in the ‎ghetto, in Auschwitz and Buna and other camps

Testimony

Testimony of Aharon Lipitz, born in Plonsk, Poland in 1926, regarding his experiences in the ‎ghetto, in Auschwitz and Buna and other camps Family background; studying in a Polish school; life in Przyborowice; Polish refugees return from ‎Germany; outbreak of war; mistreatment of Jews in Plonsk; the Germans arrive and take over his ‎family’s farm and all of their possessions; burial of holy books; forced labor; deportation to the ‎Nowy Dwor Ghetto; transfer of his parents to the Plonsk Ghetto; trading in textiles with peasants; ‎Jewish possessions seized and looted; deportation to Auschwitz Birkenau;...

File Number : 13660

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avraham Iger, born in 1918 in Radom, Poland, about his experiences in Radom, the Jedlina ghetto, and camps in Poland and Austria, 1939–1945

German occupation ensues in 1939; witness assigned to felling timber as forced laborer; deportation to the Jedlina ghetto in 1941; forced labor in the ghetto; deportation with brother and sister to Pionki ni 1942; life in the camp; working in a gunpowder and munitions plant; transferred to Zwolen in 1942; interned there for severael weeks; sent back to Pionki; taken to Auschwitz in 1944; interned there for several days; sent on to Sosnowiec Srodula in 1944; life in the camp; working in an armaments plant; death march to Mauthausen in January 1945; transferred to Gunskirchen; interned there until liberated by...

File Number : 13611

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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