Childhood before the war; programming aliya to Israel; aliya of the two brothers ; confiscation of family businesses; outbreak of the war; burning the synagogue and houses of Jews; deportation to ghetto; forced labor; murder of the father; "aktions"; deportation of the mother and sister to Auschwitz Birkenau; deportation of the witness with her sister to Peterswaldau; help of the German female commander; liberation by the Russians; escape to the American side; rehabilitation of life after the war; aliya to Israel in 1946
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...
Childhood; antisemitism before the war; war breaks out in 1939; Germans arrive; Jewish townspeople evicted; physical abuse and murder of the town's ritual slaughterer; reaching Maków Mazowiecki; men inducted for forced labor and murdered; escaping from the city; hiding out during the day; walking at night toward the Soviet border; bribing the Polish border guards; reaching Białystok; lack of solidarity on the part of the Jewish townspeople; grandmother dies; unsuccessful attempts to trace father, who remained in Warsaw; refugees deported to Siberia: a month and a half of travel by rail; many die; cases of...
Testimony of Tomas Hirshel, born in Kula, Yugoslavia, 1919, regarding his experiences in Kula, Szeged, Burgenland, Mauthausen and Gunskirchen
His childhood in a well-to-do, secular family including attending a Serbian school and high school; activities in the Hashomer Hatzair movement.
Outbreak of the war; German Army occupation of Kula, 1941; obtains forged documents; move to Szeged, 1942; draft of the men to forced labor; labor building an airfield and repairing railroad tracks in a military camp, 1943; hospitalization due to an injury; approach of the Red Army; transfer to Austria on foot; arrival to...
Testimony of Judith (Moshkovitz) Natt, born in Uzhorod, Czechoslovakia, 1932, regarding her experiences in Uzhorod, Budapest, the Uzhorod Ghetto and in hiding in Budapest
Hungarian Army occupation [of Uzhorod]; life under Hungarian occupation, 1938; increase in the displays of antisemitism; importance to the Hungarians of the brick factory owned by her father; German Army occupation [of Uzhorod], 1944; Germans take control of the factory owned by her father; her family receives a special permit from the Hungarian Minister of the Interior and an exemption from the anti-Jewish restrictions imposed on the...
Testimony of Sabina Binka (Berkovitz) Horovitz, born in Iasi, Romania, 1924, regarding her experiences in Iasi and Bucharest
Her childhood in a religious family.
Ban on entrance into the school; arrival of refugees from Poland [to Iasi]; confiscation of property; dismissal of her father from his place of work; decree regarding wearing a yellow badge; in hiding at home [during the riots], including hearing gunshots, 28 June 1941; transfer of her family members to a courtyard in the police building, 29 June 1941; release, after a short period of time; looting of their home; life with other families [in the...
P.55 - Personal Archive of Dr. Heinz E. Samson
In the collection there are files from the private archive of Dr. Heinz E. Samson.
Description of the collection:
The documentation deals with a part of the estate of the Samson family, originally from the city of Norden in Northern Germany. There is pre-war documentation on tax issues and the assets of the Samson family, pre- and postwar correspondence with German authorities, personal documents and certificates, documents on the restoration of the Norden Jewish cemetery supported by the Samson family after WW II, the dedication of a memorial on the...
Type of Material : List of Deportees, Journals, Poster, Death Certificate, Genealogy, Envelope, Official Documentation, Legal Documentation, Speech, Letter, Postcard, Newspaper Clippings, Administrative Documentation, Brochure, Booklet(s), Personal Documents, Balance Sheet, List of Murdered Jews From Germany, Maps, Financial Accounts