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Testimony of Arie Likht, born in Hajduszoboszlo, Hungary, 1924 regarding his experiences in Hungary during the war period

His parents' home; antisemitism; move to Budapest, 1942; German occupation, March 1944; obligation to report for labor clearing rubble; restrictions on movement; yellow badge; drafting order; transfer to Szolnok; labor in a military factory, July 1944; sorting of skilled workers; drafting into the Hungarian Army and deployment to the front; approach of the Soviet front; retreat; Horthy's declaration, 1944; expulsion from the Hungarian Army; concentration of the Jewish soldiers and transfer to the Austrian border; transfer into the hands of the German Army, Sopron; labor building fortifications along the...

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Testimony of Shoshana Zuzi Zhuzha (Polak) Levinger, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1932 regarding her experiences in Budapest in a marked house, in the ghetto and in a children's home

Childhood in a secular family; living in various towns due to her father's work; good relations with Christians; Move to Budapest, summer 1942 or 1943; drafting of her father into a labor battalion, probably early 1944; German occupation, March 1944; air-raids; move to a marked house; move to a protected house; eviction of all the residents by members of the Arrow Cross Party, her father arrived in an army uniform and took her out of the group; continued life in the ghetto with many children; staying in shelter most of the time; liberation by the Red Army, January 1945; Joining Youth Aliyah; aliya to...

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Testimony of Yeshayahu Shaike Goldhersh, born in Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland in 1934, regarding his experiences as a child in the Piotrkow Trybunalski Ghetto, and in Bergen-Belsen and Ravensbrueck camps Piotrkow Trybunalski Ghetto life; deportation to Ravensbrueck camp; transfer to Bergen-Belsen camp; Bergen-Belsen camp life, without work [labor]; suffering from diseases and hunger; apathy; cruelties by the Ukrainian guards; piles of corpses; liberation by the British Army on 15 April 1945; transfer to Sweden with his mother for the purpose of his mother's convalescence; he studies for the first time in a...

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Testimony of Mirka (Klaver) Zaklikovski, born in Lodz, Poland, 1927, regarding the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, and other camps, 1940-1945

Childhood before the war; Outbreak of the war; arrival of refugees from Czechoslovakia and Germany; restrictions; deportation to the ghetto; curfew; forced labor; taking of her father to forced labor; "Aktions"; public hangings of Jews; escapes from the ghetto; cultural life in the ghetto; liquidation of the ghetto; transfer to labor camps in Germany; working in a weapons factory; reasonable treatment by the Germans; liberation by the British Army; Rebuilding life after the war; aliya to Israel, 1949.

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Testimony of Yaakov Amit Altman, born in Noua Sulita, Romania, 1935 regarding the deportation of his family to Transnistria

Family background; drafting of his father into the Red army; His family's escape to Ukraine following the Red Army; capture of his family by the Germans along with additional escapees; deportation of his family to Chernovitse; his family's livelihood from knitting; obtaining food with great difficulty; living in a basement; living conditions; liberation by the Red Army; Week-long return by foot to Noua Sulita; living conditions in Noua Sulita; reunion with his father; move to Transylvania and Bukovina, Romania; illegal immigration to Eretz Israel on the ship "Knesset Israel"; arrest by the British and...

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Testimony of Hela (Feltz) Reznik, born in Bedzin, Poland, 1925 regarding her experiences in the Parschnitz labor camp, Czechoslovakia

Prewar childhood; antisemitism; plans for aliya to Eretz Israel; outbreak of the war; German occupation; burning of houses; deportation to the Parschnitz labor camp, Czechoslovakia; camp life, 1941-1945; hunger; longing; murder of her family; liberation by the Red Army; Rebuilding life after the war; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1948.

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Testimony of Esther Gilbert (Mamu) Miron, born in Tunis, Tunisia, 1931 regarding life under German occupation, 1942-1943

Daughter of a traditional family, Tunis; customs of the Jewish community; relations with the local population; Outbreak of the war; routine life until the German occupation, 1942; life under occupation; attitude of the local population; liberation by the British Army, 1943; Tense relations with the Muslims and travel to Marseille, France, for aliya to Israel, 1949; absorption in Israel.

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Testimony of Shlomo Tibor Rosenthal, born in Miskolc, Hungary, 1928 regarding his experiences in the ghetto and the labor battalion in Hungary

From an Orthodox family; learns in a heder and a Jewish school; prohibition on ritual slaughter; closing of the family butcher shop; German occupation, March 1944; His house within the ghetto area; drafting of his father and brother to a labor battalion; transfer to a brick factory; entlists into the labor battalions on the advice of a Hungarian officer; liberation by the Red Army; Return home; reunion with his two sisters; activity in the Bnei Akiva movement; move with a group of children to a children's home in Budapest; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1948.

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Testimony of Bina (Iankovitz) Iakab, born in Stefanesti, Romania, 1934 regarding the deportation of the Jews of Stefanesti and wanderings in Romania

Childhood in Stefanesti; Deportation from Stefanesti, 1941; looting of property by the local population; move to Sulita; deportation of the Jews of Sulita; transfer to Harlau; yellow badge; restriction of movement; antisemitism; hunger; liberation by the Red Army, 1944; Life after the war; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947; exiled to Cyprus; return aliya to Eretz Israel, 1948.

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Childhood in Zarki; antisemitism; move to Sosnowiec, 1934; antisemitism; German occupation, September 1939; abuse; anti-Jewish legislation; confiscation of property; Judenrat; deportation to the Johannsdorf labor camp, late 1939; work in excavations and laying railroad tracks; transfer to the Markstadt camp; various forced labors; transfer to the Klettendorf camp; labor as a porter; beatings; transfer to the Dyhernfurth camp to work in a weapons factory; beatings; hunger; death march to Bergen-Belsen; high mortality; hunger; liberation by the British Army, April 1945; Life after the war; aliya to...

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