DEPORTATION OF THE JEWS OF BAČKA IN 1944

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During our deportation, Hungarian officers and detectives took away all our furniture and all our belongings for four rooms and an entrance hall, worth about 500,000 dinars”. [...].

Lists of survivors of Auschwitz Concentration Camp, 1.1.2.1/ 517268/ ITS Digital Archive, Arolsen Archives. Weinfeld Greta is number 56 in the list.

Weinschell, Edmund Novi Sad, 7 August 1945 (AV, F. 183, AK INV 5004) Minutes [...] of the hearing of Edmund Weinschell, Novi Sad, 35 Ustavska. [...]: “I was arrested by the Hungarian authorities in April 1943 in Novi Sad, on the pretext that I was not a Hungarian citizen and I was escorted to a detention facility in Budapest. I was there for 5 weeks. From there I was taken to an internment camp in Garany. There the food was really bad. We got soup three times a day, sometimes vegetable for lunch, the food was so poor that there were many deaths due to weakness. During the time I was there, of 600 internees about 30-40 died due to weakness. The premises where we were staying were very unclean and unhealthy, so crowded that the sleeping options were minimal. I was here for about 10 months. They took me from Garany to Csurgó, I was there for 2 months. Here the treatment by the Hungarian authorities was very strict, often they punished us for no reason by gymnastics and similar methods. From Csurgó, with 200 people, I was taken to Auschwitz in May 1944. The journey lasted 3 days and 3 nights, during which time the wagons were closed, we were given neither food nor water, they didn’t allow us to go out even for relief. Who had a gold watch or something 407


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