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Commandant Arthur Roedl (center) and SS officers visit the Gross-Rosen concentration camp's quarry. Gross-Rosen, Germany, 1941.
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Barbara was born in the province of Arad in northern Transylvania, Romania. She went to school until the Hungarian army occupied the area in 1940 and she was no longer allowed to attend. After the Germans occupied Hungary in 1944, discrimination against Jews intensified. Barbara and her family were forced into the Oradea ghetto. She worked in the ghetto hospital until she was deported to the Auschwitz camp. At Auschwitz, she worked in the kitchens to receive extra food. She was deported to another camp, and later forced on a death march. Toward the war's end, the Red Cross rescued Barbara. She returned to Arad after World War II and worked as a biochemist.
Oral History
Barbara Marton Farkas describes the death march from the Gross-Rosen camp in Germany
Commandant Arthur Roedl (center) and SS officers visit the Gross-Rosen concentration camp's quarry. Gross-Rosen, Germany, 1941.
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Commandant Arthur Roedl and SS officers at Gross-Rosen
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Concentration Camps, 1939–42 - Photograph
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Concentration Camps, 1939–42 - ID Card/Oral History
The Germans occupied David's town, previously annexed by Hungary, in 1944. David was deported to Auschwitz and, with his father, transported to Plaszow. David was sent to the Gross-Rosen camp and to Reichenbach. He was then among three of 150 in a cattle car who survived transportation to Dachau. He was liberated after a death march from Innsbruck toward the front line of combat between US and German troops.
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David (Dudi) Bergman describes a roll call "violation" incident in the Reichenbach subcamp of Gross-Rosen
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Death marches from Gross-Rosen, January 1945
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Death Marches: Maps
Ernest Domby
ID Card
Ernest Dombi
Feliks Bruks
ID Card
Feliks Bruks
In 1939, Gerda's brother was deported for forced labor. In June 1942, Gerda's family was deported from the Bielsko ghetto. While her parents were transported to Auschwitz, Gerda was sent to the Gross-Rosen camp system, where for the remainder of the war she performed forced labor in textile factories. Gerda was liberated after a death march, wearing the ski boots her father insisted would help her to survive. She married her American liberator.
Oral History
Gerda Weissmann Klein describes the Bolkenhain subcamp of Gross-Rosen and a camp leader there
Gitla Zoberman
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Gitla Zoberman
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Gross-Rosen
The commandant of Gross-Rosen, SS-Obersturmbannfuehrer Arthur Roedl, at his desk with a photograph of Adolf Hitler hanging on the wall. Gross-Rosen, Germany, 1941.
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Gross-Rosen commandant Arthur Roedl
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Gross-Rosen concentration camp, 1945
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Gross-Rosen environs, 1945
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Gross-Rosen - Maps

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