968:)*. From later evidence, it became obvious that Daniel Dionys Lenard of Zilina gave this testimony. Dani Lenard, his sister, and his parents managed to enter Palestine illegally before the Holocaust. Unfortunately, the British caught them. After being jailed they were expelled and forced to return to Zilina. Dani's Sister Rachel had an opportunity in 1939 to join an agricultural Hachshara in Denmark, went from there to Sweden, and survived. In the spring of 1942, the parents were deported to a concentration camp and perished. Dani was deported at about the same time to Majdanek, from where he managed to escape to Slovakia in July 1942.
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Slovakia, bringing alarming news about the fate of the Jews in
1002:„Für uns Juden", schreibt Dionys Lenard über die in Majdanek zurückbleibenden, „gab es im Lager nur demütigende und gefährliche Posten". Ungewißheit über das Schicksal der nächsten Verwandten, unzulängliche Essensrationen, ...
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One of the deportees, Dionys Lenard, managed to return to
Slovakia within a month and allegedly informed the Jewish leaders about what was going on in Majdanek. The Jewish leaders, Conway continues, already had considerable
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obtains the report and gives a copy of the report to Geza Soos, Hungarian
Foreign Ministry official; Soos gives it to Joszef Elias; Elias's secretary translates it into Hungarian and prepares six copies for Hungarian
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were killed in gas chambers at
Auschwitz during March 1944. Rosin and Mordowicz tell Krasniansky 100,000 Hungarian Jews were killed on arrival between 15 and 27 May, unaware of what was about to happen to
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Personal record of Dionys Lenard about his flight and conditions at the death camp at
Maidanek (45 typewritten pages) submitted to F. Hoffmann-Dvorin, official of the Jewish Office.
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Auschwitz (from the Vrba-Wetzler report).
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The Rise and Decline of the Jewish Community of Žilina (Slovakia)
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826:Jewish community in Slovakia
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852:Majdanek concentration camp
841:illegally entered Palestine
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522:offers further details. In
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360:Aid and Rescue Committee
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47:Main railroad track into
765:Hungary in World War II
512:Washington Times Herald
472:New York World Telegram
292:Vrba and Wetzler escape
252:New York Herald Tribune
235:Germany invades Hungary
730:Michael Dov Weissmandl
600:Mass deportations end.
299:22 / 23 April
152:Polish Socialist Party
956:Gordon, Haim (2003).
189:is filed away by the
50:Auschwitz II-Birkenau
998:10.25627/19964536167
814:Daniel Dionys Lenard
97:Kazimierz Piechowski
21:a series of articles
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279:Red Cross
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277:and the
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61:Timeline
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