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Pesakh Mordokhovich

Testimony
Testimony of Pesakh Mordokhovich, born in Slobodka, Lithuania in 1928, regarding his experiences in the Slobodka Ghetto and deportation to Stutthof, Landsberg and Kaufering camps His family's life in Slobodka; his father is a laborer at a sawmill; his family speaks Yiddish at home; Jewish holidays; studies in a Jewish school; Soviet occupation, 1940; outbreak of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union in June 1941; escape to Palanga with a group of children from a summer camp; escape back to Slobodka; his family's home is included inside the boundaries of the local ghetto in August 1941; transfer to forced labor; large "Aktion" in October 1941; rescue of his family; "Aktion" against children; Jewish Police; murder of Jews in the Ninth Fort; escape of some of the Jews to the partisans; deportation to Stutthof camp on a train in July 1944; transfer to Landsberg camp; transfer to Kaufering camp; forced labor in the construction of a missile factory; air-raids; liberation by the US Army; return to Kaunas; draft into the Red Army after the war.
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12986326
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Pesakh
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Mordokhovich
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1928
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Slobodka, Lithuania
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Testimony
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Hebrew
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O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
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19/04/2017
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19/04/2017
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מרדוכוביץ' פסח Pesakh Mordokhovich
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YES
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ISRAEL
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O.3 - Testimonies gathered by Yad Vashem
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