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Testimony of Sonia Tur, born in Telsiai, Lithuania in 1920, regarding her expulsion to the Telsiai Ghetto, escape, and obtaining forged papers

Testimony
Testimony of Sonia Tur, born in Telsiai, Lithuania in 1920, regarding her expulsion to the Telsiai Ghetto, escape, and obtaining forged papers Family life; move to Kaunas (Kovno); work in an x-ray institute; the German occupation in 1941; restrictions imposed on Jews, including wearing the yellow badge and restrictions on movement; ghettoization; work in the ghetto hospital; burning of the ghetto hospital; the great “aktion”; selection; payment of a bribe to have a friend removed from the ghetto; escape from the ghetto; obtaining forged papers; escape to Vienna; work in a hospital; meeting with soldiers of the Jewish Brigade; connection with aliya emissaries; aliya to Eretz Israel in 1946; absorption.
item Id
13308702
First Name
Sonia
Last Name
Tur
Date of Birth
04/05/1920
Place of Birth
Telšiai, Lithuania
Type of material
Testimony
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
Date of Creation - earliest
30/05/2018
Date of Creation - latest
30/05/2018
Name of Submitter
טור סוניה
Original
YES
Interview Location
ISRAEL
Form of Testimony
Video