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Alex Greenberg
Testimony
Testimony of Alex Greenberg, born in 38ódź, Poland, 1938, regarding his experiences in Łódź
Childhood in an assimilated family in Łódź; his father is a chemist, his mother is a dentist; spoken language at home Polish.
Establishment of the Łódź ghetto; his family's home is within the ghetto; saving of his family with the help of his uncle who is a member of the Judenrat; working in a cigarette factory at age five; scarlet fever; family hideout in the attic; appearance of SS soldiers with dogs; eight hundred Jews remaining in the ghetto prior to the liberation.
Entry of the Red Army and liberation of the ghetto; city life; studies in a Polish school; experience of anti-Semitism; joining the Zionist 'Union' movement; aliya to Israel on the ship 'Atzmaut', 1950.
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Alex
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Greenberg
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12/01/1938
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Lodz, Poland
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Hebrew
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O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
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11/06/2019
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11/06/2019
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גרינברג אלכס
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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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