Documentation of the experiences of Mordechai Kanner, born in Kielce in 1910, before, during, and after the Holocaust

Documentation of the experiences of Mordechai Kanner, born in Kielce in 1910, before, during, and after the Holocaust Biography of Mordechai Kanner, recorded in 2003 as told by his daughter, Sara Kanner: Life in Kielce with parents (Alexander and Sorah Ruchl) and two sisters (Leah and Feige); escaping to the Soviet Union upon outbreak of World War II; wandering in the Soviet Union; meeting his future wife, Rivka Bacharach, in Kharkov; marrying; reaching Poland after the war with his wife and members of her family; Mordechai and Rivka move to Kielce and attempt to trace members of the Kanner family; Mordechai severely beaten in the Kielce pogrom and is found by his wife, Rivka, among the corpses of those murdered; spends several months in hospital; reports about the fate of members of the Kanner family (all murdered in the Holocaust); all family members reach displaced-persons camps in Germany; daughter, Sarah, born in a DP camp; immigration to Israel in 1949; - information about Mordechai Kanner and his family during the Holocaust, discovered in searches of Yad Vashem and ITS (International Tracing Service) databases in 2020; - story about a Torah scroll that Mordechai Kanner received while wandering during the war and brought to Eretz Israel in the course of his immigration.