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Testimony of Yonah Freiman regarding the Jews of Czortkow before World War II, entry of the Soviets in 1939, German occupation, the ghetto, liquidation of the ghetto, work in the Czortkow camp, liquidation of the camp, deportation with his son to Swidowa, hiding by Aryans, and liberation

- The Soviet rule in Czortkow; German occupation; decrees against the Jews of Czortkow; kidnapping for forced labor to repair the Czortkow-Kopyczyńce road, July 1941; during the forced labor, a 15-year-old boy, Chaim Hoisner, perished; pogroms by Ukrainians; a pogrom by Ukrainians, during which about 500 people, including his 20 year old son, Yisrael Freiman, were arrested, 14 July 1941; the detainees were brutally tortured and murdered while imprisoned; the invasion of representatives from the ...
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item Id
3541348
Type of material
Testimony
File Number
1509
Language
Yiddish
Record Group
M.1 - Central Historical Commission (CHC) of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the US Zone, Munich
Sub-Record Group
M.1.E - Testimonies Collection
Date of Creation - earliest
25/08/1947
Date of Creation - latest
25/08/1947
Name of Submitter
Yonah Freiman
Original
YES
No. of pages/frames
7
Connected to Item
M.1.E - Collection of testimonies gathered by the Central Historic Committee of the Liberated Jews in Munich, 1946-1948
Form of Testimony
Written testimony
Dedication
Moshal Repository, Yad Vashem Archival Collection