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Testimony of Jechiel Kirschbaum, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, on the Aryan side, in hiding and using a false identity in villages in the surrounding area

Testimony of Jechiel Kirschbaum, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, on the Aryan side, in hiding and using a false identity in villages in the surrounding area Second "Aktion", January 1943; escape from the Warsaw Ghetto to the Aryan side with his parents; return to the Warsaw Ghetto; outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; escape; life on the Aryan side; receives help from the Tykwinski brothers on Ozarowska Street; outbreak of the Warsaw Polish Uprising, 01 August 1944; life in hiding in a bunker; departure from the bunker; capture by the Germans; deportation from Warsaw; life in villages in the surrounding area, as a Polish youth with the name Mieczyslaw Kwiatkowski; attitude of the farmers; liberation, January 1945.
item Id
3557559
First Name
Jechiel
Yekhiel
Last Name
Kirschbaum
Kirshbaum
Date of Birth
1929
Place of Birth
Warszawa, Poland
Type of material
Memoirs
File Number
3798
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
Date of Creation - earliest
01/02/1975
Date of Creation - latest
01/02/1975
Name of Submitter
KIRSCHBAUM, JECHIEL
Original
YES
No. of pages/frames
30
Archival Signature
ק-3475/298
Connected to Item
O.3 - Testimonies gathered by Yad Vashem
Dedication
Moshal Repository, Yad Vashem Archival Collection