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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.
details.fullDetails.itemId
3557559
details.fullDetails.firstName
Jechiel
Yekhiel
details.fullDetails.lastName
Kirschbaum
Kirshbaum
details.fullDetails.dob
1929
details.fullDetails.pob
Warszawa, Poland
details.fullDetails.materialType
Memoirs
details.fullDetails.fileNumber
3798
details.fullDetails.language
Hebrew
details.fullDetails.recordGroup
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
details.fullDetails.earliestDate
01/02/1975
details.fullDetails.latestDate
01/02/1975
details.fullDetails.submitter
KIRSCHBAUM, JECHIEL
details.fullDetails.original
YES
details.fullDetails.numOfPages
30
details.fullDetails.signature
ק-3475/298
details.fullDetails.belongsTo
O.3 - Testimonies gathered by Yad Vashem
details.fullDetails.dedication
Moshal Repository, Yad Vashem Archival Collection