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Testimony of Chaim Rozen, born in Minsk, Belorussia, 1921, regarding his experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto, and Stutthof and Dachau camps

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Testimony of Chaim Rozen, born in Minsk, Belorussia, 1921, regarding his experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto, and Stutthof and Dachau camps Family life in Danzig; move of the family to Kaunas, 1938. Life under Soviet rule until German occupation, June 1941; concentration of the Jews by Lithuanian gendarmes in Slobodka; release of the family; mass shooting of Jews in Slobodka; detention of the family in the Kaunas prison, July 1941; murder of his mother with other women in a forest; sealing of the ghetto, August 1941; ghetto life; "Aktion", October 1941; membership in the Brit Zion youth movement; conversion of the ghetto into a concentration camp, late 1943; liquidation of the ghetto, summer 1944; unsuccessful attempt to hide in a bunker in the ghetto, July 1944; deportation to Stutthof and then to Dachau; in camp no. 2 in Dachau until the liquidation of the camp, late November 1944; transfer to camp no. 1; illness and survival with help from friends; transfer by train with other sick inmates, April 1945; in hiding in a forest following an air-raid; liberation by the US Army. Aliya to Eretz Israel, 1945.
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3559469
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Chaim
Khaim
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Rozen
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1921
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Minsk, Belorussia (USSR)
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Testimony
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6415
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Hebrew
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O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
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ROZEN CHAIM
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YES
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35
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O.3 - Testimonies gathered by Yad Vashem
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Audio
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Moshal Repository, Yad Vashem Archival Collection