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Testimony of Frida (Rubinchik) Erez, born in Minsk, Soviet Union, 1919, regarding her experiences in Klaipeda, Kaunas, the Kaunas Ghetto, Stutthof and a death march

Testimony of Frida (Rubinchik) Erez, born in Minsk, Soviet Union, 1919, regarding her experiences in Klaipeda, Kaunas, the Kaunas Ghetto, Stutthof and a death march Her childhood and youth in Klaipeda; family background; community life; move to Kaunas after the annexation to Germany, 1939; studies nursing course in "Bikur Holim". German occupation, June 1941; pogrom by Lithuanians; deportation to the Kaunas Ghetto; labor in a hospital for infectious diseases that was established inside the ghetto; ghetto's hospital, patients and staff are set on fire during the liquidation of the small Kaunas Ghetto, October 1941; witness is the only person from the hospital that was rescued; transfer to the large Kaunas Ghetto with her family; deportation of her family to a POW camp; labor in agriculture and in hospitals; children's and elderly persons' "Aktion"; deportation of her mother to Auschwitz; liquidation of the Kaunas Ghetto, July 1944; deportation to labor in Germany; stay in Stutthof; death march, January-March 1945; liberation by the Red Army. Travel on foot from Lodz to Munich; reunion with her husband; help from the JDC and UNRRA; aliya to Israel, 1949.
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3564744
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Frida
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Erez
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Rubinchik
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1919
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Minsk, Belorussia (USSR)
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Testimony
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10223
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Hebrew
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O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
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01/05/1997
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01/05/1997
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ארז (רובינצ'יק), פרידה
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YES
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32
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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