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Yosef Shvartzman
Testimony
Testimony of Josef Szwarcman, born in Terespol Nad Bugiem, Poland, 1918, regarding his experiences in Brzisc and detention in Siberia
From an ultra-Orthodox family of Kotzk hasidim; learns in Talmud Torahs; learns in a yeshiva in Warsaw and receives ordination as a rabbi; joins Beitar.
Outbreak of the war; meets Beitar personnel, among them Menachem Begin; move to Brzisc; refusal to work in a shoe factory; is informed on by an NKVD agent and exiled to Siberia; arrest on the charge of being a Zionist.
Return to Poland, 1948; illness and care given by a Polish woman; marriage to the Polish woman; aliya to Israel, 1965.
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item Id
3790554
First Name
Josef
Yosef
Last Name
Shvartzman
Szwarcman
Date of Birth
15/04/1918
Place of Birth
Terespol nad Bugiem, Poland
Type of material
Testimony
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
Date of Creation - earliest
03/07/2000
Date of Creation - latest
03/07/2000
Name of Submitter
SZWARCMAN JOSEF
Original
YES
Interview Location
ISRAEL
Connected to Item
O.3 - Testimonies gathered by Yad Vashem
Form of Testimony
Video
Subjects
Dedication
Moshal Repository, Yad Vashem Archival Collection