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Emanuel Krantz

Testimony
Testimony of Emanuel Krantz, born in Oswiecim, Poland, 1937, regarding his experiences as a small child in the Ural Mountains and near Tashkent From a traditional Zionist family; witness's father's Gordonia activities; escape to the Ural Mountains; death of his brother; move to Uzbekistan; life near Tashkent; his parents' work in the kolkhoz; search for food; coordination of social and religious activities for the workers in a sugar factory by his father; establishment of a cooperative by his father with permission from the authorities, late 1944. Return to Poland, 1946; fate of his relatives; joins a kibbutz in a DP camp in Wetzlar; his father's appointment as Secretary of the Gordonia movement and Chairman of the Jewish National Fund, JNF; learns Hebrew; death of his father in an automobile accident; aliya to Israel, 1948; starts a family.
item Id
4064486
First Name
Emanuel
Last Name
Krantz
Date of Birth
1937
Place of Birth
Oświęcim, Poland
Type of material
Testimony
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
Date of Creation - earliest
02/01/05
Date of Creation - latest
02/01/05
Name of Submitter
KRANTZ EMANUEL
Original
YES
Interview Location
ISRAEL
Connected to Item
O.3 - Testimonies gathered by Yad Vashem
Form of Testimony
Video
Dedication
Moshal Repository, Yad Vashem Archival Collection