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Testimony of Shoshana Emilka (Kosover) Rozentzveig, born in Radzymin, Poland, 1929, regarding her experiences in the Radzymin Ghetto, using a false identity in Warsaw, the Polish underground and as a Polish forced laborer in Germany

Testimony of Shoshana Emilka (Kosover) Rozentzveig, born in Radzymin, Poland, 1929, regarding her experiences in the Radzymin Ghetto, using a false identity in Warsaw, the Polish underground and as a Polish forced laborer in Germany Life before the war; Jewish community; school. German occupation; decrees; plucking of her father's beard; deportation to the Radzymin Ghetto; ghetto life; her mother's illness; her father's death; deportation of her mother and family members to Treblinka; obtains a Polish identity card from a priest; move to Warsaw; joins the Polish underground; activities in the underground; participates in extracting Emanuel Ringelblum from Trawniki; outbreak of the Polish Warsaw Uprising; life with her brother as Polish forced laborers in a camp German; help from the Red Cross; liberation. Her brother's illness; return to Poland; marriage, 1949; her daughter's birth; aliya to Israel, 1950.
item Id
4690779
First Name
Emilka
Shoshana
Last Name
Rozentzveig
Maiden Name
Kosover
Date of Birth
1922
Place of Birth
Radzymin, Poland
Type of material
Testimony
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
Date of Creation - earliest
30/11/03
Date of Creation - latest
30/11/03
Name of Submitter
רוזנצווייג קוסובר שושנה
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