Testimony of Avishai Post, born in Rawa Ruska, Poland, 1930, regarding his experiences in the Rawa Ruska Ghetto, forced labor, wanderings and in hiding
Well-to-do large family who own a fur shop.
Soviet occupation; life under Soviet occupation; nationalisation of property; German occupation, 1941; forced labor transporting train tracks and bricks; labor logging trees in a forest; life in the Rawa Ruska Ghetto and building a bunker in a forest; in hiding in the bunker during the "Aktions" in the ghetto; capture of the family; escape and rescue from murder in a cemetery; life in the fields until December 1943; wanderings between acquaintances in villages; return to the ghetto which was liquidated; life in hiding; move with his two brothers and sister into hiding in a house that his father had bought outside the ghetto; liberation by the Red Army, summer 1944.
Move to Germany, 1945; life in a DP camp; move to Canada; aliya to Israel, 1963.
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5223960
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Avishai
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Post
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03/09/1930
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Rawa Ruska, Poland
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Hebrew
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O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives