Testimony of Zerach Maliniak, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1914, regarding his experiences during his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1935, and his experiences in the British Army in Libya, Greece, a POW camp in Lamsdorf and other places
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Testimony of Zerach Maliniak, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1914, regarding his experiences during his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1935, and his experiences in the British Army in Libya, Greece, a POW camp in Lamsdorf and other places
Testimony
Testimony of Zerach Maliniak, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1914, regarding his experiences during his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1935, and his experiences in the British Army in Libya, Greece, a POW camp in Lamsdorf and other places
Life before the war; religious family with hardships; witness learns in a "heder" and attends a Polish elementary school; displays of antisemitism; activities in the Mizrachi Hatzair movement; decision to make aliya to Eretz Israel in a group, 1934; move to Italy by riding bicycles; life en route; life in Italy; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1935; life in Eretz Israel; return to Poland with his twin brother, 1938; return to Eretz Israel.
Enlists in the British Army, 1940; life in Libya in the British Army; life in Greece in the British Army including his transfer to the front; taken captive by the German Army; transfer to Lamsdorf; POW camp life including forced labor with Jewish POWs; transfer to Karlovy Vary; liberation.
Meets US Army soldiers; return to Eretz Israel, 1945.
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item Id
6430135
First Name
Zerach
Zerakh
Last Name
Maliniak
Date of Birth
02/07/1914
Place of Birth
Warszawa, Poland
Type of material
Testimony
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives