Joint testimony of sisters, Sara (Hershenson) Flaishman, born in Zamosc, Poland, 1933, and Ahuva Liptzi Lidia (Hershenson) Kropman, born in Zamosc, Poland, 1935, regarding their experiences as children in Zamosc, Ukraine, the Ural area, Kurshabskiy area and other places
Joint testimony of sisters, Sara (Hershenson) Flaishman, born in Zamosc, Poland, 1933, and Ahuva Liptzi Lidia (Hershenson) Kropman, born in Zamosc, Poland, 1935, regarding their experiences as children in Zamosc, Ukraine, the Ural area, Kurshabskiy area and other places
Testimony
Joint testimony of sisters, Sara (Hershenson) Flaishman, born in Zamosc, Poland, 1933, and Ahuva Liptzi Lidia (Hershenson) Kropman, born in Zamosc, Poland, 1935, regarding their experiences as children in Zamosc, Ukraine, the Ural area, Kurshabskiy area and other places
Life in Zamosc before the war; religious family.
Outbreak of the war, 1939; air-raids on Zamosc; escape to Ukraine with their family; life in Ukraine including studies; deportation to the Ural area; life in the Ural area including the death of their younger sister; their grandfather's illness and his death; deportation to Kirghizstan; transfer to a kolkhoz in the Kurshabskiy area; life in the Kurshabskiy area including the death of their grandmother; their father's labor as a carpenter; death of their father, 1942; unsuccessful attempt to join the "Teheran Children" group; illness and hospitalization in a hospital; receive help from the JDC organization; end of the war, 1945.
Return to Poland; move to Stettin; aliya training with the Gordonia movement; move to Berlin; aliya to Israel, 1949.
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item Id
6662356
First Name
Sara
Ahuva
Lidia
Liptzi
Last Name
Flaishman
Fleishman
Kropman
Maiden Name
Hershenson
Hershenzon
Hershenzon
Hershenson
Date of Birth
1933
1935
Place of Birth
Zamosc, Poland
Zamosc, Poland
Type of material
Testimony
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives