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Testimony of Kadish Sosnovski, born in Szczuczyn, Poland, 1933, regarding his experiences as a child in Szczuczyn, Bialystok, Minsk, Smolensk and other places

Testimony
Testimony of Kadish Sosnovski, born in Szczuczyn, Poland, 1933, regarding his experiences as a child in Szczuczyn, Bialystok, Minsk, Smolensk and other places Life before the war. German occupation; concentration of Jews including his father; deportation of his father; Soviet occupation; outbreak of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union, June 1941; escape to Bialystok with his mother; escape to Minsk; life in Minsk; escape to Smolensk; life in Smolensk including his mother's illness; hospitalization of his mother in a hospital; witness' life in an orphanage; life in a kolkhoz in the home of a Russian woman; his mother's labor in the kolkhoz; education; end of the war. Return to Krakow; life in Krakow; move to Kleck; move to a children's home in Bielawa; life in the children's home of the Poalei Zion Left party; move to France; life in France in the "[Emanuel] Ringelblum" children's home; life in Marseilles; aliya to Israel, 1948.
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6816542
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Kadish
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Sosnovski
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1933
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Szczuczyn, Poland
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Testimony
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Hebrew
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O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
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22/11/07
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22/11/07
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Sosnovski Kadish
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YES
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ISRAEL
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O.3 - Testimonies gathered by Yad Vashem
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Video
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Moshal Repository, Yad Vashem Archival Collection